From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jul  3 14:38:27 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jul  3 13:59:15 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE
Message-ID: <004701c57ff6$07367920$82969fac@toshibauser>

SUNTA GRADUATE STUDENT PRIZE

The deadline for submitting papers for the 2005 SUNTA Graduate Student Paper Prize ($250 award) is July 15, 2005. Papers should address issues pertaining to urban, national, and transnational anthropology, and/or any of the topical areas of interest to SUNTA, including space and place, poverty and homelessness, and refugees and immigrants. Papers must be based on original ethnographic research. Submissions from all graduate students (not just SUNTA members) are welcome. Professors and practicing anthropologists are urged to nominate worthy candidates. The winner will be announced at the 2005 AAA meetings. The winning paper will be considered favorably for publication in City and Society.

For further information or to submit entries contact Emanuela Guano: eguano@gsu.edu


Emanuela Guano, PhD
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Geography
Sparks Hall 339A
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
USA
Tel. (404) 651-1764
Fax (404) 651-3235
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jul  5 12:52:54 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul  5 11:53:45 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Scholar of Peace Fellowship
Message-ID: <02d301c58179$a0d88ee0$6f3398ac@toshibauser>

The Scholar of Peace Fellowship
Deadline: August 12, 2005

Women in Security, Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) invites
applications from South Asian professionals and scholars under the age of 45
for its Scholar of Peace Fellowships, awarded for academic research, media
and special projects.

WISCOMP is a South Asian research and training initiative that seeks to
promote an inclusive, gender-sensitive discourse on issues related to peace
and security in South Asia.

The Scholar of Peace Fellowship programme encourages innovative,
multi-disciplinary theoretical engagement and research on issues that
emerges at the intersection of the discourses on gender, security and
conflict transformation.  These include areas such as human security,
conflict resolution, multi-track peace initiatives, terrorism, regional
cooperation, human rights, diversity and coexistence, governance, et al.
This year the focus will on projects that explore the interface between
gender and these issues, within the terrain of peacebuilding and conflict
transformation.

The fellowships cover a period ranging from three months to one year.  The
one-year fellowships carry a grant of up to India Rs.2,00,000.  Short-term
grants will be commensurate with the duration and objectives of the project.

Applicants may come from a variety of professional backgrounds including
academic, social movements, gender studies, peacebuilding, diplomacy, human
rights, defense, law, business, media and the arts.

The last date for receipt of applications is August 12, 2005.  Candidates
should send a two-page CV, the names of two referees and a completed
application form.  Short-listed candidates will be invited to submit a
detailed proposal.  An expert committee, through a multi-step process that
could include interview, will select the fellows.

Please download the application form from the Website:  www.furhhdl.org or
write to:

        WISCOMP
        Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai
Lama
        Core 4A, Upper Ground Floor, India Habitat Centre
        Lodi Road, New Delhi - 110 003. India
        Phone:  91-11-24648450 Ex. 122
        Fax:  91-11-24648451
        E-mail:  wiscomp@vsnl.com


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jul  7 15:34:37 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jul  7 14:36:02 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Confronting Modernity: Religions and the Big City
Message-ID: <007501c58322$96499aa0$367c9dac@toshibauser>

CFP: Confronting Modernity: Religions and the Big City

Main Session at the 8th International Conference on Urban History, Urban
Europe in Comparative Perspective Confronting Modernity: Religions and the
Big City

30th August - 2nd September, 2006, Sweden

In the course of modernization and urbanization in the 19th century,
religious groups have often been described as "victims" of socio-economical
and cultural processes which changed the shape of Europe's traditional
societies. The emergence of industrial centers, mass migration from rural
regions into the growing cities, and the dissolution of pre-modern forms of
social organisation have been interpreted as harbingers of a general
secularisation. Religious traditions and values seem to have "lost" in the
confrontation with modernity.

This is obviously too clear-cut a picture, and the proposed session would
like to encourage research and presentations which could help to get a more
detailed and complex view of this confrontation. The proposal tries to
bridge a gap between the traditional fields of research in Urban History and
other fields of interest and to introduce inter-disciplinary approaches by
integrating topics and research methods from Religious Studies, including
the growing field of Jewish Studies - which, at the same time, would profit
substantially from a closer co-operation with studies in urban history.
Moreover comparing the developments of religious groups in different
European cities might further help to get a more complex understanding of
religion in the wake of urbanization.

The interaction of urbanization and religion can be studied on many
different levels. An example from the field of Jewish Studies can illustrate
our point of access: When after 1815 Prussian reformers in formerly Polish
territories (Bromberg/Bydgoszcz) started to break down town walls - a
visible sign of modernisation - they unwittingly destroyed the eruvim, the
Sabbat borders of the orthodox Jewish communities. The following dispute
about the re-erection of the traditional "borders" gives insight into the
different space-related practices of religious communities and into the
changes of mentality Gottfried Korff has described as "internal
urbanization". How did urban planning and policy-making affect religious
groups in the cities, and what were their reactions? How did religious
practices and traditions influence the use of (urban) space? Examples for
the close relationship between religious affiliation and urban space can be
found with regard to Protestant or Catholic groups. 19Th-century-migrants to
the cities or new industrial centers often established themselves in streets
or areas where people from the same region or country and thus with the same
religious faith were living. As a result of migration, different traditions
within the same religious denomination came into contact (Polish and
 "German" Catholics in the Ruhr area, West and East European Jews). Did they
use the same places? Did they quarrel about the form of their religious
practices in public? Studies concerning these questions as well as papers
with comparative approach to the relationship of settlement and religion
would be most welcome.

Secondly, whereas religious traditions and institutions in general seem to
be endangered in the course of urbanization, a kind of religious revival in-
and outside the churches and established religious groups was an apparently
concomitant phenomenon. Charismatic figures like the German-American
Friedrich von Schl?mbach in the 1880s or Billy Sunday, one of the first
American radio preachers of the 1920s, mobilised thousands during their
sermons in the big cities. Processions and pilgrimages gained increasing
importance at about 1900. At the same time, new religious groups like the
Salvation Army, the Pentecostalism and other forms of religious "excitement"
emerged in various European countries as well as in the United States and
were deeply rooted in the urban centers. Often, these phenomena were
interpreted as an expression of backwardness directed against "modern" urban
life. But were these phenomena in themselves not part of the "modern" urban
life, using forms of communication specific to the urban culture? Did they
not help to accept or at least to bear the challenges of urbanization?
Apparently, more empirical research will be needed to help us understand the
wide range of different cultural and mental reactions toward urbanization.

