From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar  2 00:56:33 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar  2 01:12:26 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Three Announcements
Message-ID: <014b01c51eec$c3a56a00$648697ac@toshibauser>

URBANTH-L ANNOUNCEMENTS
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1. Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Fellowship
2. ANN:  Arthur M. Sackler Early Cities Colloquium
3. CFP: Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access
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1. Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Fellowship

The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy
Fellows Program (CBCF-LSUHPFP) is an educational, leadership development
program designed for health policy professionals who, through original
research, advanced legislative training and health policy analysis, will
significantly aid efforts to eliminate health disparities in the United
States and abroad. For more information, including how to apply, visit
www.cbcfinc.org. Deadline: April 1, 2005.

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2. ANN:  Arthur M. Sackler Early Cities Colloquium

Many disciplines including Sociology, Demography, Geography, Architecture
and Urban Planning, Economics, Anthropology, and History are increasingly
interested in "urbanism," particularly since much of the world is being
converted into cities and vast metropolitan areas. A diverse group of
scholars, who have employed different methods and a wide array of
perspectives in their study of early cities, are featured at the Arthur M.
Sackler colloquium "Early Cities: New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial
Urbanism" scheduled for May 18-20, 2005 at the National Academies Building
in Washington, D.C. The ten archaeological case studies will be discussed by
a group of distinguished scholars from fields such as geography, economics,
urban planning, architecture, and environmental psychology. All 10 case
studies will be accompanied by slides. To facilitate the participation of
younger anthropologists and social scientists, a number of travel grants
will be available for graduate students and postdocs to help subsidize their
travel to the conference. For more information or to register for the
colloquium, please go to www.nas.edu/sackler/earlycities or email us at
sackler@nas.edu.

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3. CFP: Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access

Research Symposium on Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access
November 10-12, 2005
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah USA
http://www.geog.utah.edu/instant_access/

We are on the verge of what many are calling the second information
revolution, based on ubiquitous access to both computing and
information. The technologies of instant access have potential to
transform dramatically our lives, cities, societies and economies much
like the automobile changed our world in the previous century.  This
research symposium will bring together leading international experts who
will address and discuss issues surrounding the impact of instant access
on social organization, institutions, urban morphology, heath and
well-being, social justice and social exclusion.

GENERAL SCHEDULE
THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2005
Keynote address by Howard Rheingold, computer visionary and author of
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. Topic: Smart Mobs: the impact of
ubiquitous instant access on social networks and social relations Expert
panel discussion following Mr. Rheingold's address.

Plenary lectures by:
     * Professor Michael Batty, University College London
     * Professor Helen Couclelis, University of California Santa Barbara
     * Professor Susan Hanson, Clark University
     * Dr. Anthony Townsend, New York University

FRIDAY, 11 NOVEMBER 2005
Technical papers and presentations with discussion

SATURDAY, 12 November 2005
Technical papers and presentations with discussion

CALL FOR PAPERS
We are seeking research papers on the topics of mobile information
technologies and their relationships with human society, social
relations, social institutions, urban morphology, transportation and
travel patterns, health and well-being. This is not an inclusive list,
and we welcome papers and presentations on other topics associated with
the impacts of instant access on society and urban form.

Selected papers will be invited to contribute to an edited volume from
the symposium on 'Society and Cities in the Age of Instant Access'

IMPORTANT DATES
1 May 2005: Submit proposal with a 250 word (maximum) abstract
1 June 2005: Invitations sent to selected authors
1 September 2005: 5000 word paper due

Organizers contact information:
Harvey J. Miller: harvey.miller@geog.utah.edu
Paul M. Torrens: paul.torrens@geog.utah.edu

From bcristales at msn.com  Wed Mar  2 12:36:14 2005
From: bcristales at msn.com (Beth Baker Cristales)
Date: Wed Mar  2 15:50:42 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]panel on globalization and the state for AAA 2005
Message-ID: <BAY11-DAV10276073F45D727DF4236AC35A0@phx.gbl>

I'm getting a late start, but hoping to organize a panel on globalization and the state. My own work focuses on state tactics for managing mobile citizens, looking mostly at El Salvador but also Mexico.

Please contact me if you are interested in participating.

Thank you.

Beth Baker-Cristales,
Assistant Professor
Anthropology Department
California State University, Los Angeles
5151 State University Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90032
(323)343-2443
bbakerc@calstatela.edu<mailto:bbakerc@calstatela.edu>
bcristales@msn.com<mailto:bcristales@msn.com> 
From devoep at intlinst.org  Thu Mar  3 10:15:48 2005
From: devoep at intlinst.org (Pam De Voe)
Date: Thu Mar  3 11:28:03 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]refugee widows
Message-ID: <2D018A34DE74B549B1DB3E889471B00C1A9D4E@process8.intlinst.org>

Hi All -- 

 

I am interested in getting materials together on refugee widows - the
problems they are facing and how they are handling them.  If you could
recommend publications on this topic, or if you know of any current
research that is being done on issues facing refugee widows, I would
appreciate your letting me know about it.  

 

You can e-mail me at devoep@iistl.org or call 314-773-9090  x 118.

 

Thanks a lot.  

 

Pam

 

Pamela A. De Voe, Ph.D.

Community Connections Manager

International Institute of St. Louis

3654 S. Grand Blvd.

St. Louis, MO 63118

314-773-9090 x 118

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar  3 18:59:04 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar  3 19:13:57 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Human Security and Gender
Message-ID: <00b701c5204d$05d71700$21648eac@toshibauser>

Call for Papers:  Journal of Asian Women's Studies, V.14

Theme:  Human Security and Gender

Human security connects different types of freedoms: freedom from want,
freedom from fear, and freedom to take action on one's own behalf. To do
this, it offers two general strategies:  Protection and Empowerment.

Outline of the Report of the Commission on Human Security:
http://www.humansecurity.chs.org/finalreport/outline.html

Gender perspective is essential for protecting people from pervasive threats
to human lives, livelihoods, and dignity and in enhancing their freedoms and
human fulfillment.  This issue invites papers examining issues related to
human security from gender viewpoints to achieve women's empowerment and
gender equality.  Case studies and the analysis of current situations,
policies, programs, and projects from gender, class, and race perspectives
on this theme are welcomed.  Manuscripts that do not fall directly into the
themes will also be considered.

The submission deadline is July 31, 2005.

For further details, please contact:
Yukiko ODA and Mikako SHIGETA
Kitakyushu Forum on Asian Women
Kitakyushu Otemachi Building 3F, Otemachi, 11-4, Kokura-kita, Kitakyushu
803-0814 Japan
Phone:  81-93-583-3434
Fax:  81-93583-5195
E-mail:  research@kfaw.or.jp
URL:  www.kfaw.or.jp


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar  5 22:26:56 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar  5 22:42:07 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Spain on Peterson, _The Birth of City Planning in the United States_
Message-ID: <009101c521fc$6bbdc040$c18892ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu (March 2005)

Jon A. Peterson. _The Birth of City Planning in the United States,
1840-1917_. Creating the North American Landscape Series. Baltimore
and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xv + 431 pp.
Illustrations, maps, epilogue, appendix, notes, index. $59.95
(cloth), ISBN 0-8018-7210-3.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Daphne Spain <dgs4g@cms.mail.virginia.edu>, 
Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, University of Virginia

Lofty Ambitions, Limited Achievements

Jon Peterson's _Birth of City Planning_ is a traditional history that
expands his earlier work on the City Beautiful Movement (1893 to
1910). It differs from the previous work by identifying sanitary
reform and the civic art movement as antecedents to the City
Beautiful (hence the "1840" in the title), and by tracing the
contributions of the City Beautiful Movement to the emergence of city
planning as a profession responsible for the public good. The birth
of city planning is dated variously as 1901, with Charles Mulford
Robinson's book, _The Improvement of Towns and Cities_; as 1902 with
the McMillan plan for Washington, D.C.; as 1904 with a New York City
comprehensive plan; as 1908 with popular usage of the term; and as
1910 with the ascendance of Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s vision for
planning. Peterson chose 1917 as the "end of the beginning" because
it marked the point at which, he believes, the ideal of the
comprehensive plan died.

In addition to differentiating the City Beautiful from city planning,
Peterson makes a somewhat forced distinction between "city" planning
and "urban" planning. According to Peterson, generic urban planning
refers to the broad array of ideas, techniques, and procedures by
which people have shaped urban form since the founding of cities.
American "city" planning is a distinct chapter in that longer
history. City planning was born during the Progressive Era as an
effort to make existing cities function more efficiently. When it
died is less clear, although it clearly no longer exists in its pure
form. The grand ambitions inherent in a comprehensive vision were
undermined by planners' inability to implement them. Instead,
planning has evolved into a piecemeal endeavor, but one, ironically,
suitable for the contemporary fragmented metropolis.

Peterson highlights three developments during the late-nineteenth
century that proved crucial to the development of city planning. The
first was recognition that sanitary reform was necessary to reduce
the public health risks of crowded tenements. Second, large parks
were identified as another antidote to urban congestion, and, third,
American cities were perceived as more visually chaotic than Europe's
grand cities. The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893 and
the subsequent City Beautiful movement addressed all three of these
concerns. Civic commissions in Chicago, Manila, San Francisco, and
Washington, D.C. hired architect Daniel Burnham, principal designer
of the Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, to impose order similar
to that of the fantastical White City.

Burnham's 1902 plan for Washington, D.C. was the watershed event that
defined, for Peterson, the birth of city planning. Special purpose
planning already existed, but the McMillan Commission plan for the
District of Columbia marked the first time professionals applied a
comprehensive approach. The McMillan Plan successfully combined two
previously unrelated nineteenth-century precursors: park system
design and civic art. Burnham, landscape architect Frederick Law
Olmsted Jr., Charles Mulford Robinson, and John Nolen were the
pioneers of this emerging planning profession.

Professionals began to refer to "city planning" in 1908 and the name
was institutionalized in 1909 with the first National Conference on
City Planning (NCCP). The NCCP sparked a battle for control between
landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and housing reformer
Benjamin Marsh. Olmsted won, directing the profession toward a
broader agenda than housing. Olmsted Jr. also believed planning was
as much a process as a completed document.

Housing reformer Lawrence Veiller, among others, criticized planning
for promising more than it could deliver. Surveys conducted between
1917 and 1929 bore out his assessment. Only forty-one cities adopted
comprehensive city plans between 1910 and 1917. Of those, twenty
plans had very little impact, and another fifteen reported only
partial fulfillment. Since all but one of the six successful plans
was for a small town or village, they offered minimal instructional
value for city planners in Boston or Philadelphia. The incremental
approach held more promise. When Harland Bartholomew was hired in
1916 by St. Louis to create a city plan, he devised separate studies
of each city system: traffic, streets, markets, recreation, housing,
and public buildings. Serial implementation of these components
created an efficient traffic system for St. Louis when other
downtowns were still gridlocked. If D.C. marked the birth of city
planning, St. Louis signified the shift from comprehensive to
incremental approaches.

According to Peterson, city planning was based on three ideas that
eroded after World War I. The first was that the physical development
of an existing city should (not could) be controlled by a single
agency speaking for the public interest and presenting a
comprehensive vision. Second, essential elements of the plan, like
water and sewage systems, zoning, highways, and rapid transit,
derived coherence from this vision. Third, the vision assumed the
city was an interconnected, organic whole. After 1917, planners
abandoned the big picture out of necessity because they had never
achieved the authority to implement it . They turned, instead, to
piecemeal "opportunistic interventions" to widen streets or establish
zoning. If the success of city planning is gauged by its ambitions,
it was a failure. But if it is measured by its incremental,
small-scale achievements, as Peterson has, it left a significant
legacy.

I was surprised by a few omissions from Peterson's account. Sanitary
engineer George Waring was publishing and speaking extensively during
the late-nineteenth century, but is not mentioned in the chapter on
sanitary reform despite his status as patron saint of the municipal
housekeeping movement. And I looked in vain for more women in the
story. The settlement house movement received a nod, but Jane Addams
was credited only with displaying art at Hull House, not with her
endless efforts to clean up the city, both literally and
figuratively. A pantheon of women reformers influenced city planning.
Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch is mentioned, but Julia Lathrop, Lillian
Wald, Vida Scudder, and Mary McDowell are missing. For balance,
students who read Peterson's book should also read accounts by
Eugenie Ladner Birch, Susan Wirka, and Daphne Spain.[1]

Although historians may appreciate the distinction between city and
urban planning, the typical planning student probably would fail to
grasp the subtlety. For this reason, and because of its steep price,
_The Birth of City Planning_ would be a luxury in most planning
courses. On the other hand, the book is blessedly free of postmodern
jargon and accessible to a large audience.

Note

[1]. Eugenie Ladner Birch, "From Civic Worker to City Planner: Women
and Planning, 1890-1980," in _The American Planner: Biographies and
Recollections_, ed. Donald Krueckeberg (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for
Urban Policy Research, 2nd ed. 1994); Susan Wirka, "The City Social
Movement: Progressive Women Reformers and Early Social Planning," in
_Planning the Twentieth-Century American City_, ed. Mary Corbin Sies
and Christopher Silver (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University
Press, 1996); and, Daphne Spain, _How Women Saved the City_
(Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001).

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar  7 00:37:12 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar  7 00:52:14 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Session Proposal on Ogbu
Message-ID: <003a01c522d7$c692f540$5bfa94ac@toshibauser>

Dear colleagues:

I am inviting submission of proposals for the session below:

Committee # 1: Anthropological Studies of Schools and Culture

Ogbu and Beyond: The New Contemporary Realities of  Urban Minorities and the
Construction of Violent Communities of Color.

Description
Ogbu's (1978, 1986, 1992) theory of minority achievement (voluntary and
involuntary minorities) strongly focuses on American caste-like system and
racism.  Ogbu's theory ignores the growing self-destruction of minority
communities in the form of racial clashes caused by the rampant effects of
global capitalism.  Ogbu's implication that schools are neutral, that
African American kids and other "involuntary minorities" walk into schools
with an anti-intellectual predisposition (culture of disengagement) has
prevented a deeper examination of the construction of academic failure
orchestrated by late capitalist societies.  This panel will address some of
the shortcomings of Ogbu's theory to explain the increased racialized
violence within urban communities.  Papers addressing issues of racial
conflicts in schools, the construction of violence in inner city schools,
the role of the media in the distorted images of communities of color, and
particularly, studies deconstructing and challenging Ogbu's theory are
welcome.

Session Organizer:           Marta Baltodano
Phone #                           (310) 338-3770
Email                               mbaltoda@lmu.edu



From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar  7 07:52:19 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar  7 10:52:37 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]two CONFs: Global Political Economy, Athens / Muslims and
 Globalization, Georgia
Message-ID: <1110210739.422c78b3ca866@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Muslims' Experiences of Globalization
Location:	Georgia, United States
Conference Date:	2005-04-04 (in 28 days)

The goal of this conference is to explore, on the one hand, how Muslim majority
societies have been transformed by the processes of globalization, and how, on
the other hand, Muslims have conditioned and informed these processes by their
participation in or contestation of its institutions. The conference is also
informed by a view that conceives globalization as a world historical event
without a unidirectional flow and with paradoxical consequences. The main
premise of this conference is to analyze different dimensions of globalization
in the context of Muslims responses to it. More specifically, the conference
will explore the political economy of globalization, its cultural productions
and their dissemination through new technologies of networking, not as a
unidirectional transformative event from the West towards the Rest, but rather
as reciprocal and paradoxical processes of social change and cultural transitions.

The conference is free to public and there are no registration fees. Please
visit our website for the preliminary program.

	Prof. Behrooz Ghamari
Georgia State University
Department of Sociology

Email: bghamari@gsu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.cas.gsu.edu/units/default.aspx?unit=mec2

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GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE NEW CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT. SECOND
PAN-HELLENIC CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Location:	Greece
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-05-15

GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY AND THE NEW CHALLENGES FOR DEVELOPMENT

16-18 SEPTEMBER 2005
(Working Languages: Greek and English)

Venue: Harokopeion University of Athens
CALL FOR PAPERS
A number of studies claim that in an age of globalisation the variables that
determine development outcomes have increasingly shifted to the international
arena. In order to critically assess this claim we want to use the conference to
explore the impact of international factors on development using International
Political Economy perspectives. We welcome paper proposals that seek to
facilitate a dialogue on the following questions:

    * How is economic development defined and measured?
    * Which is the role of political institutions in the process of economic
development?
    * Does democracy lead to higher or lower growth rates of the economy?
    * Does economic development cause transitions to democracy?
    * Are political democracy and political stability related?
    * Do they have any consequence on growth or vice versa?
    * What are their impacts on investment, fiscal stabilisation, corruption,
education, immigration, inflation, economic freedom and income equality?
    * How changes at the international level affect developing countries'
national-level strategies for interaction with and integration into the global
economy through links of trade, investment, transnational production and finance
and how these linkages support or constrain development efforts?
    * Is underdevelopment inevitable for some countries?
    * How, if at all, contemporary changes in the structure of global production
- and globalisation more broadly - have shifted the developmental challenge?
    * How global economic governance is organised through multilateral economic
organisations (MEOs) ranging from the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and various
regional development agencies and how it affects development?
    * How the interrelationship between (international) civil society and global
governance institutions influence the processes of development?
    * How contemporary debates concerning the relationship between global
inequality and the global financial order including issues such as the politics
of international debt, sovereign bankruptcy, capital flight, international
financial regulation and crises, politics of exchange rate regimes,
dollarisation and regional currency blocs affect development?
    * How foreign policies of key countries in the 'North' and changing
political and economic strategies of important business constituencies in the
developed countries perceive the issues of development?
    * Concerning foreign aid how much the developed countries should give and
how well does the system of international aid does work?
    * What is the relationship of inequalities in knowledge production and
inequalities across regions?
    * Do we have the tools to understand whether these inequalities are
irreversible? 

