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Thursday, March 31, 2011

"The Social," This Time: Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of Social Analysis (2011 AAA Meetings)

CFP: "The Social," This Time: Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of Social
Analysis
Organizers: Stephanie Lloyd (McGill University) and Kevin Karpiak (Eastern
Michigan University)
a panel proposed to the American Anthropological Association Annual
Meetings in Montreal, November 16-20, 2011


"Society does not exist, only individuals and families", to paraphrase
Margaret Thatcher. While this may be one of the most oft-paraphrased
statements about society, this panel will take truth claims such as
Thatcher's as provocations which point to debates that have raged for more
than a century among social scientists, politicians and an array of other
invested experts about the nature and description of collective life. In
social theory and philosophy these have been given expression in
everything from the bitter exchanges between Émile Durkheim and Gabriel
Tarde at the turn of the 20th century, to the rediscovery and adaptation
of the latter by such authors as Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour at the
turn of the 21st. In political-economic theory and policy they can be
seen in the debates which surrounded the rise of neoliberal economic
policies in the 1980's through the neo-Durkheimian driven European social
policies of the 1990s on social exclusion, to contemporary unease with
global capital and political representation.

Whether in the guise of the social's "end" (Baudrillard 1978), "death"
(Rose 1996), "retreat" (Kapferer 2005) or "reassembly" (Latour 2005), many
theorists have been troubled by, and sought to give conceptual shape to,
the nature of collective existence in order to offer cogent critical
analyses of these problems. As well they should, for such
reconceptualizations of the social – about its form and its very existence
– have impacts not only on the institutional existence of individuals in
terms of the services they will be offered, the support they will have
economically and politically, but also on their very ontological status as
biopolitical beings.

In this panel we are looking for ethnographically-informed contributions
that will shed light on the ways in which various concerned actors,
embedded in contexts and living with quotidian challenges to their notions
of their role in society, make use of, challenge and reconceptualize
versions of the social in order to shape and make sense of their lives.
In particular, we are interested in papers which augment the more
well-trod debates over "the social" indexed above by focusing on how such
concerns permeate lived realities in what Macintyre (1981) has called
"those intricate bodies of theory and practice which constitute human
cultures".

Please email abstracts to
kkarpiak@Emich.edu<mailto:kkarpiak@Emich.edu<mailto:kkarpiak@Emich.edu>>
and stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca<mailto:stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca>
<mailto:stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca<mailto:stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca%3Cmailto:stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca>>
by April 10th

CASCA: Job posting/Emplois

University of Victoria

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=191%3Ajob-uvic-&catid=37&Itemid=88&lang=en


Lethbridge: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) - deadline extended to
April 15th

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=188%3Ajob-lethbridge&catid=37&Itemid=88&lang=en

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Appel de propositions - Colloque annuel de l=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92American_Anthropological_Association_16-20_novembre_2011.Montr=E9al,_Q2011.Montr=E9al,?= Qc.

An english version will follow

Appel de propositions
Colloque annuel de l'American Anthropological Association
16-20 novembre 2011. Montréal, Qc.

Titre de la session :
Survivre à l'abondance : alimentation, reproduction et habitation à l'ère
du superflu

Organisateurs : Anne Lardeux1 et Vincent Couture2
1 Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec,
Canada.
2 Service de génétique, Département de Pédiatrie, Faculté de médecine et des
sciences de la santé, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada.

La survie est un concept utilisé traditionnellement en anthropologie afin
d'aborder le
fonctionnement des sociétés dites « primitives ». Ces sociétés pratiquant une
économie de subsistance se caractérisent par une très forte dépendance à leur
environnement, ainsi qu'une existence centrée sur la réponse aux besoins
de base.
Sans surplus et nécessitant un ravitaillement quotidien, ces sociétés
vivaient sous la
menace constante du manque.
Des sociétés de subsistance aux sociétés d'abondance, s'est opéré le passage
d'une économie de la rareté à une économie du superflu. Pourtant, malgré
l'offre
massive de réponses aux besoins primaires, cette vie dans la durée de
l'individu et
du groupe apparait tout aussi problématique. Qu'en est-il aujourd'hui de
la survie
dans des sociétés d'abondance ? Quelle est notre expérience quotidienne de la
subsistance dans un environnement qui n'est plus celui de l'état de nature ?
L'idée derrière ce colloque est de mettre à jour les potentialités du
concept de survie
en l'appliquant à la réalité contemporaine. Chez Darwin, la survie d'une
espèce
repose sur le développement de traits rendant l'individu mieux adapté à son
environnement ou plus apte à se reproduire. Sloterdijk ouvre l'idée que la
survie ne
repose pas exclusivement sur une logique adaptative. Si un groupe se doit
d'affronter, sur ses bords extérieurs, les aléas de son environnement, il
tend à offrir
sur sa face interne un intérieur mieux protégé, propice au développement
d'autres
qualités que celles requises par l'adaptation directe au milieu
environnant. Dans le
confort de cette matrice, émergent des qualités auxquelles la seule
nécessité n'aurait
laissé aucune chance. L'environnement mis à distance, s'ouvre un monde où
habiter.
La vie biologique se double ainsi d'une forme inséparable.
Pour Agamben, cette vie non séparée de sa forme, de son mode, « définit
une vie –
la vie humaine – dans laquelle tous les modes, les actes et les processus
du vivre ne
sont jamais simplement des faits, mais toujours et avant tout des
possibilités de vie,
toujours et avant tout des puissances ». Les crises qui tissent notre
contemporain et
les modes de gouvernance qui co-fabriquent ces urgences opèrent une
séparation
de la vie biologique et de ses modes de vie et, par là, réduisent des
formes de vie
réelle en formes de survie. Ces crises bouleversent l'environnement et le
monde que
l'homme s'y est ouvert. Elles bouleversent les coordonnées d'un commun et
d'un
habiter idéal ; et c'est dans les marques laissées à la fois par leur
reflux et par celui
des utopies humanistes que l'humain doit subsister.
C'est à ce point de tension entre vie biologique, crise et formes de vie
contemporaines que nous voudrions développer notre analyse en
réfléchissant sur le
rapport entre la protection ou l'atteinte de la « maison » dans ces basiques
nécessités (habiter, manger, se reproduire) et les formes de vie hybrides
qui s'y
développent (comment occuper un espace, comment nourrir, comment se
reproduire
ou selon d'autres modalités comment demeurer, subsister, résister,
transmettre). La
question du « comment » adressée à ces « nécessités » permettrait de dépasser
l'assignement à des vies purement adaptatives pour s'intéresser aux
formes, aux
pratiques, aux techniques de vie de l'humain qui font son monde et son
rapport à
l'environnement.

Contacts : anne.lardeux@gmail.com
couture.vincent@gmail.com
Date limite de soumission des propositions : 13 avril 2011
Veuillez soumettre un résumé en anglais de 250 mots.

Call for Proposals
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
2011, Nov. 16-20, Montreal, QC.

Session title: Survival in Affluent Societies: Feeding, Breeding and
Housing

Organizers: Anne Lardeux1 and Vincent Couture2
1 Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Division of Genetics, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and
Health
Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.

