From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Thu Jan  6 11:26:19 2005
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Fri Jan  7 11:58:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers and Panels: 2005 AAA in D.C.
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20050106112415.01f2aec0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>

To: SUNTA members

Re: Call for papers and panels, AAA meeting in Washington, D.C. November 30 
to December 4, 2005

From: David Haines, SUNTA president-elect and program chair

Despite the problems of this past year, it is nevertheless time again to 
prepare for submission of papers and panels for the 2005 AAA meeting in 
Washington, D.C. Basic details follow. More detailed information will be 
available on the AAA web site and in the January Anthropology News.

Theme: The program theme is "Bringing the Past into the Present." You 
should have received that by email from the AAA, but if not it should soon 
be on the AAA web page. This theme will probably be congenial for most 
SUNTA members.

Deadline: The deadline for submission to the AAA of panels, papers, and 
posters will, as usual, be April 1. It would also be extremely helpful 
(although not required) if you can let me know by email what you have 
submitted (at least title and participants) so that I can track it through 
the AAA if necessary.

Requirements: Panel requirements should remain the same as usual: up to 
seven fifteen-minute slots for papers (or discussants) for a regular 
session; up to fourteen of the same for a double session. Panel abstracts 
can be up to 500 words; the paper abstracts up to 250 words. It is strongly 
recommended that panels be coherently presented (e.g., that the papers are 
invoked in the panel abstract and that the panel is invoked in the paper 
abstracts). You can, of course, also individually submit papers and poster 
sessions.

Invited sessions: If you wish to have a panel considered for "invited" 
status, it must be submitted to SUNTA by March 1. Note that for invited 
panels, the paper time limit will probably be extended to twenty minutes 
from the usual fifteen minutes.

Alternative formats: Please consider alternative presentation formats. For 
example, instead of a normal double panel, you might want to consider a 
regular panel followed by a "poster" session (e.g., overview in one, 
research or application in the other). If you wish to do a smaller, more 
relaxed panel (e.g., three or four papers in dialogue with each other), we 
may be able to schedule simultaneous round tables. Finally, if your work 
might fit into a workshop format, please consider that as well. Use of such 
alternative approaches will generally increase the odds of acceptance.

Networking: If you have ideas for panels--or are looking for papers for 
your panel or a panel for your paper--please send me a short note 
(dhaines1@gmu.edu). I will collate such notes weekly and send them to 
Angela Jancius (acjancius@ysu.edu) who will relay them out on the SUNTA 
listserv.

Panels from last year: Unfortunately, there did not seem to be any way to 
provide automatic acceptance and priority rating for panels that were lost 
last year. Nevertheless, you may wish to resubmit them--perhaps in revised 
form. In particular, you should definitely reassess the panel in terms of 
the 2005 theme and edit accordingly. Remember that there are two stages of 
review: by SUNTA and by the AAA.

Questions are welcome. Send them also to dhaines1@gmu.edu.

P.S. As many of you know, SUNTA experienced more than its share of panel 
rejections and poor scheduling last year. Because of the collapse of the 
2004 meetings, there was little net effect of that. Nevertheless, I have 
had direct discussions with the former and current AAA program chairs, and 
with AAA program staff. There are several procedural improvements that 
should reduce the risk of those problems recurring this year. 



From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Jan 10 09:11:30 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 10 12:11:39 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA election nominations
Message-ID: <1105377090.41e2b742a6590@webmail.sfsu.edu>


SUNTA seeks nominations for the 2005 elections.  The following offices will be up:
 
Secretary, 2 year term; the secretary prepares the monthly columns for
Anthropology News and takes and prepares minutes for the board and business
meetings each year. 
 
Student Councilor, 2 year term; this position involves attendance at annual
meetings ($200 for expenses) and possible membership on subcommittees or ad hoc
committees.
 
Councilor, 3 year term; this position involves attendance at annual meetings and
participation in program and nominating committees.
 
Anyone who is interested in standing for one of these offices, or who has
suggestions for candidates, please contact:
 
Susan Greenbaum, greenbau@cas.usf.edu.
 
THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIVING NOMINATIONS IS JANUARY 24.

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue Jan 11 14:05:20 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 11 17:05:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: Growing Up Global by Cindi Katz
Message-ID: <1105481120.41e44da0bf02e@webmail.sfsu.edu>


How globalization is remade and internalized in children?s everyday lives.

GROWING UP GLOBAL: Economic Restructuring and Children?s Everyday Lives
Cindi Katz
University of Minnesota Press | 312 pages | 2004
ISBN 0-8166-4209-5 | hardcover | $74.95
ISBN 0-8166-4210-9 | paperback | $24.95

Growing Up Global examines global change through children?s lives in two
seemingly disparate places: New York City and Sudan. The book?s core is a study
of children in a Sudanese village that was included in a state-sponsored
agricultural program. Shifting her focus to working-class families in New York
City, Cindy Katz exposes connections with the Sudanese in the effects of a
capitalist environment on children.

?Growing Up Global is a valuable new addition to the growing list of critical
ethnographies of globalization. Cindi Katz?s attention to spatiality and what
she calls ?time-space expansion? offers a useful corrective to the familiar
clich?s of globalization as an abstract, world-shrinking force.? ?James Ferguson

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/katz_growing.html

Sign up to receive news on the latest releases from University of Minnesota Press:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/eform.html



From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Wed Jan 12 10:19:04 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 12 13:19:10 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 SEMINAR: Livable Cities, Globalization Research Center / East-West Center
Message-ID: <1105553944.41e56a186cbdd@webmail.sfsu.edu>



Summer Seminar on Livable Cities in Pacific Asia: Research Methods for Policy
Analysis

During the month of June 2005 the Globalization Research Center and the
East-West Center will host a Summer Seminar on Livable Cities with a focus on
Pacific Asia.  This intensive training program will cover both methods of
analysis and substantive issues in making cities in the region more livable.
Perspectives from key fields, such as environmental management, development
studies, and the social and political dynamics of governance, will offer
insights into key population, urban policy and planning issues.  Peter Xenos of
the East-West Center and Mike Douglass at the University of Hawaii are the
co-coordinators for this seminar.

Further information and application forms can be found at:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/events-ce-detail.asp?conf_ID=563.

The deadline for applications is January 20th 2005. All applications should be
sent directly to the East-West Center by email (sumsem@eastwestcenter.org) or
fax (1-808-944-7490).

The Summer Seminar is open to researchers and policy analysts in and outside of
government as well as advanced graduate students concerned with any of the
crucial dimensions of the management of mega-urban regions. Individuals who
anticipate having a continuing role in either research or policy are
particularly encouraged to apply.

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Jan 15 14:28:36 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Sat Jan 15 17:28:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Feminism and Militarism Across Asia and America
	anthology
Message-ID: <1105828116.41e99914f0db6@webmail.sfsu.edu>



Feminism and Militarism Across Asia and America

A CALL FOR SCHOLARLY PAPERS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  APRIL 30, 2005

Edited by Setsu Shigematsu, Ph.D.

With Foreword or Afterword by Cynthia Enloe

This anthology seeks to bring together seminal and
groundbreaking essays at the intersections of militarism,
feminism, and women's movements across Asia and America. We
welcome scholarly essays that provide a critical
contribution to current paradigms of feminist discourse that
examine the interlocking conditions of the U.S. military and
other ???Asian??? national and localized processes of
militarization.  This collection juxtaposes different
visions and paradigms of anti-military organizing and
resistance by foregrounding how women -- particularly third
world women and women of color-- have been resisting the
militarization of their cultures, communities and homelands
across the Asia-Pacific and the Americas.   Drawing on the
expertise and experience of international activists and
scholars, these articles articulate the multi-dimensional
effects of the militarization of "homelands"? and cultural
geographies, and the reformation and invention of new
cultural practices that are linked to the racialized-
gendered economies of military occupations.  In particular,
this anthology seeks to forward a sustained analysis of the
complicitous relationship between certain forms of first
world feminisms and the global expansion of the military
industrial complex.   The anthology will consist of three
parts:


1.  Women's movements against militarism;

2.  Analyses of the militarization of cultures, bodies,
geographies; especially encouraged are analyses of
interlocking and convergent processes of U.S. militarization
and other other national, regional and localized structures
and processes;  

3.  Critical and theoretical analyses of the historical,
structural and geo-political links, complicities and
convergences between feminism and militarism.

Please send inquiries and electronic copies to
setsus@ucr.edu, Setsu Shigematsu and hard copies to:  1520
Macintosh Drive, Riverside, CA 92507.  

Please include a 300-500 word abstract with your
submission.  Essays should not exceed 25-30 pages double
spaced, including endnotes.  Notes should be included as
endnotes in Chicago Style reference.



From rrotenbe at depaul.edu  Mon Jan 17 10:23:02 2005
From: rrotenbe at depaul.edu (Robert Rotenberg)
Date: Mon Jan 17 11:21:21 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA panels and meeting at Santa Fe
Message-ID: <s1eb9215.091@gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu>

The following SUNTA-sponsored panels and the SUNTA Business meeting will =
be held in conjunction with the Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings =
at Santa Fe, April 5 thru 10. Please see the SfAA website (http://www.sfaa.=
net/sfaa2005.html) for the full preliminary program and registration/hotel =
information. Please support our colleagues by planning to attend their =
sessions. The SfAA and SMA program also included tens of sessions =
involving SUNTA members, presenting papers on research of interest to us =
all.=20

WEDNESDAY 3:30-5:15  (The Interlocutor Session) Translocal Links and Power =
in Place: Dialogue with Michael Peter Smith, CHAIR: ROTENBERG, Robert =
(DePaul U) PANELISTS: SMITH, Michael (U of California-Davis), LOW, Setha =
(CUNY), MATHEWS, Gordon (Chinese U of Hong Kong), ROTENBERG, Robert =
(DePaul U)

THURSDAY 12:00-1:30 SUNTA Business Meeting

THURSDAY 1:30-3:15 Abject/ivities: Exploring =93Irregular=94 Migrants=92 =
Experiences of Law and State Power CHAIR: WILLEN, Sarah (Emory U)
GEHRIG, Tina (U of California-Irvine) The Everyday Life of the Law: Afghan =
Experiences of German Asylum Laws and Policies SIULC, Nina (New York U) =
=93The law can=92t tell me where my home is=94: Dominican Deportees=82 =
Shifting Relationship to the U.S. State TORMEY, Anwen (U of Chicago) =
Beyond the Pale? Tales of Voting, Citizenship and the Limits of
the Irish Nation-State ROSENTHAL, Anat (Hebrew U-Jerusalem) Battling for =
Survival, Battling for Moral Clarity: =93Illegality=94 and Illness in =
Everyday Struggles of Undocumented HIV+ Women Migrant Workers in Tel
Aviv WILLEN, Sarah S. (Emory U) Toward a Critical Phenomenology of =
=93Illegality=94: State Power and Abject/Ivity Among Undocumented West =
Africans in Tel Aviv, Israel PARLA, Ayse (New York U) Tourists, Irregular =
Workers or Ethnic Kin?: The Post-nineties Labor Migration from Bulgaria to =
Turkey PEUTZ, Nathalie (Princeton U) LAUBENTHAL Barbara (Justus-Liebig-Univ=
ersit*t Giessen) Protest Movements by Irregular Migrants in Western Europe =
DISCUSSANT: CHAVEZ, Leo R. (U of California-Irvine)

FRIDAY 1:30-3:15 Transnational Community Service  CHAIR: ADRIAN, Bonnie (U =
of Denver) NICHOLS, Clinton (Northwestern U/Keene State College) When the =
Homeless Take the Lead: Changing Relationships Within the Shack Dwellers =
Federation of Namibia HATHAWAY, Michael (U of Michigan) Making Nature in =
Southwest China ADKINS, Julie (Southern Methodist U) Doing Well By Doing =
Good?: When 'First-World' Volunteers
Encounter the =93Two-Thirds World=94. ADRIAN, Bonnie (University of =
Denver) Giving, Getting, and Globalizing in International Service Learning =
DISCUSSANT: PIGG, Stacy Leigh (Simon Fraser U)

Bob Rotenberg



From rtadams at indiana.edu  Mon Jan 17 13:36:40 2005
From: rtadams at indiana.edu (rtadams@indiana.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 17 14:42:53 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Deadline Friday: Student Leadership Positions
In-Reply-To: <s1eb9215.091@gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu>
References: <s1eb9215.091@gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu>
Message-ID: <1105987000.41ec05b8b548c@webmail.iu.edu>

Dear SUNTA list members,

We still need applicants for the positions listed below, please suggest to 
your undergraduate and graduate students that this is an excellent opportunity 
to gain some leadership experience and help improve the anthropology student 
experience, working with an active and committed group of students. 

For students on this list, please apply. The process is quite brief.

Nominations due Friday, January 21, 2005.

Thanks,
Ryan

Ryan Thomas Adams
PhD Candidate 
Anthropology - Indiana University
Nominations Committee Chair - National Association of Student Anthropologists

UPCOMING NASA POSITIONS:
CALL TO INTERESTED STUDENTS

* * * * * * * *

Dear Environmental Anthropology Members:

The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) is seeking seven 
current members who are interested in being nominated as candidates for 
Officer positions, Executive Committee seats, and other committee positions 
open for 2005.  In accordance with NASA bylaws 
http://www.aaanet.org/nasa/bylaws.htm, if elected, nominees will serve two-
year terms, which will begin during the November 2005 Annual Meeting and end 
in November 2007. If you are not currently a NASA member, but are currently an
anthropology student, we would like to encourage you to join and submit a 
nomination. The application and the nomination are both brief and 
straightforward. You can add a NASA membership to your other AAA section 
memberships for only $1. Links to an online application and a paper form are 
available on the NASA website http://www.aaanet.org/nasa/index.htm  

NASA's purpose is to "stimulate and encourage the interests and involvement of 
both graduate and undergraduate students in anthropology."   Working with NASA 
is a great way to gain leadership experience and an excellent opportunity to 
network with professors, professionals and other students nationwide.  The 
atmosphere is friendly and collegial. Nominees are encouraged to bring and 
develop their own ideas for how NASA can better serve the interests of its 
student membership.  

The NASA Nominations Committee will form a slate of candidates from nominees 
for each position.  NASA members will then vote for the candidates during the 
AAA Spring Ballots.  The following summaries describe the duties of the 
position within the structure of NASA:

Officer Positions and Executive Committee Seats
1. PRESIDENT-ELECT: Will serve a one year term as President-Elect, followed by 
another year as President.  The President-Elect is responsible for internal 
communications within NASA, coordinating activities of committees, and 
facilitating NASA's transition into the following year.  Former VP Roger 
Lohmann described an additional duty to, "facilitate the creative processes 
within the organization
 and prevent a drift toward stasis"; holds one vote in 
NASA matters.

2. EDITOR: Responsible for the production and editing of the NASA column in 
Anthropology News, holds one vote in NASA matters.

3. GRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE AT-LARGE: Actively represents all interests of 
graduate NASA members; solicits new members; mostly deals with attending to 
students' e-mail questions and creating student networks throughout the year; 
effectively disseminates scholarship and professional opportunities to 
students. Traditionally chairs a NASA Committee.  Holds one vote in NASA 
matters.

4. UNDERGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE AT-LARGE: Actively represents all interests of 
undergraduate NASA members; solicits new members; mostly deals with attending 
to students' e-mail questions and creating student networks throughout the 
year; effectively disseminates scholarship and professional opportunities to 
students.  Traditionally chairs a NASA Committee.  Holds one vote in NASA 
matters.

5. UNDERGRADUATE REPRESENTATIVE AT-LARGE (2nd Seat): Actively represents all 
interests of undergraduate NASA members; solicits new members; mostly deals 
with attending to students' e-mail questions and creating student networks 
throughout the year; effectively disseminates scholarship and professional 
opportunities to students.  Traditionally chairs a NASA Committee.  Holds one 
vote in NASA matters.

Committee Positions
6. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE CHAIR: Posts annual Call for NASA Elections; 
organizes and disseminates NASA Election applications and information; and 
finally submits the nominations committee's recommendations for the official 
Elections Slate to the NASA Membership for vote (November-January); organizes 
the annual NASA Awards ceremony.

7. NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE UNDESIGNATED SEAT: Assists with the implementation of 
the above duties of the nominations chair.

DEADLINE:
E-mailed applications must be received by Friday January 21, 2005

HOW TO APPLY:
Please submit your e-mail application to the NASA Nominations Committee Chair, 
Ryan Thomas Adams rtadams@indiana.edu by Friday January 21, 2005 using "NASA 
Nomination" as the subject line.

Please include the following items in the body of your e-mail application:

Candidate Material Instructions

Biographical sketch
Format biographical sketches exactly as follows; include bold headings (CV's 
will not be accepted):

FULL NAME (highest degree earned, institution where degree was earned, year 
degree was earned) Positions held (most recent first): Title, (dates from-to) 
Name of Institution; Interests and/or Activities: (Limit 3); Significant 
publications (limit 3 - most recent first): Title, co-authors/editors if 
applicable, where published, year published.

Example
I. WANNA WYN (PhD, University of Whereiwannabe, 1969) Positions held: Grand 
Inquisitor (1989-Pres) Search the World Over, Inc.; Leader of the Pack (1978-
1989) Wearethebest University; Asst Leader of the Pack (1970-1978) Whimsy 
College; Interests and/or Activities: ritual, migration, presented paper at 
the Interdisciplinary Conference on Presenting Papers; Significant 
Publications: I Didn't Really Know What I Was Talking About, but Now I Do 
(with Yule Shirley Wyn, PhD), The Perfect Press, Inc., In Press; "Trust Me, I 
know what I am talking about" (with Imrunin Aginstya, PhD) Journal of Ultimate 
Knowledge, 1988.

Platform statement
The platform statement must be approximately 200 words in length. Statements 
significantly over 200 words will be cut down to 200 words before publishing.

Digital Picture
If available, please provide a digital picture of yourself for the AAA Spring 
Ballots.

