From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Wed Feb  1 09:15:53 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Wed Feb  1 12:43:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Urban Community and Environment, Antioch U, Los
	Angeles
Message-ID: <43E0ECC9.2080201@sfsu.edu>

Position: Core Faculty - Urban Community and Environment
Salary: Unspecified
Institution: Antioch University at Los Angeles

Urban Studies: Antioch University Los Angeles, Core Faculty - B.A. 
Program. Urban Community and Environment. Antioch University Los Angeles 
is accepting applications for a full-time core faculty position, 
specializing in interdisciplinary study of urban issues, in the B.A. in 
Liberal Studies Program. The faculty member will have overall 
responsibility for developing the program's new area of concentration, 
Urban Community and Environment (UCE) 
(http://www.antiochla.edu/uce.shtml), in addition to teaching courses in 
the new concentration, advising undergraduate students, and cultivating 
partnerships with community organizations. Ability and willingness to 
teach a limited number of general education courses is also required. We 
seek a dynamic and innovative teacher with academic expertise in 
studying the city from interdisciplinary perspectives. Applicants must 
have strong leadership and interpersonal skills, a demonstrated 
commitment to community action and social justice, an ability to mentor 
students, and a promising record of publication in their field. 
Qualifications: An earned Ph.D. or terminal degree from a regionally 
accredited institution in a field relevant to the interdisciplinary 
study of the city - e.g., urban studies, history, political science, 
sociology, humanities, environmental studies, political economy, or the 
arts; at least three years of teaching experience at the college or 
university level. Preference will be given to candidates with knowledge 
of the Los Angeles community that serves as the learning laboratory for 
the UCE. To apply: A detailed job description can be found at the 
University's Web site: http://www.antiochla.edu. If you would like to 
apply, please submit a cover letter referencing the job title, 
curriculum vitae, and three references to: Fax: 310-943-1590 or e-mail 
to aulahumanresources@antiochla.edu. Review of files begin: February 1, 
2006, open until filled. Anticipated starting date: July 2006.

Contact Information:

	
E-mail : aulahumanresources@antiochla.edu
Fax : 310-943-1590

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Feb  4 13:47:08 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb  4 13:48:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Papers: "Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice"
Message-ID: <000a01c629bb$68f92760$b4058696@toshibauser>

Subject: Call for Papers: "Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social
Justice"
From: "Tiantian Zheng" <ZhengT@cortland.edu>
Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 12:29:32 -0500


CALL FOR PAPERS

"Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice"
Special issue for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender
Studies. SUNY Cortland.

This special issue of Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender
Studies aims to explore the life experiences, agency, and human rights of
the women who are involved in a variety of activities that are characterized
as "trafficked" terrains in a deterritorialized and reterritorialized world,
in order to shed light on the complicated processes in which
anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are intersected.  While
previous studies have highlighted popular discourses, national and
international policies, and the victimization and struggles of the
trafficked women, few studies have centered on the stories of the migrant
subjects themselves to offer a critical reading of the recent competing
definitions of trafficking and the complex ways in which the intertwined
configurations of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality complicate the
contemporary hegemonic discourse on trafficking.  This special issue will
fill this lacuna through theorizing and conceptualizing the intersecting
discourses on anti-trafficking, human rights, and social justice from the
perspectives of the transnational migrant populations.  Specifically, this
issue will include articles that will rearticulate the trafficking
discourses away from the state control of immigration and the global
policing of borders, and reassert the social justice and the needs, agency,
and human rights of migrant and working communities.  Some of the topics of
investigation may include:

a critical analysis of the conflation of trafficking with sex work in
international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women;

effects on the vulnerable population as a result of the anti-prostitution
policy and a denial of human rights of sex workers;

suggestions of more effective anti-trafficking interventions that will
ameliorate social justice and human rights of the migrant populations;

the sociocultural effects on the migrant population as a result of the
global and national laws against trafficking, immigration and smuggling;

the debate between the recognition of women's human rights to migrate and
work as sex workers and the anti-trafficking policy that classifies sex
workers as trafficked victims and slaves;

a critical analysis of the global anti-trafficking policy and the root
causes for the undocumented migration and employment;

the relationship between the human rights of the vulnerable population and
the state approaches to trafficking;

the effects upon the migrant population as a result of the ways in which the
state and international policies define "trafficked persons" and
"undocumented migrants."

the complicated intersections of forced and voluntary labor and migrations
at the national and international level.

Please send abstracts (75 words) in English and complete essays
(approximately 5,500-7,500 words) by August 1, 2006.  Submissions should be
sent electronically in MLA or APA format to zhengt@cortland.edu.

Tiantian Zheng
Sociology/Anthropology
State University of New York, College at Cortland
P.O. Box 2000
Cortland, NY 13045
Office phone number: 607-753-2478
Fax: 607-753-5973
Email: zhengt@cortland.edu


From sana2006nyc at gmail.com  Sun Feb  5 12:47:53 2006
From: sana2006nyc at gmail.com (Julian Brash)
Date: Sun Feb  5 16:41:00 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2006 SANA Meetings - Please Circulate
Message-ID: <3ee45f440602050947w498d9d02t367794e5badb78b6@mail.gmail.com>

Call for Papers:

"Anthropology in an Uncertain Age"
2006 Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of North America

April 20-22, 2006
Newman Conference Center
Baruch College
New York, NY

Deadline for Paper and Panel Submission: February 15, 2006

Deadline for Pre-registration: March 15, 2006 (After this date you
must register on-site)

The Society for the Anthropology of North America invites participants
to discuss the state of anthropology in a period of uncertainty and
change at our 2006 conference.

Please visit the SANA website for information on paper and panel
submissions, the CFP in its entirety, etc:
http://sananet.org/2006conf/papers.html

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb  6 11:52:29 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb  6 11:56:45 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: New York: City in Motion
Message-ID: <00e801c62b3d$ccb15150$b9058696@toshibauser>

New York: City in Motion

The Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference at the New York 
Institute of Technology, Manhattan Campus

Friday, March 10, 2006

The interdisciplinary academic conference, New York: City in Motion, 
will draw scholars and museum professionals representing the fields 
of art, history, literature, sociology, film, architecture, material 
culture, ethnic studies, and urban studies to NYIT's Manhattan Campus 
to share their scholarship and perspectives on the City of New York 
through a theme that encompasses movement, mobility, and 
transformation.

Kenneth T. Jackson, noted urban historian from Columbia University, 
will give the keynote address. Nancy Mowll Mathews, a curator at the 
Williams College Museum of Art, will be the featured speaker.

This one-day conference will take place on Friday, March 10, 
8:30-6:30, in the 11th Floor Conference facilities at 16 W. 61st St. 
Please join this day of stimulating presentations and discussions.

While this event is free, space is limited, and attendees are 
requested to pre-register by March 3. For general information, a 
program schedule, and on-line registration, visit the conference 
website, http://iris.nyit.edu/nycim/
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Tue Feb  7 11:11:08 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue Feb  7 14:27:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: "The Right to the City and the Politics of Space," UC Berkeley
 grad conference
Message-ID: <1139339468.43e8f0cc1e608@webmail.sfsu.edu>

2006 Breslauer Graduate Student Conference
Friday, April 14, 2006, 9-5 pm
The Sultan Room, 340 Stephens Hall
UC Berkeley

The Right to the City and the Politics of Space

Call for Papers
Millions of people around the world live on the streets, in substandard
structures, or on plots of land under the constant threat of eviction and
displacement.  With the rise of neoliberal policy regimes, these struggles over
urban and rural space have intensified.  But these old and new marginalities
have been and continue to be challenged by a host of survival strategies,
negotiations that claim a right to the city, social movements, peasant
uprisings, squatter mobilizations, and other forms of resistance.  This
conference brings together graduate students interested in these struggles for
shelter and livelihood, competing claims to land, and politics of space.  It
also seeks to cut across the often-divided analytical and geopolitical domains
of First and Third Worlds, bringing together those working within the Global
South and those working within the Euro-American context.

Potential themes may include:
The Right to the City                                                
Politics of Space       
Peasant Struggles                                                    
Slums & Squatters
Displacement & Migrations                                  
Homelessness    
Carceral Geographies                                        
Shelter Struggles
Land Reform & Tenure                                        
Social Movements in Space

Keynote Speaker:
Don Mitchell:  Chair of the Geography Department at Syracuse University,
Professor Mitchell is well known for his work on the historical production of
landscapes as they relate to workers and the working class, the relationship
between culture and power, and the production and meaning of public space.  His
groundbreaking book, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for
Public Space (2003), explores the struggles over public space in American cities
and the modes of control that have led to the marginalization of the homeless.
        
The Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium
The Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium is an annual one-day conference
comprised primarily of UC Berkeley graduate students on an internationally
relevant theme. The goal of the symposium is to support graduate student
research on international issues related to the pursuit of solutions to
real-world problems.  The symposium was established in 2001, and is made
possible by a campus donor in honor of George Breslauer, Executive Dean of
Letters & Science at UC Berkeley.

Conference Eligibility
All presenters at the symposium must be graduate students whose research focuses
on rights to the city and/or the politics of space. Graduate students from other
campuses are welcome. Submissions can include well-developed research proposals,
draft dissertation chapters, papers in preparation, and independent research
projects.  All presenters must be able to clearly explain the technical details
specific to their discipline in a manner that is accessible to all symposium
participants.

Abstract Submission Process
E-mail submissions will be accepted at breslauer.2006@gmail.com through February
27, 2006. Authors should both attach the abstract as a Word document and include
the text of the abstract in the body of the message.  Please be sure to include
the following information in the e-mail as well: Full name, departmental
affiliation, degree program, and the title of your abstract.  Accepted authors
will receive notification no later than March 3, 2006.  Three weeks prior to the
symposium, accepted authors will be expected to submit a draft working paper.
Authors will have six weeks after the symposium to submit the final version of
their paper, which will be published on-line as part of the International and
Area Studies working paper series.


Contact information
For updates on the symposium, please visit the symposium website at
http://dcrp.ced.berkeley.edu/breslauer. All additional questions can be directed
to co-coordinators Stacey Murphy, Sylvia Nam and Carmen Rojas via email at:
breslauer.2006@gmail.com.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb  8 15:12:00 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb  8 15:13:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP)
Message-ID: <015301c62ceb$ef8ba180$a8058696@toshibauser>

Introduction

The Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program (IFP) provides
opportunities for advanced study to exceptional individuals who will use
this education to become leaders in their respective fields, furthering
development in their own countries and greater economic and social justice
worldwide.  To ensure that Fellows are drawn from diverse backgrounds, IFP
actively seeks candidates from social groups and communities that lack
systematic access to higher education.

IFP is the largest single program ever supported by the Ford Foundation.  By
investing $280 million over ten years through 2010, the Foundation intends
to build on its half century of support for higher education.  Foundation
programs have long promoted the highest educational standards and
achievement.  Ford Fellowship recipients have become leaders in institutions
around the world and have helped build global knowledge in fields ranging
across the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities and arts.
IFP draws on this tradition and underscores the Foundation's belief that
education enables people to improve their own lives as well as to assist
others in the common pursuit of more equitable and just societies.

General Guidelines

The International Fellowships Program provides support for up to three years
of formal graduate-level study leading to a master's or doctoral degree.
Fellows are selected from countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin
America, and Russia, where the Ford Foundation maintains active overseas
programs.  U.S. nationals are not eligible, although Fellows may study in
the United States.

Fellows are chosen on the basis of their leadership potential and commitment
to community or national service, as well as for academic excellence.
Fellows may enroll in master's or doctoral programs and may pursue any
academic discipline or field of study that is consistent with the interests
and goals of the Ford Foundation.  The Foundation currently works in fifteen
fields to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice,
promote international cooperation, and advance human achievement.

Once selected, Fellows may enroll in an appropriate university program
anywhere in the world, including their country of residence.  The program
provides placement assistance to those Fellows not yet admitted to graduate
school.

IFP support also enables Fellows to undertake short-term language study and
training in research and computer skills prior to graduate school
enrollment.  In addition, new Fellows attend orientation sessions, while
current Fellows actively participate in learning and discussion activities
designed to create information and exchange networks among IFP Fellows
worldwide.  Finally, the program strongly encourages IFP alumni to maintain
contact with the program after completing the Fellowships to help them
remain current in their respective fields through the expanding IFP network.

Because local requirements vary widely among IFP countries, applicants
should carefully follow the specific application guidelines provided by the
relevant IFP International Partner organizations listed below, including
deadlines for the submission of applications.

Who Is Eligible?

Applicants must be resident nationals or residents of an eligible IFP
country.  In addition, successful candidates will:
*  Demonstrate superior achievement in their undergraduate studies and hold
a baccalaureate degree or its equivalent.
*  Have substantial experience in community service or development-related
activities.
*  Possess leadership potential evidenced by their employment and academic
experience.
*  Propose to pursue a post-baccalaureate degree that will directly enhance
their leadership capacity in a practical, policy, academic, or artistic
discipline or field corresponding to one or more of the Foundation's areas
of endeavor.
*  Present a plan specifying how they will apply their studies to social
problems or issues in their own countries.  Commit themselves to working on
these issues following the fellowship period.
*  IFP selects Fellows on the strength of their clearly-stated intention to
serve their communities and countries of origin, and expects that they will
honor this obligation.

IFP Fields of Study

IFP Fellows may choose to study in any academic discipline or field of study
related to the Ford Foundation's three grant-making areas, which are:
Asset Building and Community Development
Children, Youth and Families
Sexuality and Reproductive Health
Work-Force Development
Development Finance and Economic Security
Environment and Development
Community Development
Education, Media, Arts and Culture
Education Reform
Higher Education and Scholarship
Religion, Society and Culture
Media
Arts and Culture
Peace and Social Justice
Human Rights
International Cooperation
Governance
Civil Society

The Application Process

All applications must be submitted to the appropriate IFP International
Partner listed below in the country or region where the applicant resides.
IFP International Partners determine application deadlines and selection
schedules in their region or country.  Applications are reviewed and final
selections decided by panels composed of practitioners and scholars from
various fields of work and study.  The level and duration of awards are
determined as part of the selection process.  Ford Foundation staff and
their family members may not serve on selection panels and are not eligible
to apply for IFP awards.  Members of selection committees, staff of the
organizations managing the program in the various regions, and their family
members are also ineligible for IFP awards.