Survival is a concept traditionally used in anthropology to address the
functioning of
so-called "primitive" societies. These societies, practicing a subsistence
economy,
are characterized by a very strong dependence on their environment and a life
centered on responding to basic needs. Without surplus and requiring daily
supplies,
these societies lived under the constant threat of shortfall.
From subsistence societies to affluent societies, there was a transition
from an
economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance. Yet, despite the vast
offer of
responses to basic needs, life in the continuance of the individual and
the group
appears equally problematic. What is "surviving" in today's affluent
societies? What is
our daily experience of subsistence in an environment that is no longer
that of a
"state of nature"?
The idea behind this session is to renew the potentialities of the concept
of survival
by applying it to contemporary reality. For Darwin, the survival of a
species is based
on the development of individual characteristics in order to be more
adaptable to its
environment or more likely to reproduce. Sloterdijk proposes the idea that
survival is
not solely based on an adaptive logic. If a group has to face its external
boundaries,
the vagaries of its environment, it tends to deliver an interior that is
better protected,
whereby enabling the development of other qualities than those required in
the direct
adaptation to the surrounding environment. In the comfort of this matrix,
qualities
emerge that would have otherwise had no chance. The environment, once put
aside,
opens to a world within which to dwell. Henceforth biological life takes
on a dual and
inseparable form.
For Agamben, this life, which is not separated from its form, its mode,
"defines a life -
human life - in which the single ways, acts, and processes of living are
never simply
facts but always and above all possibilities of life, always and above all
power." The
crises that brand our contemporaneity and the modes of governance that
co-produce
these emergencies operate on a separation of biological life and its ways
of life, and
thereby reduce life forms into veritable forms of survival. These crises
disrupt the
environment and the world humanity has opened. They dislocate the
coordinates of a
common and ideal dwelling; and it is in the tidemarks left by both their
reflux and the
humanist utopias that humans must subsist.
It is at the crossroad between biological life, crisis and contemporary
forms of life that
we will develop our analysis by reflecting on the relationship between the
protection
or achievement of the "house" in terms of the basic necessities (feeding,
breeding
and housing) and the hybrid forms of life developed therein (how to occupy
a space,
how to feed, how to reproduce or in other modalities how to stay, survive,
resist,
transmit). Addressing the question of the "how" of these necessities
allows us to go
beyond the frame of purely adaptive lives in order to pay attention to the
forms,
practices and techniques of the human that constitute their world and
their relation to
the environment.

Contacts : anne.lardeux@gmail.com
couture.vincent@gmail.com
Submission deadline: 2011, April 13th.
Send an abstract of 250 words.

Extended Deadline - AAA CFP - Tidemarks of Secularism: Religion and the Other

AAA 2011 Call for Papers

Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University)

Panel Title: Tidemarks of Secularism: Religion and the Other

From banning niqabs and kirpans in public places to cuts in funding to
religiously affiliated community organizations, western nations are
increasing their commitment to the project of secularization in the name of
liberal emancipation and its freedoms. This, despite the fact, that many
of these same governments are becoming increasingly influenced by the
Christian right. The desire to eradicate traces of religiosity in public
spaces, policies and funding is formulated as a legacy of the idealized
(but rarely practiced) separation of church and state. This secularization
is used by both the left and the right to limit and exclude what is deemed
illegitimate political and social activities from the public sphere.
Critiques of secularization as a western bias leading to policies of
exclusion (Asad 2003, Mahmood 2005) are not new, however, the increased
political pressure to secularize requires further examination. This is
seen to be particularly true in discourses such as "reasonable
accommodation" and the banning of the niqab and burka in various public
spaces in Europe and North America. Moreover, Christian groups dedicated
to social justices issues are also witnessing cuts to their funding and
limits to their praxis. What seem to be constant is these struggle is the
manner in with inappropriate religiosity intersects with citizenship,
race, gender and ethnicity. This panel will examine how the legacies of
secularization are working to exclude certain bodies marked as different.

Questions that papers address may include:

1. How are policies of secularization directed at newcomers and
minorities?

2. How are diversity models, such as multiculturalism, becoming the
scapegoats for the failure of western nations to integrate religious
minorities?

3. How are women's bodies and beliefs becoming the battleground in
which secularism is being fought over?

If you are interested in presenting a paper as part of this panel, please
submit a 250-word abstract by April 5, 2011 to
mmulholland@mtroyal.ca<mmulholland@mtyroyal.ca>

Friday, March 25, 2011

AAA panel, call for papers

Call for papers, AAA Montreal, November 16-20, 2011.

"Practices of Masculinity: Boundaries, Contagion, and the Marking of
Difference"

This panel takes the 2011 AAA theme of ?traces, tidemarks, and
legacies? as an opportunity to investigate the relationship between
contemporary practices of masculinity and processes of boundary-making
and marking. We are broadly interested in the ?work? of masculinity
in various guises: How is masculinity employed in difference-making,
and how do men (and others) work to create, recreate, maintain, alter,
or challenge such distinctions? How might we understand these
distinctions as outgrowths of both new and familiar difference-making
and sustaining processes associated with globalization, political and
economic competition, and the cultural juxtapositions occasioned by
mobility and exchange?

Like tidemarks, boundaries often shift, but also may be crossed, just
as distinctions may be blurred, limits threatened; difference-marking
practices of masculinity may fall short, or fail entirely. We are
therefore also interested in exploring danger, contagion, and failure.
When and why are certain practices of masculinity considered
threatening, or under threat? How does the fear of contagion across
boundaries invoke and shape masculinity? In the production of
distinctions that rely upon masculinity, what is the cost of failure?

The papers in this panel address the practices generative of
oppositional identities, and the practices that simultaneously
destabilize or threaten them, as well. We therefore invite
ethnographically-grounded contributions from prospective presenters
whose research engages any of the following (or related) questions:

? What are the tidemarks against which masculinity is measured in the
21st century, and what shifting ?tides? might these reflect?
? What are the contexts and evaluative standards against which groups
maintain coherent visions of what it is to be a successful, good, or
accomplished man worthy of recognition?
? What are the difference-making mechanisms that sustain social
boundaries, and how is their safeguarding associated with the
protection of symbolic domains?

Please send abstracts by e-mail to Antonio Sorge at
asorge@uwaterloo.ca no later than Friday, April 8, 2011.

Organizer: Antonio Sorge (Department of Anthropology, University of Waterloo)
Chair: Naor Ben-Yehoyada (Department of Anthropology, Harvard University)

Thursday, March 24, 2011

CASCA 2011: Student poster competition/Concours d'affiches pour les étudiants

CASCA 2011: Student poster competition/Concours d'affiches pour les étudiants

(English below)


Résumé : La Société canadienne d'anthropologie (CASCA) organise un
concours d'affiches pour les étudiants, à l'occasion du colloque
annuel qui aura lieu du 11 au 13 mai à l'université St. Thomas de
Fredericton, Nouveau-Brunswick.

Date limite : 15 avril 2011
Admissibilité : L'étudiant doit être actuellement inscrit à un
programme d'études du premier, deuxième ou troisième cycle, ou avoir
obtenu son diplôme en 2010 ou après.

Règlements :
1. L'étudiant doit être l'unique ou le principal auteur/créateur de
l'affiche.
2. Les finalistes présenteront leur affiche à la séance d'affichage
(poster session) du colloque.
3. La soumission électronique d'un résumé de 250 mots est
obligatoire. Les participants doivent le faire parvenir à
kharrison@mta.ca - Responsable du comité organisateur de la séance
d'affichage.
4. Nous publierons les résumés acceptés sur le site Web du colloque.
Processus d'évaluation : Après le 15 avril, les meilleures affiches
seront présélectionnées et ces finalistes présenteront leur affiche au
colloque. Le comité organisateur de la séance d'affichage évaluera
chaque affiche selon une échelle en 5 points et le gagnant sera
annoncé lors du colloque.

Prix à gagner : Le gagnant recevra un cadeau. Les participants sont
éligibles pour une subvention de voyage.

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Overview: The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA), as part of this
year's annual conference being held at St. Thomas University,
Fredericton, NB from May 11-13, is running a poster competition for
students.

Deadline for Entries: April 15th, 2011.
Eligibility: The student must be currently enrolled in an
undergraduate or graduate program or have graduated no later than 2010.