A third field of study can be found in the work of religious agencies in the
big cities which covered a wide range of activities directed toward the
"classes dangereuses" in the urban centres. Among these were city and night
missions, settlement houses like Toynbee Hall in London and travellers' aid
societies to name but a few. These activities have been analysed in the
framework of ideological strategies as forms of social discipline, but this
interpretation follows an obviously one-sided and narrow notion. Too little
research has been done in order to get a clearer picture of the practices,
the inner organisation and function of this kind of urban welfare work.

Dr. des. Bettina Hitzer
Bielefeld University
Dept. of History
P.O.Box 100 131
D-33501 Bielefeld
bhitzer@uni-bielefeld.de

PD Dr. Joachim Schl?r
Potsdam University
P.O. Box 60 15 53
D.14415 Potsdam

Email: schloer@rz.uni-potsdam.de


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jul  7 15:39:45 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jul  7 14:41:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fellowship: International Center for Advanced Studies at
	NYU
Message-ID: <007d01c58323$527aca00$367c9dac@toshibauser>

Fellowship: International Center for Advanced Studies at NYU
Fellowship Amount: $35,000.00
Application deadline: January 6, 2006

International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University:
Fellowships for 2006 - 2007. Theme: "Rethinking the Social"

This is the third year of a larger project on The Authority of Knowledge in
a Global Age. ICAS welcomes applications from scholars with PhD's at all
career stages in any social science or humanities discipline from the U.S.
and abroad. The project seeks to examine the production, circulation, and
practical import of knowledge generated in the various disciplines of social
inquiry. What are the costs of the growing divide between social science
inquiry and humanistic scholarship? What are the implications of the growing
dominance of U.S. based models of social inquiry for the understanding of
other cultures and for the fundamental concepts of political experience and
inquiry? The stipend is $35,000 for nine months and includes eligibility for
NYU housing. See http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas for more information and
application forms, or write to the center (fax: 212 995-4546; icas@nyu.edu).

Eligibility Requirements: Scholars and intellectuals at all career stages
who hold a PhD degree or equivalent professional experience are invited to
apply for Center Fellowships. Scholars who have completed the PhD degree
within the previous three years are invited to apply as a Postdoctoral
Fellow.

Contact Information
International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University
53 Washington Square South, room 401E
New York NY 10012 USA
Phone: 212.998.3770
Email: icas@nyu.edu
URL http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/icas


From crosario at austral.co.mz  Thu Jul  7 21:53:42 2005
From: crosario at austral.co.mz (Carmeliza)
Date: Thu Jul  7 18:00:16 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Polygamy and women's rights
Message-ID: <000201c58325$32cb4ca0$3c00a8c0@austral.co.mz>

Dear all,
 
I am currently researching materials around the discussion topic:
?development, polygamy and women?s rights?. I would appreciate if anyone
had any suggestions of reading.
 
Thank you
 
Carmeliza
 
Carmeliza Ros?rio
Austral Consultoria e Projectos, Lda
Av. Zedequias Manganhela n? 95
Maputo, Mo?ambique
Tel: +258 1 322780
Cel: 082 315119/ 311087/ 311653
Fax: +258 1 307369
URL:  <http://www.austral.co.mz/> www.austral.co.mz
 
 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jul  9 16:21:14 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jul  9 15:22:45 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Submissions: Special Issue on Homeless Children (American
 Behavioral Scientist)
Message-ID: <00eb01c584bb$683ff560$44f1a5ac@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS  [please, pass along]

SPECIAL ISSUE OF AMERICAN BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
ON HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH

American Behavioral Scientist (ABS) invites submissions for a special
issue on homelessness among children and youth to be published in the
summer or fall of 2006. Appropriate papers will contribute a social or
behavioral science perspective, may be from any country, and should have
implications for policies or actions that address problems of homelessness
among young people. ABS has provided interdisciplinary, in-depth coverage
of critical issues for more than 45 years. Submission deadline: January
15, 2006. Send queries, abstracts and papers to the special issue editors:
Darcy.Varney@colorado.edu and Willem.vanVliet@colorado.edu .

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jul 10 12:41:39 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jul 10 11:43:04 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: Place, Space, Emergence
Message-ID: <001b01c58565$e0b979d0$b57f91ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Place, Space, Emergence
A Special Issue of Western Folklore

Theories of space and place have come recently to the fore in several
disciplines, including folklore. Scholars suggest that transnational forces
such as global capitalism, tourism, diasporas, and media/technology have
transformed and "unbound" local places, so that places are defined by their
relationship to what lies beyond their boundaries, rather than being
entirely self-defined. But has space/place previously been as self-contained
as recently implied, or is place once again being discursively constructed
as somehow premodern?

We seek to contribute to and expand upon this interdisciplinary exchange by
exploring ethnographically the emergent nature of space and/or place through
expressive culture and material behavior. Emergence suggests process, flow,
becoming, and event. How, why, and for whom do particular places emerge? How
are they events, happenings, performances? Who is the audience and for what
purpose? In what way do places flow, and in what direction? What is their
relationship to those spaces outside? How are insides and outsides
constitutive, and what are the roles of boundaries? We invite interested
scholars to contribute their thoughts to this discussion.

Topics & themes might include
. Valorization of place and space
. Commodification
. Ideologies of power and solidarity
. Globalization
. Connection, linkage, process, and flow
. Negotiation
. Boundaries
. Time
. Public/private/gendered space
. Communities of practice

September 30, 2005 is the deadline for 300-word proposals. Final versions
due September 30, 2006.

Lisa Gabbert
Utah State University
Department of English
3200 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84321-3200
435-797-2721
Email: lgabbert@english.usu.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jul 10 12:42:21 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jul 10 12:02:30 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: 'Of Asian Origin' : Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia
Message-ID: <006e01c58568$9cb0c290$b57f91ac@toshibauser>

CFP: 'Of Asian Origin' : Rethinking Tourism in Contemporary Asia
7 - 9 September 2006, Singapore
Deadline: 1 December 2005

 Recent years have witnessed a seemingly relentless surge in the movement of
tourists 'of Asian origin'. Indeed, bodies such as the World Tourism
Organisation (WTO), confidently predict that over the coming decades Asia
will have the fastest growing population of tourists on the move in the
world. Despite such predictions, very little attention has been given to the
social, cultural and political implications of Asia's transformation from
mere host destination into a region of mobile consumers. Hosted by the Asia
Research Institute, on 7 - 9 September 2006 in Singapore, this workshop sets
out to address this gap by offering the first sustained examination of
tourism in Asia by Asian tourists.

Paper proposals including 250-word abstracts and 5-line biography should be
submitted and sent to Dr Tim Winter by 1 December 2005. Successful
applicants will be advised by 1 February and will be urged to send in a
completed paper by 1 August 2006. Some funding will be available for those
in the Asian Region, post-graduate students, and others unable to fund
themselves. It is hoped that the workshop will lead to a publication
path-breaking in both Tourism and Asian Studies.

