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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Italy Summer 2009 Field School - Historic Preservation & Restoration

Dear Colleague,

I would like to inform you about our summer 2009 field school in
Italy, the San
Gemini Preservation Studies Program, now in its 11th year, which is
dedicated to the
preservation of cultural heritage.

This year the program is sponsored by the Department of Art History
and Studio Arts
at John Cabot University (www.johncabot.edu <http://www.johncabot.edu/> ), an
American liberal arts university in Rome, in collaboration with the Historic
Preservation Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and other
preservation organizations.

Application deadline is March 15th.

Courses offered (3 credits each):


· Introduction to Art Restoration in Italy


· Surveying and Analyzing Historic Buildings

· Traditional Painting Methods and Restoration Techniques

· Preservation Theory and Practice in Italy

Field Projects:

· Surveying the 12th Century San Giovanni Battista Church complex

· Surveying the Church of Santo Gemine

· Archaeological survey of the public baths in Carsulae

To find out more about our program please visit our website
http://www.sangeministudies.info <http://www.sangeministudies.info/>

Our program offers both undergraduate and graduate credits and is open
to students
from many disciplines. The program is taught in English.

If you know any students, scholars or others interested in this type
of study, please
inform them about our program. We would appreciate it if you could
list our program
on your organization's website as an available educational resource.
Also, attached
is a flyer that you may wish to post on your department notice board
or forward to
interested parties.

Thank you very much.

Max Cardillo
Director, San Gemini Preservation Studies
John Cabot University

Re: Italy Summer 2009 Field School - Historic Preservation & Restoration

Hi folks,

I sent this out.

Karli Whitmore
CASCA list serve

Quoting "Plaice, Evelyn M" <plaice@unb.ca>:

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> Evie Plaice, CASCA Secretary
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> CANADA E3B 5A3
>
>
> Quoting Max Cardillo <mcardillo@johncabot.edu>:
>
>> Dear Colleague,
>>
>>
>>
>> I would like to inform you about our summer 2009 field school in
>> Italy, the San
>> Gemini Preservation Studies Program, now in its 11th year, which is
>> dedicated to the
>> preservation of cultural heritage.
>>
>>
>>
>> This year the program is sponsored by the Department of Art History
>> and Studio Arts
>> at John Cabot University (www.johncabot.edu
>> <http://www.johncabot.edu/> ), an
>> American liberal arts university in Rome, in collaboration with the Historic
>> Preservation Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and other
>> preservation organizations.
>>
>>
>>
>> Application deadline is March 15th.
>>
>>
>>
>> Courses offered (3 credits each):
>>
>>
>> · Introduction to Art Restoration in Italy
>>
>>
>> · Surveying and Analyzing Historic Buildings
>>
>> · Traditional Painting Methods and Restoration Techniques
>>
>> · Preservation Theory and Practice in Italy
>>
>>
>>
>> Field Projects:
>>
>> · Surveying the 12th Century San Giovanni Battista Church complex
>>
>> · Surveying the Church of Santo Gemine
>>
>> · Archaeological survey of the public baths in Carsulae
>>
>>
>>
>> To find out more about our program please visit our website
>> http://www.sangeministudies.info <http://www.sangeministudies.info/>
>>
>>
>>
>> Our program offers both undergraduate and graduate credits and is
>> open to students
>> from many disciplines. The program is taught in English.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you know any students, scholars or others interested in this
>> type of study, please
>> inform them about our program. We would appreciate it if you could
>> list our program
>> on your organization's website as an available educational
>> resource. Also, attached
>> is a flyer that you may wish to post on your department notice
>> board or forward to
>> interested parties.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>>
>>
>>
>> Max Cardillo
>> Director, San Gemini Preservation Studies
>> John Cabot University
>> mcardillo@johncabot.edu <mailto:mcardillo@johncabot.edu>
>> www.sangeministudies.info <http://www.sangeministudies.info/>
>>
>>
>
>
>
>

CASCA/AES 2009, deadline for submissions extended to February 20

(la version française suit)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Please note that the deadline for submissions and early registration
has been extended to February 20, 2009

CASCA/AES 2009 Joint Meeting
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, May 13-16 2009

Theme:
"Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and
Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks"

The organizing committee seeks proposals for panels and individual papers.

