From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan  4 15:09:15 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan  4 15:20:16 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: International Conference Urban Conditions and Life Chances (Amsterdam)
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CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference Urban Conditions and Life Chances
6th - 8th July 2006
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This is an international conference of the Amsterdam institute for
Metropolitan and International Development Studies, co-organized by the
Research and Training Network UrbEurope.

The conference will be an interdisciplinary meeting, open to geographers,
political scientists, sociologists, economists, anthropologists, planners
and other social scientists.

Conference Format

The conference will be organized in two types of sessions:

-      Plenary sessions in the morning where invited keynote speakers will
debate recent research developments and questions related to various aspects
of the conference theme.
-      Workshops in the afternoon will be focused on issues proposed by
participants to expose different dimensions of urban conditions and life
chances; selected participants will present their papers for discussion.

Workshops

-     Social interactions and dynamics in the urban region
-     Life courses and time-space behaviour
-     Urban conditions for creative knowledge
-     Area-based urban programmes and new local governance
-    The urban context and exclusion

 How to participate?

Participants should register by email in order to have access to the
conference venue. This can be done online at
www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/conference.cfm

How to submit a paper

Paper abstracts can be submitted by filling out the registration form at the
above mentioned site. Tick the workshop you are interested to participate in
and copy/ paste your abstract under point 12.

Deadlines

-       Sending abstracts (April 3rd)
-       Sending papers (May 1st)
-       Final program (June 1st)
-       On-line Registration (June 1st)

More information

For more conference information, please check our site
www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/conference.cfm or contact Bettina Springer:
bspringer@FMG.UVA.NL

Regards from Amsterdam

Marco Bontje

Marco Bontje
Research institute AMIDSt
Dept of Geography, Planning & Int. Development Studies
University of Amsterdam
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130
1018 VZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
0031-20-5255240
M.A.Bontje@uva.nl

www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan  4 16:14:29 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan  4 16:21:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Proposals for "urban space" seminars at the 4th ESF
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Proposals for "urban space" seminars at the 4th ESF
Deadline: 4/1/2006

Introduction

The Initiative for the Right to City - a campaign group from Athens -
proposes 4 dialogue events to
the 'consulta' of the 4th ESF. Those initial proposals intend to be broad
and coherent, focusing in one
wide area of urban politics, so as to facilitate the participation and
contributions of a diversity of urban
social actors from all regions of Europe and the Mediterranian.

Other specific topics and inputs can/must be approached through several
workshops and
meetings/dialogue tables organised in the framework of the 'urban space'.

We are proposing these broad themes as suggestions, open to reformulations
and merging with other
similar ones, already or to be submitted, right before the Vienna EPA, in
order to contribute to the
work of the ESF Programme Committee and in the face of a longer consultation
procedure that will
eventually lead to the formulation of the final programme.

In this 'consulta' process, people and groups interested in the formulation
of the urban thematic must
take an active role, using the http://workspace.fse-esf.org and the
urbanforum06@riseup.net email
list, in order to assure the construction of a coherent and balanced
structure of seminars / workshops,
that do not overlap each other and can reflect all diverse sensitivities and
actions of urban social
movements.

Suggested themes:

seminar proposal 1:
Globalising cities: economic, social, spatial restructurings
indicative sub-themes:
- mega-events - Olympics
- privatizations of public space
- real estate speculation
- entrepreneurial / 'competing' cities

seminar proposal 2:
Social exclusion in contemporary city
indicative sub-themes:
- different forms of exclusions
- inequalities and struggles for recognition
- revolt in Paris suburbs

seminar proposal 3:
City & Democracy: Planning, participation and social control
indicative sub-themes:
- a move from local government to 'governance'?
- what role for public planning
- 'participation': power to the people or legitimating?
- autonomous citizens' movements

seminar proposal 4:
Social movements, resistances and the 'right to the city'
indicative sub-themes:
- exchange of experiences from different struggles
- innovative ways to (re-)appropriate city space
- common campaigns for the Right to the City

To view and contribute to these suggested seminars:
http://workspace.fse-esf.org
Contact person of "Initiative for the Right to the City":
Haris Konstantatos - h_konstantatos@yahoo.gr


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Thu Jan  5 08:04:11 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Thu Jan  5 11:33:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Journal CFP: Navigating the Future: Asia-Pacific pathways
Message-ID: <1136477051.43bd437b3af17@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Call for Papers Deadline:	2006-02-28

Submissions are invited for a special issue of the _Graduate Journal of
Asia-Pacific Studies_: 'Navigating the Future: Asia-Pacific pathways.'

The Asia-Pacific region has historically been shaped by the massive movements of
peoples, technologies, and cultures. The Pacific Rim is criss-crossed with
ancient trade routes, with the traces of great seafaring migrations, with the
displacements of warfare, and with the scars of European exploration and
subsequent imperialist expansion. The contemporary Asia-Pacific retains the
historical consequences of these movements, but at the same time, the globalised
condition of the twenty-first century world appears to reconfigure in many ways
our conceptions of geographical space, mobility and travel. Phrases such as
'spaces of flows', 'borderless worlds' and even 'liquid modernity' evoke the
apparent hyper-mobility of the contemporary condition.

Yet we know that the contemporary world is also characterised by continued
stasis, and that the freedom to move is not shared equally. The consequences of
both free and forced movement, as well as the inability to move, contribute
considerably to changing power relations, and perceptions of self and other.
Moreover, movements in space are not limited to the macro-level of voyages,
displacements and migrations. What about the experience of travelling through
everyday spaces? How does one experience one's nation or neighbourhood through
the act of moving from one place to another in the course of our everyday lives?

For the new issue of _GJAPS_, contributors are invited to consider contemporary
cultures of travel, migration and movement in the Asia-Pacific region, as well
as continued stasis and friction. Contributors are encouraged to examine these
phenomena at all scales -- from migratory passages to everyday pathways, the
tourist to the refugee, wartime to peacetime, local to global, home and
belonging to estrangement and exile. How is travel experienced? How is it
represented and narrated? What are its consequences? How does the recent
burgeoning of academic interest in travel writing and tourist cultures help us
to understand these conditions? What about movement not just within, but also
into and out of the Pacific Rim?

Contributions are welcome from all fields of the arts, social sciences, and
humanities, including anthropology, literature, art history and visual culture,
film and media, cultural studies, performing arts, gender studies, queer theory,
history, linguistics, political studies, psychology, and sociology. _GJAPS_
interprets the designation "Asia-Pacific" in the broadest possible sense, to
encompass East, Northeast and Southeast Asia, the Malay Archipelago,
Australasia, Polynesia and Oceania, the West Coast of the Americas, including
California, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, British Columbia, Central and South
America, and so on.

Email submissions to the Editor, Francis Collins,
f[dot]collins[at]auckland[dot]ac[dot]nz, as attachments saved in RTF or DOC
format using a standard word processor. Deadline: February 28, 2006. _GJAPS_ is
a fully peer-reviewed journal.

We are also seeking book reviews. For a list of current book titles available
for review (these include books on Asian cinema, history, and politics), please
contact the Editor at the above address or the Review Editors, Eu Jin Chua
eujinchuaemail[at]gmail[dot]com, or Ann Pistacchi ann[at]pozo[dot]org.