Proposed Themes include:

Media, Popular Culture and the Packaging of Place
>From Tourism to Migration to Expatriation; Identities on the move
Heritage Politics and 'Re-Orienting' the Past
Visions of the Exotic and the lure of Paradise
Tourism and the Urban
The State, Community and Minority; the Role of Tourism for Development
Body Economics; from Health Tourism to Contagious Diseases
Sensing the local; the Spiritual and the Corporeal

Dr Tim Winter
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
The Shaw Foundation Building
Block AS7, Level 4
5 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Tel: (65) 6874 8795
Fax: (65) 6779 1428
Email: ariwtc@nus.edu.sg

Visit the website at http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/conf2006/tourism.htm

From Amanda.Wise at scmp.mq.edu.au  Mon Jul 11 12:27:36 2005
From: Amanda.Wise at scmp.mq.edu.au (Amanda Wise)
Date: Sun Jul 10 21:40:22 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: Edited Collection "SENSUOUS
	MULTICULTURALISM"
Message-ID: <200507110127.j6B1ROr19689@baldrick.ocs.mq.edu.au>

CALL FOR PAPERS

For inclusion in an edited collection entitled: 

 

SENSUOUS MULTICULTURALISM

 

Edited by Dr Amanda Wise

Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University

Email: amanda.wise@scmp.mq.edu.au 

 

 

"Sensuality, sound, sight, smell, touch, taste, breath, hear, feel, haptic, vertigo, synaesthesia, proximate, experiential, material, ritual, flesh, bones, nerves, nausea, fear, love, hate, comfort, hope, joy, despair, longing, trauma, guilt, shame, pride, habitus and habituation."

 

This is the stuff of habitus, affect and the senses. Despite increased scholarly attention to issues of embodied and sensuous experience little is yet known about how these themes articulate with cultural difference, migration and experiences of displacement. This edited collection proposes to fill this gap. It will explore how the sensory and affective registers of experience articulate with:

 

1)         Migration and transnational lives.  And; 

2)         Living with difference in multicultural cities. 

 

The proposed title of the book ?Sensuous Multiculturalism? (a term inspired by Paul Stoller?s notion of ?Sensuous Scholarship?) references experiences of migration and living with cultural difference at the level of embodied, sensory habitus. 

 

The book will be multidisciplinary in its approach, drawing on scholars form anthropology, cultural geography, cultural studies and sociology. Drawing on grounded case studies, it is anticipated the book will fall roughly into three sections: 

 

Part One: Encountering Difference, Embodied Multiculturalisms

Part Two: Sensual Re-habituation and the Migration Experience

Part Three: Sense Memory and the Migration Experience

 

It is expected papers will deal with such themes as:

 

?          The senses, affect and habitus in intercultural / interethnic relations and encounters ? especially in the multicultural city

?          Sensuous spaces (and their apprehension cross-culturally) in the multicultural city.

?          Sensory habitus and the migration experience.

?          Senses, migration and food.

?          Sensory migration and music, dance and aural cultures

?          Migration and sensory recall/memory of the homeland

?          The senses, habitus and affect in dis and em/placement.

?          The interplay of senses and fields of representation. 

 

We are looking for papers based on grounded case studies which are tightly focused on the theme of the book. We are aiming for a good geographical spread of papers, with particular emphasis on case studies drawn from UK, Europe, Canada, Australia and the US. 

 

Abstracts of 300-600 words and a short bio of similar length should be emailed to Dr Amanda Wise at Amanda.wise@scmp.mq.edu.au by 15th August 2005.

 

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Dr Amanda Wise
Research Fellow - Manager Research Development 
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion 
Macquarie University 
Building W6A, Room 701, Phone: +61 2 9850-8835
Email: amanda.wise@scmp.mq.edu.au
Web:  <http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au> www.crsi.mq.edu.au
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jul 12 16:33:00 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 12 15:34:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries
Message-ID: <005001c58718$874220f0$7a7496ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the Committee
for Ethnic Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This national conference will bring together graduate students from the
social sciences and the humanities who research ethnic, racial, and cultural
boundaries. Sessions will be organized thematically to allow comparisons of
boundaries from diverse regions and historical periods, as well as different
disciplinary approaches. With this conference, we aim to shift attention
toward the dynamics of boundaries: how they are created, imposed, defended,
bridged, subverted, and transformed.

Possible themes might include:
Properties of boundaries: permeability, permanence, salience, etc.
Boundary processes: exclusion, bridging, imposition, etc.
Historical research on racial and ethnic formations over time.
Ethnographic findings on how boundaries are negotiated in everyday life.
Boundaries in cultural production and reception: contesting authenticity,
dynamics of collaboration and competition, etc.

Imagery of boundaries in cultural artifacts and performance How boundaries
operate in the expression of collective identity, through cultural and
linguistic practices.

Keynote Speaker: Fredrik Barth, Department of Anthropology, University of
Oslo
Faculty Sponsor: Michele Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

All graduate students in accredited AM or PhD programs are invited to submit
titled abstracts of no more than 300 words to xbounds@fas.harvard.edu no
later than August 1. Abstracts should describe the argument of the paper and
the text/material/evidence on which it draws. Students selected for
presentation will be notified by September 1. They will be asked to submit a
completed paper by October 14. Please note that conference attendees will be
responsible for finding support for their travel and accommodation expenses
at their home institutions. For more information, please visit the
conference website at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries.

Conference organizers:
Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology
Marc Gidal, Department of Music
Michael Jeffries, Department of African & African American Studies
Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Faculty Sponsor: Michele Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Conference organizers:
Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology
Marc Gidal, Department of Music
Michael Jeffries, Department of African & African American Studies
Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization
Email: xbounds@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries.



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jul 12 16:37:17 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 12 15:38:56 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: AIDS in Culture II: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
Message-ID: <005601c58719$1fd23850$7a7496ac@toshibauser>

CFP: AIDS in Culture II: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
  Note: New Deadline: 15th of September 2005

AIDS in Culture is an annual conference organised by Enkidu Magazine in
Mexico City in cooperation with CENSIDA (the national Mexican
AIDS-organisation), CONAPRED (the national Mexican Anti-Discrimination
Council) and ADETEA (the Association of Anthropology Students at the
Autonomous University of the State of Mexico in Toluca).

In 2004 the conference was held in Mexico City. This year, the conference
will take place in Puerto Vallarta on the Mexican Pacific Coast.

AIDS in Culture seeks to examine cultural responses to Aids across a wide
range of perspectives. The conference aims at bringing together people
working in all relevant disciplines, activists, professionals, academics and
promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and
dialogue.