Please go to
<http://www.casca-aes2009.ca/>www.casca-aes2009.ca for information on how to:

· Register for the conference
· Submit panels and individual papers
· Submit films for the Anthropology
Film Festival held in conjunction with CASCA/AES
· Buy tickets for the party at the UBC Museum of Anthropology
· Book accommodation on the UBC campus

For further information, please contact us at:
<mailto:casca.aes2009@gmail.com>casca.aes2009@gmail.com

Theme:
Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and
Divergences in Globalized Disciplinary Networks

In an era when anthropology is increasingly
attentive to transnational connections,
globalized geographies, and diasporic identities,
the discipline itself is subject to new and
challenging forms of deterritorialization and
re-territorialization. Anthropology has long been
constituted by tensions between the gravitational
force of its various national traditions and the
pull toward an international intellectual
cosmopolitanism. Yet the increasing presence of
scholars from the world "periphery" in
metropolitan universities, the rise to
international prominence of subaltern academic
centers, the deterritorialized concerns and
priorities of funding institutions, and the
growing transnational links between researchers,
research institutions, and research subjects
(among other factors) are further complicating
the spatiality of anthropological practice. These
shifts, in turn, are transforming the way
anthropologists examine the production of power
relations, inequalities, and identities in local
and global arenas. The 2009 CASCA-AES conference
to be held at the University of British Columbia
in Vancouver calls anthropologists and scholars
from across the social sciences and the
humanities to offer a fresh look at the
increasingly transnational nature of knowledge
production, at the resilience of regionalized
academic hierarchies, as well as at the different
ways in which the latter are being reconstituted
and subverted. Additionally, the conference
welcomes volunteered papers, panels, workshops,
and videos related to the internationalization of
social practice, power relations, and
subjectivities and to any other theme associated
with ongoing anthropological questions.

Deadlines and registration fees (in Canadian dollars)

Faculty registration costs:
Before the deadline of February 20, 2009: $150.00
Before March 15, 2009: $170.00
At the conference venue: $190.00

Students, Postdocs, Unwaged, Retired:
Before the deadline of February 20, 2009: $50.00
Before March 15, 2009: $60.00
At the conference venue: $70.00
******************************************************************************

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS

La date limite pour la soumission de propositions et pour l'inscription hâtive
a été reportée au 20 février 2009

CASCA/AES 2009 Congrès conjoint de la Canadian
Anthropology Society-Société Canadienne
d'Anthropologie et de la American Ethnological Society.

Université de la Colombie-Britannique, Vancouver, 13 au 16 mai 2009

Thème: Anthropologies transnationales :
Convergences et divergences au sein de réseaux disciplinaires mondialisés

Voir le lien suivant :
<http://www.casca-aes2009.ca/>www.casca-aes2009.ca pour:

* S'inscire au colloque
* Soumettre une proposition de communication ou de séance de groupe
* Soumettre de films pour le Festival de
Films Anthropologiques au CASCA/AES
* Achetez vos billets pour la soirée qui aura
lieu au Musée d'Anthropologie de UBC
* Réserver hébergement sur le campus de UBC

Pour toutes questions liées au congrès veuillez communiquer avec :
<mailto:casca.aes2009@gmail.com>casca.aes2009@gmail.com

Thème :
Anthropologies transnationales : Convergences et
divergences au sein de réseaux disciplinaires mondialisés

