Chaire conjointe en études des femmes / Joint Chair in Women's Studies, Université d'Ottawa et/and Carleton University

Chaire conjointe en études des femmes / Joint Chair in Women's Studies,

Université d'Ottawa et/and Carleton University

Acceptez nos excuses si vous recevez cet envoi plus d'une fois /
Apologies for cross-posting

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CHAIRE CONJOINTE EN ÉTUDES DES FEMMES

UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA / CARLETON UNIVERSITY

L'Université d'Ottawa et la Carleton University désirent combler le
poste de titulaire de la Chaire conjointe en études des femmes pour un
mandat de 12 mois (sujet à une possible prorogation), commençant au
plus tôt le 1er juillet 2009 OU au plus tard le 1er janvier 2010.

Le comité administratif de la Chaire conjointe en études des femmes
pour l'Université d'Ottawa et la Carleton University sollicite les
candidatures de personnes démontrant une solide capacité de recherche
et/ou travaux féministes. Le Comité est particulièrement intéressé par
les candidat-e-s pouvant apporter une contribution considérable au
développement de réseaux internationaux et domestiques et pouvant
aussi contribuer à d'autres opportunités telles que :

1. assumer le leadership dans la mise en oeuvre et le suivi de
nouveaux projets de recherche ;

2. développer et encourager des partenariats de recherche
entre les deux universités et la communauté ;

3. appuyer les efforts de levée de fonds pour la Chaire conjointe ;

4. enseigner aux premier et/ou deuxième cycles à l'Université
d'Ottawa ainsi qu'à l'Université Carleton, suivant entente ;

5. contribuer à la diffusion des résultats des recherches par
la tenue de conférences à l'Université d'Ottawa et à la Carleton
University et/ou par le biais de publications.

Créée en 1985, la Chaire conjointe en études des femmes offre à sa
titulaire ou son titulaire la possibilité de contribuer à la promotion
des études des femmes dans les deux universités ainsi que dans la
communauté de la région de la capitale nationale. Exigences de
résidence (présence d'au moins 4 jours par semaine durant toute
l'année scolaire). L'orientation actuelle de la Chaire lui offre en
outre l'occasion d'explorer de nouvelles questions féministes et
interdisciplinaires.

QUALIFICATIONS : Doctorat achevé ou l'équivalent en termes de travaux
et pratiques féministes. Nous accueillerons les candidatures
d'universitaires, d'activistes, de gens issus du milieu professionnel
(les professions), ainsi que de personnes provenant du milieu des
arts. Le bilinguisme est essentiel, le ou la titulaire devant
s'exprimer avec aisance en français et en anglais.

SALAIRE : Le salaire sera établi selon les qualifications,
l'expérience et la disponibilité.

CANDIDATURES : Le dossier de candidature doit inclure un exposé
décrivant la vision de la Chaire conjointe par la candidate ou le
candidat, une proposition de programme de recherche et d'activités
pour la durée du mandat, un curriculum vitae ainsi que des lettres de
recommandation scellées et signées par trois répondants ou répondantes
et envoyer le tout AVANT LE 9 JANVIER 2009 au :

Comité conjoint de sélection pour la Chaire

a/s Institut d'études des femmes

Université d'Ottawa

143, rue Séraphin-Marion

Ottawa ON K1N 6N5

OU bien

Comité conjoint de sélection pour la Chaire

a/s Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies

Carleton University

Dunton Tower, Room 1502

1125, promenade Colonel-By

Ottawa ON K1S 5B6

L'étude des demandes débutera le 9 janvier 2009 et continuera jusqu'à
ce que le poste soit comblé.

Conformément aux exigences d'Immigration Canada, cette annonce
s'adresse en priorité aux personnes ayant la citoyenneté canadienne ou
le statut de résident permanent. L'Université d'Ottawa et la Carleton
University ont toutes deux un programme d'équité d'emploi et
encouragent les femmes, les autochtones, les personnes handicapées et
les membres des minorités visibles à poser leur candidature.

*Poste subordonné à une approbation budgétaire.