For more information, go to http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/gjaps

	Francis Leo Collins
Editor
Graduate Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies
c/- School of Geography and Environmental Science
University of Auckland
Private Bag 92019
Auckland
New Zealand
Email: f[dot]collins[at]auckland[dot]ac[dot]nz
Visit the website at http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/gjaps

From Idasusser at aol.com  Fri Jan  6 13:43:20 2006
From: Idasusser at aol.com (Idasusser@aol.com)
Date: Fri Jan  6 14:15:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]sana book prize/ note: conf: april 20-22
Message-ID: <28c.3b0f4da.30f01448@aol.com>

 
 
SANA BOOK  PRIZE 
SOCIETY FOR  THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICA 

Delmos  Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the Critical Study of North 
 America 
Description,  Eligibility and submission procedure 
This prize will be awarded every other year for a single or  
multiple-authored book (but not edited collections) that deals with an important  social issue 
to the discipline of anthropology, that has broader implications  for social 
change or justice, and that is accessible beyond the discipline of  
anthropology.  
*For single or multiple-authored books in anthropology published in  
2004-2005, the prize will be awarded in 2006, at the SANA meeting at Baruch  College, 
CUNY, April 20-22*   
Nominations and  self-nominations must include a letter of nomination, a c.v. 
or bio-bibliography  and 3 copies of the book. *Deadline  for receipt of 
nominations for the 2006 prize: January 30, 2006.   
*  Submissions: 2 copies  of the nominating letter and book should be sent 
to: Professor Ida  Susser, Doctoral  Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, 
City University of New York, 365 Fifth  Ave, NY NY 10016. And one copy  of the 
book and letter should be sent to: Professor Karen Brodkin Department of  
Anthropology, 341 Haines Hall Box 951553, UCLA, Los Angeles  90095-1553. 
* Award: The prize will be awarded at the  SANA spring conference in New York 
City, at Baruch College, CUNY, Newman  Conference Center, April 20-22,  2006

From l_guevarra at xmail.ucpress.edu  Fri Jan  6 15:24:07 2006
From: l_guevarra at xmail.ucpress.edu (L Guevarra)
Date: Fri Jan  6 19:49:48 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW BOOK: Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists
Message-ID: <p06110403bfe4ac97ca11@[172.16.0.89]>

Dear Urbanth-L: 


The University of California Press  is pleased to announce the publication of:

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley

Christian Zlolniski is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. 

http://go.ucpress.edu/Zlolniski


"This is a well-written and accessible ethnography of Mexican immigrants in Silicon Valley, the working poor who live in the shadow of affluence. Zlolniski presents a nuanced analysis of the thin line between formal and informal work, how families strategize and cope with the myriad challenges wrought by poverty, and the structural limitations to human agency."-Patricia Zavella, author of _Women's Work and Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley_



This highly accessible, engagingly written book exposes the underbelly of California's Silicon Valley, the most successful high-technology region in the world, in a vivid ethnographic study of Mexican immigrants employed in Silicon Valley's low-wage jobs. Christian Zlolniski's on-the-ground investigation demonstrates how global forces have incorporated these workers as an integral part of the economy through subcontracting and other flexible labor practices and explores how these labor practices have in turn affected working conditions and workers' daily lives. In Zlolniski's analysis, these immigrants do not emerge merely as victims of a harsh economy; despite the obstacles they face, they are transforming labor and community politics, infusing new blood into labor unions, and challenging exclusionary notions of civic and political membership. 

Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is available online: http://go.ucpress.edu/Zlolniski


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan  6 19:57:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan  6 19:58:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ARD Review: Lawless on Richman, _Migration and Vodou_
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Anthropology Review Database
http://wings.buffalo.edu/ARD/cgi/showme.cgi?keycode=2801

Karen Richman. _Migration and Vodou_. Gainesville:
University Press of Florida, 2005.

Reviewed 19 Dec 2005 by Robert Lawless <robert.lawless@wichita.edu>,
Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas

In this marvelous book, Richman masterfully pilots the reader through
global, national, local, and personal levels of knowledge and experience.
Detailed yet absorbing, documented yet seamless, scholarly yet accessible,
the book reads as a fine wine should taste. That's not a bad analogy.
Reading through the book did, indeed, give me a buzz. I laughed and I cried.
How many academic works elicit such emotions?

Richman, whose 1992 Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Virginia dealt
with the Haitian diaspora, is well known to scholars of Haiti, especially
for her fine work on Haitians as migratory farm workers in the U.S.A. This
book focuses on the life and times of a Haitian man referred to as Little
Caterpillar, whom Richman first met "on a wretched farm labor camp in
Tasley, Virginia" (p. xvii), and much of the book revolves around Little
Caterpillar's relatives in a Haitian coastal community named Ti Rivy?. The
content of the book is largely based on cassette-letters sent back and forth
between those in Haiti and those in the Haitian diaspora. Indeed, as Richman
states, "The portable radio-cassette player is a prominent, 'multivocal'
symbol--a model of and for--this transnational, mobile society" (p. 213).

A multidisciplinary work engaging the literature "on migration,
transnationalism, and global capitalism [as well as drawing] from
anthropological perspectives on religion and society and from folklore,
ethnomusicological, and sociolinguistic studies" (p. 31), this book also
engagingly includes the author as a major player in its unfolding drama--in
much the same way as Karen McCarthy Brown places herself in her equally
marvelous 2001 ethnography of the Haitian diaspora, Mama Lola: A Vodou
Priestess in Brooklyn. (Richman was, not coincidentally, Brown's student.)
The details of the everyday life of Haitians in Haiti and in the diaspora,
and of Richman's involvement in these lives, absorbs the reader's attention
and creates a high degree of empathy that is rarely found in academic
literature.

Although every page is informative and some of them are, frankly,
enrapturing, I was particularly impressed with Chapter 2, in which Richman
documents the history of the deleterious impact of the United States on
Haiti while seamlessly maintaining the reader's attention on the individual
Haitian. As the saying goes, soil and labor have become Haiti's chief
exports while Haiti has become an importer of expensive U.S. food. The
dramatic exodus of Haitians from Ti Rivy? to Florida began around 1980, but
even though for the most part these migrants initially settled into the
utterly degrading and substandard housing of Florida plantations, "they were
simultaneously 'living' in Ti Rivy?" (p. 64). Chapter 3 describes how
migrants kept their Haitian connections through families that "organize
themselves as producers of people for export, consumers of migrants'
remittances and managers of migrants' assets in people and things" (p. 64).

Chapter 4 chronicles the local history of Ti Rivy? and how the peasantry was
changed into a proletariat. Although only 31 pages, this scholarly account
is not only a welcome addition to our knowledge about Haiti, but also an
engrossing account that demonstrates Richman's ability to make the complex
easily accessible.

Chapters 5, 6, and 7 bring indigenous religion into focus by explaining the
influence of interactions with the lwa and pwen. Too difficult to render in
a brief review, one needs to read Richman's finely textured clarifications
to comprehend their meaning. In her glossary Richman defines lwa as
"anthropomorphic spirits who are inherited through family lines among
land-holding descent groups. Lwa have power to help or harm the heirs" (p.
302). And she defines pwen as "the essence of relations or situations... an
undetermined message coded in speech, song, a name or a visual image... a
magical power that makes fast money" (p. 303).

Chapter 8 returns to the life and times of Little Caterpillar, his friends,
and relatives. The expectations and tensions between those in the U.S.A. and
those who stayed at home are clearly drawn through generous quotations from
the letters and ritual songs on the tapes. Most of the expectations of the
migrants and those who stayed home are unmet, and most of the tension
revolves around finances. As Richman points out, "The home kin's protracted
dependence on the migrants' remittances symbolically elevates the migrants,
who are typically younger, to a superior status. To preempt the migrant
benefactor's opportunity to feel superior, the home kin often ignore
migrants by not writing them to acknowledge receipt of remittances or by
avoiding them when they return home for visits" (p. 248). And, conversely,
migrants "feel that they slave away in hostile, foreign countries for the
sake of people who resent them for ever having left" (p. 248).