Regulations:
1. The student must be the sole or the principal author/creator of
the poster.
2. The finalists will present their posters in a Poster Session at
the Conference.
3. Electronic submission of a 250 word abstract is required. It
should be submitted to kharrison@mta.ca - Chair of the Poster
Session Organizing Committee.
4. We will post the accepted abstracts on the Conference website.
Review Process: After April 15th, the best posters will be
shortlisted and these finalists will present their posters at the
conference. The Poster Session Organizing Committee will rate the
posters on a 5-point scale and the winner will be announced at the
Conference.

Award for Winner: The winner will be presented with a gift.
Contributors may be eligible for a travel subsidy.

Monday, March 21, 2011

CASCA - Feminist Anthropology Award - Prix du R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9seau?= des femmes de la CASCA

Reminder:


CASCA Women's Network Award for StudentPaper in Feminist Anthropology -
$100.00.

Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant l'article d'un étudiant
en anthropologie féministe - $100,00.


Graduate students in Anthropology who will be presenting a paper at the
2011 CASCA meetings in Fredericton are invited to submit their papers for
consideration for the CASCA Women's Network Award for Student Paper in
Feminist Anthropology.
This award has been established as part of the events celebrating the 25th
Anniversary of the CASCA Women's Network in 2009, and will be presented
for the second time in 2011. The goal of this award is to encourage
research into gender and gender issues from a Feminist Perspective among
emerging scholars in Social/Cultural Anthropology in Canada.

Students should submit an abstract and paper to the CASCA Women's Network
Committee member Dr. Heather Howard (howardh@msu.edu) for consideration by
our award panel. In order to be considered, students must beregistered in
a Graduate Program in Anthropology at a Canadian University or be within
one year of post-graduation.
Papers must be received by April 14, 2011, and may not exceed 10 pages in
length. Papers may be submitted in either French or English. Students
should indicate the university at which they are registered and their
current year in the program. The selected paper will be published in the
Canadian anthropology journal, Anthropologica.

Sincerely,
Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (CASCA Women's Network Co-ordinator)
Christine Holmes (Past CASCA Women's Network Co-ordinator)
Heather Howard (Women's Network Committee)

Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant l'article d'un étudiant
en anthropologie féministe - $100,00.

Les étudiants de maîtrise enanthropologie souhaitant présenter un article
aux rencontres 2011 de la CASCA,à Fredericton, sont invités à le faire
dans le cadre du Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant
l'article d'un étudiant en anthropologie féministe. Établi en 2009 dans le
cadre des évènements de célébration du 25e anniversaire du Réseau des
femmes de la CASCA, ce prix connaîtra sa deuxieme édition en 2011. Son
objectif est d'encourager la recherche dans les domaines du genre et des
questions liées au genre dans une perspective féministe chez les
chercheurs émergentsen anthropologie sociale et culturelle au Canada.


Les étudiant(e)s intéressés doivent soumettre leur article accompagné d'un
résumé à Dr. Heather Howard (howardh@msu.edu) Membre du Comité du Réseau
des femmes de la CASCA, pour examen par notre jury. Pour que leur
candidature soit valable, les étudiantsdoivent être inscrits à plein temps
au programme de maîtrise d'une universitécanadienne, ou être à moins d'une
une année de l'obtention d'un diplôme supérieur. Les articles doivent
avoir été reçus au 14 avril 2011 et leur longueur ne doit pas excéder 10
pages; ils peuvent être rédigés en français ou en anglais. Les
candidat(e)s doivent mentionner à quelle université ils (elles)
sontinscrit(e)s, et en quelle année du programme. L'article lauréat sera
publié dans
la revue canadienne d'anthropologie Anthropologica.

Meilleures salutations,

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA)
Christine Holmes (Ancienne coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA)
HeatherHoward (Membre du Comité)

2011 Netting Award for Students

Robert M. Netting Best Student Paper Prize

Culture & Agriculture invites anthropology graduate and undergraduate
students to submit papers for the 2011 Robert M. Netting Award in
Culture & Agriculture. The Graduate and Undergraduate winners will
receive cash awards of $750 and $250, respectively, and have the
opportunity for a direct consultation with the editors of our
section’s journal, CAFÉ (Culture , Agriculture, Food and Environment),
toward the goal of revising the paper for publication. Submissions
should draw on relevant literature from any subfield of Anthropology,
and present data from original research related to livelihoods based
on crop, livestock, or fishery production and forestry and/or
management of agricultural and environmental resources. Papers should
be single-authored, limited to a maximum of 7,000 words, including
endnotes, appendices, and references, and should follow American
Anthropologist format style.

Papers already published or accepted for publication are not eligible.
Only one submission per student is allowed. Submitters need not be
members of the American Anthropological Association but they must be
enrolled students. (Students graduating in the Spring of 2011 are
eligible). The submission deadline is May 21, 2011. The winner will be
announced at t he C&A Business Meeting at the 2011 AAA meetings in
Montreal. Please submit papers electronically to Lisa Markowitz (U
Louisville) at lisam@louisville.edu .

For more information on Culture & Agriculture, please visit:

http://cultureandagriculture.org

AAA's Montreal CFP: Claiming Nature: ‘Race’, Ethnicity and the Politics of Belonging

Call for Papers — Claiming Nature: 'Race', Ethnicity and the Politics
of Belonging.

Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
(110th Annual Meeting&#8232;, November 16-20, 2011&#8232;, Montreal, QC,
Canada)

Over the past twenty years, anthropology has come to accept that much
of what we understand as environment, nature and landscape has
been—and continues to be—constructed by the communities that use,
perceive and dwell in these spaces. Much of this work has been
oriented towards the symbolic process of placemaking, forging identity
out of sacred locales, reconsidering the uses of animism in religious
praxis and addressing the broader theoretical materialist–symbolic
debate in the discipline. However, there is an important dearth of
attention—outside the domain of Native American ethnography—on the
extent to which these processes intersect with ethnicity, 'race' and
forms of contestation over land and belonging. From maroon perceptions
of remote wilderness as a place of refuge and safety from the
brutality and foreignness of the plantation to the construction of
rural America as a pure, white homeland for Euro-American settlers to
the imagining of tropical foragers as resources of the forest divested
of any claim to land or citizenship, ethnicity and 'race' is
frequently implicated in conflicts and debates about how different
communities perceive and 'belong to' the land they occupy. This panel
seeks contributions from scholars interrogating the ways in which
notions of 'race' and ethnicity articulate within conceptualizations
of human-nature relatedness, ecological praxis, and cleavages that
emerge between different communities and identities.

Please send abstracts by e-mail to Marc Boglioli (mbogliol@drew.edu)
or Allan Dawson (adawson@drew.edu) at Drew University by Monday, 4th
April 2011. Session participants will be confirmed shortly thereafter.

CDP Conference -- 'Beyond the buzzword: Problematising "drugs"' -- 3-4 October, Prato, Italy

Deadline for abstract submission approaching

BEYOND THE BUZZWORD: PROBLEMATISING 'DRUGS'

3rd & 4th October 2011, Prato, Italy

Abstracts due by 25 March 2011

Hosted by Contemporary Drug Problems, the School of Political and Social
Inquiry at Monash University, the National Drug Research Institute at
Curtin University, and the Centre for Population Health at the Burnet
Institute, this conference will bring together leading international
researchers in drug use and addiction studies from a range of research
disciplines and methods - both qualitative and quantitative.

Further details available at http://ndri.curtin.edu.au/events/cdp2011/.

Online registration will be available once abstract submission has
closed.

Could you please forward to interested colleagues and relevant e-lists?

With thanks and apologies for cross-postings.