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Jan 17 12:05:03 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 17 15:05:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA video: "Weaving Bitter with the Sweet"
Message-ID: <1105992303.41ec1a6f20038@webmail.sfsu.edu>


Forwarded from Ann Ryerson (rynearsona@intlinst.org):

------------
Just as at AAA, most of the refugee panels seem to be scheduled against each
other at SfAA. At least it's consistent. Let me just point out to you a
documentary on refugees I produced which is likely to be overlooked (it is not
part of a SUNTA or CORI session and doesn't have the word "refugee" in its
title).  It is "Weaving Bitter with the Sweet" a 30 minute program which is
listed first in the session at 3:30-5:15 Saturday in the Cedar Boardroom.

Some of you may remember when I went to Laos over 10 years ago--we were the
first professional film crew to visit the outlying areas. Now the film is
finally finished. Come get a look at Lao refugees in St. Louis and the beautiful
villages they left behind in Laos.

Here's the abstract:

RYNEARSON, Ann (Internat'l Inst.) WEAVING BITTER WITH THE SWEET  Under
"heritage," many popular representations of refugees dramatically oversimplify
loss of homeland and adjustment to America. Mone Saenphimmachak, is a Lao
refugee tormented by survivor guilt. As she seeks to overcome sorrow by renewing
her people's beautiful weaving traditions, her art becomes a reminder of the
joys and griefs of past and present. In a surprise ending, Mone gives up her
looms, leaving viewers to re-examine assumptions about the meaning of heritage
for refugees. For Mone, each skirt represents both a quiet victory and its
subtle costs, a memory of lives ever-changing, the bitter lying always within
the sweet.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 17 23:40:50 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 17 17:50:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Contributions: Gender in an Urban World 
Message-ID: <020501c4fd19$183988d0$eb9dafac@toshibauser>


CALL FOR PAPERS
Gender in an Urban World  (Research in Urban Sociology, Volume Nine, 2006,
Elsevier)

With the feminist revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, social scientists
recognized gender stratification and were directed to an analysis of gender
in their research. Women's and men's studies have increased dramatically
over the past 40 years. Urban sociology has not kept pace with other fields
in the study of gender. In fact, "urban scholars are greatly unaccustomed to
thinking about gender" (Garber and Turner, Gender in Urban Research, 1995,
p. xv).

Gender in an Urban World will examine the influence of gender in shaping
urban spaces and places. In this volume, we invite papers investigating the
ways in which the urban world is gendered, and women's and men's roles in
creating, maintaining and changing urban life.  Empirical and field studies
analyzing gender as it relates to urban activism, politics, and policy are
invited. Theoretical essays and reconceptualizations of current models,
focusing on local, metropolitan, and international urban environments are
encouraged.

Please forward a 1-2 page abstract of your manuscript by February 20th 2005
to the coauthor(s) listed below.  We invite submission of a completed draft
manuscript this Spring, with completed manuscripts in hand in August 2005
for publication in Spring 2006.  For further information please contact the
coeditors:

Judith DeSena, St. John's University     desenaj@stjohns.edu
Ray Hutchison, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay     hutchr@uwgb.edu

Check out content of earlier volumes in Research in Urban Sociology at the
Elsevier website:

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookseriesdescription.cws_home/BS_RUS/descr
iption


Ray Hutchison
Ray Hutchison
Professor and Chair
Urban and Regional Studies
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2400 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311-7001
Office:  (920) 465-2355
Fax:     (920) 465-2791
Webpage link at:  www.uwgb.edu/urs/faculty




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 00:09:17 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 17 18:10:59 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA Travel Reimbursement Form
Message-ID: <024401c4fd1b$f05bd130$eb9dafac@toshibauser>

January 8, 2005

Dear members of SUNTA,

In December, the Executive Board of the section met in Atlanta to bring in
the new officers and finalize our business for 2004. As part of our agenda,
the board discussed a procedure for ameliorating the impact of moving the
meetings upon our more financially vulnerable members.

If you did not attend the meetings in Atlanta, the AAA will reimburse your
registration fee. However, AAA will only reimburse airfare change costs for
those people who attended the Atlanta meeting, and the SUNTA board has
decided that members of limited means who did not attend the meetings due to
other commitments or for reasons of principle should also receive
compensation for their travel expenses. SUNTA is therefore establishing its
own separate fund to reimburse uncompensated airfare costs incurred by our
members who did not attend the meetings in Atlanta. Members who wish to
contribute to this fund should send a check made out to the AAA to the
address below with a note in the memo line that the check is intended for
SUNTA's account. SUNTA is not a legal entity, but rather a subset of the
AAA, so we therefore cannot accept checks or monies in our own right. SUNTA
will nevertheless track and account for these funds separately.

Since our resources are limited, the compensation offer is not open to
members who hold full-time, permanent (tenure-track or the equivalent)
employment at a US institution/company. At this point we do not know how
many claims we will receive and whether it will be possible to honor them
all fully, however we will do our best. If you will request compensation,
please inform me by email in advance with an estimate of your desired
compensation so that we can get a sense of the amount we will need.

If you would like to make a claim, please fill in and print out the attached
form and send to the below address, accompanied by the following materials:

(1) a receipt giving evidence of the cancellation cost itself, such as a
copy of the payment for the ticket

(2) A copy of the registration fee refund from the AAA (proof that you did
not attend the meetings in Atlanta)

(3) If you have made a claim that AAA has rejected or only partially
reimbursed, we need copies of your correspondence with the AAA (namely, your
claim and the AAA response).

Send the form and documentation to

Anne S. Lewinson (SUNTA Treasurer)
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Berry College
495010 Mount Berry Station
Mount Berry, GA   30149-5010       USA

If you have any questions or trouble opening the form, feel free to contact
me at alewinson@berry.edu. We will begin reimbursing claims in January.

To ensure a timely disbursal of funds, any claim must be received by
February 15, 2005.

We look forward to hearing from you,

Anne Lewinson
SUNTA Treasurer

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COPY OF ATTACHED REIMBURSEMENT FORM
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Reimbursement Request for travel expenses to 2004 AAA Meeting in San
Francisco



Name: __________________________________________________________



Institutional affiliation and position (if any):
____________________________________



Mailing address:_________________________________________________________

            ________________________________________________________________

            ________________________________________________________________



AAA member number: ____________________________________________



Total compensation requested (travel expenses to San Francisco which were
NOT reimbursed by the AAA): US$__________________________________





FOR OUR RECORDS, PLEASE SUBMIT THE DOCUMENTATION REQUESTED IN THE LETTER
ALONG WITH THIS FORM BY POST

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 00:10:30 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 17 18:36:34 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Garner on Brettell, _Anthropology of Migration_
Message-ID: <029001c4fd1f$8eb38640$eb9dafac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Migration]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Migration@h-net.msu.edu (November, 2004)

Caroline Brettell. _Anthropology and Migration: Essays on
Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity_. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press,
2003. xxi + 239 pp. Tables, references, index. $70.00 (cloth), ISBN
0-7591-0319-4; $26.95 (paper), ISBN 0-7591-0320-8.

Reviewed for H-Migration by Steve Garner, School of
Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol

Gendered Migration from the Bottom Up

Anthropologist Caroline Brettell has been writing on the Portuguese
diaspora since 1977, and in the course of her research has focused on the
themes of gender, ethnicity, the importance of place, the roles played by
return migration and the meanings attached by migrants to their own
stories.  This book is a collection of essays published at various times
over the 1979-1996 period and is split into four thematic sections:
"Situating the Anthropological Perspective," "Return Migration,
Transmigrants and Transnationalism," "Cities, Immigrant Communities and
Ethnic Identity" and "Gender and Migration."  Each section contains two or
three essays and is prefaced by short introductory pieces placing them in
context.

Bretell's approach is laid out in the first introductory essay.  "An
anthropological approach to migration should emphasize both structure and
agency; it should look at macro-social contextual issues, micro-level
strategies and decision-making, and the meso-level relational structure
within which individuals operate.  It needs to articulate both people and
process" (p. 7).

In "Migration Stories," Brettell posits that much can be learned about
migration from individual stories, since migration is as much a cultural
as a material phenomenon.  This is a challenging methodological manifesto
to comply with, and one that might raise eyebrows among world systems
analysts for example.  The distinction between the material and cultural,
or structure and agency, emerges as being as salient in anthropology as in
sociology, as does the need to bear in mind that actors do not necessarily
or very often see the bigger picture, or become aware of the multiple
process that set down parameters to their choices.  Yet, on the evidence
of this collection, the author has managed, just about, to maintain a
balance between the two dimensions referred to.  The tools utilized range
from engaging with the personal narratives of contemporary migrant women
in "Migration Stories," through historical archive work on a Northern
Portuguese village in "Emigration and Household Structure in a Northern
Portuguese Parish, 1850-1920," to an analysis of the Portuguese ideology
of return migration in "Emigrar para Voltar," and a consummate blending of
research instruments in "Women are Migrants Too."

The specificity of the Portuguese case is forcefully argued from the
outset.  "The emigrant," she maintains, is a "core symbol," in Portuguese
culture, metamorphosing from the _navegador_ to the _emigrante_ via the
_colono_ to reflect the changing phases in the country's history (p. 16).
Moving on to the topic of return migration, Brettell highlights the
functional uses of migration.  The Portuguese migrants she interviews,
"view the host society as a detoured route to social mobility and social
prestige within their own society" (p. 72).

While later essays introduce more (and sometimes gendered) ambivalence
about return, the theme that strikes me as a reader more familiar with
work on Irish and Caribbean emigration is the implied high actual level of
return and implementation of the planned return, presumably (going by the
date) even before Portugal's economy recovered to the point where it
became a net importer of labor.

Although women migrants are now receiving much more attention than they
did in the 1970s and 1980s, Brettell's work from this period assumes a
pioneering character.  She conceptualizes women as individual workers with
their own agendas, rather than docile, one-dimensional appendages to male
labor migrants.  Arguing this case in contemporary migration studies might
seem redundant, yet writers such as Eleanore Kofman, Jacqueline Andall and
Annie Phizacklea, for example, have all recently urged their colleagues to
do what Brettell was already doing in the 1980s.[1] She provides nuanced
studies elucidating some of the criteria required to answer the question
of whether life as a migrant is better or worse for women than in the
country of origin.  Portuguese women, she maintains, have a long
experience of separation and shared decision-making, which may contrast
with the experiences of other groups and reduce the gap in autonomy (if
not in material gain) between their lives in Portugal and in their host
societies.

The author's emphasis in the collection is on anthropology's unique set of
criteria for studying migration, but she might be pleasantly surprised to
see how much some methodologies within sociology, to just cite my own
discipline, overlap with hers.  Reading Brettell alongside Breda Gray's
recent work on Irish women in the United Kingdom is a rewarding exercise,
not only because of the clear parallels between Portugal and Ireland as
mass exporters of people, but also in the way women's voices can be dealt
with so adeptly and placed at the center of an intellectual endeavor in
which the tensions between structure and agency become so immediate.[2]

Last but not least, Portugal, as Brettell points out, is now a country of
net immigration.  The countries of new migration in Europe--Portugal,
Spain, Ireland, Italy and Greece--are on the agenda for research as places
in transition between two ways of life, the country of emigrants and the
country of immigrants, each with their own sets of problems to solve.  Add
to this the fact that they are all experiencing continued emigration at
the same time as both return migration and new immigration, and Brettell's
work becomes even more interesting in its provision of insights into the
process of return migration in the European context, an area that has
produced ludicrously little published work so far.

While this is a fine book overall, I have one principal criticism.  This
is to do with an overarching view.  Maybe it is partly a sociologist's
unhealthy taste for theories, but I feel there was an opportunity here to
do something extra in the conclusion.  The introduction is concise and
well-focused, yet the separation of the three levels of analysis contained
in it raises questions about the relationships between them.  While to
some extent this emerges implicitly from particular essays, the collection
could really have benefited from a more heavyweight attempt to draw this
out and tie up the loose ends.  The outlining of a multi-dimensional
methodological mission statement in the introduction could have been
satisfyingly responded to by a "with-the-benefit-of-hindsight" concluding
essay.  However, the excellent and engaging fieldwork is not supported by
a concluding essay of corresponding breadth, scope or quality.  This is
particularly disappointing given the topicality of "transnationalism" as a
research paradigm that has recently thrown up a large-scale project funded
by the Economic and Social Research Council in the United Kingdom.  Some
of its findings are summarized by that program's Director, Steven
Vertovec, and others in a special edition of the _Journal of Ethnic and
Migration Studies_.[3] There is plenty over the twenty-seven years since
the author's first publication to have got her teeth into, and it makes me
wonder whether she is planning the review that suggests itself from the
back-to-back reading of these articles.  If she does get round to that
project, it might be a seminal piece.

Notes

[1]. E. Kofman, "Family-Related Migration: A Critical Review of European
Studies," _Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies_ 30, no. 2 (2002): pp.
243-262; Jacqueline Andall, "Introduction" in _Ethnicity and Gender in
Contemporary Europe_, ed. Jacqueline Andall (Oxford: Berg, 2003);  A.
Phizacklea, "Gendered Actors in Migration,", in Andall, _Ethnicity and
Gender_, pp. 23-37.

[2]. B. Gray, _Women and Migration_ (London: Palgrave, 2004).

[3]. Steven Vertovec, "Transnationalism and Identity,"  _Journal of Ethnic
and Migration Studies_, 27, no. 4 (2001), pp. 573-582.


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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 04:51:05 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 17 22:52:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and
 Cities/SUFFIC Scholarships
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Dear Colleagues

We are pleased to let you know that the Summer Institute on
International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities 2005 will be held
for the second time this Summer, from June 13th-30th at the
International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit
van Amsterdam. The Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic
Diversity and Cities is a three-week programme, which seeks to explore
the topical features of international migration and the incorporation of
immigrants in the cities and states of destination. The themes of the
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on theoretical and empirical contributions of sociologists, political
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From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Jan 17 16:47:00 2005
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Tue Jan 18 08:16:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: AAA 2005 Annual Meeting
Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050117164201.021cf7b0@postoffice.worldnet.att.net>

Note to:	SUNTA members
From: 		David Haines, program chair
Re: 		AAA 2005 annual meeting

The following information comes from
Geoffrey Nwaka, who is interested in finding a
relevant panel for his paper. Information and abstract
follow below. You should respond to him directly
if this seems relevant to your own interests.

****************************************************

Geoffrey I. NWAKA
Professor of History
Abia State University
PMB 2000 UTURU, Nigeria

geoffreynwaka@yahoo.com

Paper title

"Using Indigenous Knowledge to Strengthen
      Local Governance in Nigeria"

Abstract (Long)

Many advocates of indigenous knowledge now claim that it is "the single 
largest knowledge resource not yet mobilized in the development 
enterprise".  Recent titles like "Tradition as a Modern Strategy", "Modern 
Dilemmas and Traditional Insights", "The Indigenisation of Modernity", and 
so on reflect the growing prominence accorded culture and tradition in 
current development thinking and research.  For a long time, African 
customs and traditions were misperceived as irrational and incompatible 
with the conventional strategies for economic development, or at any rate 
as ineffective in coping with present day needs and challenges.  But with 
the economic crisis of the 1980s and '90s, and the policy failures 
associated with the formal government system, there has been increasing 
loss of faith in the Western, 'external agency' model of development 
imposed from the top by national governments and international development 
agencies.  The undue emphasis which this pattern of development places on 
purely economic and quantitative growth is now blamed for the worsening 
problems of environmental degradation, widespread poverty, inequality, and 
the undermining of those values and institutions which hold these negative 
forces in check.

The problems of poverty, neglect and exclusion are most pronounced at the 
local community level, in the villages and urban slums, where these 
communities ought to be encouraged to participate in, and bring their own 
agendas to bear on governance and development.  This paper considers how 
indigenous knowledge and practice can be put to good use in support of 
local government and public administration in Nigeria, especially in some 
of those spheres of activity in which local governments have exclusive or 
concurrent constitutional responsibility:- in agriculture and health care, 
environmental protection and sanitation, land and natural resource 
management, basic education and rural finance, law reform and conflict 
resolution, poverty reduction and the provision of essential services.  How 
can development programmes in these areas be made to reflect local 
priorities, and to build upon, and strengthen local knowledge, 
organisation, and capacity?

The renewed interest in indigenous knowledge and institutions is in line 
with the current advocacy of the minimalist state and the 'enabling 
approach' as condition for good governance in a period of structural 
adjustment and public sector reform.  Governments are urged by donor 
agencies, and are in fact obliged to reduce their role to what their 
dwindling resources and capacities permit; to decentralise the structure of 
governance, promote genuine partnership, and enlist the broad participation 
of non-state actors and stakeholders, including traditional institutions 
and other civil society/community based organizations.  This trend has been 
reinforced by the UNESCO sponsored 'World Decade for Cultural Development' 
(1988 - 1997), the Earth Summit in Rio on Environment and Development 
(1992), and other scholarly debates which have stressed the cultural 
dimension of development, and the need to take local knowledge and practice 
fully into account in the development process.

The paper questions the uniform, single-tier structure of local government 
introduced in Nigeria in 1976 for both the rural and urban areas.  This 
arrangement, now under critical review, overlooks the country's cultural 
pluralism and diverse local practices.  We shall revisit the Dasuki and 
Political Bureau Reports of the late 1980s which tried to address these 
concerns, and also highlight the provisions of the laws establishing DFRRI 
and MAMSER which sought to create the framework for reconciling indigenous 
institutions with the formal state machinery.  These programmes were meant 
to link Town Unions and other informal sector groups structurally to the 
formal government institutions as agencies for community development.  The 
paper considers the pattern of local governments that would make governance 
less distant from the people, less bureaucratic, more accountable and more 
responsive to local needs; how the village or community to which most 
citizens hold moral allegiance could constitute the primary unit of a 
multi-tier local government system, as was attempted in the immediate post 
civil war period in parts of the former Eastern Region; how certain 
positive traditional attributes and values can be harnessed to bolster the 
moral tenor and performance of government and public sector management; how 
to adapt modern ideas and techniques  of governance and development to 
local condition and organization, and also adjust indigenous institutions 
appropriately to come to terms with contemporary realities.