À une époque où l'anthropologie est de plus en
plus attentive aux rapports transnationaux, aux
géographies mondialisées et aux identités
diasporiques, la discipline elle-même est aussi
confrontée à de nouvelles formes de
déterritorialisation et de reterritorialisation.
L'anthropologie s'est édifiée au fil de tensions
entre la force gravitationnelle de ses diverses
traditions nationales et sa tendance vers un
cosmopolitisme intellectuel international.
Aujourd'hui, la présence grandissante
d'intellectuels issus de la périphérie mondiale
dans les universités occidentales, la percée au
niveau international de centres académiques du
Sud global, les préoccupations et priorités
déterritorialisées des organismes
subventionnaires, de même que les relations
transnationales croissantes entre chercheurs,
institutions de recherche et sujets de recherches
(entre autres facteurs), compliquent encore
davantage la spatialité de la pratique
anthropologique. Ces changements transforment
aussi la façon dont les anthropologues examinent
la production de relations de pouvoir,
d'inégalités et d'identités sur les scènes
locales et mondiales. Le congrès CASCA-AES 2009,
qui aura lieu à l'Université de la
Colombie-Britannique à Vancouver, invite les
anthropologues et les chercheurs de toutes
disciplines des sciences sociales et humaines à
porter un regard nouveau sur la nature de plus en
plus transnationale de la production du savoir,
sur la résilience des hiérarchies académiques
régionalisées, de même que sur les différentes
façons par lesquelles ces dernières se voient
reconstituées et renversées. La conférence
sollicite également des propositions de
communications individuelles, de séances de
groupe, d'ateliers et de vidéos reliées à
l'internationalisation des pratiques sociales,
des relations de pouvoir et des subjectivités
ainsi qu'à tout autre thème associé aux enjeux anthropologiques contemporains.

Dates limites et frais d'inscription (en devise canadienne)

Tarifs d'inscription pour le corps professoral:
Avant la date limite du 20 février 2009 : $150,00
Avant le 15 mars 2009 : $170,00
Lors de la conférence : $190,00

Étudiants, stagiaires postdoctoraux, non-salariés, retraités:
Avant la date limite du 20 février 2009 : $50,00
Avant le 15 mars 2009 : $60,00
Lors de la conférence : $70,00

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Call for Papers for CASCA Session - Transnational Masculinities

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR A CASCA SESSION

Transnational Masculinities and the (Re)Making of Gendered Categories
and Corporeality

Organizer: Elizabeth Urbanowski

The cultural contingencies of masculinity and masculine subjectivities
have recently been
the subject of interesting and significant anthropological study.
This session seeks to
contribute to the anthropological investigation of masculinities by
drawing together
papers that explore the shape and resonance of transnational codes of
masculinity,
masculine embodiment and corporeality, and the masculinization of
knowledge. We welcome
papers that explore any aspect of masculinity and masculine
subjectivity that includes
consideration of transnationalism and neoliberalism.

Please send a 100-word abstract to Elizabeth Urbanowski
(elizabeth.urbanowski@utoronto.ca) by Friday January 30th. Thank you!

ANTHROPOLOGICA: A CALL FOR PAPERS

ANTHROPOLOGICA: A CALL FOR PAPERS


NB: Amended version. Please note e-mail address for Andrew Lyons
(Editor-in-Chief)

This message is addressed to all CASCA members. It
concerns your journal, Anthropologica. I have served as
Editor-in-Chief since the beginning of May, 2008.In that time I have
had a chance to assess the journal's many strengths as well as its
weaknesses. Under the editorship of my predecessor, we published
several excellent issues. Most of them were devoted to specific themes
and many were based on conference sessions. They include only a
minority of stand-alone submissions.

In the past eight months we have received very few such
articles. Only half of them were from Canada. Decisions have been made
on all but two of them. None of those papers were submitted in French.
It is true that there are journals which do not publish individual
submissions. That is not our mandate. We undertake to produce both
individually volunteered papers and thematic sections. We want our
journal fully to represent Canadian anthropology and we want it to be
the first place where Canadian faculty and graduate students publish.

We have received a large increase in our SSHRC Grant
because we promised to clear a large backlog of special issues
(thematic sections) and to print more volunteered papers, effective
2010.