IFP International Partner Offices

China
Institute of International Education Beijing Office
http://www.china-ifp.org/

India
United State Educational Foundation in India (USEFI)
http://www.ifpsa.org/

Indonesia
Indonesian International Education Foundation (IIEF)
http://www.iief.or.id/ifp/ifp.html

Philippines
Philippines Social Science Council (PSSC)
http://www.pssc.org.ph/programs/ifp

Thailand
Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF)
http://www.asianscholarship.org/ifp/ifp.html

Vietnam
Center for Educational Exchange with Vietnam (CEEVN)
http://www.acls.org/ceevn/ifpguidelines.htm

Ghana, Nigeria, and Senegal
Association of African Universities (AAU)
http://www.aau.org/ifp

Kenya
Forum of African Women Educationalists
http://www.ifpeastafrica.org/
Uganda
Association for Advancement of Higher Education and Development (AHEAD)
http://www.ifpeastafrica.org/

Tanzania
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF)
http://www.ifpeastafrica.org/

Mozambique
Africa-America Institute (AAI)
http://www.ifpmoz.co.mz/

South Africa
Africa-America Institute (AAI)
http://www.aaisa.org.za/

Egypt and Palestine
America-Mideast Educational and Training Services (AMIDEAST)
http://www.amideast.org/programs_services/exchange_programs/ifp/default.htm

Chile and Peru
International Fellowships Fund for the Andean Region & Southern Cone
http://www.programabecas.org/

Brazil
Carlos Chagas Foundation (CCF)
http://www.programabolsa.org.br

Guatemala
Center for Research on the Mesoamerica Region (CIRMA)
http://www.cirma.org.gt/becas.htm

Mexico
Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Science (CIESAS)
http://www.ciesas.edu.mx/bibdf/ciesas-ford/home.html

Russia
Institute of International Education Russia and Eurasia Office
http://www.iie.ru/IFP


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb  8 15:28:33 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb  8 15:30:31 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Community Health Studies Summer Program (Puerto Rico)
Message-ID: <018b01c62cee$4497de80$a8058696@toshibauser>

Community Health Assessment Summer Program, Cayey, Puerto Rico
Sponsors: University of South Florida and University of Puerto Rico at Cayey

 The University of Puerto Rico at Cayey (UPRC), the program site, is located
in the highlands of southeast Puerto Rico, an area of mountainous slopes.
UPRC offers academic programs at the BA and BSc levels with emphasis on
interdisciplinary education, undergraduate research and community service.
The Institute of Interdisciplinary Research at UPRC, in partnership with the
University of South Florida and the University of Puerto Rico Graduate
School of Public Health, offers this intensive summer field school to create
undergraduate research experiences and sponsor interdisciplinary health
related research programs. Currently, the Institute's health-related
research projects include topics on race, phytochemistry, HIV/AIDS and
material sciences. The Summer Field School faculty specializes in
Epidemiology, Nutrition, Community Psychology and Anthropology. Invited
speakers in History, Arts, Communication, Phytochemistry and Public Health
complement the program. The program offers hands-on, applied research
experiences that integrate qualitative and quantitative methodologies for
the assessment of community health. It is open to general sciences, social
sciences, public health, anthropology or biology majors (to name a few).
Participants learn skills, methods and processes in applied research and
their relevance to community health promotion and prevention.

Contact Information:
Nancy Romero-Daza
4202f E Fowler Ave SOC 107
Tampa Fl 33620 USA
Phone: 813-974-1205
Email: daza@cas.usf.edu
URL http://www.cas.usf.edu/anthropology
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Feb  9 17:08:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  9 17:11:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights and Social Justice
Message-ID: <00a801c62dc5$96bdb4a0$83058696@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS 
"Anti-Trafficking, Human Rights, and Social Justice" 
Special issue for Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender
Studies. SUNY Cortland. 

This special issue of Wagadu, Journal of Transnational Women's and
Gender Studies aims to explore the life experiences, agency, and human
rights of the women who are involved in a variety of activities that are
characterized as "trafficked" terrains in a deterritorialized and
reterritorialized world, in order to shed light on the complicated
processes in which anti-trafficking, human rights and social justice are
intersected. While previous studies have highlighted popular discourses,
national and international policies, and the victimization and struggles
of the trafficked women, few studies have centered on the stories of the
migrant subjects themselves to offer a critical reading of the recent
competing definitions of trafficking and the complex ways in which the
intertwined configurations of gender, race, ethnicity, and nationality
complicate the contemporary hegemonic discourse on trafficking. This
special issue will fill this lacuna through theorizing and
conceptualizing the intersecting discourses on anti-trafficking, human
rights, and social justice from the perspectives of the transnational
migrant populations. Specifically, this issue will include articles that
will rearticulate the trafficking discourses away from the state control
of immigration and the global policing of borders, and reassert the
social justice and the needs, agency, and human rights of migrant and
working communities. Some of the topics of investigation may include: a
critical analysis of the conflation of trafficking with sex work in
international and national discourses and its effects on migrant women;
effects on the vulnerable population as a result of the
anti-prostitution policy and a denial of human rights of sex workers;
suggestions of more effective anti-trafficking interventions that will
ameliorate social justice and human rights of the migrant populations;
the sociocultural effects on the migrant population as a result of the
global and national laws against trafficking, immigration and smuggling;
the debate between the recognition of women's human rights to migrate
and work as sex workers and the anti-trafficking policy that classifies
sex workers as trafficked victims and slaves; a critical analysis of the
global anti-trafficking policy and the root causes for the undocumented
migration and employment; the relationship between the human rights of
the vulnerable population and the state approaches to trafficking; the
effects upon the migrant population as a result of the ways in which the
state and international policies define "trafficked persons" and
"undocumented migrants." the complicated intersections of forced and
voluntary labor and migrations at the national and international level.

Please send abstracts (75 words) in English and complete essays
(approximately 5,500-7,500 words) by August 1, 2006. Submissions 
should be sent electronically in MLA or APA format to zhengt@cortland.edu.
Tiantian Zheng Sociology/Anthropology State University of New York,
College at Cortland P.O. Box 2000 Cortland, NY 13045 Office phone
number: 607-753-2478 Fax: 607-753-5973 Email: zhengt@cortland.edu
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Sat Feb 11 14:19:34 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Sat Feb 11 17:18:24 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]BOOK: Discourses and Silences: Indigenous Peoples, Risks
	and Resistance, ed. by Garth Cant
Message-ID: <43EE62F6.8090606@sfsu.edu>

Chapters:

Resisting encroachment and re-establishing identity
The Alta case: national and international consequences (Henry Minde, 
Norway); S?mi reindeer management (Jan ?ge Riseth, Norway); Paradigm 
shifts in Southern S?mi research (?ke J?nge, Norway); Globalisation from 
below: the revitalisation of a Coastal S?mi community (Torill Nyseth and 
Paul Pedersen, Norway).

Traditional identities and contemporary perspectives
Formalising S?mi land rights in Norway (Erling Berge), S?mi, citizenship 
and non-recognition in the EU (Rebecca Lawrence, Sweden); Hawaiian 
connection to the land (Katrina Oliveira, Hawai?i).

First Nations, parks and conservation
Conservation and Indigenous rights in Australia and Sweden ( Michael 
Adams, Australia); Laponia II: Lapland?s World Heritage Site? (Kristina 
Lasko, Sweden); Building wilderness: Te Urewera National Park (Chris 
Castagna, Hawai?i); Ng?i Tahu involvement in Coastal Management of 
Akaroa Harbour (Sarah Hemmingsen, Australia).

Shifting sands, shifting policies: Crown and M?ori in New Zealand
Policy development in modern Aotearoa New Zealand (Anake Goodall); Ng?i 
Tahu in a contested post-colonial New Zealand (Garth Cant); 21st Century 
Crown confiscations: the Foreshore and Seabed Act (Angeline Greensill); 
Thinking globally, acting locally: international human rights and double 
standards? (Justine Inns).

Sustaining resilient communities: Asian experiences
Korean farmers building community networks (Cheong Ji Woong and Cheong 
Chija Kim); Participation in environmental management in Vietnam (Binh 
Vu Trong, Viet Nam) Fujian culture in Okinawa (Akiyoshi Takahashi and Li 
Guoqing); Hmong Gardeners cultivating knowledge, land and culture (Kathy 
De Master, Wisconsin).

Community actions and educational initiatives
Rural Aboriginal men and participatory action research (Yarrabah Men?s 
Health Group, Australia); Representations of Aboriginal people in 
Australian schools (Pat Cavanagh); Teaching Indigenous studies at the 
University of Troms? (Per Klemetsen H?tta and Else Grete Broderstad, 
Norway).

For more information, please see the link below:

http://www.sami.uit.no/discourses/

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb 13 12:29:55 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 13 12:30:14 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 QUERY: Panel Match Needed for AAA Paper on Macedonian Muslim Romani
 Refugees (Carol Silverman)
Message-ID: <002f01c630c3$1ee38120$b1058696@toshibauser>

Dear Colleagues,

Carol Silverman is looking for panel that would be a good match for her
paper, as described in the abstract below.
Please contact her directly at <csilverm@uoregon.edu>.

Angela Jancius


SILVERMAN, Carol (University of Oregon) MACEDONIAN MUSLIM ROMANI REFUGEES IN
NEW YORK: TRANSNATIONAL FAMILIES, CULTURAL RESOURSES

This paper explores Muslim Balkan Romani (Gypsy) refugees from Macedonia who
currently reside in the Bronx, New York in terms of how and why they
mobilize economic, legal, social, religious, and cultural resources. Roma
activate kin networks and negotiate multiple identities and multiple
occupations in response to discrimination, stigma and changing economic
possibilities. Several family case studies illuminate trajectories of
emigration spanning numerous countries. In the Balkans, Roma face severe
discrimination, prejudice, and physical danger such as police brutality and
skinhead attacks; in the United States Roma face more covert discrimination.
Unlike European Roma, American Roma can often pass as other ethnicities. I
will summarize the problems with the American legal framework, noting the
infrequency that the INS awards political asylum, and the prevalence of
lawyer fraud. I will explore the economic adaptations of Balkan Roma,
including gendered domains of unskilled and blue-collar labor, and how these
are changing with the second generation who are more educated (especially
females). I will explore the transnational networking of families from
Macedonia, Western Europe, Canada, Australia, and New York via telephone,
video, and, mostly importantly, the migration of people. I will discuss the
flow of new spouses (both male and female) to New York, swelling the youth
population, and altering traditional patrilocal residence. Finally I will
explore the notion of community, discussing the locality in which they live,
the social occasions of gathering, the calendrical and life-cycle rituals,
and significant role of music and dance.

Carol Silverman
Assoc. Prof.
Department of Anthropology
University of Oregon
Eugene OR 97403- 1218
tel: 541-346-5114
fax: 541-346-0668
email: csilverm@uoregon.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb 13 18:02:55 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 13 18:03:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Migration and Cultural Change in Europe (EASA)
Message-ID: <029101c630f1$a8fad420$b1058696@toshibauser>

European Association of Social Anthropology Workshop Call for Papers

Below please find a call for papers for a workshop on "Migration and
Cultural Change in Europe" at the 9th EASA Biennial Conference - Europe and
the World: Bristol, UK - September
2006 (Lunchtime, Monday September 18th - end of Thursday September 21st,
2006)
For further information on the conference please refer to the following
website: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/index.htm

Please send your abstracts to the workshop organizers:
Dr. Krystyna Romaniszyn, email: usromani@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Dr. Anastasia Christou, email: anchrist@hol.gr

We would be grateful if you could please forward the call to other
colleagues and lists.

Very many thanks and best wishes,
Anastasia Christou

The Workshop content

The focus of the workshop will be on, broadly speaking, the cultural
implications or changes brought about by international
migrations in the European receiving and sending societies or regions.
It rests on the following assumptions: that international migrations
amplify cultural diversity and trigger or accelerate cultural change in
societies involved. Within this general theme there is a number of
particular issues worth studying and discussing at the workshop, namely:
the spatial changes caused by migration inflows (into the receiving
regions), and outflows (from the sending regions); the demographical
changes that imply the developments of social roles (especially the
traditional women social roles) and local communities, both in sending
and receiving societies (regions); the structural change, i.e. the ethnic
structure change in the receiving societies; and the developments in
mental dimension, i.e. the change of collective identity vis-a-vis the
newcomers on one, and the hosts on the others hand, and the diffusion of
ideas and beliefs (religious among others).

Along with the presented issues papers are invited within the
following areas: the ethno-cultural mosaic and the distinct
ethno-immigrant enclaves development in result of immigrants'
settlement; the local community change and the (re)construction of
landscapes as a result of the migratory inflows (into the receiving
regions), and outflows (from sending regions); the (re)establishment of
social roles, norms and statuses, and the development of works,
organization and consumption patterns due to the migratory movements;
the challenges to the collective identity of both the indigenous
population and the newcomers.

Suggested workshop-papers' keywords:  cultural diffusion, the
diffusion of ideas, cultural change, the (re)construction of landscapes,
the ethno-immigrant enclaves, the collective identity developments,
ethno-cultural mosaic.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb 15 13:41:02 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:47:31 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: SSHA Interdisciplinary Migration and Gender Workshop
Message-ID: <013501c63260$4014ec00$ad058696@toshibauser>

Workshop
Numbers, Narratives and More: Towards an Interdisciplinary Analysis of
Migrant Gender Ratios 

Sponsored by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC), University
of Minnesota
Http://www.ihrc.umn.edu

In conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Social Science History
Association 

Thursday, November 2, 2006
9:30-12:00 followed by a light (free) lunch

Gender ratios among international migrants have changed so dramatically
over the past century that scholars sometimes refer to the "feminization
of migration" in the twentieth century. Even among contemporary
populations of migrants, refugees, and resident immigrant or foreigners,
the balance of men and women varies significantly.  Why is this so?
Across the disciplines, scholars acknowledge variations in gender ratios
without often attempting to explain them. 