In Nigerian towns and cities, the distinction between indigenes and 
strangers is still strong, and is even recognised by the Constitution.  The 
study will consider how to classify the urban centers, and design an 
appropriate form of municipal government for the various categories of 
large, medium and small towns; how to enlist traditionally based 
institutions and the associational life in urban neighbourhoods and the 
informal sector in the effort to ameliorate the adverse impact of rapid 
urban growth, especially in the critical areas of housing, environmental 
health, infrastructure provision, and services delivery.  We shall, for 
instance, consider the value of local building materials, informal land 
transactions, the appropriate laws, codes and standards that are compatible 
with local conditions and flexible enough to accommodate the urban poor and 
disadvantaged groups.  There are already hopeful pointers in this 
direction: e.g. how the principles of traditional rotational credit system, 
and the traditional apprenticeship practices have been deployed in the 
establishment of Community and People's Banks, and in the programmes of the 
National Directorate for Employment.  A few lessons on decentralization and 
local government reforms from the recent experiences of other developing 
countries like South Africa and Ghana, India and Brazil etc. will be 
discussed briefly for comparative insights.

The paper concludes with some general reflections on the indigenous 
knowledge movement as an appropriate local response to globalization and 
Western knowledge imperialism, and as a means to promote inter-cultural 
dialogue, and reaffirm Africa's historic contribution to the larger body of 
international knowledge.  We shall also consider the implications of the 
indigenous knowledge agenda for applied research, and for development 
policy makers and practitioners.






From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 17:01:40 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 18 17:01:35 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Contributors: Streetnotes 2005
Message-ID: <000501c4fda9$49c51690$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

Contribute to
Xcp (Cross Cultural Poetics): Streetnotes SPRING 2005

Xcp Website is collecting STREETNOTES for its SPRING 2005 Exhibition on
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In the next issue of Xcp: Streetnotes, we will be displaying examples of
transit, travel and traffic. We are looking for documentation and analysis
of movement through public places, boundaries, and cultures. Work about
migration, transportation, exile, tourism, and trade are welcome.

Participants are asked to send for publication, photographs, creative
documentation, articles, and other projects. We envision a display of
innovative work from practitions, observers, and theorists.
Deadline : February 15, 2005.
Estimate publication date : March 15, 2005.
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 17:07:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 18 17:07:03 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Visualising the City Symposium
Message-ID: <000701c4fdaa$0d45ea90$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

Conference: Visualising the City,
27-28 June 2005, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.

Organized by the Centre for Screen Studies, School of Arts, Histories &
Cultures and the School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University
of Manchester.

'Visualising the City' is an interdisciplinary symposium which will seek to
draw upon interests in popular film, photography, architecture, history,
cultural geography, art history, and sociology. The conference aims to
explore how film and photographic depictions filter and shape the way we
understand and interact with the built environment. Possible topics which
intersect the overarching theme of the symposium include (but are not
limited to):

the genre of 'the city film'
the transnational vs the provincial city
dreaming the city
city as celebratory site
representations of anti-urbanism
city as labyrinth
urban insiders and outsiders
counter-hegemonic stories of the city
Bollywood and the city film
the Noir city
the virtual city
the challenge of the urban future

Submissions are invited from scholars of film, media, gender and cultural
studies, history, art history, literature, architecture, sociology and
cultural geography. Proposals from postgraduates are also welcome. A
collection of conference papers will be selected for an edited publication
by the organizers.

Brief abstracts and title (150 words) for 20-minute papers, with a short
biographical statement should be sent by 31 Jan. to Dr. Alan Marcus (address
shown below). Alternatively, email your abstract to the following e-mail
address (please mark your email subject line 'Visualising the City Symposium
'). Proposals may also be considered for panels (of four papers): 150-word
rationale should include panel title, brief description of panel theme, name
of the panel chair, and 150-word abstracts of each paper and contact details
for each presenter (name, institutional affiliation postal address and email
address).

Alan Marcus
Centre for Screen Studies, Drama Department
SL.06, The Martin Harris Bldg
University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9PL United Kingdom
Email: alan.marcus@man.ac.uk


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 18 17:20:32 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 18 17:20:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Winter 2005 Issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology
Message-ID: <000801c4fdab$ecabe620$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

[x-posted from Space-And-Place]

The winter 2005 issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology is now available.  
Contributions include:

Urban Renewal and the Destruction of African-American Neighborhoods, by Eva-Maria Simms (review of Mindy Thompson Fullilove's Root Shock: How Tearing up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004)

Pittsburgh's "Hill District" as Recollected by Adults when They Were Ten Years Old,  by Curtis E. Thorpe

Intimate Immensity in the Preschool Playroom: A Topo-analysis of Children's Play,  by Rodney Teague

For further information, go to: www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html

Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, published three times a year, is a forum and clearing house for research and design that incorporate a qualitative approach to environmental and architectural experience.

One key concern of EAP is design, education, and policy supporting and enhancing natural and built environments that are beautiful, alive, and humane. Realizing that a clear conceptual stance is integral to informed research and design, the editors of EAP emphasize phenomenological approaches to the environment but also cover other styles of qualitative, descriptive research.

EAP welcomes essays, letters, reviews, conference information, and so forth.

-David Seamon, Editor, EAP
Architecture Department
Kansas State University
211 Seaton Hall
Manhattan, KS 66506-2901
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www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 19 10:29:51 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 19 10:30:01 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Letter from Walter Goldschmidt
Message-ID: <000501c4fe3b$b7eec2a0$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

From: "Robert T. O'Brien" <robrien@temple.edu>
To: Urbananth-l <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
Received: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:12:01 -0500


Dear Colleagues:
I have been asked by Walter Goldschmidt, former AAA President, to circulate
the letter below (sent to current AAA President Liz Brumfiel two weeks ago).
Dr. Goldschmidt spoke passionately about the issues of labor relations and
AAA governance at the meetings in Atlanta. He has expanded on his thoughts
here. I think they warrant a close read.

Clarification: Just to make sure that credit goes where it is due: The forum
to which Dr. Goldschmidt refers was organized by
Polly Strong and Robert Foster on behalf of SCA. Paul Durrenberger and Suzan
Erem were panelists, but did not
organize the session.

Best,
Rob O'Brien



Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:15:01 -0800 To:
ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter Goldschmidt
<walterg@ucla.edu> Subject: crises Cc: Robert O'Brien, Paul
Durrenberger, bdavis@aaanet.org
Dear Liz,
I am concerned that I have not had a response to my letter of
two weeks ago. Because the matter goes far beyond you and me, I
am having Bob O"Brien circulate it more widely. Wally

To: ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter Goldschmidt
<walterg@ucla.edu> Cc: agoodman@hampshire.edu Bcc:
bdavis@aaanet.org lhorne@aaanet.org
Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, President American Anthropological
Association 2200 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22201

Dear Liz,

This letter is being addressed to you, Liz, as the responsible
head of the Association, who has found herself suddenly faced
with a crisis of major proportions in what is generally seen as
a largely ceremonial and honorific role. You have my sympathy,
for I am sure that you wanted to follow some agenda of your own,
but now you have no choice. I am giving you friendly advice with
sympathy and concern, because conscientious and forceful action
is essential for the very preservation of the Association. This
is not a melodramatic statement, but a sober assessment. Though
I know from experience that it seems the other way around, you
are the boss and Bill and the staff are your employees; this
means that you are the fall-guy; you are where the buck stops.
When I was inducted as an officer of the Association, I and my
cohort were advised that as officers we had fiscal
responsibility and legal liability, if I remember the
terminology correctly, and whether this advisory is still
practiced, I am sure it is still the law.

The crisis has two aspects, each of which must be addressed. The
first is damage control, for there is great anger at both the
manner in which the situation was handled from the outset and
the decision that was made and the way it was arrived at. The
second is planning for the almost inevitable revisit to the same
crisis in 2006. While this will not occur on your watch, the
planning for this must be done by you and your successor right
away.

1. Damage Control. Given the existence of a contract and the
likelihood of a strike, the Association had to face the issue of
its memberswillingness to cross the picket lines. Though we are
not a union, we are made up largely of liberals who are
reluctant to act in support of management. Thus the question
was: Can the AAA meet successfully in a hotel that is not merely
on strike, but where the workers were locked out? If not, what
are the alternatives? The inevitability of having to face this
issue raises further questions: Why was there no planning for
this likely event? I called my long-term friend, Lucille Horne,
on Oct. 12, to find out what was being planned, more to protect
my hotel deposit than as a call to action, and was surprised
when she blithely said she expected the strike to be over by
then. I should have been alerted by this response that sounded
more like Rumsfelds planning for Iraq than I like with the same
inevitability of disaster. It is of course not Lucilles job to
anticipate political disasters -- but what was going on in the
administration of Association affairs? Was there no realization
of the potential gravity of the situation? Why had there been no
canvass of the membership to measure its commitment to support
the strikers and its attitude toward crossing picket lines? The
opacity of the action that was taken, the sudden and very
limited referendum and the decision to take action quite unlike
any proposed in the referendum all combine to alienate the
membership and exacerbated the latent antagonism that always
lies between authority and rank-and-file. It is this alienation
that the leadership, both elected and employed, must do all in
its power to dispel. It can do this only by a full disclosure of
what was said and done leading up to the decision to move to
Atlanta and to keep us posted on actions currently being taken
with respect to the future. The members need to know in detail
just how matters were handled, when was the gravity of the
situation realized, what the initial reactions were, what the
staff was doing about it, what voices came from the members and
whose voices and what knowledge came to dominate the decisions.
In short, full disclosure!

The meetings have been held; they were a travesty for the
participants, a tragedy for those who most needed them,
particularly the young and hungry, and an on-going threat to the
integrity of the Association. I feel that neither you nor Bill
appreciates the gravity of this situation, and your round-robin
letter describing the meetings does nothing to dispel this fear.
I had been astonished to find no call for a plenary session to
explain and discuss the matter at the meeting, if only to
release a little steam. Sitting in the so-called business
meeting was like discussing the relative merits of Evian Water
over Vichy while the house was burning. It was surreal. There is
already an outside threat to use this situation to break up the
Association, but nobody seems to have taken the trouble to
recognize the presence of that elephant in the parlor.
The only overt expression of awareness and of negotiations was
the session called by Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem. It gave
us a peek at what went on, but did not explain your and Bills
role and the decision-making process. Apparently outside
consultants were used but no consultation with the membership.
There should have been a session called specifically to discuss
the issue, with yourself presiding, Bill, Lucille and the
President-elect there, in which you outlined for us the history
of the action and took questions from the floor.
I urge you now to make up for this failure by establishing a
forum in the Newsletter, in which you set forth in painful
detail all the discussions and action, starting with the first
recognition of the existence of a crisis and continuing on over
the years, taking letters of condemnation and advice as well as
describing on-going actions until the crisis of 2006 has been
resolved. Perhaps this letter could be published as an open
letter as a kick-off for such a forum. I urge that you and the
staff be open and frank. The crisis was not of your making and
the solution was not self-evident, yet the one reached was far
from ideal and the membership deserves to know just how it was
arrived at and what other solutions were considered. This forum
should, if necessary, replace less urgent materials. You dont
want a call for a commission of enquiry on the matter, which is
the last thing we need.

2. The Coming Crisis. The Faustian bargain reached for the 2004
meeting means that we must meet the devil face to face very
soon. You must realize that this strike/lock-out is no mere
local conflict, but a major confrontation between labor and
management. The union is the largest one in the public sector
and represents not only the poorest of the working poor but
those very people who are trying to lift themselves out of the
poverty level, into which their un-unionized counterparts fall.
It is, furthermore, a battle for unionization itself, a battle
that had its first skirmish with Reagans defeat of the flight
monitors union when he took office. I was dismayed to hear one
of the Association officers, whose name I do not know, dismiss
the matter as being just a house-keeping girlsissuewhen we had
important issues like what should be done about Iraq (about
which we can have zero influence) to discuss. I suggest you ask
Paul Durrenberger and/or Suzan Erem do explain what is involved,
for they are far better qualified than I am to do so. Any
assumption that the problem will go away is just more Rumsfeld
thinking.Indeed, management will very likely want to chastise us
for having walked out of San Francisco.

I cannot advise you on how to solve the problem, but I can
suggest some courses of action you should take now. The first is
to get the best measure you can of the temper of the Association
membership. How many would boycott a meeting that was on strike;
how many would refuse to cross a picket line, etc. The second is
to create an ad hoc committee made up of knowledgeable people, I
would presume chaired by the President-elect, who is saddled
with the issue, to explore alternatives, assay their costs and,
for those that seem viable, get membership reaction. Third, I
would be open about all actions taken, keeping the membership
informed through the Forum in the Newsletter and by email.
You have my sympathy, Liz. I have no doubt of your good
intentions but I am not impressed with your performance to date.
It is not an easy task and I am sure you will have to give up
doing a lot of things with your term of office that are more
dear to your heart. But it has fallen on your shoulders and you
and your President-elect will have to spend long, agonizing
hours working on it, learning as you go. But nothing is more
important than the resolution of this internal issue to keep our
Association intact. If you succeed, you will have accomplished
something more important than anything on your (or my) resume.

Happy Holidays!
Walter Goldschmidt, UCLA

****************************************
Robert T. O'Brien
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
robrien@temple.edu
215-803-5181


From ebrumfiel at northwestern.edu  Wed Jan 19 15:14:58 2005
From: ebrumfiel at northwestern.edu (ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 19 12:51:06 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Dear Wally
Message-ID: <200501191515.j0JFFJiv001799@casbah.it.northwestern.edu>

Dear Wally,

Thank you for your letter of a couple of weeks ago.  It clearly expresses your ongoing concern for
the well-being for the AAA, and that is heartening.

As I understand it, your letter makes four points, two of which I agree with and two of which I
disagree with.

The first is that since I am the current President of the AAA, I am the one who is responsible for
the preservation of the organization.  I certainly agree with that!  I assure you that I have
thought hard and worked diligently since I took office fourteen months ago to make the AAA a better 
organization, one that serves the needs of all its members.  This has been particularly true during 
the past three months, as we faced the challenge of a lock-out of workers by the San Francisco
hotels.  I am painfully aware of my responsibilities to the organization and its members.

The second point you make is that the AAA is currently in crisis, on the verge of disintegrating.
I must respectfully disagree with this assessment.  Reading through the Section News of the January 
2005 AN, it seemed to me that there is widespread recognition that the Executive Board operated in
good faith when it voted to move the meeting to Atlanta.  This was true even of sections that went
ahead and held their own session in San Francisco.  There is also widespread concern about the
information available to the Executive Board when it made its decision and the flow of information
from the EB to the membership and from the membership to the EB.  These are definitely matters
requiring serious attention and reform, but they do not constitute a crisis.

The third point you make is that the AAA officers and staff ought to undertake a detailed and
public review of the events leading up to the decision to move the meeting to Atlanta.  I must also 
disagree with this position.  Such a review would undoubtedly yield conflicting accounts, leading
to further accusations and dissention.  It would also cost both the AAA officers and staff a great
deal of time and energy, time and energy that are better spent in more forward-looking efforts to
solve our problems and provide better membership services.  I think we know enough about what
transpired in October to agree that in situations like this, AAA officers and staff need to begin
to react earlier and to consult more extensively with the membership.  This was a very painful
lesson, but I am confident that we have learned it.

The fourth point you make is that the AAA ought to undertake reforms that will ensure that the
events of last October will not be repeated.  I agree entirely!  For this reason I am creating two
Commissions.  The Labor Relations Commission is charged with 1) providing information to the AAA
Executive Board and staff as they negotiate contracts that promote collective bargaining and the
right to organize while protecting the Association from liability and the disruption of its
scheduled annual meetings, and (2) seeking alliances with other scholarly associations for the
above purposes.  The Governance Commission will see reforms in the relationship between the AAA
Executive Board and the Sections and to facilitate communication and feedback mechanisms within the 
AAA as a whole between annual meetings.  Both of these Commissions come at the suggestion of
membership proposals in response to the Executive Board decision.

I think that the AAA has come though a difficult time fairly well intact.  Let us strive to make
2005 a great year for the organization!

With best wishes,

        Liz
==============Original message text===============
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 4:12:01 am GMT "Robert T. O'Brien" wrote:

  Dear Colleagues:

  I have been asked by Walter Goldschmidt, former AAA
  President, to circulate the letter below (sent to
  current AAA President Liz Brumfiel two weeks ago).
  Dr. Goldschmidt spoke passionately about the issues
  of labor relations and AAA governance at the
  meetings in Atlanta. He has expanded on his thoughts
  here. I think they warrant a close read.

  Best,

  Rob O'Brien

  Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:15:01 -0800 To:
  ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter Goldschmidt
  <walterg@ucla.edu> Subject: crises Cc: Robert
  O'Brien, Paul
  Durrenberger, bdavis@aaanet.org

  Dear Liz,

  I am concerned that I have not had a response to my
  letter of
  two weeks ago. Because the matter goes far beyond
  you and me, I
  am having Bob O"Brien circulate it more widely.
  Wally

  To: ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter
  Goldschmidt
  <walterg@ucla.edu> Cc: agoodman@hampshire.edu Bcc:
  bdavis@aaanet.org lhorne@aaanet.org

  Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, President American
  Anthropological
  Association 2200 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22201

  Dear Liz,

  This letter is being addressed to you, Liz, as the
  responsible
  head of the Association, who has found herself
  suddenly faced
  with a crisis of major proportions in what is
  generally seen as
  a largely ceremonial and honorific role. You have my
  sympathy,
  for I am sure that you wanted to follow some agenda
  of your own,
  but now you have no choice. I am giving you friendly
  advice with
  sympathy and concern, because conscientious and
  forceful action
  is essential for the very preservation of the
  Association. This
  is not a melodramatic statement, but a sober
  assessment. Though
  I know from experience that it seems the other way
  around, you
  are the boss and Bill and the staff are your
  employees; this
  means that you are the fall-guy; you are where the
  buck stops.
  When I was inducted as an officer of the
  Association, I and my
  cohort were advised that as officers we had fiscal
  responsibility and legal liability, if I remember
  the
  terminology correctly, and whether this advisory is
  still
  practiced, I am sure it is still the law.