The Institute of International Economic Relations intends to publish a number of
selected Conference's papers in a special edited volume, while other papers will
be published in the Quarterly scientific journal of the Institute ?Agora Without
Frontiers? and the website of the Institute after scholarly peer reviewed.
The Conference will focus on issues of development related to the levels of
analysis of the international political economy, presenting them under the prism
of a global perspective. The general topics of the Conference may include, but
are not limited to, the following:

    * Globalisation and International Political Economy for development
    * Theoretical perspectives on growth and development in the field of
International Political Economy
    * Global governance, global structures of multilateral economic
organisations and development
    * Regionalised and Inter-regionalised development
    * Rich and poor states in the world economy and global inequalities
    * The use and misuse of democratisation and economic liberalisation in the
process of economic development and growth
    * The political economy of North- South conflict and cooperation
    * Markets, international trade and development strategies
    * Multinational Corporations (MNC) policies and Foreign Direct Investment
impact on development
    * Dependent development, post-imperialism and the coalition of MNC
authoritarian state and local capital
    * Development, international debt and North ?South relations
    * Developing countries and international financial system
    * The politics and the future of international development assistance
    * The International Political Economy of peace building in developing countries
    * The International Political Economy of food, hunger, sustainable
development, climate change and natural disasters
    * Economic security and the political economy of development
    * Demographic changes and socio-economic pressures on development
    * Global Political Economy, international development and human security
    * International civil society, global solidarity networks and the process of
economic globalisation : impact on the developing world
    * Economic diplomacy of the Great economic powers towards the developing
countries and foreign policy ethics
    * The influence of the EU foreign economic policy and Common Foreign and
Security Policy (CFSP) on the formulation of its development policy towards the
third states 

Interested persons should submit an abstract between 300 and 400 words by 15 May
2005, which should include: the argument of the paper, theoretical background,
conclusion and approaching methods of the topic. It is required from all
participants to attach to the abstract a separate file with their personal data:
Names, title, status, corresponding address, telephone number, fax and email and
the title of the paper. All proposals will be independently reviewed before
acceptance.
Authors will be informed about inclusion of their presentation in the conference
programme by the beginning of June 2005, and the deadline for the submission of
the paper in Greek or in English is 1st of September 2005.
Both abstracts and papers should be submitted to IIER by e-mail. Exceptionally,
abstracts and papers can be faxed or posted. Details also available at the
following web address.

CONFERENCE FEE AND PAYMENT
The conference fee is ? 60 (euro). The fee is inclusive of refreshments,
documentation and two lunches.

	Ms Stella Milliotis
Institute of International Economic Relations
16, Panepistimiou Str
Athens
Greece
Phone: (0030) 210-3620274
Fax: (0030) 210- 3626610
Email: sae@hol.gr
Visit the website at http://www.idec.gr/iier

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar  7 15:49:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar  7 15:49:53 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urbicide: The Killing of Cities?
Message-ID: <000501c52357$2b188000$2d5c8696@ysu.edu>

From: Daniel Monk <dmonk@mail.colgate.edu>

Call for Papers

Urbicide: The Killing of Cities?
An international and interdisciplinary academic workshop, 24-25th November
2005

Sponsored by the Politics-State-Space research group, Department of
Geography, University of Durham, U.K. and P+C: The Peace and Conflict
Studies Program, Colgate University, U.S.A

Location: GRC, West Building, Department of Geography, University of
Durham, Durham, UK.

Rationale

As the world has entered a decade within which the majority of the
world's population will live in urban areas, the 'right to the city'
for the world's 3.5 billion urbanites has never been a more contested
political, social and geopolitical issue. As well as the more
familiar debates about migration, multiculturalism, and inequality,
the unprecedented scale of global urbanization is also directing
intellectual attention in the humanities and social sciences to focus
on the role of cities as dominant sites of destruction, violence,
insurgency and terrorism in the contemporary world. Three converging
areas of research can be identified here.

First, in both the Global North and Global South, researchers
analyzing cities are starting to consider deliberate attempts at the
annihilation of cities as mixed physical, social and cultural spaces.
Increasing recognition is being given to the erasure of urban places,
whether through massive capitalist speculation, the destructive
processes of planned urban restructuring (associated particularly
with the 'megaprojects' associated with neoliberal regimes of urban
development), state-backed warfare or terrorist violence.

Second, the central symbolic role of urban sites as physical targets
of terrorist, counter-terror and state terror campaigns is also
gaining increasing recognition within critical international politics
research. Such work is being motivated by the widespread realization
that 'asymmetric', insurgent, and network-based political violence
can not be understood through traditional nation-state based
paradigms. In addition, in the post Cold War, western militaries are
carefully transforming their doctrine, equipment and
techno-scientific orientation so that the control and destruction of
urban insurgencies in tightly built urban environments -- so called
Military Operations in Urban terrain (MOUT) -- becomes their de facto
function.

Finally, the emergence of cities as targets of ethno-nationalist
violence (as in the 1990s Balkan Wars) or as targets of Orientalist
violence (as in the case of Chechnya, Iraq and the Occupied
Territories) is the subject of a growing body of work in politics,
sociology, anthropology and geography.

One central concept is emerging which offers potential to tie
together all three of these areas of work: 'urbicide'  or the
deliberate attempt to deny, or kill, the city. Whilst the term is
gaining widening coverage in all three of the above research strands,
there has, as yet, been no attempt to organize a cross-cutting and
multi-scaled workshop to bring together the diverse research
communities who are becoming increasingly interested in both the
political and policy violence targeting cities.

The Durham urbicide workshop will do just this. Using the
interdisciplinary orientation of Durham Geography's
Politics-State-Space group, the workshop will seek to specify the
potential and limits of this emerging inter-disciplinary concept,
emphasizing the similar logic that operates across the scale of
local, national and global. It will develop and publish a
ground-breaking interdisciplinary dialogue between key researchers in
geography, international politics, planning, sociology, architecture,
anthropology, history, and law, who are developing research into the
role of cities as sites of both planning-related and political
violence. And it will attempt to develop a cutting-edge research
agenda into the nature of urbicide that can be pursued further by
both the cross-disciplinary and cross-national research networks that
will be established at the workshop.

The organizers would be particularly interested in papers that
address the following:

 Neoliberal cities, urban planning, and annihilations of place
 War as urbicide in the 20th century
 Place annihilation and colonial power
 Urbicide as war on collective and architectural memory
 Popular and media cultures and representations of urban annihilation
 Urbicide, terrorism and the 'war on terror'
 Military shifts towards 'Military Operations on Urban Terrain'
 Military technoscience and the city
 The relations between urbicide and other forms of political violence
 The reconstruction and resilience of cities

Organization of the Workshop

The emphasis of the 2-day workshop will be on encouraging
inter-disciplinary interaction. To keep the event to a small size,
all the 25-30 or so participants will be required to make abstract
and paper submissions. Speakers will have 15 minutes to present their
central ideas; papers will be submitted in advance of the event and
will be posted on a web site for participants to read before the
event.

Practical details regarding the venue, programme, costs, timetable,
accommodation and transport will be sent to everyone who has a paper
accepted to the event. The charge for the event will be nominal.
Because the budget for the event is very limited, participants will
be expected to make their own transport and accommodation
arrangements using full information provided by the organizers.

Submission of Abstracts
Please email abstracts of 200 words to all three of the 3 organizers
by 30 APRIL 2005:

David.Campbell@durham.ac.uk
s.d.n.graham@durham.a.c.uk
dmonk@mail.colgate.edu

Publications
The best papers from the event will be published in a major edited
book and, possibly, a journal special issue

Daniel Bertrand Monk
George T. and Myra W. Cooley Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies
Director, Peace and Conflict Studies Program [P-CON]
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar  8 19:57:22 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  8 20:13:18 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 2005 AAA Call for Abstracts (globalization, embodiment, identity)
Message-ID: <00f201c52442$fea00ab0$fda5a8ac@toshibauser>

Hi all,

Sorry this comes late but, in reviewing the various
emails I exchanged putting together the panel on
activity based "sites" for the upcoming SPA meetings,
I find a lot of material on various intersections of
globalization, embodiment, and identity and I was
wondering if anyone might be interested in
contributing to such a panel for the AAA's. 

If this is of interest please contact me at: 
_Ynot_@yahoo.com 
(if that email address gives you any trouble I can
also be reached at: jmarion@weber.ucsd.edu )

Best wishes always,

Jonathan S. Marion


*********************************************************************************** 
Jonathan S. Marion, M.A., C.Phil. 
Department of Anthropology 
University of California, San Diego 
Phone: +1-858-344-7409
Fax: +1-858-534-5946 
E-mail: _ynot_@yahoo.com  
Web: http://www.geocities.com/_ynot_/Home.html

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar  8 20:25:23 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar  8 20:40:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Leadership to End Homelessness Audio Conference
Message-ID: <001401c52446$e8168db0$fda5a8ac@toshibauser>

Dear Alliance Partners:

We would like to remind you that the next call in the Leadership to End Homelessness Audio Conference Series will take place at 3 p.m. EST this Thursday (March 10).  The call will highlight the innovative strategies of Central City Concern (CCC) in Portland, Oregon, which has become a national leader in ending homelessness for people with addictions.  CCC Executive Director Richard Harris will share both the challenges and successes that the program has had in using a comprehensive, no-wrong-door approach to providing housing and services for people facing the compound problems of homelessness and substance abuse.  

The one-hour call will include a brief presentation as well as a question-and-answer period in which listeners will be invited to participate.  We invite you to take part in this call either by phone (for a nominal fee) or via the web (free of charge).  For more information, please visit http://www.endhomelessness.org/audio/2005/0310.html

We hope that you will join us!

Sincerely,

Nan Roman
naeh@newsletter.naeh.org

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 10 19:38:50 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 10 19:55:14 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FILM REV: Herzog on Greene & Silverthorn, _The End of
	Suburbia_
Message-ID: <012301c525d2$d86eff40$e18c98ac@toshibauser>

The End of Suburbia: Film Review
Indymedia http://la.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/122537.php

The documentary predicts that, as less oil is pumped fromthe ground and
prices surge upward, property values of suburban homes will plummet.. The
documentary postulates that the answer to the coming oil shortage resides in
new urbanism.

THE END OF SUBURBIA: FILM REVIEW
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
By Lawrence Herzog

[The documentary predicts that, as less oil is pumped from the ground and
prices surge upward, property values of suburban homes will plummet.]

One of the films that created the most buzz at November's Global Visions
Film Festival (held November 4-7, 2004 in Edmonton, Alberta) is one that
hits close to home, here in Canada's oil heartland. "The End of Suburbia:
Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream," presents a startling
portrait of a world where oil and natural gas production is decreasing,
prices are increasing and where, without affordable petroleum, the suburbs
are doomed to become "the slums of the future."

Ours is a gluttonous society predicated on cheap, plentiful and dependable
fossil fuels. But analysis of world oil reserves (particularly those in the
Middle East) raises the specter that production has peaked and, in the years
ahead, supply will decline. Some predict the drop will be precipitous and
could well plunge the world into chaos. We don't have a "Plan B" to replace
the lost oil production, the documentary notes.

Made by Toronto filmmakers Gregory Greene and Barry Silverthorn, "The End of
Suburbia" challenges the notions that the oil won't run out and we can
continue to drive our SUVs and live in far-flung neighborhoods without
concern.

SUBURBAN WAY OF LIFE EMBEDDED IN OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
The documentary lays out its arguments provocatively, noting that since
World War II, North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in
suburbia, with its abundant promise of wide open space, affordability,
family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has
exploded in the past 50 years, so too the suburban way of life has become
embedded in the North American consciousness.

The idea for the film came to Silverthorn in 2002 as he pondered the cause
and effect around the September 11 attacks. "I realized that all the major
stories of the time were really symptoms of peak oil. Some experts believe
we've reached the peak and yet the demand for oil continues to increase,
driven by the suburban way of life. Well, the additional supply just isn't
there to be extracted affordably and so that way of life will soon become
economically and ecologically impossible to maintain. The world is headed
for a major crisis."

The point is made well in the film by such participants as author and
contemporary culture critic James Howard Kunstler, who calls the project of
suburbia "the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the
world." He submits that America "has squandered its wealth in a living
arrangement that has no future."

WE'RE SLAVES TO PETROLEUM
Our North American dependence on petroleum makes us utterly slave to it. We
heat our homes with fossil fuels, we eat food grown and transported with the
assistance of fossil fuels, we watch televisions and use computers powered
with electricity generated by fossil fuels.
Worldwide, there are now 600 million internal combustion engine vehicles on
the roads, and a third of them are operating in the United States. Americans
who live in suburbs typically drive 50 to 100 miles round trip each day to
get to work, to shop and to play.
North Americans use a highly disproportionate amount of the world's
resources. The United States contains just 4 percent of the world's
population, but gobbles up 25 percent of its oil. It doesn't take a genius
to figure out that such massive use of non-renewable resources is just not
sustainable.

Canadian cities like Edmonton, formerly a walkable place with a vibrant
downtown and compact, self-contained neighborhoods, have been consumed by
urban sprawl grown in the backs of cheap oil. As pump prices increase,
citizens are reluctant to give up on the dream. The American consumption of
oil continues to spiral upward, even though the American production of oil
peaked in the early 1970s and increasingly the country is reliant on
imported oil.

BLOODY WARS TO CONTROL REMAINING OIL RESERVES
The leaders of the western world, George W. Bush and his ilk, are prepared
to fight bloody wars for control of the remaining reserves to prop up and
maintain the suburban lifestyle. We need only look at the current war in
Iraq for evidence of that; fully 60 percent of the world's known reserves
are clustered around the Persian Gulf.

"It's in everybody's interest to maintain the fa?ade that this way of life
is normal. and we should continue buying and consuming like there is no
tomorrow." Says author Richard Heinberg. The issue of energy resource
depletion has been largely ignored by the mainstream media because, as he
puts it, "there's no upside for them. If they decide to tell the people of
North America that in fact we are running out of the very resources that
fuel economic growth, does that make anybody's stock price go up, except for
a few tiny niche companies that make solar panels and wind turbines?"

Finding other solutions won't be easy because we've yet to find an energy
source as efficient as oil. Hydrogen and ethanol, touted as potential
replacements for oil, take more energy to create than they deliver.
Hydrogen, after all, isn't even a form of energy, but a form of energy
storage, created with electricity and water. The electricity has to be
generated using some form of energy-typically fossil fuels.

"SLUMS OF THE FUTURE"
As less oil is pumped from the ground and prices surge ever upward, driven
by the forces of supply and demand, the documentary predicts the property
values of suburban homes will plummet. There will be a great scramble to
flee what Kunstler calls "the slums of the future."
The documentary postulates that the answer to the coming oil shortage and
the imminent collapse of industrial civilization, at least partly, resides
in "new urbanism." It is the re-establishment of the sorts of elements that
comprised great cities in the days before the internal combustion engine.
Local retail clusters, walkable neighborhoods, work and living spaces in
closer proximity and local energy generation are all ingredients for
sustainable urban living for the age after fossil fuels.

The Canadian film has been making the rounds on the festival circuit and has
already sold nearly 5,000 copies on DVD and video. Nearly 10 percent of the
sales have gone to California, where urban sprawl, air pollution from the
state's millions of vehicles and a fragile electrical energy grid are hot
button issues.

The success and popularity of recent documentaries (like "Fahrenheit 9/11")
have opened the door a little wider for alternative media, producer
Silverthorn says. "People are not getting what they need from the corporate
media, which sadly lacks balance and challenge and we've been delighted at
the response to our film."

For more information and to order copies of the documentary, visit
http://www.endofsuburbia.com/. If you'd like to offer your thoughts, please
drop me an email at lawrenceherzog@hotmail.com. For information on reprints
of previously published articles, check out my Web site at
http://www.lawrenceherzog.com.

Author: Lawrence Herzog
Link: www.mbtranslations.com
Posted: Sunday February 13, 2005 04:33 AM


From pribiljc at whitman.edu  Fri Mar 11 13:58:36 2005
From: pribiljc at whitman.edu (Jason Pribilsky)
Date: Sat Mar 12 10:21:14 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call For Papers--LASA 2006: Cultural Politics of Health and Healing
 in the Neoliberal Andes 
In-Reply-To: <020501c4fd19$183988d0$eb9dafac@toshibauser>
Message-ID: <000001c52685$79ee8db0$e9060c0a@whitman.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2006 Meetings 

San Juan, Puerto Rico 
March 15-18, 2006

ORGANIZERS: Jason Pribilsky, Whitman College 
Maria Tapias, Grinnell College
		 


The Culture Politics of Health and Healing in the Neoliberal Andes 


The health status of individuals and populations is a sensitive indicator to
reveal what are nearly inevitable problems that arise in the wake of
economic change. In Latin America, and the Andean region more specifically,
neoliberal and structural adjustment policies have included market
liberalization, the removal of subsidies, the privatization of essential
services, and the creation of a host of conditions to attract foreign
investors more generally.  These reforms have not only profoundly impacted
social and community relations but have also had numerous effects on
people's health. While scholars have begun to analyze the "big
picture"-presenting a macro-epidemiologic forecast of the health status of
Andean populations as well as attending to the economic burden of
compromised health, much less attention has been paid to local struggles of
how specific populations make sense of, resist, and articulate an
alternative vision up against these new realities--what we call here the
"cultural politics of health and healing."  

In this call for papers, we see at least two perspectives that need
illuminating. In one instance, we seek papers that look at how Andean
nation-states manipulate health and the provision of health care to advance
neoliberal agendas. Some potential questions: How have ideas of personal
responsibility-so integral to neoliberal rhetoric-been intertwined with the
promotion of new health programs and the dismantling of old ones? What is
the relationship between the privatization of essential services (water, for
instance) and the articulation of health problems? In what ways do
nation-states manipulate cultural notions of the body, illness, and disease
to promote specific healthcare agendas? 

A second type of paper may look at issues of resistance and cultural
response to neoliberalism. We especially seek papers that demonstrate how
the health arena (broadly defined to encompass biomedicine, "traditional"
curing and healing, religious healing, etc.) can be a staging ground for
Andean populations to exert rights and specific identities, to articulate
critiques of neoliberalim, and to seek out viable alternatives to provision
healthcare. Topics and questions may include: the intersection of indigenous
activism and health care provision--how have appeals and calls for autonomy
for "traditional medicine" been used to critique neoliberal health agendas?
How have indigenous and other groups collaborated with NGOs to procure
health care? In what ways do these movements resist neoliberal approaches to
health and in what ways do these movements also fall prey to the agendas
they oppose? How have traditional healers and patients responded to pains
and (dis)ease of neoliberalism? What gaps have religion and faith healing
filled for populations? In what ways has neoliberalism affected embodiment?

If you are interested in participating on this panel, please send an
abstract (of no more than 200 words) addressing one or more of the
issues/questions discussed above to both Maria Tapias (TAPIAS@Grinnell.edu)
and Jason Pribilsky (pribiljc@whitman.edu). Abstracts must be received by
March 26 to allow enough time to assemble materials and submit the panel
proposal by the LASA-imposed deadline of April 1st. We hope to hear from
you. 
 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 14 11:06:53 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 14 11:22:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA Student Activism Panel
Message-ID: <00dd01c528af$e2f4f7a0$f982a2ac@toshibauser>

From:  Chadmorris1@aol.com 
Subject: Call for Papers for 2005 AAA
  Student Activism Panel

  **Please consider responding to this call, then pass
  this message along to all appropriate local lists,
  with my apologies for cross-posting.**

  2005 AAA Proposed Session Panelists are being sought
  for the following proposed session on student
  activism (variously defined -- see abstract below)
  at the November, 2005 AAA annual meeting in
  Washington, D.C. The panel has been submitted to the
  NASA Program Committee for possible Invited Session
  status. All students of anthropology who have
  experience with student activism, as variously
  defined in the abstract, are urged to apply.
  Particular attention will be given to proposed
  papers on the work of local anthropology student
  organizations, work in seeking unionization or fair
  labor practices for graduate students, the process
  of designing thesis
  projects with activism in mind, and activism done at
  the undergraduate level.