In this workshop, former members of the SSRC "Gender and Migration
Theory" Group, together with staff at the IHRC and the MPC (Minnesota
Population Center) will ask participants to consider how a
"multi-method" or interdisciplinary collaboration might tackle the
complex relationship between gender and migrations.  We will begin by
introducing participants to a wide array of data and sources that
document in some way complex questions about why men or women migrate in
differing numbers and about how gender shapes their motives, decisions
and destinations. Functioning at first as a multi-disciplinary group, we
will discuss methodologies traditionally associated with the analysis of
each type of data of source. But then we will push on into
interdisciplinary discussions of combining and mixing methodologies:
what would an ethnographer do with population data? How would a
demographer or an historian approach a fictional account?  What would a
psychologist do with a series of letters? Could a specialist interested
in heavily female- or heavily-male social or kinship networks ask new
questions of data on gendered patterns of wage-earning or gendered laws
governing migration? 

Convenors: Donna Gabaccia (IHRC) and Trent Alexander (MPC); Katharine
Donato (Sociology, Vanderbilt University); Jennifer Holdaway (Political
Science, SSRC); Martin Manalansan (Anthropology, University of
Illinois); Patricia Pessar (American Studies and Anthropology, Yale
University) 

Interested in the current state of the field? See the forthcoming
special issue of "Gender and Migration," International Migration Review 


This workshop is free and open to students and faculty at the University
of Minnesota and to those attending the SSHA

For additional information or to register (DEADLINE: Oct. 23, 2006): 
drg@umn.edu
From pheck at sewanee.edu  Tue Feb 14 13:28:10 2006
From: pheck at sewanee.edu (pheck@sewanee.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 15 13:59:44 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call For Papers:  AAA Meetings in San Jose
Message-ID: <1253.12.64.120.176.1139945290.squirrel@mail.sewanee.edu>

Dear H-SAE and H-URBANTH readers:

Kate Donahue and I are designing a panel on policy for the upcoming AAA
Meetings in San Jose, November 2006.  We envision a panel with input from
North Americanist as well as Europeanist anthropologists, which is why
we?re posting this on the two H-NET sites.  Sue Parman, Cal
State-Fullerton, has graciously agreed to be our discussant.  We are
hoping that a broad examination of recent policy decisions we perceive to
be destructive, both in North America and Europe, might begin a dialogue. 
Anthropologists, by focusing on the result of policy decisions at the
local level, should be more involved before, during, and after policies
are designed and implemented.


What follows is a first draft of our abstract.  We will modify it to
reflect other submissions.

For questions, potential contributions, or anything else, we welcome
hearing from you:

Pat Heck (after Feb. 20th)
Professor of Anthropology Emerita
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN
pheck@sewanee.edu

Kate Donahue
Professor of Anthropology
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH
kdonahue@plymouth.edu




Chaos, Confusion and Collapse:  The Destruction Resulting from Bad Policy
Decisions


Public policy in Europe and the United State has long been a fertile
research and theoretical area for political scientists, economists, and
sociologists.  Until recently, however, anthropologists have been
underrepresented in policy discussions and debates.  For one thing, most
traditional anthropologists focused  their research and theories on
nonwestern societies.  While a few anthropologists worked in the United
States and Europe prior to World War II, a critical mass of research and
theory from these areas did not appear until much later.

Anthropology can make a significant contribution to policy debates.
Anthropologists have observed policy decisions at the local level, a focus
less common for political scientists and economists.  Often,
anthropologists have worked many years in their research areas, giving a
longitudinal dimension to their analysis.

This panel seeks to combine the work of Europeanists and North
Americanists in evaluating ?destructive? policy decisions.  Pat Heck
focuses on the West German decision to dominate the Treuhandanstalt, the
agency established to handle the conversion of East German publicly-owned
industrial and service industries into a market economy.  Her research
discovers a common reaction when bad policy decisions bring about ?chaos,
confusion and collapse? ?- a combination of ignoring local conditions and
blaming the victims, leading to lasting destruction.  In 2006, 14 years
after West German bureaucrats shut down as many as 90 per cent of local
factories, and despite immense subsidies, unemployment remains at or above
20 per cent.  Thus, those East Germans who can, continue their inexorable
migration to the west.  The theoretical implications from this set of
policy decisions will form the primary focus of her paper.



From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Wed Feb 15 13:30:58 2006
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Wed Feb 15 15:37:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]PhD Scholarships, Groningen
Message-ID: <013801c6322b$aca784c0$ef1d7d81@12912529239>

**** Please bring these two vacanies to the attention of interested candidates. Apologies for those of you who receive the message more than once ****

 

 

TWO FULLY FUNDED PHD SCHOLARSHIPS

 

Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI)

Faculty of Spatial Sciences

University of Groningen

P.O. Box 800

9700 AV Groningen

THE NETHERLANDS

 

PhD 1: Undisclosed power relations in local democracy: examining coalitions and implications for social justice

Supervisors: Dr. Justin Beaumont (j.r.beaumong@rug.nl), Prof. dr. G. de Roo (g.de.roo@rug.nl) and Prof. dr. P.H. Pellenbarg (p.h.pellenbarg@frw.rug.nl)

 

PhD 2: Investigating faith-based organizations and urban social issues from an international comparative perspective

Supervisors: Dr. Justin Beaumont (j.r.beaumong@rug.nl), Prof. dr. P.P.P. Huigen (p.p.p.huigen@rug.nl) and Prof. dr. I. Hutter (i.hutter@rug.nl)

 

 

PhD 1:

The aim of the project is to reveal the relation between situation-specific governance arrangements and their consequences in terms of social justice and equity. The research will contribute to our understanding of the parameters that determine urban politics and the way in which they favour or exclude certain actors. Bringing these two relatively distinct and autonomous strands together in an international perspective lies at the core of the project. The significance of governance arrangements in urban renewal projects as well as their diversity around the globe is generally agreed upon. Several contributions show a remarkable variety of local governance arrangements. These arrangements inevitably imply a shift in the distribution of and access to power in political decision-making. This shift can lead to significant problems in urban political systems, as specific actors or groups can become deprived of means to intervene, or at least no longer have their interests acknowledged or taken into account. The question is if and how partnerships or coalitions can and do determine urban politics. How are they constructed, what interests do they have and do they favour the participation of certain groups and exclude others? And if so, what does this mean in terms of social justice and equity in the urban realm? The question how the traditional 'triangle' of actors (state - market - civil society) interacts in practice, in terms of interrelations, coalitions, alliances or networks and what this implies in term of social equity, participation and democratic legitimacy needs to be answered.

 

The concern of coalitions or partnerships directing local decision-making in relation to problems of social justice has been embedded over time in US literature, while European experiences are only now on the ascendancy. Until now, there is no satisfying argument explaining the absence of such coalitions in Europe. It is claimed that such coalitions might just as well exist, possibly in another shape, operating differently and with specific consequences that stand apart from the US. The research starts from the presumption that we are able to identify certain coalitions in Continental experiences that highly influence local politics, and confine possibilities for participation of certain local actors or groups. The question that becomes relevant is how and why such coalitions differ from American experiences and what this implies for the access power and decision-making. This access is expected to be vital when justice or equity is at stake.

 

PhD 2:

This project will examine, describe and explain the ambiguous, contested and changing governance characteristics and role of faith-based organizations (FBOs) and social problems in the US, UK and NL. While FBOs are a dominant force in US, it is expected that this role is secondary to the state in the UK and NL. In these latter countries FBOs perform a cradling function as the "underbelly" of the traditional state welfare. Processes of neoliberalization in cities, however, are potentially opening-up greater spaces for FBOs to enter into the fray of political action against injustices. Addressing these issues from a historical and spatial perspective, the project will consider the lessons and practical implications for policy-makers and campaigners for social justice in these countries.

 

Research shows that FBOs in the US are reaching out into the secular world and 'de-privatizing' in new and sometimes contrasting ways. These organizations are exploring possibilities for mainstream social service provision as well as participating in progressive alliances to contest entrepreneurial politics and for the achievement of social justice in cities. The observed double dynamic simultaneously reflects new urban political opportunities wrought by deepening processes of neoliberalization and the historical specificities of associationist civil society in the US. The two sides of the faith-based action on poverty 'coin' reflect the enduring ideological variety of associational life in the country. To what extent can we speak of similar developments on the European Continent in other countries like The Netherlands and also the UK? In this context, and in all international cases of the project, the project asks what are the sociologies and organizational geographies of FBO politicization. What accounts for the ideological and political ambiguity of FBO activity in the social welfare realm and their changes in time? What are the current activities and roles of FBOs in addressing urban social problems? What role do FBOs have in contemporary processes of welfare reform? To what extent are FBOs implicated in urban policies? And what theoretical and conceptual tools are at our disposal for explaining the hypothesized changing role of FBOs in urban social issues and their variations by socio-institutional context?

 

 

Informal enquiries should be sent by email to Dr. Beaumont (j.r.beaumont@rug.nl).

 

For further information including details about the application process please consult the URSI website (www.rug.nl/ursi/research/promovendi)

 

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 10 MARCH 2006.

 

 

 

Justin Beaumont

Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI)

Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen

P.O. Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen

THE NETHERLANDS

Direct: 00 31 (0)50 363 6910

Secr: -3895/ -3896/ -3897, Fax: -3901

Email: j.r.beaumont@rug.nl

Web: www.justinbeaumont.com/
From RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu  Wed Feb 15 15:44:38 2006
From: RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu (Russell Sharman)
Date: Wed Feb 15 16:11:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Student Profiles in SUNTA column of AN
Message-ID: <6F70906B3EB0D311845900508B937A520A879172@gemini.brooklyn.cuny.edu>

Please consider including this in the next Urbanth mailing:

SUNTA is soliciting student profiles to be included in an upcoming issue of the Anthropology News.   The SUNTA column offers great exposure to graduate students, especially those heading toward the job market.  The next deadline for submission is March 10th.  Students should send 10-150 word profiles or a longer dispatch from their dissertation fieldwork plus appropriate electronic photos to Elzbieta Gozdziak at emg27@georgetown.edu.

Thanks,
Russell Sharman
SUNTA, Councilor

_____________________________________________________
Russell Leigh Sharman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Brooklyn College, CUNY
RSharman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.5754

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb 15 16:42:34 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 15 16:43:01 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference
Message-ID: <002501c63278$c3b2d820$ad058696@toshibauser>

Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference

Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference III
http://REP-conference.binghamton.edu/

The third international Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference will be held at 
Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas on 1-4 November 2006.  Binghamton 
University (SUNY) and Howard University hosted the first two conferences and 
with other organizations are co-sponsors of this year's event.  This 
international conference will include nationally distinguished public 
speakers, scholars of various disciplines from throughout the world, and 
students from across the continent who will discuss contemporary diversity and 
equity issues, particularly those affecting Latinos and African Americans.  
Important conference themes that touch people of all racial and ethnic 
heritages will be quality education, healthcare accessibility, affordable 
housing, and immigration.

To register or submit paper/poster/session abstracts for the Race, Ethnicity, 
and Place Conference III, visit its Website at http://REP-conference.binghamton.edu/.  
For additional details, e-mail REP3@geo.txstate.edu.

Conference highlights include:
. The latest research on the connections of race/ethnicity and place 
. Interdisciplinary setting bringing together geography, sociology, economics, 
history, social work, anthropology, education, business, literature, music, 
art and other disciplines with participation by academic scholars, 
researchers, professionals, and students
. Concurrent sessions include papers, posters, panels, workshops, and an 
ethnic art show 
. Free registration to student participants
. Dining includes a welcome BBQ with entertainment, two breakfasts, two 
lunches, and a closing dinner with entertainment - All Free to first 300 
registrants
. Workshops - Free on first-come, first-serve basis:
o Diversity Workshop
o GIS Workshop on Race and Ethnicity 
o Measuring Race/Ethnicity Disparities

. Five Fieldtrips throughout Central and South Texas - Free on first-come, 
first-serve basis: 
o Culture Groups of the Texas Hill Country 
o Ethnic Landscapes of the San Marcos and Guadalupe Rivers of Texas
o Ghettos, Enclaves, and Citadels in Austin 
o Hispano San Antonio
o A Taste of Hill Country German Culture
. Free transportation from/to Austin and San Antonio Airports and 
Free shuttle service from/to San Marcos Conference Hotels
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Feb 16 19:43:47 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb 16 19:44:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building States and Societies
Message-ID: <1140137027.43f51c43a04f6@webmail.ysu.edu>

Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building Building States and Societies
Washington University in St. Louis
March 31-April 1, 2006

Washington University in St. Louis will be hosting an international conference
entitled "Global Feminisms: The Role of Women in Building States and Societies,"
March 31st, 2006 thru April 1st, 2006. The conference will consist of three
panels and a roundtable. The Feminism and Governance panel will explore women's
and feminists' strategies for expanding women's citizenship into the political,
social and economic realms. The Conflict, Gender, Violence, and Memory in Social
and State Reconstruction panel will focus on how to conceptualize violence
against women and examine how the frameworks of Truth Commissions address the
needs of and offenses against women. The Feminism, Citizenship and Diversity
panel will examine issues of ethnic and religious diversity. The roundtable
discussion will center on Women and Gender Studies in the Twenty-First Century.
Conference panelists include scholars from Croatia, India, Kenya, the
Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, Poland, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, and
the U.S. The conference is free and open to the public.

For further information contact Donna Kepley at dkepley@artsci.wustl.edu or Mary
Ann Dzuback at madzuback@wustl.edu Sponsored by: Women and Gender Studies
Program, Center for Joint Projects, Center for the Study of Ethics and Human
Values, International and Area Studies Program, Philosophy Department, African
and African American Studies Program, Anthropology Department, and Fulbright New
Century Scholar (NCS) Program.

Contact Information
Mary Ann Dzuback
1 Brookings
Box 1183
St. Louis MO 63130 USA
Phone: 314-935-5
Email: madzubac@wustl.edu
URL http://ascc.artsci.wustl.edu/~women/wgsconference.htm

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From bcristales at msn.com  Thu Feb 16 18:55:42 2006
From: bcristales at msn.com (Beth Baker Cristales)
Date: Thu Feb 16 23:34:16 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call For Papers:  AAA Meetings in San Jose
References: <1253.12.64.120.176.1139945290.squirrel@mail.sewanee.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY103-DAV158A0529A6E474B787660AC3F80@phx.gbl>

 I am organizing a panel for the 2006 American Anthropological Association Meetings, to be held in San Jose, California November 15-19. The skeletal abstract for the panel is pasted below. My own paper would be about the ways Mexican and Salvadoran politicians are talking about migration from those countries to the U.S. If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send me your paper abstract, along with any suggestions for the panel abstract, as soon as possible. The deadline for submission of the panel proposal is March 31st. 