The conference will focus on a number of core themes: Papers are welcomed on
virtually all topics and themes, independently of time, period and space, as
well as interdisciplinary perspectives. Also papers of comparative phenomena
are welcome.
Among the themes of interest are the following:

AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation. Representations of AIDS
in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and literature from the 1980s until
today. How are testimonial narratives mediated and represented?

Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS.
Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and fetishism.
Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS
AIDS and the collective and individual identities: Race, Class, Gender etc
AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and
Activism. Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political and faith
and ideology based discourse, legal issues and policy making throughout the
world. Who has the authority to speak and who is silenced?
AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies,
History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary Studies and all related
disciplines. How do we theorize and analyze experiences and the meaning of
illness?
The 'significance' of AIDS for individuals and communities; the cultural
factors influencing our perceptions of health and illness experiences.
AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.
Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS
Stories and Histories about AIDS
AIDS and Oral History

Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of
perspectives. 500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising
comitee in English, Spanish, German or French as e-mail attachment by 15th
of September 2005. The conference languages will be English and Spanish.
Papers should be of approximately 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 pages).
Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates and
poster sessions will be considered on request.

Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and present
papers. Selected papers from the conference will also this year be published
in book form.
Abstracts are to be submitted by the 15th of September 2005, along with the
presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation.
All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email.

Participants will be notified by the 25th of September 2005 whether their
proposal has been accepted or rejected.

Interpretations of the conference theme ranging from the predictable to the
surprising are encouraged.
Centro Cultural Enkidu

Juan Escutia 23 BIS, Ninos Heroes,
Del.: Juarez
03440 Mexico DF
[+ 52] (55) 91 80 12 40
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com


Coordinador de Sida y Cultura II/
Conference Coordinator for Aids in Culture II:
Dr. Lars Ivar Owesen-Lein Borge
Email: liowlb@enkidumagazine.com
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universit?t, Frankfurt am Main
Enkidu Magazine, Mexico City
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com
Visit the website at
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/art/2004/030804/E_024_030804.htm


From mrieker at geographies.net  Tue Jul 12 23:41:43 2005
From: mrieker at geographies.net (martina rieker)
Date: Tue Jul 12 16:55:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Please Post
Message-ID: <BEF9F7A7.A279%mrieker@geographies.net>

Dear colleagues:

We would like to announce the launch of the H-Shehr discussion network. The
purpose of H-Shehr is to facilitate scholarly discussion on the complex
processes through which gendered, classed, and raced citizen-subjects have
negotiated and been the object of urban projects in Africa, the Middle East
and South Asia. H-Shehr is envisioned as an on-line exchange, discussion and
review forum to complement other activities of the Shehr Network
(www.shehr.org)

To subscribe to H-Shehr please visit: http://www.h-net.org/~shehr/

Kamran Asdar Ali, University of Texas at Austin
Martina Rieker, American University in Cairo
H-Shehr List Editors




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jul 15 00:36:37 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jul 14 23:40:18 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Hip Hop Congress
Message-ID: <006601c588ee$a18ccb40$bcb7acac@toshibauser>

Hip Hop Congress

July 14, 2005, Rock & Rap Confidential

http://www.hiphopcongress.com/chiconference/pressrelease.htm

100 members representing 27 chapters from all over the
country congregated in Chicago for the 4th Annual Hip Hop
Congress National Conference on June 23-26th. Hip Hop
Congress is an International Grassroots Network that
educates, empowers, and unites individuals. We preserve and
evolve Hip Hop by inspiring social action and cultural
creativity within the community. The conference provided
members an opportunity to layout a dynamic vision for the
future of the Hip Hop Congress.

During the weekend the Hip Hop Congress elected Shamako Noble
as the second President in the organization's history. Noble,
an emcee out of the bay Area, also works at the Riekes Center
for Human Enhancement in Menlo, California. The Riekes Center
is a nonprofit mentoring organization that utilizes a
multidisciplinary approach toward education. Given his
background in Hip Hop and education, Noble's launched the
national initiative to develop a Hip Hop and education
program. The conference drew educators from all over the
country, as well as representatives from the Hip Hop
Association, Teach For America, University of Hip Hop in
Chicago and the Universal Zulu Nation.

In a joint effort with other groups such as IMAN (Inner-city
Muslim Action Network), Southwest Youth Collaborators, Temple
of Hip Hop, Fly Paper and others, Hip Hop Congress took part
in a full day of free festivities. The event, titled, "Takin'
It To The Streets" included free performances by Jurassic 5,
Brother Ali, Chicago's own Capital D, and the legendary b-boy
squad, the Rock Steady Crew. The event also showcased local
emcees, deejays, breakers, and beat- boxers. Indianapolis
deejay da Metrognome held it down with local deejays
Roosevelt Treasurechest, Jaidot, E Dubble, deejay Xander and
Chicago breaking crew Chi- rock was also on hand. Along with
the music, the event featured guest speakers and comedians
demonstrating that large scale Hip Hop events can be a very
peaceful thing.

The 29 chapters of the Hip Hop Congress now go back to their
respective communities energized, organized, and
revolutionized until they reconvene in Boulder, CO for next
year's conference.

For more information on Hip Hop Congress check
www.hiphopcongress.com or email aaron.berkowitz@gmail.com
(314)809.2502


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jul 18 13:04:27 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jul 18 12:15:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 POSTDOC:  American Academy of Arts & Sciences Visiting Scholars Program
Message-ID: <010201c58bb2$69c70f60$bfa28aac@toshibauser>

American Academy of Arts & Sciences Visiting Scholars Program Post-Doctoral
and Junior Faculty Fellowships
Postmark Deadline: Friday, October 14, 2005


The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an international learned society
and research institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites postdoctoral
scholars and nontenured junior faculty to apply for research fellowships for
the 2006-2007 year. The Academy is interested in proposals that relate to
its current projects in the following program areas: Humanities & Culture,
Science & Global Security, Social Policy & American Institutions, and
Education. For more information on these studies, please visit the Academy's
website (www.amacad.org/projects.aspx). Projects that address American
cultural, social, or political issues from the founding period to the
present are especially welcome, as are studies that consider developments in
America from a multidisciplinary and/or comparative perspective. In
conjunction with its 225th anniversary, the Academy has launched a major
archival initiative to preserve its historic papers and invites proposals
that will draw upon these holdings as well. Visiting Scholars are expected
to participate in conferences, seminars, and events at the Academy while
advancing their independent research; they must be in residence during their
fellowship year. Terms of Award: $35,000 stipend for post-doctoral scholars;
up to $50,000 for junior faculty (not to exceed one-half of salary). For
details, contact: The Visiting Scholars Program, American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138-1996.
Telephone: (617) 576-5014; FAX: (617) 576-5050; e-mail: vsp@amacad.org.
Application information is available on the Academy's website at
www.amacad.org/visiting.aspx.

