Call For Papers: CASCA May 8-10, 2008 at Carleton University, Ottawa

Call for Papers:

Dear Hope enthusiasts,
The proposed panel explores Hope in anthropology- both how it is
theorized and how it is employed in anthropological practice. Here is
the session abstract:
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Hope and aspiration are rarely considered areas of anthropological
inquiry in a time of cynicism and pessimism about the state of the
world and our future trajectory. Still, some anthropologists have
focused their attention on the subject of hope, its emergence in local
projects and global networks, the different ways it is articulated,
and how it shapes our own anthropological research efforts. Seeking out
alternative visions of the world offers opportunities to see gaps in
our current power structures and possible spaces for contestation and
change. This panel will explore how the concept of hope might be
engaged with in our studies particularly at a time when new paths and
new possibilities are needed to inspire us to envision and work
towards a better future. As Zournazi (2002:17) asserts, "…we need to
re-envisage and imagine hope as a convergence of new agendas,
conversations and possibilities in everyday life and political
activity." By investigating alternative discourses and practices
that are part of new social imaginaries, panel members will consider
how
the spark of hope can be ignited in the field of anthropology.

Zournazi, Mary. 2002. Hope: New Philosophies for Change. London:
Routledge.

If you are interested in participating, please contact: Stacy Lockerbie
(lockers@mcmaster.ca)or Kathryn Mossman (kmossman@yahoo.com) with the
title of your paper and a brief description (100
words) as soon as possible.

Appel à communication - colloque "pornographie contemporaine et société"

De :  Professeur Richard Poulin, Département de sociologie et d'anthropologie

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Université d'Ottawa, jeudi le 7 février 2008

Appel à communication

Colloque « Pornographie contemporaine et société »

Le 10 avril 2008 à l'Université d'Ottawa

 
La pornographie est désormais partie intégrante de notre
environnement.  Elle foisonne sur Internet, elle intègre le marché des
portables, elle fait l'objet de films, d'émissions de télé réalité et
de télé séries, sans compter les magazines, les vidéoclips de musique
populaire et la publicité qu'elle colonise et influence. 

 

En 2006, les recettes mondiales de la pornographie s'élevaient à 97
milliards de dollars américains, ce qui surpasse les revenus combinés
de Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, Apple, Netflix et
EarthLink.  Pour certains, elle est synonyme de libération sexuelle et
d'empowerment.  Pour d'autres, elle représente une violence sexiste et
raciste en plus d'engendrer des effets négatifs sur les rapports
sociaux de sexe et sur le développement des jeunes et des enfants. 

 

Alors que l'industrie de la pornographie s'incruste au point que des
chercheurEs emploient des concepts comme « la pornographisation des
imaginaires et du tissu social » ou encore de société « pornified »,
le but de ce colloque scientifique est d'examiner l'évolution de
l'industrie (du gonzo à la danse nue; du gang bang au « métier » de
hardeur/deuse), d'étudier son influence dans la publicité, les
magazines féminins, la musique populaire, etc., ainsi que d'analyser
sa consommation en lien avec la sexualisation publique et l'hyper
sexualisation.

 

Nous vous invitons à soumettre une proposition de communication
d'environ 250 mots d'ici le 28 février 2008.  Veuillez nous faire
parvenir votre proposition à Richard Poulin, département de sociologie
et d'anthropologie au courriel suivant : poulin@uottawa.ca   

 

 

 

 

UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference, Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses

"Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses"

Voices are very much at the heart of anthropology and related fields.
Through research, we strive to understand our world and those of the peoples
we study, working with them to give voice to their own worldviews. Yet
voices are numerous and often competing. No group is homogenous, thus
perspectives differ both between groups and within them. In a globalized
world, local and global voices become increasingly intertwined.

This interdisciplinary graduate conference aims at *examining* discourse and
*fostering* it, both among anthropologists and students from other fields.
Discourses are ways of speaking and understanding that are closely linked to
power. How and why are some voices heard while others are suppressed? How do
local and global forces impact which voices dominate and which are silenced?
How do we balance the voices of those we study with our own?

The UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference will examine issues of
identity, memory, conflict and representation both in Canada and around the
world. It is also concerned with how researchers construct representations
of "others". This conference is an opportunity for students to share their
research and to present their own voices on these themes. We welcome papers
from all disciplines. Abstracts should be 200 words in length, describing
your research questions and contribution as well as their link to the
conference theme. Please indicate the degree you are pursuing as well as
the department and university.

The conference will take place
*March 15, 2008*

at the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology,

beside the world-class Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver.

*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Ridington*

*Deadline for abstract submission: February 10, 2008*
Please send your abstracts and any questions to *
anthropology.conference@gmail.com* <anthropology.conference@gmail.com>.
We also welcome session organizers; please contact us for more details.

http://www.anth.ubc.ca/gradconf

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*Attached is the call for papers for the 2008 UBC Department of
Anthropology Graduate Student Conference.*
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**PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED**
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*"Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses"*

Voices are very much at the heart of anthropology and related fields.
Through research, we strive to understand our world and those of the peoples
we study, working with them to give voice to their own worldviews. Yet
voices are numerous and often competing. No group is homogenous, thus
perspectives differ both between groups and within them. In a globalized
world, local and global voices become increasingly intertwined.

This interdisciplinary graduate conference aims at *examining* discourse and
*fostering* it, both among anthropologists and students from other fields.
Discourses are ways of speaking and understanding that are closely linked to
power. How and why are some voices heard while others are suppressed? How do
local and global forces impact which voices dominate and which are silenced?
How do we balance the voices of those we study with our own?

The UBC Anthropology Graduate Student Conference will examine issues of
identity, memory, conflict and representation both in Canada and around the
world. It is also concerned with how researchers construct representations
of "others". This conference is an opportunity for students to share their
research and to present their own voices on these themes. We welcome papers
from all disciplines. Abstracts should be 200 words in length, describing
your research questions and contribution as well as their link to the
conference theme. Please indicate the degree you are pursuing as well as
the department and university.

The conference will take place
*March 15, 2008*

at the University of British Columbia's Department of Anthropology,

beside the world-class Museum of Anthropology, in Vancouver.

*Keynote Speaker: Dr. Robin Ridington*

*Deadline for abstract submission: February 10, 2008*
Please send your abstracts and any questions to *
anthropology.conference@gmail.com* <anthropology.conference@gmail.com>.
We also welcome session organizers; please contact us for more details.

http://www.anth.ubc.ca/gradconf

call for papers- Food, Property and Power

Food, Property and Power
Call for papers for the CASCA conference in May 2008

Changes in the structure of property relations over the last twenty
years — de-collectivisation in former socialist countries, the
globalisation of intellectual property rights over seeds, the
consolidation of large agro-chemical companies — have profoundly
affected the most basic of all human activities, the production of
food. Control over food and food production has always been in human
history a locus of power, a means of repression and a motive for
revolution and rebellion. At the beginning of the 21st century, the
controversies about technologies of agricultural production and about
forms of property over land and seeds raise issues about life-style,
economic and environmental justice and democratic transparency.

The workshop calls for contributions from researchers who work on
agricultural producers in different parts of the world and especially
in post-socialist and socialist countries, who explore how
agricultural practice shapes and is shaped by political worldviews and
structures of power and how these are in turn affected by global
agricultural policies.

Birgit Müller, LAIOS-CNRS, Paris, bmuller@msh-paris.fr

CFP -- North American Hinduism

For those of you who also attend the American Academy of Religion meetings, a
CFP for the 2008 meeting that may be of interest (see below).

