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Session Description: Biotechnology represents an important 'growth'
area, in terms of scientific knowledge and publication possibilities, as
well as presenting potentially applied uses. It has been suggested as an
important way of improving agricultural cultivars; as a way of mapping,
managing, and profiting from biodiversity; as a way of protecting a
country's genetic patrimony; and as a way of creating new industrial and
medical applications. This panel aims to foster discussion about
biotechnology and Latin America by asking the following three questions:
1) How has Latin America interacted with biotechnology? 2) How have the
policies and practices surrounding biotechnology in Latin America
compared to wider, global trends? 3) How are biotechnologies part of
wider processes of scientific change?
Please send an abstract of a paper (minimum 250 words, maximum of 400
words) by March 11th (for March 15th submission deadline).
Mary-Lee Mulholland (Mount Royal University)
Panel Title: Tidemarks of Secularism: Religion and the Other
From banning niqabs and kirpans in public places to cuts in funding to
religiously affiliated community organizations, western nations are
increasing their commitment to the project of secularization in the name of
liberal emancipation and its freedoms. This, despite the fact, that many
of these same governments are becoming increasingly influenced by the
Christian right. The desire to eradicate traces of religiosity in public
spaces, policies and funding is formulated as a legacy of the idealized
(but rarely practiced) separation of church and state. This secularization
is used by both the left and the right to limit and exclude what is deemed
illegitimate political and social activities from the public sphere.
Critiques of secularization as a western bias leading to policies of
exclusion (Asad 2003, Mahmood 2005) are not new, however, the increased
political pressure to secularize requires further examination. This is
seen to be particularly true in discourses such as "reasonable
accommodation" and the banning of the niqab and burka in various public
spaces in Europe and North America. Moreover, Christian groups dedicated
to social justices issues are also witnessing cuts to their funding and
limits to their praxis. What seem to be constant is these struggle is the
manner in with inappropriate religiosity intersects with citizenship,
race, gender and ethnicity. This panel will examine how the legacies of
secularization are working to exclude certain bodies marked as different.
Questions that papers address may include:
1. How are policies of secularization directed at newcomers and
minorities?
2. How are diversity models, such as multiculturalism, becoming the
scapegoats for the failure of western nations to integrate religious
minorities?
3. How are women's bodies and beliefs becoming the battleground in
which secularism is being fought over?
If you are interested in presenting a paper as part of this panel, please
submit a 250-word abstract by April 1, 2011 to mmulholland@mtyroyal.ca
Chers membres,
Toujours dans le but de rendre le colloque de la CASCA à Fredericton le plus
amusant et convivial possible, nous avons décidé de tenir notre colloque
2011 du 11 au 13 mai, le « kitchen party » des Maritimes clôturant le tout
vendredi soir, le 13 mai. La demi-journée prévue pour le 14 mai est donc
annulée. Veuillez ajuster vos plans de voyage en conséquence. Si vous êtes
sur place le 14 mai, nous vous invitons à visiter la galerie d'art
Beaverbrook, le Farmers Market de 6 h à 13 h, ainsi qu'à profiter des
excellents restaurants qu'on peut trouver à Fredericton.
Cordialement,
Le comité organisateur du colloque 2011
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Dear Members
In keeping with our desire to make CASCA 2011 in Fredericton an intimate
fun affair we have made the decision to run CASCA from May 11-13 with the
Atlantic Kitchen party sending us all off on Friday evening May 13. The
half day scheduled for May 14 is canceled. Please adjust your travel plans
accordingly. If you are here for May 14 please check out the Beaverbrook
Art Gallery, the Farmers Market from 6 am-1pm and all the fine
restaurants that
Fredericton has to offer.
Regards from the CASCA 2011 Local Organizing Committee
In keeping with our desire to make CASCA 2011 in Fredericton an intimate fun
affair we have made the decision to run CASCA from May 11-13 with the
Atlantic Kitchen party sending us all off on Friday evening May 13. The
half day scheduled for May 14 is canceled. Please adjust your travel plans
accordingly. If you are here for May 14 please check out the Beaverbrook Art
Gallery, the Farmers Market from 6 am-1pm and all the fine restaurants that
Fredericton has to offer.
Regards from the CASCA 2011 Local Organizing Committee
Trent: Academic Program Coordinator
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CASCA 2011 is pleased to announce the following plenary session:
Emerging Visions of Anthropology - Dialogues on Intellectual Urgency,
Critical Engagements and Re-imagining Ethnographic Relationships.
Harvey Feit, Regna Darnell, Sylvie Poirier and Jasmin Habib will each
bring their views to this exciting and important topic. We hope you will
enjoy it. Please register now.