Contact Information
Ms. Giffen Maupin, Visiting Scholars Program Coordinator
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
136 Irving Street
Cambridge MA 02138 United States
Phone: (617) 576-5021
Email: gmaupin@amacad.org
URL http://www.amacad.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jul 18 12:56:28 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jul 18 12:16:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest
Message-ID: <00fa01c58bb1$491d5ae0$bfa28aac@toshibauser>

 2006 Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest

 Now entering its 17th year, The Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics Essay Contest
is an annual competition designed to challenge college students to analyze
the urgent ethical issues confronting them in today's complex world.
Full-time juniors and seniors at accredited four-year colleges and
universities in the US are welcome to enter the Essay Contest and compete
for $10,000 in prizes and the opportunity to meet Elie Wiesel in New York
City.

Entry forms and additional information about the Contest is available on:
www.eliewieselfoundation.org

The postmark deadline for the 2006 Essay Contest is Friday, December 9,
2005.
212.490.7777

Email: info@eliewieselfoundation.org
Visit the website at
http://www.eliewieselfoundation.org/EthicsPrize/information.html


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jul 18 13:43:10 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jul 18 12:45:39 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Intellectuals and the Nation-State
Message-ID: <001a01c58bb7$cd2a1390$d9ce8bac@toshibauser>



Intellectuals and the Nation-State

30 November v 1st December 2005


Plenary speakers include:

Declan Kiberd (University College Dublin)
Eric Lott (University of Virginia)
Slavoj Zizek (Institute for Sociology, Ljubljana/Birkbeck College,
University of London).

What role and effect do intellectuals have in the making and contesting
of national identities and state policies? This conference will
consider historical and current implications of this question.

The critical voice of the intellectual has long been considered
important to the evolution of modern Western cultures. How and why was
this voice so often tied to the development of national identity? How
have ideals of intellectual autonomy and dissent been formulated within
and across nation-states? What forms of intellectual production have
states acknowledged and supported? What remains of the Enlightenment
origins of the idea of the intellectual?

We will focus on current issues of intellectual identity and activity
in the context of global challenges to the power and authority of the
nation-state. Today, as new global networks of cultural interaction
emerge and new public spheres take shape, what is happening to the
intellectual's affective relation to the nation-state? What is the role
of critical thinking and the value of ideas in an increasingly
global 'knowledge society'? What is the role of intellectuals in the
making of a new world order and in shaping responses to international
crises? What is the role of think tanks and advocacy intellectuals in
the formation of state policy? How have new media redefined
intellectual activity and identity?

Please send one-page proposals with a brief CV by 31 August 2005 to:

Catherine Carey, Clinton Institute for American Studies, C211 John
Henry Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 716
8303. Fax: +353 1 716 8643. E-mail: Catherine.Carey@ucd.ie

Inquiries may be directed to the conference organiser Professor Liam
Kennedy at Liam.Kennedy@ucd.ie

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jul 18 22:37:56 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jul 18 21:41:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Spaces and Private Quarters
Message-ID: <004801c58c02$aeee6750$20f3a2ac@toshibauser>

Urban Spaces and Private Quarters

As part of the conference "Technological and Aesthetic
(Trans)Formations of Society" held between October 12 to 14, 2005 at
the Technical University of Darmstadt we would like to inform you about
the programme of the conference panel "Urban Spaces and Private Quarters".
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/gradkoll/Konferenzen/abschluss/main.html

In this panel the focus lies on spatial relations and the city both as
object of and as the location for scientific scrutiny. Perceptions of
symbolic and material artifacts in the city guide the everyday life of
a majority of the world's contemporary population. The tacit power of
architecture, the subtle influences of the aesthetics of things are
constantly reconfigured by the practices of the people moving through
and using urban spaces. However, built space is not the only hub of
this panel. The staging of events in the city by different actors and
the conflicting uses of publicly accessible spaces directs our interest
to presentations and representations of the city and its diverse
inhabitants. This area of inquiry connects discursive with visual and
performative aspects of urban life. Finally, we are interested in the
multiple ways in which the modeling and visualization of urban space in
architectural design influences the development and the decision making
processes that eventually solidify into concrete buildings, plazas, and
parks. Regarding all three of these hubs there will be presentations
that explicitly deal with the ambivalent or dialectic character of
aesthetics in the cities. Touristic interests produce sites that are
intended to attract people, their time, their money and their
attention. These sites become places of a specific cultural and
economic significance. At the same time other places are produced and
presented as repellent - the "no-go areas" of the modern ghetto, ethnic
neighborhoods, and the hidden or gated communities of the rich and
powerful. Aesthetics are a central component of the processes of
attraction and exclusion that regulate our everyday practices.

We are glad to offer the following presentations:
* Jerome Krase (Brooklyn College, The City University of New York):
Seeing Ethnic Succession in Little and Big Italy.
* Helen Liggett (Cleveland State University)
* Deniz Altay (City and Regional Planner, Urban Designer Ankara,
Turkey): Urban Spaces in Daily Practices ? The Case Of  "Minibar".
* Lars Frers (Technical University of Darmstadt): Perception,
Aesthetics, and Encapsulation? Encountering Space and the Materiality
of Railway and Ferry Terminal Buildings.
* Ute Lehrer (Faculty of Environmental Studies York University,
Canada): Urban Design, Everyday Life and Image Politics Re-Defined .
* Zeuler R. Lima, (Washington University in Saint Louis), Vera M.
Pallamin (University of S?o Paulo): Reinventing the void.
* Martina L?w (Technical University of Darmstadt): Eye-Catchers.
Space-Gender Stagings in the Case of Prostitution.
* Rosmin Mathew (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi), Anup Sam
Ninan (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi): Architecture ? Changing
Priorities Of Space ? Case-Study Of A University.
* Lars Meier (Technical University of Darmstadt): Working in the
Skyline ? Landscape images and their inscription in everyday life.
* Daniel Normark (The Interactive Institute / Mobility Studio,
Stockholm), Oskar Juhlina (Section for Science and Technology Studies,
G?teborg University): Presenting and Representing Roadsides: the
Practise of Mounting and Removing Private Signs along Road.
* Lukasz Stanek (Technical University Delft, Department of
Architectural Theory): Simulating Nowa Huta: The Crisis of
Representation in a Postcommunist City and its Consequences for the
Production of Urban Space.
* Katharine Willis (University of Bremen, Spatial Cognition Program)

The planning committee of the conference, and the organizers of this
panel, Lars Frers and Lars Meier, are looking forward to welcome you in
the city of Darmstadt for this conference.