The final chapter and the Epilogue deal mostly with the death of Little
Caterpillar, allegedly by sorcery. Richman's account of Little Caterpillar's
final days will certainly bring tears to the reader's eyes. Richman
interprets his final cassette-letter from Haiti to her this way:

Little Caterpillar struggles to understand his imminent, unnatural death.
How could such a cruel fate meet someone who endeavored to lead a dignified,
moral life, who, as a migrant, demonstrated generosity and kindness to his
home kin? At the same time, he is convinced of the etiology of his distress.
He faces the standard punishment of anyone who tries to lift herself or
himself out of misery. . . . a sorcerer is slowly 'killing him for what he
gained': a house, livestock, a small plot of land. He takes some solace in
his belief that the person will ultimately be punished by God. He does not
name the one who did this to him. After adding up the signs of malfeasance
consuming his life, he raises his voice to demand, "What does it look like
to you, Karen?" I don't think he knew for certain who it was, and he left me
to wonder as well (p. 266).

The actual recording is included in a compact disc that comes with the book,
along with six other tracks of cassette-letters and ritual songs, making
this book, along with its many other attributes, a delight for the study of
Haitian Creole. Throughout the text these cassette-letters and ritual songs
are reproduced in their original Creole and also in English translations. In
addition, 65 relevant black and white photographs complement the text.
Eleven pages of notes, a glossary, and a 25-page bibliography round out this
enchanting book.

Clearly destined to become a classic in diaspora studies, this book should
also appeal to those interested in economics, electronic communication,
ethnomusicology, exploitative labor systems, folklore, global politics, U.S.
global hegemony, racism, and religion. On all these topics Richman's
edification is as fulgent as a million ritual candles.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan  6 20:06:49 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan  6 20:15:38 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: MEDIASCAPES: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES, CONTESTED TERRAIN (Mumbai)
Message-ID: <002101c61326$ab7e8b80$af058696@toshibauser>

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

MEDIASCAPES: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES, CONTESTED TERRAIN

10 -12 February, 2006 
@ Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

This national seminar, co-sponsored by PUKAR and Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, will bring together leading scholars and practitioners from all
across India to explore a broad set of cultural, political, and economic
issues related to media production and consumption.  Through seminar
discussions, lectures, and films, we will consider how changing modes of
production and consumption are enabling the emergence of new media forms
and altering the ways in which citizens engage with media. 

The seminar will examine both the potentially empowering effects of such
transformations and the repressive consequences of increasingly
corporatized mass media.  We welcome your participation as we explore how
media spaces are constructed and emerge as terrains of contestation.

This seminar is part of an ongoing effort on behalf of PUKAR to engage
with a diverse group of participants on the theoretical and practical
implications of urban knowledge and action. The first seminar (Winter
Institute) held January 2004, focused on various forms of urban knowledge
and how knowledge is appropriated by individuals and institutions to
elicit action.  Last year's Winter Institute examined language as a means
by which knowledge is acquired and transmitted. It also explored the
intersection of language, identity, and urban space, considering the
cosmopolitan character of the city through its linguistic diversity. 

This year, we will continue the broader conversation on urban knowledge by
placing "mediascapes" at the centre of the discussion. Mediascapes, a
concept coined by Prof. Arjun Appadurai, describes the contentious spaces
within which media representations are produced, circulated, and
distributed.

Sessions and Presenters: (The schedule and speakers' list is still being
finalized, but the following presenters have confirmed participation.) 

1. CHANGING MODES OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION: THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL

- Dr. B. Manjula, TISS
- Dr. B. P. Sanjay, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad
- Dr. Vinod Pavarala, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad

2. OPEN FORUM ON MEDIA EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

- Dr. Shobha Ghosh, Head, Dept. of English, SIES College
- Dr. Saradha Ganapathyraman, K.C. College
- Dr. Sudhakar Solomon Raj, Wilson College 
- Dr. B. P. Sanjay, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad 

3. MORAL PANICS: NEGOTIATING GENDER

- Dr. Shohini Ghosh, Jamia Milia Islamia
- Ms. Shilpa Phadke, PUKAR Gender & Space
- Ms. Bishakha Datta, Point of View

4. RETHINKING THE CITY AND URBAN IDENTITY

- Mr. Venkatesh Chakravarthy, Film maker and researcher
- Mr. Abeer Gupta, Film maker and researcher
- Ms. Paromita Vohra, Film maker  
- Mr. Rahul Srivastava, Researcher 

5. PANEL ON MEDIA CENSORSHIP

- Mr. Anand Patwardhan, Film maker
- Dr. Shohini Gosh, Jamia Milia Islamia 

6. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND OLD BOUNDARIES

- Mr. Shuddhabrata Sengupta, SARAI, New Delhi
- Dr. Vinod Pavarala, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad 
- Mr. Indranil Chakravarty, Comet Media Foundation

7. IMAGING RESISTANCE 

- Ms. Madhusree Dutta, Documentary Film maker, Majlis 
- Ms. Charu Gargi, Filmmaker/Researcher 

We will also be showing "She Write" and "Naata," two films produced by
Drs. Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jaysankar; and "Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a
City" by Paromita Vohra.

The keynote speaker will be Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Editor in Chief, Indian
Express. The keynote address will be delivered on Friday, 10 February, at
6:30pm, at Jai Hind College Auditorium at Churchgate. 

The final schedule and description of panel sessions will be distributed
in advance of the seminar. 

LOCATION:

The Seminar will be held at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Opp.
Deonar Bus Depot, V.N. Purav Marg (Sion-Trombay Road), Deonar, Mumbai 400
088. 

REGISTRATION:

Registration is required for the seminar. 

To register in advance, please send an email to: pukar@pukar.org.in with
the following details by Tuesday, 31 January 2006.

-         Name
-         Institutional Affiliation
-         Email address
-         Postal Address
-         Telephone Number

REGISTRATION FEES:

Although registration for the seminar is free, a nominal fee of Rs. 150.00
will be charged to cover lunches and refreshments over 3 days. 

CONTACT DETAILS:

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)

Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai
400 001
Telephone:: +91 (22) 5574 8152 
Fax:: +91 (22) 5664 0561
Email:: pukar@pukar.org.in
Website:: www.pukar.org.in
From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Jan  9 17:45:35 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Jan  9 20:45:58 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: "Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism" (Hamburg)
Message-ID: <1136857535.43c311bf12fef@webmail.sfsu.edu>

Exile, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism
Location:	Germany
Call for Papers Deadline:	2006-03-30

21-23 June 2007
Warburg-Haus, Hamburg
Proposal deadline 30 March 2006

Research on migration, diasporas and exile suggests that the specific
trans-national situation with which exiles are confronted, frequently leads to
the emergence and development of nationalist or cosmopolitan attitudes towards
other ?nations? or ethnicities, political and social groups. Nineteenth and
early twentieth-century national historiography suggests that, during the
process of nation building and the formation of national identities in western
Europe, tendencies to develop rival national identities in exile were much
stronger than in the so-called ?cosmopolitan age? of the late seventeenth and
the eighteenth centuries. In the case of the Italian Risorgimento exile in
France reinforced those exiles? ?nationalism?, other groups in diaspora,
including the Huguenots, who migrated to different European and overseas
destinations between 1548 and 1787, are identified as ?cosmopolitans?. However,
closer assessment of diasporic groups and of exile makes evident that exiles
frequently developed attitudes that would be identified as simultaneously both
cosmopolitan and nationalist.

