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

Saturday, January 31, 2015

CASCA2015 Panel CFP: Indigenous Knowledge Landscapes in Canada

Indigenous Knowledge Landscapes in Canada

(reminder/rappel)


This symposium will focus on issues of relations between settlers and
Indigenous peoples, particularly in Canada, and the role(s) that
anthropology could play in making a positive contribution to that
relationship. Foci include, but are not limited to, the relationship between
anthropology/ists and Indigenous and decolonizing methodologies and how we
are challenged by/ critical of/ welcoming of this emerging literature.
Examining the implications of re-readings of the history of the terms
Canadien and Métis and how they could potentially have an impact on the
contemporary debates surrounding definitions of Métis identity. Moves toward
more participatory approaches in collecting, selecting and managing
Indigenous-related records. How settlers and Indigenous peoples are using
various media to create new landscapes of knowledges, to stymie their
production or to reproduce old antagonisms. The role of anthropologists in
translating between police and corporations in land/resource conflicts.
Other foci are welcome.

Please respond to Craig Proulx

cproulx@stu.ca

CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the
Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

(Reminder/Rappel)

Contemporary anthropological research reflects important shifts
generated in our discipline in recent decades. While these exciting
turns include increased attention to genealogical approaches, new
approaches to space and place, and the incorporation of novel
theoretical and ontological concerns, this panel asks in what ways
does anthropological investigation continue to be fundamentally
influenced by the researcher as a socially-situated subject? As the
walls and boundaries between faculties come down, how are
anthropologists (re)envisioning their role as researchers and their
discipline within broader contexts in and beyond the academy?

A key question we wish to explore in this panel is how our own
perspectives as researchers and otherwise socially-situated subjects
present a key thread, starting point, or lens of understanding in our
ethnographic research. We are also interested in understanding how
these perspectives have influenced our position on interdisciplinary
teams or, in applied research settings.

We invite abstracts that consider how the anthropologist as a
particularly situated subject impacts the point(s) from which projects
may begin, or profoundly influences the direction or outcome of the
investigation. Proposals may consider the anthropologist's:

- positionality relative to key research questions and participants;
- disciplinary background (for instance, coming to anthropology from
another discipline);
- prior or current career experience outside of the academy;
- personal or political associations;
- unexpected turns unique to the researcher.


Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words (+ author contact
information, title, keywords) by February 1st, 2015 to the panel
organizers:

Jennifer Long (Wilfrid Laurier University): jplong79@gmail.com
Rhiannon Mosher (York University): rhiannon.mosher@gmail.com

Thursday, January 29, 2015

CFP: Family Care and E-motions in Contexts of Transnational Migration (CASCA 2015)

*Reminder/Rappel*



CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society/ Société canadienne d'anthropologie)

*Annual Conference/Colloque annuel*

*Landscapes of Knowledges/Paysages des connaissances*

*Université Laval, Québec, 13 – 16 mai 2015*

CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS



PANEL:

*Family Care and E-motions in Contexts of Transnational Migration*



ORGANIZERS/ORGANISATRICES:

*Angélica H. Silva, Université de Montréal*

*Aranzazu Recalde, McGil**l University*



Our panel looks at processes of home-making and caregiving as these
intersect with international mobility under current forms of neoliberal
capitalism. We examine the embodied, everyday, experiences and
circumstances of migrant women and men who engage in (re)creating home
abroad while caring transnationally and locally for diverse relatives. Our
panel pays particular attention to life projects, household trajectories
and life cycles; the unequal and shifting caring roles performed by diverse
family members, which are shaped by cultural, kinship and gendered
expectations often endorsed by states; the emotional and socio-economic
considerations underpinning decisions to migrate or be "on the move"; the
increasingly restrictive migration/citizenship regimes implemented by
(many) states, which have produced temporary and precarious forms of
membership for those considered undeserving; and the diverse uses of
Internet communication technologies to (re)imagine and (re)negotiate a
sense of belonging among members of transnational families. Our panel seeks
to shed light on the role that e-motions play in determining mobility as
well as on the caregiving practices, experiences and circumstances of
diversely positioned family members and others considered kin in contexts
of south-north, south-south, north-north and north-south migrations.



We invite papers in English and French that, drawing on diverse analytical
and methodological perspectives, examine some of the above-mentioned or
related issues. If interested, please, send us your abstract (100-150
words) by February 1, 2015 to aranzazu.recalde@mail.mcgill.ca and
angelica.si.higuera@umontreal.ca*.*



For full information about the conference see:
http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/fr/accueil.

*February 2/ le 2 f=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9vrier:_Deadline_for_reduced_registration_rates/Date_limite_pour_l'inscription_=C3=A0__co=C3=BBt__r=C3=A9duit?= - CASCA 2015

Bonjour/Hello,



La date limite pour les inscriptions à tarif préférentiel est le 2
février 2015.

Pour obtenir de l'information concernant l'évènement CASCA2015,
veuillez consulter le site :

http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/fr/accueil

Rendez vous aux adresses suivantes pour vous inscrire:

adhésion: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/casca?lang=fr
colloque: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/event/fr/34/96


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The deadline for reduced registration rates is February 2, 2015.

Information about CASCA2015 conference theme, events, and location:

http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/en/home

Or, go straight to the registration forms:

membership: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/casca
conference: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/event/en/34/96

Wednesday, January 28, 2015

**Deadline: January 30** Assistant Professor position - Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy / Poste de professeur adjoint - Facult=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9?= de pharmacie Leslie Dan

[Attachment stripped: Original attachment type: "application/pdf", name: "SAP PP tenure stream ad .pdf"]DSEN IS PLEASED TO SHARE THE FOLLOWING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR AN ASSISTANT
PROFESSOR POSITION:


Title/Rank: Assistant Professor

Division: Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy

Department: Social/Administrative Pharmacy and
Pharmacy Practice

Deadline: January 30, 2015; open until filled

For all questions, please contact the person identified in the ad (below).

Canadian Institutes of Health Research
160 Elgin Street
Ottawa Ontario K1A 0W9
Canada


Title/Rank: Assistant Professor
Division: Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
Department: Social/Administrative Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice
Deadline: January 30, 2015; open until filled
Job Description: The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy at the University
of Toronto invites
applications for two tenure-stream appointments to join the
social/administrative pharmacy and pharmacy practice group at the Leslie
Dan Faculty of Pharmacy. The appointments will be at the rank of Assistant
Professor and will begin July 1, 2015.
We seek candidates whose research is focused in one or more of the
following areas that will build on the strengths of the Faculty: health policy
and law, public health, health services, pharmaco-epidemiology, health
economics/pharmacoeconomics, health technology assessment,
sociobehavioural aspects of medicine use, pharmacy practice research
(including research on pharmacy services or clinical research), or pharmacy
education scholarship. Experience leading collaborative research and/or
teaching initiatives will be considered an asset.
Candidates must have a Ph.D. or equivalent by date of appointment or
shortly thereafter, preferably postdoctoral experience or equivalent, a
record of demonstrated excellence in research and teaching; as well as a
well-developed research plan and teaching philosophy. The selection will
be based on the originality and quality of recent and proposed research as
well as demonstrated ability to make contributions to the educational
mission of the Faculty. The Faculty is committed to a strong link between
research and education.
The successful candidate will be expected to establish a vibrant,
independent and externally funded program of research, to supervise
research trainees at all levels and to make significant contributions to
teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Our faculty members
conduct internationally recognized research to
understand how and why medicines are used in society and how to
optimize pharmaceutical-related regulation, reimbursement, and policy
pertaining to medicines and pharmacy practice for the benefit of individual
patients and society. Researchers examine the role of the pharmacist in
providing patient care in various practice settings, and to promote the
effective use of medications with the aim to improve health outcomes.
Researchers are leaders in a broad range of fields including
pharmacoepidemiology, health economics, health technology assessment,
health services, policy, bioethics and sociobehavioural aspects of medicine
use. Many faculty members practice pharmacy and conduct patient
oriented research in clinical sites at the Toronto Area Health Science
Network hospitals in a variety therapeutic areas (e.g. cardiology, critical
care, infectious diseases, rheumatology and psychiatry), and patient
populations (e.g. geriatrics, pediatrics and women's health).
Salary to be commensurate with qualifications and experience.
The University of Toronto and its affiliated hospitals and research institutes
together constitute one of the top centres for research in the world with
outstanding opportunities for collaborations leading to multi-disciplinary
innovations. The Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy is situated in the heart of
the Toronto Discovery District and is in close proximity to several of
Canada's largest academic teaching hospitals. The Faculty offers excellent
research and educational facilities.
All qualified candidates are invited to apply by clicking on the link below.
Applications should include a covering letter of application, curriculum
vitae, 2 - 3 page statement of research plans, and a statement of teaching
philosophy and interests. If you have questions about this position, please
contact Diana Becevello (diana.becevello@utoronto.ca). For further
details and to apply online please visit:
https://utoronto.taleo.net/careersection/10050/jobdetail.ftl
Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We
recommend combining attached documents into one PDF file.
Applicants should also ask three referees to send letters directly to Diana
Becevello (diana.becevello@utoronto.ca) at the Leslie Dan Faculty of
Pharmacy by the closing date, January 30, 2015.
For more information about the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, please
visit our web site: http://www.pharmacy.utoronto.ca/The University of
Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its
community and especially welcomes applications from members of visible
minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities,
members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to
further diversification of ideas.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority.

