This is a blog recording the announcements that are sent out on the CASCA listserv.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The end of the Women's Health Contribution Program at Health Canada / La fin du Programme de contribution pour la sant=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9_des_femmes_=E0_Sant=E9?= Canada

Le français suit.

Press Release

For the full version, please go to
http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/news-events/default.htm

Latest cuts: Another federal ministry announces program closure - the
end of the Women's Health Contribution Program at Health Canada

One more women's program falls victim to federal government budget
cuts; 16-year program provided essential evidence and information on
women's health; group argues for need to consider how women are harmed
by cuts to programs and services.

For immediate release: April 23, 2012

Six federally-funded organizations devoted to research and
communication in women's health learned this week that their funding
will end March 31, 2013.

The Program was critical to funding innovative social policy research,
building community partnerships and providing important mentorship
opportunities for students in women's health. Within a year, the
affected organizations will be forced to either close their doors
permanently or attempt to find funding elsewhere.

The Women's Health Contribution Program (WHCP) has supported: Le
Réseau québécois d'action pour la santé des femmes (RQASF), the
Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN), the Atlantic Centre of
Excellence for Women's Health (ACEWH), the British Columbia Centre of
Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH), the Prairie Women's Health
Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) and the National Network on Environments
and Women's Health (NNEWH), located across the country from Vancouver
to Halifax.

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Communiqué de presse

La version intégrale est disponible à
http://www.bccewh.bc.ca/news-events/default.htm

Dernières compressions : Un autre ministère fédéral annonce
l'abolition d'un programme qui marque la fin du Programme de
contribution pour la santé des femmes à Santé Canada

Un autre programme pour les femmes est victime des coupes budgétaires
du gouvernement fédéral; le programme qui existait depuis 16 ans
fournissait des données probantes et de l'information essentielle sur
la santé des femmes; le groupe soutient qu'il est nécessaire
d'examiner l'effet néfaste des coupes dans les programmes et les
services sur les femmes.

Pour publication immédiate : le 23 avril 2012

Six organisations financées par le gouvernement fédéral se consacrant
à la recherche et à la communication d'informations sur la santé des
femmes ont appris cette semaine que leur financement allait prendre
fin le 31 mars 2013.

Le Programme était crucial au financement de recherches en politique
sociale innovatrices, à l'établissement de partenariats communautaires
et à l'offre d'occasions importantes de mentorat pour les étudiantes
et les étudiants du domaine de la santé des femmes. D'ici une année,
les organisations touchées devront fermer leurs portes pour toujours
ou tenter de trouver d'autres sources de financement.

Le Programme de contribution pour la santé des femmes (PCSF) soutenait
les organisations suivantes : Le Réseau québécois d'action pour la
santé des femmes (RQASF), Le Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes
(RCSF), Le Centre d'excellence de l'Atlantique pour la santé des
femmes (CEASF), Le Centre d'excellence de la Colombie-Britannique pour
la santé des femmes, Le Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes -
région des Prairies (CESFP) et le Réseau pancanadien sur la santé des
femmes et le milieu (RPSFM), couvrant le territoire canadien, de
Vancouver à Halifax.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

University of Toronto Press: publishing opportunities

University of Toronto Press is pleased to announce that it will be
exhibiting books at the CASCA conference in Edmonton next month, and I
will be on hand to discuss book projects with members. UTP is
particularly interested in accessible ethnographies as well as
projects on urban subjects, gender, labour, race, social equality, and
environmental issues. Please stop by the UTP table or make an
appointment by contacting me at
dhildebrand@utpress.utoronto.ca<mailto:dhildebrand@utpress.utoronto.ca>.

Thank you.

DOUGLAS HILDEBRAND
Acquisitions Editor, Social Sciences

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS

10 St. Mary Street, Suite 700
Toronto, Ontario, M4Y 2W8, Canada

Phone: 416-978-2239 ex. 251
Fax: 416-978-4738
Email: dhildebrand@utpress.utoronto.ca

utppublishing.com
facebook.com/utpress

Extention: 25 April, 2012/Extension: 25 avril 2012: CASCA 2012 - Feminist Anthropology Award - Prix du R=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9seau?= des femmes de la CASCA

Dear Karli,
Could you please circulate this again with a note Deadline Extension: 25 April, 2012. I have heard that a few students are still interested but didnt get anything in to Heather this week.