This conference seeks,

   1. To discuss different forms of exile to approach a more differentiated
perspective on exile and its consequences for groups living in a trans-national
context. These groups reacted to their circumstances by creating a new
political, social, economic and/or cultural identity.
   2. To define and explain ?nationalism? and the so-called ?rise of the
nation-state? in the context of ?exile? and diasporic movements.
   3. To define and explain cultural, political or social ?cosmopolitanism? in
the context of ?exile? and Diasporas. 

We invite papers which

   1. Offer specific forms of ?exile? including a) exile beyond the native
country; forced exile or voluntary exile, political exile, diasporas and the
discrimination of groups abroad that lead to forms of ?non-voluntary exile? b)
exile within the native country: ?inneres Exil?, discrimination of specific
groups in their home countries which, in context, led to a variety of forms of
?exile?.
   2. Present responses of ?exiled? groups to the challenges posed by ?exile? ?
such as acculturation, integration and assimilation, discrimination and concepts
of cultural superiority or inferiority developed by both the ?hosting? and the
?hosted? groups - that could be defined as ?nationalist? or ?cosmopolitan?. 

Please send an abstract of your paper proposal and a short curriculum vitae to

Dr. Susanne Lachenicht (slachenicht@yahoo.com).
The deadline for proposals is 30 March 2006.

Organisers: Lehrstuhl f?r Neuere Geschichte, Schwerpunkt Nordamerikanische,
Atlantische und Karibische Geschichte, Historisches Seminar, Universit?t
Hamburg, Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann, Dr. Susanne Lachenicht and the Institut
f?r die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, Hamburg, Dr. Kirsten Heinsohn.

	Dr. Susanne Lachenicht
Universit?t Hamburg
Historisches Seminar
Arbeitsbereich Au?ereurop?ische Geschichte
Lehrstuhl Prof. Dr. Claudia Schnurmann
Von Melle Park 6
Hamburg
Germany
Email: slachenicht@yahoo.com

From sana2006nyc at gmail.com  Mon Jan  9 21:29:58 2006
From: sana2006nyc at gmail.com (Julian Brash)
Date: Tue Jan 10 13:47:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reminder: 2006 SANA Meeting in NYC
Message-ID: <3ee45f440601091829w30b6dec1m15ebb5c2acab5114@mail.gmail.com>

"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
Keynote Speaker: Catherine Lutz

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 j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Tue Jan 10 10:00:20 2006
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Tue Jan 10 13:48:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Second call for papers: Left Geographies
Message-ID: <024901c615c4$48a8c070$0302a8c0@JUSTIN>

Second call for papers: Left Geographies

Justin Beaumont &
Ugo Rossi


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Call for Papers:

LEFT GEOGRAPHIES

 

Paper session sponsored by the Participatory Geographies Working Group of the RGS-IBG

 

RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006, Global social justice and environmental sustainability, London, 30 August - 01 September 2006

 

Convenors:

Ugo Rossi, University L'Orientale of Naples, Italy, Email: urossi@unior.it &

Justin Beaumont, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Email: j.r.beaumont@rug.nl

 

A recent intervention by Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift in Antipode has sparked a lively and still developing discussion among geographers about the present and the future of the Left in geographical research. Many authors have already responded or are in the process of responding to their intervention in scholarly events and gatherings or through journal articles. These responses discuss the ideas and the cultural and political sensibilities that should characterise a Left approach to geographical studies, or, to put it another way, a geographical approach to Left thinking and practice. Little attention, however, has so far been paid to the actual practices of contemporary Left geographers at the intersection of theory, politics and concrete experiences.

 

Conference participants are encouraged to submit papers that aim at theoretical enrichment and empirical advance, while avoiding partisan political polemic, through paper presentations and discussion in relation to one or more of the following sets of questions:

 

1) Theory: Which theories are relevant and appropriate for upholding a Left geography? And how have these changed over time?

 

2) Positions: How do Left geographers position themselves within the discipline as a field of power? How has this positioning evolved and transformed over the last decades?

 

3) Policy: How do Left geographers position themselves in relation to and deal with policy concerns in the context of wider issues policy and political relevance in their work?

 

4) Public Geography: Is there such a thing as public geography today, as there was once in the past? What is the actual and possible role of geographers on the Left as public intellectuals in contemporary societies?

 

5) Gauche Plurielle: Can we speak of a singular geography of the Left or about many Left geographies? What are the differences between radical and oppositional Left geographies, on the one hand, and those more closely located on the mainstream political Left? And what about the Left geographies of ethnic and cultural minorities and other identity groups?

 

6) Left and Right: What distinguishes a Left geography from a Right geography and does the binary opposition still hold? Is Left Geography a synonym of Critical Geography?

 

7) Substantive Issues: To what extent Is Left Geography still motivated by a political desire to reduce poverty, mitigate social, economic, political and environmental injustices and aim for wider democratization? What other issues are important?

 

Please express your interest in participating along with an outline of the paper you have in mind at the first opportunity. Final abstracts (250 words max.) should be sent by email to both session convenors by 24 January 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.rug.nl/frw/index


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 12 21:42:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 12 21:49:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Submissions: Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design
Message-ID: <000701c617ea$fe4cccf0$97058696@toshibauser>

[forwarded from COMURB_R21@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU] 

A new book on urban analysis for sustainable urban design is under 
construction: 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS 
 
Sergio Porta, Ombretta Romice and Kevin Thwaites will be the 
editors of a book whose draft title is: Urban Sustainability through 
Environmental Design: analytical approaches and tools for making 
our cities more safe, diverse and socially cohesive by means of 
responsive spatial design  

The manuscript is expected to be delivered to the publisher (Spon 
 Press) by the end of 2006.  The book will be about TOOLS of 
urban ANALYSIS for sustainable urban design. 

So, sustainable urban design offers the context for the presentation 
of cutting edge research and practice in related urban analysis from 
 all over the world. We are looking for methodologies (especially 
GIS based methodologies) specifically thought for operating in the 
context of urban design processes or policies or projects. Thus, 
issues like pedestrian and vehicle flows management and modeling, 
centrality assessment and structural analysis, visual and experiential 
analysis, economic assessment of transit oriented developments, 
social behaviors in public space evaluation, community participation 
techniques (and the like .) are of interest for the book. 

 We deliberately leave the theoretical definition of sustainable urban 
design a bit on the background at this stage, as we would like the 
book to be somehow the witness of it as it emerges from the survey 
of the state of the art of related urban analysis tools, which are the 
real focus of the book. 
 
 The contributions of scientists in the many field related to the issue 
who have authored cutting edge research and practice are going to 
be the substantive section of the book. 

 So this is an invitation for all the EDRA members to consider this 
 as an opportunity to contribute a paper on their own research or 
experience as well as to diffuse this invitation to other potential 
contributors. 
 
 Please interested people contact Sergio Porta at: 
 sergio.porta@polimi.it 

From dadalo at tiscali.it  Fri Jan 13 15:58:07 2006
From: dadalo at tiscali.it (Gianluca Miscione)
Date: Sat Jan 14 15:31:57 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: OII News [2006.01.13]: OII Summer Doctoral Programme
	2006
In-Reply-To: <E1ExQDq-00046j-01@smtp1.herald.ox.ac.uk>
References: <E1ExQDq-00046j-01@smtp1.herald.ox.ac.uk>
Message-ID: <4192f3320601130658p60743ad6ye35acb246c2bd11b@mail.gmail.com>

maybe of interest
gianluca


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Date: Jan 13, 2006 3:48 PM
Subject: OII News [2006.01.13]: OII Summer Doctoral Programme 2006
To: OII-News@maillist.ox.ac.uk


Dear Colleagues,

The OII is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for
the 4th OII Summer Doctoral Programme, which will be held in Oxford from the
15th to the 29th July 2006. Applications are welcomed from students in any
discipline who are currently undertaking doctoral research on social,
political, legal and economic issues relating to the Internet. Further
information about the Programme and details of how to apply can be found at
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/teaching/?rq=sdp&year=2006 .