CASCA2015: Panel Call for Papers/Appel à communication - Contemporary Landscapes of Difference. A Critical Assessment of Keywords

(Reminder/Rappel)


CASCA 2015 Panel CFP / Appel à communication: Contemporary Landscapes
of Difference. A Critical Assessment of Keywords


Organizers:
Phillip Rousseau (IRTG Diversity, Université de Montréal)
Marie-Claude-Haince (University of the Witwatersrand, IRTG Diversity)

***an International Research Training Group Diversity (IRTG) Diversity
initiative***

Constantly ostracized or celebrated, suppressed or hyped up, rejected
or embraced, difference is
replete with ambiguities in our contemporary worlds. Oscillating
feverishly between promises of
open process and closed fixity, it is enthusiastically hailed as both
a problem and a solution, as its
numerous uses and abuses firmly embed themselves in much of the
surrounding social
fabric. Idealized and regulated, it is at the basis of the
establishment of many institutionalized
mechanism of social cohesion, through processes of inclusion and
exclusion. Considered at times
a fundamental feature of any social order or a simple epiphenomenon of
other dynamics,
difference is constantly on the verge of being 'it' and dissipating
into thin air.
In order to think difference today (and what is different today), this
panel proposes to critically
engage with some of the traditional and emerging keywords with which
knowledge is
consistently attempting to apprehend, accentuate or minimize the
presence and pretences of
difference (its meanings, practices, politics, and effects). By
tackling both empirical and
theoretical dimensions of this crucial issue, we wish to draw a few
lines in the highly complex
contemporary landscapes of difference. Concretely, this panel seeks
original conceptual and
interdisciplinary contributions that critically analyze
difference-related keywords such as culture,
diversity, ethnicity, race, civilization, tolerance, mediation,
cultural industries, translation,
creolization, religious pluralism, multiculturalism, interculturalism,
secularism, citizenship,
agency, the Other, racism, xenophobia, stereotype, intersectionality,
ontologies, etc.*
* These are a few suggested concepts, others can, of course, be proposed.

Proposals should be no more then 150 words in length, include 5
keywords and sent to
both: philliprousseau@yahoo.ca and mchaince@hotmail.com.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

**Date limite 1er f=?utf-8?Q?=C3=A9vrier/February?= 1st Deadline**: PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD

RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD

APPLICATION INFORMATION.


Eligibility: Applications can be made by any student member of CASCA
undertaking doctoral level research in the field of anthropology at a
Canadian university. Preference will be given to those who have
completed their comprehensive examinations, have approved thesis
proposals and are within one year of beginning fieldwork. CASCA
recognizes that some eligible candidates may not be studying in
anthropology programs, however all candidates must be members of CASCA
when making their applications. The intent of the award is to assist
with fieldwork expenses.

Criteria: An outstanding academic record and an excellent research
proposal with innovative scholarly import and social relevance.

Value: $2000

Deadline: All application materials must be submitted electronically
by 1 February 2015 to:

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin - CASCA Secretary
rpaucoin@aol.com


Each application should include:
1. A Salisbury Award application form, signed, with items 2-4 attached
2. A curriculum vitae, including education history, Ph.D. courses,
presentations, awards, honours, teaching, grants and publications (up
to three pages).
3. A research proposal, including: theoretical framework, research
problem/question, methodology, objectives, and social and scholarly
significance (two pages).
4. A budget for research, including planned use of Award funds,
requests to other sources and funds received to date (one half to one
page).
5. Two letters of reference about the applicant's qualifications and
the research proposal, one of which must be from the applicant's
thesis supervisor (these are to be sent directly by the referees).

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RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD

APPLICATION FORM 2015


Name:___________________________
Address:_________________________
Phone: __________________________
Email address:____________________
University: _______________________
Department:______________________
Year the degree is expected: _________
Member of CASCA: yes____ no_____

Stage of PhD program (with respect to completion of comprehensive
exams, approval of thesis proposal, date of beginning of
fieldwork):_________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________


Notes:

1. Make sure your name appears at the top of each page you submit.
2. Field research must be under way during the year beginning 1 May 2015.
3. The Salisbury Award recipient will be announced at this year's CASCA AGM .
4. Award recipients are expected to present their research at a
subsequent CASCA annual conference within two years of receipt of the
award. In order to enable this, Salisbury Award recipients may be
given priority consideration for a CASCA student travel award to
present at the conference.
5. Decisions of the Salisbury Award Committee are final.


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PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY

SOUMISSION DES DOSSIERS DE CANDIDATURE.


Admissibilité: Tout membre étudiant de la CASCA menant une recherche
doctorale en anthropologie dans une université canadienne peut
présenter sa candidature. Une préférence sera accordée à ceux et
celles qui auront terminé avec succès leur scolarité de doctorat, y
compris les examens de synthèse et le projet de thèse, et qui
commenceront leur recherche de terrain au cours de l'année suivante.
La CASCA reconnaît que certaines personnes admissibles n'étudient
peut-être pas dans un programme d'anthropologie; quoi qu'il en soit,
toute personne posant sa candidature devra être membre de la CASCA au
moment du dépôt de sa candidature. L'objectif de ce prix est d'aider à
couvrir leurs dépenses liées à la recherche sur le terrain.

Critères : Un dossier universitaire exemplaire, ainsi qu'un excellent
projet de recherche, innovateur en matière de contribution
intellectuelle et de pertinence sociale.

Valeur: 2000$

Date limite : Tous les documents liés au dépôt de la candidature
doivent être soumis électroniquement au plus tard le 1er février 2015
à l'attention de :

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin - Secrétaire de la CASCA
rpaucoin@aol.com


Chaque dossier de candidature doit inclure:

1. Le formulaire de candidature au Prix Salisbury signé, avec les
documents énumérés aux points 2 à 4 en pièces jointes.
2. Un curriculum vitae, comprenant diplômes obtenus, cours doctoraux
suivis, présentations, prix, honneurs, expériences d'enseignement,
bourses et publications (jusqu'à trois pages).
3. Le projet de recherche, comprenant: le cadre théorique, le
problème/la question de recherche, la méthodologie, les objectifs, et
la signification sociale et académique (deux pages).
4. Le budget de recherche, comprenant les dépenses prévues des fonds
du Prix, ainsi que les autres demandes de financement et financement
reçu jusqu'à présent (une demi-page à une page).
5. Deux lettres de recommandation au sujet des qualifications de la
personne candidate et du projet de recherche. L'une d'elles doit
provenir du directeur ou de la directrice de thèse et devra nous
parvenir directement de cette personne.