Public understandings of international migration are shaped by multiple discourses emanating from politicians, policy makers, activists, migrants, and scholars. These discourses in turn shape public policy and academic scholarship. This panel explores the complex and often contradictory ways that these public discourses are enunciated and deployed by different actors around the world.  

Beth Baker-Cristales
Assistant Professor
California State University, Los Angeles
bcristales@msn.com<mailto:bcristales@msn.com>
bbakerc@calstatela.edu<mailto:bbakerc@calstatela.edu> 
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Feb 16 20:40:59 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Thu Feb 16 23:43:42 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: UC San Francisco, Anthropology, Ethnographer
Message-ID: <43F553DB.5020701@sfsu.edu>

Position:
Ethnographer, Department of Anthropology, History, & Social Medicine,
University of California-San Francisco

Location:
San Jose/ San Francisco

Duration:
1-2 years

Description:
We are looking for an ethnographer and analyst to join a small research 
team investigating oral health disparities for Latino children. The 
grant, "Hispanic Oral Health: A Rural and Urban Ethnography," is the 
first community-based ethnography of both the oral health safety net as 
well as parents' beliefs and behaviors regarding children's oral health. 
The team member will be required to conduct the ethnography in the urban 
location, San Jos?, as well as to participate in the analysis and 
write-up of significant publications. Ethnographic responsibilities will 
include helping to select and map the community, identifying and 
interviewing key health personnel, observing oral helath care practices 
in various settings, and conducting interviews with Latino parents about 
their children's oral health.

Desired Qualities:
Independence, prior ethnographic research experience, bilingual ability 
in Spanish, experience working with Latinos, excellent research and 
writing skills

Required:
MA or Ph.D. in Anthropology or a related social science

Contact:
Judith Barker, UCSF (BarkerJ@dahsm.ucsf.edu)

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Feb 18 12:37:36 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 18 12:38:35 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Ethnographies of Preservation
Message-ID: <008901c634b2$125a2b00$b0058696@toshibauser>

From: Susan Mazur <susanmazur@hotmail.com>

ETHNOGRAPHIES OF PRESERVATION

We are seeking papers for a panel on the politics of historic preservation
as an aspect of urban renewal.  Although heritage conservation has become a
prominent subject of ethnographic study, the preservation of historic
buildings, neighborhoods, and urban morphologies has not received as much
careful attention.  Yet preservation now plays an important role in many
renewal and redevelopment schemes.  Papers may focus on the politics of
preservation in the narrower sense, but may also address issues of
authenticity, bureaucracy, identity, class conflict, and cultural property.
We hope to assemble a group of papers that address such issues on the basis
of ethnographic research.

Send abstracts to:

Susan Mazur-Stommen
University of California, Riverside
susanmazur@hotmail.com

AND

Jason James
University of Mary Washington
jjames@umw.edu

Deadline, March 1.

-----------------------------------------------
Thanks!

Susan Mazur-Stommen, Ph.D.

http://www.susanmazur.com
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Feb 19 23:45:35 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Feb 19 23:45:57 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity
 and Cities (Amersterdam)
Message-ID: <00ad01c635d8$807c0fa0$b8058696@toshibauser>

Dear Colleagues:

We are pleased to announce the third annual Summer Institute on
International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities, to be held at the
International School for Humanities and Social Sciences, Universiteit van
Amsterdam from June 11th-29th, 2006.  For details over the course, go to
www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM

Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities
Dates: June 11th - 29th, 2006

The Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and
Cities at the International School for Humanities and Social Science in
Amsterdam is a three-week summer programme, which seeks to explore the
topical features of international migration and the incorporation of
immigrants in the cities and states of destination.  The seminar will take
place in Amsterdam between June 11 - 29, 2006. Classes are from Monday
through Thursday. All classes are in English.

Our programme directors, Dr. Jan Rath and Dr. Jeroen Doomernik, are
respectively programme director and programme coordinator of the Institute
for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and are
both internationally recognized for their scholarship in Migration Studies.
In addition, this year's guest lecturers include Nancy Foner, Dan Hiebert,
Jacqueline Andall, Rinus Penninx, Marek Ok?lski, Monica Boyd and many
others.

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.

The Programme

The Summer Institute consists of two tracks (Track 1 for MA students and
Track 2 for PhD candidates). Morning courses are for all students.   In the
afternoon of week 2 and 3, Track 1 students attend the thematic afternoon
courses and Track 2 students attend a research seminar. In the last week
all students are again convened in the afternoon closing sessions.

The Programme roughly consists of six blocks.

- The first block, Theories and Concepts of International Migration,
scheduled for the first week, encompasses a four-day course on ethnic
diversity and cities as well as a series of guest lectures by international
high profile experts (Track 1 & 2). This block aims to provide the students
with a comprehensive 'toolkit' of theories, perspectives, and approaches to
international migration (the movement of people across political borders)
and the process of settlement and integration that possibly follows
migration.

The next four blocks, scheduled for the next two weeks, encompass in-depth
exploration of thematic fields:
- Regulation of Immigration. (Track 1 & 2). This block focuses on political
and regulatory aspects of international migration and underlying migration
and integration regimes. Selected contemporary case studies will help
highlight the political and institutional factors that influence the
regulation of immigration and integration. This block also addresses the
intended, unintended and perverse consequences of regulation as well as the
tendency towards informalization.
- Generational Change. (Track 1 only). This block focuses on the
proliferation of the second generation. Attention will be paid to the
dynamics of ethnic identities, the development of ethnic diversity and the
concomitant formation and possible disintegration of ethnic groups along
generation lines. This block also addresses the integration of
second-generation immigrants in the educational and labour market systems
as well as the gender breakdown of these processes.
- Cosmopolitan Cities- The case of Amsterdam. (Track 1 & 2). This block
focuses on the process of immigrant integration in Amsterdam.  Researchers
from the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) will discuss the
issues confronting Amsterdam and the Netherlands following the apparent
rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in the Netherlands and the murder of Theo
van Gogh. It addresses the process of immigrant integration in various
domains, more particular the formation of local integration policies and
the involvement of immigrants and their associations, Islam and public
security, and shopping, clubbing and eating in cosmopolitan cities.
- Roundtable Discussion with Policy Advisors. (Track 1 only). This block
will examine the way in which policy makers define the concept of
integration and translate that concept into concrete policies.
Participants will meet with practitioners in the field and examine the ways
in which theories are put into practice in the real world.  The
interrelationship of these processes with class and social mobility will
also be discussed.
- The sixth block, scheduled for the second and third week, is a Research
Seminar for PhD students only. This is a series of meetings in which
students present and discuss their research proposals. These proposals have
been circulated up front to each participating student. Special attention
is given to methodological matters.

Tuition
 The regular tuition is EUR 2200. The tuition for students who wish to
receive course credit is EUR 2700. Unfortunately, the Institute is not
capable of offering scholarships.

Housing
The rent for the housing is approximately EUR 500 for one month.

 Students are accepted on the basis of
i) their previous qualifications,
ii) the level of knowledge of English,
iii) an essay on their motivation, and
iv) consultation of references.
The Admissions Committee will take account of coherence, feasibility or
relevance of the student's career objectives and proposed program of study,
as well as excellence in prior academic accomplishment, especially in
coursework and experience related to the Summer Institute.

Certificate and Credits
All students receive a certificate of attendance. Students who wish to earn
credits receive upon successful completion of the Programme, an official
transcript stating the courses taken, credits earned and grades obtained.
The Programme is the equivalent of a 10 European Credits (or 5 American
credits) module if the following requirements are fulfilled:

Application Deadline
The application deadline is April 1, 2006.

Application and Information
You can download the application form from the website:
<http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM/>
or you can obtain application forms and other detailed information on the
Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities from:

Summer Institute on International Migration, Ethnic Diversity and Cities/ISHSS
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 525 3776
Fax: +31 20 525 3778
Email: sim-ishss@uva.nl <mailto:sim-ishss@uva.nl>
Website: <http://www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM/>


Amy Abdou
Program Manager
Summer Institute
ISHSS
Prins Hendrikkade 189-B
1011 TD Amsterdam
The Netherlands
phone: (+31)-20-525-3776
fax: (+31)-20-525-3778
email: sim-ishss@uva.nl
www.ishss.uva.nl/SIM
From tcwong at nie.edu.sg  Fri Feb 17 18:13:26 2006
From: tcwong at nie.edu.sg (WONG Tai Chee (HSSE))
Date: Mon Feb 20 02:19:07 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SEAGA Conference 2006, Sustainability and Southeast Asia
Message-ID: <503AA062CF55D24ABA148A2B2B30B0262EC588@NIESFM3.niestaff.cluster.nie.edu.sg>

Dear geographers/social sciences colleagues

Please help to pass this information on to other colleagues in your field/network/discipline. 

?Please visit http://www.seaga.co.nr/ for details

SEAGA Conference 2006
Sustainability and Southeast Asia
28 to 30 Nov 2006
@ Nanyang Girls High School, Singapore
Special Colloquium for Educators on 29 Nov 2006
Jointly Organised by
 	 
SEAGA, the Southeast Asian Geography Association, celebrates its 16th year as an association of geographers and professionals in related fields like history, the geo and environmental sciences, urban planning and others in academia, education, government and the private sector in the region, in 2006. The SEAGA Conference 2006 is also the 8th conference that is being organised since the association was established in 1990. 
SEAGA is inviting trans-disciplinary perspectives of sustainability from scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs as well as researchers and teachers. The aim is to debate the progress which the Southeast Asian region has made towards sustainability. Such assessment concerns national governments, local processes in cities and the agricultural areas as well as the business sector. This debate should translate the concept of sustainability into terms relevant for all who have worked to advance the cause. Sustainability is however, a contested concept and there is an urgent need to provide the terms upon which citizens and governments alike, consumers and producers can engage effectively with processes of realising the goals that have been set.
?
Conference Theme
Sustainability and Southeast Asia is the conference theme in 2006 and we are inviting multidimensional perspectives of sustainability from scholars, policy makers and entrepreneurs as well as researchers and teachers. The aim of the conference is to debate the progress that has been made towards sustainability in the Southeast Asian region - by national governments, in cities and the agricultural areas and among its businesses. This debate should begin with the translation of the concept of sustainability into terms relevant for interested parties and vested interests. While recognising that sustainability is a contested concept, there is nonetheless the urgent need to provide the terms upon which citizens and governments alike, consumers and producers can engage effectively with processes of realising the goals set.

Second Call for Papers
This is a second call for papers on the following sub-themes within the larger area of sustainability in Southeast Asia. Abstracts of papers are to be sent to SEAGA Conference Organising Committee at seaga@nie.edu.sg by 31 May 2006.

Session Titles
1??????? Sustainable Development and the Southeast Asian Agenda
???????? Global changes and local vulnerabilities
???????? Relevance of sustainability in Southeast Asian development
???????? Sustainability and the ASEAN way?
2??????? Sustainability and Education
???????? Eco-education and relevance in Southeast Asian development
???????? Environmental education in schools and institutes of learning
3??????? Economic growth, competitiveness and sustainable development
???????? Global and regional competition
???????? National and local responses
???????? Environmental justice
4??????? Sustainability and Society
???????? Social justice and Southeast Asian society
???????? Multi-ethnicity and issues of social cohesion
???????? The nation-building project in Southeast Asia
???????? Social differences and disparities
???????? Globalisation and social fragmentation
5??????? Politics, policies and sustainability
???????? Governance and sustainable development
???????? Public policies, environmental agendas and ecological protection
6??????? Population, carrying capacities and ecological footprints
???????? Growth Trends and implications for sustainability
???????? Distribution and resources
???????? Consumption patterns and societies in Southeast Asia 
7??????? Cities and sustainable development
???????? Urbanisation trends and implications
???????? Can cities be sustainable?
???????? Human ecology and the urban eco-system
8?????? Health and development issues 
???????? Health care delivery and affordability
???????? Regional vulnerability to viral infections
9?????? Nature, culture and society
???????? Nature-society relations in Southeast Asia
???????? Environmental agendas and cultures
???????? Technology, culture and Southeast Asian societies
10??????? Securing water supplies
???????? Transboundary water management 
???????? Population growth, climate change, terrorism and water security
???????? Flow regulation of rivers and aquatic ecosystems 
11??????? Living with natural hazards 
???????? Managing risks from natural hazards
???????? Storm surges, flooding and emergency management in coastal cities
???????? Developing an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system
12??????? Karst geomorphology
???????? Landscape evolution and karst
???????? Hydrogeology
???????? Unique ecosystems and their conservation
13???????Remote sensing and GIS: their contribution to environmental 			management in Southeast Asia 
???????? Land use planning 
???????? Integrated environmental management systems 
???????? Fire management 
???????? Monitoring 
14??????? SE Asia and environmental management
???????? Regulatory vs voluntary frameworks
???????? Capacity-building for environmental management
???????? Response to Kyoto Protocol: ASEAN, national, corporate
???????? Regional innovation
15??????? Agriculture and sustainable development in SE Asia
???????? Tree crops, commercial forestry, shifting cultivation and fire 		management
???????? Land use conflict resolution
???????? GMOs in SE Asia
???????? Environmental impacts of irrigation
16???????Tourism and its role in sustainable development
???????? Eco-tourism and its impact on ecosystems
???????? Cultural tourism and the preservation of historic buildings...

Registration
Participants who register before 31 July 2006 qualify for an early bird registration fee. The registration package includes conference proceedings, lunches, tea and coffee breaks as well as a book publication on Geographies of a Changing World: Global Issues of the Early 21st Century.