The deadline for applications is 20th February 2006.  Please feel free to
forward this email to anyone who you think might be interested.

Kind regards,

Dr Victoria Nash
Policy and Research Officer
01865 287231

Oxford Internet Institute
University of Oxford
1, St Giles
OX1 3JS
www.oii.ox.ac.uk
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 14 15:38:33 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 14 15:40:14 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: African Cities: Colonial Speculum
	and Post-Colonial Urbanism
Message-ID: <006901c6194a$7f7fbcf0$7e058696@toshibauser>

African Identities: Journal of Economics, Culture and Society
Call for Papers
Deadline: May 30, 2006

African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism

The Editors of African Identities and the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul
University are pleased to announce a special issue of the journal devoted to
exploring African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism. The
special issue seeks to explore the physical and social construction of
African cities and the dense web of intricate social relations, flows,
exchanges, appropriations and adoptions that constantly shape and reshape
their diverse geographical and social spaces.

In much of the literature on African cities which was derived from the early
20th century urban theory, the primary emphasis has been to generalize about
the development of cities at different stages in history as spatially
bounded entities, imprinted with a particular way of life as well as a
distinct spatial and social divisions of labor. Given this framework,
current literature of African cities retains a focus firmly rooted in
characterizing African cities as sites of urban disorder, chaos,
ungovernability, poverty, physical and symbolic violence. These images of
African cities are reproduced and mediated by a grid of knowledge that
privileges a particular form of city building processes which developed in
Europe and North America. Criticism of this form of urban representation of
African cities is extensive, yet the problem of African urbanity both in its
colonial and post-colonial urban forms remains under theorized.
There is therefore an urgent need to explore the nature of African cities.
In part, because African cities are moving away from the "nation building"
project assigned to them by the colonial powers and post-colonial states, to
spaces in which African inhabitants are reconfiguring and remaking urban
worlds, deploying their own forms of urbanity born out of their historical
and material circumstances. It is in these new dense urban spaces with all
their contradictions that urban Africans are reworking their local
identities, building families, and weaving autonomous communities of
solidarity made fragile by neo-liberal states. Urban Africans throughout the
continent are creating and recreating dense social networks, flows,
exchanges, and knowledge with their own architectural and urban development
imprints. 1 Indeed, the pace of the new forms of African urbanity has
accelerate in recent years by the deepening political and social crisis that
has engulfed African cities. We are seeking articles that examine the
significance of African urbanitiy, its complexity and vitality in a single
region, social or historical context. Throughout the continent, urban
Africans despite diminishing resources are appropriating and transforming
the colonial city and its ideal of modernity.

Submissions
Articles should be between 6500-8000 words inclusive of notes and
references, accompanied by disc in Microsoft Word. Articles may include
black and white images scanned to disk at 300dpi. Manuscripts MUST conform
to Harvard Reference style.

They should be double-spaced throughout (including notes and references).
Because manuscripts are reviewed blind, the author's name, affiliations,
address, telephone and, fax numbers

The deadline for submission is May 30, 2006.

Manuscripts for the special issue of African Identities should be sent
directly to the Guest Editor:
Fassil Demissie, Guest Editor
Public Policy Studies, DePaul University
2320 North Clifton Avenue, Room 150.1
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 325-7356
Fax: (773) 325-7514
Email: fdemissi@depaul.edu

African Identities is a peer reviewed international cademic journal that
provides a critical forum for examination of African and diasporic
expressions, representations and identities. The aim of the journal is to
open up various horizons of the field through multidisciplinary approaches:
to encourage the development of theory and practice on the wider spread of
disciplinary approach: to promote conceptual innovation and to provide a
venue for entry of new perspectives. The journal focuses on the myriad of
ways in which cultural productions create zones of profound expressive
possibilities by continually generating texts and contexts of reflective
import.
With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalization, 'otherness' and
difference, the journal explore how African identities, either by force or
contingency, create terrains of (ex)change, decenter dominant meanings,
paradigms and certainties.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 14 15:40:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 14 15:42:05 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: 8th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference
Message-ID: <007101c6194a$bfd0e310$7e058696@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference

We welcome graduate students to submit abstracts for paper presentations at
the Eighth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference. We encourage graduate
students in all academic disciplines to present their ethnographic research,
and to meet colleagues with similar research interests at the conference.

The Eighth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference will be held at Ida Noyes
Hall on the University of Chicago campus (1212 East 59th St.) on Saturday,
April 15, 2006 from 9a.m. to 5p.m.

Papers can be based on a variety of ethnographic field methods including,
but not limited to: field observation, in-depth interviews, focus group
interviews, auto-ethnography, visual ethnography and other forms of
qualitative research. We welcome papers in virtually all substantive areas.
In the past, presentation topics have included: culture, class, crime,
education, ethnicity, gender family, globalization, health and illness,
immigration, medicine, methodology, race, religion, social movements,
technology, urban poverty and work and employment.

Your submitted abstract should be no longer than 250 words and will be
accompanied by: your university affiliation, your contact information,
keywords associated with the paper that will help us place it in a session,
and a description of any technical support needs you have for your
presentation.  Abstracts should be submitted through the form on the
conference website: http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ethnography/ . You will
receive a confirmation email within 72 hours after submitting your proposal.

Papers will be refereed and assigned to either formal paper sessions or
roundtable sessions at the ultimate discretion of the program committee, but
please indicate in your submission if you have a strong preference for a
roundtable session.

Abstracts must be submitted by WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2005

This conference is made possible by the collaboration of the sociology
departments of DePaul University, the Illinois Institute of Technology,
Loyola University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University,
the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Please circulate this announcement to all who may be interested.

Inquiries may be directed to ethnoconf2006@gmail.com.


--
Chicago Ethnography Conference
http://sociology.uchicago.edu/ethnography/


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jan 15 19:30:46 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 15 19:33:17 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Funding: Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Public
	Policy Fellowship Program
Message-ID: <000c01c61a34$1bd78ad0$66058696@toshibauser>

 CHCI Public Policy Fellowship Program
http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/fellowship/fellowshipprogram.htm
Deadline: March 1, 2006

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) was established in 1978
by members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus as a non-profit,
non-partisan educational organization dedicated to developing the next
generation of Latino leaders. CHCI's educational services are designed to
provide Latino students with the tools and resources they need to succeed in
attaining a higher education. Its leadership development programs seek to
help participants search for and understand their identity as professionals,
Latinos, and leaders. By bringing together individuals who share a
commitment to serve their communities, CHCI endeavors to make its vision of
an educated and civic-minded Latino community a reality.

Public Policy Fellowship Program
Every year, the nine-month Fellowship Program (late August to late May)
offers up to 20 talented Latinos from across the country the opportunity to
gain hands-on experience at the national level in the public policy area of
their choice with the General Public Policy Fellowship. Fellows have the
opportunity to work in such areas as international affairs, economic
development, education policy, housing, or local government. CHCI also aims
to develop leaders in areas of health and corporate America with the
Sodexho, Inc. Public Health Fellowship and the Corporate Fellowship
(placement must be in a public affairs office of a corporation). In
addition, specialized fellowships open only to individuals with a graduate
degree include the Edward Roybal Public Health Fellowship for public health
administration; the Telecommunications Fellowship; and the Law Fellowship
open to recent law school graduates (placement must be in a public interest
law organization or in the office of a U.S. federal judge).

