A Walk to Beautiful: A film about women's maternal health in Sub-Saharan Africa - Dalhousie University - May 31

A Walk to Beautiful: A film about women's maternal health in
Sub-Saharan Africa

6pm, Friday, May 31, 2013

Student Union Building,
Dalhousie University,
6136 University Ave, room 307.

Refreshments will be served. WHOI asks for a donation.
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The Women's Health International Organization (WHOI) presents a
film-screening of Engel Entertainment's Award Winning film A Walk to
Beautiful. This lyrical and thought-provoking film documents, the
trials, tribulations, and triumphs of several Ethiopian girls and
women who suffer from obstetric fistula. This disease is a
childbirth-derived injury that affects the physical and mental health
of two million women in Africa and Asia. Fistula is the Latin word for
'hole.' This situation occurs in women having prolonged labour in
which a hole or puncture is made in the bladder and, or, rectal wall,
which causes the woman to become incontinent. Known as the 'most
horrific affliction known to humankind,' obstetric fistula was
eradicated in North America in 1925 as a result of the simple and
effective use of caesarian section.

WHOI was founded by teenage health advocate, youth leader, and
community developer, Habiba Cooper Diallo to raise awareness about
obstetric fistula and to assist in its eradication. The screening of
this film is a fund-raiser for the fistula hospital in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia. WHOI's mandate is to empower women of Africa and the African
Diaspora through health.

Habiba Cooper Diallo is a student of Halifax West High School.
Moreover, she is the winner of Halifax's Zonta Young Women in
Leadership award (2013) Award, and the Lion's Club Halifax Chapter
winning public speaking for her discourse on obstetric fistula (2011).

Kindly support WHOI at this film-screening event. Details are below.

Co-sponsors: African Diaspora Association of the Maritimes (ADAM),
Imhotep Legacy Academy (Dalhousie University), NSPIRG, Black Student
Advisory Committee (Dalhousie University).

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Public health professionals, researchers, policy-makers, academics,
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Grant Writing 101 June 9, 2013 9:00AM-12:00PM
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Have you Read / Seen?
Launch of New Frontline Health Website
Critical examination of knowledge-to-action models and implications
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Concours Conception de Capsules Vidéo

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Health (anglais seulement)
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international de la recherche en santé mondiale en recrutant et
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courte durée, ainsi qu'une école d'été annuelle.
Vous devez nous envoyer votre candidature au plus tard le 15 août
2013, en la faisant parvenir par courriel

Avez-vous lu / vu?

Lancement du nouveau site Web de Santé sur le terrain
Analyse critique des modèles de passage des connaissances à la
pratique et de leur portée dans la promotion de l'équité en santé
Concours Conception de Capsules Vidéo

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d'impact à Emma Cohen , Agente en application des connaissances et en
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Latin American Graduate Research Reviews/ Rese=?iso-8859-1?Q?=F1as_de_Investigaci=F3n_de_Posgrado_en_Am=E9rica?= Latina (LAGRR/RIPAL)

We would like to invite you to participate in Latin American Graduate
Research Reviews/ Reseñas de Investigación de Posgrado en América Latina
(LAGRR/RIPAL). LARGG/RIPAL is devoted to promoting a wider awareness of
in-progress and recently completed student research on Latin America in all
humanities and social science disciplines. We provide the opportunity for
students both to introduce their unpublished doctoral dissertations,
Masters theses, and undergraduate theses to a broader audience as well as
to connect with other student researchers who are pursuing related lines of
investigation.



The success of our project requires the participation of others who believe
in the value of this endeavor. According, we ask that you consider
participating in one or more of the following capacities:



1. Adding a brief description of your in-progress research to our
catalog of "In-Progress Research."

2. Serving as a Reviewer of completed dissertations and theses.

3. Submitting your completed dissertation or thesis for review by
one of our Reviewers.



Our reviews are not critical reviews, but rather they are designed to
highlight and call attention to the innovations being made by students,
with the goal of providing free, positive publicity for the scholarship
that they are completing. Reviews summarize the author's primary arguments
and methodology, situate the work in relation to existing scholarship, and
explain the contributions that the work will make to scholarship on Latin
America; as many of the authors who submit their theses/dissertations are
in the process of converting their works in to publications, our reviews
protect the integrity of submitted work by remaining general in their
summaries and not including detail about specific research sources or data.
Our reviewers are faculty and graduate students from throughout the
Americas, Europe, and the South Pacific. They work in a wide range of
disciplines and have a wide range of research specialties, so scholars with
expertise specific to each dissertation/thesis topic conduct all reviews.