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PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY

DOSSIER DE CANDIDATURE 2015


Nom:___________________________
Adresse:_________________________
No de tél: __________________________
Courriel:____________________
Université: _______________________
Département:______________________
Année prévue d'obtention du diplôme_________
Membre de la CASCA: oui____ non____

Stage du programme doctoral (en ce qui a trait à la réalisation des
examens de synthèse, à l'approbation du projet de thèse, et à la date
à laquelle la recherche sur le terrain commencera)
:_________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________


Notes:
1. Assurez-vous que votre nom apparaît en haut de chaque page que vous
soumettez.
2. La recherche sur le terrain doit être en cours ou débuter pendant
l'année suivant le 1er mai 2015.
3. Nous annoncerons le ou la récipiendaire du Prix Salisbury lors de
l'assemblée générale annuelle de la CASCA de cette année.
4. Le ou la récipiendaire devra présenter sa recherche à l'un des
colloques annuels de la CASCA à l'intérieur des deux années suivant
l'obtention du prix. Afin de l'aider dans cette démarche, il est
possible que nous traitions en priorité toute demande de subvention du
lauréat ou de la lauréate du Prix Salisbury visant à couvrir les frais
de déplacement liés à la participation au colloque.
5. Les décisions du Comité du Prix Salisbury sont sans appel.

Monday, January 26, 2015

CASCA2015 Roundtable Call for Participants - Landscapes of Knowledge: Teaching Anthropology in Canada Today

(Reminder/Rappel)


Casca 2015 Roundtable Call for Participants -- Landscapes of
Knowledge: Teaching Anthropology in Canada Today

In recent years, the educational climate within Canadian university
contexts has changed dramatically. The democratization of universities
since the 1960's, coupled with the increased availability of
government-sponsored student loans, has made postsecondary education a
prerequisite for "middle class" employment, and students therefore
expect to find middle class jobs upon graduation. In addition,
neoliberal restructuring policies of various governments and
university administrations, coupled with changing student demographics
and increasing tuition rates have challenged many of the traditional
roles, values, and expectations of academia. Postsecondary education,
many complain, has been reduced to a game of metrics, with educators
feeling pressure to retain students (and their tuition dollars) by
tailoring course offerings to meet perceived student demands, or to
expand or repackage undergraduate programmes at the expense of
disciplinary depth and breadth. Within this co!
ntext, professors and teaching assistants also grapple with
changing high school curricula that deemphasize writing and critical
thinking skills. As a result, university educators worry that most
first year students are unprepared to meet the demands and rigors of
traditional university pedagogy. To address the increasing numbers and
demands of undergraduates, there has also been an increasing reliance
upon underpaid and oftentimes overworked sessional or contract
faculty, as well as the implementation of new "teaching track"
positions.

The goal of this roundtable is to spark a productive dialogue about
teaching anthropology within this neoliberalized landscape of
knowledge. We invite postsecondary educators within anthropology to
share their teaching experiences, and to foster a dialogue surrounding
the following questions/issues:

- What are the challenges for teaching anthropology within an
increasingly pragmatic, "job-oriented" student culture, and how do we
address them?
- How can anthropology be used to develop critical
awareness/thinking/writing skills among students?
- How does the imposition of student "client-based" models of pedagogy
affect us as teachers of anthropology? What does it mean to engage
students in this context? What strategies do we use to work within, or
even against, this model?
- How is the discipline impacted by the development of two-tiered
streams of professorships (teaching track versus research stream)?
- How does this new landscape affect contract teachers of anthropology?
- How are instructors engaging with administrative pressures to
incorporate various teaching technologies in the classroom? What
technologies (if any) do you find most helpful in teaching critical
thinking skills?

If you are interested in participating in this Roundtable, then please
contact Maggie Cummings (mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) and Karen McGarry
(mcgarry@mcmaster.ca) by February 1. Please forward a brief outline of
your teaching experience and tell us which questions you are
interested in discussing.

CASCA 2015 Session Proposal - Knowledges of Landscapes: Differential Chronotopes and the Experience, Representation, and Meanings of Land

(Reminder/Rappel)


CASCA 2015 Session Proposal

Knowledges of Landscapes: Differential Chronotopes and the Experience,
Representation, and Meanings of Land

Western frameworks, reflecting their development within
urban-industrial regimes in which landscapes are not and perhaps
cannot be lived, suggest that knowledge of and appreciation for
landscape are phenomena of other spaces and/or times. In relation, and
regardless of how they are peopled, 'natural' and 'pristine'
landscapes are diminished in cosmopolitan modernity. Objectified,
suffused with romanticism and nostalgia, mediated, packaged and
ritually consumed as tourism and heritage, and yet effectively
forgotten on an everyday basis amid rapid social and technological
change, landscapes nevertheless remain intrinsic and central
contributors to personal, ethnic, and national subjectivities and thus
can also become important tropes for reification and resistance. Given
these contexts, how is the landscape to be appreciated, known,
experienced, represented, mediated, recorded? How are anthropologists
to know the landscapes of others? Do landscapes and other related
figurations of persons in material space and time become resurgent in
response to modernity and indeed hyper/supermodernity?

Interested contributors are invited to submit an abstract of at most
150 words, accompanied by contact and affiliation information and a
short list of keywords, by February 1, 2015, to session organizer
Nicola Mooney (University of the Fraser Valley) at: nicola.mooney@ufv.ca

Friday, January 23, 2015

Thursday, January 22, 2015

2015 Topic for U. C. Press's International Competition

*INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPETITION CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC
ANTHROPOLOGY*

*The California Series in Public Anthropology encourages scholars in a
range of disciplines to discuss major public issues in ways that help the
broader public understand and address them. Two presidents (Mikhail
Gorbachev and Bill Clinton) as well as three Nobel Laureates (Amartya Sen,
Jody Williams, and Mikhail Gorbachev) have contributed to the Series either
through books or forwards. Its list includes such prominent authors as
Paul Farmer co-founder of Partners in Health, Kolokotrones University
Professor at Harvard and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti.*

Each year the Series highlights a particular problem in its international
call for manuscripts. The focus this year will be on *STORIES OF
INEQUALITY**.*

We are particularly interested in authors who convey both the problems
engendered by inequality as well as ways for addressing it. Prospective
authors might ask themselves: How can they make their study "come alive"
for a range of readers through the narration of powerful stories? They
might, for example, focus on the lives of a few, select individuals tracing
the problems they face and how they, to the best of their abilities, cope
with them. Prospective authors might examine a specific institution and
how, in various ways, it perpetuates inequality. Or authors might describe
a particular group that seeks to address a facet of the problem. There are
no restrictions on how prospective authors address *STORIES OF INEQUALITY*
– only an insistence that the proposed publication draw readers to its
themes through the inclusion of powerful stories about real people. The
series is directed at the general public as well as college students.

The University of California Press in association with the Center for a
Public Anthropology will review proposals for publication independent of
whether the manuscripts themselves have been completed. We are open to
working with authors as they wind their way through the writing process.
The proposals can describe work the author wishes to undertake in the near
future or work that is currently underway. *The proposals submitted to the
competition should be 3-4,000 words long and describe both the overall work
as well as a general summary of what is (or will be) in each chapter.* We
expect the completed, publishable manuscripts to be between 250-300 pages
(or 60,000-100,000 words) long excluding footnotes and references.
Examples of the types of analyses we are looking for include:

*Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil* by Nancy
Scheper-Hughes

*Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity*
by Katherin Boo

*Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya* by
Caroline Elkins

*American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare*
by Jason DeParle

*Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital* by
Sheri Fink

*There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other
America* by Alex Kotlowitz

We are interested in establishing committed, supportive relationships with
authors that insures their books are not only published but are well
publicized and recognized both within and beyond the academy. We are
committed to insuring the success of winning proposals.

*DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS APRIL 21, 2015*
Submissions should be emailed to: bookseries@publicanthropology.org with
the relevant material enclosed as attachments. They can also be sent to:
Book Series, 707 Kaha Street, Kailua, HI. Questions regarding the
competitions should be directed to Dr. Rob Borofsky at:
bookseries@publicanthropology.org.