Thanks!
Pauline



Extention: 25 April, 2012
Extension: 25 avril 2012

Reminder:  CASCA Women's Network Award for Student Paper in Feminist Anthropology - $100.00.  Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant lÂ'article dÂ'un étudiant en anthropologie féministe - $100,00.   Graduate students in Anthropology who will be presenting a paper at the 2012 CASCA meetings in Edmonton 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 third time in 2012. 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 be registered in a Graduate Program in Anthropology at a Canadian University or be within one year of post-graduation. Papers must be received by April 25, 2012, 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 WomenÂ's Network Co-ordinator) Heather Howard (Women's Network Committee)      Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant lÂ'article dÂ'un étudiant en anthropologie féministe - $100,00.  Les étudiants de maîtrise en anthropologie souhaitant présenter un article aux rencontres 2012 de la CASCA, à Edmonton, sont invités à le faire dans le cadre du Prix du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA récompensant lÂ'article dÂ'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 troisieme édition en 2012. Son objectif est dÂ'encourager la recherche dans les domaines du genre et des questions liées au genre dans une perspective féministe chez les chercheurs émergents en anthropologie sociale et culturelle au Canada.    Les étudiant(e)s intéressés doivent soumettre leur article accompagné dÂ'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 étudiants doivent être inscrits à plein temps au programme de maîtrise dÂ'une université canadienne, ou être à moins dÂ'une une année de lÂ'obtention dÂ'un diplôme supérieur. Les articles doivent avoir été reçus au 25 avril 2012 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) sont inscrit(e)s, et en quelle année du programme. LÂ'article lauréat sera publié dans la revue canadienne dÂ'anthropologie Anthropologica.   Meilleures salutations,   Pauline McKenzie Aucoin (coordonnatrice du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA)  Heather Howard (Membre du Comité) 


Extention: 25 April, 2012
Extension: 25 avril 2012

Reminder:

CASCA Women's Network Award for Student Paper 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
2012 CASCA
meetings in Edmonton 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
third time in
2012. 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 be registered in a
Graduate Program in
Anthropology at a Canadian University or be within one year of
post-graduation. Papers must be received by April 25, 2012, 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)
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 en anthropologie souhaitant présenter un article
aux
rencontres 2012 de la CASCA, à Edmonton, 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
troisieme
édition en 2012. 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 émergents en 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 étudiants doivent être inscrits à plein temps au programme de maîtrise
d'une
université canadienne, ou être à moins d'une une année de l'obtention d'un
diplôme supérieur. Les articles doivent avoir été reçus au 25 avril 2012
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) sont
inscrit(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)

Heather Howard (Membre du Comité)

CFP Journal Indian Anthropologist

The Indian Anthropologist is currently accepting papers for consideration
for its December 2012 on any theme of social, cultural, biological &
physical anthropology, with some relevance for India and/or South Asia.

Please also look out for the June 2012 Special Issue which is on the theme
of methodological issues in relation to the anthropological study of
disability.
------------------------
Information for Authors:
The Indian Anthropologist is a peer-reviewed journal of international
repute. It is published biannually. It is the journal of the Indian
Anthropological Association.

Notes for Contributors

Guidelines for Submission of Research Article

The Indian Anthropologist carries articles, book reviews and editorial
correspondence pertaining to all branches of Anthropology and related
disciplines. The Indian Anthropological Association holds the copyrights
in all material to the Editor. The Editor reserves the right to edit the
manuscript and to ensure stylistic consistency and conciseness.

Indian Anthropologist encourages original research writings which present
theoretically informed ethnographic descriptions, or similar analytical
exercises. An article should clearly contain objectives, methodology
employed, conceptual framework, anthropological relevance of the subject,
implications [if any] and a conclusion.

A paper should not be more than 5000 words excluding notes and references.
An abstract of 100-150 words along with 5 key words should precede the
article. Authors must provide their names, designation and official
addresses and e-mail addresses with their papers.

Only a paper fulfilling all the stylistic content requirements of Indian
Anthropologist shall be referred for peer review.

After receiving referee's comments, revised version may be sent in word
format on CD or through email

Styling Format for the References:

Yalman, Nur. 1967. Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship and
Marriage in the Interior of Ceylon,Berkeley: University of California
Press.

Jain, R. K. 2003. "Culture and Economy: Tamils on the Plantation Frontier
in Malaysia Revisited, 1998-1999," In Bhikhu Parekh et.al (eds.) Culture
and Economy in the Indian Diaspora. London and New York: Routledge :
51-80.

Breman, Jan and E.V. Daniel 1992. "Conclusion: The Making of a Coolie?,"
Journal of Peasant Studies, 19 (3&4): 268-295.