 
Registration before 31 July 2006 	SGD$300	   
Registration after 31 July 2006	SGD$400	   
Registration for ASEAN participants/participants from developing countries	SGD$160	   
Teacher (Singapore) registration	SGD$250	   
Student registration	SGD$100	 
Registration includes daily two tea breaks, lunch, conference kit with conference papers and a book, 'Geographies of a Changing World: Global Issues of the Early 21st Century'. 
An administrative charge of SGD$50 will be charged for cancellation/ withdrawal of registration before October 2006. 
No cancellations/withdrawals are possible after 1st October 2006. 
Register now at http://www.seaga.co.nr/seaga2006.htm

Hotel Accommodation
There is a range of different types of hotels, budget and luxury, as well as heritage and new places in various locations. Listed below are some hotels that we have negotiated special rates for. Please contact them directly via the internet.

Copthorne Orchid Hotel Singapore
214 Dunearn Road Singapore 299526
tel: +65 6415 6000 ?fax: +65 6250 9292 ?reservation: +65 6415 6029/6030
Email: rsvn@copthorneorchid.com.sg
?
Garden Hotel Singapore
14 Balmoral Road
Singapore 259800
http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/Garden_Hotel_Singapore.htm

Hotel Asia Singapore
37 Scotts Road
228229 Singapore 
Phone : (65) 67378388
Fax : (65) 67333563
http://www.hotelasia.com.sg/

Sheraton Towers Singapore
39 Scotts Road  Singapore 228230  Singapore
Phone (65) 6737 6888  Fax (65) 6737 1072
Email: sheraton.towers.singapore@sheraton.com

Conference Hostel
For foreign delegates who want to truly experience Singapore in a School Hostel setting, we have arranged for some hostel rooms at Nanyang Girls High School.
SGD34 nett per night per person for 3-4 sharing rooms with attached bathroom and toilet. Rooms come with air-conditioning. Price includes breakfast, dinner and supper. 
For those interested, please send in your application to us via email and we will contact you for details.
Here are some photographs of the hostel.

  
Colloquium 
Click here to find out more about our one day colloquium.
Conference Fieldtrips and Post-Conference Tours 
A number of field-trips and post-conference tours have been scheduled. 
Field-trips 
-??????? Visit to a new town and Singapore's heartlanders and heartlands
-??????? Walking historical tour of the civic and cultural district
-??????? Rainforest skywalk in a global city

Post-Conference Tours
-??????? Ho Chi Minh City - the transition and beyond
-??????? Batam and/or Bintan - whatever happened to the growth triangle?

Accompanying Persons' Programme
-??????? Ethnicity and Singapore - tours of Little India, Kampung Glam and 		Chinatown
-??????? Art, Culture and the Galleries and Museums of Singapore
-??????? One of the oldest Botanic Gardens in the World
?
?	?
Organising Committee
 
Chair	A/P Ooi Giok Ling	   
Secretary	As/P Chang Chew Hung	   
Treasurer	A/P Kalyani Chatterjea	   
Programme	A/P Wong Tai Chee	   
?		A/P Elizabeth Bui	   
Logistics	Ms  Lian lay Cheng	   
Publicity	Ms Esther Cheong	   
Fieldtrips	As/P Yan Liu	   
Advisor	Prof. Goh Kim Chuan	 

From robrien at temple.edu  Mon Feb 20 10:16:00 2006
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Mon Feb 20 10:45:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Race, Gender and Nation in Imperial US
Message-ID: 
	<!&!GAAAAAAAAADsk87VOWVGSqXGfJDKT08DwoAAABgAAAAAAAAA7JPO1TllRkqlxnyQyk9PA6T5IgAAAAAAEAAAAIZ710WiAGlNruCyfVYK+nksAAAAQ0ZQOiBSYWNlLCBHZW5kZXIgYW5kIE5hdGlvbiBpbiBJbXBlcmlhbCBVUwA=@temple.edu>

Please see the CFP below and attached. 
 
I've limited this to the US because I think it's an important intervention
in both US urban anthro and in the lit on imperialism and nation. I could
see doing a double session, however, if I found enough non-US scholars to
work on these themes.
 
Best,
 
Rob
 
CFP: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Imperial US: Reconfigurations of Power
in the Local and Global
105th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting
November 15-19, 2006
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, CA 
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
 
The dominance of the global economy by the "party of Davos" (as a Nation
writer recently characterized the transnational capitalist class) is shaping
new capitalist social relations that reconfigure race, gender, and nation.
Recognizing few national allegiances, transnational firms and the hyper-rich
have benefited from the progressive erosion of Western social welfare
states, privatization and corporate welfare, and military imperialism
ensuring access to labor, raw materials, and new markets. Capitalist and
military imperialism have overextended the US state's economic and military
reach abroad while curtailing rights and abrogating any remnants of the New
Deal social compact at home. Consequent with the US state's cuts in social
welfare services, the state has abetted finance and rentier capitalists by
deregulating banking and credit while allowing the most sweeping use of
eminent domain since the English enclosures. Showing no respect for national
boundaries that do not benefit them directly, the Davos class reaps profits
from death and displacement, exploitation and primitive accumulation.
Finally, race and gender - which have served as organizing principles in the
post-war expansion of a white, suburban, heterosexual American national
identity - are undergoing tremendous, often conflicting change as the class
trajectories of the vaunted American middle class are reversed. This session
will explore these transformations in an attempt to recognize the emerging
patterns of race, gender, and nation in the 21st Century.
 
Anthropologists, historians, and geographers have given us a wealth of data
on shifts in the global and state-level political economy, yet the careful,
textured ethnographic study proposed - of the consequences of these data on
what we might imagine the "'people' or 'party' of Porto Alegre" - does not
exist in sufficient quantity. Ethnography must provide a window on the
disruption of race, gender and nation in the local if we are to understand
local and global political economies. This session will begin an attempt to
address this, examining the play of global political economy in an urban US
that is undergoing "thirdworldization" (Chossudovsky) and a realignment of
axes of oppression and dominance. Session participants will explore the
local by tracing out changing configurations of race, gender, and nation
that, on the one hand, ideologically underwrite the depredations of
capitalists or serve as subject positions useful for maintaining hegemony
and, on the other, present useful imagined communities from which local
political action might emerge.
 
Individual papers should attempt to address:
*	Cross-race and/or cross-gender alliances along class lines or lines
of political struggle
*	Criminalizing and racializing the poor as a form of middle class
solidarity
*	Poor peoples' campaigns 
*	Cross-group organizing on prisons, healthcare, education, property
zoning
*	Differential use of "race" within US "racial" groups
*	Differential investments in "whiteness" among European Americans of
different class backgrounds and trajectories
*	Sexuality, race, and gender in housing markets
*	Differential imaginings of US nationalism along race, gender, and or
class lines;
*	Race, gender and nationalism among Gulf War and "War on Terror"
veterans and their families
*	Gender and nationalism in American religious life
 
Please send abstracts and queries by March 15, 2006 to robrien@temple.edu. 
Abstracts should be of no more than 250 words and follow AAA guidelines
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2006/genrules.htm.
 
 
****************************************
"Neither we nor our most distant descendants will build the New Jerusalem or
the Garden of Eden; but we have, if we choose it, the pleasure of clearing
the ground, hoping that one day other hands will cultivate something more
like a garden -- a flawed and human garden, under sun, clouds, fog, and
rain, with our own ants and slugs and weevils, but alive with our own
raspberry  bushes, too, our weeping cherries and roses, our own vines, and
our own fig trees."
-- Michael Steinberg, _The Fiction of a Thinkable World_
 
Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
 <mailto:robrien@temple.edu> robrien@temple.edu 
215-803-5181
 
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
 <http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com> http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
From robrien at temple.edu  Mon Feb 20 11:20:16 2006
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Mon Feb 20 12:10:44 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Race, Gender and Nation in Imperial US
Message-ID: 
	<!&!GAAAAAAAAADsk87VOWVGSqXGfJDKT08DwoAAABgAAAAAAAAA7JPO1TllRkqlxnyQyk9PA6T5IgAAAAAAEAAAAIZ710WiAGlNruCyfVYK+nksAAAAQ0ZQOiBSYWNlLCBHZW5kZXIgYW5kIE5hdGlvbiBpbiBJbXBlcmlhbCBVUwA=@temple.edu>

Please see the CFP below and attached. 
 
I've limited this to the US because I think it's an important intervention
in both US urban anthro and in the lit on imperialism and nation. I could
see doing a double session, however, if I found enough non-US scholars to
work on these themes.
 
Best,
 
Rob
 
CFP: Race, Gender, and Nation in the Imperial US: Reconfigurations of Power
in the Local and Global
105th American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting
November 15-19, 2006
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, CA 
Submission Deadline: March 15, 2006
 
The dominance of the global economy by the "party of Davos" (as a Nation
writer recently characterized the transnational capitalist class) is shaping
new capitalist social relations that reconfigure race, gender, and nation.
Recognizing few national allegiances, transnational firms and the hyper-rich
have benefited from the progressive erosion of Western social welfare
states, privatization and corporate welfare, and military imperialism
ensuring access to labor, raw materials, and new markets. Capitalist and
military imperialism have overextended the US state's economic and military
reach abroad while curtailing rights and abrogating any remnants of the New
Deal social compact at home. Consequent with the US state's cuts in social
welfare services, the state has abetted finance and rentier capitalists by
deregulating banking and credit while allowing the most sweeping use of
eminent domain since the English enclosures. Showing no respect for national
boundaries that do not benefit them directly, the Davos class reaps profits
from death and displacement, exploitation and primitive accumulation.
Finally, race and gender - which have served as organizing principles in the
post-war expansion of a white, suburban, heterosexual American national
identity - are undergoing tremendous, often conflicting change as the class
trajectories of the vaunted American middle class are reversed. This session
will explore these transformations in an attempt to recognize the emerging
patterns of race, gender, and nation in the 21st Century.
 
Anthropologists, historians, and geographers have given us a wealth of data
on shifts in the global and state-level political economy, yet the careful,
textured ethnographic study proposed - of the consequences of these data on
what we might imagine the "'people' or 'party' of Porto Alegre" - does not
exist in sufficient quantity. Ethnography must provide a window on the
disruption of race, gender and nation in the local if we are to understand
local and global political economies. This session will begin an attempt to
address this, examining the play of global political economy in an urban US
that is undergoing "thirdworldization" (Chossudovsky) and a realignment of
axes of oppression and dominance. Session participants will explore the
local by tracing out changing configurations of race, gender, and nation
that, on the one hand, ideologically underwrite the depredations of
capitalists or serve as subject positions useful for maintaining hegemony
and, on the other, present useful imagined communities from which local
political action might emerge.
 
Individual papers should attempt to address:
*	Cross-race and/or cross-gender alliances along class lines or lines
of political struggle
*	Criminalizing and racializing the poor as a form of middle class
solidarity
*	Poor peoples' campaigns 
*	Cross-group organizing on prisons, healthcare, education, property
zoning
*	Differential use of "race" within US "racial" groups
*	Differential investments in "whiteness" among European Americans of
different class backgrounds and trajectories
*	Sexuality, race, and gender in housing markets
*	Differential imaginings of US nationalism along race, gender, and or
class lines;
*	Race, gender and nationalism among Gulf War and "War on Terror"
veterans and their families
*	Gender and nationalism in American religious life
 
Please send abstracts and queries by March 15, 2006 to robrien@temple.edu. 
Abstracts should be of no more than 250 words and follow AAA guidelines
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2006/genrules.htm.
 
 
****************************************
"Neither we nor our most distant descendants will build the New Jerusalem or
the Garden of Eden; but we have, if we choose it, the pleasure of clearing
the ground, hoping that one day other hands will cultivate something more
like a garden -- a flawed and human garden, under sun, clouds, fog, and
rain, with our own ants and slugs and weevils, but alive with our own
raspberry  bushes, too, our weeping cherries and roses, our own vines, and
our own fig trees."
-- Michael Steinberg, _The Fiction of a Thinkable World_
 
Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
 <mailto:robrien@temple.edu> robrien@temple.edu 
215-803-5181
 
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
 <http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com> http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb 20 12:05:48 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 20 12:12:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Columbia University Seminar on the City
Message-ID: <00ac01c63640$d54a21d0$b6058696@toshibauser>

INVITATION TO THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SEMINAR ON THE CITY

FEBRUARY 27, 2006

Speaker: David Badillo, Bronx Institute, Lehman College
Talk: "Latinos and the New Immigrant Church: Urban Contexts and Contrasts"

DRINKS: 5:30 pm
DINNER: 6 pm
SPEAKER: 7:15 pm to 9 pm
Place: Columbia University Faculty House, 400 West 117th Street, New York, NY
Chair: Lisa Keller, SUNY-Purchase

Please rsvp for dinner and the talk via e-mail to Nancy Kwak(rapporteur) at nhk4@columbia.edu. Thank you!

UPCOMING TALKS:

Mar. 27
Peter Eisenstadt, Editor, Encyclopedia of New York State
"Rochdale Village and the Rise and Fall of Integrated Housing in New
York"

April 27
Carola Hein, Bryn Mawr
"A Capital Idea: Finding (or Not Finding) A Center for Europe"
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb 20 19:28:01 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 20 19:28:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]the National Association of Student Anthropologists
Message-ID: <037701c6367d$af676a80$b6058696@toshibauser>

Question: What is the American Anthropological Association and how can
students get involved?

Answer: Join the National Association of Student Anthropologists

(http://www.aaanet.org/nasa/index.htm)

The National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA), the student
section of the American Anthropological Association, was founded in 1985 to
address graduate and undergraduate student concerns and to promote the
interests and involvement of students as anthropologists-in-training.

NASA provides a network of students across the subfields of anthropology and
directly addresses issues that are of interest to both undergraduate and
graduate students, including finding jobs, attending graduate school,
fieldwork programs, networking, and much more!

NASA has space on the program of the AAA annual meetings, so as a member you
can submit papers and sessions to NASA for review. NASA is a great way to
get involved in a national organization and network for your professional
development.


Join the NASA Email List
TO SUBSCRIBE:

Subscribing is easy! Send a blank email from the account you want to receive
messages to:
nasa-list-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
NASA FAQ
Q: How can I become active in NASA?