  The crisis has two aspects, each of which must be
  addressed. The
  first is damage control, for there is great anger at
  both the
  manner in which the situation was handled from the
  outset and
  the decision that was made and the way it was
  arrived at. The
  second is planning for the almost inevitable revisit
  to the same
  crisis in 2006. While this will not occur on your
  watch, the
  planning for this must be done by you and your
  successor right
  away.

  1. Damage Control. Given the existence of a contract
  and the
  likelihood of a strike, the Association had to face
  the issue of
  its memberswillingness to cross the picket lines.
  Though we are
  not a union, we are made up largely of liberals who
  are
  reluctant to act in support of management. Thus the
  question
  was: Can the AAA meet successfully in a hotel that
  is not merely
  on strike, but where the workers were locked out? If
  not, what
  are the alternatives? The inevitability of having to
  face this
  issue raises further questions: Why was there no
  planning for
  this likely event? I called my long-term friend,
  Lucille Horne,
  on Oct. 12, to find out what was being planned, more
  to protect
  my hotel deposit than as a call to action, and was
  surprised
  when she blithely said she expected the strike to be
  over by
  then. I should have been alerted by this response
  that sounded
  more like Rumsfelds planning for Iraq than I like
  with the same
  inevitability of disaster. It is of course not
  Lucilles job to
  anticipate political disasters -- but what was going
  on in the
  administration of Association affairs? Was there no
  realization
  of the potential gravity of the situation? Why had
  there been no
  canvass of the membership to measure its commitment
  to support
  the strikers and its attitude toward crossing picket
  lines? The
  opacity of the action that was taken, the sudden and
  very
  limited referendum and the decision to take action
  quite unlike
  any proposed in the referendum all combine to
  alienate the
  membership and exacerbated the latent antagonism
  that always
  lies between authority and rank-and-file. It is this
  alienation
  that the leadership, both elected and employed, must
  do all in
  its power to dispel. It can do this only by a full
  disclosure of
  what was said and done leading up to the decision to
  move to
  Atlanta and to keep us posted on actions currently
  being taken
  with respect to the future. The members need to know
  in detail
  just how matters were handled, when was the gravity
  of the
  situation realized, what the initial reactions were,
  what the
  staff was doing about it, what voices came from the
  members and
  whose voices and what knowledge came to dominate the
  decisions.
  In short, full disclosure!

  The meetings have been held; they were a travesty
  for the
  participants, a tragedy for those who most needed
  them,
  particularly the young and hungry, and an on-going
  threat to the
  integrity of the Association. I feel that neither
  you nor Bill
  appreciates the gravity of this situation, and your
  round-robin
  letter describing the meetings does nothing to
  dispel this fear.
  I had been astonished to find no call for a plenary
  session to
  explain and discuss the matter at the meeting, if
  only to
  release a little steam. Sitting in the so-called
  business
  meeting was like discussing the relative merits of
  Evian Water
  over Vichy while the house was burning. It was
  surreal. There is
  already an outside threat to use this situation to
  break up the
  Association, but nobody seems to have taken the
  trouble to
  recognize the presence of that elephant in the
  parlor.

  The only overt expression of awareness and of
  negotiations was
  the session called by Paul Durrenberger and Suzan
  Erem. It gave
  us a peek at what went on, but did not explain your
  and Bills
  role and the decision-making process. Apparently
  outside
  consultants were used but no consultation with the
  membership.
  There should have been a session called specifically
  to discuss
  the issue, with yourself presiding, Bill, Lucille
  and the
  President-elect there, in which you outlined for us
  the history
  of the action and took questions from the floor.

  I urge you now to make up for this failure by
  establishing a
  forum in the Newsletter, in which you set forth in
  painful
  detail all the discussions and action, starting with
  the first
  recognition of the existence of a crisis and
  continuing on over
  the years, taking letters of condemnation and advice
  as well as
  describing on-going actions until the crisis of 2006
  has been
  resolved. Perhaps this letter could be published as
  an open
  letter as a kick-off for such a forum. I urge that
  you and the
  staff be open and frank. The crisis was not of your
  making and
  the solution was not self-evident, yet the one
  reached was far
  from ideal and the membership deserves to know just
  how it was
  arrived at and what other solutions were considered.
  This forum
  should, if necessary, replace less urgent materials.
  You dont
  want a call for a commission of enquiry on the
  matter, which is
  the last thing we need.

  2. The Coming Crisis. The Faustian bargain reached
  for the 2004
  meeting means that we must meet the devil face to
  face very
  soon. You must realize that this strike/lock-out is
  no mere
  local conflict, but a major confrontation between
  labor and
  management. The union is the largest one in the
  public sector
  and represents not only the poorest of the working
  poor but
  those very people who are trying to lift themselves
  out of the
  poverty level, into which their un-unionized
  counterparts fall.
  It is, furthermore, a battle for unionization
  itself, a battle
  that had its first skirmish with Reagans defeat of
  the flight
  monitors union when he took office. I was dismayed
  to hear one
  of the Association officers, whose name I do not
  know, dismiss
  the matter as being just a house-keeping
  girlsissuewhen we had
  important issues like what should be done about Iraq
  (about
  which we can have zero influence) to discuss. I
  suggest you ask
  Paul Durrenberger and/or Suzan Erem do explain what
  is involved,
  for they are far better qualified than I am to do
  so. Any
  assumption that the problem will go away is just
  more Rumsfeld
  thinking.Indeed, management will very likely want to
  chastise us
  for having walked out of San Francisco.

  I cannot advise you on how to solve the problem, but
  I can
  suggest some courses of action you should take now.
  The first is
  to get the best measure you can of the temper of the
  Association
  membership. How many would boycott a meeting that
  was on strike;
  how many would refuse to cross a picket line, etc.
  The second is
  to create an ad hoc committee made up of
  knowledgeable people, I
  would presume chaired by the President-elect, who is
  saddled
  with the issue, to explore alternatives, assay their
  costs and,
  for those that seem viable, get membership reaction.
  Third, I
  would be open about all actions taken, keeping the
  membership
  informed through the Forum in the Newsletter and by
  email.

  You have my sympathy, Liz. I have no doubt of your
  good
  intentions but I am not impressed with your
  performance to date.
  It is not an easy task and I am sure you will have
  to give up
  doing a lot of things with your term of office that
  are more
  dear to your heart. But it has fallen on your
  shoulders and you
  and your President-elect will have to spend long,
  agonizing
  hours working on it, learning as you go. But nothing
  is more
  important than the resolution of this internal issue
  to keep our
  Association intact. If you succeed, you will have
  accomplished
  something more important than anything on your (or
  my) resume.

  Happy Holidays!

  Walter Goldschmidt, UCLA


****************************************
Robert T. O'Brien
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
http://AAAUnite.blogspot.comhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Temple University
robrien@temple.edu
215-803-5181

"Don't mourn, organize!"
-- Labor organizer Joe Hill, before being murdered in 1915 by a firing squad.
===========End of original message text===========




From af31 at nyu.edu  Wed Jan 19 11:09:41 2005
From: af31 at nyu.edu (Allen Feldman)
Date: Wed Jan 19 12:54:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Letter from Walter Goldschmidt
Message-ID: <6aa2ef6aa616.6aa6166aa2ef@nyu.edu>


 Goldschmidt ommitted that Brumfield's prominent citation in her post
conference missive of a single letter  from a single union rank and file
member appoving the AAA decision to hold meetings in Atlanta is
symptomatic of the exec board's lack of reality testing.
----- Original Message -----
From: Angela Jancius <acjancius@ysu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 10:29 am
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Letter from Walter Goldschmidt

> From: "Robert T. O'Brien" <robrien@temple.edu>
> To: Urbananth-l <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Received: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 23:12:01 -0500
> 
> 
> Dear Colleagues:
> I have been asked by Walter Goldschmidt, former AAA President, to 
> circulatethe letter below (sent to current AAA President Liz 
> Brumfiel two weeks ago).
> Dr. Goldschmidt spoke passionately about the issues of labor 
> relations and
> AAA governance at the meetings in Atlanta. He has expanded on his 
> thoughtshere. I think they warrant a close read.
> 
> Clarification: Just to make sure that credit goes where it is due: 
> The forum
> to which Dr. Goldschmidt refers was organized by
> Polly Strong and Robert Foster on behalf of SCA. Paul Durrenberger 
> and Suzan
> Erem were panelists, but did not
> organize the session.
> 
> Best,
> Rob O'Brien
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:15:01 -0800 To:
> ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter Goldschmidt
> <walterg@ucla.edu> Subject: crises Cc: Robert O'Brien, Paul
> Durrenberger, bdavis@aaanet.org
> Dear Liz,
> I am concerned that I have not had a response to my letter of
> two weeks ago. Because the matter goes far beyond you and me, I
> am having Bob O"Brien circulate it more widely. Wally
> 
> To: ebrumfiel@northwestern.edu From: Walter Goldschmidt
> <walterg@ucla.edu> Cc: agoodman@hampshire.edu Bcc:
> bdavis@aaanet.org lhorne@aaanet.org
> Dr. Elizabeth Brumfiel, President American Anthropological
> Association 2200 Wilson Blvd. Arlington VA 22201
> 
> Dear Liz,
> 
> This letter is being addressed to you, Liz, as the responsible
> head of the Association, who has found herself suddenly faced
> with a crisis of major proportions in what is generally seen as
> a largely ceremonial and honorific role. You have my sympathy,
> for I am sure that you wanted to follow some agenda of your own,
> but now you have no choice. I am giving you friendly advice with
> sympathy and concern, because conscientious and forceful action
> is essential for the very preservation of the Association. This
> is not a melodramatic statement, but a sober assessment. Though
> I know from experience that it seems the other way around, you
> are the boss and Bill and the staff are your employees; this
> means that you are the fall-guy; you are where the buck stops.
> When I was inducted as an officer of the Association, I and my
> cohort were advised that as officers we had fiscal
> responsibility and legal liability, if I remember the
> terminology correctly, and whether this advisory is still
> practiced, I am sure it is still the law.
> 
> The crisis has two aspects, each of which must be addressed. The
> first is damage control, for there is great anger at both the
> manner in which the situation was handled from the outset and
> the decision that was made and the way it was arrived at. The
> second is planning for the almost inevitable revisit to the same
> crisis in 2006. While this will not occur on your watch, the
> planning for this must be done by you and your successor right
> away.
> 
> 1. Damage Control. Given the existence of a contract and the
> likelihood of a strike, the Association had to face the issue of
> its memberswillingness to cross the picket lines. Though we are
> not a union, we are made up largely of liberals who are
> reluctant to act in support of management. Thus the question
> was: Can the AAA meet successfully in a hotel that is not merely
> on strike, but where the workers were locked out? If not, what
> are the alternatives? The inevitability of having to face this
> issue raises further questions: Why was there no planning for
> this likely event? I called my long-term friend, Lucille Horne,
> on Oct. 12, to find out what was being planned, more to protect
> my hotel deposit than as a call to action, and was surprised
> when she blithely said she expected the strike to be over by
> then. I should have been alerted by this response that sounded
> more like Rumsfelds planning for Iraq than I like with the same
> inevitability of disaster. It is of course not Lucilles job to
> anticipate political disasters -- but what was going on in the
> administration of Association affairs? Was there no realization
> of the potential gravity of the situation? Why had there been no
> canvass of the membership to measure its commitment to support
> the strikers and its attitude toward crossing picket lines? The
> opacity of the action that was taken, the sudden and very
> limited referendum and the decision to take action quite unlike
> any proposed in the referendum all combine to alienate the
> membership and exacerbated the latent antagonism that always
> lies between authority and rank-and-file. It is this alienation
> that the leadership, both elected and employed, must do all in
> its power to dispel. It can do this only by a full disclosure of
> what was said and done leading up to the decision to move to
> Atlanta and to keep us posted on actions currently being taken
> with respect to the future. The members need to know in detail
> just how matters were handled, when was the gravity of the
> situation realized, what the initial reactions were, what the
> staff was doing about it, what voices came from the members and
> whose voices and what knowledge came to dominate the decisions.
> In short, full disclosure!
> 
> The meetings have been held; they were a travesty for the
> participants, a tragedy for those who most needed them,
> particularly the young and hungry, and an on-going threat to the
> integrity of the Association. I feel that neither you nor Bill
> appreciates the gravity of this situation, and your round-robin
> letter describing the meetings does nothing to dispel this fear.
> I had been astonished to find no call for a plenary session to
> explain and discuss the matter at the meeting, if only to
> release a little steam. Sitting in the so-called business
> meeting was like discussing the relative merits of Evian Water
> over Vichy while the house was burning. It was surreal. There is
> already an outside threat to use this situation to break up the
> Association, but nobody seems to have taken the trouble to
> recognize the presence of that elephant in the parlor.
> The only overt expression of awareness and of negotiations was
> the session called by Paul Durrenberger and Suzan Erem. It gave
> us a peek at what went on, but did not explain your and Bills
> role and the decision-making process. Apparently outside
> consultants were used but no consultation with the membership.
> There should have been a session called specifically to discuss
> the issue, with yourself presiding, Bill, Lucille and the
> President-elect there, in which you outlined for us the history
> of the action and took questions from the floor.
> I urge you now to make up for this failure by establishing a
> forum in the Newsletter, in which you set forth in painful
> detail all the discussions and action, starting with the first
> recognition of the existence of a crisis and continuing on over
> the years, taking letters of condemnation and advice as well as
> describing on-going actions until the crisis of 2006 has been
> resolved. Perhaps this letter could be published as an open
> letter as a kick-off for such a forum. I urge that you and the
> staff be open and frank. The crisis was not of your making and
> the solution was not self-evident, yet the one reached was far
> from ideal and the membership deserves to know just how it was
> arrived at and what other solutions were considered. This forum
> should, if necessary, replace less urgent materials. You dont
> want a call for a commission of enquiry on the matter, which is
> the last thing we need.
> 
> 2. The Coming Crisis. The Faustian bargain reached for the 2004
> meeting means that we must meet the devil face to face very
> soon. You must realize that this strike/lock-out is no mere
> local conflict, but a major confrontation between labor and
> management. The union is the largest one in the public sector
> and represents not only the poorest of the working poor but
> those very people who are trying to lift themselves out of the
> poverty level, into which their un-unionized counterparts fall.
> It is, furthermore, a battle for unionization itself, a battle
> that had its first skirmish with Reagans defeat of the flight
> monitors union when he took office. I was dismayed to hear one
> of the Association officers, whose name I do not know, dismiss
> the matter as being just a house-keeping girlsissuewhen we had
> important issues like what should be done about Iraq (about
> which we can have zero influence) to discuss. I suggest you ask
> Paul Durrenberger and/or Suzan Erem do explain what is involved,
> for they are far better qualified than I am to do so. Any
> assumption that the problem will go away is just more Rumsfeld
> thinking.Indeed, management will very likely want to chastise us
> for having walked out of San Francisco.
> 
> I cannot advise you on how to solve the problem, but I can
> suggest some courses of action you should take now. The first is
> to get the best measure you can of the temper of the Association
> membership. How many would boycott a meeting that was on strike;
> how many would refuse to cross a picket line, etc. The second is
> to create an ad hoc committee made up of knowledgeable people, I
> would presume chaired by the President-elect, who is saddled
> with the issue, to explore alternatives, assay their costs and,
> for those that seem viable, get membership reaction. Third, I
> would be open about all actions taken, keeping the membership
> informed through the Forum in the Newsletter and by email.
> You have my sympathy, Liz. I have no doubt of your good
> intentions but I am not impressed with your performance to date.
> It is not an easy task and I am sure you will have to give up
> doing a lot of things with your term of office that are more
> dear to your heart. But it has fallen on your shoulders and you
> and your President-elect will have to spend long, agonizing
> hours working on it, learning as you go. But nothing is more
> important than the resolution of this internal issue to keep our
> Association intact. If you succeed, you will have accomplished
> something more important than anything on your (or my) resume.
> 
> Happy Holidays!
> Walter Goldschmidt, UCLA
> 
> ****************************************
> Robert T. O'Brien
> AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
> http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
> Ph.D. Candidate
> Department of Anthropology
> Temple University
> robrien@temple.edu
> 215-803-5181
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> URBANTH-L mailing list
> URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu
> http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l
> 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 20 11:48:18 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 20 11:48:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Job: Asst. Professor, Department of Sociology and Social
 Anthropology, Central European University
Message-ID: <000f01c4ff0f$d7df1450$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>


Central European University 

** Budapest ** 

Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology 

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European
University Budapest seeks candidates for a full-time Assistant Professor.
The candidates are expected to be dynamic scholars with teaching experience
and a promising publication record in Social and/or Cultural Anthropology.
They should have thought critically and reflexively about the current state
of Anthropology in relation to other disciplines, and about the implications
of current processes of social change - in particular the relationship
between globalization and the state - for the future development of teaching
and research in the field. We are especially interested in candidates with a
research focus on the study of religion, religious movements, media,
postcolonial, transnational or urban processes and their combinations. We
particularly welcome applications from scholars working on regions outside
of Europe in a broad comparative perspective. 

Candidates should have a Ph.D. degree or equivalent in Anthropology.
Starting date is no later than October 2005. 

CEU is a private American, English-speaking, graduate research-intensive
university located in Budapest, Hungary. The teaching staff consists of
about 100 faculty from more than 30 countries. CEU enrolls about 800
graduate students from almost 60 countries. For more information consult the
CEU website (www.ceu.hu). 

Please send applications with names and addresses of three referees, CV, a
list of publications, as well as a sample publication and a presentation of
research plans to the Rector of CEU, c/o Ayse Caglar, (Ref. C4702),
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European
University, H-1051 Budapest, Nador u. 9, Hungary, Fax: 361-328-3501, e-mail:
bradeanuk@ceu.hu Do not hesitate to contact Ayse Caglar, Chair of the
department (caglara@ceu.hu) for any further information. The deadline for
receipt of applications is February 1, 2005. 