  This panel represents an excellent opportunity to
  increase understanding of student views across
  the discipline, and is an important academic
  component of a larger push towards greater student
  representation in AAA affairs. Depending on
  interest, this session may generate
  additional product such as written guidance for
  student activism in anthropology and a possible
  journal article. If you've never presented at AAA
  before, this panel represents an excellent
  opportunity to present for the first time in a
  particularly student-friendly panel environment.

  Potential panelists should submit their planned
  paper with a title, abstract (not to exceed 250
  words), and any supporting information that would
  allow for added insight into your proposed topic of
  discussion. Chosen panelists will be asked to limit
  their presentations to no more
  than 10 minutes so that the session will have ample
  discussion time. Please plan your abstract
  accordingly. Minor revisions of the initial abstract
  will be permitted until March 31st. Please
  submit abstracts (and any questions) for this
  session to Chad Morris at <chadmorris1@aol.com>.

  Abstracts will be accepted on a rolling basis (first
  come, first considered), and the panel will be
  finalized by Wednesday, March 23rd. If there is a
  surplus of additional papers, the session
  organizer will make every effort to assist would-be
  presenters in putting together a second, related,
  session. (In other words, give it a shot -- we can't
  hear student voices if no one
  speaks!)

  Examining Student Activism in Anthropology: Defining
  Student Voices Anthropologists are frequently faced
  with difficult decisions as activist tendencies
  collide with disciplinary politics and the
  anthropological tenet of fully understanding
  multiple stakeholders before acting. Such
  conundrums are particularly daunting for students of
  anthropology, who are aware of the power of student
  action through examples of student activism going
  back to the 4th Century A.D., yet feel compelled to
  balance this awareness with mindfulness of their
  place in the discipline. Students comprise over
  one-third of the membership of the American
  Anthropological
  Association, representing the diversity of the
  discipline's present and future. Out of this
  diversity arise some common themes: local concerns
  about progress toward degrees, relationships with
  faculty mentors, and student labor issues in
  teaching and research; disciplinary concerns about
  student representation, employment opportunities,
  and the representation of the field to those outside
  of anthropology; and an array of broader concerns
  about global issues such as health, war, and labor.
  For many students, it is precisely these concerns --
  and the sense that something could be done to
  alleviate them -- that drew them to anthropology in
  the first place. This panel
  examines student activism in anthropology by taking
  a reflexive look at the discipline's own stances
  toward activism. Panelists will present brief
  ethnographic, theoretically-grounded perspectives on
  their own involvement in student activism.
  Specifically, panelists will explore varied
  definitions and expectations regarding student
  activism and its place in anthropology today. The
  panelists have been involved in student activism at
  local, disciplinary, and global levels of analysis.
  Ample discussion time will be provided. It is hoped
  that a greater understanding of the definitions of
  student activism will lead to more fruitful
  discussion of ways that students of anthropology
  might gain voice in our present and future
  discipline and world, a topic to be taken up in a
  companion to this session, the CAE Student Forum,
  Examining Student Activism in Anthropology:
  Strategies for Student Involvement.

  Chad Morris, M.A. Ph.D. Candidate Department of
  Anthropology
  University of Kentucky chadmorris1@aol.com
  (301)877-3064


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 14 12:13:03 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 14 12:30:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Summer Institute on International Migration
	(Amsterdam)
Message-ID: <020d01c528b9$1ec895d0$f982a2ac@toshibauser>

CFP: Summer Institute on International Migration (Amsterdam)
From: Jan Rath <J.C.Rath@uva.nl>

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
seminar will be approached in an international comparative way, building
on theoretical and empirical contributions of sociologists, political
scientists, anthropologists, geographers, economists, philosophers and
historians. The Institute is open to advanced undergraduate, graduate
and post-graduate students as well as professionals working in a field
related to the topic of the Summer Institute.

For more details go to http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM/index.html

Amy Abdou, Program Manager
Summer Institute ISHSS
Prins Hendrikkade 189 b
1011 TD Amsterdam
+31-20-525-3776
sim-ishss@uva.nl


Apologies for crossposting


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 14 12:16:00 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 14 12:32:13 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Workshop on Religious Commodifications in Asia
Message-ID: <021301c528b9$959ef2d0$f982a2ac@toshibauser>

Workshop on Religious Commodifications in Asia: Enchantment of Globalising
World
24-25 November 2005, Singapore

organised by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Religious commodification or the intersection between certain religious
traditions and market economy is nothing new, nor of recent origin. It has
long been a notable phenomenon which students of religions have observed
worldwide. Some classical theorists argue that with the rise of modern
capitalism and more rationalized organization of social life, religious
influences should be in decline. However, studies by contemporary
sociologists and anthropologists in the past few decades have indicated
otherwise. Traditional as well as newly-emerged religious practices have not
only survived the on-slaughters of market economy, but also been able to
produce and reproduced some meaningful forms and messages of rituals and
beliefs to modern and postmodern life.

Taking experiences of East and Southeast Asian countries, one could argue
that wherever capitalism grows as modes of modern production and
consumption, religion also flourishes. The rapid industrialization in
post-Second World War Japan gave birth to phenomenal new religious
movements, where everyday life frustration and tension were met with
promises religious messiahs and magical practices. In newly industrialized
countries like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, the revivals of
traditional as well as new religious practices are also intensively
reported, especially in 1980s and 1990s.

Considering rapid socioeconomic and cultural changes in the region in the
past few decades, it is imperative to investigate and compare forms,
processes, tensions, and implications of religious commoditizations across
Asian major religious traditions, i.e., Chinese religious traditions,
Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam.

This workshop aims to explore complex and diverse intersections between
religious practices and global capitalist forces in the Asian contexts. It
plans to bring together international scholars working on Asian religions to
discuss and explore the "big picture" of religious commoditization in this
region. How have "world-historic religions" (e.g., Buddhism, Christianity,
Hinduism, and Islam) and other living religious traditions (e.g., Chinese
and other indigenous spirit cults) adjusted themselves to cope with the
onslaughts of late capitalist, market-oriented economy? To what extent has
transnational capitalism in various forms and at different levels altered
and reshaped the Asian religious landscapes? What has the global capitalism
done to Asian religious traditions? What are social processes and contexts
leading to the emergence of 'prosperity religions'? What are responses from
local and transnational religious communities to the evasive intrusion of
commoditization? What are emerging voices, identities, or other
complications out of a selection of prosperity religions in Asia? How do
traditional religious traditions as well as premodern magic and superstition
persist and survive the onslaught of modernization and globalization forces?

The workshop intends to revisit and reexamine the influential roles of
religious traditions and their convergences with complex mundane forces in
contemporary Southeast Asian, where rapid economic growth and radical
sociocultural transformations have manifested in the past few decades. In
his ground-breaking edited volume, "Religions and the Transformations of
Capitalism: Comparative Approaches," Richard Roberts (1995:2) argues that
since the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the arrival of forceful
transnational market economy, ".there is a mutual and dynamic relation
between religions and economic processes." These processes have given birth
to what he calls "prosperity religion," which Jackson (1999:246) defines in
the context of Thai popular religion as "popular movements that emphasize
wealth acquisition as much as salvation." It tends to link ".an array of
spiritually significant meanings to the
prevailing consumerism of the period" (Ibid.).

The workshop's key objectives are outlined as follows:
To address Southeast Asia's prosperity religions and religious
commoditization from cross-disciplinary perspectives; To explore some
possible post-Durkheimian, post-Weberian sociological and some other
up-to-date theoretical explanations to the religious convergences as social
processes in Southeast Asia's diverse contexts; To discuss some effective
research methodologies in understanding the region's changing religious
landscapes;

TOPICS
The workshop intends to explore a wide range of prosperity religion and
commodifications as practiced within Southeast Asia's diverse and rich
religious traditions. Following topics are encouraged for the paper
presentation and discussion during the workshop.

The commercialization of Buddhism and its implications
Islam and its responses to the world market economy
Christianity and the marketized faiths
On the subject of Chinese vegetarian festivals
Cases of other emerging prosperity religions and cults
Religious celebrities
Religious publications and publishing business
Religious fetish objects and goods
Religious aspects of lottery and other forms of gambling
Amulet industry and its networks on the cyber space

THEME FOR KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Religious commoditizations in the late global capitalist junctures;
Rethinking the intersection between the religious and the market forces and
its implications: some theoretical and empirical considerations

CALL FOR PAPERS
Paper proposals including 250-word abstracts and 5-line biography should be
sent to Ms. Valerie Yeo at the e-mail address provided below by 31 May 2005.
Those selected will be urged to send in a completed paper by 15 September
2005.
Some funding will be available for those in the Southeast Asian region,
post-graduate students, and others unable to fund themselves. It is hoped
that the workshop will lead to a key publication in the field of comparative
Southeast Religion.

For enquiries, please contact:
Organising Committee:
Bryan Turner (aribst@nus.edu.sg)
Vineeta Sinha (socvs@nus.edu.sg)
Pattana Kitiarsa (aripk@nus.edu.sg)
Secretariat: Ms Valerie Yeo (contact information provided below).

References Cited
Jackson, Peter A. "Royal Spirits, Chinese Gods, and Magic Monks: Thailand's
Boom-Time Religions of Prosperity." South East Asia Research. 7, 3 (November
1999):245-320.
Roberts, Richard H., ed. Religion and the Transformations of Capitalism:
Comparative Apporaches. London: Routledge, 1995.
Ms Valerie Yeo
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
AS7, Level 4, 5 Arts Link
Tel: 65 6874 5279
Fax: 65 6779 1428

Email: ariyeov@nus.edu.sg
Visit the website at http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/conf2005/commodification.htm


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 14 12:19:15 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 14 12:35:05 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Mexico Solidarity Network Study Abroad Program
Message-ID: <022301c528b9$fe29cbe0$f982a2ac@toshibauser>

Mexico Solidarity Network
Study Abroad Program

16-credit, semester abroad program on Mexican Social Movements
Sept 11 - Dec 17, 2005 Jan 29 - May 13, 2006

For detailed information and applications see
www.MexicoSolidarity.org/Study%20Abroad/
The Mexico Solidarity Network Study Abroad program is a 14-week,
inter-disciplinary course focusing on the context, strategy and tactics of
Mexican social movements. The course is open to college students and
activists who want to investigate the theoretical groundings and actual
manifestations of Mexican social movements, with important lessons for
international solidarity work and US-based movements. The 16-credit program
is accredited (applicable to most undergraduate or masters programs) by the
Universidad AutonomA MetropolitanA - Xochimilco, one of Mexico's most
prestigious universities.

The course will give participants the theoretical grounding and practical
experience to be more effective social actors in a globalized world.
Participants will study:
The social, political and cultural context within which Mexican social
movements struggle.
Grassroots alternatives to predominant neoliberal models of development.
Strategies, structures and manifestations of Mexican social movements,
including indigenous and campesino movements, globalifobicos, ex-Braceros,
women's organizations, independent labor organizations and NGOs.

Educational objectives:
Introduce students to Mexico's rich and diverse economic, political and
social context, with special emphasis on grassroots and community-based
initiatives that are struggling for democracy, autonomy and
self-determination.

Understand the depth and scope of the US-Mexico relationship, with
particular emphasis on power dynamics, economic and social relations, and
important bi-national issues, including immigration, the neoliberal model,
narco-trafficking, labor rights, and environmental issues.
Develop strong Spanish language skills, with emphasis on oral communication
and comprehension.

Improve important grassroots organizing skills, including critical analysis,
strategic analysis, organizational dynamics, writing and public speaking.

Develop strong intercultural skills based on a solid understanding of race,
class and gender dynamics, and an appreciation of international solidarity.

Establish relationships with grassroots and community-based groups in
Chiapas, Tlaxcala, Mexico City, Chihuahua and Ciudad Juarez.

Participants spend eight weeks in Chiapas, two weeks in Toluca de Guadalupe,
Tlaxcala, a long weekend in Mexico City, two weeks in Chihuahua City, and
two weeks in Ciudad Juarez. Courses are based on the modular system, an
interdisciplinary educational model developed at the UAM-Xochimilco. The
modular system encourages student participation and a dynamic, hands-on
approach to integrating theory and practice.

Participants should be at least 18 years old, have experience in grassroots
or community-based organizing, and have completed at least one year of
college-level Spanish or equivalent in language mastery. The successful
applicant will have a basic grounding in political analysis, globalization
processes and grassroots movements.

The academic steering committee responsible for developing course content
and educational goals includes:

Dr. Glenn Keicker, DePauw University
Dr. Sonia Comboni, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City
Dr. Andres Jimenez, U of CA
Prof. Keith Yearman, College of DuPage
Dr. Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman, Suffolk University
Dr. Esteban Loustaunau, Augustana College
Dr. Norma Lozano Jackson, Benedict College
Dr. Peter Jackson, Benedict College
Dr's. Patricia and Howard Lamson, Earlham College
Dr. Nina Reich, Loyola-Marymount Univ
Dr. Alicia Schmit-Camacho, Yale Univ
Dr. Raymundo Sanchez Barraza, Universidad de la Tierra, Chiapas
Dr. Sonia Comboni, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City
Dr. Cheri Meacham, North Park University
Prof. David Lozano, UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico City
Dr. Merike Blofield, Grand Valley State Univ-MI
Dr. Sarah Hernandez, New College of Florida
Dr. Teresa Vazquez, Pitzer College
Dr. Jeanne Simonelli, Chair of Dept of Anthropology, Wake Forest Univ.
Dr. Skip Oliver, Heidelberg College
Prof. Lesley Davis, Indiana University School of Law
Dr. Vicki Galloway, Professor of Spanish and Associate Chair for Research
and Assessment in the School of Modern Languages, Georgia Tech
Dr. Gypsy Swanger, Border Studies Program, Earlham College
Dr. Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College

For an application or more information, contact the Mexico Solidarity
Network at the below e-mail address or telephone number.  For detailed
information and applications see: www.MexicoSolidarity.org/Study%20Abroad/

Mexico Solidarity Network
773-583-7728
Email: msn@mexicosolidarity.org
Visit the website at http://www.mexicosolidarity.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 15 19:12:04 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 15 19:28:24 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: New East European Migration Listserv
Message-ID: <009501c529bc$d6cd0cc0$2a409fac@toshibauser>

ANN: New East European Migration Listserv

East European Migration is concerned with migration to, from or within
Eastern Europe from an East European perspective both now and in the past.
It is intended to be a counterweight to the dominance of Western interests
in discussion of migration within Europe. Eastern Europe is considered as
the entire area east of 1989 boundaries, and thus includes states that
joined the EU on 1 May 2004 and the 'new' German L?nder, candidate states,
those aspiring to be, and those further east.

The list's purpose is to be a source of information and communication among
researchers on East European migration. Members are asked to contribute
announcements about publications (reports, journal articles, books), data
sources, websites, immigration legislation that affects East Europeans,
information from elsewhere in the world when it is particularly relevant,
and about conferences, seminars. Members are particularly encouraged to
contribute bibliographies of their own work and work that has been done in
their own countries or their own fields of interest. These will be stored
in the list's Archive, which will become an online resource.

Once the list is established it is expected there will be on average 2 or 3
postings in a week. On joining, or at any time, members who prefer not to
receive e-mails may elect not to receive them but they may still send
information to the list and consult the archive whenever they want to.
Information for the list may also be sent by non-members to the moderator,
Beryl Nicholson, at beryl6b@yahoo.co.uk.  with 'For East European
Migration' in the subject line.

Messages may be posted in any language. They must only contain text and no
attachments are allowed.

Contributors are requested to bear in mind that some members may have
limited internet access, and to avoid sending excessively large messages.

Individuals with a professional interest in migration who agree with the
list's purpose may join the list. These include, but are not limited to
researchers in universities (including research students) and research
institutes, think tanks and government, serious independent scholars (e.g.
who publish and are active in research networks), and journalists with a
special interest in migration. Membership is not limited to citizens or
residents of East European states.

This is a closed list, members must be approved by the moderator. To join
send a short introduction stating your interest in the group to
EastEuropeanMigration-owner@yahoogroups.com

Website: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EastEuropeanMigration

This message is being sent to persons who there is reason to believe may
have an interest in some aspect of East European migration and relevant
lists. Please forward it to anyone who may be interested. Contributions to
the list are also welcome.

The initiator and moderator of this list is Beryl Nicholson, who has
researched and published on migration for many years, and for the past
decade has had a particular interest in Albania.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar 16 16:43:48 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 16 17:01:40 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Women and Migration Conference (Tangiers)
Message-ID: <00f501c52a71$7e04ec10$bac195ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from  H-Mediterranean]

Call for Papers: Women and Migration
Conference to be held in Tangiers, November 16-19, 2005
Deadline for submission: March 25, 2005

? Mobilit?s au f?minin ?
Journ?es de rencontres internationales, Tanger, 16 - 19 novembre 2005,
Laboratoire M?diterran?en de Sociologie (MMSH, Aix-en-Provence, France)

Appel ? communications

La f?minisation des mobilit?s et des circulations migratoires

Les configurations migratoires se complexifient, combinant migration de
travail, asile et regroupement familial, circulations entre diff?rents pays,
immigration l?gale et clandestine, populations s?dentaris?es et circulants
nomades. Parmi ces nouvelles figures de la mobilit?, les femmes ont pris une
place grandissante. Si les femmes ont toujours ?t? pr?sentes dans les
mobilit?s migratoires, elles ont trop souvent ?t? consid?r?es en tant qu'
?pouses ou filles d'immigrants. La question des femmes comme actrices de
mobilit? volontaire, de strat?gies migratoires sp?cifiques n'en est qu'? ses
pr?misses. On constate depuis une quinzaine d'ann?es la part croissante de
mobilit?s f?minines en solitaires, et notamment en provenance de pays o? les
cadres culturels, juridiques et les difficult?s ?conomiques entravent
singuli?rement la libert? et la promotion des femmes.
D?s lors, il convient de s'interroger sur les significations de cette
f?minisation des mobilit?s. Les mobilit?s f?minines pr?sentent-elles des
sp?cificit?s, en particulier dans les modalit?s d'insertion ?conomique, dans
les projets migratoires ? Sont-elles r?v?latrices de mutations profondes
dans les soci?t?s d'origine ? Participent-elles des transformations des
structures sociales et ?conomiques des pays en d?veloppement ? Comment s'
inscrivent-elles dans un contexte de mobilit? g?n?ralis?e, de mondialisation
et de d?localisation ?

Axes th?matiques

Les communications sur les axes th?matiques suivants seront privil?gi?es :

?    Mobilit?s f?minines et globalisation : mondialisation -
transnationalisme (approche ?conomique, sociale, familiale, culturelle,
etc.) - r?le ?tatique - circulations d'individus, de marchandises, de
valeurs et d'id?es - ?mergence de nouveaux ph?nom?nes migratoires - figures
et statuts du migrant dans les soci?t?s d'immigration, de transit et d'
?migration - nouveaux p?les de migrations (Maghreb, Moyen Orient, Asie,
Europe du Sud, etc.) - quantification des mobilit?s f?minines.