All the best,
Chad
Chad Bauman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Religion
Department of Philosophy and Religion
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

cbauman@butler.edu<mailto:cbauman@butler.edu>
Ph: 317 940 8705

A Call for Papers--North American Hinduisms Group of AAR
Representing (and Misrepresenting) Hinduism in North America

Over the past fifteen years, scholarship on South Asia, colonialism
and Hinduism
has been deeply concerned with questions of representation. Who defines and
imagines a given community or tradition? Which metaphors, narratives, and
historical perspectives are considered authentic, offensive, or
liberating, and
by whom? How are debates over religious, community, and political articulation
arbitrated? These long standing questions about who speaks for Hindus and
Hinduism/s take on additional characteristics when such debates happen
in North
America. Questions of representation are coupled with conceptions of freedom,
multiculturalism, civic duty, separation of church and state, free market
capitalism, and spirituality among others that are unique to the North
American
landscape. This panel seeks papers that explore the whole range of
representations and misrepresentations of Hinduism in North America in the
spheres of popular cullture, education, politics, ritual and practice.

Please contact and send proposals by Feb. 20th :

Shana Sippy: shanasippy@cox.net<mailto:shanasippy@cox.net> &
Tanisha Ramachandran: ramacht@wfu.edu<mailto:ramacht@wfu.edu>

Call for Papers

Anthropology and/of Government
Panel Proposal for CASCA Annual Meetings, 8-10 May 2008, Carleton
University
Organizers: Kendra Coulter (University of Windsor) and Thomas M. Wilson
(SUNY-Binghamton)

Governments are sites of cultural production, constraint, and contestation,
and are often central catalysts for fundamental political and economic
change in local, regional, national and international domains. In and
across
these levels, anthropologists are well-positioned to analyse government
institutions, their various social actors, and their ideas, practices,
policies and agendas, while welding government activity to broader
political, economic and historical contexts. In the contemporary global
political terrain, governments are inextricable from the policies,
institutions and actions that are at the heart of neoliberalism,
imperialism, war, and inequality. Thus government projects
are worthy of continued if not increased anthropological analysis. The
proposed panel seeks to contribute to a politically-engaged anthropology of
government which sees governments as conjunctures of state power,
neoliberal
facilitation and justification, and hegemonic reproduction and production,
yet sometimes also as sites of progressive transformative possibility.

Please send questions and/or abstracts of 100 words to Kendra Coulter -
kcoulter@uwindsor.ca
by February 9th.

Appel d?articles pour le bulletin Culture/Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter

Appel d?articles pour le bulletin Culture

Nous sommes en train de planifier le prochain numéro du bulletin
Culture. Celui-ci sera publié tout juste avant la tenue de notre
prochaine conférence du mois de mai prochain.

Toutes les soumissions de textes sont les bienvenues. Étant donné le
thème de notre prochaine conférence « L?ethnographie : enchevêtrements
et ruptures », sont toutefois particulièrement invités celles portant
sur l?enquête de terrain. Les textes doivent nous être parvenus au
plus tard le 31 mars 2008. Veuillez les envoyer à Daphne Winland,
membre anglophone winland@yorku.ca and/or Karine Vanthuyne, membre
francophone, karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca.

Pour plus d?informations concernant le bulletin, veuillez visiter le
site Internet de la CASCA :
www.casca.anthropologica.ca

N?hésitez pas également à contacter Daphné ou Karine pour toutes
informations supplémentaires.

Call for Submissions, Culture Newsletter

We are currently planning our upcoming third issue of Culture that
will be coming out before the next CASCA meetings in May.

We welcome all kinds of submissions to the newsletter. In the spirit
of this years CASCA Conference theme ?Ethnography: Entanglements and
Ruptures?, submissions on fieldwork are especially welcome. Please
share your experiences ?in the field? in the upcoming May 2008 issue
of Culture.

Submissions should be made by no later than March 31, 2008. Send your
inquiries and submissions to Daphne Winland, Anglophone member ? at
?large at winland@yorku.ca and/or Karine Vanthuyne Francophone
member-at-large at karine.vanthuyne@mail.mcgill.ca.

For more information about Culture check out the CASCA website:

www.casca.anthropologica.ca