There are several ways to get involved with NASA:

1) Write an article and submit it to, our editor, we are always looking for
contributions for the AAA Newsletter and NASA Bulletin. It can be about your
research, an interesting anthropological experience, advice for other
students, or any other topic you feel is relevant

2) Submit a session or a paper for the annual meetings through NASA.
3) Join a committee. We need members for the nominations and awards
committees.
4) Help keep our web site up-to date, fill us in on information you think we
should include!
(http://www.aaanet.org/nasa/officerbios.htm)


Q: I want to apply to graduate school. What is the best anthropology
graduate program?
There is no single best anthropology program. Many schools are rated highly,
but the real question is, what is the best program for you. What are your
interests? Which school has professors who are doing work that you find
interesting? Are you looking for an MA or a Ph.D., academic or applied work?
You can find out more about individual departments by looking in the AAA
Guide. Most departments now have websites which tell you about their
programs, the faculty, and courses offered. Don?t be afraid to call or email
people to ask more about their school. Often students who are already
enrolled in the program you are looking at can be a great source of
information. Ask the department office to put you in contact with some
students. Also, check out the AAA Resources for Students in Anthropology
page (http://www.aaanet.org/students.htm)


Q: What kind of job can I get with an anthropology degree?

There are lots of jobs available to anthropology graduates with BAs, MAs,
and Ph.D.s. With an anthropology degree you will have a strong liberal arts
and social science background that you can apply to dozens of jobs. Many
people choose to pursue an academic career, looking for teaching and
research positions in colleges and universities. Others find positions in
museums. More and more anthropologists are heading to applied jobs: contract
archaeology, forensic anthropology, and other jobs outside the traditional
mainstream anthropology tracks. A recent article in USA Today cited the need
for anthropologists in the corporate world! For more information, check out
the AAA Resources for Students in Anthropology page.


Q: I know it is important that I meet professional anthropologists, but I
don't know how.

Networking is an important part of getting a job in any field, including
anthropology. Getting to know people involves being a bit aggressive, which
is difficult for many students. Don't be shy! Attend national or regional
meetings with professionals, and introduce yourself. Maybe you heard a talk
that was interesting, or saw someone whose books and papers you have
enjoyed. Maybe it is a professor from a school you are interested in. Most
professionals are pleased to meet students and answer questions. Give papers
yourself, it is an excellent way for others in your area to learn about you
and your work. If you can't make it to meetings, write letters or email
people whose work you admire or who you would like to work with.


Q: How to I find out about field schools?

Most anthropology field schools are archaeological expeditions, though there
are a few ethnographic and even physical anthropology field schools. Most
schools advertise their programs in anthropology departments, so check your
department office. The Archaeological Institute of America
(http://www.archaeological.org/) publishes a Bulletin every year listing
many field schools as well. And of course, you can go on-line:
The National Park Service (http://www.nps.gov/) has an on-line comprehensive
list of archaeological and ethnological field work opportunities.

Archaeology on the Net (http://www.serve.com/archaeology/) lists
archaeological fieldwork opportunities all over the world along with
participation details.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Feb 20 20:49:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 20 20:50:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Inadvertent Message -- apologies
Message-ID: <03bc01c63689$22966960$b6058696@toshibauser>

Dear Colleagues,

I apologize for sending you all an announcement regarding the National 
Association for Student Anthropology.  The announcement was meant 
for my class listserv.  

While I'm encouraging my students to involve themselves in the AAA
through NASA, Urbanth-L subscribers are encouraged to join and renew 
their memberships to the Society of Urban, National and Transnational/
Global Anthropology (www.sunta.org)!


Angela Jancius
URBANTH-L Co-Moderator
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb 22 11:43:06 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 22 12:07:46 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Schneider Student Paper Prize in Economic
	Anthropology
Message-ID: <00c701c637d2$6c910120$a3058696@toshibauser>

From: Lynne Milgram <lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca>

The 2006 Harold K. Schneider Student Paper Prize in Economic Anthropology

The Harold K. Schneider Prize Competition is a student paper competition
established by the Society for Economic Anthropology to honor its first
president and to encourage new scholars in the field of economic
anthropology. Harold Schneider, Professor of Anthropology at Indiana
University, was known for both his path breaking research and his dedication
as a teacher. Each year, the Society for Economic Anthropology invites both
undergraduate and graduate students to submit papers on any aspect of
economic anthropology or economic archaeology. Papers should contain a
central thesis or argument, should be neither wholly descriptive nor wholly
theoretical but, ideally, both and should be edited for clarity.

Manuscripts should be in English only and be no longer than 10,000 words,
including endnotes and in American Anthropologist style. The winners in both
the undergraduate and graduate categories will each receive a cash prize, a
certificate of achievement, a year's membership in the SEA, and the most
recent volume in the SEA series, Monographs in Economic Anthropology. They
will also be invited to make presentations at the annual spring meeting of
the SEA. The winners' sponsors will receive an SEA volume. All students who
submit papers will receive a year's membership in the SEA.

Submissions must include both a single hard copy and an electronic copy. The
electronic submission must be sent as a single file attachment in Microsoft
Word format. Please do not include your name in any headers or footers, but
provide all contact addresses (mail and E-mail) on the title page. All
student submissions must be accompanied by a supporting letter from a
faculty sponsor. Please indicate whether you are applying in the
undergraduate or graduate category.

The submission deadline for the 2006 competition is May 15, 2006. Send hard
copies to Dr. Lynne Milgram, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, Faculty of
Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art and Design, 100 McCaul Street,
Toronto, ON, CANADA,M5T 1W1; and send electronic submissions to:
lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca

For additional information, please contact Dr. Lynne Milgram at
(416) 977-6000 ext. 1680 or lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca.

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

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


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb 22 11:38:53 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 22 12:26:22 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Policy and the Everyday
Message-ID: <00c101c637d2$68ae21a0$a3058696@toshibauser>

From: Milena Marchesi <milena@anthro.umass.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Policy and the Everyday"

The Graduate Association for the Anthropology of Europe (GAAE) at the
University of Massachusetts-Amherst solicits abstract submissions for an
interdisciplinary conference that explores policy in its social context.

CONFERENCE DATES: May 19 & 20, 2006
LOCATION: University of Massachusetts Amherst
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: February 24, 2006
CONTACT: milena@anthro.umass.edu

In /The Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and 
Power/ (1997) Cris Shore and Susan Wright argued that: "As neoliberal 
ideas and practices have come to supplant the post-war model of the
welfare state, the ways in which policies are used as an instrument of
power for shaping individuals [is] related.to a more global phenomenon
of changing patterns of governance" (4). Recent events such as the riots
in France, the failure of the European Union Constitution, the Katrina
hurricane disaster, and changes in Medicare benefits have illustrated,
to populations in Europe and the United States alike, the inner workings
and failings of their governments. There is a sense of urgency in the
scholarly community to theoretically situate and critically ground the
emerging phenomena of neoliberalism and the attendant shifts in
governmental (and non-governmental) policy making. While most 
social science tends to abstract policy from its everyday expressions, 
we take policy to be a "total social phenomenon" (Shore and Wright 
1997:7) that encompasses political-economic and social processes,
including issues of class, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and
citizenship.

Analysis that engages policy, policy-makers, and its manifestations in
everyday life can shed light on the workings and effects of governance
and power. Research at the levels of quotidian and macro processes can,
as Lyon-Callo and Hyatt posit, "create a space for the realization of
new policies, new subject positions, and the emergence of new political
possibilities beyond what the global economy and its neoliberal 
rationalizations have set for us" (2003:175-6).

At this conference, we are interested in representing scholarship on a 
variety of policies and policy-related issues at the local, national,
regional, and/or global levels of governance. This year we are
interested in expanding our regional focus on Europe (including
postsocialist Eastern Europe) to include parallel research in North
America so as to provide a space for critical dialogue and comparison.
Potential research topics include (but are not limited to): poverty,
race, gender, sexuality, reproduction, migration, language, minorities,
health care, welfare, and urban planning.

Some of the questions we would like to address include (but are not
limited to): What theories are best suited to understanding
neoliberalism and these changes in policy? What new methodologies
(multi-sited studies, ethnography, discourse analysis, for instance)
might be applied to study policy, policymaking communities, and the
effects of policy? What is the role of ethnography in the study of
policy? What unintended political and/or economic effects do policies 
engender? What new subjects are produced? What responses (resistance,
acquiescence, co-optation) to this subjectification are engaged? How
have these policies, and the responses to them, changed or reproduced
the dominant paradigms associated with these social, economic, or
political processes? What would social science in the public interest 
entail?

We envision this conference as an opportunity for graduate students and
faculty alike to present their work, including work in progress. We aim
for productive dialogue within and among disciplines including, but not
limited to: anthropology, political science, sociology, education,
economics, history, public policy, communications, labor studies, legal
studies, and women's studies. 

Conference papers will be considered for potential publication.

Individual papers or panel proposals should be submitted to
milena@anthro.umass.edu no later than February 24, 2006. Abstracts of
individual papers should be no longer than 250 words. We strongly
encourage scholars to submit panel proposals with their colleagues. 

Panels should include a 250 word abstract for the panel, a list of
presenters and 250 word abstracts for individual papers. Please include
contact information and affiliations with abstract. Paper and panel
submitters will be notified by March 24, 2006.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Feb 22 13:26:23 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Feb 22 13:27:25 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Abortion and Reproductive Health
Message-ID: <030301c637dd$8865f080$a3058696@toshibauser>

Fellowship Announcement

Charlotte Ellertson Social Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
in Abortion and Reproductive Health

Ibis Reproductive Health invites public health and social 
science researchers to apply for a two-year 
postdoctoral research and leadership fellowship in 
abortion and reproductive health.  The fellowship's 
objectives are to cultivate a cohort of promising new 
social science researchers who can work from within 
their disciplines to study abortion and reproductive 
health, and to produce and publicize research that 
informs policy and program design in abortion and 
reproductive health.  We seek applicants who are 
committed to working on abortion and to developing 
careers that include a focus on abortion research and 
advocacy.

Fellowship Description

The fellowship includes independent and collaborative 
research, as well as work with advocacy organizations.  
Each fellow works intensively with a mentor on her/his 
specific research projects and has ties to a fellowship 
site director who provides general guidance and orientation 
to the fellowship site.  Fellows work with their mentors to:
design research protocols, conduct a significant research 
project, submit manuscripts or book proposals for publication,
give presentations and/or seminars, submit funding proposals,
participate in skill-building seminars (e.g., media and 
communications, fundraising, the policy process), visit clinics 
and hospitals to observe abortion and reproductive health 
services collaborate with and lend expertise to reproductive 
health and rights advocacy organizations, and participate in 
the annual fellowship meeting.

Each fellow receives an annual salary between $50,000 and 
$55,000 depending on the site, fringe benefits, a travel 
allowance, and generous loan repayment.  Fellows may also 
apply for up to $15,000 per year to support individual 
research projects.

Fellowship Sites
Five fellows will be chosen, one based at each of the following 
sites:

*Ibis Reproductive Health (http://www.ibisreproductivehealth.org/)  
in Cambridge, MA, 
*University of California, San Francisco's Bixby Center for 
Reproductive Health Research & Policy (http://crhrp.ucsf.edu/), at 
the School of Medicine, in the Dept of Obstetrics, Gynecology and 
Reproductive Sciences in San Francisco, CA, 
*Johns Hopkins University's Gates Institute for Population and 
Reproductive Health (http://www.jhsph.edu/GatesInstitute/)  and 
Population and Family Health Sciences Department 
(http://www.jhsph.edu/Dept/PFHS) at the Bloomberg School of 
Public Health in Baltimore, MD,
*Guttmacher Institute (http://www.agi-usa.org/)  in NYC, 
*and Columbia University's Heilbrunn Dept of Population 
and Family Health (http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/)  
at the Mailman School of Public Health in New York, NY.

Eligibility:

The fellowship is open to U.S. and international researchers 
who have received their doctorate within the past five years 
(or by September 2006) in the following disciplines: 
demography, public health (health policy, epidemiology, 
and allied fields), public policy, sociology, anthropology, 
psychology, economics, political science, and area studies.

Selection will be based on: research experience and interests, 
commitment to rigorous and policy relevant abortion research, 
match between the research interests of the fellow, fellowship 
site and potential mentors, and demonstrated interest in public 
policy.

Applications from minority candidates are particularly 
encouraged. Ibis Reproductive Health, UCSF, Johns Hopkins 
University, the Guttmacher Institute, and Columbia University 
are equal opportunity employers.

Application & Timeline:

Applicants must submit their application on-line by 5 p.m. 
PST, Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 
www.ibisreproductivehealth.org  with the following 
attachments: cover letter including description of research 
interests and proposed project(s) (one to three pages),
curriculum vitae, writing sample (published or unpublished), 
and contact information for three references.

Applicants must also arrange to have three reference letters 
received by the fellowship by March 31st

by email on letterhead with electronic signature to Sarah 
Gilbert sgilbert@ibisreproductivehealth.org,

by fax (415) 502-8479, or

by mail to:
Charlotte Ellertson Postdoctoral Fellowship
c/o Bixby Center, UCSF
3333 California Street, Suite 335, Box 0744
San Francisco, CA  94143-0744
(use 94118 for FedEx or UPS)

Applicants should indicate the fellowship site(s) to 
which they are applying on the online application and 
should be prepared to relocate to the site's 
geographic area if selected. The fellowship sites 
will interview finalists in April and the fellows will 
be notified by May 10th.  Fellowships begin no 
later than September 2006 and are awarded for 
two years.

From karpiak at uclink.berkeley.edu  Wed Feb 22 20:42:13 2006
From: karpiak at uclink.berkeley.edu (Kevin Gerard Karpiak)
Date: Wed Feb 22 23:34:14 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CALL FOR PAPERS: Field/Work: Work as an Object of
 Anthropological Inquiry Beyond "Ethnos"
Message-ID: <web-33866894@calmail-be1.berkeley.edu>

CALL FOR PAPER ABSTRACTS FOR PROPOSED SESSION AT 2006 AAA MEETINGS IN SAN JOSE


Field/Work: Work as an Object of Anthropological Inquiry Beyond "Ethnos?
?
Recent anthropological critiques of 'ethnos' as an essentialized object have troubled the very 
project of 'ethnography', the primary mode of anthropological inquiry.? While there has been much 
careful and fruitful attention paid to the implications of this questioning for the contours of 
the anthropological "field," significantly less effort has gone into thinking about equivelant 
changes in the "work" of anthropology. This panel hopes to examine new and emerging 
anthropological projects that take "work" in the broadest sense as an object of analysis.
?
Work has long been of interest to anthropologists, as have its corollary terms: labor, vocation, 
and profession.? Both industrial and agricultural fields have served as fertile sites of 
ethnographic investigation.? Recently the discipline has engaged with work in projects ranging 
from post-colonial problematizations of the universality of abstract labor to investigations into 
the international division of labor.?? However, rather than looking to work as a window onto 
ethnos, this panel seeks to highlight recent ethnographic projects that take work itself as an 
object of inquiry. ?