Book Reviews

Indian Anthropologist generally does not accept unsolicited reviews. Those
willing to do reviews should write to the editor.

Notes

We encourage shorter notes on research in progress or short contributions
on the topics of current social, political, and economic developments. The
comments or rejoinders on the articles published in the journal are also
welcome. These should not be more than 1000-2000 words.

Reports

Indian Anthropologist serves as a platform for dissemination of
information among social scientists. You are requested to send
announcements and short reports on events like workshops, conferences
organized in different parts of India on issues of anthropological
relevance.

All the correspondence should be addressed to:

Email: iaadelhi@rediffmail.com

CFHSS/FCSH: Communiqu=?iso-8859-1?Q?=E9:?= April 2012 | avril 2012

April 11, 2012

In this issue

Canada Prize winners announced
CFHSS responds to the Federal Budget
Congress 2012: Book airport shuttles now
Read CFHSS's submission to CIHR
One more Big Thinking to cap a successful season

Canada Prize winners announced

The winners of the 2012 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Canada
Prize in the Social Sciences were announced at a special ceremony on
March 30 at the MusÉe des beaux-arts in Montreal. Susan R. Fisher
(University of the Fraser Valley, Canada Prize in the Humanities -
English), Louise Vigneault (UniversitÉ de MontrÉal, Canada Prize in
the Humanities - French), Veronica Strong-Boag (University of British
Columbia, Canada Prize in the Social Sciences - English) and Michel
Ducharme (University of British Columbia, Canada Prize in the Social
Sciences - French) were presented with their respective rewards by
CFHSS president Graham Carr. A list of the winning titles and the
official press release are available here -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/893e39c6a7
..

We are also starting a new series of videos featuring this year's
winners. You can watch the first video, featuring Veronica
Strong-Boag, here -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/7ec0dace06
..

CFHSS responds to the Federal Budget

CFHSS is pleased to note the commitment to research excellence and
innovation in this year's federal budget. The Economic Action Plan
proposes new investments to promote research partnerships between
industry and the academy, including $7 million per year in funding
for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Read CFHSS's
full statement on the budget here -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/2fd1b6f29a
..

Congress 2012: Book airport shuttles now

Airport shuttles -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/a1e6de1bdc
are available for Congress-goers travelling by plane to
Toronto-Pearson International Airport, John C. Munro Hamilton
International Airport or The Region of Waterloo International
Airport. Book -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/d6a10ed70b
your shuttle by April 30 using conference code "Congress2012" to
ensure availability.

Read CFHSS's submission to CIHR

CFHSS submitted recommendations to CIHR's Open Suite of Programs and
Peer Review Consultation Process. A Blue Ribbon Panel composed of
Karen Grant (Vice-President, Research Policy, CFHSS), StÉphane
Bouchard (Canada Research Chair in Clinical Cyberpsychology,
UniversitÉ du QuÉbec en Outaouais), Karen Cohen (Chief Executive
Officer, Canadian Psychological Association), Jim Dunn (CIHR-PHAC
Chair in Applied Public Health, McMaster University) and Janice
Graham (Canada Research Chair in Bioethics, Dalhousie University)
were consulted in preparation for the submission, which can be found
here -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/aa8aab8ec3
(PDF).

One more Big Thinking to cap a successful season

Our last Big Thinking on the Hill of the season will take place on
April 26. Janice Keefe, Canada Research Chair in Aging and Caregiving
Policy, will talk about the future of Canadian caregiving and
homecare policies. Registration -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/4d0a34a18d
is now open.

And if you missed Alex Sevigny's March Big Thinking lecture on
question period, social media and political communication, a video is
now available -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/e976f10842
..

About CFHSS

Representing more than 85,000 researchers in 80 scholarly
associations, 81 universities and colleges, and 6 affiliates, the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the
national voice for the university research and learning community in
these disciplines.

-
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/1be06036ea

Off the Shelf

In this section we feature papers, podcasts and videos that--while
part of our archives--are still relevant to current events.

Last year, CFHSS issued a submission to the Expert Panel, Review of
Federal Support to Research and Development, recommending adopting a
people-centred approach to R&D that includes the social sciences and
humanities. The submission -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/99b31505b7
is worth revisiting, given the recent changes to research funding
announced in this year's federal budget.