Nicola Thomson

Editorial Assistant

Contemporary Drug Problems

Saturday, March 19, 2011

R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9cipiendaire?= 2011 du prix Weaver-Tremblay/The 2011 Weaver-Tremblay Award

(Version française ci-bas)


Dear Colleagues,

It gives me great pleasure to announce that we will be honouring Dr.
Pamela Downe, University of Saskatchewan, with the Weaver-Tremblay
Award at CASCA 2011 in Fredericton.


The nomination package for Dr. Downe package documents a career of
engaged anthropological involvements research excellence, and includes
letters of support from scholars, representatives of community
agencies and students inspired by her teaching and training in the
areas of social justice and community-based research.

Pamela Downe is...

"one of the most highly regarded Canadian scholars in the broad areas
of violence in the lives of girls and young women, HIV/AIDS, and
motherhood ...One of the few scholars in Canada to examine the
challenges faced by girls who have been involved in the sex trade."

"Professor Downe's work has been used to inform the development of
policies and programs designed to meet the needs of this
population....Professor Downe possesses all the best characteristics
of a caring and committed scholar whose thinking is, at once, fierce,
focused, and courageous."

"Dr Downe has crafted sophisticated theoretical analyses and
innovative methodological strategies in research that addresses a
range of key issues including: discourses of disease in relation to
social contexts; theorizing the shifting terrain of motherhood; the
sexual exploitation and trafficking of women and girls; girls and
prostitution; migration and health; addictions and drug use; harm
reduction; public health and health policy and, more recently,
maternal health and HIV/AIDS. Dr. Downe's complex framing of health
and well-being has been her signature contribution not only to medical
anthropology but to women's and gender studies as well."

"As a feminist scholar and activist, Dr. Downe has made an important
contribution to the scholarship examining questions of power and the
politics of health for women's and girls' lives in postcolonial,
transnational and global contexts."

"Pam has shaped her professional trajectory according to the pressing
needs of marginalized groups and people for whom she has sought
practical solutions with to ameliorate the suffering in their lives
and to fight against social inequities within Canada, the Caribbean
and Central America."


I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Pamela Downe for
her contribution to applied anthropology in Canada.

Janice Graham
President, CASCA

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Chers collègues,

C'est avec grand plaisir que nous honorerons Pamela Downe, de la
University of Saskatchewan, en lui décernant le prix Weaver-Tremblay
au colloque 2011 de la CASCA à Fredericton.

Le dossier de nomination de Mme Downe mettait en évidence un
engagement actif en anthropologie et l'excellence de ses recherches.
Il comprenait des lettres de soutien de savants, de représentants
d'organismes communautaires et d'étudiants, tous inspirés par son
enseignement et sa formation dans les sphères de la justice sociale et
de la recherche communautaire.

Pamela Downe est :

« parmi les intellectuelles canadiennes les plus renommées en ce qui a
trait à l'étude de la violence vécue par les filles et jeunes femmes,
du VIH/sida et de la maternité... Elle est l'un des rares chercheurs
du pays à s'intéresser aux défis que doivent relever les filles ayant
fait partie du commerce du sexe.»

« Les travaux de la professeure Downe ont été utilisés dans
l'élaboration de politiques et de programmes conçus pour répondre aux
besoins de cette population. La professeure Downe possède toutes les
caractéristiques qui font d'elle une savante humaine et dévouée dont
la pensée est à la fois vive, concentrée et courageuse. »

« Mme Downe a échafaudé des analyses théoriques sophistiquées et des
stratégies méthodologiques innovatrices en recherche, afin de
s'attaquer à diverses questions clés dont: le discours de la maladie
selon le contexte social; la théorisation du sujet changeant qu'est la
maternité; l'exploitation sexuelle et le trafic de femmes et de
filles; la prostitution des jeunes filles; l'immigration et la santé;
la toxicomanie et la consommation de drogues; la réduction des
dommages; la santé publique, les politiques de la santé et, plus
récemment, la santé maternelle et le VIH/sida. Les formulations
complexes de la santé et du bien-être représentent la contribution
phare de la professeure Downe, non seulement pour l'anthropologie
médicale, mais aussi pour les études féministes et de genre. »

« En tant qu'intellectuelle et militante féministe, la professeure
Downe a contribué de façon importante au savoir relatif aux questions
de pouvoir et aux politiques de la santé des femmes et des filles en
contexte postcolonial, transnational et global. »

« Pam a ajusté sa trajectoire professionnelle en fonction des besoins
pressants des groupes marginalisés et des gens pour qui elle a cherché
des solutions pratiques. Elle visait ainsi à atténuer la souffrance
vécue par ces personnes et à lutter contre les injustices sociales,
tant au Canada que dans les Caraïbes ou en Amérique centrale. »


J'aimerais profiter de l'occasion pour féliciter Pamela Downe pour sa
contribution à l'anthropologie appliquée au Canada.

Janice Graham
Présidente, CASCA

Friday, March 18, 2011

RAPPEL: Conf=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9rence_de_la_Chaire_conjointe_en_=E9tudes_des_femmes:_21_mars_2011_=E0_l'Universit=E9?= d'Ottawa - REMINDER: Joint Chair in Women's Studies Conference: March 21, 2011 at the University of Ottawa

RAPPEL/REMINDER:

(English follows)

La Chaire conjointe en études des femmes,
de l'Université d'Ottawa et Carleton University

vous invite à une Conférence portant sur les

Féministes, universitaires et militantes au point de convergence

Quand: Lundi, le 21 mars 2011
Heure: 9 h 30-13 h 00
Où: Salle du Sénat, pièce 083, Pavillon Tabaret
550 Cumberland, Université d'Ottawa

Pamela Walker, titulaire de la Chaire conjointe en études des femmes, a le
plaisir d'organiser cet événement qui permettra d'explorer comment la
recherche féministe universitaire et le militantisme se rejoignent dans
notre travail.

Bienvenue à nos conférencières :

Denyse Côté est professeure titulaire au Département de travail social à
l'Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).
Diana Majury est professeure titulaire au Département de droit et doyenne
associée (recherche et études supérieures) de la Faculty of Public Affairs
de l'Université Carleton.
Ruth Phillips détient la Chaire de recherche du Canada en art et culture
authochtones et est professeure titulaire en histoire de l'art à
l'Université Carleton.
Anette Sikka est avocate et doctorante à la Faculté de droit de
l'Université d'Ottawa.
Kathryn Trevenen est professeure adjointe à l'Institut d'études des femmes
et à l'École d'études politiques de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Une période de questions suivra.

Il s'agit d'un événement bilingue, offrant la traduction simultanée.

Entrée libre.
Pour plus d'information, prière de contacter Hélène Boudreault, au
613-520-6644

Nos excuses si vous recevez cette annonce plus d'une fois.
_________________________

The Joint Chair in Women's Studies at the
University of Ottawa and Carleton University

invites you to a Conference on

Feminists, Scholars, and Activists at the Pivot Point

When: Monday March 21, 2011
Time: 9:30 am -1:00 pm
Where: Senate Room, Tabaret Hall room 083,
550 Cumberland, University of Ottawa

Pamela Walker, incumbent of the Joint Chair in Women's Studies is pleased
to hold this event to examine how feminist scholarship and activism come
together in our work.

Welcome to our speakers:

Denyse Côté is a full professor in the Department of Social Work, at the
Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).
Diana Majury is a full professor in the Law Department and the Associate
Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) of the Faculty of Public Affairs, at
Carleton University.
Ruth Phillips holds a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
and is a full professor of Art History at Carleton University.
Anette Sikka is a lawyer and a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law,
University of Ottawa.
Kathryn Trevenen is an assistant professor at the Institute of Women's
Studies and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

A question and answer period will follow.

The event will be bilingual with simultaneous translation.