?    Activit?s ?conomiques et professionnelles des femmes en migration :
Etudes de cas par secteurs ou par pays- secteurs d'activit?s : ?conomie
informelle, secteur tertiaire et domestique, prostitution, commerce,
industrie, etc. - modalit?s d'insertion ?conomique et sociale - niches
?conomiques - r?seaux et solidarit?s.

?    La mobilit? des femmes comme analyseur des transformations sociales
dans les pays d'origine : affranchissement social et ?conomique -
discriminations - strat?gies migratoires f?minines- recompositions
familiales - culture de la mobilit? - ?mergence des classes moyennes -
r?percutions de la mobilit? f?minine - r?partition des r?les -
transformations des structures sociales et culturelles - mutations
?conomiques et industrielles.


Objectifs de ces journ?es de rencontres

L'objet de ces rencontres est d'?tablir un ?tat des lieux sur l'?mergence de
ce ph?nom?ne, d'en comprendre les particularit?s en l'inscrivant tout
particuli?rement dans le contexte des reconfigurations migratoires ? l'
?chelle internationale et de la mondialisation.
Les pr?sentations de travaux et les discussions devront permettre d'aborder
toute la diversit? de ces mobilit?s (formes des mobilit?s : circulations,
migrations ; profils de carri?res migrantes ; modalit?s d'insertion
?conomique ; aires g?ographiques, causes et effets de ses mobilit?s) et de
mettre en commun les r?flexions.

L'appel ? communications s'adresse aux chercheurs en sociologie,
anthropologie, g?ographie, ?conomie afin de croiser les approches et de
confronter les analyses. Nous souhaitons ?galement encourager la
participation des ?tudiants et doctorants. La journ?e du samedi 19 novembre
sera donc consacr?e ? une session doctorale durant laquelle les ?tudiants
pourront pr?senter leurs travaux, en pr?sence de chercheurs et enseignants.

Le choix de la ville de Tanger pour la tenue de cette manifestation rev?t un
int?r?t tout particulier pour initier de nouvelles perspectives de
recherche. D'une part, la ville de Tanger et sa r?gion constituent un
espace-fronti?re particuli?rement travaill? par les mobilit?s
intra-africaines, transm?diterran?ennes et internationales. D'autre part, le
dynamisme associatif en faveur des femmes dans cette r?gion permettra un
partenariat local essentiel et des ?changes avec les chercheurs.

Ces journ?es aboutiront ? une publication en fran?ais (traduction des textes
assur?e par les organisatrices), c'est pourquoi nous demandons une attention
toute particuli?re aux participants dans la r?daction du texte qui leur sera
demand? avant la tenue de ces journ?es.

Calendrier et modalit?s de proposition de communication

?  Les propositions de communication sont ? renvoyer par email sous la forme
d'un r?sum? (400 mots max.) au plus tard le 25 mars 2005.
?  Merci d'indiquer vos nom, pr?nom, statut, institution et coordonn?es.
?  Le texte de votre communication (environ 10 000 mots) devra nous parvenir
pour le 30 juillet 2005.
?  R?sum?s et articles en fran?ais ou anglais ou espagnol.

Contacts et organisation
V?ronique MANRY & Natalia RIBAS MATEOS
Laboratoire M?diterran?en de Sociologie - MMSH
5 rue du Ch?teau de l'Horloge - BP 647 - 13094 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 02
(Fr.)   tangernov2005@yahoo.fr


From ASpal84583 at aol.com  Wed Mar 16 20:49:18 2005
From: ASpal84583 at aol.com (ASpal84583@aol.com)
Date: Wed Mar 16 20:50:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Panel on Spatial Governmentality
Message-ID: <9e.22757a77.2f6a3c1e@aol.com>

Sorry this is last-minute!  I got some great responses from a space and place 
listserve yesterday, so I figured I'd try the urbanth list too.  Anyone 
interested in writing an AAA paper on issues related to spatial governmentality 
(see beginning panel abstract below), please contact me at ASpal84583@aol.com.  
Include a paper title and abstract, your contact information, and your 
departmental affiliation by March 25.  

Thanks!

Ashley Spalding
Doctoral Student in Anthropology
University of South Florida


Proposed AAA 2005 Panel on Spatial Governmentality (beginning abstract--to be 
expanded and revised based on paper abstracts submitted):

Sally Engle Merry provides an excellent synthesis of theorizations of spatial 
governmentality in her 2001 American Anthropologist article, "Spatial 
Governmentality and the New Urban Social Order: Controlling Gender Violence through 
Law."  She discusses the scholarship that, drawing on the work of Michel 
Foucault, has identified a shift from disciplinary mechanisms of social control to 
the regulation of space-referring to these new mechanisms of social ordering as 
"spatial governmentality" (Merry 2001:16).  Among the key points are that, 
increasingly it is the case that spaces are governed rather than people.  For 
instance, rather attempting to reform offenders, they are simply excluded from 
certain spaces.  While Merry looks at this trend in US domestic violence 
policy-for instance, the increasing popularity of restraining orders--she writes 
that spatial strategies are "typically used by the wealthy to exclude the poor, 
while those who fail to respect these islands of safety are incarcerated" 
(2001:17).  This transformation in forms of governance is not only typical of 
cities in the United States.  Merry writes:  "Indeed, contemporary urbanism is 
shaped not only by features of size, scale, and anonymity but also by globally 
produced inequalities and transnationally circulating notions of governance" 
(2001:17).  The papers in this panel will examine diverse articulations of spatial 
governmentality.  

(My own paper will detail gating, nuisance abatement, and code enforcement as 
forms of spatial governmentality in a mixed income neighborhood in Tampa, 
Florida.)



From daromir at alumni.uchicago.edu  Wed Mar 16 21:35:39 2005
From: daromir at alumni.uchicago.edu (Daromir Rudnyckyj)
Date: Thu Mar 17 01:12:26 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: AAA Panel on Ethnographies of the Proliferating Rationalities
 of Capital
References: <9e.22757a77.2f6a3c1e@aol.com>
Message-ID: <00f201c52ab3$288a6c00$5f5d2080@Mactia>


Call for papers- Ethnographies of the Proliferating Rationalities of Capital

This panel investigates the relationship between capitalism and reason in
contemporary
ethnographic research projects. If, as Max Weber argued, a certain form of
rational asceticism is
at the foundation of "the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order,"
what forms of reason
emerge in what Timothy Mitchell has called the "para-sites of capitalism"?
Capitalism may have
always been that which exceeds the possibility of knowledge and control on
the part of its human
subjects. This panel turns the formulation around to note that capitalism is
shot through with
alterior practices that imply incongruous rationalities and sometimes wild
irrationalities. In so
doing, it addresses the reflexive relationships between economy, religion,
science, economics, and
management often encountered in contemporary ethnographic fields. How do
current anthropological
conversations, such as millennial capitalism, commodity fetishism, and
neoliberal governmentality,
confront and engage with what constitutes and exceeds capitalism?

Perhaps unique to the domain of ethnography are practices that articulate
value, care and life in
ways that mark specific, contingent forms of reason and unreason. These
projects exist in
sometimes anxious, sometimes cozy relation to the power dynamics that exceed
and enable them.
Attentive to relations of inequality, this panel moves beyond the simple
binary of power and
resistance. These papers bring ethnography to bear on the pragmatics at work
in the ways subjects
of capitalism articulate their own projects with the many leviathans that
live through them. What
contingent forms of knowledge are deployed in these contexts, and with what
unintended
consequences? What subjectivities are elicited in relations of production
and exchange, and how do
we analyze the heterogeneous spaces in which these proliferate? How do
people assemble contingent
manipulations of capitalist environs to their own ends? What forms of
ethics, subjectifications,
and disciplines do they mobilize? What naturalizations or domestications are
produced, and what
modes of sociality emerge?

What is anthropologically significant about formations that are temporary
and even fleeting? Is
there room for a concept of denatured culture, and what relations, objects
and spaces would it
adhere to? If it is anthropology's responsibility to question theories that
assimilate differences
into global order, can we expect anything rigorous from the idea of
"capitalism"? What
theorizations of heterogeneity are possible? What commentary do these
practices offer to the big
thinkers of social theory-Marx and Weber, Gramsci and Foucault? This panel
brings together
empirical approaches from a variety of research settings where rationalities
and irrationalities
emerge. Among others, these might include transnational development
projects, zones of production
of things and selves, religious institutions, banks and financial
organizations, scientific
laboratories, or spaces of media consumption and circulation.

This panel will be submitted to the American Anthropological Association for
presentation at the
2005 annual AAA meetings in Washington, DC. Paper abstracts are due asap in
order to meet the
April 1st deadline set by the AAA. Interested panelists should review AAA
guidelines for
presenters to be sure they can fulfill those requirements. Please forward
abstracts to Dar
Rudnyckyj jeromewhitington@berkeley.edu .


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 17 14:03:54 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 17 14:20:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Welfare City - Urban Equality and Globalization: Urban Studies
 Summer Postgraduate Course (Finland)
Message-ID: <023201c52b24$205d0030$2d3f8cac@toshibauser>

Welfare City - Urban Equality and Globalisation
Urban Studies Postgraduate Course
University of Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology
August 16 to 31, 2005

This summer school course will explore Helsinki as a Nordic welfare city
with its modernistic architecture, welfare-oriented governance and civil
servant urban planning tradition. In the 1990s and the current decade,
Helsinki suddenly has had to deal with global competition and meet the
demands of an information technology cluster driven by Nokia, the
largest mobile phone producer in the world. The booming high tech
-industry and other urban processes relating to globalisation have
brought unprecedented wealth to some, but they have also complicated the
conception of social equality in this city. Plans to close down public
healthcare centres and libraries have recently raised concerns about
public confidence in the welfare system in Helsinki and have led to
public expressions of dissent. The central topics of this course are the
consequences of globalisation for everyday life in a rationalistically
planned and social-democratically led society and the response of cities
to these new challenges.
* *
Lectures and excursions in the Helsinki metropolitan area will serve to
exemplify and illuminate the distinctive urban strategies and policies
in a Nordic city in general and Helsinki in particular. We will also
discuss problems being faced by the welfare institutions in Helsinki on
a smaller scale by taking a closer look at how certain segments of
society (for example women and the elderly) are being affected by
welfare policies. The main objective of the course is to investigate the
interplay of macro- and micro-level developments in the social, economic
and spatial structure of the city. This will be achieved by taking a
closer look at some participatory planning and governance practices used
in the Helsinki region. The applicability of the example of Helsinki to
other urban environments will be considered in the students'
international workshops.

The interactive working methods of the course include illustrative
excursions in the Helsinki metropolitan region and thematic workshops
where questions of urban policy and urban planning will be worked
through with other students and an assistant.

Lecturers of the course include Professor Anne Haila (University of
Helsinki), Senior Research Fellow Mervi Ilmonen (Helsinki University of
Technology), and leading contemporary urban intellectuals of Finland:
professors, scholars, and people working in business and administration.

For more information, please see http://summerschool.helsinki.fi/ or
contact summer-school@helsinki.fi <mailto:summer-school@helsinki.fi>.
Questions concerning the content of this course can be directed to
course assistant Jussi Kulonpalo (jussi.kulonpalo@helsinki.fi) or Dr
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen (turo-kimmo.lehtonen@helsinki.fi
<mailto:turo-kimmo.lehtonen@helsinki.fi>).
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 17 14:30:57 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 17 14:47:27 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Applicants: NITLE Urban Studies GIS Workshop
Message-ID: <028101c52b27$e2c24ab0$2d3f8cac@toshibauser>

[This workshop is a little off-topic for anthropology, but I thought it
might still be of interest to some -AJ]

NITLE Urban Studies GIS Workshop
Connecticut, United States
Application Deadline: April 1, 2005

The National Institute for Technology & Liberal Education (NITLE) is
accepting applications to participate in an Urban Studies geographical
information system (GIS) workshop, to be held at Trinity College (Hartford
CT) from May 31 - June 3, 2005.  This workshop will provide faculty with an
opportunity to focus and practice their GIS skills in a targeted manner,
towards the discipline-specific content area of urban studies. Applied,
hands-on computer work each day will be complemented by evening
presentations and opportunities to consult with our instructors on your
particular GIS interests.

A sample of topics to be covered during this workshop includes:

-The integration of data from multiple sources into a single GIS project
-Use of current and historical census data, including the Neighborhood
Change Database
-Aggregation of data across varying spatial scales, with modifiable area
unit problems
-Georeferencing and geocoding
-Methods of symbolization and classification to communicate information
effectively on maps
-Exploration, quantification, and evaluation of spatial patterns through
spatial statistics
-GIS as a component of service-learning
-Approaches to using GIS in courses with urban studies content.

This workshop is primarily intended for faculty at NITLE's 81 affiliated
colleges. There is no charge to attend this workshop, and NITLE will cover
the cost of lodging and reimburse participants for travel expenses. Most
meals are the responsibility of the participant or his/her institution. If
you are a faculty member at a non-NITLE school, please contact Diana Stuart
Sinton for possible participation in this workshop.

APPLICATION DEADLINE is April 1, 2005.
For more details, see website or contact Diana Sinton
Diana Stuart Sinton
GIS Program Director, NITLE
CET / Middlebury College
Middlebury, Vermont 05753
802.443.5761 voice
http://gis.nitle.org
dsinton@middlebury.edu
Email: dsinton@middlebury.edu
Visit the website at http://gis.nitle.org/workshops/urban.htm


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Mar 18 10:34:07 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Mar 18 10:54:09 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP (AAA Panel): Sighting Memory/Performing History: Historicity
 and Belonging in the Black Atlantic
Message-ID: <001b01c52bd0$6f6a3330$4d7e90ac@toshibauser>


Proposed Panel for 2005 American Anthropological 
Association (please forward).

CFP: Sighting Memory/Performing History: Historicity and 
Belonging in the Black Atlantic

Just outside the boundaries of formal historical 
narratives, people produce and perform meanings of the 
past in their everyday lives. Some think and talk about 
the past in hushed voices beyond the earshot of government 
officials. Some articulate them as dynamic and unfolding 
keys for understanding the present. Some enact them in 
hymns that bespeak "the wisdom of our fathers." These 
histories do not look like (nor are they intended to be) 
'histories' in the conventional sense of the term, but 
they speak of the complex relationship people have with 
the past, and the profound ways this relationship informs 
and is informed by their sense of identity.

We seek papers that take examples from across the Black 
Atlantic (broadly conceived) to examine the kinds of 
relationships to the past--and the kinds of identity 
formation--people produce in their historical narratives. 
Drawing on ethnographic research, the panel will explore 
not a single 'Black-Atlantic historicity,' but, on the 
contrary, the vast diversity by which people come to think 
about and perform history and the past in the present: 
different versions of "that which is said to have 
happened" (Trouillot 1997), different meanings given to 
single events--and subsequently different forms of 
belonging that emerge from these histories. We are looking 
for papers that explore not only how histories figures 
into people's lives, but the extent to which such 
histories are a product of ongoing unfolding identities in 
the present.

Interested panelists should email abstracts (maximum 250 
words) no later than March 25, 2005 to session organizers 
Mieka Brand (University of Virginia) or Vicki Brennan 
(University of Chicago). Be sure to include in your email 
your name, affiliation and the title of your paper.

Mieka Brand: mb3wx@virginia.edu
Vicki Brennan: vlb8n@virginia.edu

--
Mieka Brand
University of Virginia
Department of Anthropology, 
Carter Woodson Institute for
   African American & African Studies
mb3wx@virginia.edu


From 3seacats at comcast.net  Fri Mar 18 23:25:05 2005
From: 3seacats at comcast.net (Harriet Richardson Seacat)
Date: Sat Mar 19 11:48:24 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Proposed AAA Panel on 2004 AAA Meeting Cancellation
Message-ID: <012201c52c44$05bdf2e0$6401a8c0@harrietc40j504>

Hello all,
    For those who may be interested in the below session (described in a
roughed-out abstract), we need to work fast to get this thing off the ground
on time.  Let me know ASAP if you are interested in participating (off
lists, please).  Also, let me know what section sponsorship you think may be
appropriate.  I think this could easily be either a paper session or a
roundtable discussion...
    For obvious reasons, I would not have proposed this if I had seen a
similar call for papers.  Please let me know if you have.  Thanks for
reading and please pass on to others you think may be interested.

Harriet L. Richardson Seacat, M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
University of South Alabama
http://www.southalabama.edu/sociologyandanthropology/hrseacat/
251-689-0783



**Calling all of those people who spoke out for the San Francisco laborers
and against the AAA response to the labor dispute:

?The Outcome of this Struggle will Impact all Working People?[1]:

Anthropologists and Our Feigned Attempt at Union Support





As a prerequisite to our unique ability to suspend ethnocentrism, many of us
are concerned with the impact of powerful corporations on the lives of the
people with which we work.  From Marx to Wallerstein, many prominent
scholars have explored the inequalities that exist in a capitalistic system.
Scholars, particularly anthropologists, have examined with similar virility
how people of cultural minorities are marginalized in this system.  The 2004
AAA meetings provide us with an awkwardly proximate example of how our
decisions as consumers impact people?s lives.  Even without a labor strike
and the prospect of crossing a picket line, our decision to meet in huge
corporate venues perpetuates inferior working conditions, like those being
protested by the San Francisco Hilton workers.  The strike and the AAA
response to it reminds us of our relative privilege as white collar workers
who support the corporate infrastructures which marginalize (and, at times,
terrorize) the labor force which sustains them.  The situation begs the
question of how we can criticize the effects of globalization while we
simultaneously provide the cash support upon which the system exists.  We
need to ask serious questions of ourselves as we plan for next year?s AAA
meetings and all meetings to come.  The unions which were striking in
November of 2004 in San Francisco believe that the ?outcome of [their]
struggle will impact all working people?.  Fear besets us all as we enter an
age in which corporate power is becoming paramount.  This session and its
presenters explore different arenas of thought surrounding these issues,
including the politics of corporate power, the impact of corporate power on
low-wage laborers, ethnographic insight into the San Francisco strike and
anthropologists? reactions to it, and how consumers can impact corporate
authority.  (alternate/other areas added as participants join the session)



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[1] Workers Action, strike support flyer, 2004





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Mar 19 21:24:34 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Mar 19 21:41:29 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Proposed AAA Session on "Trumping National
	Sovereignty"
Message-ID: <004b01c52cf3$ff7ec3e0$92b4abac@toshibauser>

From: Paul McDowell <paulanthropus@cox.net>

CFP: Trumping National Sovereignty: The Impact of
Neoliberal Globalization on the State and Its Peoples

Several of us would like to form a panel addressing the impact of
globalization on the sovereignty of nation states and/or the indigenous
societies that form part of them. I plan a paper discussing the ways that
neoliberal policies have eroded the indigenous economies of Guatemala, and
another contributor hopes to examine women's role in the re-positioning of
China's economy within the global context. We invite papers addressing this
range of issues. Please send your proposal to paulanthropus@cox.net or
mcdowell@sbcc.edu. Thanks.

