CRC in Children and Global Development

CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN CHILDREN AND GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Dalhousie University
invites applications for a Tier I Canada Research Chair on "Children and
Global Development." The appointment will be at the rank of Professor and
will be conditional on the successful applicant being approved as a Tier 1
Research Chair by the CRC secretariat. The position is open with regard to
disciplinary specialization, with a primary appointment in one of the
Faculty's Departments (Classics, English, French, German, History,
International Development Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science,
Russian Studies, Sociology and Social Anthropology, Spanish and Latin
American Studies or Theatre). A research emphasis on the area of children
and conflict would be an asset. Dalhousie University has growing strength
in the broad area of "Children in Challenging Contexts", including
researchers in the School of Social Work and the Faculty of Medicine as
well as FASS. This strength is reflected, for example, in a new Network
Centres of Excellence Knowledge Mobilization grant on Children in
Challenging Contexts and the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies Child
Soldier/Conflict Affected Youth initiatives. The successful candidate will
be expected to sustain a strong research program of their own, and in so
doing actively contribute to intra- and inter-faculty collaborations in
this area of emphasis.
Candidates must have a PhD, an outstanding research profile, and an
innovative and original research programme; a strong track-record of
obtaining external funding; and the ability to work co-operatively,
provide leadership in an interdisciplinary environment, develop
multi-faceted research projects, and work with graduate students and/or
post-doctoral fellows. Although this is primarily a research appointment,
the appointee will be expected to teach at the graduate and undergraduate
level.

The Canada Research Chairs (CRC) Programme has been established by the
Government of Canada to enable Canadian universities to foster research
excellence and enhance their role as world-class centres of research
excellence. More information about the Canada Research Chairs Programme is
available at: http://www.chairs.gc.ca. Please note that the CRC
nominations are subject to review and final approval by the CRC
Secretariat.

Dalhousie is the leading graduate and research university of Atlantic
Canada, with more than 17,000 students from over 100 countries (more than
3500 in graduate programmes). It is located in Halifax – the major centre
in the scenic Atlantic region and a city widely known for its high quality
of life. Further information about the Faculty and the university can be
obtained at www.dal.ca/fass <http://www.dal.ca/fass>. Dalhousie University
is an Employment Equity/Affirmative Action employer. The University
encourages applications from qualified Aboriginal people, persons with a
disability, racially visible persons and women.

Applications should include a detailed curriculum vitae, a two-page
summary of the candidate's proposed research programme, a statement of
research and teaching interests and philosophies, and three confidential
letters of reference forwarded by the referees. All application materials
should be sent in hard copy.
Deadline: 16 March 2012
Chair, CRC Tier 1 Appointments Committee
Office of the Dean
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue, Suite 3030
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS, B3H 4R2
Fassdean@dal.ca

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing UTSC

Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing, Fall 2012

The Centre for Ethnography (CE) at the University of Toronto at
Scarborough (UTSC) is accepting applications for their annual Fellowship
in Ethnographic Writing. Writing is a key component of the work of an
anthropologist, but it takes time and benefits from some distance from the
fieldwork itself, and from other obligations. In recognition of this fact
the CE introduced a Fellowship in Ethnographic Writing in 2010. We are now
seeking applications for the Fall Term of 2012.

The recipient of this award is expected to devote their time fully to
writing and may not teach or hold any other form of employment during the
tenure of the award. They are expected to attend all talks and colloquia
at the CE, to work several days a week on campus at UTSC, and to
contribute a presentation of their work in progress to the Anthropology
colloquiam. In addition, the Fellow will be available to coach students
completing an undergraduate writing assignment, working in tandem with a
professor teaching a core introductory course. This work will be limited
to 5 hours in total.

Applicants should supply a letter of interest, a CV, and statement of no
more than 5 double-spaced pages describing their writing project,
indicating the stage that it is at, and precisely what they wish to
accomplish during the duration of the Fellowship. Explicit attention to
questions of genre, narrative, and audience are welcome but not essential.
Successful applicants will either be at the post-doctoral stage (engaged
in transforming a thesis into a book or articles) or in the final stages
of completing the doctoral thesis. All applicants must have completed
their doctoral fieldwork and have already submitted drafts of significant
portions of their dissertation to their committee. The current stipend is
set at $10,000 for a period of no less than ten weeks. Fellows may
continue to use the facilities for the entire term.
The closing date for this competition is March 1, 2012. Please send all
application materials, as well as the names of two referees,
electronically to the Centre for Ethnography
<centreforethnography@utsc.utoronto.ca>.