In addition to providing reviews of recently completed graduate research,
LAGRR/RIPAL also provides a separate catalog of information on in-progress
graduate research. Although we do not publish reviews of in-progress
research, this "Catalog of In-Progress Research" contains brief
descriptions of in-progress student research. This catalog allows current
graduate students to publicize their in-progress research and to connect
with other graduate students who are undertaking research on similar topics
or in a similar location.



If you are interested in serving as a Reviewer, adding a brief description
of your in-progress research to our catalog of "In-Progress Research",
and/or submitting your dissertation or thesis for review by one of our
reviewers, please click on the following link to compete a brief academic
profile:



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Further information about LAGRR/RIPAL, please visit our website at
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or our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/LAGRRRIPAL. We thank you
for your interest in our project and encourage you to share this
information with any colleagues, peers, and students who might also be
interested in this project.



Sincerely,



Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández

Ph.D. Candidate, Latin American History

Universidad de California, San Diego



Jedrek P. Mularski, Ph.D.

Professor of Latin American and World History

Saddleback College



Isabel María Povea Moreno, Dra.

Becaria Posdoctoral

Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México



Te queremos invitar a Latin American Graduate Research Reviews/ Reseñas de
Investigación de Posgrado en América Latina (LAGRR/ RIPAL) que se dedica a
promover el trabajo en progreso y el de reciente conclusión de cualquier
disciplina de las humanidades y ciencias sociales en América Latina.
Nuestro sitio da la oportunidad a estudiantes de licenciatura y posgrado a
presentar sus tesis de licenciatura, maestría y doctorado a una audiencia
amplia en la forma de reseñas, así como relacionarse con otros
estudiantes-investigadores con intereses afines.



El éxito de nuestro proyecto requiere la participación de otras personas
que creen en el valor de esta iniciativa. Por esto, te solicitamos que
consideres participar en una o varias de las siguientes categorías:



1. Aportar una breve descripción de tu investigación en progreso
para nuestro catálogo.

2. Ser un(a) reseñador(a) de tesis de licenciatura, maestría y
doctorado.

3. Enviar tu tesis o disertación terminada para ser reseñada.



Nuestras reseñas no son críticas, si no que están diseñadas para resaltar y
publicitar las innovaciones hechas por los tesistas, con el propósito de
proveer publicidad gratuita y positiva al trabajo que completaron. Las
reseñas resumen los argumentos primarios de los autores y su metodología,
ubican el trabajo con relación a otros estudios hechos y explican las
contribuciones que la tesis hace a América Latina. Como muchos de los
autores que mandan sus tesis/ disertaciones están en proceso de convertir
su trabajo en publicaciones, nuestras reseñas protegen la integridad de los
manuscritos que nos envían ya que hablan en términos generales y no se
incluyen detalles específicos de las fuentes o los datos utilizados.
Nuestros reseñadores son profesores y estudiantes de posgrado de América,
Europa y el Pacífico del sur. Su trabajo abarca un amplio espectro de
disciplinas y especialidades, por este motivo los especialistas en un tema
realizan reseñas específicas.



Además de las reseñas de tesis de reciente conclusión, LAGRR/ RIPAL también
proporciona información de las investigaciones en progreso en un catálogo
distinto. Aunque no publicamos reseñas de tesis en progreso, agregamos
estos trabajos a nuestro catálogo de "Investigación en Progreso" que
contiene una breve descripción de la investigación. Este catálogo permite a
los estudiantes de posgrado publicitar su trabajo y ponerse en contacto con
otros estudiantes que están llevando a cabo investigaciones con temas
similares o se encuentran en la misma ubicación geográfica.