CEU is an equal opportunity employer. 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 20 11:50:53 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 20 11:50:57 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2005 SEA Harold K. Schneider Student Prize
Message-ID: <001d01c4ff10$34802730$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

(please circulate)

2005 SEA Harold K. Schneider Student Prize

The Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) invites both undergraduate and
graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of economic anthropology
(including archaeology) for its 2005 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in
Economic Anthropology. Manuscripts should be in English and no longer than
10,000 words, including endnotes, and conform to AAA style.  Submissions
must be accompanied by a supporting letter from a faculty sponsor. The
authors of the winning papers in both the undergraduate and graduate
categories will each receive a prize of $150, a certificate of achievement,
a year's membership in the SEA, and the most recent volume in the SEA
series, Monographs in Economic Anthropology. They will also be invited to
make presentations at the annual SEA spring meeting. The winners' sponsors
will receive an SEA volume. Submissions must include both a single hard copy
and an electronic format copy (Microsoft Word). Please do not include your
name in any headers or footers. Send submissions to: Lynne Milgram, Chair,
Schneider Prize Committee, Faculty of Liberal Studies, Ontario College of
Art and Design, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON, Canada,
M5T 1W1; tel: 416/977-6000 ext 1680; lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca.
Deadline: May 1, 2005.

-- 
B. Lynne Milgram, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Faculty of Liberal Studies
Ontario College of Art and Design
100 McCaul Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5T 1W1

tel: (416) 977-6000 ext. 1680
fax: (416) 977-6006
E-mail: lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 20 11:52:52 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 20 12:07:22 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Funding: 2005-2006 Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship
Message-ID: <003601c4ff10$7b137990$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

From:  Andrew Samwick, Director   
Subject:  2005-2006 Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellowship

The Rockefeller Center supports one post-doctoral fellow annually.  I
write to invite social science departments, interdisciplinary programs,
and research groups within the Rockefeller Center to submit a candidate
for consideration for the Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow 

for the academic year 2005-2006. The term of appointment is September 1,
2005, through  June 30, 2006.  The total salary is $34,000 and comes
with full benefits.  The host department/program provides office space
and access to office equipment and covers administrative costs during
the fellow's tenure. 

Departments/programs/Center-affiliated research groups interested in
participating in this program should solicit applications through their
professional networks and publications, making clear to potential
candidates that the department/program/Center-affiliated group will be
submitting its top candidate to a larger pool of applicants for
consideration.  Should you need a sample advertisement, please contact
Associate Director Roxanne Waldner.

The fellowship is a nine-month commitment, with the possibility of a
second nine-month renewal at the discretion of the Center's director.
The post-doc must have research interests in some aspect of public
policy and be eligible to teach a course for the Public Policy Minor
that may also be cross-listed in the department/program.  The fellow
will have a joint appointment in the department/program and the Center.
Other expectations of post-doctoral fellows include the presentation of
their research at a Rockefeller Faculty Seminar and participation in
Center-sponsored events and departmental colloquia as appropriate.  In
addition, fellows are expected to acknowledge Rockefeller Center
sponsorship in any publications resulting from research they undertake
while in residence at the College. 

Nominations can be sent to Roxanne.Waldner@Dartmouth.Edu.  E-mail should
include the name and affiliation of the candidate, a copy of his/her
c.v., and a brief statement of no more than one page describing the
fellow's likely contribution to the scholarly Community at Dartmouth.
For example, the fellow may offer a research perspective not currently
represented among the department's faculty or may complement existing
research interests.  

The application deadline is Monday, February 28, 2005.  The Center's
Faculty Council ad hoc Committee of Grants and Awards will make final
selection by Monday, March 21, 2005.  I look forward to the selection of
the next Rockefeller Post-Doctoral Fellow and encourage your
participation in the application process.
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Jan 20 09:11:40 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 20 12:11:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CONFERENCE: Furthering the Globalization Debate, Montreal, 2/1 deadline
Message-ID: <1106241100.41efe64c055c8@webmail.sfsu.edu>

CCASLS Conference: Deadline Extension
Location:	Quebec, Canada
Conference Registration Deadline:	2005-02-01 (in 12 days)

There is still time to register for our ?Furthering the Globalization Debate?
conference scheduled for Montreal, from 27th April until 1st May. The deadline
is 1st February 2005. The Canadian Council of Area Studies and Learned Societies
(CCASLS) will hold this first ever joint Area Studies conference encompassing
all of its four regional associations, with the support of the Canadian
Association for Studies in International Development (CASID).

For details and applications, go straight to our website:
http://ccasls.concordia.ca/2005/conf-en2005.htm

This will be a two-tier conference, with forums designed to highlight current
academic contributions in African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American and
Caribbean Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies, along with a special venue for
cross-area research that is thematically relative. The theme for the conference
is "Furthering the Globalization Debate: Cross Regional Comparisons". Scholars
and students are invited to submit papers that are conducive to either a
regional area, or a cross-regional theme.

The keynote address for the Conference will be delivered by Dr Ann Laura Stoler,
Chair of Anthropology and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Historical
Studies at the New School University. Dr Stoler's work on empires and
postcolonial studies, on race and culture, on sexuality and imperial power, has
been critical in advancing our understanding of the colonial encounter. Her work
transcends disciplines and geographical borders. Her books include Capitalism
and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870&#8209;1979 (1985), Race and the
Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of
Things (1995) and Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in
Colonial Rule (2002). Forthcoming works are Tense and Tender Ties: Race and
Empire in North American History and Along the Archival grain: Colonial Cultures
and Their Affective States.

Our themes are:

Theorizing the Integration of Area Studies

Capitalism and the New World Order

Historicizing Globalization

Social Inequality and Social Cohesion

Health, Disease and Society

Globalization and the International Division of Labour

National and Cultural Sovereignty

Cross-regional, cross-disciplinary and with an appeal to those both inside and
outside the academy, ?Furthering the Globalization Debate? is an exciting
initiative designed to broaden the horizons of international scholarship. Please
join us in the vibrant, historic city of Montr?al in the Spring.

If you have difficulties with the proposal forms, simply send your abstract and
all relevant information as an email attachment in either Microsoft Word (.doc)
or WordPerfect (.wpd) to ampiccio@alcor.concordia.ca and/or
bellis@alcor.concordia.ca. Also, if you wish to participate in the conference
but fear you cannot make the above noted deadline, please contact the
Secretariat (caas@concordia.ca or ccasls@concordia.ca) to make alternate
arrangements.

We look forward to seeing you.

CCASLS Planning Committee

	Brooke Ellis
CCASLS SB-115
Concordia University
1455 deMaisonneuve O
Montreal, QC H3G 1M8
514-848-2280
514-848-4514
Email: ccasls@concordia.ca
Visit the website at http://ccasls.concordia.ca

From hcastane at email.arizona.edu  Thu Jan 20 11:34:54 2005
From: hcastane at email.arizona.edu (Heide Castaneda)
Date: Thu Jan 20 16:34:03 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Another SUNTA panel at SfAA (March)
Message-ID: <1106246094.35293328024cb@www.email.arizona.edu>

Dear URBANTH list members,

Below is another SUNTA panel that was not in the last email from Dr Rotenberg
because it was listed also as SMA.  It had been an invited panel via SUNTA for
the AAA that we moved to the SfAA.

Thank you.
Seth Holmes and Heide Castaneda



(F-45) FRIDAY 10:00-11:45 Ortiz Three
Theorizing Immigrant Health: The Immigrant Body as Nexus of Contemporary
Forms of Power (SMA/SUNTA)

CHAIRS: HOLMES, Seth (U of California-San Francisco/Berkeley) and CASTANEDA,
Heide (U of Arizona)

CARTWRIGHT, Elizabeth (Idaho State U) Picking Grapes in Sonora: Amuzgan
Embodiments of Social Injustice
ZONTINE, Angelina (U of Massachusetts-Amherst) Teaching Health,
Communicating Citizenship: Health Communication Media and Public Health Policy
in London, England
HOLMES, Seth (U of California-San Francisco/Berkeley) Race, Class, and
Berries: The Naturalization of Social Suffering among Triqui Farm Laborers in
the
Northwest
DUKE, Michael (Hispanic Hlth Council) Immigrant Health: Pleasure, Nostalgia,
and the Epistemology of 'Risk'
CASTANEDA, Heide (U of Arizona) Workers from the East: Labor Migration and
Health in the Context of EU Expansion
MARTINEZ, Konane (U of California-Riverside) Ties that Bind, Clinics that
Cut: Transnational Mixtec Communities and Health Care Systems
DISCUSSANT: QUESADA, James (San Francisco State U)


++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Heide Castaneda, M.A., M.P.H.
Department of Anthropology
& College of Public Health
University of Arizona
Mobile (USA): (520) 270 - 6247
Mobile (Germany): 0160 - 522 8284






From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 21 15:30:42 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 21 10:30:47 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Jan 15 - 20, 2005
Message-ID: <00e001c55e43$d1f17810$8d8b90ac@toshibauser>

 URBANTH-L Job Postings, Jan 15 - 20, 2005

* Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP)
* Urban Pathways (NYC), Director of Development
* University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor (2 positions), Urban and
Community Studies
* University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Tenure-Track Cultural Anthropology
Position
____________________________________________________________________
* Cornell University, Director of the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP)

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University has
opened a search for a new director of the Cornell Migrant Program (CMP) and
welcomes nominations or inquiries about the position at
<cmp-director-search@cornell.edu>. Position description #3405 is linked to
www.ohr.cornell.edu/jobs.

The director will provide leadership in sponsoring, conducting and
disseminating research helpful to farmworkers, their employers and the
communities in which they live, and ensure that the Cornell Migrant Program
provides reliable, consistent, and comprehensive information.  The director
will have responsibilities for supervision of staff in the program and for
grant and contract management. The appointment will be as a senior extension
associate in an appropriate academic unit in CALS. The initial appointment
is for five years, with the possibility of renewal. Close collaboration with
faculty across the colleges of Industrial Labor and Relations (ILR), Human
Ecology (CHE), CALS, and Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) is expected.
The director will also be charged with forming an advisory board consisting
of stakeholders that include farmworkers, farmers and their respective
advocates.

With the firm grounding provided by strong linkages to the academic mission
of the university and advice from informed stakeholders, the Cornell Migrant
Program will be poised to play a leadership role in improving the lives of
farmworkers and their families, said Henry.  The CMP grew out of the
Agricultural Manpower Project started by CALS and CCE in 1971, and was
transferred to the Department of Human Development and Family Studies in CHE
in 1979, when it was renamed the Cornell Migrant Program. The program's
focus has shifted numerous times over the thirty-plus years of its existence
in an effort to remain responsive to the changing needs of farmworkers and
the farming community.  After an extensive review, in May 2004, the deans of
CHE, CALS and the director of CCE announced the restructuring of the CMP to
meet better the changing and complex needs of New York's farmworkers,
including migrant, seasonal, and year-round workers and their families. As
part of the restructuring, oversight of the program was shifted from CHE to
CALS. A transition team led by Max Pfeffer, professor of development
sociology in CALS and associate director of the Cornell University
Agricultural Experiment Station, was appointed to work on restructuring the
program.
___________________________________________________________________
* Urban Pathways, Director of Development

Urban Pathways, an EOE and provider of services to homeless single adults,
seeks a Director of Development to effect private grants; plan/implement
special events; and coordinate all other agency development. Requires
exceptional interpersonal skills; excellent organizational/writing/computer
skills; creative/optimistic spirit; knowledge of resources; commitment to
the mission of the agency. Cover letter/resume 212-736-1388 or
hr@urbanpathways.org. Competitive salary, good benefits. NO CALLS OR
AGENCIES PLEASE. More Info:  http://www.urbanpathways.org/index.asp
_____________________________________________________________________
* University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor (2 positions), Urban and
Community Studies

The   University   of  Connecticut's  Urban  and  Community  Studies  (UCS)
Tri-Campus   program   invites   applications   to   fill  two  entry-level
tenure-track  faculty  positions.  We are seeking faculty with teaching and
research  expertise  in  one or more the following areas: (1) community and
economic  development; (2) nonprofit management and community organization;
and (3) urban studies and planning.  Urban and Community Studies is an
interdisciplinary major in the College of Liberal  Arts  and  Sciences.   It
provides  a flexible B.A. degree in the
social sciences for students as well as career paths into public and social
service.

Minimum  qualifications include an earned doctorate in urban studies, urban
planning,  geography,  public  administration,  public  policy,  sociology,
history,  anthropology,  social  work,  or  a  related field.  Applications
accepted  from  candidates  completing  their doctorate by August 2005.  We
seek  individuals  with  a  demonstrated  record  of,  and  potential  for,
scholarly  excellence, who will become members of the graduate faculty.  In
addition,  candidates  should  have  interest  in  and  qualifications  for
teaching  core courses in the undergraduate UCS program as well as graduate
level courses in the home department. Tenure home will be determined by the
candidate's field and the appropriate department  or school at UConn.
Ideally, the candidate will be part of the Department  of  Public  Policy
(DPP).   We strongly encourage applications from candidates with a strong
commitment to  high  quality,  public-oriented research, teaching, and
service. Review of applications will begin February 15, 2005 and will
continue until the  positions  are  filled. Applicants should submit a
letter describing their research and teaching interests, curriculum vitae,
and the names, postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers of three
references.   Inquiries  and  applications  should  be  directed to: Robert
Fisher,  Professor and Director, UConn Hartford Campus, Urban and Community
Studies,  85  Lawler  Road,  West  Hartford, CT 06117.  (Search #'s 05A299,
05A300). More info: www.urban.uconn.edu
__________________________________________________________
* University of Tennessee - Knoxville, Tenure-Track Cultural Anthropology
Position

The University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology seeks qualified
candidates to fill a position in sociocultural anthropology beginning in
August, 2005. The position carries the rank of Assistant Professor and will
be a regular full-time, tenure-track appointment. We are seeking candidates
with the following qualifications: demonstrated teaching ability; an active
program of empirically-based research relating to causes or consequences of
warfare, interethnic or interpersonal violence or terrorism; and a strong
publication record.  Candidates should address how they would complement
existing departmental strengths in archaeology or forensic anthropology as
well as cultural anthropology. Geographic area open but research in the
Americas is preferred. The Ph.D. degree must be in hand at the time of
appointment. Qualified minorities and women are especially encouraged to
apply. Send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a list of 3
references to Andrew Kramer, Chair, Anthropology Search Committee,
Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
37996-0720. Review of applications will begin on February 1, 2005 and will
continue until the position is filled.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 21 15:36:18 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 21 10:36:22 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Funding: NYC HPD Housing and Community Development
	Fellowship
Message-ID: <010301c55e44$99b0e020$8d8b90ac@toshibauser>

NYC HPD HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP -- NYC Dept of Housing Preservation and Development: This two-year program exposes Fellows to the inner workings of NYC government and provides a forum for the exchange of ideas with those who shape HPD's housing policy. Related lectures and tours enhance the fellowship experience. In the first year, fellows work for four months in three different offices of their choosing at HPD, allowing them to learn firsthand HPD's innovative efforts to revitalize NYC neighborhoods through new construction, renovation, code enforcement, litigation, and outreach and loans to private owners. In the second year, fellows move into a full-time position. The 2005-2007 Fellowship begins in July 2005. 

Applicant must be a recent graduate with a master's or law degree, and have good writing, analytical, and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated interest in government and housing is preferred. Selected applicants must become residents of NYC within ninety days following the start of employment. Salary: $44K per year with health care benefits beginning three months after the start of employment. The application is available for download at http://nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/for-job-seekers/housing- fellows.html. Deliver completed application packages to 100 Gold Street, Room 5A4, by February 28th, 2005. Contact:glaserp@hpd.nyc.gov  
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Jan 21 13:59:38 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 21 16:59:47 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SANA Student Travel Grant
Message-ID: <1106344778.41f17b4a6b679@webmail.sfsu.edu>

[Ed. note: Since URBANTH-L is configured not to allow attached files, the
contents have been cut and pasted below.]

To: Student Members of SUNTA and beyond.
 
Please read the attached document detailing travel awards for students
participating in the annual meeting for the Society for the Anthropology of
North America, kindly forwarded by Ashley Spalding at USF.
 
All the best,
 
Peter Lawson
Student Councilor SUNTA
Doctoral Student
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University

-------------

The St. Claire Drake Student Travel Grant Award

The Society for the Anthropology of North America announces the St. Claire Drake
Student Travel Grants Award for the 2005 SANA/ CASCA/ UADY conference in Merida,
Mexico, May 3-8.

To apply submit your paper or session abstract, contact information, and a cover
letter detailing your relationship to the anthropology of North America.  The
paper/ session submission and registration deadline is February 15, 2005.  To
apply for the travel grant, please submit you materials by March 15, 2005.

Email your complete application to sanatravelgrant@yahoo.com.
The student travel grant will be awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by
a committee comprised of members from the SANA board. 