Michael Lambek, FRSC
Professor of Anthropology &
Research Chair
University of Toronto at Scarborough

La bourse d=?iso-8859-1?Q?=92=E9tude?= Richard F. Salisbury/The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award ($1,500)

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La bourse d'étude Richard F. Salisbury (1500 $)

La Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury est octroyée en mémoire de M.
Richard Frank Salisbury, un membre fondateur du département
d'anthropologie de l'Université McGill et du Centre d'études sur les
régions en développement de l'Université McGill. M. Salisbury est
également l'auteur des ouvrages From Stone to Steel (1962) et A
Homeland for the Cree (1986). Son leadership lors des négociations
entourant le projet hydroélectrique de la baie James a contribué à la
conclusion du traité historique entre le gouvernement du Québec et les
Cris de la région de la baie James. Cet accord est ensuite devenu un
modèle de rapprochement entre l'autonomie autochtone et le
développement économique. M. Salisbury est décédé en 1989.

La Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury est accordée chaque année à
une étudiante ou à un étudiant inscrit à un programme de doctorat dans
une université canadienne, dans le but de l'aider à couvrir ses
dépenses durant ses études sur le terrain. Le montant prévu cette
année est de 1500 $. La ou le récipiendaire de chaque bourse est
également invité à présenter ses conclusions préliminaires à
l'occasion de l'assemblée annuelle de la Canadian Anthropology
Society/Société canadienne d'anthropologie.

La date limite est le 16 mars 2012.

Le formulaire et des renseignements complémentaires sont accessibles
sur le site Web de la CASCA : www.cas-sca.ca

Ou sur la page de la Bourse d'études Richard F. Salisbury :

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=24&lang=fr

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The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award ($1,500)

CASCA is again holding a competition for the Richard F. Salisbury
Student Award. The Salisbury Award is given in memory of Dr. Richard
Frank Salisbury, a founding member of the McGill University Department
of Anthropology as well as the McGill Centre for Developing Areas
Studies. Dr. Salisbury was the author of From Stone to Steel (1962)
and A Homeland for the Cree (1986). His leadership on the James Bay
Project helped the James Bay Cree and the Government of Quebec work
out the historic treaty that has become a model for reconciling
aboriginal autonomy with economic development. Dr. Salisbury passed
away in 1989.

The Richard F. Salisbury Student Award is given each year to a PhD
candidate, enrolled at a Canadian university, for the purposes of
defraying expenses incurred while carrying out dissertation fieldwork.
The amount of the award for the current competition has been set at
$1,500. The winner of each award is also invited to present their
preliminary findings to the annual meeting of the Canadian
Anthropology Society/Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie.

The deadline for this year's competition is March 16, 2012.

The application form and further information is available on the CASCA
website: www.cas-sca.ca

Or the Salisbury Award web page:

http://cas-sca.ca/casca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=24&lang=en

The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural Heritage Film

To Scholars and Film Makers :

Archaeological Legacy Institute is extending its deadline for paper
submissions for The Archaeology Channel Conference on Cultural
Heritage Film to be held May 9-11 in Eugene, Oregon, USA, in
conjunction with our Ninth annual installment of The Archaeology
Channel International film and Video Festival (May 8-12). The
deadline for abstract and symposium submissions now is February 29,
2012. The Conference will be held at the University of Oregon Baker
Downtown Center. This is an international event, with films and
film-makers coming from around the globe. Conference presenters will
receive tickets to all film screenings.

Papers on applications of film (academic, cultural, practical,
educational) will be considered for conference presentation. There
will also be an open discussion of Festival films. The goals of this
conference are three-fold: (1) to promote the creation, distribution
and use of cultural heritage film as an influence for broad cultural
awareness and understanding; (2) to bring together educators,
film-makers, archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, journalists,
historic preservationists, environmentalists, geographers, and others
interested in cultural heritage and its connections to the natural
environment; and (3) to encourage the exchange of new ideas and
approaches to employ film for the common good of all humanity.

The official call for papers is posted in our Festival area at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/Conference12.html. TAC
Festival information may be found now at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml, where
hotel information is posted as well. We encourage you to participate
(for no fee) even if you don?t present a paper. Please do not
hesitate to ask if you have any questions. I look forward to hearing
from you and seeing you at this year?s event. Please share this
information as widely as possible.