Program Mission
The mission of the Public Policy Fellowship is to offer Latino youth the
support, training, and resources needed to ultimately become the effective
leaders of tomorrow. CHCI seeks to accomplish this mission by offering
educational and leadership development programs, services, and activities
that promote the growth of its participants as effective professionals and
strong leaders. Furthermore, CHCI's vision is an educated and civic-minded
Latino community who participates at the local, state, and federal policy
decision-making levels. Our programs were all created with the same mission
and vision in mind. Every year, the Fellowship Program brings together a
pool of educated and civic-minded young individuals in an effort to shape
them into the next generation of Latino leaders.

Public Policy Fellowship Objectives:

To bring together a group of talented, recent college graduates, currently
enrolled graduate students, and graduate-level professionals who reflect the
diversity of the Latino community.

To place each fellow in an office where he or she will learn and gather work
experience in their public policy area of choice.

To enhance participants' leadership skills.

To create a network of young Latinos who support each other's professional
development and act as catalysts for community change.

To increase the presence of Latinos in public policy positions.

As a CHCI Public Policy Fellow you will be able to:
Have the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals how the
government operates and policies are formulated

Learn how the issues affecting their local communities are dealt with at the
national level
Explore different career fields and define professional goals

Identify strengths and areas for improvement and shape your professional
skills

Program Requirements
Work a minimum of 35 hours a week at placement site
Attend one-week orientation and weekly leadership development sessions
Participate in all CHCI-sponsored activities
Participate in community service
Organize and lead policy roundtables and/or write a policy brief
Complete a mid year and final written evaluation of the program
Comply with CHCI policies regarding work performance and personal conduct

Orientation
Upon their arrival to Washington, DC, fellows participate in a week-long
intensive orientation designed to develop the professional and leadership
skills needed for their fellowship experience. For the first couple of days,
fellows participate in team building exercises in an effort to build group
cohesiveness. They then engage in a series of workshops that assist them in
developing strong placement research and job interviewing skills and an
introduction to advanced public policy writing. In addition, they are
presented with an overview of Washington, DC's work culture and
expectations. Furthermore, fellows end the week by participating in a series
of exercises on leadership development including analyzing leadership
principles, developing individual goals and objectives, and writing a
personal and group mission statement to be carried out during their
fellowship experience.

Work Experience
After a week-long orientation, and with CHCI's guidance, fellows research
and interview with possible placements, and select the office that best
matches their interests. The range of placements includes congressional
offices, federal agencies, Washington-based media, corporate federal affairs
offices, national advocacy organizations, and government-related
institutions. Participants have the option of changing placements mid-point
through the program.
Placement/Host Site Responsibilities

All placement/host site supervisors are charged with the responsibility to
provide our Fellows with a hands-on experience in the public policy-making
process. Fellows work full-time at their selected placement site (i.e. 9:00
am to 6:00 pm), devoting at least 75% to substantive duties and no more than
25% to administrative tasks. As a leadership development organization, CHCI
offers a mandatory weekly seminar on Fridays from 9:30 am to 12:00 noon,
which all Fellows must attend in order to complete the program successfully.
Occasionally, these meetings must be rescheduled or an additional meeting
must be held to accommodate a speaker's need. Fellows must notify their
supervisors of these changes in advance. The placement site bears no
financial responsibility for hosting a CHCI Fellow. With the exception of
transportation vouchers (metro passes), the placement host can offer no
other form of monetary or compensatory benefit to a fellow.

Please note that Fellows have the option of changing placements mid-point in
the program (mid- January). The program requires that fellows be afforded
every opportunity to enhance his or her professional skills and that the
placement host cooperates with the fellow's fulfillment of program
requirements.

Learning
Fellows' intensive work experience is enhanced by weekly sessions that allow
them to meet with national leaders and engage in substantive policy
discussions. In addition, fellows produce a public policy brief and if they
are graduate fellows they also must organize a policy roundtable. Through
Washington DC's wealth of information, contacts, and possibilities, the
Fellowship Program serves as an excellent opportunity for participants to
identify or confirm their career goals. Furthermore, participants also
receive support and guidance from the CHCI's Alumni Association.

Friday Weekly Meetings
Fellows' work experience is enhanced through weekly leadership development
sessions. They meet with various local and national leaders including
Cabinet Secretaries, Members of Congress, local activists, representatives
from the private sector, and leaders of non-profit organizations to discuss
policy issues of common concern. CHCI also uses these sessions to help
fellows further explore leadership principles, and presentation and debate
styles, and reflect on their learning experience as individuals and members
of a group. In addition, fellows participate in workshops designed to
develop their coalition-building, public speaking, and media/message
development skills.

Policy Briefs and Roundtables
The purpose of producing a policy brief is to give fellows the experience
and exposure of working with national experts on policy issues of importance
to Latinos. It is also an opportunity to author a policy-related product
that will give the fellow a national platform to showcase their research,
analytical and writing skills.
Fellows are assigned to a Congressional Hispanic Caucus Task Force topic and
produce a policy brief on an issue within that topic. Completed policy
briefs will be distributed to the CHCI Board, members of Congress, CHCI
sister organizations, and posted on the CHCI website.

Fellows with a graduate degree with guidance from CHCI are also responsible
for designing, planning and moderating a roundtable dialogue on a policy
issue of their choice. The roundtable dialogue is open to the public.

Community Service
CHCI's curriculum incorporates the latest developments in leadership
training strategies based on service learning and cooperative leadership
models. While CHCI does not impose a particular definition of leadership, we
do associate it with service, and you as fellows are required to serve the
local Washington, DC community during the program - through participation in
Community Service.

Throughout the program, fellows are required to fulfill monthly community
service hours with member organizations of the Council of Latino Agencies
www.consejo.org (name change in 2006 - The Latino Federation of Greater
Washington). These community-based organizations provide services ranging
from free health care, to workforce development to legal counsel.

CHCI wishes to promote the importance and value of service in the leadership
development. As such fellows will be required to donate 10 hours a month of
their time to a community-based organization (member of CLA/LFGW).

Sample service donated may include, but is not limited to:
Tutoring
Mentoring
Resource development
Intake services
Legal counsel
Medical care

Fundraising
The total minimum, hours of service per fellow is 80 hours. Service is to be
performed beginning in September 2005 and concluding in May 2006. Fellows
may choose to do a joint service project. A proposal must be submitted
before it can be approved.

Selection Process
Selection as a CHCI Public Policy Fellow is based on a combination of the
following criteria:
High academic achievement (preference will be given to applicants with 3.0
GPA or higher)
Remarkable participation in public service-oriented activities
Evidence of leadership skills and potential for growth
Superior analytical and communication skills (oral and written)
The selection process is competitive. CHCI processes applications to
identify the most qualified candidates. Applications are then reviewed by a
selection committee composed by Alumni, Board of Directors, and CHCI staff.
Based on the applications scores, the top candidates are interviewed. CHCI
selects 20 candidates based on the results of their application and
interviews' scores.

Prerequisites
U.S. citizenship or legal permanent residency
Applicants should have graduated from a college or university (with a BA/BS
or graduate degree) within one year of application deadline, or be currently
enrolled as graduate students
The application is available online and must be postmarked by March 1, 2006.
Interviews are conducted in late April. Finalist will be notified in early
May. CHCI awards Fellowships on a non-partisan basis, and encourages balance
and diversity in all aspects of the program.