For more information:
http://www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/gradkoll/Konferenzen/abschluss/main.html

Registration is required.
Conference Fee: 30/15 Euro

Contact:
e-mail: tagung-graduiertenkolleg@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de

Conference Location:
Technical University of Darmstadt
Residenzschloss
Darmstadt, Germany

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jul 19 20:13:37 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 19 19:19:50 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]WEB: EURE: Latin American Journal of Urban and Regional
	Studies (online archive)
Message-ID: <004b01c58cb7$ee2feff0$6625a8ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

From: Eric Weiss-Altaner <weiss-altaner.eric@uqam.ca>

This message introduces "EURE: Revista latinoamericana de estudios
urbano regionales" (EURE: Latin American Journal of Urban and Regional
Studies) and gives the table of contents of the December 2004 issue,
which is available online.

==================================================================
EURE: URBAN STUDIES SINCE 1970

EURE is published 3 times a year by the Instituto de Estudios Urbanos
(Institute of Urban Studies) of the Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de
Chile (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile). EURE is a respected
journal that has been in continuous publication since October 1970.
That is 35 years of "interesting times" that have made Chile into an
international model for contrasting strategies of social organization,
economic growth and urbanism.

Those interested in Latin American urban research will be glad to know
that the Spanish text (with English abstracts) of issues 70 through 91
(December 1997 through May 2005), is available online on the site of
SciELO Chile:  http://www.scielo.cl/

SciELO Chile is part of the Scientific Electronic Library Online
(SciELO), a collaborative project of Chile's National Commission for
Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT) and similar research
organizations in Brazil, Cuba, Spain and other countries in Latin America.

If you are comfortable with Spanish, you can get to EURE itself by
clicking "lista alfab?tica" under the column entitled "seriadas". Then
read down the alphabetical listing and click " EURE (Santiago) -
Revista latinoamericana de estudios urbano regionales". The subsequent
splash screen offers several ways of consulting and searching through
the available volumes.

If you are more at ease in English, look among the left-hand tabs and
choose "english". Then choose "alphabetic list" from the "serial
browsing" column. This will bring up the alphabetical list of journals.

==================================================================
EURE's DECEMBER 2004 ISSUE

EURE's December 2004 issue focuses on Santiago, Chile's capital. The
issue is entitled "Santiago, cambios y persistencias  ("Santiago,
change and continuity").

Let me interject a demographic note about the city. Santiago was the
main beneficiary of Chile's population explosion (the vital revolution
of falling mortality and high fertility). It was also the main
destination of the strong rural-urban exodus that reflected and
contributed to the social tensions of the 1960s and 1970s. Santiago
doubled its population from 1.3 million in 1950 to 2.8 million in 1970.
The pace of growth was a rapid 4.2% per year in the 1950s and 3.2% in
the 1960s. The annual rate of growth kept decreasing thereafter: 2.8%
in the 1970s, around 2% in the 1980s and a slowest 1.3% in 1995-2000.
Still, Santiago's population almost doubled again between 1970 and
2000, when it stood at 5.3 million.

Since 1950, Santiago has been by far Chile's primate city: 37.4% of
Chile's urban population in 1950 and 40.2% in 2000. This last ratio
showed a slight falling off from the 1990 level of 41.8%.

[Data are from http://esa.un.org/unup/, the United Nations' Population
Division 2003 revision of its urban database, "World Urbanization
Prospects".]

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EURE (Santiago) v.30 n.91 Santiago December 2004


INTRODUCTION TO THIS ISSUE
          Santiago, cambios y persistencias
          texto en espa?ol ["text in Spanish"]

ARTICLES [English summaries, texts are in Spanish]

FUENTES, Luis y SIERRALTA, Carlos. Santiago de Chile, ?ejemplo de una
reestructuraci?n capitalista global?. EURE (Santiago), dic. 2004,
vol.30, no.91, p.7-28. ISSN 0250-7161.

Terms like "global city", "diffuse city", "dual city", among others,
deserve to be discussed and contrasted with urban processes that are
been taking part in Santiago de Chile in the last decades. This article
attempts to discuss the convenience of grant to Chile's capital city
these and others adjectives, commonly used in the urban literature

KEYWORDS : urban reconstruction; liberalization; informationalization;
globalization.

=====================================================

HIDALGO, Rodrigo. De los peque?os condominios a la ciudad vallada: las
urbanizaciones cerradas y la nueva geograf?a social en Santiago de
Chile (1990-2000). EURE (Santiago), dic. 2004, vol.30, no.91, p.29-52.
ISSN 0250-7161.

Through the examination of enclosed urbanizations within the
Metropolitan Region of Santiago, Chile, the spatial distribution of
this type of development and its effects on the social landscape of
Santiago are examined. During the 1990's, the construction of different
types of condominiums showed an evolution marked by an increase in the
size and number of housing units, situation that had a ect effect on
the social geography of the municipalities involved.

KEYWORDS: enclosed urbanizations; socio-spatial transformations;
Santiago de Chile.
=====================================================

RODRIGUEZ, Alfredo y SUGRANYES, Ana. El problema de vivienda de los
"con techo". EURE (Santiago), dic. 2004, vol.30, no.91, p.53-65. ISSN
0250-7161.

Chilean social housing policy is considered a success. During the last
fifteen years the massive housing production has managed to reduce
housing deficit, and many Latin American governments are imitating it
financing model. However, this successful policy has ended up by
creating new urban and social problems: segregation, fragmentation,
insecurity, overcrowding. Consequently, it is pointed that a proper
housing policy must currently include new criteria, mainly related to
the quality of the product, the locating of the built neighborhoods and
beneficiaries residential mobility.

KEYWORDS: public housing; urban policies; Santiago de
Chile.
=====================================================
SABATINI, Francisco y WORMALD, Guillermo. La guerra de la basura de
Santiago: desde el derecho a la vivienda al derecho a la ciudad. EURE
(Santiago), dic. 2004, vol.30, no.91, p.67-86. ISSN 0250-7161.

Based on a case study, the paper discusses collective political
initiatives on the part of popular groups in Santiago, Chile, and makes
a comparison with the mythical "pobladores movement" of the sixties --
"pobladores" being the name given in Chile to low-class settlers of the
urban periphery. Current mobilizations show up as being reactive,
geared at practical goals, inspired by conservatism (the defense of
what exists or is possessed) and loaded with cynicism towards political
parties and the political system. Nevertheless, and paradoxically
enough, these collective endeavors may comprise democratic traits which
the "pobladores" movement, crossed as it was by the clientist logics
put forward by political parties, lacked off. Current popular
initiatives could even include social change potential to a great
extent unsuspected.

KEYWORDS: urban popular movements; local environmental conflicts;
Santiago de Chile.