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JOINT CHAIR IN WOMEN'S STUDIES
CARLETON UNIVERSITY / UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA

Applications are invited for the position of Joint Chair in Women's
Studies at Carleton University and at the University of Ottawa. This
is a 12-month term senior appointment (subject to possible extension),
commencing at the earliest on July 1, 2009, OR at the latest, on
January 1, 2010.

The Administrative Committee for the Joint Chair in Women's Studies,
Carleton University and the University of Ottawa, is seeking
applications from individuals who have demonstrated capacity in
feminist research and/or practice.

The Committee is particularly interested in candidates who can make
considerable contributions to the development of international and
domestic networks, to the promotion of the Joint Chair and who can
participate in other opportunities such as:

1. providing leadership in responding to new research initiatives;
2. developing and fostering research links between the two
universities and the community;
3. supporting fundraising initiatives for the Joint Chair;
4. teaching in the graduate and/or undergraduate Women's
Studies programs at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa,
as negotiated; and
5 facilitating the dissemination of research results by
hosting conferences at Carleton and the University of Ottawa and/or
through publication.

The Joint Chair in Women's Studies was established in 1985. This
position offers the chairholder the opportunity to work with Women's
Studies colleagues in both academic and non-academic communities in
the National Capital Region. Residency requirements (minimum 4 days
per week during the academic year) ensure visibility of the
chairholder on both campuses throughout the tenure of the position.
Candidates should view this appointment as an opportunity to explore
innovative feminist and interdisciplinary topics.

QUALIFICATIONS: A PhD or equivalent in feminist scholarship and/or
practice. We will consider applicants with experience in academia, the
arts, the professions, or as activists. Fluency in both official
languages is mandatory.

SALARY: The stipend for this position will be commensurate with
qualifications, experience and availability.

APPLICATIONS: Letter of application to include a statement detailing
the candidate's vision of the Chair, proposed research program and
activities to be undertaken during the incumbency, curriculum vitae
and sealed letters from three referees should be sent BY JANUARY 9,
2009 to the:

Joint Chair Search Committee
c/o Pauline Jewett Institute of Women's and Gender Studies
Carleton University
Dunton Tower, Room 1502
1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6

- OR -

Joint Chair Search Committee
c/o Institute of Women's Studies
University of Ottawa
143 Séraphin-Marion
Ottawa ON K1N 6N5

Consideration of applications will begin on January 9, 2009, and will
continue until the position is successfully filled.

In accordance with Canadian immigration requirements, this
advertisement is directed to Canadian citizens and permanent
residents. Both Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have
employment equity programs and encourage applications from women,
Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible
and ethnic minorities.

*The position is subject to budgetary approval.

Annual Conference on Culture, Community, & Well-Being (March 2009 theme: Culture & Food)

CALL FOR PAPERS
Friday, March 20, 2009
Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Surrey, B.C. Canada

Sustaining Food: Conference on Past and Present Food Systems
The 6th Annual Anthropology Conference on Culture, Community, and
Well-Being

"Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the
world into our bodies and minds. Agriculture has done more to reshape the
natural world than anything else we humans do, both its landscapes and the
composition of its flora and fauna. . . . Eating puts us in touch with all
that we share with the other animals, and all that sets us apart. It
defines us."
?Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma (2006)

As studies of food shift from nutrition to economics, we begin to see the
degree to which the interconnections between food and socioeconomic class
have been evident historically, just as they are in our present global
world. This conference aims to explore how food plays an essential role
in the development of civilization and culture. Current concerns over
soil depletion, water conservation, biotechnology, intellectual property
rights, socially just food production, food safety, and food security rest
on our understanding of the long-term development of food, and its impact
on specific cultures.

Anthropology, archaeology and other interdisciplinary methods
substantially contribute to our current understandings of food and
culture. Cross-culturally, the examination of different historical and
cultural standpoints shows us various social strategies to adapt to food
stress. Additionally, at present, studying the rise of green consumers,
agro-ecology or sustainable farming, cultural heritage conservation, and
efforts to protect biodiversity convey significant information about
social change. To what degree might current systems succeed in being
economically viable, socially responsible, and ecologically sound? And,
how does the ideology and structure of society relate to these practices?
Join us in better understanding the relationship between people and food
in ways that can truly sustain us.