CASCA Plenary Abstract
Emerging Visions of Anthropology - Dialogues on Intellectual Urgency,
Critical Engagements, and Re-imagining Ethnographic Relationships
We anthropologists talk about anthropology, scholarly lives and academic
practices constantly in our offices, corridors, coffee breaks,
administrative meetings, and over drinks. Our foci are often immediate,
urgent, consequential, disturbing and challenging. Often there is limited
time or commitment to also talk about how we envision our discipline or
our visions for our own scholarly lives and projects, Yet, in doing
anthropology every day we engage with and create visions of anthropology,
of relations to colleagues, of scholarly practices, and of the milieu in
which we live. These visions are ever changing and situated, but their
presence and effects are of mutual concern. The fragmentary way we address
visions and agency, and the urgency and sometimes discomfort we may feel
as we do so hint at the challenges we face individually and collectively
today. This plenary seeks to create a space of dialogues where grounded
visions and the experiences that connect them can be explored among
colleagues.
The speakers at the plenary were invited to reflect on the emerging
visions of anthropology - from various perspectives - including
differently situated historical, generational, analytical, ethnographic,
and engaged experiences. The talks being developed are diverse, but the
abstracts nevertheless reflect a surprisingly recurrent set of themes.
Among these: anthropology in the world, including anthropological
relations to processes of ethnography, power, politics, and agency;
questions about what a long-standing but widening commitment to critical
stances has meant and may yet become in anthropology, and the relations of
such critical commitments to anthropology's ever shifting marginality;
anthropological relationships to universities and disciplines, and its
changing place in neo-liberal academia; anthropology's challenges within
the post-disciplinary power of expertise, especially in relation to the
everyday lives of the people and students we engage with; anthropology's
re-turn to ethnography and to foci on conflicts, modernity, resistance,
coexistence, agency and social movements; and the continuing challenges we
face as intellectuals and citizens.
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Le colloque 2011 de la CASCA a le plaisir d'annoncer la séance plénière
suivante:
Visions émergentes de l'anthropologie – Regards sur l'urgence
intellectuelle, l'engagement critique et les relations ethnographiques
renouvelées.
Harvey Feit, Regna Darnell, Sylvie Poirier et Jasmin Habib partageront
tous leur point de vue sur cette question importante et captivante. Nous
espérons que cette séance vous plaira. Inscrivez-vous dès maintenant.
Séance plénière de la CASCA – Résumé
Visions émergentes de l'anthropologie – Regards sur l'urgence
intellectuelle, l'engagement critique et les relations ethnographiques
renouvelées
En tant qu'anthropologues, nous parlons constamment de l'anthropologie, de
notre vie intellectuelle et des pratiques pédagogiques, que ce soit dans
nos bureaux, dans les corridors, à notre pause café, dans des réunions
administratives ou autour d'un verre. L'objet de nos discussions est
souvent pressant, urgent, troublant, compliqué et peut avoir des
conséquences importantes. Généralement, nous disposons de ressources et de
temps limités pour parler de la façon dont nous percevons notre
discipline, ou pour exprimer nos idées sur notre vie intellectuelle et nos
projets. Pourtant, en pratiquant notre métier chaque jour, nous
participons et donnons naissance à des visions de l'anthropologie, des
relations avec nos collègues, des pratiques pédagogiques, et du milieu
dans lequel nous vivons. Ces visions évoluent constamment, mais leur
existence et leurs effets nous préoccupent tous. La façon fragmentaire
dont nous abordons ces visions et cette agentivité, ainsi que l'inconfort
et l'urgence que nous ressentons parfois dans ces moments témoignent des
défis que nous rencontrons aujourd'hui, individuellement et
collectivement. Cette séance plénière vise à créer un espace de discussion
où les perceptions fondées et les expériences qui les relient peuvent être
explorées entre collègues.
Les conférenciers de la séance plénière ont été invités afin de réfléchir
aux visions émergentes de l'anthropologie en se basant sur des points de
vue développés dans divers contextes historiques, générationnels,
analytiques, ethnographiques, et des expériences d'engagement variées. Les
discussions prévues sont multiples, mais les résumés présentent toutefois
un ensemble de thématiques étonnamment récurrentes. Parmi celles-ci :
l'anthropologie dans le monde, dont les relations anthropologiques avec
les processus d'ethnographie, de pouvoir, de politique et d'agentivité; la
signification qu'a eu et qu'aura encore sur l'anthropologie l'adoption de
positions critiques, ainsi que les relations d'un tel engagement critique
(de longue date, mais combien enrichissant) envers la marginalité sans
cesse renouvelée de notre domaine; les relations de l'anthropologie avec
les universités et les autres disciplines, et la place de notre discipline
changeante dans un milieu universitaire néolibéral; les défis de
l'anthropologie en ce qui concerne le pouvoir d'intervention
postdisciplinaire, surtout en lien avec la vie quotidienne des gens et
étudiants avec qui nous interagissons; le retour de l'anthropologie à
l'ethnographie et à l'intérêt porté aux conflits, à la modernité, à la
résistance, à la coexistence ainsi qu'aux mouvements sociaux et
d'agentivité; et enfin, les défis perpétuels que nous rencontrons en tant
qu'intellectuels et citoyens.