*All entries will be judged by the Co-Editors of the California Series in
Public Anthropology:* *Rob Borofsky (Center for a Public Anthropology &
Hawaii Pacific University) and Naomi Schneider (University of California
Press)*

Grant Opportunity

Grant Opportunity ($50,000): Raising Awareness of the Importance 'Asia
Competence' in Canada - The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada

Deadline: February 27, 2015


The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) believes that Canada's
successful engagement of the countries and peoples of Asia requires us to
strengthen the Asia-related knowledge, skills and experiences ("Asia
competence") of young Canadians. It is therefore accepting proposals for
up to $50,000 for projects to design and implement/pilot initiatives that
will broaden and deepen Canadians' awareness of the importance of Asia
competence.

Proposals should be submitted on behalf of a team, rather than an
individual. At least half of the project team – including at least one
project leader – must be currently enrolled at a Canadian post-secondary
institution. Applicants must also include one or more confirmed faculty
supervisors who will oversee the project's design, implementation and final
reporting.

You will find more information about proposal procedures and criteria here:
www.asiapacific.ca/asia-competence-project .

Applicants are encouraged to consult, for background information, the 2013
Asia Competence Task Force report (
http://www.asiapacific.ca/research-report/canadas-asia-challenge-creating-competence-next-generation-c
), and the website of the 2014 "Canada's Asia Challenge: Building Skills
and Knowledge for the Next Generation" conference (
www.asiapacific.ca/education-conference).

The application deadline is Friday, February 27 at 5:00 PST.

The successful applicant will be notified in mid-March 2015. Project work
can begin as soon as April 2015, and must be completed, including all final
reporting requirements, by December 31, 2015. Short-listed applicants may
be contacted by Foundation staff for follow-up questions. Proposals and all
related enquiries should be sent to Erin Williams at
erin.williams@asiapacific.ca .

Canadian Anthropology Listserv Sign-up- Anthropologica: the Journal of the Canadian Anthropology Society

Canadian Anthropology Listserv Sign-up- Anthropologica: the Journal
of the Canadian Anthropology Society*

Introducing Anthropologica- the journal of the Canadian Anthropology
Society (CASCA). Sign up for important news relating to Anthropologica.
You'll receive emails with peeks inside new issues, Tables of Contents,
Calls for Papers, editorial announcements, and special offers. You can
unsubscribe at any time. http://bit.ly/anthrolist. Submission information
for Anthropologica can be found online at www.utpjournals.com/anthro

CASCA2015: student travel grants/subventions de voyage pour étudiant(e)s

The Canadian Anthropology Society makes available a limited number of
travel grants to attend the annual conference. The awards are
available to doctoral students registered in Canadian Anthropology
departments.

See the website for more information:

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/content/article/15-english-language-categories-parent/conferences/upcoming-conference/338-student-travel-grant-2013


La Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie met à la disposition des
étudiant(e)s qui présentent au colloque annuel un nombre limité de
subventions de voyage. Les bourses sont offertes aux doctorants
inscrits dans les départements d'anthropologie du Canada. Consulter le
site Web pour plus d'information:

http://www.cas-sca.ca/fr/component/content/article/160-french/797-subventions-de-voyages

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

CASCA2015: Panel Call for Papers/Appel à communication - Contemporary Landscapes of Difference. A Critical Assessment of Keywords

CASCA 2015 Panel CFP / Appel à communication: Contemporary Landscapes
of Difference. A Critical Assessment of Keywords


Organizers:
Phillip Rousseau (IRTG Diversity, Université de Montréal)
Marie-Claude-Haince (University of the Witwatersrand, IRTG Diversity)

***an International Research Training Group Diversity (IRTG) Diversity
initiative***

Constantly ostracized or celebrated, suppressed or hyped up, rejected
or embraced, difference is
replete with ambiguities in our contemporary worlds. Oscillating
feverishly between promises of
open process and closed fixity, it is enthusiastically hailed as both
a problem and a solution, as its
numerous uses and abuses firmly embed themselves in much of the
surrounding social
fabric. Idealized and regulated, it is at the basis of the
establishment of many institutionalized
mechanism of social cohesion, through processes of inclusion and
exclusion. Considered at times
a fundamental feature of any social order or a simple epiphenomenon of
other dynamics,
difference is constantly on the verge of being 'it' and dissipating
into thin air.
In order to think difference today (and what is different today), this
panel proposes to critically
engage with some of the traditional and emerging keywords with which
knowledge is
consistently attempting to apprehend, accentuate or minimize the
presence and pretences of
difference (its meanings, practices, politics, and effects). By
tackling both empirical and
theoretical dimensions of this crucial issue, we wish to draw a few
lines in the highly complex
contemporary landscapes of difference. Concretely, this panel seeks
original conceptual and
interdisciplinary contributions that critically analyze
difference-related keywords such as culture,
diversity, ethnicity, race, civilization, tolerance, mediation,
cultural industries, translation,
creolization, religious pluralism, multiculturalism, interculturalism,
secularism, citizenship,
agency, the Other, racism, xenophobia, stereotype, intersectionality,
ontologies, etc.*
* These are a few suggested concepts, others can, of course, be proposed.

Proposals should be no more then 150 words in length, include 5
keywords and sent to
both: philliprousseau@yahoo.ca and mchaince@hotmail.com.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

CASCA 2015 Date limite pour l'inscription à coût réduit/ CASCA2015 Deadline for reduced registration rates

La date butoir d'inscription et de réception de propositions pour le
colloque CASCA2015 approche! La date limite pour les inscriptions à
tarif préférentiel est le 2 février 2015.

Pour obtenir de l'information concernant l'évènement, veuillez
consulter le site :

http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/fr/accueil

Rendez vous aux adresses suivantes pour vous inscrire:

adhésion: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/casca?lang=fr
colloque: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/event/fr/34/96


******

It is time to write your abstract and sign up for CASCA2015! The
deadline for reduced registration rates is February 2, 2015.

Information about conference theme, events, and location:

http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/en/home

Or, go straight to the registration forms:

membership: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/casca
conference: https://www.fedcan-association.ca/event/en/34/96

Monday, January 19, 2015

CASCA 2015 Session Proposal - Knowledges of Landscapes: Differential Chronotopes and the Experience, Representation, and Meanings of Land

CASCA 2015 Session Proposal

Knowledges of Landscapes: Differential Chronotopes and the Experience,
Representation, and Meanings of Land

Western frameworks, reflecting their development within
urban-industrial regimes in which landscapes are not and perhaps
cannot be lived, suggest that knowledge of and appreciation for
landscape are phenomena of other spaces and/or times. In relation, and
regardless of how they are peopled, 'natural' and 'pristine'
landscapes are diminished in cosmopolitan modernity. Objectified,
suffused with romanticism and nostalgia, mediated, packaged and
ritually consumed as tourism and heritage, and yet effectively
forgotten on an everyday basis amid rapid social and technological
change, landscapes nevertheless remain intrinsic and central
contributors to personal, ethnic, and national subjectivities and thus
can also become important tropes for reification and resistance. Given
these contexts, how is the landscape to be appreciated, known,
experienced, represented, mediated, recorded? How are anthropologists
to know the landscapes of others? Do landscapes and other related
figurations of persons in material space and time become resurgent in
response to modernity and indeed hyper/supermodernity?

Interested contributors are invited to submit an abstract of at most
150 words, accompanied by contact and affiliation information and a
short list of keywords, by February 1, 2015, to session organizer
Nicola Mooney (University of the Fraser Valley) at: nicola.mooney@ufv.ca

CASCA2015 Roundtable Call for Participants - Landscapes of Knowledge: Teaching Anthropology in Canada Today

Casca 2015 Roundtable Call for Participants -- Landscapes of
Knowledge: Teaching Anthropology in Canada Today

In recent years, the educational climate within Canadian university
contexts has changed dramatically. The democratization of universities
since the 1960's, coupled with the increased availability of
government-sponsored student loans, has made postsecondary education a
prerequisite for "middle class" employment, and students therefore
expect to find middle class jobs upon graduation. In addition,
neoliberal restructuring policies of various governments and
university administrations, coupled with changing student demographics
and increasing tuition rates have challenged many of the traditional
roles, values, and expectations of academia. Postsecondary education,
many complain, has been reduced to a game of metrics, with educators
feeling pressure to retain students (and their tuition dollars) by
tailoring course offerings to meet perceived student demands, or to
expand or repackage undergraduate programmes at the expense of
disciplinary depth and breadth. Within this co!
ntext, professors and teaching assistants also grapple with
changing high school curricula that deemphasize writing and critical
thinking skills. As a result, university educators worry that most
first year students are unprepared to meet the demands and rigors of
traditional university pedagogy. To address the increasing numbers and
demands of undergraduates, there has also been an increasing reliance
upon underpaid and oftentimes overworked sessional or contract
faculty, as well as the implementation of new "teaching track"
positions.