-
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/1bdeda9138

CommuniquÉ FÉdÉration canadienne des sciences humaines

Le 11 avril, 2012

Dans ce numÉro

Annonce des laurÉats des Prix du Canada
RÉponse de la FCSH au budget fÉdÉral
CongrÈs 2012 : RÉservez les navettes d'aÉroport dÈs maintenant
Lisez la prÉsentation de la FCSH aux IRSC
Une autre causerie Voir grand pour clore une saison couronnÉe de
succÈs

Annonce des laurÉats des Prix du Canada

Le nom des laurÉats des Prix du Canada 2012 en sciences humaines et
en sciences sociales a ÉtÉ annoncÉ À l'occasion d'une cÉrÉmonie
spÉciale qui s'est dÉroulÉe le 30 mars au MusÉe des Beaux-arts de
MontrÉal. Susan R. Fisher (University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
Prize in the Humanities - Anglais), Louise Vigneault (UniversitÉ de
MontrÉal, Prix du Canada en sciences humaines - FranÇais), Veronica
Strong-Boag (University of British Columbia, Canada Prize in the
Social Sciences - Anglais) et Michel Ducharme (University of British
Columbia, Prix du Canada en sciences sociales - FranÇais) se sont vu
dÉcerner leurs rÉcompenses respectives des mains de M. Graham Carr,
prÉsident de la FCSH. La liste des titres gagnants et le communiquÉ
de presse officiel peuvent Être consultÉs ici -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/87dbbd697f/action=artikel&lang=fr&id=735

..

Nous dÉbutons aussi une sÉrie de vidÉos avec les laurÉats de
cette annÉe. La premiÈre vidÉo, avec Veronica Strong-Boag, est
disponible ici -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/83e374f585/lang=fr .

RÉponse de la FCSH au budget fÉdÉral

La FCSH constate avec plaisir l'engagement envers l'excellence dans
la recherche et l'innovation exprimÉ dans le budget fÉdÉral de
cette annÉe. Le Plan d'action Économique prÉconise des
partenariats de recherche entre l'industrie et l'UniversitÉ, y
compris l'investissement de 7 millions $ par annÉe en faveur du
Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines. Lisez -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/9d8f787d91/action=artikel&lang=fr&id=732
le communiquÉ publiÉ par la FCSH en rÉponse au budget
fÉdÉral
2012.

CongrÈs 2012 : RÉservez les navettes d'aÉroport dÈs maintenant

Les navettes d'aÉroport -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/f72a587a3d/lang=fr#2
sont
mises À la disposition des congressistes en provenance et À
destination des aÉroports internationaux Pearson de Toronto, John C.
Munro de Hamilton et de l'aÉroport desservant la rÉgion de
Waterloo. RÉservez -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/2db281cb3c
votre navette avant le 30 avril en vous identifiant par le code de
confÉrence "Congress2012" afin de garantir la disponibilitÉ du
service.

Lisez la prÉsentation de la FCSH aux IRSC

La FCSH a formulÉ des recommandations dans le cadre des
consultations en vue des changements proposÉs À la sÉrie de
programmes ouverts des IRSC et d'amÉliorations au processus
d'Évaluation par les pairs. Un groupe d'experts composÉ de Karen
Grant (vice-prÉsidente, Politiques de la recherche, FCSH), StÉphane
Bouchard (chaire de recherche du Canada en cyberpsychologie clinique,
UniversitÉ du QuÉbec en Outaouais), Karen Cohen (chef de la
direction, SociÉtÉ canadienne de psychologie), Jim Dunn
(IRSC-Chaire de l'ASPC en santÉ publique appliquÉe, McMaster
University) and Janice Graham (chaire de recherche du Canada en
bioÉthique, Dalhousie University) a ÉtÉ consultÉ en vue de la
prÉsentation qui peut Être consultÉe ici -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/86eafc78bb
(PDF).

Une autre causerie Voir grand pour clore une saison couronnÉe de
succÈs

Notre derniÈre causerie Voir grand de la saison aura lieu sur la
Colline du Parlement le 26 avril. Janice Keefe, titulaire de la
chaire de recherche du Canada sur le Viellissement et les politiques
de soins, parlera de l'avenir des politiques canadiennes relatives À
la prestation de soins informels et de soins À domicile.
L'inscription est ouverte -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/85830dae09
..

Et si vous n'avez pu assister À la causerie d'Alex Sevigny du mois
de mars sur la pÉriode des questions, les mÉdias sociaux et la
communication politique, une vidÉo est maintenant disponible -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/4b62071cc9
..
À propos de la FCSH

ReprÉsentant plus de 85 000 chercheurs par le biais de 80 sociÉtÉs
savantes, 81 universitÉs et collÈges et 6 sociÉtÉs affiliÉes, la
FÉdÉration canadienne des sciences humaines est le porte-parole
national de la collectivitÉ de recherche et de formation
universitaire dans ces disciplines.