=====================================================

DAMMERT, Luc?a. ?Ciudad sin ciudadanos? Fragmentaci?n, segregaci?n y
temor en Santiago. EURE (Santiago), dic. 2004, vol.30, no.91, p.87-96.
ISSN 0250-7161.

The city?s image as space of diversity and as a celebration of
difference, is under threat in Santiago. Alternative and dominant
images depict the city as conflictive, unruly, disorderly and insecure;
where difference became a dangerous element that should be excluded or
segregated. In this way, a "city without citizens" is being built, a
"no-city" in which people does not interact, just move in the space.
The main objective of this article is to analyze this situation by
focusing on one of its elements: fear of crime. The result presents
many questions that need to be addressed about the city that is being
built and the social consequences of this process.

KEYWORDS: Fear of crime; spatial fragmentation; Santiago de Chile.
=====================================================
=====================================================

MISCELLANEOUS
GUTIERREZ, Andrea In?s. Concentraci?n empresaria y eficiencia en el
autotransporte urbano de Buenos Aires**. EURE (Santiago), dic. 2004,
vol.30, no.91, p.97-110. ISSN 0250-7161.

This work evaluates the applied regulatory reform to the public bus
transport in Buenos Aires in 1994, according to the level of
satisfaction reached in the fulfillment of its fundamental intention,
that is to say, to increase the efficiency of the bus transport system,
and to confront these results with the evolution of the firms structure
of the industry. The results of the case in study indicate that the new
regulation framework prepared a strong process of enterprise
concentration, that did not manage to be accompanied by an increase of
the efficiency of the industry.

KEYWORDS: Public bus transport; big cities; regulation; enterprise
concentration; efficiency.

=====================================================
EURE BOOK REVIEWS
? Carlos de Mattos, Mar?a Elena Ducci, Alfredo Rodr?guez y Gloria
Y??ez (eds.). Santiago en la globalizaci?n: ?una nueva ciudad?
Santiago: SUR-EURE libros (2004).
P?ez, Pablo [texto en espa?ol]
? Gonzalo C?ceres y Francisco Sabatini (eds). Barrios cerrados en
Santiago de Chile: entre la exclusi?n y la integraci?n residencial.
Santiago: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy/Instituto de Geograf?a, P.
Universidad Cat?lica de Chile (2004).
Corval?n, Francisca [texto en espa?ol]
? Manuel Tironi. Nueva pobreza urbana. Vivienda y capital social en
Santiago de Chile, 1985-2001. Santiago: Universidad de Chile,
Predes/RIL Editores (2003).
Blonda, Laura A [texto en espa?ol]
=====================================================

EURE URBAN CINEMA
? Fernando Meirelles (director). Cidade de Deus. Brasil (2002).
Greene, Ricardo  [texto en espa?ol]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
? 2005  Pontificia Universidad Cat?lica de Chile
Facultad de Arquitectura, Dise?o y Estudios Urbanos
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales
El Comendador 1916
Casilla 16002, Correo 9
Santiago,Chile
C?digo Postal Campus Lo Contador 6640064
Fono: (56-2) 6865511, Fax: (56-2) 2328805.
eure@puc.cl

Eric Weiss-Altaner
D?partement d'?tudes urbaines et touristiques
Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al
Canada


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jul 24 14:23:48 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jul 24 13:25:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Architectures of (Unbe)longing
Message-ID: <00aa01c59074$771220d0$c37189ac@toshibauser>


CFP: Architectures of (Unbe)longing
Deadline: September 10, 2005

For a session at the annual conference of the Society of Architectural
Historians, to be held in Savannah, Georgia, April 26-29, 2006, papers are
being sought that address "Architectures of (Unbe)longing." This session
will focus on recent publications of social anthropologist Michel S.
Laguerre, who will serve as discussant. Both Laguerre's _Minoritized Space:
An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things_ (1999) and _Urban
Multiculturalism and Globalization in New York City_ (2003) consider, among
other things, minoritized diasporic and indigenous cultures in the built
environment. Laguerre's analyses explore ways in which people have been
marginalized spatially and the methods by which these spaces are maintained,
reproduced, and transformed through time. Papers are sought that examine the
history of minoritized spaces themselves, as well as those that analyze
linkages between majority/minority or colonizer/colonized places.

Possible questions might include: How have majority/dominant populations or
patrons created structures of (un)belonging and/or alienation-e.g., favelas,
lakous, bidonvilles, reservations, internment camps, shtetls, mellahs,
barrios--and what forms have these acquired? How have occupants of these
structures or neighborhoods shaped or transformed their environments,
perhaps informed by their longing for homeland or observation of religious
practices? How can we best understand the architectural and urban
relationships among classes, races, or ethnicities that create majority and
minority spaces?

Abstracts of 300 words and a short resume should be sent to Sharon Irish
along with complete contact information. Please read the general guidelines
on the website of the Society of Architectural Historians prior to
submission.

Sharon Irish
School of Architecture
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
117 Buell Hall, MC-621
Champaign, IL 61820
Fax: 217-244-2900

Email: slirish@uiuc.edu
Visit the website at http://www.sah.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jul 26 15:16:32 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 26 14:19:08 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Hawaii International Conference on Arts and
	Humanities
Message-ID: <014501c5920e$2b4e33f0$4bdd83ac@toshibauser>

Call for Papers/Abstracts/Submissions
4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
January 11 - 14, 2006
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel, Honolulu Hawaii, USA

Submission Deadline:  August 23, 2005

Sponsored by:
East West Council for Education
Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University
University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods

Web address: http://www.hichumanities.org
Email address: humanities@hichumanities.org

The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities will
be held from January 11 (Wednesday) to January 14 (Saturday), 2006 at the
Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii.  The conference will
provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from arts and
humanities related fields to interact with members inside and outside their
own particular disciplines.  Cross-disciplinary submissions with other
fields are welcome. Performing artists (live dance, theater, and music)
interested in displaying their talents will be accommodated whenever
possible.

Topic Areas (All Areas of Arts and Humanities are Invited):

*Anthropology
*American Studies
*Archeology
*Architecture
*Art
*Art History
*Dance
*English
*Ethnic Studies
*Film
*Graphic Design
*History
*Landscape Architecture
*Languages
*Literature
*Linguistics
*Music
*Performing Arts
*Philosophy
*Religion
*Second Language Studies
*Speech/Communication
*Theatre
*Visual Arts
*Other Areas of Arts and Humanities
*Cross-disciplinary areas of the above related to each other or other areas.

The Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities encourages the
following types of papers/abstracts/submissions for any of the listed areas:

Research Papers - Completed papers.
Abstracts - Abstracts of completed or proposed research.
Student Papers - Research by students.
Work-in-Progress Reports or Proposals for future projects.
Reports on issues related to teaching.