Submitting a Proposal:
Please include the following information, along with an abstract and/or
paper:
a. title of the submission
b. topic area of the submission
c. presentation format
d. name(s) of the author(s)
e. department(s) and affiliation(s)
f. mailing address(es)
g. e-mail address(es)
h. phone number(s)

Deadline: Monday, January 5, 2009.
Email your abstract and/or paper to:
larissa.petrillo@kwantlen.ca
Please type Sustaining Food Conference
in the subject heading.

Kwantlen is located in Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver, BC.
www.surrey.travel.bc.ca/
The conference is open to all audiences and free of charge.
Please register early by sending an email to anthconference@kwantlen.ca

Colloque/Colloquium

Pour de plus amples renseignements, prière de contacter - For more
information, please contact :

Magali Perreault
mperr006@uottawa.ca

Colloque bilingue "Le retour des exclues : mobilisation et résistance
des femmes autochtones et afros-descendantes des Amériques" (ENGLISH
FOLLOWS)

Date : jeudi, le 6 novembre 2008, de 8h30 à 15h30

Lieu : Cour des arts, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2

Organisé par l'École de développement international et
mondialisation (ÉDIM) de l'Université d'Ottawa

Partenaires : Collège des Amériques (COLAM)/Organisation
universitaire interaméricaine (OUI), Droits et Démocratie et FÉRA
(Forum d'études et de recherches autochtones)

Le colloque vise deux grands objectifs : a) promouvoir le dialogue
entre les organisations et les réseaux de femmes afros-descendantes et
autochtones des Amériques, à la lumière de la Commission de la
condition de la femme des Nations Unies, de la Plateforme d'Action de
Beijing, des Objectifs du millénaire du développement et du Plan
d'action de Durban; b) Explorer les possibilités de développer et de
consolider des alliances locales et globales.

Ses axes thématiques sont la santé (violence conjugale, suicide des
jeunes, santé sexuelle et reproductive), l'éducation (identité,
disparition des langues autochtones, lutte contre l'analphabétisme;
formation et accès aux services) et les droits juridiques et
territoriaux.

Programme

8h30-8h40- Mot de bienvenue du Doyen, M. François Houle

8h40-8h50 - Allocution du Vice-recteur aux études, M. Robert Major

8h50-9h00 - Présentation du colloque et des conférencières du Panel
1 - Directrice de l'ÉDIM, Professeure Andrea Martinez

9h00-10h30: Panel 1 (en anglais avec synthèse en français et
commentaires bilingues)

* Alta Hooker, rectrice, Université URACCA, Nicaragua: « Enjeux
et défis de la santé globale en contextes multiculturels »
* Ellen Gabriel, présidente, Femmes autochtones du Québec :
"Militantisme des femmes autochtones: les défis de la conquête de
l'égalité »
* Modératrice : Susan Spronk, professeure, ÉDIM
* Période de questions

10h30-10h45: pause santé

10h45-12h15: Panel 2 (en français avec synthèse en anglais et
commentaires bilingues) - Présentation des conférencières par la
directrice de l'ÉDIM

* Janet Mark, Coordonnatrice, Services Premières Nations,
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) : L'éducation à
l'UQAT : un projet d'avenir gagnant pour les Autochtones
* Donatille Mujawamariya, professeure, Faculté d'éducation,
Université d'Ottawa : « Celles qui soignent pendant qu'elles se
meurent : « Femmes noires des Amériques, d'hier à aujourd'hui"
* Modératrice : Natacha Gagné, professeure, ÉDIM/Sociologie et
anthropologie
* Période de questions

13h30-15h30 : Panel 3 (en français avec synthèse en anglais et
commentaires bilingues) - Présentation des conférencières par la
directrice de l'ÉDIM

* Sonia Henriquez, présidente, Coordonnatrice nationale des
femmes autochtones du Panama (CONAMUIP)/post-traduction de l'espagnol
au français par Joanne Ottereyes (Droits et démocratie) : « Droits
sexuels et reproductifs vus sous l'angle des femmes autochtones »
* Regine Alende Tshombokongo, directrice, Centre d'encadrement
pour jeunes filles immigrantes : « Violence sexuelle et conflits armés
: parcours d'immigrantes »
* Modératrice : (à confirmer)
* Période de questions
* Martin Papillon, professeur, École de science politique,
Université d'Ottawa: présentation du FÉRA (5 minutes)
* Mot de clôture et remerciements (professeure Andrea Martinez)