Richard M. Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA

President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
www.archaeologychannel.org

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(la version française suit)

REMINDER

CASCA 2012
The Unexpected

As a departure from more paradigmatic conferences, CASCA 2012, to be
held at the University of Alberta in Edmonton on May 9-12, will
explore The Unexpected. The papers and events in and around this
conference will explore how anthropologists think about and respond to
unanticipated, unpredicted, and surprising aspects of their research.
CASCA 2012 presents a moment in which anthropologists, from the most
senior to the most inexperienced and from every sub-discipline, can
reflect on and share those aspects of their research typically
reserved for more informal venues. We are delighted to host Prof.
Richard Jenkins from University of Sheffield whose keynote address,
"Tales of the unexpected: doing fieldwork and doing everyday life,"
promises to confront directly the often precarious and contradictory
aspects of anthropological research.

In order to encourage participants to explore topics in unexpected
ways, the structure of this conference will differ from those held
previously. To begin, the organizers of CASCA 2012 are proposing
several thematic panels to which scholars may submit individual
abstracts. These thematic panels will be built around a format of
short (5-8 minute) presentations based on papers to be circulated
prior to the conference with the goal of sparking a wider discussion
among those presenting and those attending the sessions. The
Conference organized thematic panels will include the following:

• Ethics and the unexpected
• Experiencing the unexpected
• Planning for the unexpected
• Practicing the unexpected
• The unexpected in the global imaginary
• Unexpected connections in and through bio-archaeology
• Uh, oh!

In addition to the aforementioned thematic panels, other forms of
participation will include papers, PechaKucha, and poster sessions.
Individually submitted abstracts are preferred; conference organizers
will assemble panels from individual paper abstracts (maximum 120
words) with the goal of building new and unexpected convergences
between participants and topics. Participant organized panels are not
excluded, but those panels may see some reorganization to better fit
the theme and spirit of the conference. Along with sessions that
follow a traditional 15-minute paper presentation format, we offer
participants the opportunity to present as a part of PechaKucha
panels, in which each presentation is allowed 20 slides with a
20-second limit for each slide, or in poster sessions. All formats
will allow for lively and engaging presentations that should engender
thought-provoking interactions between presenters and audience members.

As a possible starting place for imagining contributions to The
Unexpected, we offer the following suggestions, hoping that they will
provoke some new and unexpected topics to be explored with others at
CASCA 2012.

Anthropology of the unexpected, of crises, disasters and tranquility
Unexpected anthropology (e.g., science fiction, ethnographic fiction, etc.)
Unexpected anthropology in classrooms and other learning environments
Unexpected connections and collaborations between people, ideas, and
disciplines
Unexpected consequences of anthropology
Unexpected dangers and taboos of anthropology
Unexpected humor and unexpected joy in anthropology
Unexpected research or results

Abstracts will be accepted through February 15th. For detailed
information on registration and abstract submission, visit the CASCA
website at www.cas-sca.ca.

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RAPPEL

CASCA 2012
L'Inattendu

Pour s'éloigner du style formel des conférences annuelles, le thème de
CASCA 2012 qui se tiendra à l'Université de l'Alberta à Edmonton du 9
au 12 mai sera L'Inattendu. Le thème qui sera exploré aux cours de
cette conférence est comment les anthropologues pensent et réagissent
à l'inattendu, l'imprévu et les aspects surprenants de leur recherche.
CASCA 2012 présente une opportunité pour les anthropologues, du plus
aguerri au moins expérimenté et de toutes les sous-disciplines, de
réfléchir et partager ces aspects de leur recherche généralement
réservée à des occasions moins formelles. Nous avons le plaisir
d'accueillir le Professeur Richard Jenkins de l'Université de
Sheffield, conférencier d'honneur. Sa présentation, 'Contes de
l'inattendu : travail de terrain et la vie quotidienne', promet
d'adresser directement les aspects souvent précaires et
contradictoires de la recherche en anthropologie.

Afin d'encourager l'exploration de sujets de façon inattendue par les
participants, la structure de la conférence sera différente de celles
des années précédentes. Premièrement, les organisateurs de CASCA 2012
proposent plusieurs groupes de discussion thématiques pour lesquels
les participants peuvent soumettre un résumé individuel. Ces groupes
de discussion thématiques seront construits autour de courtes
présentations (5 à 8 minutes) basées sur des articles qui seront
distribués avant la conférence afin de générer de plus amples
discussions qui incluront les présentateurs ainsi que les autres
participants de ces forums et les membres de l'auditoire. Les thèmes
de ces groupes de discussion proposés par les organisateurs incluront :

• Éthique et l'Inattendu
• L'expérience de l'Inattendu
• Se Préparer à l'inattendu
• Pratiquer l'inattendu
• L'inattendu dans l'imaginaire universel
• Liens inattendus dans et à travers la bio archéologie
• Oh oh!