Free admission.
For more information, please contact Hélène Boudreault, 613-520-6644

Apologies for cross-postings.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Appel de textes/Call for papers: Revue Diversit=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_urbaine_-_Date_limite_repouss=E9e/deadline?= extended

(English below)

Bonjour,

La revue Diversité urbaine lance un appel de textes pour son prochain
numéro, dont la date limite a été repoussée pour le 15 avril 2011.
Veuillez trouver ci-dessous les informations concernant les soumissions et
la revue.

La revue Diversité urbaine, dirigée par Deirdre Meintel et Josiane LeGall,
s'intéresse à l'ethnicité, aux relations ethniques, à l'immigration, à la
diversité religieuse et aux dynamiques sociales au Québec et à l'étranger.

Nous vous remercions de bien vouloir diffuser l'information.
N'hésitez pas à me contacter pour toutes questions concernant l'appel de
textes ou la revue.

Cordialement,

Akané D'Orangeville
Coordonnatrice
Revue Diversité urbaine
http://www.grdu.umontreal.ca/

-----

Please find below a call for paper for our upcoming issue of the journal
Diversité urbaine, which deadline has been extended to April 15th, 2011.

Diversité urbaine, directed by Deirdre Meintel and Josiane LeGall, focuses
on ethnicity, ethnic relations and immigration, religious diversity and
social dynamics in Quebec and elsewhere in the world.

We would appreciate your assistance in circulating this information.
Please do not hesitate to contact me for any question.


Sincerely,

Akané D'Orangeville
Coordonnatrice
Revue Diversité urbaine
http://www.grdu.umontreal.ca/

***
Diversité urbaine APPEL DE TEXTES Date limite : 15 avril 2011*
Depuis l'an 2000, le Groupe de recherche diversité urbaine offre un espace
de publication pluridisciplinaire pour les jeunes chercheurs et les
chercheurs établis en sciences humaines et sociales dont les travaux
s'inscrivent dans une démarche empirique. La revue Diversité urbaine
s'intéresse à l'ethnicité, aux relations ethniques, à l'immigration, à la
diversité religieuse et aux dynamiques sociales, et ce, tant au Québec
qu'à l'étranger. Sa présence sur Érudit lui donne une visibilité
internationale (www.erudit.org/revue/du).
Procédures d'évaluation
La revue ne publie que des textes inédits. Si l'équipe de la revue estime
l'article recevable pour le processus d'évaluation, le texte sera soumis
anonymement à deux lecteurs ayant une expertise dans le domaine. Les
articles retenus devront être révisés à la lumière des commentaires des
évaluateurs. Puis, l'équipe de Diversité urbaine se réserve le droit de
faire des corrections mineures de forme.
Présentation des manuscrits
&#61623; Nous publions majoritairement des textes en français et
occasionnellement des articles en anglais. (Si vous avez l'intention de
soumettre votre article en anglais, veuillez nous en informer d'avance par
courriel).
&#61623; Les articles ou les notes de recherche doivent avoir entre 4500
et 6000 mots (excluant la bibliographie).
&#61623; L'auteur doit inclure une note biographique (40 mots), un résumé
(125 mots chaque) ainsi que cinq mots clés en français et en anglais.
&#61623; Pour plus de détails, veuillez vous référer à notre protocole de
rédaction :
www.grdu.umontreal.ca/fr/publications
L'équipe de Diversité urbaine
Direction : Deirdre Meintel et Josiane Le Gall
Rédactrice : Sylvie Fortin
Rédactrice adjointe : Marie-Jeanne Blain
Adjointe à la rédaction : Catherine Laurent Sédillot
Coordination et communication : Akané D'Orangeville
Comité de lecture :
Paul Eid, Sylvie Fortin, Claude Gélinas, Myriam Hachimi, Patricia Lamarre,
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Josiane Le Gall, Deirdre Meintel, Ignace Olazabal,
Bruno Ramirez, Géraldine Mossière, Valérie Amiraux, Christian Rinaudo et
Emmanuelle Santelli.
*Les textes peuvent être transmis par courrier électronique en tout temps
à l'attention d'Akané D'Orangeville.
Courriel : grdu@umontreal.ca
Site web: www.grdu.umontreal.ca/fr/publications
***

***
Diversité urbaine CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: April 15th, 2011*
Since 2000, the Groupe de recherche diversité urbaine has published a
journal that offers junior as well as experienced researchers the
opportunity to publish work based on empirical research. Diversité urbaine
focuses on ethnicity and ethnic relations, immigration, religious
diversity and social dynamics in Quebec and elsewhere in the world. The
journal's presence on the Érudit website ensures its international
visibility (www.erudit.org/revue/du).
Evaluation process
The journal considers only manuscripts that have not been published or
submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts accepted for the
evaluation process are read by two external specialists. They must then be
revised by the authors, in line with the comments given by the evaluators.
The Diversité urbaine team reserves the right to make minor stylistic
corrections.
Presentation of manuscripts
&#61623; We publish mainly articles in French, except for occasional
contributions in English. (If you wish to submit your article in English,
please advise ur in advance by sending us an e-mail.)
&#61623; Articles or research notes should be between 4500 and 6000 words,
excluding the bibliography.
&#61623; The author should include, in both French and English, a
biographical note (40 words maximum), a summary (125 words maximum) as
well as five key words.
&#61623; Please refer to our submission guidelines for further details:
www.grdu.umontreal.ca/en/publications
The Diversité urbaine team
Directors: Deirdre Meintel and Josiane Le Gall
Editors: Sylvie Fortin
Assistant editor: Marie-Jeanne Blain
Editorial assistant: Catherine Laurent Sédillot
Coordination: Akané D'Orangeville
International editorial board:
Paul Eid, Sylvie Fortin, Claude Gélinas, Myriam Hachimi, Patricia Lamarre,
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Josiane Le Gall, Deirdre Meintel, Ignace Olazabal,
Bruno Ramirez, Géraldine Mossière, Valérie Amiraux, Christian Rinaudo and
Emmanuelle Santelli.
*Texts can be submitted electronically at any time, to the attention of
Akané D'Orangeville.
E-mail : grdu@umontreal.ca
Website: www.grdu.umontreal.ca/en/publications
***

Wenner-Gren Foundation Institutional Development Grant

*Institutional Development Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for
Anthropological Research, Inc.
*
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research established
the Institutional Development Grant (IDG) program in 2008. The IDG is
intended to strengthen (or to support the development of)
anthropological doctoral programs in countries where the discipline is
underrepresented. The grant provides $25,000 per year, is renewable
for a maximum of five years (total support of $125,000), and may be
used for any purpose to achieve the academic development goals of the
applicant department. A minimum of one new award will be made each
year and priority will be given to those applicant departments which
have arranged strong partnership arrangements with other
anthropological institutions that can help them achieve their
development goals.

Since the program's inauguration, four institutions have received IDG
grants: The Central Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
Tribhuvan University, Nepal; The Department of Social and Cultural
Anthropology at Mongolian National University; The Museo Antropologia,
National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and The Anthropological
Studies Program, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Philippines.
All the institutions are combining an innovative program of staff,
student, and program development.

The Institutional Development Grant has a two-stage application
process; a preliminary inquiry followed by a full application. The
deadline for the mandatory preliminary inquiry is May 15, 2011. The
preliminary inquiry must be submitted on the preliminary inquiry form
which can be downloaded from the Wenner-Gren website,
http://www.wennergren.org/programs/institutional-development-grants .
The deadline for those applicants invited to submit a full application
is September 15, 2011. Awards will be announced in November 2011 for
programs beginning in January 2012.

