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Tuesday, January 23, 2018

CASCA: CFPs, Events, Opportunities/Colloques, Appels à communication, évènements, opportunités


Reminder/Rappel - Women's Network Award for a Student Paper in Feminist Anthropology CASCA 2018/ Appel à propositions pour le Prix étudiant du Réseau des femmes de la CASCA 2018

https://www.cas-sca.ca/groups-and-networks/women-s-network/awards/student-paper-award

https://www.cas-sca.ca/fr/groupes-et-reseaux/reseau-des-femmes/prix/prix-etudiant



CFPs, Events, Opportunities/Colloques, Appels à communication, évènements, opportunités


-Visual History in the Twentieth Century: Bodies, Practices and Emotions. Spring School of the ERC Project "The Healthy Self as Body Capital"



-Richard Frucht Memorial Lecture Series and Student Conference - University of Alberta's Department of Anthropology



-Call for Chapters: Global Urban Inequalities



-CfP "(Re)conceptualizing Displacement, April 13th - 14th, Johns Hopkins University



-Call for Book Chapters: Renewable Energy: An Independent Sustainable Future



-CFP: Strata of Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture



-Call for Applications: Fellowships in Ethnographic Writing at the Centre for Ethnography UTSC



-CfP: Anthropology and Education Panels at the IUAES World Congress



-CFP: GLOBAL TRACES: art-ethnography-heritage



-Conference on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Call for Papers



-Robarts Centre annual graduate conference - CFP: Canada on the Edge?



-CHA - Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Calls to Action - Call for projects



-Call for Panels European Society for Oceanists 2018



-Body and public space: between art and politics - CFP - 18th IUAES World Congress - Florianópolis Brazil 16-20 July 2018



-Call for Papers: 27th Annual Milton Plesur Graduate History Conference



-Our Home on Native Land: Exploring Indigenous Land Connections Past, Present, and Future conference



-CFP RGS-IBG AC2018: Beyond the standardised urban lexicon: Which Vocabulary Matters?



-African Studies Association of the UK 2018



-Call for Papers 2018 - Journal FORUM SOCIOLÓGICO (CICS.NOVA, Portugal)



-CfP: Technology, Infrastructure, and the Smartification of Cities @ EASST 2018 (July, Lancaster)



-Crosscurrents of Commensuration: An interdisciplinary conference



-Refugees and Religion- Call for Papers



-CfP: IUAES 2018 - Sensing difference: urban ethnographies of familiarity and estrangement



-Call for Abstracts: On_Culture #6 (2018) "Surveillance Cultures"



-CfP OHA 2018: "The possibilities and limits of oral history in Turkey"



-CALL FOR PAPERS - Can a liberal education make you a better discerner of truth?



-Needed - Interview subjects for a book on Radical Anthropology



-CFP. IUAES 2018. On demand. Explorations on commissioned audiovisual productions



-18th IUAES World Congress - Open panel - Health and Medical Anthropology



-CfP ASAUK 2018: Masculinities in Africa during War and its Wake



-ICTM 2nd Symposium of the Study Group in Audiovisual Ethnomusicology



-Call for papers - Vivir Bien/ Buen Vivir and postneoliberal development paths in Latin America: Scope, strategies and the realities of implementation 



-Call for Abstracts: 2019 WESIPS Conference in Seville, Spain



-CfP - South Asia Anthropologists Group, September 2018, Oxford



-ASA2018, 18-21 September, Oxford - panel Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination: Re-Creating Anthropology



-Call for Papers: Third international thematic CRG conference on Africa and the Indian Ocean



-CFP: Perspectives critiques sur les enjeux du gouvernance liés à l'extractivisme / Critical Perspectives on Resource Extraction Governance 2018



-OTJR: JusticeInfo.net Call for Papers on Transitional Justice



-Call for Special Issue Proposals: Cambridge Journal of Anthropology Spring 2019



-CfP Changing Global Hierarchies of Value? Museums, artifacts, frames, and flows



-CFP: AFRICAN MIGRANTS WELFARE, REGIONAL INTEGRATION and SOCIAL POLICY IN AFRICA



-CFP: RGS-IBG Cardiff 2018: Travelling landscapes: tourism and leisure mobilities



-CFP: Sanctuary and birthing at the borders



-Call for Abstracts/Papers: Trouble swallowing? Food, technoscience, and publics at EASST Conference in Lancaster



-CFP: Women and Development DSA Study Group Symposium 2018




Events/Évènements-Other/Autres:


1.
Please find below details of a new reading group running through Term 2 at
University College London. Please contact Tess Altman at
tessa.altman.14@ucl.ac.uk to RSVP or with any questions.