?	This travel grant is intended for currently enrolled graduate students without
a PhD.  Only students who are presenting at the conference will be considered
for the award.
?	Preference will go to those students who have previously applied for the SANA
travel grant and have not yet received one.
?	The total dollar amount allocated to travel grants is limited, therefore the
number and dollar amount of grants awarded depends on the number of applicants
and their travel needs.
?	Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual two years in a row.
?	SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages
every student to apply for the St. Claire Drake award regardless of society?s
labels or anthropology?s disciplinary boundaries.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 24 10:30:21 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 24 10:30:29 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Funding: 2005 Fellowship Competition for Research in India
Message-ID: <000701c50229$9daf1920$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

Description:
The American Institute of Indian Studies announces its 2005 fellowship
competition and invites applications from scholars who wish to conduct their
research in India. Junior fellowships are awarded to Ph.D. candidates to
conduct research for their dissertations in India for up to eleven months.
Senior fellowships are awarded to scholars who hold the Ph.D. degree for up
to nine months of research in India. The application deadline is July 1,
2005. For more information and applications, please contact the American
Institute of Indian Studies, 1130 E. 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637.
Telephone: (773) 702-8638. Email: aiis@uchicago.edu. Web site:
www.indiastudies.org

 Level of Study: Doctoral/Post-Doctoral

Eligibility Requirements: graduate students pursuing the Ph.D. degree and
scholars holding the Ph.D. degree

Contact Information:
Elise Auerbach
American Institute of Indian Studies
1130 E. 59th Street
Chicago IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-8638
Email: aiis@uchicago.edu
URL http://www.indiastudies.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 24 10:35:16 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 24 10:35:25 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Jobs (Graduate, Part-Time):  Center for Cultural Understanding and
 Change, Chicago
Message-ID: <001001c5022a$4dd342e0$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change at The Field Museum announce an ethnographic project for 2005 called "MAPPING CULTURAL AND NETWORK ASSETS IN THREE CHICAGO COMMUNITIES". We would like to invite Spanish speaking graduate level students to apply for the 5 part-time positions. The project involves mapping the arts and cultural assets of recent Mexican immigrants in Cicero, Pilsen, and South Chicago/East Side. The project will provide data for cultural indicators in general and document the role of arts and culture in community building. It will also complement other planned or ongoing studies of the impact of transnational flows of labor and economic resources by providing baseline data on the ways in which immigrants create strategies for survival and security by drawing on their social assets and their networks of interaction. CCUC will be collaborating with Noshir Contractor, who does network analysis at University of Illinois at Urbana. 

Additional details: 
-Five openings for graduate students with ethnographic experience 
-Paid for 6 months @ 20 hours/week (March-August) plus travel expenses. Stipend will be $10,000 over the research period. 
-The work will consist of conducting ethnographic interviews and focus groups in Spanish using CCUC social asset-based approach. 
-Analysis and the writing of a final report are required. 
-Students will be working with a team of other ethnographers and network analysis specialists 
-Spanish fluency required 

To apply, send CV and cover letter to: 
Josh Ostergaard 
Urban Programs Coordinator 
Center for Cultural Understanding and Change 
The Field Museum 
312-665-7484 
jostergaard@fieldmuseum.org 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 24 15:36:36 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 24 15:36:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: Dramatic Cuts for the Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Message-ID: <000501c50254$663ba320$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

This article, which was just forwarded to me, should interest many of you
who are working with poor/urban populations in the U.S.
- AJ


Bush Plans Sharp Cuts in HUD Community Efforts

By Jonathan Weisman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 14, 2005; Page A01

The White House will seek to drastically shrink the Department of Housing
and Urban Development's $8 billion community branch, purging dozens of
economic development projects, scrapping a rural housing program and folding
high-profile anti-poverty efforts into the Labor and Commerce departments,
administration officials said yesterday.

The proposal in the upcoming 2006 budget would make good on President Bush's
vow to eliminate or consolidate what he sees as duplicative or ineffective
programs. Officials said yesterday that economic development programs are
scattered too widely in the government and have proved particularly
ineffectual at HUD.

Advocates for the poor, however, contended that the White House is trying to
gut federal programs for the poorest Americans to make way for tax cuts, a
mission to Mars and other presidential priorities. Administration officials
would not say how much the consolidation would save, but it could lead to
steep funding cuts. That is because the HUD programs would have to compete
for resources in Commerce and Labor budgets that are not likely to expand to
accommodate the shuffle.

"I'm always willing to look at consolidation, but clearly they're using
consolidation as a shield for substantial budget reductions," said Rep.
Barney Frank (Mass.), the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services
Committee, which has jurisdiction over housing and community development
programs.

The plan was detailed in a December memo from the White House Office of
Management and Budget to HUD. The document provides one of the first
concrete examples of the types of cuts in the works as the administration
comes to grips with a soaring deficit.

"The purpose of the exercise has nothing to do with achieving or not
achieving savings," said one administration official, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity to avoid preempting the Feb. 7 release of the
president's fiscal 2006 budget request.

"What we are trying to accomplish is to meet our obligation to people living
in distressed communities, to hold communities accountable for helping those
people and to become more efficient in the process," another official said.

HUD programs to be moved under proposal             Program's annual cost
Destination

Community Development Block Grant                             $4.7 billion
Commerce
Youthbuild USA high school dropout outreach                 $62 million
Labor
Brownfields Economic Development                                $23.8
million                     Commerce
Rural Housing and Economic Development                      $23.8 million
Eliminated
Empowerment Zones/Renewal Community                     $9.9 million
Commerce

SOURCE: Office of Management and Budget | Graphic: The Washington Post

Congressional housing aides say the $4.7 billion Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) program -- the bulk of the community planning budget -- could
be cut as much as 50 percent. Cities have become dependent on HUD's
development programs, especially the CDBG, which has existed for 30 years,
city officials said. Stanley Jackson, director of the D.C. Department of
Housing and Community Development, said the city has used CDBG grants of $21
million to $22 million a year for clinics, recreation centers, day-care
facilities, literacy programs and housing development.

With housing and property values skyrocketing, the need for such programs
for low-income families has never been higher, he said.

"If this is a backdoor way of eliminating a program like CDBG, it would have
a profoundly negative impact on cities," said Jim Hunt, a vice president of
the National League of Cities and a city council member in Clarksburg, W.Va.

Under the plan, the CDBG program -- which provides multipurpose development
grants to state and local governments -- would be sent to the Commerce
Department. The Urban Empowerment Zones and the Renewal Community
programs -- both of which offer tax incentives for development in urban or
other troubled areas -- would also go to Commerce, as would the Brownfields
Economic Development Initiative, designed to revitalize abandoned industrial
sites.

Youthbuild USA, a $62 million program to teach teens home-construction
skills, would be sent to the Labor Department. The $24 million rural housing
and economic development program would probably be eliminated.

HUD would maintain the Home Investment Partnerships to build or buy
affordable housing, homeless assistance programs and housing assistance for
AIDS sufferers. The budget would eliminate $260 million in economic
development projects earmarked for this year by lawmakers. HUD could
ultimately lose a quarter of its $31 billion budget.

White House officials said HUD employees would have to stay on the job to
oversee outstanding grants for some time. But with Bush promising an
aggressive attack on domestic spending, the 817 HUD community planning and
development employees are girding for the worst.

"It's a body blow," said one career employee, who spoke on the condition of
anonymity for fear of being fired.

The proposal could face an uphill fight in Congress, said Frank, who called
the proposal "just appalling." With budgets tight, vested interests in the
Commerce and Labor departments would be expected to favor their programs
over the newcomers from HUD. "It wouldn't even be a fair fight," he said.

Moreover, HUD has evolved into an agency designed to support urban interests
and low-income citizens, while Commerce and Labor are more receptive to
business needs. Indeed, community development programs at HUD are far larger
than those at Commerce and Labor, said Saul Ramirez Jr., executive director
of the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and a
former deputy secretary of housing. The Commerce Department's Economic
Development Administration has a $320 million budget, a fraction of CDBG's
allocation.

"If there are any programs in Commerce that encourage direct economic
development to some of the most disadvantaged and blighted areas, those
programs are dwarfed by these programs," he said. "If [consolidation] is
what they want, the reverse should be proposed."

One White House official agreed that HUD programs have more of a community
focus, while the Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration
is more interested in economic growth. But, he said, "they're funding a lot
of the same things."

HUD's city focus may be why the White House is dismantling the HUD programs,
Frank charged. "HUD is the place where mayors and urban interests can put up
the strongest fight," he said.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 26 00:23:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 25 19:23:38 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 REV: Butner on Haslund-Christensen, _The Wild East: Portrait of an
 Urban Nomad_
Message-ID: <003f01c56248$f0976c30$fa4f8bac@toshibauser>

[Film Review x-posted from the ARD]

Haslund-Christensen, Michael
2002. _The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad_. New York: First
Run/Icarus Films.  1 VHS (54 min.) Mongolian; In English, Russian, and
Mongolian with English subtitles.

Reviewed 10 Jan 2005 by Tammy Butner <nibailey@yahoo.com>,
Independent Scholar (Westbrook, Maine, USA)

 ABSTRACT:    Set in the Mongolian capital of Ulaan Baatar, this
ethnographic film chronicles the daily lives of two friends, Jenya and
Sasha, as they attempt to find jobs in the newly changing economy. Following
them from one unrealized dream to the next, Haslund-Christensen offers the
viewer a glimpse of Mongolian life since the shift from socialism to
capitalism.


 In The Wild East, Haslund-Christiansen introduces the viewer to a Mongolia
with which few people are familiar - a changing country with a dramatically
shifting economy, one that is moving so quickly towards modernity that many
of its inhabitants are having a hard time keeping up. The film documents a
year in the lives of two longtime friends from Ulaan Baatar, Jenya and
Sasha, as they attempt to find a reliable source of income.
     Haslund-Christiansen presents a variety of issues, including national
and cultural identity, and cultural and economic change. Jenya is the son of
a Mongolian mother and a Mongolian/Russian father, and this mixed heritage
causes him to question his place in his own country. He states that
"half-Russians are between the two fires" and that he experienced
discrimination growing up because he is neither fully Chinese nor Russian.
Underscoring their mixed heritage, the family celebrates the New Year with
food and drink traditional to both Russia and Mongolia, and songs and toasts
are delivered in both languages. Jenya understands the advantages of
multiculturalism and wants his daughter to grow up speaking Mongolian,
Russian, and English so she will have more opportunity than he had.
     Midway through the film, the issue of ethnocentrism surfaces and the
Mongolian's dislike for the Chinese becomes obvious. Jenya and Sasha visit a
friend who begins complaining that he hates the Chinese so much that, even
if he finds a Chinese woman that is very beautiful, he would be repulsed by
her simply because she is Chinese. This leads to a discussion of why the
Mongolians dislike the Chinese and the Russians; in part this is because
they are dependent on these two nations for basic necessities such as food,
clothing, and fuel. The discussion leads to an introspective criticism of
how the Mongolians themselves are conducting their economic affairs; Jenya
states that the Mongolians are dependent because they mismanage their
livestock, ignore available minerals deposits, and fail to utilize farmland
properly. Haslund-Christensen also points out the struggle between national
loyalty and the desire for "Western" things; when Jenya and Sasha purchase
cigarettes, they opt for the imported Lucky Strikes, at three times the
price of Mongolian-made Chengis Khan cigarettes.
     Several dichotomies play into the lives of the two men. First, there is
the relationship between the modern city and the more traditional country.
Jenya discusses how everyone is moving into Ulaan Baatar from the country;
this seems true since the city is filled with heavy traffic and a hodgepodge
of tall apartment buildings and ramshackle homes. The city has a very modern
feel, with its cell phones, high-rise buildings, and new Japanese cars.
There is an air of industrialization as the camera pans across factories,
railways, and smokestacks, all in operation and pumping heat, steam, and
commerce throughout the city. City signs are posted in both Mongolian and
English indicating the cultural mix of the urban area.
     In contrast, the country remains traditional, where, people still raise
sheep to sell for profit in the city. The country folk arrive at the central
market with frozen sheep skins, slaughtered pigs, and wolf pelts, conveying
a sense of wildness in contrast to the civility of the city. When there is
too much snow, the people in the country are cut off from any direct access
to the outside community unless they travel by snowmobile. In their world,
the roadside signs are only in Mongolian.
     Presented next is the dichotomy between scientific technology and
Buddhist faith. Throughout the film, Jenya and Sasha use their business
knowledge and their grasp of modern technology to try to succeed in
business. Yet, when they are about to embark on a new and potentially
lucrative venture selling intestines to sausage makers, Jenya and Sasha go
to temple to buy sutras for courage and luck, even though Jenya states he is
not a believer. Here the viewer gets a glimpse of the Mongolia with which
people are most familiar - the scene of the Buddhist temple, filled with
chanting monks, spinning prayer wheels, and young children selling "karma
rice" to the worshipers to feed the hordes of pigeons around the temple
grounds. Later, when the intestine business fails, Jenya is very upset and
remarks with discouragement in his voice that even going to temple did not
help.
     Perhaps the most strongly presented issues are the economic changes
that have occurred with the shift from socialism to capitalism. Jenya says
that even though he worked hard all summer he could not save enough money
for the winter. He must be able to save in order to make his dreams come
true. Throughout the film, Jenya speaks of the things to which he does not
have access. He laments that the baby's clothes are too small for her, that
even small toys are too expensive to purchase, and that milk powder for the
baby has become dear. Jenya's brother Dima is out of work so he watches the
baby while Jenya searches for employment and, before he leaves, Jenya
explains carefully how much milk powder should be used if the baby gets
hungry. Their mother reveals that sheep stomach was the only meat within her
price range and that, since the latest snowstorm, even stomach is not
available so the family is going without meat. The family's poverty and
desperation is palpable throughout the film, as Jenya and Sasha become more
discouraged with each failed business venture.
     This excellent film could be used to depict how a changing economy
shapes peoples' lives. It also presents a view of Mongolia that is very
different from the traditional picture of nomadic animal herders on
snow-covered plains. We see that Mongolians struggles with many of the same
problems as others around the world. Haslund-Christiansen not only
illustrates contemporary problems of economic and cultural change, he has
produced a film that appeals to the senses, engaging the viewer from
beginning to end.

To cite this review, the American Anthropological Association recommends the
following style:

Butner, Tammy
2005 Review of The Wild East: Portrait of an Urban Nomad. Anthropology
Review Database. January 10. Electronic document.
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/showme.cgi?keycode=2228 .


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 26 17:17:14 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 26 17:17:20 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: The Global Flow of Information: A Conference on Law, Culture
 and Political Economy 
Message-ID: <003501c503f4$ca387b90$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS 2005
The Global Flow of Information: A Conference on Law, Culture and Political
Economy

The Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP), The Yale Journal of
Law & Technology (YJoLT) and the International Journal of Communications Law
and Policy (IJCLP) are pleased to announce their second interdisciplinary
writing competition and a call for papers in conjunction with The Global
Flow of Information Conference taking place on April 1-3, 2005 at Yale Law
School. We invite students, scholars, policy makers, activists and
practitioners to submit papers for the writing competition and/or for
publication by YJoLT/IJCLP.

Conference Description
Patterns of information flow are one of the most important factors shaping
globalization. Today individuals, groups, countries, and international
organizations are trying to promote and control the flow of different kinds
of information across national borders - information ranging from
intellectual property and scientific research to political discourse, brand
names and cultural symbols. And digitally networked environments subject
information to ever new methods of distribution and manipulation. Fights
over information flow are going to help define who holds power in the global
information economy.

The groundbreaking conference on Global Flows of Information, will explore
these emerging patterns of information flow, and their political, economic,
social, and cultural consequences. We will be looking at the following key
questions in six different contexts:

- governance
- economics
- culture
- politics
- science
- warfare

Can the flow of information across borders be controlled? If so, how?  Whose
interests are going to be affected by flows of information across borders?
Who will be empowered and who will lose influence and authority? What role
can or should law play in securing freedoms, rights, and democratic
accountability as individuals, groups, and nations struggle over control of
information flows?
What lessons can we learn about how to regulate information flow from past
experience with other kinds of flow across borders- for example, flows of
goods, services, people, and capital?

For a full conference description, questions to be considered during the
conference, list of speakers, schedule, and resources, please visit the Yale
ISP web site (web address provided at the bottom of this page).

Writing Competition
Submissions for the writing competition must be received by noon EST,
February 15, 2005. The author of the best paper, as well as two runners-up
will be invited to present their work at a panel during the conference. The
author of the winning paper will receive coverage of his/her travel to and
accommodations at Yale University for the conference. Selected papers will
be announced by March 1st, 2005. The authors of the award-winning papers
will automatically be invited to publish their work in special Fall 2005
volumes of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (http://yjolt.org) and the
International Journal of Communications Law and Policy
(http://www.ijclp.org) devoted to the conference topic.

Journal Publication
Submissions for publication must be received by noon EST, May 1st, 2005. The
selection committee, composed of the editorial boards of YJoLT and IJCLP,
will review and consider all submissions for publication in the special Fall
Volume 2005 of the journals, including submissions for the writing
competition. Authors will be notified of acceptance by June 1st, 2005. The
journals reserve the right to decide which journal will publish which work,
based on the journals' respective audiences and editorial expertise.

Submission Guidelines
All submissions should be written in English in .doc or .pdf format. They
should conform to academic citation standards, be no longer than 25,000
words, and include an abstract of up to 250 words. Submissions should be
e-mailed simultaneously to Simone Bonetti (simo.bonetti@tiscalinet.it) and
Boris Rotenberg (boris_rotenberg@yahoo.it), lead editors IJCLP; as well as
to Lawrence Cogswell (lawrence.cogswell@yale.edu), Editor-in-Chief, YJoLT.
Inquiries may be addressed to any of the above.

Boris Rotenberg
Hauser Global Law School Program, NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012-1099
Telephone: (212) 998-6691
Facsimile: (212) 995-4656
Email: boris_rotenberg@yahoo.it
Visit the website at
http://islandia.law.yale.edu/isp/GlobalFlow/writingcompetition.html


From jhenrici at memphis.edu  Wed Jan 26 19:07:09 2005
From: jhenrici at memphis.edu (Jane Henrici)
Date: Wed Jan 26 23:16:06 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]symposium addresses NAFTA's continued impact
Message-ID: <41F83EBD.80604@memphis.edu>



Please distribute, to your colleagues, Sections and Listservs--Thank you 
very much. --Jane Henrici

"Trading Justice: NAFTA's New Links and Conflicts"

"Trading Justice: NAFTA's New Links and Conflicts," a transnational 
symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Women and the 
Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change, will be held on March 
24-26, 2005 at the University of Memphis. The opening plenary on March 
24 will feature representatives from each of the three signatory 
countries to the North American Free Trade Agreement: Drs. Isidro 
Morales Moreno (Mexico), Marjorie Cohen (Canada) and Michael Dreiling 
(USA). Additional presentations by such scholars at Drs. Ann E. 
Kingsolver (USA) and Monica Gambrill (Mexico) will address NAFTA's 
implications for civic engagement, cross-border organizing, and 
corporate environmental practices, among other topics. The symposium 
will be conducted primarily in English with interpretation services 
available for Spanish speakers upon request.