In other words, this panel seeks to address not just the "anthropology of work" but the very work 
of anthropology.? How does looking to work as a field force the discipline to re-examine fieldwork 
methods?? Where is the field?? What candidates beyond ethnos exist as potential objects of 
anthropological inquiry? What are the advantages or disadvantages of work as such an object?
?
We imagine conversations clustered around themes of method, space, and subjectivation:
?
Method
- What might constitute ?cultures of work??? Might these be worthy objects of anthropological 
inquiry?
?
- Can we look at configurations of work as sites of cultural exchange?
?
- How do ethnographies of work reconfigure the anthropological field?
?
- How do projects that take work as their object of analysis have to reflexively examine the 
motivation of anthroplogical fieldwork itself?
?
- How do micropractices of fieldwork change if the object of study is work?
?
- What do practice based ethnographies have to offer such an anthropology of work?
?
Space
- What work do networks do?? How do networks configure work and what work goes into the 
configuration of networks?
?
- What are the spaces of work?? What are the spatialities of work for such a reconfigured 
anthropology?
?
- What spatial possibilities are opened up for anthropology once a project site is no longer
geographically given?
?
Subjectivation
- How are modern subjectivities shaped by work?
?
- How do subjects of ethnographic investigation reflect on their own work?? How is this similar to 
or different from anthropological reflection on work as an object?
?
- How does an anthropology of work push us to examine non-human, mechanical, and cyborg forms of 
work?
?
- How are affective ties configured through work?
?
- Do anthropologists work?? Is ethnography work?

Please send abstracts of 250 words by Friday March 10th to Zeynep Gursel (zgursel@berkeley.edu), 
Kevin Karpiak (karpiak@berkeley.edu) or Daromir Rudnyckyj (daromir@alumni.uchicago.edu)

Kevin G. Karpiak
Dept. of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  Thu Feb 23 12:08:28 2006
From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman)
Date: Thu Feb 23 16:36:53 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]personal network study in Africa
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0602231205000.314265-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>

I wonder if list members can help me track a half-remembered research
project.

15-20 years ago, I recall hearing about a doctoral dissertation, using
West African data.

It was a study of personal networks, and the information was elicted by
the researcher drawing concentric zones in the dirt, with the
Ego/respondent at the centre.

Then dolls were used to place members of the respondent's social network.

We're using a similar technique in 2 studies (Toronto, northern Ontario),
except we're using 11"x17" paper (with concentric zones) and sticky notes
(post-it notes).

I would love to locate the original study.
 Barry
 _____________________________________________________________________

  Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
	     To network is to live; to live is to network
 _____________________________________________________________________



From robrien at temple.edu  Thu Feb 23 23:28:22 2006
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Fri Feb 24 12:39:01 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Anthropology of 'The Real Thing':
 Developing an Activist Research Agenda for Corporate Globalization
Message-ID: <ca40d2e1.8f6e71e3.8218700@po-b.temple.edu>

CFP: "The Anthropology of 'The Real Thing': Developing an
Activist Research Agenda for Corporate Globalization"
105th AAA meeting in San Jose, CA
(November 15-19, 2006)
Deadline for abstracts: March 15, 2006
 
Papers will address the need to think of corporate
globalization at both the macro/theoretical level and at the
local/ethnographic/grassroots level. Panelists are sought who
can locate their work within a discussion about the utility of
looking at transnational corporations (TNCs) as a way of
locating struggles about environmental, labor, health, and
human rights issues in both the local and the global.
Panelists should seek to press beyond a practicing/theory or
activist/academic dichotomy. 

Although a discussion of Coca-Cola and the San Francisco MEG
hotels will be included as illustrative recent examples of
anthropology and anthropologists thinking through corporate
globalization, presenters do not need to use Coke or the
hotels as a research site -- simply touching on them as
examples and then discussing the potential for including
analysis of a particular TNC situated in their own field site
 should suffice.

In a twist on the tradition of interlocutor panels activists
from United Students Against Sweatshops' Coca-Cola campaign
and one other group have been invited to serve as discussants.
Additional discussants from within the discipline would also
be welcomed (particularly in the event of a double session).

The session will attempt to answer two central questions for
activist research in the context of 21st Century corporate
globalization:
 
Is there potential for gaining some purchase on "global
capitalism" as the effect(s) of located (if differentially
powerful and mobile) agents to be found in comparative
analysis of the local effects of a single TNC by
teams of anthropologists?
 
Can anthropologists with an applied or activist perspective
coordinate research and data dissemination on the effects of
particular TNCs and the remedies imagined or practiced in
particular locales?
 
Abstracts of 250 words or less, in AAA format, should be
emailed to robrien@temple.edu.
 
 
****************************************
"Neither we nor our most distant descendants will build the
New Jerusalem
or the Garden of Eden; but we have, if we choose it, the
pleasure of
clearing the ground, hoping that one day other hands will
cultivate
something more like a garden -- a flawed and human garden,
under sun,
clouds, fog, and rain, with our own ants and slugs and
weevils, but alive
with our own raspberry  bushes, too, our weeping cherries and
roses, our
own vines, and our own fig trees."
-- Michael Steinberg, _The Fiction of a Thinkable World_
 
Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
 <mailto:robrien@temple.edu> robrien@temple.edu 
215-803-5181
 
AAAUnite Ad Hoc Committee
 <http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com> http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com
 <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aaaunite/
 

****************************************
"Neither we nor our most distant decendants will build the New Jerusalem or the Garden of Eden; but we have, if we choose it, the pleasure of clearing the ground, hoping that one day other hands will cultivate something more like a garden -- a flawed and human garden, under sun, clouds, fog, and rain, with our own ants and slugs and weevils, but alive with our own raspberry  bushes, too, our weeping cherries and roses, our own vines, and our own fig trees."
-- Michael Steinberg, _The Fiction of a Thinkable World_

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 marky at umail.ucsb.edu  Thu Feb 23 23:34:25 2006
From: marky at umail.ucsb.edu (Mark A. Schuller)
Date: Fri Feb 24 12:39:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for papers: NGOs as agents of globalization
Message-ID: <20060223233425.oy7usp5mo0gw4kw8@webaccess.umail.ucsb.edu>

NGOS AS AGENTS OF GLOBALIZATION

The debate about globalization continues in anthropology. Some 
anthropologists, like Trouillot (2003) caution against anthropologists 
buying into this rhetoric, and others, especially adherents of 
Wallerstinian world systems analysis, argue that this ?globalization? 
is not something new. Much of these debates about the nature of 
globalization roughly trace the epistemological divides of our 
discipline. Drawing from psychoanalytic (?flows?) and Foucauldian 
(?biopower?) theories, humanistic anthropologists emphasize the 
generative role of globalization in the proliferation of, and a return 
to, ?culture.? Other anthropologists, especially those with a Marxist, 
social scientific orientation, focus on the transformation of political 
and economic governance structures.

A concern with both general approaches to globalization is finding the 
field: where and how do anthropologists study this phenomenon? There 
are few guidelines except for inspirational review articles by Kearney 
and Marcus, among others. How do we, as anthropologists, with our 
traditional focus on lived experience and subaltern actors (despite the 
turn to multi-sited ethnography and ?studying up?), comprehend and 
participate in discussions about globalization?

This panel is an attempt to answer this question. Nongovernmental 
organizations (NGOs) are positioned as intermediaries within the world 
system. Their funding streams, if not their institutional 
decision-making structures, are multinational and usually foreign to 
the area in which work. This presents tensions, as NGOs are often cited 
as having some claim to legitimacy because of their closer connection 
to ?the local? than Southern governments. NGOs gathered at the World 
Social Forum are also breathing life into an anthropological 
imagination, asserting that ?another world is possible.? This panel is 
seeking to explore the dynamics of this change in donor flows: what 
roles are NGOs playing as intermediaries of this arguably new juridical 
and geopolitical configuration? Are NGOs building new multinational 
networks that encourage south-south collaboration, a ?globalization 
from below?? Are local people more connected and ?empowered? as 
definitions and techniques of power are rewritten? Or are NGOs the 
vehicle by which Northern countries and multinational agencies are 
eroding nation-state sovereignty through the privatization (and 
multinationalization) of the public interest? Are NGOs tools of 
?westernization? and integration into a single world market benefiting 
multinational corporations ? creating new sources for labor and markets 
for products?

It is precisely these questions that demand an up-close, engaged 
anthropology of NGOs.  I am seeking ethnographically-based analyses of 
a broad range of organizational types, geographic locations, and 
theoretical / methodological approaches to engage in this conversation.

Looking to complete a panel mostly put together for AAA meetings in San 
Jose.  Panel will be submitted to SUNTA and APLA for review next week, 
so please e-mail Mark Schuller at marky@umail.ucsb.edu by February 27.



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Feb 24 12:43:44 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb 24 12:44:34 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Engendering Urban Public Space (Mumbai, India)
Message-ID: <00b201c63969$e3458050$ae058696@toshibauser>

From: PUKAR <pukar@pukar.org.in>

Call for Papers: Roundtable Discussion
 
Engendering Urban Public Space
 
The Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research (PUKAR) Gender and 
Space project has been researching the relationship between women and 
public space for the last two and a half years.  We are currently at the 
writing stage of our research and would like to share our observations 
and analysis as well as receive inputs from the experiences of others 
who have been working on similar lines.  To that end, we invite 
researchers,  activists, advocates, journalists, architects, pedagogues 
and others working in the area of gender in relation to urban public 
space to a roundtable discussion of questions of engendering safety, 
infrastructure and citizenship.  

We refer to public space as a part of the public sphere.  Public spaces 
for the purposes of this roundtable refers to streets, market places 
(across class contexts - that is including bazaars and malls); 
recreational spaces such as parks, theatres, restaurants, coffee shops; 
infrastructure such as subways, foot-over-bridges and public toilets; 
and modes of public transport including railway stations and bus stops.

What we are looking for are presentations of research papers / studies / 
explorations that have engaged with questions of gender in relation to 
space, particularly urban public space.  Each presentation is intended 
to be not longer than 15 minutes to leave more time for discussion.  
Presenters will receive an honorarium but the costs of travel and 
boarding will have to be covered by participants themselves.

Please mail queries and abstracts of presentations to 
genderspace@pukar.org.in by March 10th, 2006.

Date:          12 April 2006
Location:     Mumbai, India

Potential areas of focus could include:
  a.. Shrinking Public Spaces
  b.. Safety
  c.. Questions of Morality and Culture-policing
  d.. Sexuality and the City
  e.. Woman-friendly design
  f.. Legal concerns
  g.. Policy related matters
  h.. Infrastructure

For more information on the PUKAR Gender and Space project please see: 
www.pukar.org.in

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Feb 25 12:06:48 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 25 12:08:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: U.S. Migrant Education Program (MEP) Consortium Incentive Grants
Message-ID: <005e01c63a2d$e2f600b0$7b058696@toshibauser>

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION GRANT
http://www.grants.gov/search/search.do?mode=VIEW&oppId=8150

Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, Migrant
Education Program (MEP) Consortium Incentive Grants Program

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)
Number: 84.144. Dates: Applications Available:
February 22, 2006
Deadline for Applications: May 19, 2006

Eligible Applicants: State educational agencies (SEAs)
receiving MEP Basic State Formula grants.

Maximum Award: By statute, the maximum amount that
we may award under this program is $250,000.
Estimated Number of Awards: 39.
Project Period: Up to 24 months.

I. Funding Opportunity Description

Purpose of Program: The purpose of the MEP Consortium Incentive
Grants program is to provide incentive grants to State educational
agencies (SEAs) that participate in high-quality consortia with
another SEA or other appropriate entity to improve the delivery of
services to migrant children whose education is interrupted. Through
this program, the Department provides financial incentives to SEAs
to participate in high-quality consortia that improve the intrastate and
interstate coordination of migrant education programs by addressing
key needs of migratory children who have their education interrupted.

Priorities: The priorities for this competition are from the notice of final
requirements for this program, published in the Federal Register on
March 3, 2004 (69 FR 10110).

Absolute Priorities: For FY 2006, these priorities are absolute priorities.
Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(3), we consider only applications that meet
one or more of these absolute priorities. In order for SEAs to be
considered for incentive grants, a proposed consortium in which an SEA
would participate must address one or more of the following absolute
priorities:

1. Services designed to improve the proper and timely identification and
recruitment of eligible migratory children whose education is interrupted;
2. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to improve the school readiness of pre-school-aged migratory children
whose education is interrupted;
3. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to improve the reading proficiency of migratory children whose education
is interrupted;
4. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to improve the mathematics proficiency of migratory children whose
education is interrupted;
5. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to decrease the dropout rate of migratory students whose education is
interrupted and improve their high school completion rate;
6. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to strengthen the involvement of migratory parents in the education of
migratory students whose education is interrupted; and
7. Services designed (based on a review of scientifically based research)
to expand access to innovative educational technologies intended to
increase the academic achievement of migratory students whose education
is interrupted.

II. Award Information
Type of Award: Formula grants.
Estimated Available Funds: $3,000,000.
Estimated Range of Awards: $50,000-$110,000.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $76,923.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 6398(d).
Applicable Regulations: (a) The Education Department General
Regulations (EDGAR) in 34 CFR parts 75 (except 75.232),
76, 77, 79, 80 (except 80.40(b)), 82, 84, 85 and 99; and (b)
the notice of final requirements published in the Federal Register
on March 3, 2004 (69 FR 10110).



From wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  Sat Feb 25 10:45:02 2006
From: wellman at chass.utoronto.ca (Barry Wellman)
Date: Sat Feb 25 12:09:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]urban anthro and social networks
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.40.0602251038140.405095-100000@origin.chass.utoronto.ca>

My thanks to those folks who responded to my question about who did
West African research by drawing concentric circles in the sand, and using
dolls to place network members in relation to Ego/respondent.