We need your written work and your support. We guarantee
that we will give you a prompt decision regarding your work.
Electronic submissions are acceptable and most if not all of the peer
review process is now conducted electronically. Because there will be
no serious backlogs the gap between final acceptance and publication
should not be more than a year.

There is no reason why Canada's national anthropology
journal should not be ranked as highly as its equivalents in the USA,
France or Britain. We intend to bring that about, but it can only
happen with your support.

Articles written in English should be submitted
electronically to the Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Lyons (Wilfrid Laurier)
at andrewpaulllyons@gmail.com. Articles written in French should be
submitted to our Editor (French Manuscripts), Marie-France Labrecque
at Marie-France.labrecque@ant.ulaval.ca . After April 15 French
manuscripts should go to our new Editor (French manuscripts), Sylvie
Poirier at Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca .

St. Francis Xavier University - position

The Anthropology Program, St. Francis Xavier University, invites
applications for a nine-month, limited-term position at the assistant
professor level commencing 1 September 2009. The successful candidate
will have a PhD, or be near completion, in anthropology and demonstrate
effective teaching skills. Teaching responsibilities include courses in
four-field introductory anthropology and ethnographic field methods.
Consideration of applications will begin on February 16, 2009.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, CV, statements of teaching and
research interests, evidence of teaching skills, and arrange for three
confidential letters of reference to be sent to: Dr. Susan Vincent,
Coordinator, Anthropology Program, St. Francis Xavier University. PO Box
5000, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5. Phone (902) 867-5281; Fax (902)
867-5456; e-mail svincent@stfx.ca

All qualified candidates, especially women and members of minority
groups, are encouraged to apply; however, in accordance with Canadian
Immigration requirements, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will
be given priority. St. Francis Xavier University is committed to the
principle of employment equity.

Friday, January 23, 2009

ANTHROPOLOGICA: A CALL FOR PAPERS

ANTHROPOLOGICA: A CALL FOR PAPERS

SECOND APPEAL
Please note single letter correction in my e-mail address in English text
(an error occurred when I pasted the text).
The address was, is and will remain andrewpaullyons@gmail.com !


This message is addressed to all CASCA members. It
concerns your journal, Anthropologica. I have served as
Editor-in-Chief since the beginning of May, 2008.In that time I have
had a chance to assess the journal's many strengths as well as its
weaknesses. Under the editorship of my predecessor, we published
several excellent issues. Most of them were devoted to specific themes
and many were based on conference sessions. They include only a
minority of stand-alone submissions.

In the past eight months we have received very few such
articles. Only half of them were from Canada. Decisions have been made
on all but two of them. None of those papers were submitted in French.
It is true that there are journals which do not publish individual
submissions. That is not our mandate. We undertake to produce both
individually volunteered papers and thematic sections. We want our
journal fully to represent Canadian anthropology and we want it to be
the first place where Canadian faculty and graduate students publish.

We have received a large increase in our SSHRC Grant
because we promised to clear a large backlog of special issues
(thematic sections) and to print more volunteered papers, effective
2010.

We need your written work and your support. We guarantee
that we will give you a prompt decision regarding your work.
Electronic submissions are acceptable and most if not all of the peer
review process is now conducted electronically. Because there will be
no serious backlogs the gap between final acceptance and publication
should not be more than a year.

There is no reason why Canada's national anthropology
journal should not be ranked as highly as its equivalents in the USA,
France or Britain. We intend to bring that about, but it can only
happen with your support.

Articles written in English should be submitted
electronically to the Editor-in-Chief, Andrew Lyons (Wilfrid Laurier)
at andrewpaulllyons@gmail.com. Articles written in French should be
submitted to our Editor (French Manuscripts), Marie-France Labrecque
at Marie-France.labrecque@ant.ulaval.ca . After April 15 French
manuscripts should go to our new Editor (French manuscripts), Sylvie
Poirier at Sylvie.Poirier@ant.ulaval.ca

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