Si estás interesado(a) en ser un(a) reseñador(a), agrega una breve
descripción de tu investigación en progreso a nuestro catálogo y/ o también
mándanos tu tesis para ser reseñada. Por favor, visita el siguiente vínculo
para completar nuestro formato:



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Para más información acerca de LAGRR/ RIPAL, por favor visita nuestro blog/
sitio en http://lagrr.wordpress.com/ o nuestra página en facebook
http://www.facebook.com/LAGRRRIPAL. Te damos las gracias por tu interés en
nuestro proyecto y te animamos a que compartas tu información con
cualquiera de tus colegas, estudiantes y amigos que puedan estar
interesados.



Atentamente,



Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández

Ph.D. Candidate, Latin American History

Universidad de California, San Diego



Jedrek P. Mularski, Ph.D.

Professor of Latin American and World History

Saddleback College



Isabel María Povea Moreno, Dra.

Becaria Posdoctoral

Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

CASCA: Job postings/Offres d'emploi

(English follows)

Les offres d'emploi suivantes viennent d'être ajoutées à notre banque.


-Aboriginal Human Rights - Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
University of Manitoba

-Indigenous Studies - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Arts, Theater and
Performance)
Université de Sudbury

-Études autochtones - Professeur adjoint (Arts, théâtre et interprétation
autochtones)
Université de Sudbury

-Sociology - Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Quantitative and Mixed Methods)
University of Windsor

-Digital Archive Assistant (SEP)
Multicultural History Society of Ontario

-Exhibition Assistant
Vancouver Art Gallery

-Postdoctoral Fellowship - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious
and Ethnic Diversity

-ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE INSTRUCTOR POSTING
UTSC

-SUMMER ARCHAEOLOGY JOBS FOR SOUTHERN ONTARIO ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS
Western Heritage

-Policy Analyst/Writer - Congress of Aboriginal Peoples in Ottawa

-Sessional Lecturers - Positions Available
Lakehead University – Orillia Campus

-Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Human Rights, Assistant or Associate
Professor
University of Manitoba

-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gender & Work
York University

-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Employment Standards Enforcement York
University


Consultez-les ou voyez toute la liste en visitant notre site Web:

www.cas-sca.ca

Merci

**********

The following job postings have just been added to our job page:


-Aboriginal Human Rights - Tier 2 Canada Research Chair
University of Manitoba

-Indigenous Studies - Assistant Professor (Indigenous Arts, Theater and
Performance)
Université de Sudbury

-Études autochtones - Professeur adjoint (Arts, théâtre et interprétation
autochtones)
Université de Sudbury

-Sociology - Lecturer/Assistant Professor (Quantitative and Mixed Methods)
University of Windsor

-Digital Archive Assistant (SEP)
Multicultural History Society of Ontario

-Exhibition Assistant
Vancouver Art Gallery

-Postdoctoral Fellowship - Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious
and Ethnic Diversity

-ANTHROPOLOGY COURSE INSTRUCTOR POSTING
UTSC

-SUMMER ARCHAEOLOGY JOBS FOR SOUTHERN ONTARIO ANTHROPOLOGY STUDENTS
Western Heritage

-Policy Analyst/Writer - Congress of Aboriginal Peoples in Ottawa

-Sessional Lecturers - Positions Available
Lakehead University – Orillia Campus

-Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Human Rights, Assistant or Associate
Professor
University of Manitoba

-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Gender & Work
York University

-Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Employment Standards Enforcement York
University


See them and others on our website:

www.cas-sca.ca

Thank you

CFP: EIGHTH SOAS CONFERENCE ON THE QUR'AN

CALLS FOR PAPERS


'The Qur'an: Text, Society And Culture' Conference

Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 November 2013

SOAS, University of London

Convenors: Prof. M.A.S. Abdel Haleem and Dr Helen Blatherwick

Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2013

Proposals are invited for the Eighth SOAS Conference on the Qur'an, to be
held
from Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 November 2013. The conference series seeks to
provide a forum for investigating the basic question: how is the Qur'anic
text
read and interpreted? Our objective is to encompass a global vision of
current
research trends, and to stimulate discussion, debate and research on all
aspects of the Qur'anic text and its interpretation and translation.

While the conference will remain committed to the textual study of the Qur'an
and the religious, intellectual and artistic activity that developed
around it
and drew on it, contributions on all topics relevant to Qur'anic studies are
welcomed and attention will also be given to literary, cultural,
politico-sociological and anthropological studies relating to the Qur'an. The
final conference programme will take account of the range of proposals
actually
accepted.