For detailed information about submissions see:
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm

Submitting a Proposal:

1.  Create a title page for your submission.  The title page should include:

a.  title of the submission
b.  topic area of the submission (chooses from above list)
c.  presentation format (see
http://www.hichumanities.org/cfp_artshumanities.htm for format choices)
d.  name(s) of the author(s)
e.  department(s) and affiliation(s)
f.  mailing address(es)
g.  e-mail address(es)
h.  phone number(s)
i.  fax number(s)
j.  corresponding author if different than lead author

2. Email your abstract and/or paper, along with a title page, to
humanities@hichumanities.org. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged
via email within 48 hours.

Please note that there is a limit of two contributed submissions per lead
author.

To be removed from this list, please click the following link:
http://www.hichumanities.org/remove/ or copy and paste the link into any web
browser.

Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
P.O. Box 75036
Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 949-1456
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: humanities@hichumanities.org
Website: http://www.hichumanities.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jul 27 17:54:11 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jul 27 17:02:36 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: THE SPACES AND ARTICULATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRACTICES
Message-ID: <006001c592ee$24169a60$70b587ac@toshibauser>

Apologies for cross-posting.


AAG2006 CALL FOR PAPERS

THE SPACES AND ARTICULATIONS OF ECONOMIC PRACTICES

Chicago, 7th-11th March 2006
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Chicago2006/call_4_papers.cfm

Adrian Smith, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London,
UK, a.m.smith@qmul.ac.uk

Alison Stenning, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies,
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle,
UK, alison.stenning@ncl.ac.uk 

Research on the diversity of economic forms and practices has been
gathering pace within geography in recent years, forming the focus of
numerous workshops and conference sessions.  The wealth of research
ongoing in the area has drawn our attention (back) to household and
community economies, the informal sphere, alternative financial
institutions (banks, credit unions etc.), social enterprises and fair
trade, amongst many others.  Each of these activities brings together a
range of different spaces (the home, the community, the market, the
global, the workplace, the high street, the urban and the rural and so
on) yet, even among geographers, the spatiality of economic practices is
often taken for granted through concepts such as networks, embeddedness
and flows. In connecting different spaces, economic practices create
articulations between different spheres (formal/informal,
market/non-market, capitalist/non-capitalist), breaking down the
categories and dichotomies we establish to form complex economic
geographies. Addressing the geographies of economic practices also
allows us to begin to explore the differentiated relations of power
within economic practices, to interrogate questions of differential
access to assets and resources, and to connect these geographies to a
wider socio-economic landscape which shapes patterns of wealth and
poverty, inclusion and exclusion.

In this session we seek to interrogate explicitly the spaces and
articulations of economic practices. We envisage the papers as building
upon interests in diverse and alternative economies and on the recent
'practice turn'. Indeed, a focus on practices enables us to examine the
sites of economic life that are constituted by different, and at times
divergent, forces, while at the same time enabling a consideration of
the linked, relational and articulated nature of economic life.

We invite papers which address some of the following themes:
~       how can we conceptualise spaces of economic practice?
~       how do the geographies of economic practices shape the form and
function of the practices?
~       how do diverse economic practices produce and reproduce spaces?
~       how do diverse economic practices work across spaces to
articulate different spheres and categories of economic activity?
~       how do the geographies of economic practices shape access to
assets and resources for material and social reproduction?

Please send abstracts (of not more than 250 words) for possible
inclusion in this session in the format required by the AAG to either of
the organizers by 23rd September 2005.

Abstract instructions:
http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/Chicago2006/abstract.cfm
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jul 28 15:37:15 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jul 28 14:40:40 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Tourism Lecturer Post at Sheffield Hallam University
Message-ID: <000b01c593a3$65468580$b56a9fac@toshibauser>

Tourism Lecturer Post at Sheffield Hallam University
 
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer post in Tourism (one year temporary from 
1st September 2005)
 
Sheffield Hallam University has one of the largest tourism programmes 
in higher education in the UK and through its Centre for Tourism and 
Cultural Change (cf. www.tourism-culture.com), an excellent record in 
international research, consultancy, publications and conferences. We 
are seeking to appoint a suitably qualified and experienced person to 
work with us in further enhancing our reputation for quality and 
innovation in our teaching programmes.
 
The Tourism subject group has recently seen an increase in the 
quantity of its work in terms of undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD 
programmes as well as in research, professional development and 
consultancy activities.  It is responsible for the delivery of Masters 
Programmes in Tourism as well as contributing to other postgraduate
programmes. 
At undergraduate level we are responsible for delivering a range of
programmes 
in Tourism.
  
The subject group and its programmes have strong links to a number of 
Professional Institutes including the Tourism Management Institute, 
International Festivals and Events Association and the Association for 
Tourism and Leisure Education.
 
In addition the group makes a significant contribution to other 
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes within the Faculty and 
provides consultancy and research services to a range of 
organisations. Members of the group are members of several national and 
international committees and serve on the editorial board of a number of

key journals.  The subject group has a strong track record of journal
and 
conference publications and members are authors of major 
international textbooks in Tourism.
 
The Faculty is seeking to appoint a candidate who would be able to 
contribute to the delivery of undergraduate and postgraduate modules 
in Tourism.
 
Preference will be given to those candidates who show they are able to 
contribute to the teaching of Tourism and related subjects. However it 
is essential that all candidates have the flexibility to teach across 
a range of programmes. It is also desirable that candidates 
demonstrate a high level of professionalism, are good team players and 
can demonstrate a commitment to higher education in the Tourism area. 
Candidates should be flexible in being able to teach over a range of 
subject areas, within the Tourism field.
 
For an informal discussion, please contact Philip Long before 11th 
August on tel: ++44 (0)114 225 2957
 
The closing date for applications is Friday 12th August 2005
 
The selection process will comprise informal and formal interviews.
 
Candidates will be asked to prepare a 10- minute presentation relating 
to their approach to teaching and learning within their specialist 
subject field.
 
Application forms and further details are available from: 
www.shu.ac.uk/jobs
 
Please also visit www.tourism-culture.com
 
Sent on behalf of Tourism Subject Leader, John Swarbrooke
 
Dr Philip Long
Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change Faculty of Organisation and 
Management Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield
S1 1WB
 
Tel. +44 114 225 2957

Fax +44 114 225 3343
 
 
 
 Dr David Picard
 Senior Research Fellow
 Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change Sheffield Hallam University 
 City Campus / Owen Building Howard Street Sheffield S1 1WB United 
 Kingdom Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973 Fax +44 (0) 114 225 4434 Email 
 d.picard@shu.ac.uk Website www.tourism-culture.com