The goal of this roundtable is to spark a productive dialogue about
teaching anthropology within this neoliberalized landscape of
knowledge. We invite postsecondary educators within anthropology to
share their teaching experiences, and to foster a dialogue surrounding
the following questions/issues:

- What are the challenges for teaching anthropology within an
increasingly pragmatic, "job-oriented" student culture, and how do we
address them?
- How can anthropology be used to develop critical
awareness/thinking/writing skills among students?
- How does the imposition of student "client-based" models of pedagogy
affect us as teachers of anthropology? What does it mean to engage
students in this context? What strategies do we use to work within, or
even against, this model?
- How is the discipline impacted by the development of two-tiered
streams of professorships (teaching track versus research stream)?
- How does this new landscape affect contract teachers of anthropology?
- How are instructors engaging with administrative pressures to
incorporate various teaching technologies in the classroom? What
technologies (if any) do you find most helpful in teaching critical
thinking skills?

If you are interested in participating in this Roundtable, then please
contact Maggie Cummings (mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) and Karen McGarry
(mcgarry@mcmaster.ca) by February 1. Please forward a brief outline of
your teaching experience and tell us which questions you are
interested in discussing.
------------------

Dr. Karen McGarry
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Chester New Hall, Room 524
McMaster University
1280 Main St. West
Hamilton, Ontario
L8S 4L9
mcgarry@mcmaster.ca

CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

(Reminder/Rappel)


CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the
Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

Contemporary anthropological research reflects important shifts
generated in our discipline in recent decades. While these exciting
turns include increased attention to genealogical approaches, new
approaches to space and place, and the incorporation of novel
theoretical and ontological concerns, this panel asks in what ways
does anthropological investigation continue to be fundamentally
influenced by the researcher as a socially-situated subject? As the
walls and boundaries between faculties come down, how are
anthropologists (re)envisioning their role as researchers and their
discipline within broader contexts in and beyond the academy?

A key question we wish to explore in this panel is how our own
perspectives as researchers and otherwise socially-situated subjects
present a key thread, starting point, or lens of understanding in our
ethnographic research. We are also interested in understanding how
these perspectives have influenced our position on interdisciplinary
teams or, in applied research settings.

We invite abstracts that consider how the anthropologist as a
particularly situated subject impacts the point(s) from which projects
may begin, or profoundly influences the direction or outcome of the
investigation. Proposals may consider the anthropologist's:

- positionality relative to key research questions and participants;
- disciplinary background (for instance, coming to anthropology from
another discipline);
- prior or current career experience outside of the academy;
- personal or political associations;
- unexpected turns unique to the researcher.


Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words (+ author contact
information, title, keywords) by February 1st, 2015 to the panel
organizers:

Jennifer Long (Wilfrid Laurier University): jplong79@gmail.com
Rhiannon Mosher (York University): rhiannon.mosher@gmail.com

Job posting - deadline January 21: Instructional Assistant, Student Access Services Aboriginal - Camosun College

Instructional Assistant, Student Access Services Aboriginal
Camosun College

Closing date: January 21, 2015

For more information:

http://cas-sca.ca/latest-jobs/guest/detailjob/1394-instructional-assistant-student-access-services-aboriginal-camosun-college

CASCA: Conferences, Calls for Papers, Events/Colloques, Appels à communication, Évènements

Conferences and calls for papers/Colloques et Appels à communication:


Les colloques et appels à communication suivants viennent d'être ajoutés à
notre page web:

The following conference announcements and calls for papers have just been
added to our web page:


-Call for feminist articles: why gender and feminism still matter

-Call for Papers: Ethnologies Special Issue – Exhibiting Soundscapes

-Appel à contributions : numéro special d'Ethnologies – Exposer le son

-Migration and Late Capitalism: Critical Intersections with the
Asia-Pacific and Beyond, June 2015, University of Victoria

-Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society Special Issue

-Shallow Pasts, Endless Horizons: Sustainability & Archaeology, 48th
Annual Chacmool Conference, November 2015, University of Calgary

-MAI Journal announces a general call for papers for Volume 4 (2015) |
Deadline: 31st January 2015

-Conference - Transnational Hispaniola: Theories Into Practices -
Haiti - October 2015

-Conference - Decolonizing Development: Opportunities & Alternatives
Post-2015 - International Development (IDC) - Toronto - February 2015

-Appel à contributions - Détroit Voyages en terrain mouvant

-CFP: SANA 2015, April 16-18; John Jay (CUNY), NYC

-Eleventh Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 11) -
Vienna, September 2015

-CFArticles: Stability: International Journal of Security & Development

-CfP: Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal

-FPR-UCLA Interdisciplinary Conference on Sex/Gender (October 2015)

-CFP: Unity and Resistance Graduate Conference, March 2015 (Toronto)

-Call for Chapter Contribution: for a forthcoming (2016) edited book
called "Critical Immigration Context and Policy Issues in Canada"
(Working Title)

-CFP - Religion, Science and the Future - Florida, January 2016

-GENDER RELATIONS AND RISING INEQUALITY - CALL FOR PAPERS (July 2015)

-CFP: What Can a Feminist Geopolitics Do? RGS/IBG Conference, Exeter -
September 2015

-Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - New Issue and CFP



See them and others on our website:

Consultez-les ou voyez toute la liste en visitant notre site web:

http://cas-sca.ca/fr/appel-de-communications
http://cas-sca.ca/call-for-papers


Events/Évènements-Other/Autres:


1.
Upcoming Talk: The New Face of Developing Country Debt

Event Date: January 26, 2015 - 12:00 pm
Location: Social Sciences Building, 120 University Street, room 4006

University of Ottawa, Ottawa



NIHAL KAPPAGODA, Consultant; ROY CULPEPER, University of Ottawa.

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN).



Developing-country debt—a major obstacle to economic and social
progress in developing countries—has preoccupied policy-makers and
practitioners for several decades. Following the resolution of the
Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, and the debt-relief
initiatives for low-income countries from 1997-2006, concerns about
developing-country debt seem to have receded. However, a growing
number of problems warrant concern, including domestic debt
accumulation, short-term debt and private non-guaranteed debt, and
increasing recourse by low-income countries to international capital
markets. Significant weaknesses remain in developing countries' debt
management capacity at the national level. These and other problems
point to an urgent need to address shortcomings in the international
institutional architecture.

Nihal Kappagoda works as a freelance sovereign debt management
consultant. He has undertaken consultancies for the Asian Development
Bank (ADB), Commonwealth Secretariat, International Development
Research Centre (IDRC), United Nations and World Bank including
training programmes for the staff in Public Debt Management Offices.
Prior to this he worked at the IDRC, Commonwealth Secretariat and ADB.
At IDRC he was the Regional Director in Singapore and later Vice
President Planning. At the Secretariat, he started a program of
advisory services in debt management and launched the CS-DRMS debt
management software now used in over fifty countries. The Secretariat
honoured him with an award for "long-term and outstanding service to
the development of the Debt |Management Programme". He was Sri Lanka's
first Rhodes Scholar and has a Master of Philosophy degree in
Economics from the University of Oxford. In Sri Lanka, he worked at
the Central Bank and headed the External Resources Department which
handled the country's external borrowings.