Paul McDowell
Instructor in Anthropology
Santa Barbara City College



From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 21 09:49:23 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 21 12:49:37 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Panel on Rural-Rural Migration, AAA
Message-ID: <1111427363.423f09235319c@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Panel on Rural-Rural Migration at 2005 AAA Meeting in Washington DC
Location:	District of Columbia, United States
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-03-24 (in 3 days)

***Call for papers for a panel on Rural-Rural Migration at the upcoming American
Anthropological Association annual meeting to be held in Washington DC, Nov
30-Dec 4, 2005.****

We are seeking three more papers on the topic of rural-to-rural migration in the
developing world for a panel we are proposing for the 2005 AAAs. While much
recent anthropological research has focused on rural-to-urban migration and
international migration, rural-to-rural migration remains understudied by many.
Our panel hopes to look at rural-rural migration in historical and ethnographic
perspective, and to use papers from a wide variety of case studies from
different parts of the world. We currently have a paper on Vietnam and one on
Indonesia. We would ideally like additional papers that highlight case studies
from South Asia, Africa or Latin America.

The deadline for panel submissions is April 1, 2005. Thus, we would like to get
any indications of interest ASAP, and paper abstracts no later than March 24.
Please send an email indicating your interest and a proposed paper topic to the
e-mail address provided below. Additionally, if anyone would like to participate
but cannot complete a paper in time, we would consider them for the role of
discussant for the panel.

	Pam McElwee
Program on Agrarian Studies
Yale University
89 Trumbull
New Haven CT 06520
Email: pamela.mcelwee@aya.yale.edu

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 21 09:51:17 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 21 12:51:23 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Summer Acad.: Mediators of Knowledge and Transregional Perspectives, Berlin
Message-ID: <1111427477.423f0995e6284@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Summer Academy:?Experts and Mediators of Knowledge in the 20th Century.
Transregional Perspectives?
Location:	Germany
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-04-30

Summer Academy: ?Experts and Mediators of Knowledge in the 20th Century:
Transregional Perspectives?

To be held in Schmoeckwitz, Berlin, September 4-11, 2005

Participants in this Summer Academy will discuss the circulation of knowledge
and cultural transfer processes in the tensile field of mutual relations and
interconnectivity. Particular emphasis will be placed on interaction among
non-European societies, Europe and the United States, as well as on interactions
between non-European societies. We will proceed from the assumption that these
contacts exerted a formative influence on all interacting parties, and that they
are embedded in the process of social and cultural globalization. The aim of the
Summer Academy is to examine and debate these processes without reproducing
Eurocentric assumptions about the linear transfer of knowledge.

The Summer Academy will focus on experts, translators and mediators of
knowledge. These individuals and groups, including local teachers, government
employees, mission catechists, traders and journalists, had to mediate and
translate between different worlds in colonial and post-colonial societies. In
the colonial period, these experts and mediators were able to gain a new
authority as representatives of knowledge, and they increasingly benefited from
the order of knowledge established by colonialism.

In the process, they entered into competition with other, often religiously
rooted orders of knowledge and their representatives?and with European experts
who claimed the exclusive monopoly on the ?right knowledge? and tried to push it
through. In this way, competing expert cultures and knowledge orders emerged
that interacted in manifold ways. Thus more recently the ?experts? in
international development agencies increasingly refer to ?local knowledge? and
?local experts.? In this process, however, local experts and knowledge are often
only just ?constructed? as ?local.?

A closer look at experts and mediators of knowledge will enable us to reveal
complex, ?interactive? networks of competing orders of knowledge, orders which
resulted not only from an often hierarchical communication between
representatives of European and non-European societies, but also from
communication among non-European societies only. Moreover, we seek to provide
impulses for cooperation between regional research and the systematic disciplines.

Candidates
We welcome candidates from the disciplines of history, anthropology, literature,
sociology, political sciences as well as area studies. Applicants should be at
the doctoral or postdoctoral level. Ph.D. holders should have received their
doctorate in the last five years. Proposed projects should employ a historical
perspective and emphasize connections beyond the national state. Travel expenses
and costs incurred during the stay in Berlin will be covered (pending the
definite confirmation of funding).

Application procedure:
To apply, please send the following documents in English:

   1. A curriculum vitae
   2. A statement about current research relevant to the Summer Academy?s theme;
length: up to 1,000 words (not counting cited references)
   3. The names and addresses (incl. e-mail) of two references 

Candidates will be informed in mid-May whether they have been accepted.
Participants will be asked to submit a full paper (10,000 words) in English by
end of July to be distributed to the other participants.

Convenors: Andreas Eckert(U amburg),Marianne Braig (FU Berlin), Shalini Randeria
(U Zurich)

Please send your application to:
	Dr. Felicitas Hentschke
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Wallotstra?e 19
14193 Berlin, Germany
e-mail: fh@wiko-berlin.de
Further Information:
Email: f.hentschke@wiko-berlin.de
Visit the website at http://www.wiko-berlin.de/kolleg/projekte/wegedw?hpl=1

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Mar 21 23:04:30 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Mar 21 23:04:34 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: ESRC CASE Collaborative PhD Studentship
Message-ID: <1111464270.423f994e2bfb0@webmail.ysu.edu>

ANN: ESRC CASE Collaborative PhD Studentship
Fellowship Deadline: May 31, 2005

 A CASE ESRC studentship on a 1+3 basis is available from October 2005 to
study for a PhD on the following topic: 'An analysis of humanitarian
accountability, identity and practice in conflict affected regions'. The
studentship will be held at the School for Policy Studies, University of
Bristol.

We are looking for applicants with a specific interest in how humanitarian
worker identity and practices may be shaped in the context of conflict
affected regions in Africa. Applicants should be able to work in physically
and emotionally challenging environments; and preferably have experience of
working with NGOs in post-conflict settings. The research will use
qualitative and ethnographic approaches. Candidates with a background in
sociology, anthropology or gender studies are strongly encouraged to apply.

Please note that regulations require that candidates for this award a) have
been ordinarily resident in the UK throughout the 3-year period preceding
the date of application, and b) have not been resident in the UK during any
part of that 3-year period, wholly or mainly for the purposes of full- time
education. For clarification of guidelines regarding residential status
please contact the studentship supervisor Dr Paul Higate on
paul.higate@bristol.ac.uk.
Deadline for applications for the Studentship is 31 May 2005.

The School for Policy Studies at the University of Bristol is an exciting
environment for graduate studies and was rated 5* (for Social Work) and 5
(for Social Policy) in the last RAE. We can offer supervision across a wide
range of disciplines and subject areas, including poverty and social
exclusion, family and child welfare, health and social care, and urban
studies, and welcome applications from anyone with a relevant Masters degree
or who obtained a first or upper second in their undergraduate degree (or
equivalent). See also the web address provided below.

Andrea Osborn or Kate Withers (Graduate Research Secretaries)
School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol
8 Priory Road
Bristol, BS8 1TZ, UK
T: +44 (0) 117 9546758.
Email: sps-doctoral@bristol.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/sps

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 22 11:12:19 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 22 11:29:16 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Metropolitan and Urban Imaginary
Message-ID: <008801c52ef9$f30e1d10$b8938eac@toshibauser>

CFP: The Metropolitan and Urban Imaginary, June 10, 2005
Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich, London
Deadline for Submissions: April 15th


This conference will explore the different and complex ways in which
literary texts inform and shape our perceptions of the city and the urban
environment. We are particularly interested in papers which discuss the
different traditions of writing about the city with global and hybrid
perspectives. Examples of this are the current interest in the cities of
China, the 'new' Europe, as well as the cities of both American continents.

Proposals for papers

Subjects closer to home in the writing of England and post-devolution Wales
and Scotland are very welcome. The primary focus is literary, so papers
addressing the genres and narratives of writing the metropolitan and urban
imaginary are invited, e.g. in the form of the detective story, the work of
Yasmina Khadra, Haruki Murakami, Paul Auster, Don De Lillo, Orham Pamuk,
Minette Walters, John Williams, - or in a wider mode the writing of Charles
Dickens, Wilkie Collins to Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd. Work addressing
questions of narrative, trauma, of travel writing and the self, is also
encouraged. Interdisciplinary papers incorporating the visual arts, film,
architecture and geography, are also invited.

Send a 300 word abstract to Dr. Carolyn Brown: bc22@greenwich.ac.uk by 15
April 2005. Firm acceptance of papers will be dependant on payment of
conference fees.

From 3seacats at comcast.net  Tue Mar 22 21:32:12 2005
From: 3seacats at comcast.net (Harriet Richardson Seacat)
Date: Wed Mar 23 00:29:46 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA 2004 Meeting Relocation Session
Message-ID: <006a01c52f58$ea619b60$6401a8c0@harrietc40j504>

Hello all,
    We still need one, probably two more papers for a proposed session on
the AAA 2004 Meeting Relocation session.  As far as I know, only one paper
at the 2005 meetings will address the SF labor strike and AAA response.  I
feel that it is crucial that we hold this session so to stimulate discussion
on the occurrences surrounding the 2004 meeting relocation.  If you feel
that it is important to get other anthropologists talking, too, please
respond to this call for papers.  This is a chance, too, to talk about how
to appropriately deal with next year's meetings in SF--part of the deal made
between the AAA and the SF Hilton.  We need to voice our concerns about the
decisions made if we hope to make changes.  Please join us in making this
happen and forward to your contacts!

Harriet L. Richardson Seacat, M.A.
Adjunct Faculty
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology
University of South Alabama
http://www.southalabama.edu/sociologyandanthropology/hrseacat/


"The Outcome of this Struggle will Impact all Working People"[1]:

Anthropologists and Our Feigned Attempt at Union Support





As a prerequisite to our unique ability to suspend ethnocentrism, many of us
are concerned with the impact of powerful corporations on the lives of the
people with which we work.  From Karl Marx to Immanuel Wallerstein, many
scholars have explored the inequalities that exist in a capitalistic system.
Scholars, particularly anthropologists, have examined with similar virility
how people of cultural minorities are marginalized in this system.  The 2004
AAA meetings provide us with an awkwardly proximate example of how our
decisions as consumers impact people's lives.  Even without a labor strike
and the prospect of crossing a picket line, our decision to meet in huge
corporate venues perpetuates inferior working conditions, like those being
protested by the San Francisco Hilton workers.  The strike and the AAA
response to it reminds us of our relative privilege as white collar workers
who support the corporate infrastructures which marginalize (and, at times,
terrorize) the labor force which sustains them.  The situation begs the
question of how we can criticize the effects of globalization while we
simultaneously provide the cash support upon which the system exists.  We
need to ask serious questions of ourselves as we plan for next year's AAA
meetings and all meetings to come.  The unions which were striking in
November of 2004 in San Francisco believe that the "outcome of [their]
struggle will impact all working people" as we enter an age in which
corporate power is becoming paramount.  This session and its presenters
explore different arenas of thought surrounding these issues, including the
politics of corporate power, the impact of corporate power on low-wage
laborers, ethnographic insight into the San Francisco strike and
anthropologists' reactions to it, and how consumers can impact corporate
authority.



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From vedwann at mail.montclair.edu  Wed Mar 23 10:02:24 2005
From: vedwann at mail.montclair.edu (Neeraj Vedwan)
Date: Wed Mar 23 10:15:12 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA session on environmentalism in Third World cities
Message-ID: <42418500.1090509@mail.montclair.edu>

Hi- I wanted to see if anyone is interested in presenting (or 
co-organizing) as part of the session I am organizing for the upcoming 
AAAs on Collective Action and the Environment in Third World Cities. 
I've attached an abstract/explanation for the session below, but I am 
happy to alter it based on the interests of those who would like to 
present papers.

My research is in New Delhi, India and deals with NGOs working on a 
range of urban environmental issues, such as, air and water pollution, 
waste management, and water resources management. Some of my research 
questions include examining the socio-economic and political factors 
underlying the emergence of environmental NGOs and the reasons for their 
relative success in influencing environmental policies and agenda.

I look forward to hearing from any of you with an interest in the topic.

Cheers,
Neeraj Vedwan
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ 07043
Tel: (973) 655-7559


Abstract:
Environmentalism in the First World and Third World has been  described 
as being predominantly focused on Green and Brown issues respectively.  
But this characterization sells short the diversity of initiatives 
concerning the biophysical environment in cities in less developed 
countries. Collective action under the rubric of Non Governmental 
Organizations (NGO), or, by citizens, run the gamut from policy 
formulation, neighborhood trash pickup, to obtaining clean drinking 
water to the passage of resolutions on global warming. Thus, not only 
are the topics varied and intriguing, but the ways in which people are 
organized at different levels is extremely interesting and provides us 
with the opportunity to understand variation in city dwellers' responses 
to degradation of the biophysical environment given the specific 
political-economic constraints and opportunities. The papers in this 
session will explore these collective responses in a number of settings 
and at multiple scales!
--from highlighting environmental issues using the mass media, 
public-private partnerships for environmental management, to the 
international politics of environmentalism.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Mar 23 16:36:08 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Mar 23 16:29:30 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Dyer on Edwards, _The Practice of Diaspora_
Message-ID: <00c001c52ff0$59d49e10$2ccca4ac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Migration]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Migration@h-net.msu.edu (March 2005)

Brent Hayes Edwards. _The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation,
and the Rise of Black Internationalism_. Cambridge and London: Harvard
University Press, 2004. 397 pp. Illustrations, photographs, notes,
index. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-01022-1; $24.95 (paper),
ISBN 0-674-01103-1.

Reviewed for H-Migration by Rebecca Dyer, Rose-Hulman Institute of
Technology

Translating Black Paris

Brent Hayes Edwards's _The Practice of Diaspora:  Literature,
Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism_ is an exceptional
book in that it manages to be both international in scope and
interdisciplinary--drawing on African-American studies, diaspora
studies, publication history, translation studies, and music and
literary criticism.  Edwards is able to combine this breadth with
in-depth treatment of the historical underpinnings of the texts he has
selected for analysis.  He considers non-literary texts, such as
short-lived black periodicals published in both the United States and
France, alongside texts that have long been considered part of the
"Harlem Renaissance" canon, such as Langston Hughes's "blues poems" and
Claude McKay's _Banjo_ (1929).

Edwards's approach is sound and inventive:  he points out that
considering black intellectuals' writing between the two world wars is
best done by looking at how and where these writers traveled.  In
particular, he focuses on African-American connections to Paris.  This
metropolitan European site is worth in-depth analysis because, he
writes, it was believed to be a site of black liberation, free from the
racism of inter-war America, yet Paris was also a site bank-rolled by
colonial exploitation.  Despite France's contribution to "the
globe-carving discourse of European colonialism," Edwards sees Paris as
"one of the key places where African Americans, Antilleans, and Africans
were able to 'link up'" (p. 3).  Throughout the book, Edwards usefully
brings together analyses of key figures, events, and arguments in
African diaspora studies with little-known, early-twentieth-century
scholars and journalists whose work sheds light on the interwar period.

Having opened his prologue with a description of the 1900 Pan-African
Congress and an analysis of W. E. B. Du Bois's powerful speech addressed
"To the Nations of the World," Edwards reflects on Du Bois's claim that
"the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line"
(p. 1).  This opening reveals Edwards's focus on African-American
efforts to connect with other oppressed groups throughout the African
diaspora.

Edwards's first chapter, "Variations on a Preface," is a beautifully
written and artfully organized consideration of history, contested
language, and the significance of the prefaces, introductions, and
explanatory notes appended to African-American texts.  The chapter is
evidence that the author's objective is to rethink familiar arguments
and highlight textual moves--"framing devices"--while also drawing
readers' attention to Francophone historical figures and to alliances
forged across the Atlantic.  Edwards's research into Martinican student
Jane Nardal and _La Depeche africaine_, for example, reveals that a
number of black Parisians elected not to challenge colonialism as
forthrightly as Du Bois had done, yet these writers were interested in
translating key texts of black liberation, such as Alain Locke's _The
New Negro_ (1925), and thus they had an important role to play in
creating a transnational movement.

Edwards also provides an insightful discussion of Edouard Glissant's
notion of _detour_, "a turning away first of all from such an obsession
with roots and singular geneology," which leads Edwards into a broad
range of examples of "populations undergoing 'modes of domination' that
exceed the nation-state" (pp. 22, 24).  Since a number of the listed
populations did not originate in Africa or its diaspora, Edwards comes
closest here to addressing other ethnicities and histories, but he ends
up returning to African Americans and Paris immediately after
cataloguing other movements. Edwards's lucid prose contains frequent
reminders of his focal points--transnationalism; French interest in black
music and culture; and African and African-diasporic writers' contributions
to the literature, criticism, and politics of the period.

Edwards returns again and again to issues of translation.  The book is
filled with Edwards's analyses of French concepts that resist
translation into English, such as _decalage_, which can be loosely
translated as a gap or discrepancy, and _negre_, a term which has, at
different times and different places, been used as either a slur or a
radical rallying cry. He also considers incongruent versions--one
English, one French--of the 1933 "Manifesto" written by two black
Marxists, George Padmore and Tiemoko Garan Kouyat.  The "Manifesto"
presents a peculiar, non-hierarchal translation act, Edwards writes, in
that "Padmore's [English] version rewrites and rethinks Kouyat's
[French], talks back to it, edits it, and repositions it ideologically"
(p. 278).  Such lingual analyses, which benefit from Edwards's fluency
and precision in the French language, allow Edwards "to read the
structure of such unevenness in the African diaspora"
and to reflect on the problems and possibilities inherent in any
international movement (p. 13).

The book contains photographs of important figures, reproductions of
periodicals, music sheets and posters, and numerous French quotations
and English translations (some revised by Edwards) excerpted from
literary works, reviews, political arguments and autobiographies.  This
rich array of material allows readers who are unfamiliar with African
diaspora studies or with the "Harlem Renaissance" to learn the key names
and debates.  Additionally, Edwards has unearthed lesser-known texts and
personalities for researchers who are already familiar with the field.
It seems, however, that Edwards occasionally elaborates at great length
about a particular text's reception and about its author's shifting
and/or conflicted stance vis-a-vis black transnationalism without
providing readers with a clear idea of the actual content of the work in
question.
This problem is most evident in Edwards's analysis of the 1921 novel
_Batouala_, which the author, Ren Maran, an Antillean colonial
administrator in Africa, elected to preface with a strong argument
against colonialism.  Edwards writes that Maran problematically claimed
to act as a "recording device" of "native" voices while writing the
novel (p. 88).
Although Edwards provides a detailed analysis of reviews representing a
number of political positions that appeared in both French and North
American periodicals, he fails, I believe, to provide his readers with a
clear enough idea of the novel's content and language.  By including a
quotation or two from the novel itself, and not just from the preface,
Edwards could have given readers some evidence against which to measure
the various reviewers' reactions.