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http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/fb740cf4bc/lang=fr

De nos archives

Cette section prÉsente des articles, des balados et des vidÉos de
nos archives qui sont toujours d'actualitÉ.

L'annÉe derniÈre, la FCSH a publiÉ un mÉmoire À l'intention du
groupe d'experts chargÉ de faire rapport au sujet du soutien
fÉdÉral À la recherche et au dÉveloppement, lequel recommandait
une approche de R-D et des sciences humaines axÉe sur la personne.
Le mÉmoire -
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/f92a6af763
mÉrite d'Être revisitÉ, compte tenu des changements rÉcents
apportÉs au financement de la recherche dont l'annonce a ÉtÉ faite
dans le budget fÉdÉral de l'annÉe en cours.

-
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/e6a8d08926/lang=fr

-
http://cts.vresp.com/c/?CFHSS/474415f45f/e1fb61d7d3/3a934bd179
www.fedcan.ca

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Call for Papers: Paranoid Fantasy & Enemy Creation

Call for Papers:


Library of Social Science, Publishers is seeking submissions for an edited
collection: Paranoid Fantasy & Enemy Creation: Hitler, Goebbels, and World
War

The Anthology will consist of twelve papers, each of approximately 3,000
words in length.

Editor,
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> Richard A. Koenigsberg,

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> Library of Social Science

Submission Guidelines:

Abstracts should be 300-400 words, and should identify the theoretical
grounding for the essay or piece. Please also include a brief biography (100
words).

Deadline for abstracts:

May 14, 2012

Send abstracts to:

<mailto:oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com>
oanderson@libraryofsocialscience.com

Notification of acceptance:

June 11, 2012

Accepted papers will be due:

October 15, 2012

World War II and the Final Solution

Declaring war on the United States on December 11, 1941, Hitler stated that
it was the "eternal Jew" that stood behind Roosevelt. In April 1942, Hitler
declared that a brain trust made up of Jews had driven Roosevelt into war,
against America's better interests. The influence of the Jew, Hitler
claimed, explained what at first seemed incomprehensible: the alliance
between Western democracies-Jewish capitalism-and the Soviet Union.

In November 1941, Goebbels stated that "every Jew is our enemy, whether he
scrapes out a parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg, or blows the
trumpets of war in New York or Washington." Goebbels declared in June 1943
that Jews were behind Roosevelt, behind Churchill and, hidden in the
Kremlin, the "real bearers of Bolshevism." The "international Jew"-building
bridges between the United States, Great Britain and Soviet Union-was the
"mortar" that held the coalition together.

On this rhetoric, the Nazis generated a World War that killed over 50
million people. A fantasy or ideology with no foundation in reality
generated monumentally destructive historical events.

After the Second World War, two lines of research evolved: one focusing on
the conventional narrative of warfare, the other on an extraordinary event
that came to be called the Holocaust. Jeffrey Herf
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674027388/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ide
ofwargente-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0674027388

> documents that Hitler and Goebbels did not consider the Final Solution and
World War II distinct events. Rather, the Nazis conceived of war and
genocide as fronts of one apocalyptic battle: a struggle to remove Jews from
the face of the earth. As the Nazis implemented the Final Solution, they
simultaneously waged a "war of annihilation" in the Soviet Union in order to
"exterminate" Jewish Bolsheviks.

A standard text used by mental health professionals to classify mental
disorders-The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM)-defines delusion as a "belief held with great conviction in spite of
having little empirical support." An individual may be diagnosed as deluded
or paranoid when he holds firmly to a belief that is "utterly unwarranted by
the evidence." However, the DSM introduces a caveat: a belief cannot be
considered paranoid if it is "ordinarily accepted by other members of a
person's culture or subculture." By definition-according to psychiatric
diagnosis-Hitler, Goebbels and other Nazis were not paranoid.

Nonetheless, Daniel Goldhagen
<http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679772685/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=ide
ofwargente-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0679772685

> states that upon reading anti-Semitic texts, one would be hard-pressed to
conclude that they were anything but the product of the "collective scribes
of an insane asylum." Based on extensive research on mass murder, Johan van
der Dennen
<http://rechten.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/FILES/root/Algemeen/overigepublicaties/2005e
nouder/EVIL_GEN/EVIL_GEN.pdf
> observes that though it is hard to imagine
that normal people embrace ideas equivalent to the delusional systems of the
insane, historical evidence suggests that entire societies have been
persuaded to accept the most "absurd calumnies about minority groups."
Psychiatrist Anthony Storr states that the portrayal of various groups as
enemies emanates from a fantasy comparable to "paranoid delusions found in
psychotic subjects."