En plus de groupes thématiques ci-dessus, d'autres formes de
participation incluront les présentations traditionnelles, sessions
PechaKucha et affiches (posters). La soumission de résumé individuel
est préférable; les organisateurs de la conférence assembleront les
séances à partir des résumés (maximum de 120 mots) dans le but de
bâtir des convergences nouvelles et inattendues entre participants et
thèmes. Les séances thématiques traditionnelles proposées par les
participants ne sont pas exclues mais ces séances pourraient être
modifiées afin de mieux cadrer dans le thème et l'esprit de la
conférence. En plus des communications traditionnelles de 15 minutes,
les participants auront l'opportunité de présenter dans des séances
d'affiches ou PechaKucha, pour lesquelles il y aura un maximum de 20
diapositives et un maximum de 20 secondes par diapositives. Chaque
type de séances permettra des interactions plus vives et plus engagées
entre les présentateurs les membres de l'auditoire.

Comme point de départ pour imaginer des contributions à L'Inattendu,
nous offrons les suggestions suivantes en espérant qu'elles
provoqueront des sujets nouveaux et inattendus à explorer avec les
participants à CASCA 2012.

Anthropologie de l'inattendu, de crises, de désastres et de tranquillité
L'anthropologie inattendue (ex. science-fiction, fiction ethnographique,
etc.)
L'anthropologie inattendue dans les classes ou autres milieux éducatifs
Collaborations et liens inattendus entre personnes, idées et disciplines
Conséquences inattendues de l'anthropologie
Dangers et tabous inattendus en anthropologie
Humour ou joie inattendu en anthropologie
Recherche ou résultats inattendus

Les résumés seront accepté jusqu'au 15 février. Pour plus de détails
sur l'inscription et les soumissions de résumés, visitez le site
internet de CASCA á www.cas-sca.ca.

REMINDER: Call for Papers 2012 UBC Anthropology Graduate Conference

*REMINDER: January 31st Deadline *
*Call for Papers - 2012 UBC Anthropology Graduate Conference*

*Culture and Change: Towards a Dynamic Anthropology*

The Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, is pleased to announce that *Dr. Yongming Zhou*, Professor of
Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, will be the keynote
speaker for the 2012 graduate student conference to be held at UBC Friday,
March 2nd, and Saturday, March 3rd, 2012.

Additional information on Dr. Zhou, advance registration for the
conference, and an online form for abstract submission and advance
registration and banquet ticket reservations are now available on the
conference website at http://anthgradconf.alyanne.net/index.html.

Anthropologists recognize that cultures are dynamic and changing. Recent
global events, such as the uprising in Egypt and the Occupy Movement, have
pushed these notions of social dynamism to the forefront of public
consciousness. How do global forces combine with local dynamics to shape
the futures of communities around the world? Scholars from the traditional
fields of anthropology, as well as geography, political science, law, and
other disciplines are engaging with this question in new ways.

We cordially invite graduate and undergraduate scholars across disciplines
including but not limited to sociocultural, linguistic, and museum
anthropology, archaeology, sociology, geography, history, and political
science, to join us for an exploration of these themes. Please submit paper
and poster abstracts by *January 31st, 2012*, via the submission form on
the conference website at http://anthgradconf.alyanne.net/index.html.
Abstracts are limited to 150 words. Please include 3 or 4 keywords below
the body of the abstract.

In addition, we encourage works that fall under the realm of visual
anthropology--this includes 10-12 minute documentary/ethnographic film
submissions, photographic and other artistic works that address the dynamic
shifts occurring in various communities influenced by political, economic
and social forces. Please submit film and artwork synopsis no longer than
150 words and related photos or 1-2 minute film clips by *January 31st, 2012
*, via the abstract submission form on the conference website.

Topics could include, but by no means should be limited to, the following:

· Social revolutions

· Mobility/immobility and circulation

· Methodologies addressing change and transition

· Changes in research methods

· Reflexivity

· Performance

To register for the advance rate of $15, and to purchase banquet meal
tickets for $20, please visit the conference website at
http://anthgradconf.alyanne.net/index.html. Also check back for continual
updates on the program and schedule.

Please circulate widely to interested parties and direct any questions to
anthconfubc@gmail.com. Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you on
March 3rd!

CASCA: Job posting/Emplois

English:

http://www.cas-sca.ca/jobs/UdeM_2012en.pdf

Français:

http://www.cas-sca.ca/jobs/UdeM_2012fr.pdf