Stipend and Benefits
CHCI provides participants with:
Domestic round-trip transportation to Washington, DC
Health insurance
Gross monthly stipend of $2,200 to help cover housing and local expenses;
Fellows with a graduate degree receive a $2,600 monthly stipend
Alumni Association

Interaction between fellows is an invaluable element of the program which
often results in long-lasting friendships. The Alumni Association provides a
support network for current and future CHCI programs' participants. In
addition, the Association has made a strong commitment coordinating events
that connect current CHCI fellows with alumni who reside within the DC area.
These events have provided a great opportunity for alumni to mentor and
share their valuable experiences with current participants of CHCI's
programs.
Frequently Asked Questions

What is the mission of the CHCI Fellowship Program?
The mission of the program is to provide 20 promising Latinos the
opportunity to gain hands-on experience at the national level in the public
policy area of their choice. Fellows have the opportunity to work in such
areas as international affairs, economic development, education policy,
housing, or local government.
What type of individual is the program looking for?
CHCI seeks candidates with demonstrated leadership potential a history of
active participation in projects for the common good, high academic
standards, and superior communication skills. Successful candidates should
benefit significantly from the exposure to the issues, people, and work
environment that a structured program in the nation's capital can offer.

Selection as a CHCI Public Policy Fellow is based on a combination of the
following criteria:
High academic achievement (preference will be given to applicants with 3.0
GPA or higher)
Remarkable participation in public service-oriented activities
Evidence of leadership skills and potential for growth.
Superior analytical and communication skills (oral and written)

What is expected of a Public Policy Fellow during the program?
The CHCI Public Policy Fellowship Program offers recent Latino college
graduates, currently enrolled graduate students, and graduate level
professionals interested in public policy the opportunity to gain hands-on
work experience in Washington, DC. Participants select their own placements
from such diverse environments as congressional offices, federal agencies,
nonprofit organizations, and Washington based media.

A leadership development curriculum enhances fellows' training through
weekly sessions in which they meet with national leaders, participate in
professional workshops, and engage in substantive discussions about current
policy issues. In addition, fellows produce and present policy
briefs/roundtables and participate in community service.

What is the selection timeline?

Application deadline: March 1, 2006. The application is available on our
website (http://www.chci.org/chciyouth/fellowship/fellowshipprogram.htm) and
must be postmarked on or before March 1st to be accepted. It is the
responsibility of the applicant to ensure that his/her application has been
received.

Semi-finalists contacted: mid April
Phone interviews conducted: late April
Final notification of finalists: mid May
Program begins: Late August
Program ends: Late May
Are there age restrictions?
There are no age restrictions. However, the fellowship program was created
to provide college graduates and graduate students with valuable
professional experience in a variety of fields.
Can I apply to the program while in my last semester of my undergraduate?
Yes, you can apply during your last semester in college. You must graduate
before the fellowship starts.
How long after graduation can I apply for the fellowship?
You can apply for the program within one year of your graduation date.

What criteria do you look for in a letter of recommendation?
Applicants are required to submit three letters of recommendation. We
encourage you to have recommendations from individuals who know you well and
can fully answer the questions that are posed in the application. A
recommendation letter is not helpful if that individual cannot speak about
your background, achievements and character.
CHCI recommends for you to have letters from individuals who know you from
different perspectives (professor, community leader, employer or volunteer
project supervisor). The recommenders must respond to the specific questions
listed in the application. Letters should be submitted on their official
letterhead, seal and sign the envelope across the flap

What is the best approach to prepare for interviews?
Semi-finalists should carefully prepare as they would for any other type of
interview. It is recommended that you:
Be current on key issues and current events.
Develop a clear statement about why you want to be selected and what can you
offer
Develop a clear mission statement
How is the placement determined?
Once selected, we encourage fellows to start looking for a placement of
their choice. The placement ranges from Hill offices, government agencies,
non-profit organizations and corporate. The fellow should take into
consideration his/her interests. CHCI Programs Staff provides guidance with
the placement search. Fellows have the opportunity to change placement mid
year.

Does the Fellowship provide housing during the Fellowship year?
No. Fellows are responsible for their housing arrangements. We recommend
that Fellows start their housing search early. Current Fellows, Alumni and
the program staff can provide advice on housing arrangements.

How CHCI handles special needs - such as disabilities - for Fellows?
CHCI staff is available to work with individuals to properly handle any
special needs.

Where can I direct additional questions?
The program staff is available to provide assistance and answer questions.
The staff can be reached Monday through Friday from 9:00 AM ET - 6:00 PM ET
at 1-800-Excel DC or (202) 543-1771.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jan 15 23:31:22 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 15 23:33:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: Eyes on the City 
Message-ID: <001001c61a55$b7c1edc0$8b058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers: Eyes on the City 

2006 Conference of the International Visual Sociology Association 

University of Urbino "Carlo Bo" 

Urbino, Italy 

July 3-5, 2006 

The theme of the 2006 IVSA conference is the city in its multiple 
facets: how urban spaces are shaped by human action and at the same 
time shape our lives. The aim of the conference is to examine, de- 
construct and re-construct the layers of the city, observing how the 
social is embodied in the built environment and how the built 
environment influences contemporary human interaction. 

Cities are visually rich. Urban space is filled with signs from the 
past and present: architecture, art, logos, advertisements, and 
warnings -- all of which compete for attention. Visual sociology can 
aid in disentangling meanings and social processes woven into the 
urban context. Visual sociology includes useful tools for 
understanding and interpreting the complexity embodied in urban 
space; making visible intersections between the rural and the urban, 
between historical legacies and cross-cultural processes; depicting 
local communities and global society; and elucidating social cohesion 
and social conflict. 

Visual researchers also construct their own images and interpretive 
narratives elucidating and questioning "the image" that cities 
project.  We welcome a wide variety of formats including video, 
poster sessions, installations, performances, photo exhibits, and 
multimedia presentations as well as traditional papers. 

Focusing on the city draws attention to the physical dimension of 
human interaction and to the spatial ground that gives rise to social 
phenomena. It also allows us to consider the dialectic between local 
communities and the global society. In order to address these issues, 
papers and sessions may include, but are not limited to, the 
following topics: 

1.    Living in cities: housing and the built environment, markets 
and consumption, fleeing to and fleeing from, tourism 

2.    Denizens of the city: diversity and anonymity, race, gender, 
sexuality and class, children and the aged, migrants and immigrants 

3.    Intellectual qualities of urban life: creative and cultural 
life "music, art, theatre" the city as archive and as repertoire, 
experimentation and innovation, education in and out of school, 
opportunities and barriers 

4.    Place and space: public spaces/private spaces, sacred and 
profane spaces, the city by night 

5.    Global connections: urban, suburban, rural and international 

6.    The city as process: gentrification, urban renewal, 
deindustrialization and urban decay, transportation and 
communication, historical legacy 

7.    The urban imaginary: identity, utopias and distopias, virtual 
cities, ideal cities and planned cities 

8.    War, crime, conflict, disaster and terror in cities 

9.    Centres and margins: Ethnic neighbourhoods, ghettos, slums, 
silk-stocking districts and skid rows 

10. The panoptical city: surveillance, discipline, police, prison, 
social work, mental health, public health, borders and social control 

Sessions, abstracts and deadlines 

Scholars interested in organizing sessions on the topics listed 
above, or other related topics, should submit proposals to the 
conference committee at the following e-mail ivsa-urbino@uniurb.it. 
Deadline for submission of session proposals is January 31st, 2006. 
Please submit an abstract of about 50-100 words on the session's 
theme to be used as guidelines for presenters. 

The final selection of sessions will be published by February 15th 
2006. Paper presenters will submit their abstracts to the session's 
chairs and to the conference committee. 