Roy Culpeper is a Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa's School
of International Development and Global Studies, Adjunct Professor at
the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton
University, and a Fellow of the Broadbent Institute. He is Chair of
the Group of 78, and Chair of the Coalition for Equitable Land
Acquisitions and Development in Africa. From January until May 2011 he
was a Fulbright scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington,
D.C. From 1995 until 2010 he was President and Chief Executive Officer
of The North-South Institute, Ottawa. Earlier in his career he was an
official at the World Bank in Washington, the federal Departments of
Finance and External Affairs in Ottawa, and the Planning Secretariat
of the Government of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Roy Culpeper obtained his
Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Toronto. He has published
widely on the issues of international development, finance and global
governance.

Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and
available on a first come, first served basis.

- See more at:
http://cips.uottawa.ca/event/the-new-face-of-developing-country-debt/#.dpuf




Thank you/Merci

CASCA: Student Zone Notices/Annonces zone étudiante

Nouveaux ajouts/New announcements:


-Off the Beaten Track Summer School for Anthropologists

-Roman Field School at Cerro de la Muela, Spain

-Dubai Expedition 2015, Sanisera Archaeology Institute for
International Field Schools

-Italy-Pran'e Siddi Field School

-Anthropology MASTERS Bursaries: Queen's University Belfast

-International PhD Studentship in Anthropology: Queen's University Belfast

-Conference - Decolonizing Development: Opportunities & Alternatives
Post-2015 - International Development (IDC) - Toronto - February 2015

-PhD Studentship: Urban ethnography - public space, street care and
homelessness (Cardiff)

-CFP: Unity and Resistance Graduate Conference, March 2015 (Toronto)

-Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography - New Issue and CFP

-Madagascar Workshop McGill - May 2015 - Call for Papers

-Undergraduate course - Social Movements and Social Change in Brazil


See them and others on our website.
Consultez-les ou voyez toute la liste en visitant notre site web:

http://cas-sca.ca/

Merci. Thank you

Saturday, January 17, 2015

CASCA: Job postings/Offres d'emploi

***Même si la CASCA reste très critique face l'exploitation toujours
croissante des chargés de cours et professeurs à court terme, la liste
de diffusion continue d'annoncer les postes à temps partiel.

***Although CASCA remains profoundly critical of the increasing trend
in the exploitation of part-time, sessional and contract faculty, the
list-serve includes advertisements for part-time teaching opportunities.



Les offres d'emploi suivantes viennent d'être ajoutées à notre banque/
The following job postings have just been added to our job page:



-English - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Literatures) - Saint Mary's
University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1368-english-assistant-professor-indigenous-literatures-saint-mary-s-university


-Anthropology - Assistant Professor - MacEwan University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1369-anthropology-assistant-professor-macewan-university


-Anthropology - Lab Instructor - MacEwan University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1370-anthropology-lab-instructor-macewan-university


-Sociology - Instructor - Kwantlen Polytechnic University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1371-sociology-instructor-kwantlen-polytechnic-university


-Provost and Vice-President (Academic) and Pro Vice-Chancellor -
Memorial University of Newfoundland

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1372-provost-and-vice-president-academic-and-pro-vice-chancellor-memorial-university-of-newfoundland


-President and Vice-Chancellor - University of Saskatchewan

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1373-president-and-vice-chancellor-university-of-saskatchewan


-Provost & Vice President Academic - Trent University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1374-provost-vice-president-academic-trent-university


-Diversité religieuse et changement social - Chaire de recherche du
Canada de niveau 1 - Université d'Ottawa

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1375-diversit%C3%A9-religieuse-et-changement-social-chaire-de-recherche-du-canada-de-niveau-1-uottawa


-Religious Diversity and Social Change - Canada Research Chair Tier 1
- University of Ottawa

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1376-religious-diversity-and-social-change-canada-research-chair-tier-1-university-of-ottawa


-Sociology and Social Anthropology - Lecturer/Assistant Professor -
Dalhousie University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1377-sociology-and-social-anthropology-lecturer-assistant-professor-dalhousie-university


-Sociology - Lecturer - Memorial University of Newfoundland

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1378-sociology-lecturer-memorial-university-of-newfoundland


-Women's and Gender Studies - Contract Academic Instructor -
University of Alberta

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1379-women-s-and-gender-studies-contract-academic-instructor-university-of-alberta


-International Development Studies - Sessional Assistant Professor -
York University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1380-international-development-studies-sessional-assistant-professor-york-university


-Sociology - Assistant Professor - Brandon University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1381-sociology-assistant-professor-brandon-university


-Community and Cultural Engagement - Canada Research Chair - Tier 2 -
Thompson Rivers University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1382-community-and-cultural-engagement-canada-research-chair-tier-2-thompson-rivers-university


-Director - International Centre for Northern Governance and
Development - University of Saskatchewan

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1383-director-international-centre-for-northern-governance-and-development-university-of-saskatchewan


-Youth Culture & Society SOCI 1523, Contract Academic Position -
University of New Brunswick

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1384-youth-culture-society-soci-1523-contract-academic-position-university-of-new-brunswick


-Sociological Perspectives SOCI 1503, Contract Academic Position -
University of New Brunswick

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1385-sociological-perspectives-soci-1503-contract-academic-position-university-of-new-brunswick


-Technology & Social Change SOCI 2534, Contract Academic Position -
University of New Brunswick

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1386-technology-social-change-soci-2534-contract-academic-position-university-of-new-brunswick


-Lab / Instructional Assistant, Sociology and Anthropology
Mount Royal University

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1387-lab-instructional-assistant-sociology-and-anthropology-mount-royal-university


-Director, Indspire Institute - Indspire Institute

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1388-director-indspire-institute-indspire-institute


-Assistant/Associate Professor - Korean Studies - U of T

http://www.cas-sca.ca/component/jbjobs/guest/detailjob/1389-assistant-associate-professor-korean-studies-u-of-t



See them and others on our website/Consultez-les ou voyez toute la
liste en visitant notre site Web:

www.cas-sca.ca

If our job bank helped you find employment, please let us know.
Si notre banque d'emplois vous a aidé à vous trouver un emploi, merci de
nous en aviser à l'adresse:

membership@anthropologica.ca


Merci/Thank you

Friday, January 16, 2015

CASCA 2015 Panel Appel à communication/CFP: Creative Landscapes of Knowledge: Audio/Visual Approaches and Ethics/Paysages de création des connaissances: Approches audio/visuelles et éthiques

Rappel/Reminder



Panel CFP: Creative Landscapes of Knowledge: Audio/Visual Approaches
and Ethics
(Version française ci-dessous)

Annual Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society
Department of Anthropology, Université Laval (Québec)
May 13-16, 2015

This panel discusses the creative potentials of anthropologists in
designing, conducting and evaluating research. It addresses how
innovative approaches, more specifically in engaging with audio/visual
media and productions, can challenge conventional methodologies in
anthropology by proposing novel ways of conducting research, which
reconfigure epistemological and ethical questions and dimensions of
research. In other words, it engages with alternative ways of
designing, making, and interweaving to build creative landscapes of
knowledge. For instance, audio-visual methodologies allow for the
emergence of multisensory routes (Pink 2009) to bridge embodied
experiences and forms of representation. Drawing lines and being
attentive to movement (following Ingold 20111; 2013) leave traces that
reveal patterns of improvisation, spontaneous adaptation and
appropriation that capture vibrant dimensions of social life.
Locative, participative and immersive media offer alternative avenues
in developing place-based methodologies and context-based texts. In
looking at methodologies that bridge art and anthropology, media and
place-based research, improvisational technics in theatre,
participative and immersive strategies among others, this panel wishes
to explore creativity, not just as an abstract concept but as applied
to the work of anthropologists and of the people with whom they engage
with. In this sense, this panel discusses novel forms of re-cognitions
on the part of all actors involved in a research project.

We invite anthropologists, artists, designers, bloggers and other
members of the creative industries at large to submit a 100-150 words
proposal, accompanied by a list of keywords, name(s) of author(s),
institution(s) of affiliation and correspondence(s) information to
Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Department of Anthropology,
University of Victoria (alexbf@uvic.ca) and Karoline Truchon, Centre
for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, Concordia University
(k_trucho@live.concordia.ca) before January 22, 2015. You will receive
notification of acceptance on January 30, 2015.