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Bilingual colloquium: "The Return of the Excluded: Mobilization and
Resistance of Afro descendent and Indigenous Women of the Americas"

Date: Thursday, November 6, 2008, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm

Place: Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1N 6E2

Organised by the School of International Development and Global
Studies (SIDGS) at the University of Ottawa

Partners: College of the Americas (COLAM)/Inter-American University
Organisation), Rights and Democracy, and FÉRA (Forum for Aboriginal
Studies and Research)

The main objectives of the colloquium are twofold: a) To promote the
dialogue between organizations and networks of Afro-descendent and
Indigenous women of the Americas in the light of the United Nations
Commission on the Status of Women, the Platform for Action of Beijing,
the Objectives of the Millennium of the Development and the Action
plan of Durban; b) to explore the possibilities of developing and
strengthening local and global networks.

Its thematic axes are health (conjugal violence, suicide among youth,
sexual and reproductive health), education (identity, disappearance of
the indigenous languages, strategies for reducing illiteracy; training
and adequate access to services), and legal and territorial rights.

Programme:

8:30-8:40 am: Welcome Words from the Dean, Dr. François Houle

8:40-8:50 am: Presentation by the Vice-Rector (Academics), Dr. Robert Major

8:50-9:00 am: Presentation of the Colloquium and the Speakers at
Panel 1 by SIDGS' Director, Professor Andrea Martinez

9:00-10:30 am: Panel 1 (in English with synthesis in French and
bilingual comments)

* Alta Hooker, rector, URACCA University, Nicaragua: "Issues
and Challenges of Global health in multicultural contexts"
* Ellen Gabriel, President of Femmes autochtones du
Québec/Aboriginal Women of Quebec : "Aboriginal Women's Activism: the
challenges of achieving equality"
* Moderator: Susan Spronk, Professor, SIDGS
* Questions Period

10:30-10:45 am: Health break

10:45 am -12:15 pm: Panel 2 (in French with synthesis in English and
bilingual comments) - Presentation of the Speakers by SIDGS' Director

* Janet Mark, Coordinator, First Nations Services, Université
du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT): Education at UQAT : A
Winning Project for a Future for Aboriginal Peoples"
* Donatille Mujawamariya, Professor, Faculty of Education,
University of Ottawa: "Those who Tend to Others while They Die : Black
Women of the Americas, Yesterday and Today"
* Moderator: Professor Natacha Gagé, SIDGS/Sociology and anthropology
* Questions Period

13:30-15:30 pm: Panel 3 (in French with synthesis in English and
bilingual comments) - Presentation of the Speakers by Professor Andrea
Martinez

* Sonia Henriquez, President, National Coordinator of
Aboriginal Women of Panama (CONAMUIP)/post-translation from Spanish to
French by Joanne Ottereyes (Rights and Democracy) : "Sexual and
Reproductive Rights from the Perspective of Aboriginal Women"
* Regine Alende Tshombokongo, Director, Centre d'encadrement
pour jeunes filles immigrantes : « Sexual Violence and Armed Conflicts
: Immigrant Trajectories »
* Moderator: (to be confirmed)
* Questions Period
* Martin Papillon, professor, School of Political Science:
presentation of FERA (5 minutes)
* Closing remarks and acknowledgments: Professor Andrea Martinez

Field Schools

The Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Thompson Rivers
University invites applications for two field schools in the 2009
spring/summer session:

FIELD SCHOOL IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE (Anthropology/Sociology 403)

This popular course is once again open to advanced undergraduate
students from across Canada. The focus of the program is on cultural
and political factors underlying internal divisions within post -
communist Europe. Participants will explore this topic in the Czech
Republic, Slovakia, and Bosnia - Herzegovina. They will visit Romani
settlements, divided cities, towns that have undergone ethnic
cleansing, and former concentration camps. For most students this
opportunity to see the underbelly of Europe becomes a transformative
experience.

For detailed information please visit www.tru.ca/europe

FIELD SCHOOL IN GUIMARAS & PANAY (Anthropology 433)

The program takes place in the Western Visayas (Philippines), in
several communities inhabited by the indigenous Ati foragers. It is
designed to expose the participants to the trials and tribulations
associated with hunting and gathering under conditions of uncontrolled
environmental destruction.