One possible critique of Edwards's overall approach is that he fails to
step outside of ethnic boundaries in order to more fully consider the
diverse group of colonial workers, students, and activists who were
present in Paris between the wars.  As useful as his insistence that we
look to the "practice of diaspora" is, he neglects to give a clear
indication of the ways in which alliances _between_ ethnic groups were
formed and maintained.  Perhaps because Edwards's primary objective is
to take African-American literary criticism beyond discussions of the
"Harlem Renaissance" by closely considering a key metropolitan site in
the diaspora, he mentions colonized and oppressed groups who are not of
African origin (but who _are_ included in Du Bois's "darker races") only
in passing.  The material on writers of the African diapora is rich and
detailed, and I realize that considering other groups in similar depth
is beyond the scope of a single book.  Edwards could have made it clear
from the outset of his study, however, that he was aware of the ethnic
composition of inter-war Paris.  Additionally, more attention to
colonial independence movements in Indochina and Algeria was called
for--since those movements greatly influenced _internationalisme noir_
as it was expressed in Paris.

Alternatively, Edwards could have toned down the Parisian focus and
conceded that other sites--particularly London--had a similar
internationalizing movement underway and were similarly appealing to
black intellectuals from around the globe.  Edwards claims, quoting
Cedric Robinson, that "the socialist traditions to which Blacks of
Africa and the Caribbean were exposed in the British metropole differed
decidedly from those of their Francophone and American counterparts" (p.
242).  Yet, from my own perspective as someone who has conducted
research on Black Britain, there are many similarities between British
and French metropolitan sites worth noting.  In fact, Edwards's
insistence throughout his book that Paris is the most important
diasporic site--allowing "boundary crossing, conversations, and
collaborations that were available nowhere else to the same
degree"--comes across, at times, as a bit forced (p.  4).  After all,
Edwards's prologue begins in London, at the Pan-African Congress of
1900, and he returns to England in chapter 5, in his discussion of
George Padmore and the Pan-African Congress held in Manchester in 1945,
indicating just how central British sites and transplanted black
intellectuals there were.  Edwards is understandably leery of making a
"possibly careless shift in contexts" (p. 242); yet, his focus on
French-American alliances offers only a partial view of the _Black
Internationalism_ of his title.  Nevertheless, _The Practice of
Diaspora_ ultimately succeeds in that it emphasizes the people and
organizations known during inter-war period among black intellectuals
attempting to forge international alliances, and Edwards's descriptions
of internal debates within the movement provide a necessarily complex
portrait of the times and the people involved.

Edwards's title, _The Practice of Diaspora_, is intriguing in that it
suggests a recurring activity and emphasizes the "praxis" half of the
supposed "theory-praxis" divide.  Although "diaspora" is usually seen as
a dispersion of people or as a location or locations far from one's
place of "origin," Edwards's book insists that "diaspora" is also an
act, and a consciously chosen one at that.  Interestingly, the "Coda"
with which Edwards ends the book focuses on Nancy Cunard's _Negro:  An
Anthology_ (1934), a work that Edwards describes as a "symposium"
requiring "the reader [to] articulate the discrepant relation between
its documents" (p. 317).  He seems in the final pages to be hinting to his
readers that _The Practice of Diaspora_ may likewise require an
articulation of any discrepancies between the various historical figures
and geopolitical sites that he brings together.  Edwards claims that the
discontinuous melange of texts, jarring imagery, and "subtle" politics of
Cunard's anthology offers a "model" for black internationalism as it is
practiced (pp. 317-318).  I believe Edwards's own book offers a model
as well, one of meticulous interdisciplinary research, nuanced analyses,
and a remarkably diverse archive.


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From drenfrew at binghamton.edu  Wed Mar 23 17:15:42 2005
From: drenfrew at binghamton.edu (drenfrew@binghamton.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 23 19:29:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP, Society and Nature in South America (Mercosur
	conference, Uruguay)
Message-ID: <1678.200.125.61.18.1111616142.squirrel@smail.binghamton.edu>

Call for Papers

Working Group: Society and nature in South America: anthropological
theories, cultural practices and environmental conflicts.

Background:
This working group forms part of the VI Anthropology Meeting of the
Mercosur that will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay from November 16-18,
2005.  (See website: www.fhuce.edu.uy/antrop/congreso for details on the
meeting and guidelines on the ?working group? structure, or email
organizers for questions)

Since the mid-1980?s, the academic world has perceived that the so-called
ecological crisis was not only sounding a new alarm about the development
of human society, but also that it would become one of the major
influences in the emergence of new questions, concepts, and categories of
analysis in both the natural and social sciences.  The anthropological
study of the relationship between society and nature has been revitalized,
recognizing the principle that cultural and natural domains are mutually
constitutive, and taking into account the economic and political
dimensions in the collective appropriation of nature.  The study of
biotechnologies and biodiversity has taken on special interest in recent
years, placing into question the borders between the natural and the
artificial or cultural.  Anthropology in all its sub-fields
(socio-cultural, linguistic, biological, archaeological, and applied)
enjoys strong theoretical and empirical antecedents to position it as a
discipline that may contribute to the sustainable transformation of the
environment, through both analysis and intervention.

Thematic areas:
The organizers of the working group call on colleagues from anthropology,
or other social and natural sciences, to present papers that take into
account fully or in part the following thematic areas.

a)	The society-nature relationship in South America, a region rich in
natural resources and with varied social forms of use, perception and
representation of the environment- including scientific theories
themselves.

b)	Class and social group conflicts over the degradation, contamination,
and the recovery of resources, particularly at the urban level.  This
approach entails a critique of the contradiction ?human species vs.
nature? that permeates dominant discourses on the environmental question.

c)	The ambiguities between ideologies and practices in processes and
projects seeking sustainability, beyond the apparent consensus of
sustainable development as a worthy and viable pursuit.

d)	The state of the art in anthropological studies of the environmental
question in each country and region; innovative and interdisciplinary
theoretical and methodological developments; and recent empirical work
that inspires an articulation of the ethnographic approach with a
discussion about ecological, social, and economic sustainability.

Organizers:
Dr. Carmen Alicia Ferrad?s, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton
University, State University of New York.  Email: ferrada@binghamton.edu

Dr. Javier Taks, Departamento de Antropolog?a Social, FHUCE, Universidad
de la Rep?blica, Uruguay.  Email: jtaks@fhuce.edu.uy

Ph.D. Candidate Daniel Renfrew, Department of Anthropology, Binghamton
University, State University of New York.  Email: drenfrew@binghamton.edu


Deadline for the submission of abstracts (maximum 250 words): May 31,
2005.  Please send copies to the three organizers for consideration.





From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Mar 24 08:06:26 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 24 11:26:18 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]three conference/workshop/symposium events
Message-ID: <1111680386.4242e582063dd@webmail.sfsu.edu>

1. 74th Anglo-American Conference of Historians: States and Empires
Institute of Historical Research, University of London
July 6-8, 2005

2. African Diaspora Studies Knowledge Exchange Symposium
Florida International University
May 12-14, 2005

3. Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and the Americas ? 6th to 21st centuries
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change, National
University of Ireland
June 16-18, 2005

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1. 74th Anglo-American Conference of Historians: States and Empires
Location:	United Kingdom
Conference Begins:	2005-07-06

The 74th Anglo-American Conference is devoted to the current and controversial
theme of ?States and Empires?. We have constructed the conference around seven
plenary lectures which either tackle the subject in the broadest possible way or
treat of vastly different examples of Empire. We have also included a discussion
with a distinguished servant of the British Empire and Commonwealth to provide a
personal insight into Empire in practice. The seminar sessions bring together
speakers who will deal with the theme in contexts which range from Asia,
America, Africa and Europe and who will examine across several different Empires
topics such as navies and naval policies, trading companies and religion.
Although many of the sessions deal with one specific Empire, the conference as a
whole provides many opportunities for comparative analysis. 6th-8th July 2005

Venue: Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House,
Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom

	Richard Butler
Institute of Historical Research
University of London
Senate House, London WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom
+ 44 (0)20 862 8779
Email: richard.butler@sas.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.history.ac.uk

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2. AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE SYMPOSIUM

May 12th - 14th, 2005
Florida International University,
FIU/FMC Building,
Florida Memorial College

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKERS

PANELS
PERFORMANCES
FILM PRESENTATIONS: U.S. launching of the film ?A Bahia do Afoxe Filhos de Ghandy?
FLORIDA BLACK HISTORY TOUR
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
Registration:
Conference Registration Fee: $50 per person/per day. Teachers registration fee: $25
Student?s registration fee: $15 (must show student ID.
Lunch $20

Send registration form and fee to:
FIU/African-New World Studies 3000 NE 151 Street, AC1-162, North Miami, FL
33181. Make checks payable to: Florida International University

Hotel Information:
Holiday Inn-North Miami
148 NW 167 th Street, North Miami, FL 33169
Single/Double rooms $79.95 per night.
Rooms are subject to availability and price increase.
Hotel contact:
Rose Morales (305) 949-1441.

Marco Polo Beach Resort a Ramada Plaza
19201 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33160
Single/Double rooms $89.00 per night.
Hotel Contact:
Patrick Boulanger
305-932-2233 ext 1222
Fax 305-937-4139

For more information:
Call (305) 919-5521 or E-mail: africana@fiu.edu

Books of speakers and African Diaspora Art will be available for purchase at the
conference

	Carole Boyce Davies
Florida International University
African New World Studies
3000 NE 151 Street, AC1-162
North Miami, FL 33181
(305) 919-5380 phone
(305) 919-5267 fax

Email: cboyced@fiu.edu
Visit the website at http://www.africandiasporastudies.com

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3. Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and the Americas ? 6th to 21st centuries

Workshop, 16-18 June 2005

Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change
National University of Ireland, Galway

Abstract
For centuries, differing religious and cultural identities have caused problems
within societies, in particular when - as e.g. in the early modern period -
states attempt to establish religious and cultural conformity. The migration of
dissenting religious groups ? whether forced or voluntary - can be understood as
a means of escaping orthodoxy and of maintaining cultural diversity. In both
cases, migrants brought their cultural diversity into the countries of refuge.
These new destinations now had to succeed in what the homeland had failed: they
had to integrate these newly arriving diversities while simultaneously enabling
them to assimilate ? if possible ? to the normative systems of the hosting
societies.
The workshop?s aim is to analyse in a comparative perspective European, American
and Asian concepts of religious conformity and of religious diversity. Are there
?ideal? patterns ? existing over time and space ? to deal with religious
diversity? Under which circumstances does religious diversity lead to expulsion
or voluntary migration? Do ?received? concepts as to immigration policy exist?
How do they change over time and space? How do religious minorities react to
expulsion or the pressure of conformity?
To answer these questions, the proposed papers will provide examples taking the
early medieval period, the early modern period and the 19th and 21st centuries.
It will bring together research carried out on groups expelled for their
non-conformity or migrating to other destinations to safeguard their religious
identity.
To ensure that the various papers will lend themselves to comparison a format
will be introduced. All papers will deal with the political and religious
situation of the country from which the refugees originally came, the political
and religious situation of the country of refuge, the emigration and immigration
policies being enforced and the perception of hosts and refugees and integration
problems and processes.

Provisional Programme

Thursday, 16th June

17.00
Welcome and Opening Remarks: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny, Academic Director, Centre
for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change (CSHSHC), National
University of Ireland (NUI), Galway

17.15-19.30
>From Diversity to Orthodoxy? Migration and Integration of Religious Refugees in
Medieval and Early Modern Europe: 6th ?17th centuries

Chair: Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (NUI, Galway)

Eric Graff (NUI, Galway): Columbanus and Irish Monks in Diaspora (6th/7th
centuries).

Prof. Dr. Seymour Phillips (University College Dublin): Jews in 13th century
England.

Dr. Douglas Catterall (Cameron University, Oklahoma): Scots and Sephardic Jews
in the United Provinces (16th ? 17th century).

Discussion

Friday, 17th June

10.00-13.00
?Modern? States and Religious Diversity in Europe (late 17th ? early 20th
centuries).

Chair: Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther (University of G?ttingen)

Dr. Sandra Maria Hynes (NUI, Maynooth): Dissenters in England, Scotland and
Ireland (1660-1685).

Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (NUI, Galway): Huguenots in Ireland, Britain and
Brandenburg-Prussia (1660-1750).

Coffee Break

Chair: Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny

Dr. Colm O?Conaill (NUI, Galway): Politics, Religion and Family Identity. The
Exile and Return of the Dillon Family from the Williamite Conquest to the French
Revolution (1692-1789).

Dr. R?isin Healy (NUI, Galway): The German Empire and the Jesuits (1872-1917).

Discussion

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-18.00
Migration and Integration of Religious Refugees in the Atlantic World (17th -
18th centuries).

Chair: Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann (University of Hamburg)

Prof. Dr. Rosalind J. Beiler (University of Central Florida): Information
Networks and the Dynamics of Migration: Swiss Anabaptist Exiles and their Host
Communities (Palatinate, the Netherlands, and British Colonies, 1650-1730).

Prof. Dr. Bertrand van Ruymbeke (Universit? de Paris VIII): Huguenots in
North-America (17th-18th centuries).

Coffee break

Chair: Eric Graff

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther (University of G?ttingen): The Herrenhuther in
Europe and the British Colonies (1735-1776).

Dr. Christine Hucho (Mainz): The Schwenkfelder and the Herrenhuther Women in the
British Colonies.

Discussion

Saturday, 18th June

10.00-13.00
Christians, Jews and Muslims: Migration within and from South-East-Europe and
the Near East (17th -21st centuries).

Chair: Dr. William O?Reilly (NUI, Galway and Centre for History & Economics,
Cambridge)

Claus Gattermann (University of G?ttingen): Confessional Changes in the County
of Baranya after 1686.

Prof. Dr. Anja Pistor-Hatam (University of Kiel): Shiite Migration from Iran to
the Ottoman Empire.

Coffee break

Dr. Kate Daniels (University of Cambridge): Religious Conflict and Migration to
North America: Arab Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire.

Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool (University of Cambridge): Religion, Ideology or
Conformity? Jewish Iraqi Migrants to Israel.

Discussion

12.00-13.30

Wrap-up Session and Closing Remarks

Prof. Dr. Nicholas Canny, Prof. Dr. Hermann Wellenreuther, Prof. Dr. Claudia
Schnurmann,
Dr. Susanne Lachenicht

We would like to thank the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne, Germany and the
Faculty of Arts, NUI Galway for funding this workshop.

	Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Centre for the Study of Human Settlement and Historical Change
National University of Ireland, Galway
Email: slachenicht@yahoo.com
Visit the website at http://www.nuigalway.ie/cshshc/Refugees%20programme%202.doc

From robrien at temple.edu  Thu Mar 24 20:16:38 2005
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Fri Mar 25 01:28:34 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA 2005 -- Student Activism as Public
 Anthropology
Message-ID: <ef419569.e253f2ee.8203000@po-a.temple.edu>

CFP: American Anthropological Association (AAA) 2005 
Student Activism as Public Anthropology

Undergraduate and graduate students engaged in activist work
are urged to submit an abstract for a panel proposal for the
November 2005 AAA meeting in Washington, DC. A working
abstract follows. The panel needs at least one more
paper to be submitted. The final abstract will be determined
after paper proposals are accepted (but before the April 1
deadline).

Working Panel Abstract:

STUDENT ACTIVISM AS PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY The current
preoccupation with ?public anthropology? has two fundamental
limitations. First, what is called public anthropology has
largely been discussed within the circumscribed bounds of
anthropology. Second, much of this work has focused on
anthropological utility to social policy rather than to social
change activism. It is patently obvious that ?public?
anthropologists must engage in critical dialogue with
non-anthropological practitioners in the fields in which we
hope to intervene. Moreover, anthropological interventions at
the level of policy, while admirable, serve only to ameliorate
the fundamental crises of globalized advanced liberal
capitalism. These crises, arising from the conflict between
the twin promises of rational competition in the free market
and of full political participation in the liberal democratic
public sphere are not amenable to reformist solutions. 

The proposed panel is an effort by anthropology students to
overstep these limitations by presenting a critical discussion
on engaged anthropology. Papers include?.

****************************************
Breathe in. Breathe out.
Breathe in. Breathe out. 
Forget this and attaining Enlightenment 
will be the least of your problems. 

Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
robrien@temple.edu 
215-803-5181

AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
From dbmonter at uchicago.edu  Sat Mar 26 04:06:09 2005
From: dbmonter at uchicago.edu (Daniel Monterescu)
Date: Sat Mar 26 17:31:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Query: Cities in the Middle East
Message-ID: <6e6fd0f0.e30826e8.81b8100@m4500-00.uchicago.edu>

Greetings!

I'm completing now the preparation of a course on
"Cities in the Middle East" and I would be grateful
for any recommended references you found useful
teaching/reading. I'm also looking for
relevant films for screening in class.

Cordially,

Daniel
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Mar 26 15:36:57 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 26 18:37:01 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CONF: Nervous Borders: Culture, Politics & People Flows After 9/11,
 George Mason U, Apr. 6-7
Message-ID: <1111880217.4245f2195af2d@webmail.sfsu.edu>


Nervous Borders: Culture, Politics & People Flows
After 9/11

Conference sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program
and the Center for Global Studies, George Mason
University*

A conference exploring how the experiences of
diasporic, immigrant and foreign communities in the
United States have changed since 9/11. Nervous Borders
also addresses the impact of a new U.S. nationalism on
international affairs and globalization.


Wednesday April 6, 2005
Arlington Campus Law School
Room 225

I   2:30am - 4:00pm

Muslims in the United States & Europe after 9/11

Yvonne Haddad (History, Georgetown University)
Editor, Muslims in the West: From Sojourners to
Citizens, co-editor Islam and the West Post 9/11

Bobby Sayyid (Leeds University, UK)
Author, A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the
Emergence of Islamism

Saadia Yacoob (MuslimWakeUp!)
Activist promoting progressive and inclusive
identities among young Muslims

 
II    4:15pm ? 5:45pm

Civil Rights, Academic Freedom: The Case of Tariq
Ramadan

Tariq Ramadan (video-conference) (Freibourg
University, Geneva, Switzerland)
Author, Western Muslims and the Future of Islam

David Cole (Law School, Georgetown University)
Author, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the
American Criminal Justice System; Nation correspondent

Kareem Shora (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee)
Director of Legal Policy; Civil rights lawyer


Thursday April 7, 2005
Fairfax Campus
Cinema

III    10:00-11:30

New Immigrants: Labor, Community, Identity

Rhacel Parennas  (Anthropology, UCSD)
Author, Servants of Globalization: Women, Migration,
and Domestic Work
 
Sarah Mahler (Sociology and Anthropology, Florida
International)
Author, American Dreaming: Immigrant Life on the
Margins and Salvadorans in Suburbia

Deborah Shutika (English, George Mason University)
Folklorist working with Mexican Americans in Southeast
Pennsylvania


IV     11:45-1:15

Representations

Eren McGinnis (independent filmmaker)
Producer, Beyond the Border, PBS documentary

Jana Evans Braziel (English, University of Cincinnati)
Co-editor, Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader and Against
?Against Race?: Cultural Amnesia, the Academy, and the
Racialized Foundations of Knowledges

Marvette Perez (National Museum of American History)
Curator, Division of Cultural History, specializing in
Latino histories and cultures


 V    2:00-3:00

Keynote Address:
When the liberal state goes repressive: The war on
terror as camouflage for a deeper transformation.