Appel à communication: Paysages de création des connaissances:
Approches audio/visuelles et éthiques

Conférence annuelle de la Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie
Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval (Québec)
13-16 mai 2015

Cet atelier examine les potentiels créatifs des anthropologues dans la
conception, la réalisation et l'évaluation de la recherche. Nous
désirons nous interroger sur les approches novatrices, plus
spécifiquement celles reliées aux productions audio/visuelles, et
comment celles-ci peuvent remettre en question les méthodes classiques
de l'anthropologie en proposant de nouvelles façons de faire de la
recherche tout en reconfigurant les questions épistémologiques et
éthiques. En d'autres termes, cet atelier souhaite proposer d'autres
manières de concevoir, de fabriquer et d'entrecroiser des paysages
créatifs de connaissances. Par exemple, les méthodes audio/visuelles
permettent l'émergence de voies multisensorielles (Pink 2009) pour
combler des expériences incarnées et des formes de représentation.
Dessiner des lignes et être attentif au mouvement (Ingold 2011; 2013)
laissent des traces qui nous permettent de mieux saisir les formes
d'improvisation, d'adaptation et d'appropriation spontanées qui
donnent à la vie sociale son caractère dynamique. Les médias locatifs,
participatifs et immersifs offrent des voies alternatives à
l'élaboration de méthodologies axées sur le lieu (place-based) et de
textes tenant en compte le contexte de leur production
(context-based). En se penchant sur les méthodologies qui créent un
pont entre l'art et l'anthropologie, des médias et de la recherche
axée sur le lieu, les techniques d'improvisation en théâtre, les
stratégies participatives et immersives, entre autres, cet atelier
entend explorer la créativité, non seulement comme un concept abstrait
mais aussi selon les modalités d'application des anthropologues et des
personnes avec lesquelles nous établissons des relations. En ce sens,
cet atelier discute de nouvelles formes de reconnaissance de la part
de tous les acteurs impliqués dans un projet de recherche.

Nous invitons les anthropologues, artistes, designers, blogueurs et
autres membres des industries de la création en général à soumettre
une proposition de 100 à 150 mots, accompagné d'une liste de
mots-clés, nom(s) de l'auteur(s), institution(s) de rattachement et de
correspondance(s) à Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Département
d'anthropologie, Université de Victoria (alexbf@uvic.ca) et à Karoline
Truchon, Centre d'histoire orale et de récits numérisés, Université
Concordia (k_trucho@live.concordia .ca) avant le 22 janvier 2015. Vous
recevrez un avis d'acceptation le 30 janvier 2015.

CASCA2015 panel CFP: Associations at Work: Theorizing the Everyday Practices of Organizations

Reminder/Rappel


Associations at Work: Theorizing the Everyday Practices of Organizations

Session Co-Organizers: Laura Eramian (Dalhousie University) and Alicia
Grimes (York University)

Anthropologists of diverse theoretical leanings have increasingly
undertaken ethnographic studies of organizations, but what special
insights about the nature of modern social life and modern work does
organizational ethnography provide? This panel invites papers that
investigate the everyday practices of organizations across a range of
ethnographic settings, including (but not limited to) development and
humanitarian agencies, post-conflict peace building organizations,
non-profit/voluntary organizations, cultural or civic organizations,
regulatory bodies, private sector office settings, or public
sector/government organizations. We seek contributions that engage
with the theoretical, methodological, and ethnographic contributions
of organizational ethnography and its limits. In a broad sense, this
panel addresses the question of how the study of organizations and
bureaucratic assemblages contributes to understandings of how
collective projects unfold, encounter friction, succeed, and fail.


Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

- What is "organized" about organizations? How do formality and
informality intersect in
organizational practices? How and by whom do the categories of
formality and informality get configured?

- Knowledge production, document production, and the
circulation/blockage of information and resources in organizational
structures

- The rules and practices underlying organizational reporting, or the
translation of measurements into narratives about organizational
values and project outcomes

- "Reputation management" and the stories that organizations tell
about themselves

- What do practices of measurement and reporting say about the social
auditing of organizational visions and the trust in projected outcomes?

- "Organization building" as a form of "community building"

- The contributions of organizational ethnography to anthropological theory

- The friendships and other relationships that constitute the practice
of organizational
ethnography and the role of the ethnographer in the organization


We invite contributions that deal with the issues outlined above
and/or related issues. Please send us an abstract of 100-150 words by
January 30, 2015 to leramian@dal.ca and amgrimes@yorku.ca.

CASCA2015 Panel CFP: Indigenous Knowledge Landscapes in Canada

(CASCA2015 Panel CFP Reminder)


Indigenous Knowledge Landscapes in Canada



This symposium will focus on issues of relations between settlers and
Indigenous peoples, particularly in Canada, and the role(s) that
anthropology could play in making a positive contribution to that
relationship. Foci include, but are not limited to, the relationship between
anthropology/ists and Indigenous and decolonizing methodologies and how we
are challenged by/ critical of/ welcoming of this emerging literature.
Examining the implications of re-readings of the history of the terms
Canadien and Métis and how they could potentially have an impact on the
contemporary debates surrounding definitions of Métis identity. Moves toward
more participatory approaches in collecting, selecting and managing
Indigenous-related records. How settlers and Indigenous peoples are using
various media to create new landscapes of knowledges, to stymie their
production or to reproduce old antagonisms. The role of anthropologists in
translating between police and corporations in land/resource conflicts.
Other foci are welcome.

Please respond to Craig Proulx

cproulx@stu.ca

CASCA 2015 Panel CFP: Family Care and E-motions in Contexts of Transnational Migration

Reminder/Rappel



CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society/ Société canadienne d'anthropologie)

*Annual Conference/Colloque annuel*

*Landscapes of Knowledges/Paysages des connaissances*

*Université Laval, Québec, 13 – 16 mai 2015*

CALL FOR PAPERS/APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS



PANEL:

*Family Care and E-motions in Contexts of Transnational Migration*



ORGANIZERS/ORGANISATRICES:

*Angélica H. Silva, Université de Montréal*

*Aranzazu Recalde, McGil**l University*



Our panel looks at processes of home-making and caregiving as these
intersect with international mobility under current forms of neoliberal
capitalism. We examine the embodied, everyday, experiences and
circumstances of migrant women and men who engage in (re)creating home
abroad while caring transnationally and locally for diverse relatives. Our
panel pays particular attention to life projects, household trajectories
and life cycles; the unequal and shifting caring roles performed by diverse
family members, which are shaped by cultural, kinship and gendered
expectations often endorsed by states; the emotional and socio-economic
considerations underpinning decisions to migrate or be "on the move"; the
increasingly restrictive migration/citizenship regimes implemented by
(many) states, which have produced temporary and precarious forms of
membership for those considered undeserving; and the diverse uses of
Internet communication technologies to (re)imagine and (re)negotiate a
sense of belonging among members of transnational families. Our panel seeks
to shed light on the role that e-motions play in determining mobility as
well as on the caregiving practices, experiences and circumstances of
diversely positioned family members and others considered kin in contexts
of south-north, south-south, north-north and north-south migrations.



We invite papers in English and French that, drawing on diverse analytical
and methodological perspectives, examine some of the above-mentioned or
related issues. If interested, please, send us your abstract (100-150
words) by February 1, 2015 to aranzazu.recalde@mail.mcgill.ca and
angelica.si.higuera@umontreal.ca*.*



For full information about the conference see:
http://www.casca2015.ant.ulaval.ca/fr/accueil.


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*Aranzazu Recalde, **PhD in Anthropology*
*Chercheuse postdoctorale du CRSH/SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow*
*Chaire Hans et Tamar Oppenheimer en Droit international public/**Hans and
Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law*
Faculté de Droit/ Faculty of Law
McGill University
3660, rue Peel, room 1110
Montréal (Québec) H3A1W9

Aranzazu.recalde@mail.mcgill.ca
(514) 963-3142

Saturday, January 10, 2015

PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD - Reminder/Rappel

***Deadline: 1 February 2015/Date limite: 1er février 2015***


RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD

APPLICATION INFORMATION.