Wenner-Gren Foundation
470 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10016 USA
Tel (212) 683-5000
Fax (212) 683-9151

General inquiries: inquiries@wennergren.org <mailto:inquiries@wennergren.org>
Institutional Development Grant inquiries: development@wennergren.org
<mailto:development@wennergren.org>

Sunday, March 13, 2011

John L. Gwaltney Native Anthropology Scholarship

John L. Gwaltney Native Anthropology Scholarship

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
The Association of Black Anthropologists is pleased to invite applications
for the John L. Gwaltney Native Anthropology Scholarship. This award was
launched with a contribution from the Gwaltney family, to honor the life and
intellectual legacy of Dr. Gwaltney (1928–1988) whose interests included a
strong focus on Black life in industrial cities. The scholarship will be
awarded to assist emerging scholars to further their research. Preference
will be given to scholars who are ABD or post-graduate who have not held the
position of Assistant Professor for more than two years though consideration
will be given to individuals whose accomplishments are comparable outside of
the academic setting. Preference will also be given to scholars from the
four subfields and applied practice of anthropology, but consideration will
be given to those in other disciplines who meet the overall criteria.
Applicants must be members of ABA. The winner or winner(s) will receive a
certificate and a cash award ($500).
Proposals will be judged according to the following criteria:
• Significance to African Americans and/or the African Diaspora
• Evidence of the public and community engagement and/or activist
nature of the research
• Originality of the research topic
• Organization, quality, and clarity of writing
• Effective use of both theory and data
• Timeliness and relevance of the topic

APPLICATION PROCESS:
Candidates must submit a cover sheet, a two-page vita, one letter of
recommendation, and an original (unpublished) essay, not to exceed 28 pages
total (10,000 words), which reflects a Native Anthropology approach
consistent with those espoused by John L. Gwaltney by May 1st, 2011. No late
applications will be processed. Essays must be original in content and
research, cannot be under review by any journal, cannot have won any
previous awards, or have been accepted for publication in any refereed or
non-refereed journal.
The winning essay will be published (pending requested editorial changes) in
Transforming Anthropology. Non-winning essays will be sent through the
regular peer-review process for possible publication at a future date. The
winner of the scholarship will be notified prior to the annual meeting and
the award will be announced at the ABA Business meeting. By the next year,
prior to the annual ABA business meeting, the scholarship recipient must
submit a two-page report to the ABA President. All or parts of this report
will be published in the ABA Column of Anthropology News.


Application Cover sheet
Name /Institution/Affiliation
Contact Information (phone, email, address)
Graduation Date (Post-graduates) or Anticipated Graduation Date (ABD
students)
Dissertation Title (or tentative title)
Information about the Research Project:
Abstract / Synopsis of your research topic and central questions (Maximum
150 words)
Describe your original contributions to the scholarship on this subject
matter.
Why is it important at this moment in time?
In what ways does this project involve community engagement and/or activism?
How is this research public in nature?
What is the significance to African Americans and/or the African Diaspora?
Methodology
Anticipated findings and implications for praxis
Planned use of funds

DEADLINE AND SUBMISSION PROCESS
The deadline for applications is May 1st, 2011 via email to the Gwaltney
Research Grant Committee: Melanie E. L. Bush, Chair, Scholarship Selection
Committee (bush@adelphi.edu). Please indicate "Gwaltney Research
Scholarship" submission" in the subject line of your email. Questions may
also be sent to this address.
You will receive a confirmation that your proposal has been received.
Electronic versions of the application should be formatted as either a PDF
file or a Microsoft Word document. Only one submission per person will be
accepted.

Friday, March 11, 2011

CASCA 2011 - submission deadline extended/date limite soumission repouss=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9e?= - March 18th/le 18 mars

***FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION/PROLONGATION DATE LIMITE FINALE***

CASCA 2011 is pleased to extend the submission deadline until Friday
March 18, 2011. Please get your submissions in soon.

Regards,
the Local Organizing Committee.

CASCA 2011 webpage:

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=84&lang=en


**************

L'organisation du colloque 2011 de la CASCA a repoussé la date limite
pour soumettre une communication jusqu'au vendredi 18 mars 2011.
Veuillez nous faire parvenir vos propositions rapidement.

Cordialement,
Le comité organisateur local

informations CASCA 2011:

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89&Itemid=84&lang=fr

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Conf=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9rence_de_la_Chaire_conjointe_en_=E9tudes_des_femmes:_21_mars_2011_=E0_l'Universit=E9?= d'Ottawa - Joint Chair in Women's Studies Conference: March 21, 2011 at the University of Ottawa

(English follows)

La Chaire conjointe en études des femmes,
de l'Université d'Ottawa et Carleton University

vous invite à une Conférence portant sur les

Féministes, universitaires et militantes au point de convergence

Quand: Lundi, le 21 mars 2011
Heure: 9 h 30-13 h 00
Où: Salle du Sénat, pièce 083, Pavillon Tabaret
550 Cumberland, Université d'Ottawa

Pamela Walker, titulaire de la Chaire conjointe en études des femmes, a le
plaisir d'organiser cet événement qui permettra d'explorer comment la
recherche féministe universitaire et le militantisme se rejoignent dans
notre travail.

Bienvenue à nos conférencières :

Denyse Côté est professeure titulaire au Département de travail social à
l'Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).
Diana Majury est professeure titulaire au Département de droit et doyenne
associée (recherche et études supérieures) de la Faculty of Public Affairs
de l'Université Carleton.
Ruth Phillips détient la Chaire de recherche du Canada en art et culture
authochtones et est professeure titulaire en histoire de l'art à
l'Université Carleton.
Anette Sikka est avocate et doctorante à la Faculté de droit de
l'Université d'Ottawa.
Kathryn Trevenen est professeure adjointe à l'Institut d'études des femmes
et à l'École d'études politiques de l'Université d'Ottawa.

Une période de questions suivra.

Il s'agit d'un événement bilingue, offrant la traduction simultanée.

Entrée libre.
Pour plus d'information, prière de contacter Hélène Boudreault, au
613-520-6644

Nos excuses si vous recevez cette annonce plus d'une fois.
_________________________

The Joint Chair in Women's Studies at the
University of Ottawa and Carleton University

invites you to a Conference on

Feminists, Scholars, and Activists at the Pivot Point

When: Monday March 21, 2011
Time: 9:30 am -1:00 pm
Where: Senate Room, Tabaret Hall room 083,
550 Cumberland, University of Ottawa

Pamela Walker, incumbent of the Joint Chair in Women's Studies is pleased
to hold this event to examine how feminist scholarship and activism come
together in our work.

Welcome to our speakers:

Denyse Côté is a full professor in the Department of Social Work, at the
Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO).
Diana Majury is a full professor in the Law Department and the Associate
Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) of the Faculty of Public Affairs, at
Carleton University.
Ruth Phillips holds a Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Art and Culture
and is a full professor of Art History at Carleton University.
Anette Sikka is a lawyer and a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law,
University of Ottawa.
Kathryn Trevenen is an assistant professor at the Institute of Women's
Studies and the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

A question and answer period will follow.

The event will be bilingual with simultaneous translation.

Free admission.
For more information, please contact Hélène Boudreault, 613-520-6644

Apologies for cross-postings.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Call for booknotes and filmnotes/Recherche de br=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E8ves?= notes portant sur des livres ou des films

CALL FOR BOOKNOTES and FILMNOTES
RECHERCHE DE BRÈVES NOTES SUR DES LIVRES OU DES FILMS

(English below)


Chers membres,

Nous préparons présentement la publication du prochain numéro de
Culture, le bulletin en ligne de la CASCA et sommes à la recherche de
brèves notes portant sur des livres ou des films récents. Si vous êtes
membres de la CASCA et avez publié un livre ou produit un film
ethnographique, nous vous invitons à nous en faire parvenir une brève
description accompagnée, si possible, d?une photo de la page
couverture ou de l?affiche du film. Il nous fera plaisir de publier
cette information dans notre prochain bulletin. La date de tombée pour
ces textes est le 30 avril 2011.