Despite their paranoid belief system, Hitler and Goebbels were not
psychotic. Looking beyond their world, it becomes evident that many elements
of Nazis ideology (e.g., the identification of a single class of people as
the source of evil in the world) are quite common or ordinary. Indeed,
paranoid logic is a central dimension of many political ideologies.

The Continuing Influence of Paranoia in Enemy Creation

This volume seeks contributions on how ideologies of enmity can be
constructed on ideas and fantasies with little or no foundation in reality.
How can we understand the fact that delusive systems of belief frequently
are embraced within societies-giving rise to systematic forms of violence
and destruction to which we give names like war, genocide and terrorism?

This anthology will explore the dynamics of enemy creation: how fantasies
construct reality. How does belief in the power of an omnipotent enemy
generate political ideology-and history?

Questions to consider include but are not limited to:

* The symbolic meaning of the Jew
* Metaphors of biology and disease in Nazi ideology
* The relationship between war and genocide
* The enemy as a force that destroys one's nation
* The enemy as heretic or non-believer
* How paranoid ideas take hold within society
* Methods employed by leaders to convey their ideas
* Metaphors of the enemy
* The significance of "rescue fantasies" in political ideology
* The enemy within one's body
* Political ideology and binary systems of thought
* What one seeks to "kill off" in killing enemies

We would especially like to include in this volume:

* Case studies of enemy creation.
* Papers employing discourse or metaphor analysis: How does rhetoric
embody the idea of the enemy?
* The relationship between the psyche and ideology: How do fantasies
support cultural ideas?
* The relationship between psyche and history: How do fantasies and
ideologies give rise to societal institutions and historical actions?

Monday, April 9, 2012

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

Le bulletin Culture : appel pour soumissions d'articles et nouvelles
d'événements.
Nous travaillons présentement à la préparation du bulletin Culture,
qui paraîtra en mai 2012. 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 départements
d'anthropologie et les firmes de consultants sont également invités à
partager leurs annonces et le calendrier de leurs événements qui se
dérouleront entre mai et octobre 2012. Les soumissions doivent être
reçues avant le 30 avril 2012. Prière de les faire parvenir, ainsi que
toutes demandes de renseignements, à Nathalie Boucher, membre
francophone d'office à Nathalie_Boucher@UCS.INRS.Ca et/ou à Chris
Fletcher, membre anglophone d'office à
christopher.fletcher@fmed.ulaval.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 2012. We
welcome all kinds of submissions to the newsletter from CASCA members.
Please share your experiences, current research, and ideas in the
upcoming 2012 issue of Culture. Submissions should be made by no later
than April 30th, 2012. Send your inquiries and submissions to Chris
Fletcher, Anglophone member-at-large at
christopher.fletcher@ualberta.ca and/or Nathalie Boucher Francophone
member-at-large at Nathalie_Boucher@UCS.INRS.Ca. For more information
about Culture check out the CASCA website: www.cas-sca.ca

Thursday, April 5, 2012

CFP AAA 2012 - small correction

Apologies, the email address in the last message should be:

bodinger@susqu.edu

Thanks for your patience

CFP AAA 2012

Session organizers Melissa Biggs and Jonathan Bodinger are proposing a
session to the Council of Museum Anthropology for the 2012 American
Anthropology Association meetings in San Francisco entitled, "Crossing
Exhibition Borders: Telling Museum Stories in Unmuseum Places." They are
seeking proposals to fill one remaining space on the panel proposal
attached. Topics with international themes particularly welcome, but all
papers that deal with the session themes will be considered. Please submit
your abstracts to Melissa Biggs (<mailto:melisub@yahoo.com>
melisub@yahoo.com) and John Bodinger de Uriarte(<mailto:boding@susqu.edu>
boding@susqu.edu) by April 10th, 2012.


Crossing Exhibition Borders: Telling Museum Stories in Unmuseum Places

Organizers: Melissa Biggs and John Bodinger de Uriarte
Discussant: Joshua Bell, National Museum of Natural History

A tribal office between the American Girl mega store and the SpongeBob
Square Pants Rock Bottom Plunge. A stuffed buffalo looking out onto an
array of high-stakes slot machines. An exhibit in a town marketplace. An
open storage room in a university museum. Each of these vignettes
potentially frames a juxtaposition of the vernacular—shopping malls,
casinos, markets, hotel lobbies, and workplaces, for example—and designed
exhibitions that border on, or fully exemplify, the museological. These
are the potential ironies and border-crossings that invite rethinking
conventional museum spaces and practices.