Eligibility: Applications can be made by any student member of CASCA
undertaking doctoral level research in the field of anthropology at a
Canadian university. Preference will be given to those who have
completed their comprehensive examinations, have approved thesis
proposals and are within one year of beginning fieldwork. CASCA
recognizes that some eligible candidates may not be studying in
anthropology programs, however all candidates must be members of CASCA
when making their applications. The intent of the award is to assist
with fieldwork expenses.

Criteria: An outstanding academic record and an excellent research
proposal with innovative scholarly import and social relevance.

Value: $2000

Deadline: All application materials must be submitted electronically
by 1 February 2015 to:

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin - CASCA Secretary
rpaucoin@aol.com


Each application should include:
1. A Salisbury Award application form, signed, with items 2-4 attached
2. A curriculum vitae, including education history, Ph.D. courses,
presentations, awards, honours, teaching, grants and publications (up
to three pages).
3. A research proposal, including: theoretical framework, research
problem/question, methodology, objectives, and social and scholarly
significance (two pages).
4. A budget for research, including planned use of Award funds,
requests to other sources and funds received to date (one half to one
page).
5. Two letters of reference about the applicant's qualifications and
the research proposal, one of which must be from the applicant's
thesis supervisor (these are to be sent directly by the referees).

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RICHARD F. SALISBURY AWARD

APPLICATION FORM 2015


Name:___________________________
Address:_________________________
Phone: __________________________
Email address:____________________
University: _______________________
Department:______________________
Year the degree is expected: _________
Member of CASCA: yes____ no_____

Stage of PhD program (with respect to completion of comprehensive
exams, approval of thesis proposal, date of beginning of
fieldwork):_________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________


Notes:

1. Make sure your name appears at the top of each page you submit.
2. Field research must be under way during the year beginning 1 May 2015.
3. The Salisbury Award recipient will be announced at this year's CASCA AGM .
4. Award recipients are expected to present their research at a
subsequent CASCA annual conference within two years of receipt of the
award. In order to enable this, Salisbury Award recipients may be
given priority consideration for a CASCA student travel award to
present at the conference.
5. Decisions of the Salisbury Award Committee are final.


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PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY

SOUMISSION DES DOSSIERS DE CANDIDATURE.


Admissibilité: Tout membre étudiant de la CASCA menant une recherche
doctorale en anthropologie dans une université canadienne peut
présenter sa candidature. Une préférence sera accordée à ceux et
celles qui auront terminé avec succès leur scolarité de doctorat, y
compris les examens de synthèse et le projet de thèse, et qui
commenceront leur recherche de terrain au cours de l'année suivante.
La CASCA reconnaît que certaines personnes admissibles n'étudient
peut-être pas dans un programme d'anthropologie; quoi qu'il en soit,
toute personne posant sa candidature devra être membre de la CASCA au
moment du dépôt de sa candidature. L'objectif de ce prix est d'aider à
couvrir leurs dépenses liées à la recherche sur le terrain.

Critères : Un dossier universitaire exemplaire, ainsi qu'un excellent
projet de recherche, innovateur en matière de contribution
intellectuelle et de pertinence sociale.

Valeur: 2000$

Date limite : Tous les documents liés au dépôt de la candidature
doivent être soumis électroniquement au plus tard le 1er février 2015
à l'attention de :

Pauline McKenzie Aucoin - Secrétaire de la CASCA
rpaucoin@aol.com


Chaque dossier de candidature doit inclure:

1. Le formulaire de candidature au Prix Salisbury signé, avec les
documents énumérés aux points 2 à 4 en pièces jointes.
2. Un curriculum vitae, comprenant diplômes obtenus, cours doctoraux
suivis, présentations, prix, honneurs, expériences d'enseignement,
bourses et publications (jusqu'à trois pages).
3. Le projet de recherche, comprenant: le cadre théorique, le
problème/la question de recherche, la méthodologie, les objectifs, et
la signification sociale et académique (deux pages).
4. Le budget de recherche, comprenant les dépenses prévues des fonds
du Prix, ainsi que les autres demandes de financement et financement
reçu jusqu'à présent (une demi-page à une page).
5. Deux lettres de recommandation au sujet des qualifications de la
personne candidate et du projet de recherche. L'une d'elles doit
provenir du directeur ou de la directrice de thèse et devra nous
parvenir directement de cette personne.

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PRIX RICHARD F. SALISBURY

DOSSIER DE CANDIDATURE 2015


Nom:___________________________
Adresse:_________________________
No de tél: __________________________
Courriel:____________________
Université: _______________________
Département:______________________
Année prévue d'obtention du diplôme_________
Membre de la CASCA: oui____ non____

Stage du programme doctoral (en ce qui a trait à la réalisation des
examens de synthèse, à l'approbation du projet de thèse, et à la date
à laquelle la recherche sur le terrain commencera)
:_________________________________________

Signature: ______________________________________


Notes:
1. Assurez-vous que votre nom apparaît en haut de chaque page que vous
soumettez.
2. La recherche sur le terrain doit être en cours ou débuter pendant
l'année suivant le 1er mai 2015.
3. Nous annoncerons le ou la récipiendaire du Prix Salisbury lors de
l'assemblée générale annuelle de la CASCA de cette année.
4. Le ou la récipiendaire devra présenter sa recherche à l'un des
colloques annuels de la CASCA à l'intérieur des deux années suivant
l'obtention du prix. Afin de l'aider dans cette démarche, il est
possible que nous traitions en priorité toute demande de subvention du
lauréat ou de la lauréate du Prix Salisbury visant à couvrir les frais
de déplacement liés à la participation au colloque.
5. Les décisions du Comité du Prix Salisbury sont sans appel.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

CASCA-AAA joint meeting in 2019/Colloque conjoint CASCA-AAA en 2019

CASCA-AAA joint meeting in 2019

CASCA is pleased to announce that together with the AAA (American
Anthropology Association), we will hold a joint conference November
20-24, 2019, in Vancouver, British Columbia. This conference will
allow for the development of multiple forms of collaboration between
the two associations. We are grateful to the joint committee whose
work was critical to the getting the conference off the ground.
Conference details forthcoming.

Colloque conjoint CASCA-AAA en 2019

La CASCA (Canadian Anthropology Society/Société canadienne
d'anthropologie) et la AAA (American Anthropological Association)
tiendront un colloque commun à Vancouver, BC du 20 au 24 novembre,
2019. Ce colloque permettra de multiplier les possibilités de
collaboration entre les deux associations. Nous remercions le comité
conjoint qui nous a permis de le mettre sur pied. L'appel sera diffusé
selon le calendrier habituel.

Monday, January 5, 2015

CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

CASCA 2015 panel CfP: Revisiting the Role of Anthropologist as the
Starting Point for Anthropological Investigation

Contemporary anthropological research reflects important shifts
generated in our discipline in recent decades. While these exciting
turns include increased attention to genealogical approaches, new
approaches to space and place, and the incorporation of novel
theoretical and ontological concerns, this panel asks in what ways
does anthropological investigation continue to be fundamentally
influenced by the researcher as a socially-situated subject? As the
walls and boundaries between faculties come down, how are
anthropologists (re)envisioning their role as researchers and their
discipline within broader contexts in and beyond the academy?

A key question we wish to explore in this panel is how our own
perspectives as researchers and otherwise socially-situated subjects
present a key thread, starting point, or lens of understanding in our
ethnographic research. We are also interested in understanding how
these perspectives have influenced our position on interdisciplinary
teams or, in applied research settings.

We invite abstracts that consider how the anthropologist as a
particularly situated subject impacts the point(s) from which projects
may begin, or profoundly influences the direction or outcome of the
investigation. Proposals may consider the anthropologist's:

- positionality relative to key research questions and participants;
- disciplinary background (for instance, coming to anthropology from
another discipline);
- prior or current career experience outside of the academy;
- personal or political associations;
- unexpected turns unique to the researcher.


Please send an abstract of no more than 150 words (+ author contact
information, title, keywords) by February 1st, 2015 to the panel
organizers:

Jennifer Long (Wilfrid Laurier University): jplong79@gmail.com
Rhiannon Mosher (York University): rhiannon.mosher@gmail.com

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