Saskia Sassen (Sociology, University of Chicago)
Author, Guests and Aliens and Globalization and Its
Discontents: On the Mobility of People and Money


VI    3:15-4:45

9/11 and the Politics of Insecurity

Corey Robin (Political Science, Brooklyn College,
CUNY)
Author, Fear: The History of a Political Idea

Nevzat Soguk   (Political Science, University of
Hawaii)
Author, States and Strangers: Refugees and
Displacements of Statecraft

Elaine Cassel
Lawyer, law professor and author of articles on recent
abuses of legal and civil rights

Center for the Arts

VII    5:00-6:30

Reception


* co-sponsored by CAS Dean?s Office, Office of the
Provost, University Life, Cultural Studies Student
Organizing Committee, English Department, Institute
for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, History
Department, New Century College, Public and
International Affairs Department, Sociology and
Anthropology Department, Women?s Studies Program

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 27 16:10:13 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 27 16:08:43 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Sackler Early Cities Colloquium (graduate)
Message-ID: <00be01c53311$630a7ee0$d4f0d1ac@toshibauser>

National Academy of Sciences Sackler Early Cities Colloquium
Washington, D.C.,  May 18-20, 2005

 Many disciplines including Sociology, Demography, Geography, Architecture
and Urban Planning, Economics, Anthropology, and History are increasingly
interested in "urbanism," particularly since much of the world is being
converted into cities and vast metropolitan areas. A diverse group of
scholars, who have employed different methods and a wide array of
perspectives in their study of early cities, are featured at the Arthur M.
Sackler colloquium "Early Cities: New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial
Urbanism" scheduled for May 18-20, 2005 at the National Academies Building
in Washington, D.C.

The ten archaeological case studies will be discussed by a group of
distinguished scholars from fields such as geography, economics, urban
planning, architecture, and environmental psychology. All 10 case studies
will be accompanied by slides.

To facilitate the participation of younger anthropologists and social
scientists, a number of travel grants will be available for graduate
students and postdocs to help subsidize their travel to the conference.

For more information or to register for the colloquium, please go to the
following web address or email us at the address provided below.

Alyssa Cruz
National Academy of Sciences
Phone: 949-387-2923
Fax: 949-387-0500
Email: sackler@nas.edu
Visit the website at http://www.nas.edu/sackler/earlycities


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Mar 27 16:23:22 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Mar 27 16:19:28 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 New Darmstadt Graduate Program, "History, Environment and Cities"
Message-ID: <00c401c53313$38618ec0$d4f0d1ac@toshibauser>

 Master-Degree: "History, Environment and Cities"

 With its new M.A. "History - Environment - City" the Technical University
of Darmstadt offers a unique insight into the historical origins of modern
urban life and its ecological conditions. From a long-time perspective
students will get a better understanding of current and future environmental
problems and learn how to make urban life more sustainable as the basic
component of modern society. The four-term course (2 years) which is mainly
taught in German leads to the international approved grade "Master of Arts"
(M.A.).
Students will have to meet the requirement of a B.A. in History, Sociology,
Architecture, Constructional Engineering, Cultural Sciences or in another
relevant subject. Job opportunities will be found in:

-archives, museums, scientific and educational institutions
-urban, regional or landscape planing
-tourism, industrial archaeology, preservation of historic and cultural
heritage
-public relations and media.

Interdisciplinary classes will enable the students to bridge scientific
disciplines and methodological approaches and to increase their knowledge
and abilities in the field of urban and environmental history. Additional
classes will be taught to foster their abilities in job-relevant areas like
rhetoric and professional appearance, computing, foreign languages and "soft
skills".
Darmstadt is situated in the South of Germany, only about 30 kms from
Frankfurt Main with its international airport. The city lies on the northern
foothills of the beautiful Odenwald region near the romantic Rhine valley. A
centre of culture and literature for many centuries, Darmstadt is also
well-known for its Technical University with its strong interdisciplinary
potentials. In recent years the university has put a special stress on urban
and environmental studies.

Prof Dr Dieter Schott
Darmstadt University of Technology
Institute of History
Residenzschloss
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
Phone: 00 49 6151 16 2044
Email: schott@pg.tu-darmstadt.de
Visit the website at http://www.geschichte.tu-darmstadt.de


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 28 09:25:30 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 12:25:38 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUMMER PROG: Comparative and Trans-national History,
	Florence
Message-ID: <1112030730.42483e0a1108d@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Summer School 2005 of the History and Civilization Department of the European
University Institute on "Comparative and Trans-national History: New Approaches
to the History of Europe" 26-30 August 2005

Summer Program Deadline:	2005-05-15

Conveners: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt and Prof. Bartolom? Yun-Casalilla

Venue: Villa Schifanoia, Via Boccaccio 121 Florence - Sala Europa

Are you convinced that national history and its approaches are limited? Do you
want to look beyond the nation you are living in? In this case, you might be
interested in HEC 2005 Summer School which will take place in one of the most
evocative places in Florence: Villa Schifanoia.

The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute
is a major centre of comparative and transnational European history. The courses
will allow you to continue and to broaden your research interests in this field.
Well known specialists from the European University Institute and from other
European outstanding Institutions will present interesting ways of writing the
history of Europe as well as raising important questions on its development.

At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet our researchers, who are
preparing their Ph.D. in this European institution, participate in a seminar in
this centre of excellence, visit the library and the archives of the European
Union and have time to get all information about how to apply to the European
University Institute.

In the evening, you will have also the opportunity to visit Florence, one of the
most beautiful towns of the world!

Main topics:

    * Possibility of writing a new European history

    * Comparative history and Trans-national History of Europe. State of the
art, main problematics, perspectives of research

    * Varieties of historical comparison: Transfer history and "histoire
crois?e" - Trans-national History

    * Comparative approaches to the history of Early Modern Europe: views from
the north, the south and the east of Europe

    * Approaches to a comparative cultural history of Europe

    * Approaches to a comparative cultural history of Europe in a World Perspective

Deadline for applications: 15 May 2005. See the web address provided below for
details.

	European University Institute
Department of History and Civilization
Summer School Secretariat
Villa Schifanoia
Via Boccaccio 121
50133 Florence - Italy
fax: +39 055 4685203


Email: hec.summerschool@iue.it
Visit the website at
http://www.iue.it/HEC/ResearchTeaching/20042005-Spring/SS-programme.shtml

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 28 09:29:27 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 12:29:34 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]two CFPs: Border Studies / America / The Middle East
Message-ID: <1112030967.42483ef75dc26@webmail.sfsu.edu>

1. Border Studies Symposium, Cleveland State U.
2. America in the Middle East/The Middle East in America, American University of
Beirut

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1. Border Studies Symposium
Location:	Ohio, United States
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-04-29

CROSSING OVER:
LEARNING TO NAVIGATE THE BORDERLANDS OF
INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
CALL FOR PAPERS
A Symposium Dedicated to the Examination
of the Borders where Cultures Blend and Clash:
A Look at Intercultural Sites of
Migration ?? Creolization ?? Hybridity
October 6 ?C 9, 2005

Cleveland State University
Department of Modern Languages, with the cooperation of Cultural Crossings, A
Division of the Humanities Consortium of the College of Liberal Arts and Social
Sciences
Keynote Speaker: Rigoberta Menchu (tentative)

Further inquires:
Dr. Antonio Medina-Rivera or Dr. Diana Orendi
Department of Modern Languages, Cleveland State University
2121 Euclid Avenue, RT 1619
Cleveland, OH 44115
Phone: 216-687-4646, Fax: 216-687-4650
a.medinarivera@csuohio.edu or d.orendi@csuohio.edu
www.csuohio.edu/mod_languages/Events

This Symposium brings together the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Papers on any topic related to the issues mentioned above are welcome!
Submit one page Abstracts by April 29, 2005

	Diana Orendi
Modern Languages, RT 1627
Cleveland State University
216-523-7171
Email: orendi@aol.com
Visit the website at http://www.csuohio.edu/crossings

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2. America in the Middle East/The Middle East in America
Location:	Lebanon
Call for Papers Deadline:	2005-06-01

America in the Middle East/The Middle East in America
An Interdisciplinary Conference

December 18-21, 2005
Beirut, Lebanon

Sponsored by
The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)
American University of Beirut

The September 11 attacks and the Iraq War have thrust the people of the Middle
East and Americans into direct and intense contact. The goal of this conference
is to explore these current encounters through contextualization and
questioning. One important context is the long and complex history of encounters
between two places designated ?America? and the ?Middle East.? Questioning the
status of these two terms, and the entities they purport to describe, must be
our starting point.

Scholars of American studies have called into question the notion that states
are the default containers of cultures. Cultural diversity within the borders of
the United States, and intercultural processes bleeding through those borders in
multiple directions, mean that individual identities are formed from different
proportions of sub-national, national, and transnational attachments. Few in the
Middle East, nonetheless, would want to underestimate the political salience of
national attachments in the United States?attachments that have been
consolidated in part though narratives that appropriate and mythologize
?America.? To the extent that religion has figured in these narratives, the
Middle East has long been a background presence, but recent events have placed
it near the center of both scholarly and public debates about the meaning of
?America.?

The ?Middle East? also requires questioning. Many Americans see the Middle East
as unitary and often have difficulty distinguishing it from the ?Arab World? and
the ?World of Islam.? Yet scholars cannot agree even on the boundaries of the
region. Middle Eastern countries contain considerable ethnic, religious and even
linguistic diversity. Levels of wealth, education, and secularization also vary
widely. Moreover, the presence of people of Middle Eastern origin in places like
Europe and North America reveals that the Middle East is not a neatly separable
entity.

This conference invites papers that explore current American-Middle Eastern
encounters by placing them into a larger context such as that of earlier
encounters, or by questioning categories, terms or narratives. It will provide a
unique opportunity to bring together scholars from North America, the Middle
East and other regions to discuss past, present and future encounters. By
providing considerable time for free interaction, the conference seeks to
engender new insights and perspectives. At the very least, the cosmopolitan
atmosphere of the American University of Beirut, and of Beirut itself, will
allow some very positive encounters among the participants. In the opening
address, Dr. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan will discuss the Americana
Translation Project (http://www.juancole.com/trans.htm). Dr. Melanie McAlister
of George Washington University will present a closing address focusing on U.S.
images of the Middle East after 9/11.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

The role of religions in mediating American-Middle Eastern encounters

African Americans and the Middle East

Connections between the domestic and the foreign (e.g., how is the domestic
experience of race and gender connected to the representation of, and
interactions with, foreign peoples?)

Empire and the Middle East, the global role of the U.S. after 9/11

The role of ?the Middle East? in the construction of U.S. nationalistic
narratives, the role of ?America? in Middle Eastern political discourse

Border crossing between America and the Middle East (elite travelers,
immigrants, missionaries, journalists, American universities in the Middle East,
hybridities)

State relations (foreign policies, the status of sovereignty, public diplomacy,
democracy and civil rights?promotion and erosion, the politics of oil, military
and strategic issues)

The role of popular culture and media

Teaching American Studies in the Middle East: Teaching Middle East Studies in
the United States

Prospects and possibilities for honest interactions, mutual understanding and
justice

Format

In addition to paper presenters, scholars of American studies living in the
Middle East and representatives from American Studies Programs in the Middle
East are specifically invited to participate is a special working session to
discuss what American studies can be in the Middle Eastern context, and to
consider future collaboration, coordination and interaction.

All paper presenters and Middle Eastern scholars will be partially subsidized.
Scholars are urged to propose new work suitable for inclusion in a possible
edited volume.

Please send abstracts of proposed papers (500 words or less), along with a short
CV, via electronic mail to the e-mail address provided below by June 1, 2005.
Authors of accepted papers will be notified by June 30. American studies
scholars from the Middle East, even if they are not proposing to present a
paper, are urged to indicate interest via e-mail. Further information about the
conference is available on the CASAR website (web address provided below).
Registration will begin immediately and continue until September 15 for paper
presenters and Middle East scholars, and December 10 for general attendees.
Registration information is posted on the website.

The Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR) at American University of
Beirut was launched in 2003 with a major gift from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin
Abdulaziz Alsaud. It is an independent academic center that seeks to promote
better understanding between the people of United States and those of the Arab
World through teaching, research and outreach efforts.

	Patrick McGreevy
Center for American Studies and Research (CASAR)
452 College Hall
American University Of Beirut
P.O. Box 11-0236
Riad El Solh,
Beirut 1107 2020 Lebanon
961-1-350000, ext. 4197
pm07@aub.edu.lb

Email: casar@aub.edu.lb
Visit the website at http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webcasar/index.html

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 28 09:32:24 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 12:32:31 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]two CONFs: early cities / academic migrations
Message-ID: <1112031144.42483fa863669@webmail.sfsu.edu>

1. Early Cities Colloquium, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
2. Academic Migrations, Elite Formation and Modernisation of Nation States in
Europe (second part of the 19th century ? 1939), Central European University,
Budapest

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1. National Academy of Sciences Sackler Early Cities Colloquium
Location:	District of Columbia, United States
Conference Date:	2005-05-18
Date Submitted: 	2005-03-22
Announcement ID: 	144827
Many disciplines including Sociology, Demography, Geography, Architecture and
Urban Planning, Economics, Anthropology, and History are increasingly interested
in "urbanism," particularly since much of the world is being converted into
cities and vast metropolitan areas. A diverse group of scholars, who have
employed different methods and a wide array of perspectives in their study of
early cities, are featured at the Arthur M. Sackler colloquium "Early Cities:
New Perspectives on Pre-Industrial Urbanism" scheduled for May 18-20, 2005 at
the National Academies Building in Washington, D.C.

The ten archaeological case studies will be discussed by a group of
distinguished scholars from fields such as geography, economics, urban planning,
architecture, and environmental psychology. All 10 case studies will be
accompanied by slides.

To facilitate the participation of younger anthropologists and social
scientists, a number of travel grants will be available for graduate students
and postdocs to help subsidize their travel to the conference.

For more information or to register for the colloquium, please go to the
following web address or email us at the address provided below.

	Alyssa Cruz
National Academy of Sciences
Phone: 949-387-2923
Fax: 949-387-0500
Email: sackler@nas.edu
Visit the website at http://www.nas.edu/sackler/earlycities

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2. Academic Migrations, Elite Formation and Modernisation of Nation States in
Europe (second part of the 19th century ? 1939)
Location:	Hungary
Conference Begins:	2005-04-07 (in 10 days)

International Conference organised by Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies,
Central European University (Budapest) in cooperation with the research network
? Academic migrations within and to Europe ?

April 7-9 2005, Central European University, Budapest

The aims of this conference are (1) to offer a systematic overview of the
current state of research in the field of the history of academic migrations,
(2) to highlight the achievements of and the gaps in national historiographies
and (3) to discuss the problems emerging from the existing sources and suggest
solutions by elaborating common instruments in terms of concepts and categories.

Conference Program

Thursday, April 7

14.30 Welcome by Professor Victor Karady (Central European University, Budapest)

15.00 Plenary Lecture
Professor Helga Hammerstein (Trinity College, Dublin)
Student migration - a challenge

16.00 Coffee/Tea

SESSION 1
Academic Migrations from the European Periphery and the Mediterranean Basin

Chair : Victor Karady (Central European University, Budapest)

16.30 Carolina Rodriguez Lopez (Instituto Antonio de Nebrija de estudios sobre
la Universidad, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Apprendre ? l'?tranger ce dont nous avons besoin chez nous. Note sur les voyages
d'?tudes des universitaires espagnols (1900-1939)

17.00 Nicolas Manitakis (Paris)
Historiographie et sources sur les migrations d'?tudes des Grecs : un bref aper?u

17.30 Arpine Maniero (M?nchen Universit?t)
Armenische Studenten in Detuschland vom Ende des 19. bis zu Anfang des 20 Jhs.
Forschungsstand und Quellenbasis

18.00 Mohamed Dhifallah (Universit? de la Mannouba, Tunisie)
Emigration des ?tudiants tunisiens en France : sources et historiographie

18.30 Andreas de Boor (Martin-Luther Universit?t, Halle)
Erfahrungen historisch-statistischer Untersuchungen zur Studentenmigration

Friday, April 8

SESSION 2

Academic Migrations from Eastern and Central Europe

Chair : Natalia Tikhonov (Geneva)

9.30 Anatolij Ivanov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow)
Die russische Historiographie und ihre Quellen zur Geschichte der
Studentenschaft im Ausland Ende des 19. - Anfang des 20. Jahrunderts

10.00 Alexander Dmitriev (Institute for the History of Science and Technology,
Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg)
>From Foreign Postgraduate Preparation to Soviet Academic Trip : State Regulation
of Russian presence in the European ?University Republic?, 1910-1920

10.30 Ljubinka Trgovcevic (Belgrade University)
>From Import of Elite to Creation of domestic Intelligentsia. State of research
about academic migrations and elite formation in Serbia (1839-1914)

11.00 Coffee/Tea

11.30 Lucian Nastasa (G. Bari&#355;iu History Institute, Romanian Academy of
Sciences, Cluj)
For a Prosopography of the Romanian Academic Migrations (1864-1948). Sources and
Historiography

12.00 Dimitar Veselinov (St. Clement University, Sofia)
Formation de l'?lite bulgare (1878-1939): ?tudes pr?liminaires.

12.30 Laszlo Sz?gi (University Library, Budapest)
Hungarian students migration abroad. Results of the last ten years of investigations

13.00 Lunch

SESSION 3

Foreign Students and Host Countries

Chair : Claudie Weill (EHESS, Paris)

14.30 Hartmut R. Peter (Martin-Luther Universit?t, Halle)
Quellen und Forschungen zur Geschichte des Ausl?nderstudiums in Deutschland.
Kritische Bemerkungen zu zentralen Problemen

15.00 Eva Bauer (European University Institute, Florence)
Bildungsmigration und national motivierte Studentenunruhen in der
Habsburgermonarchie 1866-1915

15.30 Zsuzsanna Heilauf (Budapest)
Foreign Students in Higher Education Institutions in Hungary between 1635 and 1944

16.00 Elisa Signori (Pavia University)
Italian Universities and foreign Students (1900-1939)

16.30 Coffee Break

17.00 Pierre Moulinier (Paris)
Historiographie et sources de l'histoire des migrations ?tudiantes en France
(1800-1940)

17.30 Natalia Tikhonov (Geneva)
Foreign students at Swiss universities : academic sources and statistical data

18.00 Marc Vuilleumier (Geneva)
Quelles sources sur la vie des ?tudiants slaves, juifs, arm?niens, etc. en Suisse ?

18.30 Pieter Dhondt (Leuwen Catholic University)
Foreign students at Belgian universities. A statistical and bibliographical approach