Nos salutations cordiales,
Martin Hebert: martin.hebert@ant.ulaval.ca
Chris Fletcher: christopher.fletcher@ualberta.ca

***

Dear membership,

We are preparing to publish the next issue of Culture, CASCA 's online
newsletter and we are looking for booknotes and filmnotes. If you are
a CASCA member and have recently published a book, or have a new
ethnographic film, please send us a brief description and, if
possible, a photo of your book cover or film. It will be our pleasure
to publish it. The deadline for submissions is April 30th, 2011.


Yours sincerely,
Chris Fletcher, christopher.fletcher@ualberta.ca
Martin Hebert: martin.Hebert@ant.ulaval.ca

Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter/Le bulletin Culture: appel pour soumissions d'articles

Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter/Le bulletin Culture: appel
pour soumissions d'articles

(English below)

Le bulletin Culture : appel pour soumissions d'articles
Nous travaillons présentement à la préparation du bulletin Culture,
qui paraîtra en mai 2011.
Nous vous invitons les membres de la CASCA à partager leurs
expériences, leurs recherches en cours et leurs idées dans les pages
de notre prochaine publication.
Les soumissions doivent être reçues avant le 30 avril 2011. Prière
de les faire parvenir, ainsi que toutes demandes de renseignements, à
Martin Hébert, membre francophone d'office à
Martin.Hebert@ant.ulaval.ca et/ou à Chris Fletcher, membre anglophone
d'office à christopher.fletcher@ualberta.ca.
Pour plus d'informations à propos de Culture, veuillez visiter le site
web de CASCA : www.cas-sca.ca

***

Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter
We are currently planning our upcoming issue of Culture that
will be coming out in May 2011.
We welcome all kinds of submissions to the newsletter from CASCA
members. Please share your experiences, current research, and ideas in
the upcoming 2011 issue of Culture.
Submissions should be made by no later than April 30th, 2011. Send
your inquiries and submissions to Chris Fletcher, Anglophone
member?at?large at christopher.fletcher@ualberta.ca and/or Martin
Hebert Francophone member-at-large at Martin.Hebert@ant.ulaval.ca.
For more information about Culture check out the CASCA website:
www.cas-sca.ca

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

AAA CFP: "The Social," This Time: Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of Social Analysis

CFP: "The Social," This Time: Traces, Tidemarks and Legacies of Social
Analysis

Organizers: Stephanie Lloyd (McGill University) and Kevin Karpiak (Eastern
Michigan University)

"Society does not exist, only individuals and families", to paraphrase
Margaret Thatcher. While this may be one of the most oft-paraphrased
statements about society, this panel will take truth claims such as
Thatcher's as provocations which point to debates that have raged for more
than a century among social scientists, politicians and an array of other
invested experts about the nature and description of collective life. In
social theory and philosophy these have been given expression in
everything from the bitter exchanges between Émile Durkheim and Gabriel
Tarde at the turn of the 20th century, to the rediscovery and adaptation
of the latter by such authors as Gilles Deleuze and Bruno Latour at the
turn of the 21st. In political-economic theory and policy they can be
seen in the debates which surrounded the rise of neoliberal economic
policies in the 1980's through the neo-Durkheimian driven European social
policies of the 1990s on social exclusion, to contemporary dis-ease with
global capital and political representation.

Whether in the guise of the social's "end" (Baudrillard 1978), "death"
(Rose 1996), "retreat" (Kapferer 2005) or "reassembly" (Latour 2005) in a
"post" form subsequent to, but not detached from, previous organizational
forms, many theorists have been troubled by, and sought to give conceptual
shape to, the nature of collective existence in order to offer cogent
critical analyses of these problems. As well they should, for such
reconceptualizations of the social – about its form and its very existence
– have impacts not only on the institutional existence of individuals in
terms of the services they will be offered, the support they will have
economically and politically, but also on their very ontological status as
biopolitical beings.

In this panel we are looking for ethnographically-informed contributions
that will shed light on the ways in which various concerned actors,
embedded in contexts and living with quotidian challenges to their notions
of their role in society, make use of, challenge and reconceptualize
versions of the social in order to shape and make sense of their lives.
In particular, we are interested in papers which augment the more
well-trod debates over "the social" indexed above by focusing on how such
concerns permeate lived realities in what Macintyre (1981) has called
"those intricate bodies of theory and practice which constitute human
cultures".

Please email abstracts to kkarpiak@Emich.edu<mailto:kkarpiak@Emich.edu>
and stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca<mailto:stephanie.Lloyd@McGill.ca> by 1April
2011.

The latest issue of Culture is out/Le nouveau num=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9ro?= du bulletin Culture est maintenant disponible

The latest issue of CASCA's on-line newsletter Culture is now
available on the website. Take a look!

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=50&lang=en

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Le nouveau numéro du bulletin Culture est maintenant disponible en ligne.
Jetez-y un coup d'oeil!

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19&Itemid=50&lang=fr

CFP: 4S - Biotechnology in Latin America panel

Bio-technologies: Policy, Practice, & Scientific Change in Latin America
Session Organizer: Christina Holmes
Email: christinapholmes@gmail.com
EHESS-CNRS, Paris, France

Session Description: Biotechnology represents an important 'growth'
area, in terms of scientific knowledge and publication possibilities, as
well as presenting potentially applied uses. It has been suggested as an
important way of improving agricultural cultivars; as a way of mapping,
managing, and profiting from biodiversity; as a way of protecting a
country's genetic patrimony; and as a way of creating new industrial and
medical applications. This panel aims to foster discussion about
biotechnology and Latin America by asking the following three questions:
1) How has Latin America interacted with biotechnology? 2) How have the
policies and practices surrounding biotechnology in Latin America
compared to wider, global trends? 3) How are biotechnologies part of
wider processes of scientific change?

Please send an abstract of a paper (minimum 250 words, maximum of 400
words) by March 11th (for March 15th submission deadline).

AAA 2011 Call for Papers: Tidemarks of Secularism: Religion and the Other

AAA 2011 Call for Papers

Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University)

Panel Title: Tidemarks of Secularism: Religion and the Other

From banning niqabs and kirpans in public places to cuts in funding to
religiously affiliated community organizations, western nations are
increasing their commitment to the project of secularization in the name of
liberal emancipation and its freedoms. This, despite the fact, that many
of these same governments are becoming increasingly influenced by the
Christian right. The desire to eradicate traces of religiosity in public
spaces, policies and funding is formulated as a legacy of the idealized
(but rarely practiced) separation of church and state. This secularization
is used by both the left and the right to limit and exclude what is deemed
illegitimate political and social activities from the public sphere.
Critiques of secularization as a western bias leading to policies of
exclusion (Asad 2003, Mahmood 2005) are not new, however, the increased
political pressure to secularize requires further examination. This is
seen to be particularly true in discourses such as "reasonable
accommodation" and the banning of the niqab and burka in various public
spaces in Europe and North America. Moreover, Christian groups dedicated
to social justices issues are also witnessing cuts to their funding and
limits to their praxis. What seem to be constant is these struggle is the
manner in with inappropriate religiosity intersects with citizenship,
race, gender and ethnicity. This panel will examine how the legacies of
secularization are working to exclude certain bodies marked as different.

Questions that papers address may include:

1. How are policies of secularization directed at newcomers and
minorities?

2. How are diversity models, such as multiculturalism, becoming the
scapegoats for the failure of western nations to integrate religious
minorities?