With this in mind, our panel poses the following question: how can
museological practices vex the rubrics of curatorship and exhibition in
spaces both formal and vernacular? This panel recognizes exhibition space
as permeable and able to present multiple interior and exterior
possibilities for making sense—or different kinds of sense—in the gaps and
fissures that exceed formal museum space. It also recognizes that museum
spaces, both traditional and experimental, are powerful locations for
negotiations of sovereignty, nationhood, and tradition. How are the
borders of such exhibition spaces blurred or crossed in the practices of
self-representation? Cultivating such spaces permits the reworking of
conventional curatorial and viewer boundaries, from the contemplative to
the distractive, valuing the possibilities suggested by decentered
reception, and provoking new ways to imagine exhibitions and their
multiple publics.

INDIVIDUAL ABSTRACTS (alphabetical order)

Resorting to Nature: Claiming Identity at Barona Valley Ranch Resort and
Casino
Melissa Biggs, Independent Scholar

Tucked into the rocky hills east of San Diego, the Barona Valley Ranch
Resort and Casino invites visitors to "enjoy the best of San Diego's
resorts, with the casino gaming of Las Vegas." Operated by the Barona Band
of Mission Indians, the Resort and Casino was for several decades a
working ranch. It makes much of its scenic location, promoting the nature
paths and various gardens on the grounds and its commitment to
"environmental sustainability." A winding driveway leads visitors past a
sculpture group evoking Native spirits. The hotel, casino, and other
buildings have rustic exterior detailing recalling the ranching past;
brands that belonged to Barona Valley ranching families are impressed into
the concrete walkways. The hotel's interior continues these particularized
references, with reproductions of photographs depicting ranching scenes
decorating its walls. Aside from some token decorative touches, however,
the sleek casino avoids the bucolic. It displays the Blackjack Hall of
Fame, featuring exhibits about professional players and experts, and one
dedicated to cheaters and cheating.

This paper examines the connections, both overt and indirect, that public
spaces at the Resort and Casino makes between place as natural—native—and
place as cultivated. I argue that by presenting evidence of themselves as
both the inheritors of the valley and its resources, and as its careful
curators, the Barona establish a dual claim to legitimacy as nation, one
that draws on claims linked to the past through heritage and to the
present and future through managerial acumen and appropriate use.

Wag(er)ing Histories, Staking Territories: Crossing Museological and
Vernacular Borders John Bodinger de Uriarte, Susquehanna University
Since the passage of the 1988 Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Indian gaming
has become a site and set of practices for scrutiny, often focused on the
authenticity of Native claims to sovereignty. Native sovereignties depend
on especial claims to histories, figured through registers of land and
language, politics and self-representation. These claims are often
supported through the self-representational practices of displays in
public spaces either created specifically for, or made to accommodate,
exhibitions using text, objects and images.
This paper raises the following questions: how do some contemporary tribal
nations re-articulate claims to past selves through present-day Indian
casinos, and how are these projected past selves re-animated through
contemporary gaming practices? I focus on the lobby exhibition at The Spa
Resort in downtown Palm Springs, owned and operated by the Agua Caliente
Tribe of Cahuilla Indians. Objects in this exhibition—in particular, The
Chief, a 1936 slot machine – concretizes ways to think about recognizing
and renegotiating the past. As a nostalgic object, The Chief both offers a
generalized and stereotypical working of "the Indian" as a site for
projected history, and as a confirmation of the present. As an
affirmation of sovereignty, The Chief references the Agua Caliente Tribe
of Cahuilla Indians as able to both own and display this object in the
lobby of their own spa and resort, an institution connected to (and partly
made possible by) a sovereign nation status claimed and verified through
the expression and negotiation of inherited political and cultural
continuity.

'CultureLab': Blurring boundaries between
Museum/Storage/Laboratory/Classroom at the Haffenreffer Museum of
Anthropology, Brown University

Emily Stokes-Rees and Steven Lubar, Brown University

Over the past few decades, American university anthropology museums and
anthropology departments have moved in opposite directions. The strengths
of museums – material culture, archaeological and traditional ethnographic
collections, outreach to broad audiences – are increasingly uninteresting
and irrelevant to many anthropologists, whose research has evolved to
focus more on the social life of modern, urban societies and issues of
globalization.