Saturday, April 10

SESSION 4

Academic Migrations beyond Universities and new investigations

Chair : Elisa Signori (Pavia University)

9.30 Claudie Weil (EHESS, Paris)
Migrations ?tudiantes et nomadisme institutionnel

10.00 Ewa Bobrowska-Jakubowska (Mus?e d?art am?ricain, Giverny)
La formation artistique : probl?me fondamental des jeunes cr?ateurs en
Pologne ? la fin de la p?riode des partages. Entre le pays et l'?tranger

10.30 Alexandre Kostov (Acad?mie des sciences de Bulgarie, Sofia)
Les ?tudiants balkaniques dans les ?coles techniques fran?aises, XIXe ? d?but du
XXe si?cle

11.00 Florea Ioncioaia (Romania)
To be confirmed

11.30 Boris Czerny (Universit? de Caen) et Claudie Weill (EHESS, Paris)
Candidats au d?part : les correspondances de l'Association des ?tudiants russes
de Paris, 1908-1911

12.00 Nicolas Manitakis (Paris)
Les ?tudiants migrants face aux Etats modernes bureaucratiques : les
p?r?grinations acad?miques sous tutelle ?tatique (fin XIXe si?cle ? premi?re
moiti? du XXe si?cle)

12.30 Lunch

14.00 ? 16.00 Round table discussion

Editorial project on sources and historiography of academic migrations within
and to Europe

Conference Committee

Prof. Victor Karady, History Department, Central European University, karadyv@ceu.hu
Dr. Hartmut R. Peter, Institut f?r Geschichte, Martin-Luther-Universit?t Halle,
hrpeter@web.de
Dr. Natalia Tikhonov, Geneva, Switzerland
natalia.tikhonov@histec.unige.ch

Conference Sponsors

Pasts Inc. Center for Historical Studies, Budapest, Hungary

	Dr. Natalia Tikhonov
6, chemin du Champ d'Anier
1209 Geneva
Switzerland
Email: natalia.tikhonov@histec.unige.ch

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Mar 28 09:33:43 2005
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (bvergara@sfsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 28 12:33:49 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: African Crossroads: Artistic Expression in and across the Sahara
Message-ID: <1112031223.42483ff7c7d87@webmail.sfsu.edu>

African Crossroads
Location:	Minnesota, United States
Publication Deadline:	2005-06-01

African Crossroads: Artistic Expression in and across the Sahara

You are invited to contribute to an edited volume which explores trans-Saharan
artistic contacts from a trans-national and post-area studies perpsective.
Africa has traditionally been viewed through a bifocal lens, in which the Sahara
has been perceived as an impenetrable barrier, dividing the continent into
northern and sub-Saharan Africa. Countries in the north continue to be
considered within the domain of Islamic, Middle Eastern, Classical and Ancient
Egyptian studies having little or no artistic contact with sub-Saharan countries
considered more authentically "African". Scholars have failed to recognize that
communication, correspondence, trade and travel, in partnership with nomadic
movements across the Sahara, has been going on for several millenia. This
intercourse among traders, scholars, artisans and nomads set the stage for the
emergence of richly diverse aesthetic expressions both along the web of routes
crossing the Sahara as well as at their terminii.

Papers should address the methodological, conceptual, stylistic or technical
aspects of artistic creativity and performance, either contemporary or historic,
which reflect aspects of this artistic discourse and/or which illustrate how the
Sahara was/is a porous boundary, a bridge rather than a barrier, for the
transmission and exchange of arts and culture.

If you are interested, please email a Title, an Abstract (c. 200 words) and a CV
to either Cynthia Becker or Labelle Prussin by June 1, 2005. Queries are welcome.

Final essays, between 6000-8000 words plus illustrations, will be due on October
1, 2005.
Cynthia Becker (e-mail address shown below)
Labelle Prussin (lprussin@aol.com)

	Cynthia Becker
University of St. Thomas
Department of Art History, 57P
2115 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105-1096
651-962-5572
Email: cjbecker@stthomas.edu

From slow at gc.cuny.edu  Mon Mar 28 13:55:00 2005
From: slow at gc.cuny.edu (Setha Low)
Date: Mon Mar 28 14:31:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]urban anthropology
Message-ID: <00b201c533ca$a2047a60$c0a44b0c@S0026660004>

Dear Colleagues:

I have been asked to write a chapter on an anthropological approaches to
cities for a multidisciplinary reader.  I am looking for new work in our
field on methodological as well as substantive approaches.  Please send me
references (or hard copy if possible) of your favorite new work or your
recent publications. I really appreciate your help.  Best wishes, setha

Setha M. Low, Ph.D.
Professor of Environmental Psychology and Anthropology
Director of the Public Space Research Group
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY  10016

Telephone: 212 817-8725
Fax: 631 329-7358
Email: slow@gc.cuny.edu
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/psychology/faculty/slow.htm




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 29 22:59:13 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 29 22:52:52 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Session on homelessness
Message-ID: <00ac01c534dc$d9b25640$10d5d1ac@toshibauser>

From: Matt Wickens <mwickens@american.edu>


A colleague and I are organizing a session for AAAs on homelessness and
squatting. We are focusing on international instances of homelessness and
squatting.

We could use 1-2 more people for our session. If you are interested, please
email as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Matt Wickens
PhD Graduate Studnet
Department of Anthropology
American University
Washington, D.C. 20016
202-885-2446


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Mar 29 23:16:26 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Mar 29 23:10:04 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Panel on LGBTQ Activism/Social Movements
Message-ID: <00d601c534df$452b8ac0$10d5d1ac@toshibauser>

From: Megan Davidson <megandavidson@earthlink.net>

AAA Panel on LGBTQ Activism/Social Movements

Looking for one more panelist, LGBTQ Activism/Social Movements

One panelist has had to withdraw from our panel on Queer 
Social Movements and we are looking to fill that empty slot 
(on short notice!). If anyone is doing research in this area 
and would be interested in joining our panel, please contact 
me asap. Thanks.

Megan Davidson
megandavidson@earthlink.net
917.627.6727


From alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it  Mon Mar 28 17:57:01 2005
From: alessandro.camiz at uniroma1.it (Alessandro Camiz)
Date: Tue Mar 29 23:25:48 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]City views and observation points,
Message-ID: <200503281757010100.01256197@mail.iol.it>

University of Rome "La Sapienza"
International Study Centre for the History of Cities 

City views and observation points, IV and V sessions, XIX and XX centuries.
I punti di vista e le vedute di citt?: Parte quarta e quinta: secoli XIX e XX 

National congress / april 5th 2005
Sala congressi CONI Servizi S.p.a.
Edificio delle piscine, Piazza Lauro de Bosis 3, Foro italico, Rome

speakers:

Antonino D?Alessandro, Roberto Palumbo, Enrico Guidoni, Ugo Soragni, Antonella Greco, Cornelia Bujin, Gabriella Orefice, Laura Bertolaccini, Francesca Valensise, Stefania Ricci, Salvatore Di Liello, Maria Teresa Marsala, Valter Proietti, Maria Cecilia Mosconi, Elisabetta Cristallini, Gabriele Corsani, Augusto Pieroni.

Patrocinated by 
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
and the contribution of
University of Rome ?La Sapienza?
Faculty of Architecture ?Valle Giulia?

Curator: Enrico Guidoni 
Organization: Alessandro Camiz
Secretary: Stefania Ricci 
University of Rome ?La Sapienza?, Faculty of Architecture ?Valle Giulia?, Donatella Scatena 
University of Rome ?La Sapienza?, Ufficio Stampa
CONI Servizi S.p.a. 
Dir. Gen. Dott. Ernesto Albanese  
Paolo Pedinelli

Conference program

http://www.storiadellacitta.it


---------------------
Alessandro Camiz
Ph.D. candidate in History of Cities
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Dipartimento di Architettura e Analisi della Citt?
Via Gramsci 53
00197 Rome, Italy
tel. ++396 49919133
alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 31 02:09:58 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 31 02:03:55 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Burk on Mitchell, _The Right to the City_
Message-ID: <00fd01c535c0$abdfa1c0$5d6eaaac@toshibauser>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

Don Mitchell. _The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for
Public Space_. New York: Guilford Press, 2003. ix + 270 pp.
Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $25.00 (paper), ISBN
1-5723-0847-8.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Dr. Adrienne Burk <alburk@sfu.ca>, Department of
Geography,
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC

Afflicting the Comfortable

"To comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" is advice Don
Mitchell takes wholly to heart in this passionate book, directed
especially to scholars who eschew "rights talk" and juridical analysis
as somehow removed from the project of progressive research and the
making of more just societies. Mitchell takes as a point of departure
Henri Lefebvre's "right to the city as a cry and demand;" that is, a
right not only to inhabit urban spaces but also to participate in a city
as an ongoing work of creation, production, and negotiation. Choosing to
focus on those excluded from such work (and the mechanisms that exclude
them), Mitchell opens with a theory of social justice and urban space
drawn from Raymond Williams's assessment of Matthew Arnold's reaction to
the Hyde Park riots of 1866. Mitchell articulates a tension between
legal decisions supporting (so-called) "public order" over "rights;"
this tension is revisited throughout all subsequent chapters. Using case
studies such as the Berkeley Free Speech movement and People's Park and
close analysis of several arguments and dissents within case law
focusing on labor, anti-abortion protests, the public forum doctrine,
and anti-homeless laws, Mitchell offers a sustained and comprehensive
assault on those who use the discourse of order to deny others the right
to the city.

Of the book's eight chapters, five contain information that has appeared
elsewhere, but the re-workings are impressive. The addition of
considerable historical-geographic detail on the Berkeley Free Speech
movement makes a gripping account of the politics of spatiality during
that movement. In another essay, Mitchell provocatively contends that
"new" public virtual spaces have enhanced publicity for certain causes
but, importantly, have _not_ supplanted the importance of physical
occupations and negotiations of public space. Also, throughout,
Mitchell's discussions of the intersection of rights, social justice and
urban space across several chapters offer significantly more empirical
detail and conceptual insight than previous iterations.

The book has many strengths. Particularly helpful is the admirable
integration of dissents within case law and scholarship by an impressive
array of geographers, sociologists, cultural theorists, legal scholars,
activists, and politicians. Mitchell uses this range of material to map
thematically both historical and contemporary debates of public space
and free speech. Anchoring his arguments and observations in a number of
empirical examples helps clarify even quite arcane legal reasoning.
Mitchell's meticulous critique of Robert Ellickson's proposed zoning of
three "types" of public space as a portent of emerging legal directives
is also superb. Overall, in its broad reach and comprehensiveness, the
book makes a powerful contribution to the literatures on cities, on
critical  social science, on legal reasoning, on public space, and on
the issues of homelessness.

Mitchell is particularly engaged with the legal circumscriptions
governing homeless people as those who "are needed [as a byproduct of
capitalism], but are not wanted" (p. 174). He details a distressingly
large list of the discourses, policies, bylaws and legal decisions that
disenfranchise the homeless in whatever ways serve local political
circumstances. Though Mitchell himself characterizes homelessness with
compassion and regard (and is careful to acknowledge the rationale
behind his own essentializing of "the" homeless--see p. 158), his book
makes clear that the assault on the homeless is just the most tangible
manifestation of the libertarian paradise of an all-privatized social
order.

Indeed, a central concern of the book is to show the myriad elements
which join to create and sustain the construction of "public order."
Mitchell's contention is that wealthy cities are being re-fashioned due
to global neo-liberal restructuring, leading not to an "annihilation of
space by time," but rather a collapse of public space itself through the
"constant production and reproduction of certain _kinds_ of places" (p.
165, original emphasis), i.e., locations that uphold the
"disneyfication" of public space, allowing unencumbered passage for
social elites but criminalizing and/or eradicating the homeless. For
those whose interests parallel Mitchell's, it is possible to follow his
arguments and stylistic redundancies (distracting but perhaps inevitable
in a book featuring several free-standing chapters). For those
unfamiliar with the theoretical literature Mitchell so fluently uses,
the book may border on the daunting. Readers are initiated into close
arguments on theories of justice, positive and negative rights,
characteristics of citizenship, the historical relations of democracy
and public space, legal decisions regarding the intersection of speech
and action and, increasingly, location, and on the taking and producing
of public space via Lefebvre's representational spaces and spaces of
representation. Mitchell also ruminates on the constructions of
landscape, the intersection of markets and justice, public versus open
space, use/exchange value, cyberspace, broken window theory, and
traditional discourses on the homeless. Fortunately, an excellent table
of contents clearly identifies the trajectory of each chapter and can
help the reader avoid confusion and manage the abundance of so many
discussions.

With respect, I offer two conceptual criticisms. First, while clearly
the immense and engaged scholarship evident in this book had to stop
somewhere, I found it odd that there was not much analysis of _why_ the
United States has contributed such detail to legal reasoning. Is it that
the mixture of commerce and politics that Mitchell claims is part of
public space is particularly volatile and calibrated in U.S. culture? Is
it the cultural tendency towards litigation? The unfettered regard for
capital? I would have appreciated Mitchell's observations on this point,
given his erudition on the topic, as well as at least an initial
discussion of the legal decisions regarding public space in other modern
states.

More problematic for me, however, is Mitchell's implied but not quite
coherent linkage of historical battles fought about rights with the
contemporary situation of the homeless. Mitchell argues throughout his
book that predisposition to distributive justice and "rights talk" is
necessary but not sufficient to foster more just societies; i.e., that
material spaces need to be won, produced, contested, taken, negotiated,
occupied, and inhabited as a way of provoking and grounding legal
decisions. He offers as examples the civil rights, women's and labor
movements. Yet he claims these battles were fought on a different notion
of citizenship than the one governing debates about homelessness:
"[A]nti-homeless laws reflect a changing conception of citizenship
which, contrary to the hard-won inclusions in the public sphere that
marked the civil rights, women's and labor movements in past decades,
now seeks to reestablish exclusionary citizenship as just and good" (pp.
181-182). This is a powerful statement, but I find that it inadvertently
mischaracterizes the extreme violence, racism, and structures of denial
which confronted those previous struggles.  The earlier struggles around
labor and civil rights, for example, also faced assumptions of
exclusionary citizenship. However, they (and women's movements)
possessed powerful ideological and logistical organizational tools:
large, relatively geographically-concentrated constituencies, shared
traditions of rhetoric and analysis of solidarity and faith, pivotal
spokespersons, access to sites possessing organizational resources, and
tactically useful geographies (workplaces, churches, restaurants, homes,
universities). The constituencies of these earlier movements also shared
appreciation for strategic collective corporeal discipline and
self-regulation (consider the marches, boycotts, and sit-ins), and often
the status of waged workers. All of these provided incalculable
contributions to the visibility of these movements and for their
advocates to argue the "rights talk." Yet these characteristics are not
part of the lives of most homeless people today. The disenfranchisement
amongst the homeless is compounded by the unprecedented demographic
realities of who and where they are. Though clearly not homogeneous, by
any measure the homeless "body politic" is not only geographically
dispersed, but also riddled with a high incidence of mental illness,
addiction, social disaffiliation, racism, violence and often pronounced
disinclination to acquiesce to authority. It is a constituency fractured
by multiple deprivations, deprivations which can be exploited by the
"exclusionary citizenship" rhetoric, but not entirely explained by it. I
thus found the emphasis on the citizenship argument, coupled with the
silence about the organizing realities of the various earlier social
movements Mitchell cites as "successful," both puzzling and surprising.
Noting these differences explicitly would have strengthened, rather than
diluted, his argument.

It is not for the homeless alone to win in the streets and in the
courts; it is for the rest of us, those who are housed and can afford to
be contemplative, those who venture beyond our private thresholds under
conditions of our own choosing, to recognize that the cry and the demand
for a right to the city must be inclusive. This recognition is not an
act of charity for "them," but rather a common goal based on a belief
that exclusive and sanitized cities, far from uplifting humanity,
instead erode our collective social repertoires and allow the rise of
brittle, fearful and unimaginative spaces, citizens, and societies.

Copyright (c) 2005 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits the
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purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the author, web
location, date of publication, originating list, and  H-Net: Humanities
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staff: hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu.


From michalski at ucdavis.edu  Thu Mar 31 15:45:26 2005
From: michalski at ucdavis.edu (David Michalski)
Date: Thu Mar 31 21:45:58 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANNC: Xcp: Streetnotes, Spring 2005 "Transit"
Message-ID: <424C8B96.2030008@ucdavis.edu>

--please post to interested parties--


Xcp: Cross Cultural Poetics is pleased to announce the publication of

Streetnotes Spring 2005 -TRANSIT-
http://www.xcp.bfn.org

This ?Transit? themed issue features?

Kara Lynch, Sung-san Hong, Kerby Valladares, Elijah Mirochnik, Claudia 
Milian, Ashok Niyogi, Michael Marcinkowski, Dave Lordan, Patricia 
Ranzoni, George Katodrytis, Dana Ward, Derek White, Alexandre Lexington, 
Michael Leong, Jessica Fanzo, Mary Kasimor, Cheryl Bradbee, Ellen Baxt, 
Ramsey Scott, Susan Mazur-Stommen

Xcp: Streetnotes is a biannual online exhibition space for socially 
descriptive art and text.

-- 
David Michalski
Xcp: Streetnotes, Editor
http://www.xcp.bfn.org
michalski@ucdavis.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Mar 31 22:32:30 2005
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Mar 31 22:26:38 2005
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Study
Message-ID: <007001c5366b$7296c050$c870a8ac@toshibauser>

 Fellowship: Institute for Advanced Study

School of Social Science Fellowships 2006-07
Deadline: November 15, 2005

Each year the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science in
Princeton, New Jersey, invites fifteen to twenty scholars to spend an
academic year in residence as Visiting Members, pursuing their own research.
It welcomes applications in economics, political science, law, psychology,
sociology, and anthropology. It encourages social scientific work with an
historical and humanistic bent and also entertains applications in history,
philosophy, literary criticism, literature, and linguistics. Memberships are
awarded at both the junior and senior levels. The theme for 2006-07 is The
"Third World" Now. The last sixty years have seen a dramatic change in the
shape of the world. Colonial empires have dissolved either violently or
peacefully and a new international system has taken shape. We want to bring
together a group of scholars from all over the world whose individual work
(substantive and focused as well as theoretical) will contribute to the
drawing of this map and who collectively will articulate the analytic
categories that can make sense of the "third world" as it is now. (Please
note that applications that do not fall within the parameters of the theme
for 2006-2007 will also receive full consideration.)

Contact Information
Donne Petito
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton NJ 08540 USA
Email: donne@ias.edu
URL http://www.sss.ias.edu/home/applications.html