The cost of registration for the three-day event is $75.00 and includes 
breakfast and lunch on Friday and Saturday. To register, please complete 
the registration form 
<http://cas.memphis.edu/isc/crow/Nafta_registration.pdf> and return it 
to CROW, along with your registration fee by February 18, 2005.

All events will be held at the Fogelman Executive Center on the campus 
of the University of Memphis. For more information, go to 
http://cas.memphis.edu/isc/crow/

GUEST ARTIST

Todd Drake is an artist who opens up the art-making process to the 
influence and contributions of people he encounters in diverse 
settings--from truck stops to museum exhibits. Currently a Rockefeller 
fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill, Drake will participate in the NAFTA symposium 
by creating art from the doodles and drawings of other attendees. An 
example of his work is below.


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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 27 11:59:48 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 27 12:07:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: IMISCOE Cluster B6 Workshop on Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious
 Diversity
Message-ID: <1106845188.41f91e0422129@webmail.ysu.edu>

[x-posted from H-Migration]


Call for Papers
IMISCOE Cluster B6 Workshop on Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Diversity

University of Amsterdam, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES),
Amsterdam, May 26-28, 2005

This 3-in-1 workshop revolves around a set of thematic streams reflecting areas
of developing concern and interest. Each of the three streams (?Ethnic Diversity
and Urban Public Space?, ?Ethnic Minority and Immigrants? Cultural Productions
as Forms of Political Expression? and ?Public Religion and Secular Democracy?)
is described below. The workshop will highlight current work, lead to
publications (either as IMISCOE working papers or as special issues of
journals), and form the basis for potential collaborative projects.
We wish to underscore the inter-dependent nature of the stream. We want to
ensure that the workshop does not splinter into discrete groups, but rather wish
to foster the cross-fertilization of ideas, findings and methods. Therefore we
identify common interests in migration and various forms of diversity found
across all three streams. These commonalities may be exemplified through
discourse and practice, policy and politics, and/or spatiality. Each stream will
ideally be comprised of 8-10 paper presenters from both inside and outside the
B6 Cluster and IMISCOE itself; 5-8 papers will then be selected for publication.
We will also convene a pre-workshop meeting with post-grad students as well as
include slots for post-grad presentations within the main workshops.

Stream 1: Ethnic Diversity and Urban Public Space
Convener: Jan Rath, University of Amsterdam While manifestations of cultural and
religious difference?cultural production?are contingent on urban conditions,
urban conditions are constantly changing due to the dynamics of cultural,
religious and other differences. This holds true especially for manifestations
in and of public space, as public space is a key site of encounter.
The objective of Stream 1 is to examine the interrelationship of manifestations
of religious and cultural diversity in and of urban public spaces on the one
hand, and the production and reproduction of social, political and economic
relations on the other. This interrelationship is manifested in: i) Changing
streetscapes (architecture, e.g. parks, religious buildings) and shopping areas
(e.g. ethnic businesses; ethnic precincts); ii) Changing order and action in
public space (festivals and parades; local music scenes; use of public space).

Stream 2: Ethnic Minority and Immigrants? Cultural Productions as Forms of
Political Expression
Convener: Marco Martiniello, University of Li?ge This stream examines the extent
to which immigrant and ethnic popular cultural productions (music, literature,
etc.) can be analyzed in terms of political expression and participation,
especially at the city level. Themes include: i) The political relevance of
ethnic minorities and immigrants cultural productions; ii) Culture as a means to
be politically active; and iii) The link between cultural production and
collective identities.

Stream 3: Public Religion and Secular Democracy
Convener: Veit Bader, University of Amsterdam This stream involves comparative
research on institutionalized regimes of governance of religious diversity in
Europe, their impact on organization and mobilization of immigrant minorities
(and vice versa), and on their societal and political incorporation in general
as well as on different varieties of a ?reformist? Islam in European countries
in particular. This topic should be combined with a broad normative evaluation
and result in rules of thumb for alternative institutions and policies.

Agenda and Applications
The 3-in-1 workshop will start with a dinner party on Thursday evening, May 26,
2005. The next day begins at 9 AM with a plenary welcome session, followed by a
series of stream meetings held simultaneously. The workshop will be concluded
after another plenary session in which the three themes will be brought together
on Saturday May 28 at 3PM. This allows participants to return home on Saturday
evening.
Funding is available for paper presenters. Those interested are asked to send an
abstract of 500 words max. on the topic, aims and objectives of the paper. After
the deadline of the abstracts (February 15, 2005) the conveners will select the
most interesting proposals and invite the authors to the workshop. Papers must
be circulated up front.

Post-grad pre-workshop meeting
PhD candidates and other post-graduate students are invited to attend the
workshop. We encourage them to present a full-fledged paper, but short research
notes are also welcome.
In addition, PhD candidates who choose to sign up for the pre-workshop meeting
are expected to study a short reading list and to prepare a presentation of
their research plans. During the pre-workshop meeting, which starts on Wednesday
May 25 around noon, students will discuss the literature and each other?s
research plans. Upon successful completion of the post-grad pre-workshop meeting
and the workshop itself, post-graduate candidates earn credits. The Programme is
the equivalent of a 4 European credits module if the following requirements are
fulfilled: i) required readings; ii) active participation in the meetings to a
total of 20 contact hours or more, iii) successful presentation of a research
proposal and/or paper.

For further information contact one of the conveners (and CC to the two others):
Jan Rath, e-mail <mailto:j.c.rath@uva.nl>j.c.rath@uva.nl
Marco Martiniello, e-mail
<mailto:m.martiniello@ulg.ac.be>m.martiniello@ulg.ac.be
Veit Bader, e-mail <mailto:v.m.bader@uva.nl>v.m.bader@uva.nl

Web
<http://users.fmg.uva.nl/jrath/B6workshop.htm>http://users.fmg.uva.nl/jrath/B6workshop.htm

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 27 12:02:59 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 27 12:50:29 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: 2nd Conference on Urban & Building Heritage Preservation (Havana City)
Message-ID: <1106845379.41f91ec35bf14@webmail.ysu.edu>

From: John Lear, University of Puget Sound, lear@ups.edu

A friend and colleague in Cuba asked me to circulate the following call
for papers for the conference below. Queries should be made directly to
Felicia Chateloin at: felbra@arquitectura.cujae.edu.cu

*The Heritage National Board and the Architecture Society of the
National Union of Architects and Engineers -UNAICC-*

* Calls for the II Conference on Urban and Building Heritage Preservation.*

The event will take place in Havana City, capital of Cuba from April 19
to 21, 2005 in Old Havana, the largest and most important Historical
Center of the island, designated World Heritage by UNESCO in 1982.

The province of Sancti Spiritus will be co-host to the main event. This
province's capital is a National Monument and its territory includes the
UNESCO World Heritage Site of Trinidad and the Valley of the /Ingenios/.

[Ed: On the Old Havana site, see the World Heritage site
  http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=204&l=en

On Trinidad and the Valley of the Ingenios, see the World Heritage
site, at http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=460&l=en .]

*BOARD OF HONOR*

Eusebio Leal. Havana City Historian
Marta Arjona. President of the Heritage National Board
Julio Salgado. President of UNAICC
Rubin Bancrofft, President of the National Architecture Society

*ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE*

*President:*
Felicia Chateloin Santiesteban. President of the Heritage National
Division of UNAICC

*Vice-president:*
Roberto Villoch, President of the Heritage Sancti Spiritus Division of
UNAICC

*Secretary:*
Mirtha Garc?a de Hombre, Architecture National Executive, UNAICC

*Members:*
Maria Buajas?n, Director of Heritage Architecture. Historian's Office.
Ada Portero, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture of Havana
Nilson Acosta, Vice-president of the Heritage National Board
Orestes del Castillo, Nacional Architecture Award.
Nancy Benitez, Director of the Trinidad Historical Preservation Office.
  Zoila Cuadras, Architecture Society of Havana City, UNAICC.
L?zaro Capdevila, Architecture Society of Havana City, UNAICC.

*Logistics and National Advertising:*
Maritza  Barcel? Gonzalez, UNAICC

*International Advertising:*
Marta Hechavarria Castellanos, UNAICC

*Promotion, documentation and translation*
Cecilia Santos , UNAICC
Ayleen Robainas, OH

*SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE*

Daniel Taboada
  Architecture National Award, Senior Scholar. Chair of Vernacular
Architecture.

?ngela Rojas,
Presidente of ICOMOS Cuba

Isabel Rigol,
Senior Professor. Architecture Faculty.

VictorMar?n,
Vice-president of Urbanism and Heritage Committee. UPADI

Miguel Padr?n
Development Board. Institute of Physical Planning.

*Co-sponsors*
*Office of Havana City Historian.*
*National Heritage Board*
*Faculty of Architecture *
*Chair of Vernacular Architecture /Gonzalo de C?rdenas/*
*ICOMOS Cuba*
*Institute of Physical Planning *
*Trinidad City Historical Preservation Office.*

*Objectives:*

Help develop the conceptual debate in relation to architecture and
urbanism's historical values among architects, urban planners and other
associated professionals using this advanced thinking as a fundamental
tool to stimulate the discussion of relevant agendas about the present,
such as sustainable development, globalization and design in the
contemporary world and their impacts on the development of the genuine
expression of the Cuban architecture.

*Topics:*

The event is organized in different commissions according to the
following aspects:

     * Colonial Architecture. Theory and Research. Presentation of
Projects and Completed works. Adaptive reuse.
     * 20th Century Architecture. Theory and Research. Projects and
Completed works. Adaptive reuse.
     * Traditional or Vernacular Architecture. Theory and Research.
Projects and Completed Works. Adaptive reuse.
     *New Innovations in areas designated for cultural and historical
preservation. Theory and research. Contemporary design practice.
Quality, Contextual integration and contrasts.
     * Contemporary use of technology and construction materials in
cultural and historical heritage areas.
     * Urban rehabilitation in Heritage designated areas. The
preservation of the traditional image. The Urban Plan.
     * The training of architects and other related professionals on
preservation, recreation and creation in historical contexts.

*Deadlines for papers and approvals:*

The receipt of papers will run until January 30, 2005 (this date has
been extended until February 15, 2005).

Papers must be delivered at UNAICC Headquarters, in digital format or
printed.

Foreign participants may send their papers to the following e-mails:

eventos@unaicc.co.cu <mailto:eventos@unaicc.co.cu> ,
patrimonio@arquitectura.cujae.edu.cu
<mailto:patrimonio@arquitectura.cujae.edu.cu> , mirta@micons.cu
<mailto:mirta@micons.cu>

The list of accepted papers will be issued no later than February 28, 2005.

During the registration, all the participants must deliver a printed
copy of the work and its digital version in a 3-1/2   diskette or CD-ROM.

*Participation forms:*

The organizers are responsible for the final selection of works
according to the Conference schedule. The final proceedings will
include the publication of all accepted papers.

The organizers may suggest that some of the papers be presented as
posters in order to accept a larger amount of works. Participants
interested in presenting posters must inform the organizers about their
choice. Posters must not exceed the dimensions of 0.60m x 0.90m.

All participants must submit their work in digital version plus one
printed copy.

*Papers' submission and selection criteria*.

Each paper will include the following information: author
identification, title, topic, and summary up to 350 words.

For final acceptance papers must have a maximum of 10 pages including
graphic information, in Word, simple spacing, Arial 10, images in jpg.

Foreign participants may deliver the printed and digital copies at the
accreditation desk the first day of the conference.

Papers may be written in English or Spanish. The presentations must not
take longer than 15 minutes.

The criteria for the final selection of papers will consider academic
accuracy, correlation with the objectives, relevant contributions to
the discussion topics. and novelty of scope and contents.

*REGISTRATION FEES*

Participants   with papers 120 CUC, without papers 160 CUC

Students 80 CUC

Accompanying guests. 100 CUC

The academic conferences will take place in plenary sessions, and
individual presentations are going to be in commissions according to
the event topics. The program includes visits to The Old Havana.
Optional trips to the Historical Centers of Sancti Spiritus and
Trinidad have been considered for additional payment.

*REGISTRATION CARD*

*Name*

*Surname*

*Profession*

*Institution*

*Home address*

*Telephone*

*Telex*

*Fax*

*Mark an X according to your participation interests.*

* *

*Participant_____ student_______ speaker_________ exhibitor_________*

*I will be accompanied by ( ) persons. Name and surname.*

*The organizing committee will be grateful if you mail this coupon as
soon as you receive this announcement.*


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From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Jan 27 10:27:45 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 27 13:27:54 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Race and Ethnicity in an Urban World, _Research in Urban Sociology_
Message-ID: <1106850465.41f932a113771@webmail.sfsu.edu>


Race and Ethnicity in an Urban World, Volume Eight, Research in Urban Sociology
Edited by Ray Hutchison and Jerry Krase
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-04-01

Cities across the globe are more diverse than at any time in human history.
Earlier models of race and ethnic relations seem unable to explain changes
brought about by post-colonial migrations. We seek contributions on
post-colonial migrations to urban areas, on the changing nature of social
constructions of race, and the importance of incorporating new models into urban
studies.

The study of racial and ethnic communities has been at the core of urban
sociology from the very beginning, and the recent immigration of new population
groups to American cities brought about fascinating change in the ethnic and
racial composition of cities and suburbs, intergroup relations within urban
communities, and other areas. Twenty years ago, studies of segregation compared
black and white residential patterns, while today any such analysis is
incomplete without consideration of various Hispanic/Latino and Asian
populations (and without some sort of explanation as to why the segregation
patterns of these groups is so different from that of African Americans. In the
broader field of race and ethnic relations, assimilationist models (implicit in
the segregation indexes used in urban sociology) have been replaced by a variety
of social interaction and racial formation models. In this volume, we would like
to see a range of studies showing how those who study community and urban
society have responded to the population changes under way in both larger and
smaller communities (perhaps including field studies and ethnographic studies of
individual communities), theoretical essays which explore the changes in race
and ethnic relations in contemporary urban societies (and how urbanologists must
respond to these changes), as well as 'revisions' to current empirical models
which might help us to better explain the changes occurring in urban life as a
consequence of the new immigration and expansion of ethnic and racial groups in
contemporary society.

Volume Seven of Research in Urban Sociology, Race and Ethnicity in New York
City, has just been published by Elsevier Press. Contents of that volume and
others in the series may be viewed at the following web address.

Ray Hutchison
Professor and Chair
Urban and Regional Studies
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
2400 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, Wisconsin 54311-7001
Office: (920) 465-2355
Fax: (920) 465-2791
Webpage link at: www.uwgb.edu/urs/faculty

Jerome Krase
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Brooklyn College
The City University of New York
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York 11210
Phone: 718 951 5314
Fax: 718 951 4639

Email: hutchr@uwgb.edu or jerrykrase@aol.com
Visit the website at
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookseriesdescription.cws_home/BS_RUS/description

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Jan 27 10:28:47 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 27 13:28:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CONFERENCE: Navigating the Globalization of the American
	South, UNC-Chapel Hill, 3/05
Message-ID: <1106850527.41f932df35a5e@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Navigating the Globalization of the American South: An Interdisciplinary
Conference Exploring the Changing Face of the Southern United States
Location:	North Carolina, United States
Conference Begins:	2005-03-03

The University Center for International Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, in
collaboration with The Center for the Study of the American South and The
Rockefeller Foundation, is pleased to host a major interdisciplinary conference
on the globalization of the American South March 3-4, 2005. The conference will
feature over 60 presentations by scholars, policy makers, and practitioners
covering such issues as health and education delivery, cultural impacts of
immigration, economic transformations, expressing identity through art, and
formulating public policy. All presentations will occur at the William and Ida
Friday Center in Chapel Hill, NC. For more information and to register, please
visit the web address provided below.

Kim Glenn
University Center for International Studies
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
919-843-2403
Email: kim_glenn@unc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.ucis.unc.edu/gloablsouth

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 27 15:59:24 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 27 15:59:33 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]global warming - the point of no return
Message-ID: <41F9562C.6050908@ysu.edu>

Countdown to global catastrophe
Climate change: report warns point of no return may be reached in 10 
years, leading to droughts, agricultural failure and water shortages
By Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor

24 January 2005

The global warming danger threshold for the world is clearly marked for 
the first time in an international report to be published tomorrow - and 
the bad news is, the world has nearly reached it already.

The countdown to climate-change catastrophe is spelt out by a task force 
of senior politicians, business leaders and academics from around the 
world - and it is remarkably brief. In as little as 10 years, or even 
less, their report indicates, the point of no return with global warming 
may have been reached.

The report, Meeting The Climate Challenge, is aimed at policymakers in 
every country, from national leaders down. It has been timed to coincide 
with Tony Blair's promised efforts to advance climate change policy in 
2005 as chairman of both the G8 group of rich countries and the European 
Union.

And it breaks new ground by putting a figure - for the first time in 
such a high-level document - on the danger point of global warming, that 
is, the temperature rise beyond which the world would be irretrievably 
committed to disastrous changes. These could include widespread 
agricultural failure, water shortages and major droughts, increased 
disease, sea-level rise and the death of forests - with the added 
possibility of abrupt catastrophic events such as "runaway" global 
warming, the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, or the switching-off of 
the Gulf Stream.

The report says this point will be two degrees centigrade above the 
average world temperature prevailing in 1750 before the industrial 
revolution, when human activities - mainly the production of waste gases 
such as carbon dioxide (CO2), which retain the sun's heat in the 
atmosphere - first started to affect the climate. But it points out that 
global average temperature has already risen by 0.8 degrees since then, 
with more rises already in the pipeline - so the world has little more 
than a single degree of temperature latitude before the crucial point is 
reached.

More ominously still, it assesses the concentration of carbon dioxide in 
the atmosphere after which the two-degree rise will become inevitable, 
and says it will be 400 parts per million by volume (ppm) of CO2.