Unfortunately, no one came up with the answer directly, altho there are
some possible leads.

Several people told me that they knew of network analysis diagrams.

That's not news to me (altho I always like to know about compatriots), as
social network analysts such as myself have been using such diagrams for
many decades. There are software packages for such purposes, such as
UCINet and NetDraw. (Please do not ask me for advice on using them: see
below).

What I am remain interested in, is the Data Gathering Method.

It did struck me, that despite social network analysis' partial origins in
urban anthro, there has been somewhat of a disconnect between urban anthro
and social network analysis.

Those interested in bridging should start with www.insna.org, and consider
attending the Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, late April. (I
give a Networks for Newbies course there; the UCINet course is also
valuable.)

Cheers,  Barry
 _____________________________________________________________________

  Barry Wellman         Professor of Sociology        NetLab Director
  wellman at chass.utoronto.ca  http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

  Centre for Urban & Community Studies          University of Toronto
  455 Spadina Avenue    Toronto Canada M5S 2G8    fax:+1-416-978-7162
	     To network is to live; to live is to network
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Feb 25 12:23:47 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 25 12:24:40 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]QUERY: Anthropological definitions of 'corporate'
Message-ID: <009101c63a30$3ff8a9a0$7b058696@toshibauser>

[Parallel to Barry Wellman's query, we've interestingly received a 
second message that addresses the comparison of anthropological and 
sociological approaches. Please send your responses to Ayse Saktanber. 
 - AJ]


From: Ayse Saktanber <sakta@metu.edu.tr>

As a sociologist I would very much appreciate it if list members could
help me locate sources that concern the following question:

How do anthropologists define and use the concept of "corporate"?

ayse


Ayse Saktanber
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology  &
Gender and Women's Studies Program
Middle East Technical University
Ankara,Turkey
Tel:+90(312)210 5986
Fax:+90(312)2101284
E-mail:sakta@metu.edu.tr

From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Feb 27 08:00:09 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Mon Feb 27 12:19:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SfAA and SUNTA
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060227075032.01ff0028@att.net>

To SUNTA members:

I would be very interested in knowing of any papers
or panels by SUNTA members at the forthcoming SfAA
meeting in Vancouver. If you send me the information
(name, paper title, panel), I will collate that information
and send it back out on the listserv.

Note also that we are considering an alternate SUNTA
spring meeting as part of the SfAA meeting in 2007.
If you are going to be in Vancouver and would like
to be part of a discussion on that, please let me know
that too. The best times for that discussion will probably
be Friday around lunch, or perhaps Saturday morning.

David Haines
SUNTA program chair



From cakgss at rit.edu  Mon Feb 27 10:17:03 2006
From: cakgss at rit.edu (C Kray)
Date: Mon Feb 27 12:19:24 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]seeking AAA panel on transnational companies and/or
	colonialism
Message-ID: <59909136C2A872409F02F3B6E334FDA20174274A@svits11.main.ad.rit.edu>

Dear colleagues:

I am hoping to find a AAA panel placement for this paper:

?Death by Rice, Water, and Sadness: The Doubly Displaced Body and the Transnational Company in Colonial Belize?

Power acts upon the body and in turn the body can serve as a repository of critical memory of the actions of transnational company and colony.  Yucatec Maya in Belize narrate their history as one of double displacement.  Refugees from the Yucatecan Caste War of the late 19th century, they settled in territory disputed among Mexico, Guatemala, and British Honduras.  While treaties with Spain specified that British settlement could center only upon extraction of hardwoods, colonial policies became co-extensive with the interests of the logging companies.  By law prohibited from land ownership, ?Indians? had to live on lands rented from ?the company,? the Belize Estate and Planter Company, which owned one-fifth of the land of modern-day Belize.  When slash-and-burn methods threatened mahogany stands in 1936, company and colonial agents forcibly evicted the people of San Jos? and burned the village.  Evictees were removed to cramped army barracks where unknown numbers died, and then placed on a reservation in a malarial zone of sandy soils and brackish water.  Narratives of the eviction place a fragile body at the center, a body deprived of clothing and killed by foreign foods, swamp water, and grief.  The narrated vulnerable body is the site of transnational company and colonial action and it marks the boundary between morality and immorality, between subsistence farming and selfish exploitation of resources, and between colonized self and independent subject. 

Thank you very much for your consideration!

Christine

--------------------------------------------
Dr. Christine A. Kray
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Rochester Institute of Technology
18 Lomb Memorial Drive
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
(office) 585-475-4686

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Feb 27 12:04:24 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Feb 27 15:05:06 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]follow-up to query on network analysis
Message-ID: <1141070664.44035b487cef0@webmail.sfsu.edu>

From: "Deborah Pellow" <dpellow@maxwell.syr.edu>

Sorry not to have answered earlier -- was away. I had a classmate in
graduate school at Northwestern who is actually in Toronto who used
network analysis in Cameroon. Her name is Maureen Fitzgerald. I've lost
touch with her. If you can't find her at U of T, you can certainly find
her dissertation through University Microfilms. I would say she finished
in the mid-1970s.

[Follow up editorial note: Maureen Fitzgerald was indeed the anthropologist that
Barry Wellman was thinking of.]

From pheck at sewanee.edu  Tue Feb 28 12:09:11 2006
From: pheck at sewanee.edu (pheck@sewanee.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 28 14:31:46 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Second Announcement:  CFP for Panel for AAA Meetings in San Jose
Message-ID: <1403.12.65.133.183.1141150151.squirrel@mail.sewanee.edu>

Dear H-SAE and H-URBANTH readers:

We are reposting our Call For Papers, since we're going to submit our
panel to SAE for consideration as an invited session.  If anyone is
interested in joining us, we will need to receive a paper abstract no
later than next Monday, March 6th.  We have also been contacted by a
publisher expressing an interest in reviewing our panel for publication.

What follows is our original Call for Papers:

Kate Donahue and I are designing a panel on policy for the upcoming AAA
Meetings in San Jose, November 2006.  We envision a panel with input from
North Americanist as well as Europeanist anthropologists, which is why
we?re posting this on the two H-NET sites.  Sue Parman, Cal
State-Fullerton, has graciously agreed to be our discussant.  We are
hoping that a broad examination of recent policy decisions we perceive to
be destructive, both in North America and Europe, might begin a dialogue.
Anthropologists, by focusing on the result of policy decisions at the
local level, should be more involved before, during, and after policies
are designed and implemented.


What follows is a first draft of our abstract.  We will modify it to
reflect other submissions.

For questions, potential contributions, or anything else, we welcome
hearing from you:

Pat Heck
Professor of Anthropology Emerita
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN
pheck@sewanee.edu
(301) 432-2285

Kate Donahue
Professor of Anthropology
Plymouth State University
Plymouth, NH
kdonahue@plymouth.edu




Chaos, Confusion and Collapse:  The Destruction Resulting from Bad Policy
Decisions


Public policy in Europe and the United State has long been a fertile
research and theoretical area for political scientists, economists, and
sociologists.  Until recently, however, anthropologists have been
underrepresented in policy discussions and debates.  For one thing, most
traditional anthropologists focused  their research and theories on
nonwestern societies.  While a few anthropologists worked in the United
States and Europe prior to World War II, a critical mass of research and
theory from these areas did not appear until much later.

Anthropology can make a significant contribution to policy debates.
Anthropologists have observed policy decisions at the local level, a focus
less common for political scientists and economists.  Often,
anthropologists have worked many years in their research areas, giving a
longitudinal dimension to their analysis.

This panel seeks to combine the work of Europeanists and North
Americanists in evaluating ?destructive? policy decisions.  Pat Heck
focuses on the West German decision to dominate the Treuhandanstalt, the
agency established to handle the conversion of East German publicly-owned
industrial and service industries into a market economy.  Her research
discovers a common reaction when bad policy decisions bring about ?chaos,
confusion and collapse? ?- a combination of ignoring local conditions and
blaming the victims, leading to lasting destruction.  In 2006, 14 years
after West German bureaucrats shut down as many as 90 per cent of local
factories, and despite immense subsidies, unemployment remains at or above
20 per cent.  Thus, those East Germans who can, continue their inexorable
migration to the west.  The theoretical implications from this set of
policy decisions will form the primary focus of her paper.





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Feb 28 21:17:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 28 21:22:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: 'Super-diversity' in European Cities and its implications for
 anthropological research
Message-ID: <004e01c63cd6$e4c03ef0$a5058696@toshibauser>

[Forwarded from H-SAE, European Assoc. of Social Anthropology CFP]


'Super-diversity' in European cities and its
implications for anthropological research

Workshop Call for Papers
European Association of Social Anthropologists
'Europe  and the World'
Bristol, September 18th - 21th 2006

Convenors: Susanne Wessendorf (University of Oxford),
Kristine Krause
(University of Oxford/ Humboldt Universit?t Berlin)
Keynote: Steven Vertovec (University of Oxford)

Anthropological studies on migrants in urban contexts
have been characterised by a tension between two
methodological strands: one approach has focused on
migrant communities categorised on the grounds of
region of origin, ethnicity and religion, while the
other approach has focused on neighbourhoods, places
and urban environments and the interaction between
groups and individuals. The first approach is informed
by a more 'traditional' anthropological focus on
ethnic groups, and allows an in-depth ethnographic
analysis of cultural and social practices of
individuals with shared historical and cultural
backgrounds. It has been prevalent in earlier studies
of migration and the recent studies on
transnationalism, but criticised for its tendency to
essentialise groups and ignore overlapping networks.
The second approach is influenced by longstanding
interest in urban pluralism and sheds light on
cross-cutting ties and negotiations of belonging in
specific localities. However, it makes an in-depth
analysis of migrants' cultural and historical
backgrounds difficult. The proposed workshop aims to
tackle the methodological, analytical and conceptual
challenges that come with the possible tension between
the two approaches. It invites papers based on
research in 'super-diverse' urban contexts in Europe
with people of non-migrant background, new and long
established migrants, people of different regions of
origin, ethnicity, religion, age, class, education and
legal status. Of particular interest are papers which
focus on localities of every-day encounter and social
spaces, some of which are strongly shaped by
translocal activities. Such spaces are, for example,
religious groups, political, ethnic, and professional
associations, ethnic businesses, community centres and
youth clubs. Participants are invited to reflect on
the challenges of research in super-diverse urban
contexts in order to understand everyday diversity in
European cities.

Please send your abstracts (max. 300 words) for papers
(max. 20 min.) by the end of April to

susanne.wessendorf@anthro.ox.ac.uk ;
kristine.krause@anthro.ox.ac.uk

For further information on  the conference see:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/index.htm


From bozorth25 at hotmail.com  Tue Feb 28 20:52:13 2006
From: bozorth25 at hotmail.com (Rowan EditClass)
Date: Tue Feb 28 21:30:58 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Upcoming radio broadcast
In-Reply-To: <245DC574-A1AB-4B08-A238-152523F36C01@osu.edu>
Message-ID: <BAY103-F112A9C4A97CF7A7CBFF891BEF40@phx.gbl>

Apologies for the cross-posting:
I know this is not the type of post I usually see on these lists, but I 
thought some folks here might find it interesting. In Hour Two (11 a.m. EST) 
of the Wednesday (March 1) broadcast of "Radio Times" on WHYY-FM in 
Philadelphia (the National Public Radio outlet), there will be a discussion 
of the new Brookings Institution report on the "first suburbs." Here is the 
writeup from the show's Web site:
<One fifth of all Americans live in "older suburbs," which are being 
challenged by an aging and immigrant population. According to a new 
Brookings Institution report, these changing demographics are creating a 
potential crisis for the country's first suburban communities. BRUCE KATZ 
from Brookings joins us to talk about it.>
This is a call-in show; in addition to an over-the-air broadcast at 90.9 FM, 
the station airs over the Web at www.whyy.org and on either XM or Sirius 
satellite radio, and also offers podcasts.
FYI, the report they will discuss is available here:
https://www.brookings.edu/comm/events/20060215suburbs.htm
--
Deborah Woodell
Adjunct Professor
Rowan University
Glassboro, N.J.

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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Feb 28 21:36:46 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 28 21:37:28 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Where is Home: Gender, Sexuality, and
	Transnationalism (U Michigan Dearborn)
Message-ID: <008801c63cd8$fef04700$a5058696@toshibauser>

The Center for Arab American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies Program
at the University of Michigan-Dearborn present

Where Is Home: Gender, Sexuality, and Transnationalism

1030 CASL Building 6-9 p.m., Thursday, March 9, 2006


For more information and to RSVP, email caasumd@umd.umich.edu or call (313)
583-6334.

Dr. Lamia Ben Youssef Zayzafoon is Assistant Professor in the School of Arts
and Humanities
and the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of
Birmingham at Alabama.
Her areas of specialization are post-colonialism, feminist literature and
theory, Francophone
film and literature, and the literatures of Africa with a specific emphasis
on Maghrebian and
Islamic studies. She has just published her first book, The Production of
the Muslim Woman:
Negotiating Next, History, and Ideology (Lexington Books, 2005).

Dr. M. Jacqui Alexander is Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the
University of Toronto.
She is the author of Pedagogies of Crossing (Duke University Press) and the
co-editor of Sing,
Whisper, Shout, Pray: Feminist Visions for a Just World and Feminist
Genealogies, Colonial
Legacies, Democratic Futures. Her numerous awards include a Senior Fellowhip
at the Harvard
University Centre for the Study of World Religions and a John Simon
Guggenheim Fellowship.

Dr. Chandra Mohanty is Professor of Women's Studies and Dean's Professor of
the Humanities at
Syracuse University. She is author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing
Theory, Practicing
Solidarity (Duke University Press, 2003 and Zubaan Books, India, 2004), and
co-editor of Third
World Women and the Politics of Feminism (Indiana University Press, 1991),
and Feminist
Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Routledge, 1997).

Sponsored by the Center for Arab American Studies, the Women's and Gender
Studies Program,
and a Text in Community grant from the Office of the Provost.

Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG),
UM-Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn does not necessarily endorse the
viewpoints of presenters.