3. How are women's bodies and beliefs becoming the battleground in
which secularism is being fought over?

If you are interested in presenting a paper as part of this panel, please
submit a 250-word abstract by April 1, 2011 to mmulholland@mtyroyal.ca

Monday, March 7, 2011

Notification of Change CASCA 2011 Conference Dates/Avis de modification des dates du colloque CASCA 2011

(English follows)

Chers membres,

Toujours dans le but de rendre le colloque de la CASCA à Fredericton le plus
amusant et convivial possible, nous avons décidé de tenir notre colloque
2011 du 11 au 13 mai, le « kitchen party » des Maritimes clôturant le tout
vendredi soir, le 13 mai. La demi-journée prévue pour le 14 mai est donc
annulée. Veuillez ajuster vos plans de voyage en conséquence. Si vous êtes
sur place le 14 mai, nous vous invitons à visiter la galerie d'art
Beaverbrook, le Farmers Market de 6 h à 13 h, ainsi qu'à profiter des
excellents restaurants qu'on peut trouver à Fredericton.

Cordialement,

Le comité organisateur du colloque 2011

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Dear Members

In keeping with our desire to make CASCA 2011 in Fredericton an intimate
fun affair we have made the decision to run CASCA from May 11-13 with the
Atlantic Kitchen party sending us all off on Friday evening May 13. The
half day scheduled for May 14 is canceled. Please adjust your travel plans
accordingly. If you are here for May 14 please check out the Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, the Farmers Market from 6 am-1pm and all the fine
restaurants that
Fredericton has to offer.

Regards from the CASCA 2011 Local Organizing Committee

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Notification of Change - CASCA 2011 Conference Dates

Dear CASCA members and friends,

In keeping with our desire to make CASCA 2011 in Fredericton an intimate fun
affair we have made the decision to run CASCA from May 11-13 with the
Atlantic Kitchen party sending us all off on Friday evening May 13. The
half day scheduled for May 14 is canceled. Please adjust your travel plans
accordingly. If you are here for May 14 please check out the Beaverbrook Art
Gallery, the Farmers Market from 6 am-1pm and all the fine restaurants that
Fredericton has to offer.

Regards from the CASCA 2011 Local Organizing Committee

CASCA: Job postings/Emplois

Lethbridge: Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=188%3Ajob-lethbridge&catid=37&Itemid=88&lang=en

Trent: Academic Program Coordinator
http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=187%3Ajob-academic-coordinator-trent&catid=39&Itemid=88&lang=en

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

CASCA 2011: Plenary Session/la s=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9ance_pl=E9ni=E8re?=

(la version française suit)


CASCA 2011 is pleased to announce the following plenary session:

Emerging Visions of Anthropology - Dialogues on Intellectual Urgency,
Critical Engagements and Re-imagining Ethnographic Relationships.

Harvey Feit, Regna Darnell, Sylvie Poirier and Jasmin Habib will each
bring their views to this exciting and important topic. We hope you will
enjoy it. Please register now.


CASCA Plenary Abstract

Emerging Visions of Anthropology - Dialogues on Intellectual Urgency,
Critical Engagements, and Re-imagining Ethnographic Relationships


We anthropologists talk about anthropology, scholarly lives and academic
practices constantly in our offices, corridors, coffee breaks,
administrative meetings, and over drinks. Our foci are often immediate,
urgent, consequential, disturbing and challenging. Often there is limited
time or commitment to also talk about how we envision our discipline or
our visions for our own scholarly lives and projects, Yet, in doing
anthropology every day we engage with and create visions of anthropology,
of relations to colleagues, of scholarly practices, and of the milieu in
which we live. These visions are ever changing and situated, but their
presence and effects are of mutual concern. The fragmentary way we address
visions and agency, and the urgency and sometimes discomfort we may feel
as we do so hint at the challenges we face individually and collectively
today. This plenary seeks to create a space of dialogues where grounded
visions and the experiences that connect them can be explored among
colleagues.

The speakers at the plenary were invited to reflect on the emerging
visions of anthropology - from various perspectives - including
differently situated historical, generational, analytical, ethnographic,
and engaged experiences. The talks being developed are diverse, but the
abstracts nevertheless reflect a surprisingly recurrent set of themes.
Among these: anthropology in the world, including anthropological
relations to processes of ethnography, power, politics, and agency;
questions about what a long-standing but widening commitment to critical
stances has meant and may yet become in anthropology, and the relations of
such critical commitments to anthropology's ever shifting marginality;
anthropological relationships to universities and disciplines, and its
changing place in neo-liberal academia; anthropology's challenges within
the post-disciplinary power of expertise, especially in relation to the
everyday lives of the people and students we engage with; anthropology's
re-turn to ethnography and to foci on conflicts, modernity, resistance,
coexistence, agency and social movements; and the continuing challenges we
face as intellectuals and citizens.


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Le colloque 2011 de la CASCA a le plaisir d'annoncer la séance plénière
suivante:

Visions émergentes de l'anthropologie – Regards sur l'urgence
intellectuelle, l'engagement critique et les relations ethnographiques
renouvelées.

Harvey Feit, Regna Darnell, Sylvie Poirier et Jasmin Habib partageront
tous leur point de vue sur cette question importante et captivante. Nous
espérons que cette séance vous plaira. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant.


Séance plénière de la CASCA – Résumé

Visions émergentes de l'anthropologie – Regards sur l'urgence
intellectuelle, l'engagement critique et les relations ethnographiques
renouvelées


En tant qu'anthropologues, nous parlons constamment de l'anthropologie, de
notre vie intellectuelle et des pratiques pédagogiques, que ce soit dans
nos bureaux, dans les corridors, à notre pause café, dans des réunions
administratives ou autour d'un verre. L'objet de nos discussions est
souvent pressant, urgent, troublant, compliqué et peut avoir des
conséquences importantes. Généralement, nous disposons de ressources et de
temps limités pour parler de la façon dont nous percevons notre
discipline, ou pour exprimer nos idées sur notre vie intellectuelle et nos
projets. Pourtant, en pratiquant notre métier chaque jour, nous
participons et donnons naissance à des visions de l'anthropologie, des
relations avec nos collègues, des pratiques pédagogiques, et du milieu
dans lequel nous vivons. Ces visions évoluent constamment, mais leur
existence et leurs effets nous préoccupent tous. La façon fragmentaire
dont nous abordons ces visions et cette agentivité, ainsi que l'inconfort
et l'urgence que nous ressentons parfois dans ces moments témoignent des
défis que nous rencontrons aujourd'hui, individuellement et
collectivement. Cette séance plénière vise à créer un espace de discussion
où les perceptions fondées et les expériences qui les relient peuvent être
explorées entre collègues.

Les conférenciers de la séance plénière ont été invités afin de réfléchir
aux visions émergentes de l'anthropologie en se basant sur des points de
vue développés dans divers contextes historiques, générationnels,
analytiques, ethnographiques, et des expériences d'engagement variées. Les
discussions prévues sont multiples, mais les résumés présentent toutefois
un ensemble de thématiques étonnamment récurrentes. Parmi celles-ci :
l'anthropologie dans le monde, dont les relations anthropologiques avec
les processus d'ethnographie, de pouvoir, de politique et d'agentivité; la
signification qu'a eu et qu'aura encore sur l'anthropologie l'adoption de
positions critiques, ainsi que les relations d'un tel engagement critique
(de longue date, mais combien enrichissant) envers la marginalité sans
cesse renouvelée de notre domaine; les relations de l'anthropologie avec
les universités et les autres disciplines, et la place de notre discipline
changeante dans un milieu universitaire néolibéral; les défis de
l'anthropologie en ce qui concerne le pouvoir d'intervention
postdisciplinaire, surtout en lien avec la vie quotidienne des gens et
étudiants avec qui nous interagissons; le retour de l'anthropologie à
l'ethnographie et à l'intérêt porté aux conflits, à la modernité, à la
résistance, à la coexistence ainsi qu'aux mouvements sociaux et
d'agentivité; et enfin, les défis perpétuels que nous rencontrons en tant
qu'intellectuels et citoyens.

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