*Political and Moral Economies of Voluntarism*
*Term 2 Reading Group*

From 5-7pm on Wed 31 Jan, Wed 28 Feb, and Wed 21 March 2018
Staff Common Room, UCL Anthropology, 14 Taviton St WC1H 0BW

Organiser: Tess Altman

This RRG focuses on the role of volunteers in humanitarian and neoliberal
settings. While anthropologists have critically engaged with humanitarian
and neoliberal projects, the role of volunteers in such endeavors is only
beginning to receive sustained ethnographic attention. This reading group
takes up Liisa Malkki's (2015) call for more studies of 'the humanitarian
subject characterized by a desire to help'. It also seeks to bring into
dialogue literature on neoliberal discourses of volunteering (Hyatt 2001,
Rose 1996, Rozakou 2016) with the critical anthropology of humanitarianism
(Fassin 2012, Ticktin 2011, Redfield and Bornstein 2011). While volunteers
are increasingly called upon to fill gaps left in social service provision
by austerity measures and the roll back of the welfare state, they are also
attracted to volunteering in humanitarian settings through a desire to
alleviate suffering, to feel connected and find a sense of meaning. What
happens when volunteers deliver crucial services while seeking a profound
experience? What does it look like when states outsource responsibility to
volunteers? Are volunteers ethical subjects? Can volunteering be viewed as
a technique of self-making? What kinds of volunteer-volunteer and
volunteer-recipient relationships form? The focus on voluntarism in
neoliberal and humanitarian contexts opens up possibilities for addressing
anthropological themes of giving, reciprocity, care and affect alongside
interrogating processes of self-making and examining the subjectivities
produced by political and moral economies of voluntarism.

We will meet monthly over the course of Term 2 to discuss three monographs
that present ethnographic examples of volunteers in contexts of
humanitarianism and neoliberalism. This RRG is targeted towards
postgraduate students and staff in anthropology, as well as in disciplines
engaging with similar themes (e.g. geography, development), but students at
other levels are welcome if you've read the monograph. Although reading the
whole book is preferable, those who have read only certain chapters should
still feel free to come along and participate provided they have questions
and/or examples to discuss. Each session is a stand alone so feel free to
come along to one or all.

*RRG Schedule*

*Session 1: Malkki, L. 2015. The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of
International Humanitarianism. Full text available online through UCL
Library. Wed 31 January, 5-7pm, UCL Anthropology Department Staff Common
Room.*

Our January monograph is Liisa Malkki's 'The Need to Help: The Domestic
Arts of International Humanitarianism', which examines 'care of the self'
and 'the humanitarian imagination' among aid workers and volunteers in
Finland and abroad. Possible themes to consider include: ethics of care,
processes of self-making, technologies of enchantment/imagination, gendered
practices of volunteering, personhood, belonging and notions of community.

*Session 2: Muehlebach, A. 2012. The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and
Citizenship in Italy. Full text available online through UCL Library. Wed
28 February, 5-7pm, UCL Anthropology Department Staff Common Room.*

Our February monograph will be Andrea Muehlebach's 'The Moral Neoliberal:
Welfare and Citizenship in Italy', which draws attention to the Italian
government's aim to create ethical citizens who 'live from the heart'
through volunteering, against a backdrop of austerity measures. Themes to
consider include: citizenship, responsibility, neoliberal subjectivities,
post-Fordist economies, welfare regimes, relational labour.

*Session 3: Bornstein, E. 2012. Disquieting Gifts: Humanitarianism in New
Delhi. Full text available online through UCL Library. Wed 21 March, 5-7pm,
UCL Anthropology Department Staff Common Room.*

Our March monograph will be Erica Bornstein's 'Disquieting Gifts:
Humanitarianism in New Delhi' which engages with Mauss' concept of the gift
by comparing local Indian conceptions of giving with experiences of
international volunteers in India operating within a cosmopolitan
humanitarian frame. Themes to consider include: the gift, relational
empathy, trust, global economies of giving, philanthropy, local
humanitarianism, inequality.