The current level is 379ppm, and rising by more than 2ppm annually - so 
it is likely that the vital 400ppm threshold will be crossed in just 10 
years' time, or even less (although the two-degree temperature rise 
might take longer to come into effect).

"There is an ecological timebomb ticking away," said Stephen Byers, the 
former transport secretary, who co-chaired the task force that produced 
the report with the US Republican senator Olympia Snowe. It was 
assembled by the Institute for Public Policy Research in the UK, the 
Centre for American Progress in the US, and The Australia Institute.The 
group's chief scientific adviser is Dr Rakendra Pachauri, chairman of 
the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The report urges all the G8 countries to agree to generate a quarter of 
their electricity from renewable sources by 2025, and to double their 
research spending on low-carbon energy technologies by 2010. It also 
calls on the G8 to form a climate group with leading developing nations 
such as India and China, which have big and growing CO2 emissions.

"What this underscores is that it's what we invest in now and in the 
next 20 years that will deliver a stable climate, not what we do in the 
middle of the century or later," said Tom Burke, a former government 
adviser on green issues who now advises business.

The report starkly spells out the likely consequences of exceeding the 
threshold. "Beyond the 2 degrees C level, the risks to human societies 
and ecosystems grow significantly," it says.

"It is likely, for example, that average-temperature increases larger 
than this will entail substantial agricultural losses, greatly increased 
numbers of people at risk of water shortages, and widespread adverse 
health impacts. [They] could also imperil a very high proportion of the 
world's coral reefs and cause irreversible damage to important 
terrestrial ecosystems, including the Amazon rainforest."

It goes on: "Above the 2 degrees level, the risks of abrupt, 
accelerated, or runaway climate change also increase. The possibilities 
include reaching climatic tipping points leading, for example, to the 
loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (which, between 
them, could raise sea level more than 10 metres over the space of a few 
centuries), the shutdown of the thermohaline ocean circulation (and, 
with it, the Gulf Stream), and the transformation of the planet's 
forests and soils from a net sink of carbon to a net source of carbon."

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 28 13:43:55 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 28 13:51:37 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: City Authorities and Public Unrest, 1500-2000
Message-ID: <011a01c50569$571954b0$abcc9bac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

From: Harm Kaal <hgj.kaal@let.vu.nl>

Dear colleague,

 From 22 till 25 March 2006 the bi-annual European Social Science
History Conference will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

(http://www.iisg.nl/esshc/index.html)

City authorities and public unrest, 1500-2000

We hereby invite you to submit paper-proposals for a session on city
authorities and public unrest, 1500-2000. In this session we want to
compare the way in which city authorities have dealt with public unrest
from early modern till present times. By bringing together scholars
from different disciplines we hope to acquire new insights on how the
repertoire of actions of governments dealing with public unrest changed
over time and space. Although the role of the rioters themselves has to
be taken into account, the papers should primarily focus on the role of
city authorities.

We invite you to submit a paper-proposal of max. 500 words. The closing
date
for proposals is April 1, 2005.

You can submit your paper proposal by email.

Best wishes,
Jelle van Lottum and Harm Kaal
J.J. van Lottum, MA
PhD-student/International Institute of Social History
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
e-mail: mailto:jvl@iisg.nl
www.iisg.nl/staff/jvl.html

H.G.J. Kaal, MA
PhD-student/Faculty of Arts
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
e-mail: mailto:hgj.kaal@let.vu.nl
url: http://www.let.vu.nl/staf/hgj.kaal/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 28 14:07:49 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 28 14:15:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FELLOWSHIPS: Asia Research Insitute - Nat Univ Singapore
Message-ID: <013a01c5056c$b5729780$abcc9bac@toshibauser>

Fellowships: Asia Research Insitute - Nat Univ Singapore
http://www.nus.edu.sg/

POSITIONS AT THE ASIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Applications are invited for (Senior) Visiting Fellowships, (Senior)
Research Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Asia Research
Institute (ARI). The positions are intended for outstanding active
researchers from both the Asian region and the world, to bring to completion
an important program of research in the social sciences and humanities.
Interdisciplinary interests are encouraged. "Asia" as a research field is
defined loosely in terms of the region in which Singapore is positioned. Up
to three months of a 12-month fellowship can be spent conducting fieldwork
in the Asian region. A majority of the positions will be allocated to the
Institute's current areas of research focus, as listed below. However some
will be reserved for outstanding projects in any area. Applicants should
mention which category they are applying in or if none, write "open
 category". Terms and conditions (Senior) Visiting Fellowships have a
normative tenure of one year, though shorter periods may be negotiated. A
competitive remuneration and benefits package, depending on seniority, will
be provided, with (except in exceptional cases) a ceiling of $10,000 a
month. (Senior) Research Fellowships are intended for areas of particular
interest to the Institute, and for scholars with at least three years of
post-doctoral experience and a significant research profile. Appointments
are for two years, with the possibility of extension for a further two. The
salary ranges are $42,000 to $95,000 per annum (Research Fellow) and $84,000
to $175,000 per annum (Senior Research Fellow). Postdoctoral Fellowships
Candidates must have fulfilled all requirements of the PhD within the last 4
years. The research may be in any field in the humanities and social
sciences, extending into legal, commercial and environmental concerns. The
salary package is $3,500 per month, with a one-time relocation allowance of
$2000, and support for fieldwork and conference attendance.

Areas of research focus
1) The changing family (Prof Gavin Jones) focuses on changing family forms,
roles and structures in Asian societies, as other institutions take over
some family functions, low fertility, delayed marriage and longevity
transform family composition, and labour market realities and changing
gender relations affect internal family dynamics.
2) Migration (A/Prof Brenda Yeoh) explores the issues arising from increased
levels of human mobility in the region, both within and across national
borders. Mobility of high-level professional and managerial personnel,
labour migration, both documented and undocumented, and human trafficking
all raise theoretical and methodological questions and major policy issues,
as does the role of migration in urban change.
3) Religion and Globalisation (Prof Bryan Turner) explores the changing
patterns of religious practice, belief and identity in recent times,
particularly in Southeast Asia, China and South Asia. The title implies a
particular interest in transnational and diasporic interactions, the
engagement with modern technologies and values, and new global or 'glocal'
forms of identity.
4) Cultural Studies in Asia (Prof Chua Beng Huat) consciously challenges
disciplinary boundaries to address new topics, issues and concerns thrown up
by the rapid globalization of contemporary cultures. ARI is interested in
new understandings of the everyday life cultural practices of contemporary
Asia, as in adaptations of older patterns in literature, and the performing
and graphic arts, in rapidly changing contemporary conditions.
5) Southeast Asia China interactions (Prof Anthony Reid) explores both
historical and contemporary themes that are bringing East and Southeast Asia
closer together, and is interested in any mix of the political, economic,
cultural or social.
6) Southeast Asian Archeology (A/Prof John Miksic) focuses on a problems
connected with early historic sites of Southeast Asia. Major topics include:
early trade; urbanization; maritime archaeology; intercommunication between
sites; and ceramics as indicators of spheres of cultural and economic
interaction.

The Asia Research Institute (ARI) is a university-level institute formed in
July 2001 as one of the strategic initiatives of the National University of
Singapore (NUS). The mission of the Institute is to provide a world-class
focus and resource for research on the Asian region, located at one of its
communication hubs. ARI engages the social sciences broadly defined, and
especially interdisciplinary frontiers between and beyond disciplines.
Through frequent provision of short-term research appointments it seeks to
be a place of encounters between the region and the world. Within NUS it
works particularly with the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Business,
Law and Design, to support research, conferences, lectures, and graduate
study at the highest level. Interested applicants are invited to
email/facsimile/mail their curriculum vitae (including details of referees
and email), a synopsis of the research project, at least one sample of their
published work, and ensure that 2 or 3 referees submit directly to us a
report on their academic standing and comment on their research project by
28 February 2005. Address for applications and references: The Institute
Manager Asia Research Institute National University of Singapore AS7, Level
4, 5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 Fax: (65) 6779 1428 Email:
joinari@nus.edu.sg


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 29 12:48:12 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 29 13:09:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FILM REV: Jem Cohen's _Chain_
Message-ID: <007201c5062a$b62c3230$630d8bac@toshibauser>

Chain - A Film about Urban Sprawl

All the world's a car park
How do you make an interesting movie about urban sprawl? Jessica Winter
meets director Jem Cohen

Tuesday January 25, 2005
The Guardian

 The full power of Jem Cohen's feature film Chain doesn't hit until the
closing credits, which reveal that the movie's anonymous landscape of chain
stores and highway interchanges was shot in seven countries and 11 American
states.

 Chain takes as its subject and setting the homogenised interzones of
privately owned public space - shopping malls, hotel complexes, theme
parks - that multinational corporations have remade in their own
global-branded image, letting regional colour fade to a concrete grey. A
hybrid of fiction and documentary, and a brilliantly discomfiting twist on
the "location shoot", Chain is also something of a Ballardian horror story.

"I was trying to get a grip on the nature of globalisation, which is such a
hazy, amorphous term," says the Brooklyn-based 42-year-old, who shot Chain
on 16mm film over seven years. "The film is not about America, but there's
no question that we're primarily responsible for how a lot of the planet
ends up looking. So much of the world becomes a mirror of American business
and culture and iconography." (None of Chain was shot in the UK, though the
movie looks an awful lot like the Lakeside centre in Thurrock.)

Perhaps best-known for his music videos for REM and Elliott Smith, Cohen has
spent much of his career compiling what he calls "city portraits", including
This Is a History of New York (1987) and the extraordinary east-European
travelogue Buried in Light (1994). With Chain, however, he has assembled a
mosaic of the worldwide urban sprawl. "Whenever I would shoot places that I
liked, often old neighbourhoods that were disappearing, I was always framing
things out - putting McDonalds to my back or getting some billboard out of
the frame - and I was starting to feel like I had to deal with the new
stuff," he says. "In the mid-1990s, I started to collect these landscapes,
and I found that I could travel anywhere in the world and shoot footage that
you couldn't identify in terms of where it came from. I thought I could join
all of that material together into a 'superlandscape'."

Wandering this underpopulated superlandscape are Chain's two protagonists.
Amanda (Mira Billotte) is a young American wanderer who lives in abandoned
housing and floats between menial jobs; she keeps a diary in the form of the
video-letter she composes for her sister. Tomiko (Miho Nikaido) is a
businesswoman on a fact-finding mission for an unidentified Japanese company
that wants to convert a steel mill into a leisure park; when the firm
unaccountably ceases contact with Tomiko, she's left idling in her hotel
room and roaming the edges of vast roads built solely for cars. "She's like
an astronaut in space on one of those tethers," Cohen says, "and the tether
gets cut."

The two women, equally alienated, take turns narrating Chain in tones as
unnervingly flat and featureless as the spaces they inhabit. "The movie was
turned down by a lot of the major festivals, particularly the north American
ones," says Cohen, "and I would get comments like: 'Your characters are
monotone and uninteresting.' They completely missed the point. The
characters have been forced into a monotone existence by circumstance." As
Chain proceeds, these women take on deeper hues of ambiguity and pathos, as
when the quiet Amanda suddenly bashes out a song in a retail-park piano
store before she's swiftly shown the door.
The dirge-like overture to Chain is a small masterpiece of controlled
cacophony, provided by Canadian soundscapists Godspeed You! Black Emperor.
"The opening music had to be scary, like you're in a car headed for a
slow-motion collision - this sense of impending catastrophe that doesn't
come in any kind of Hollywood way," the director says.

In a deftly incongruous move, Cohen also deploys the traditional That
Lonesome Valley, performed by the Carolina Ramblers String Band. "I wanted
these little whispers of American folk music, this specifically regional
music in a context where there's no regional character left."
Chain's production was something of an underground operation. "You're simply
not allowed to shoot in any of these places," Cohen says. "It had to be done
in, let's just say, a very discreet way. The nature of the production ties
in with the subject matter of the movie, because you're dealing with
surveillance and security and the degree to which the corporate presence is
embedded in the landscape and controls people's activity, including that of
the film-makers.
"You're not allowed to show logos, even in a documentary, which I find
absurd because you can't film the world without showing logos. And you just
can't shoot in a mall, any mall, particularly post-9/11 - everybody uses it
as an excuse all the time."

Cohen has become an archivist of public space at a time when much of that
space has been colonised - and de-historicised - by corporations and
transient consumer desires. But the heavy hand of the American fear factor
is a new and unwelcome influence on his material, as he discovered on a
recent train journey from Washington, DC, to New York.

"I've been shooting from train windows for 20 years, and recently I was
stopped on a train and surrounded by cops who actually confiscated my
footage for national security reasons," Cohen recounts. "I was really
freaked out. I was shooting with an old hand-cranked 16mm Bolex, for God's
sake. This kind of crackdown imposes a police-state mentality that is useful
for public control. It's incredibly disturbing and it's happening to a lot
of people: artists, tourists, anybody. And it's strange, because this
incident has the effect of politicising this lyrical landscape footage."
(Chain's video footage of emptied-out office interiors takes on an added
dimension when you discover the offices belonged to Enron.)

Since completing Chain, Cohen has taken his camera on the road with
Amsterdam band the Ex, and is now "getting little whispers of the next big
project", he says. "I have a pretty large archive of material of Times
Square and 42nd Street, from the mid-1980s through the Disneyfication
process to where it is now, and I'm starting to suspect that I could do a
period feature film on the cheap by using that archive."

If his Times Square project comes to fruition, it would mark Cohen's return
to memorialising lost corners of urban life. Chain, meanwhile, documents
commodified spaces so bland and omnipresent that we hardly bother to
perceive them. "I hoped that people would feel they were seeing these
landscapes anew, because I find them so strangely invisible to us," says
Cohen. "When I started Chain they were putting up a Wal-Mart about every
four days, and when I finished it was about every day and a half. These
places are so big, they're everywhere, but who really looks at them?"

7#183; Chain screens at the Curzon Soho, London W1, on February 8, followed
by a Q&A with Jem Cohen. Box office: 020-7734 2255


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 31 12:47:36 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 31 12:56:04 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: COSTA RICA Globalization and Community Health Field
	School
Message-ID: <003c01c507bc$f78769a0$2b948bac@toshibauser>

COSTA RICA Globalization and Community Health Summer Field School
6 week Program, June 19 - July 31, 2005
Sponsor: University of South Florida, Department of Anthropology and Study
Abroad

About the Program and Program Site

Learn qualitative and quantitative methods for applied anthropology and
health disciplines.
Explore the changing face of health and healthcare in communities undergoing
the rapid social, cultural and economic change associated with
globalization. Experience living adjacent to one of the last remaining cloud
forest preserves in Central America.

Monteverde, the program site, is located in the highlands of northwestern
Costa Rica, an area of mountainous slopes and verdant cloud forests.
Monteverde is famous for its role in creating the Monteverde Reserve
Complex, a collection of private and public preserves protecting more than
100,000 acres of endangered tropical forest.

The Monteverde Institute is a non-profit educational and research
association, which works in partnership with universities around the world.
It is committed to the Monteverde community, and provides local educational,
cultural and social programs.  The research topics for the 2005
Globalization and Community Health Summer Field School include:
nutrition/food Security, HIV/AIDS, migrant worker health, tobacco and drug
use among youth, and reproductive health.

Housing

Program participants will live for five and one half weeks with local Costa
Rican families who have been carefully selected by the Monteverde Institute.
The homestay accommodations include breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. At
the end of the 3rd week, students will have a long weekend to travel
independently within Costa Rica or they may remain with their homestay
families in Monteverde.

Program Costs

The program cost is $4,665.00 based upon at least 10 students, the minimum
number required by USF to conduct a program overseas. Airfare is additional.
The USF Study Abroad Office will register students for courses to be taken
as part of the Globalization and Community Health Summer Field School in
Costa Rica (Payable to the USF Cashier's Office). USF Tuition of
approximately $967.00 and $300.00 USF Study Abroad Administrative fee is due
before the program.  The University of South Florida's Globalization
Research Center and Office of Research may have fellowship funding for
Monteverde Field School participants who meet eligibility requirements.
Prospective participants should inquire about these fellowships through the
Monteverde Program Directors, Dr. David Himmelgreen and Dr. Nancy
Romero-Daza,

About the USF Program Directors
Nancy Romero-Daza, PhD, is the USF Instructor of Record and Co-Director for
the USF Monteverde Globalization and Community Health Summer Field School.
She is a medical anthropologist with research experience in the areas of
HIV/AIDS, health of minority populations, women's health issues, drug abuse,
and cultural competence in the provision of health and social services.

David Himmelgreen, PhD, is Co-Director for the USF Monteverde Globalization
and Community Health Summer Field School. He is a biological anthropologist
with research experience in the areas of nutritrion, health of minority
populations, HIV/AIDS and substance abuse, and health program evaluation.
Passports and visas

For more information, please visit the website:
http://web.usf.edu/iac/studyabroad/costarica/monteverde.htm

For academic advising, questions on courses or credit requirements
Dr. Nancy Romero-Daza or Dr. David Himmelgreen, Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Av., SOC107
(Location: SOC 115)
Tampa, FL 33620
Telephone: (813) 974-1205
Email: daza@cas.usf.edu

E-mail: dhimmelg@cas.usf.edu
For general program information, enrollment and payment questions
Julie Hale, Study Abroad Office
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Av., CPR 107
(Location CPR 468)
Tampa, FL 33620
Telephone: (813) 974-3933
E-mail: jhale@iac.usf.edu


From roesch at ssrc.org  Mon Jan 31 17:02:36 2005
From: roesch at ssrc.org (roesch)
Date: Mon Jan 31 17:23:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]announcement for Summer Institute on International
	Migration
Message-ID: <6AE7EEC3D4BE2E44B6907916A5841E1F035E46D4@mail.ssrc.org>


The SSRC would like to announce the 2005 Summer Institute on International Migration.  This year's institute will be held at UC Irvine, June, 27-30, 2005. 
I have attached a flyer to this email, or you can go directly to the website at www.cri.uci.edu.  Please forward this email and the flyer to anyone who might be interested.

Best,
International Migration Program
Social Science Research Council


 <<summerinstflyer2005.pdf>> 