Selected papers will be published as articles in the Journal of Qur'anic
Studies, subject to standard outside refereeing. Speakers are expected to
give
priority to JQS when publishing these articles.

Submission of Abstracts:

The deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2013. Abstracts of up to 400 words and a
short bio (of up to 200 words) should be submitted in Word format by email
attachment to quran.conference@soas.ac.uk. The primary conference language is
English, but papers may be presented in English or Arabic. All applicants
will
be notified of the status of their proposals in July.

Presented papers should be 25 minutes long, and will be followed by 5 minutes
for questions per paper.

Further Information:

It is Centre of Islamic Studies policy to reimburse featured speakers for
their
standard travel expenses, hotel accommodation and board. We do, however,
encourage speakers to try to obtain some funding from their home universities
or other sources wherever possible.

If you would like further information on the conference series, please visit
the conference website at www.soas.ac.uk/cisconference
<http://www.soas.ac.uk/islamicstudies/conferences/quran2011/> . This will
be updated with the conference programme from September 2013, on an
ongoing basis.


For general enquiries, please contact the conference administrator at
conference@how-foundation.org . For academic enquiries contact Helen
Blatherwick at <hb20@soas.ac.uk>.

No registration is required for this conference and all are welcome to
attend.

Venue: Brunei Gallery, SOAS, University of London, Russell Square, Thornhaugh
Street, London WC1H 0XG


Dr Helen Blatherwick
Near and Middle East Department
SOAS, University of London

CFP - Association of Social Anthropology of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual Conference, 2013

Association of Social Anthropology of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual Conference 2013, Whaingaroa/Raglan New Zealand

Hosted by the Anthropology Programme, University of Waikato, 1-3 December 2013

 Ethnoscapes, Culturescapes: Anthropologies for the Present (see below)

We encourage all those who wish to propose a session addressing the theme to submit a 200 word abstract by July 15^th, 2013.

Paper abstracts of approximately 150 words should be submitted by September 1^st 2013.

Please address all correspondence to Fiona McCormack & Tom Ryanasaanzraglan2013@gmail.com

Information concerning accommodation, registration, keynote speaker & the conference dinner will be available soon

Ethnoscapes, Culturescapes: Anthropologies for the Present

The term ‘ethnoscape’ was first used by Arjun Appadurai in his 1990 essay ‘Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy’. Rejecting existing models of the global cultural economy, he argued that it should be understood as a complex, overlapping order featuring “fundamental disjunctures between economy, culture, and politics which we have barely begun to theorize”.  The framework he proposed for exploring these disjunctures was premised on the relationships between five primary dimensions: ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes, financescapes, and ideoscapes.

His use of the suffix ‘scape’ indicated that these are not “objectively given relations that look the same from every angle of vision”, but rather deeply perspectival constructs, ‘imagined worlds’ inflected by the historical, linguistic, and political situatedness of different sorts of actors. The latter might range from nation states, multinational corporations, diasporic communities, and subnational groupings, to villages, neighbourhoods, families, and individuals.

Especially in anthropology, the most influential of Appadurai’s ‘scapes’ has been ‘ethnoscape’. He defined this as “the landscape of persons who constitute the shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles, guestworkers, and other moving groups and persons [who] constitute an essential feature of the world, and appear to affect the politics of and between nations to a hitherto unprecedented degree”.

This does not, he said, negate the significance of “relatively stable communities and networks” based on kinship, birth, residence, filiation, friendship, work, leisure”, etc. But “the warp of these stabilities is everywhere shot through with the woof of human motion, as more persons and groups deal with the realities of having to move, or the fantasies of wanting to move”.

Appadurai did not himself put a label on these “relatively stable communities and networks”. For our purposes we will call them ‘culturescapes’. In a sense, with the idea of ‘culturescapes’ we return to twenty-first century versions of the more ‘traditional’ sites of ethnography â€" neighbourhoods, communities, islands, valleys, workplaces, organisations, and so on â€" though with the added dimension of their being imbued with “the woof of human motion”.