And so, with faculty and students using museum collections less and less,
the anthropology museum must redefine and remake itself, and re-engage its
audiences, or risk obsolescence. They must find new ways to connect to the
university missions of teaching and learning. They must expand their
contacts, connections, and influence within anthropology and across the
disciplines.

This paper describes that transition at Brown University's Haffenreffer
Museum of Anthropology - a two-year effort attempting to reinvigorate the
museum, to make it "Brown's teaching museum." The museum hired new staff
to focus on a much broader set of university connections; changed its
exhibit style to involve more students and faculty, and to cover more
subjects; and, most importantly, reworked part of its exhibit area into a
new space called 'CultureLab', a combination open storage, seminar room,
and material culture laboratory, an innovative space which blurs the
boundaries between traditional museum exhibition, storage, and lab, and
which challenges us to re-think the contemporary role of the university
museum.


Marketing New Nationalisms: Patriotic Identities Within and Beyond
Museological Borders in the People's Republic of China

Cory Willmott, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville

In China, heritage collecting has a long history among the elite landed
gentry and members of monastic communities. Public museums, however, did
not appear until the rise of Chinese nationalism, and the adoption of
Western educational models, during the first half of the twentieth
century. The proliferation of public institutions devoted to the
collection, study, and display of heritage items on Western museological
principles was spurred on by the unearthing of ancient archeological sites
as a consequence of accelerated construction and public works projects.
From the 1950s until the 1980s, many of these heritage sites, artifacts,
and cultural institutions languished in neglect, or were actively
destroyed. Since the early 1990s, however, national economic
liberalization programs have focused on exhibitory modernity both as a
strategy for inspiring national patriotism at home, and for gaining
legitimacy abroad as an economically modern nation-state.
Simultaneously, regional authorities have invested in representational
practices as a means of marketing local culture. Both central and
regional exhibitory practices stimulate foreign and domestic tourism. In
both contexts, museological principles have spilled over into the
seemingly opposed realms of spiritual and economic public spheres, as well
as into domestic spaces. This paper compares case studies of contemporary
Chinese museums in Beijing, the capital, and in Sichuan Province. It
likewise examines museological representations in temples, historic towns,
and marketplaces in both locations. It thereby sheds light on museum
praxis in the context of tensions in emerging Chinese nationalisms among
economic ideologies as well as among diverse regions and ethnic groups.

CFP AAA 2012 - The Organization of work and politics in marine fisheries

Dear All,

We are seeking one or two additional papers to join our double panel session
proposed for the AAA 2012.

If you are interested please contact me (charles.menzies@ubc.ca) with an
idea of what your paper would be on.

TITLE: ³The organization of work and politics in marine fisheries.²

ABSTERACT: Fisheries simultaneously embody anachronistic intimate workspaces
and the most advanced elements of globalization. Most fish is still
harvested by the direct application of human labour working on board vessels
with crews ranging from 1 to 20 people. Fishermen (most practitioners of
this trade are still men and the few women often insist on the androcentric
label fishermen) typically work under extreme conditions and in close
proximity to their crew mates for days, if not weeks, at a time. There is a
camaraderie in this world that is rarely in evidence in many other
contemporary workplaces. But fisheries also exist in a highly globalized
market place in which capital, products, and materials transit the globe as
freely as any other 21st century commodity. Fish are often processed in
large scale industrial factories. Very often these factories are located
thousands of miles from where the fish was originally off-loaded. Despite
the close proximity of the on-board working conditions many local fleets are
owned by large scale businesses that know no national borders. The ideas and
information regulating fisheries and the associated ecological debates are
also global in nature and, while these debates have local impacts, they are
more often than not guided by global concerns rooted far from the
communities that catch the fish. The papers in this session draw from a
selection of detailed case studies of the organization of work, the
structure of local and global antagonisms, and the manner by which the
particularisms of the local intersect and ­perhaps- transgress the global in
this venerable way of life.

Bye for now,

Charles

Monday, April 2, 2012

WGS @ Acadia hiring 2 part-time positions

Hello!

Women´s and Gender Studies at Acadia University is looking to hire one or
two people to teach Feminist Theory (WGST 3023) in the Fall 2012 and
Introduction to Women´s and Gender Studies (WGST 1413) in the Winter 2013.
The position descriptions can be found on Acadia´s human resources website

http://hr.acadiau.ca/employment.html

Click on 'Faculty (part-time)' at the right of the screeen.

Please share this with anyone you know who might be interested.

Thank you!

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