For further information please contact:

David Z. Scheffel, PhD
Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Thompson Rivers University
Kamloops, BC
Canada, V2C 5N3

250.828.5182
dscheffel@tru.ca
www.tru.ca

REMINDER: Aboriginal Government Conference - November 7 & 8, 2008

REMINDER: ABORIGINAL GOVERNMENT CONFERENCE - NOVEMBER 7 & 8, 2008

The College of Law, University of Saskatchewan, the Native Law Centre
and the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy will present a
conference on ABORIGINAL GOVERNMENT: GIVING EFFECT TO OUR CONSTITUTIONAL
COMMITMENTS in the College of Law Building, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, on November 7 & 8, 2008.

Speakers include: Frances Abele, John Borrows, James Tully, Senator
Charlie Watt, Shawn Atleo and Kiera Ladner.

The conference fee is $250.00 ($30.00 for students).

Please go to the conference website www.usask.ca/nativelaw/gecc/ to
register, for information about the speakers and for the detailed
program.

CFP - Migration: Political Economies (CASCA-AES 2008)

Call for papers Migration : Political Economies

Canadian Anthropology Society/American Ethnological Society Joint
Meeting University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16, 2009

Organizers: Pauline Gardiner Barber (Dalhousie University) and Winnie
Lem (Trent University)

This panel problematizes migration by using the analytics of a
critical political economy. A central concern of the papers is to
explore the formation of class in an engagement with the ?migration
question? and they do this by emphasizing processes of class
formation, reformation and differentiation under historical and
contemporary capitalisms. While retaining a commitment to exposing
the fundamentals of the political and economic forces of change under
capitalism, the papers move beyond orthodox, reductionist and also
static tendencies in some materialist approaches to illuminate the
complexities of migration. While questions of class and its
formations are common to all papers, we are also concerned with
methodologies for class analysis in migration, and the articulations
of power that inform the lives of migrants and that may condition
different forms of migration. Together the papers will explore
questions of migration in relation to economy, gender, culture,
production and consumption, habitus, hegemony and history, as well as
the politics of migration.

Please send title and abstract (100 words) to pgbarber@dal.ca and
wlem@trentu.ca by December 30th. Include name, institutional
affiliation and email address. A volume based on selected papers is
planned.

CFP - From Mobile Anthropologists to Anthropologies of Mobility

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

Call for Papers

From Mobile Anthropologists to Anthropologies of Mobility
Canadian Anthropology Society/American Ethnological Society Joint Meeting
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16, 2009

Organizer: Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven)

This panel takes up the general conference theme, "Transnational
Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary
Networks". Long before transnationalism, globalization or
cosmopolitanism became academic buzzwords, anthropologists already knew
about these phenomena and processes as experience experts (although they
not necessarily acknowledged them in their writings). With the present
hype over global fluxes and flows, we tend to forget that many of
anthropology's founding scholars, including Franz Boas and Bronislaw
Malinowski, were themselves migrants and that the latter put
transcultural mobility at the heart of ethnographic practice. Not only
the experience of "being there" produced invaluable insights that shaped
the discipline, but also the act of traveling "out of place" played a
determining role. The papers in this panel analyze how professional as
well as personal engagements of anthropologists with a variety of
mobilities (e.g. migration, translocal fieldwork, and global academic
exchange via conferences, visiting programs, and online networks)
strategically positions them within the social sciences to
ethnographically describe, critically assess and theorize the current
"mobility turn".

If you are interested in participating, contact Noel B. Salazar
(noel.salazar@soc.kuleuven.be) by 20 December 2008.
Please submit your name, your affiliation, a title, and abstract limited
to 100 words. A maximum of five papers will be accepted (four in case a
discussant will comment upon the papers). High-quality papers will be
selected for publication.

More information about the conference is available online:
http://www.anth.ubc.ca/index.php?id=11928.0.html

Please note: You must be a member in good standing of either CASCA
(http://casca.anthropologica.ca/ab_memb_online.htm) or AES
(http://dev.aaanet.org/membership/join.cfm), or become one, to
participate in the conference.