Participants in the ASAANZ-2013 conference are encouraged particularly to pursue, ethnographically and/or theoretically, the concept of a global cultural economy, with reference to the shifting, imagined worlds characteristic of ethnoscapes and/or the relative social stabilities that typify culturescapes. Contributions that fall beyond these parameters also are very welcome.

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Dr Fiona McCormack

Anthropology Programme

School of Social Sciences

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

The University of Waikato

Private Bag 3105

Hamilton

New Zealand

07 856 2889 ext: 8271

Association of Social Anthropology of Aotearoa/New Zealand Annual
Conference 2013,
Whaingaroa/Raglan New Zealand
Hosted by the Anthropology Programme, University of Waikato, 1-3 December
2013

Ethnoscapes, Culturescapes: Anthropologies for the Present (see below)

We encourage all those who wish to propose a session addressing the theme
to submit
a 200 word abstract by July 15th, 2013.

Paper abstracts of approximately 150 words should be submitted by
September 1st 2013.

Please address all correspondence to Fiona McCormack & Tom
Ryanasaanzraglan2013@gmail.com

Information concerning accommodation, registration, keynote speaker & the
conference
dinner will be available soon


Ethnoscapes, Culturescapes: Anthropologies for the Present

The term 'ethnoscape' was first used by Arjun Appadurai in his 1990 essay
'Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy'. Rejecting
existing
models of the global cultural economy, he argued that it should be
understood as a
complex, overlapping order featuring "fundamental disjunctures between
economy,
culture, and politics which we have barely begun to theorize". The
framework he
proposed for exploring these disjunctures was premised on the
relationships between
five primary dimensions: ethnoscapes, mediascapes, technoscapes,
financescapes, and
ideoscapes.

His use of the suffix 'scape' indicated that these are not "objectively given
relations that look the same from every angle of vision", but rather deeply
perspectival constructs, 'imagined worlds' inflected by the historical,
linguistic,
and political situatedness of different sorts of actors. The latter might
range from
nation states, multinational corporations, diasporic communities, and
subnational
groupings, to villages, neighbourhoods, families, and individuals.

Especially in anthropology, the most influential of Appadurai's 'scapes'
has been
'ethnoscape'. He defined this as "the landscape of persons who constitute the
shifting world in which we live: tourists, immigrants, refugees, exiles,
guestworkers, and other moving groups and persons [who] constitute an
essential
feature of the world, and appear to affect the politics of and between
nations to a
hitherto unprecedented degree".

This does not, he said, negate the significance of "relatively stable
communities
and networks" based on kinship, birth, residence, filiation, friendship,
work,
leisure", etc. But "the warp of these stabilities is everywhere shot
through with
the woof of human motion, as more persons and groups deal with the
realities of
having to move, or the fantasies of wanting to move".

Appadurai did not himself put a label on these "relatively stable
communities and
networks". For our purposes we will call them 'culturescapes'. In a sense,
with the
idea of 'culturescapes' we return to twenty-first century versions of the
more
'traditional' sites of ethnography – neighbourhoods, communities, islands,
valleys,
workplaces, organisations, and so on – though with the added dimension of
their
being imbued with "the woof of human motion".

Participants in the ASAANZ-2013 conference are encouraged particularly to
pursue,
ethnographically and/or theoretically, the concept of a global cultural
economy,
with reference to the shifting, imagined worlds characteristic of
ethnoscapes and/or
the relative social stabilities that typify culturescapes. Contributions
that fall
beyond these parameters also are very welcome.



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Dr Fiona McCormack
Anthropology Programme
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The University of Waikato
Private Bag 3105
Hamilton
New Zealand
07 856 2889 ext: 8271

Women Deliver 2013 Conference

Dear colleagues,

Today the 3-day Women Deliver 2013 Conference commences in Malaysia. Helen
Clark will be a key note speaker as well as Ms. Brundtland who recently
said "It is time to stop discrimination against girls & women" and "Women
are essential for Sustainable Development". Please find the link to Ms.
Brundtland's article for easy access (http://bit.ly/112NuxN).

The conference link is http://bit.ly/M1TEq8 and you can follow the live
stream here: http://on.undp.org/llcva. You can follow the messaging from
the conference, and contribute yourself, through social media such as
through twitter with the hash tag #WD2013.

Best regards,

Raymond

Raymond Brandes
Programme Specialist



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