*References*
Hyatt, S. B. 2001. Service Learning, Applied Anthropology and the
Production of Neo-liberal Citizens. Anthropology in Action 8(1): 6-15.
Fassin, D. 2012. Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present.
Translated by Rachel Gomme. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Malkki, L. 2015. The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International
Humanitarianism. Durham: Duke University Press.
Redfield, P. and Bornstein, E. 2011. Forces of Compassion: Humanitarianism
Between Ethics and Politics. Santa Fe: School for Advanced Research Press.
Rose, N. 1996. Governing "Advanced" Liberal Democracies. In Foucault and
Political Reason: Liberalism, Neoliberalism and the Rationalities of
Government. Eds. A. Barry, T. Osbourne, N. Rose. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
Rozakou, K. 2016. Crafting the Volunteer: Voluntary Associations and the
Reformation of Sociality. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 34(1): 79-102.
Ticktin, M. 2011. Casualties of Care: Immigration and the Politics of
Humanitarianism in France. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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*Tess AltmanPhD Candidate*
Department of Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton Street WC1H 0BW
https://ucl.academia.edu/TessAltman

2.
Upcoming Research Associates' Seminar Series, Simone de Beauvoir Institute, 2018.

Thursday, January 25, 2018
13:00 - 15:00 pm
Simone de Beauvoir Institute
2nd Floor Lounge 



Dr. Sima Aprahamian

"Reflections on human rights. Genocide . . . from a feminist perspective"

Abstract: Based on ethnographic research the proposed paper is a reflection of a person living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) on unceded Kanien'kehá:ka [Mohawk] territory, of Armenian heritage, on human rights and genocide. The paper highlights the personal and intimate expressions of loss and grief in the context of the survivor narratives of the Armenian Genocide from a feminist and historical materialist perspective. The focus is on the study of narratives of survivors of the Armenian Genocide and the inability to mourn the loss. In examining survivor narratives, the paper also  re-visits Walter Benjamin's historical materialist approach to mourning that brings the past to the present.

To historians who wish to relive an era, Fustel de Coulanges recommends that they blot out everything they know about the later course of history. There is no better way of characterizing the method with which historical materialism has broken. That method is a process of empathy whose origin is the indolence of the heart, acedia, which despairs of grasping and holding the genuine historical image as it flares up briefly. Among Medieval theologians it was regarded as the root cause of sadness. Flaubert, who was familiar with it, wrote: "Peu de gens devineront combien il a fallu être triste pour ressusciter Carthage." The nature of this sadness stands out more clearly if one asks with whom the adherents of historicism actually empathize. The answer is inevitable: with the victor.

Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History"(1940) might be described as a treatise on the political and ethical stakes of mourning remains — mourning what remains of lost histories as well as histories of loss. According to Benjamin, to mourn the remains of the past hopefully is to establish an active and open relationship with history. This practice—what Benjamin calls "historical materialism"—is a creative process, animating history for future significations as well as alternate empathies. For the historical materialist, to relive an era is not to "blot out everything" one knows "about the later course of history"— simply to bring memory to the past. On the contrary, reliving an era is to bring the past to memory. It is to induce actively a tension between the past and the present, between the dead and the living. In this manner, Benjamin's historical materialist establishes a continuing dialogue with loss and its remains (David L. Eng and David Kazanjian ed. Loss, Mourning remains, introduction,  2003: 1) 

Short biography

Dr. Aprahamian holds a Doctoral degree in anthropology granted at McGill University. She is currently working on the following projects: A virtual museum of objects that have survived the Armenian Genocide and are in Canada and their stories;  Narratives of Displacement; Ottoman women's movement(s). Her Doctoral Dissertation (based on fieldwork in the Beka'a valley of Lebanon and funded by SSHRC) was entitled The Inhabitants of Haouch Moussa. She has been organizing several panels in academic conferences over the years on literary responses to genocide, feminist perspectives on genocide, as well as publishing and presenting papers on identity issues, gender, genocide.

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