Papers can be submitted from February 15th to March 31st 2006 
The final programme will be published by May 1st, 2006 

Jerome Krase, Ph.D. 
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor 
Brooklyn College 
The City University of New York 
Email:  jerrykrase@aol.com

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 16 15:48:20 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 16 15:51:44 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Migration: Illegal but integral to [UK] Economy
Message-ID: <00ab01c61ade$343fb4d0$6a058696@toshibauser>

January 16, 2006
International Press Service News Agency
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=31785

MIGRATION: Illegal But Integral to Economy
Sanjay Suri

LONDON, Jan 16 (IPS) - British economy and its public services will collapse
without immigrants who have entered the country illegally, leading experts
say.

''The National Health Service will close tomorrow, you will not be able to
get healthcare, many schools likewise, you wouldn't be able to move from
point A to point B in mini-cab because of transportation, you wouldn't get
offices cleaned because a lot of the cleaning is carried out by people from
Africa, Latin America and so on,'' Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie, executive director
of the African Foundation for Development told IPS.

''So you wouldn't get a huge number of goods and services,'' he said.
''Basically London would stop.''

The government knows this, he said. ''Fundamentally policy makers know that
their economies are dependent on migrants with an irregular status. But of
course it is politically sensitive.''

But governments are misleading people by not acknowledging the contribution
of illegal migrants, Chikezie said. ''Businesses rely very much on this
labour, so there's an uncomfortable grey area that they occupy, and don't
really tell their populations just how important this irregular labour is to
the economy, to the way of life that they've become used to.''

Illegal immigrants - or people with irregular status as many now like to
call them - are not sponging off the state but contributing to it, says
Khalid Koser, senior policy analyst, Global Commission on International
Migration.

''There's a misconception that people come here and they live off the
welfare state and they are taking jobs,'' Koser told IPS. ''That's clearly
not true. I think most of the people are here because they want to work,
they want to further their lives, and they are doing essential jobs.
Returning them I think would bring a real gap in the labour market.''

The government view on illegal migrants was ''hypocritical'', he said. ''On
the one hand the government says these are irregular people and wants to
send them back. On the other hand the government knows full well that we
need these people.''

>From the British economic point perspective, ''we can't send them back,'' he
said. ''For one it's hard to do, we don't know who they are, where they are,
it's difficult to send them back. Second, we don't need to send them back,
we need them, we need their work. We know these people are here, so why not
let them work in a regular manner. It seems to me quite scandalous that we
don't.''

The British government is considering an identity card scheme in order to
check illegal immigration. But few independent experts believe that such a
scheme can succeed.

''I've done some work on human smuggling and trafficking from Pakistan, and
it seems to me that people are fairly resourceful,'' Koser said. ''If they
do introduce I-cards, I suspect that in Karachi they will pretty soon make
pretty good forgeries of I-cards.''

The government needs to acknowledge that it cannot simply send illegal
immigrants back, Sarah Spencer, Director of Policy Research at the
University of Oxford told IPS.

''It's not realistic simply to round everyone up and send them home, we do
need to think of some ways of regularising some of the people here whose
status is irregular,'' she said.

Most illegal immigrants now do not land after a dangerous boat ride, she
said. ''The likelihood is not that it's so much people who came in a boat in
the night but people who came in perfectly legally to work, to come to a
wedding, to study, and who've simply overstayed their visas because it's
relatively easy to move into the labour market.''

The numbers of such illegal immigrants runs into many thousands every year.
''Numbers on illegal migration are so hazy that making an estimate is a
dangerous thing to do because you know that the media in UK picks up on any
estimates made and uses them as a sort of evidential basis,'' Koser said.

''Some people suggest that there may be 100,000 people entering the UK every
year in an irregular fashion, but that's probably the high end of the
estimate,'' he said. (END/2006)


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Jan 16 16:59:10 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Mon Jan 16 18:09:10 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA in San Jose
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060116165910.02547860@mail.gmu.edu>

To all SUNTA members:

Heads up! You will shortly be receiving a fairly long
email on the meetings. To simplify, there are two
critical pieces of information:

1. March 1 deadline to me for any panel seeking
      "invited" status.

2. March 31 deadline to the AAA for all panels
      and papers.

-- David Haines, Program Chair



From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Jan 16 17:36:02 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Tue Jan 17 18:01:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA meetings in San Jose: Call for papers and panels
Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.0.20060116172927.025557c0@mail.gmu.edu>

To: 	SUNTA members

Re: 	Call for papers and panels, AAA meeting in San Jose, November 15-19, 2006

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

The following is the basic information for panel and paper 
submissions for the San Jose AAA meeting. Full details are in the AN 
and on-line. Do note that there is a separate deadline of March 1 to 
SUNTA for any panels seeking "invited" status.

Theme: The program theme is "Critical Intersections/Dangerous 
Issues." It is described in the January AN and is also on line. The 
theme will probably be congenial--or at least usable--for most SUNTA 
members. Remember that there are two stages of review: by SUNTA and 
by the AAA. Some clear relevance to the theme is thus advisable.

Deadline: The deadline for submission to the AAA of panels, papers, 
and posters will be March 31. It would also be extremely helpful 
(although not required) if you can let me know by email what you have 
submitted (at least title and participants) so that I can track it 
through the AAA if necessary.

Requirements: Panel requirements remain the same with provision both 
for single sessions (up to seven fifteen-minute slots for papers or 
discussants) and double sessions (up to fourteen slots). Panel 
abstracts can be up to 500 words; paper abstracts up to 250 words. It 
is strongly recommended that panels be coherently presented (e.g., 
that the papers are invoked in the panel abstract and that the panel 
is invoked in the paper abstracts).

Individual papers: You can, of course, also individually submit 
papers. This past year, individually volunteered papers fared rather 
well. They are combined into sessions by SUNTA, and I certainly try 
to make those sessions as coherent as possible.

Invited sessions: If you wish to have a panel considered for 
"invited" status, it must be submitted to SUNTA by March 1.

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

Networking: If you have ideas for panels--or are looking for papers 
for your panel or a panel for your paper--send a short note either to 
me or to Angela Jancius (acjancius@ysu.edu) for relay out to the 
SUNTA listserv.

Questions are welcome.

David Haines
SUNTA president-elect and program chair



From mpalus at starpower.net  Tue Jan 17 15:27:19 2006
From: mpalus at starpower.net (Matthew Palus)
Date: Tue Jan 17 18:07:21 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]University of Maryland Field School in Historic
	Archaeology 
Message-ID: <3bf925943c9c6dbbd78295280895ec84@starpower.net>

University of Maryland Field School in Historic Archaeology

ANTH 496/696 (6 cr.) Summer Session I - June 5-July 14

Director - Mark P. Leone
Associate Director - Matthew Palus
Co-Instructors - Jennifer Babiarz and Lisa Kraus
Laboratory Director - Amelia Chisholm

PROGRAM:
The University of Maryland Department of Anthropology and the Office of 
Continuing and Extended Education announce the 25th season of 
excavation with Archaeology in Annapolis, a summer program of onsite 
archaeological excavation and research.  This intensive, six-week 
program devotes eight hours daily to supervised archaeological 
fieldwork.  The Summer 2006 excavations extend a long-term program of 
public archaeology in Maryland?s state capital that is supported by the 
Mayor and City Council of Annapolis.

Excavations within the city will take place in Parole, the site of a 
Civil War prison camp, and a working- and middle-class African American 
neighborhood that developed during the 19th and 20th Centuries.  As 
this will be our first work in the neighborhood, and excavations will 
be exploratory.  This year excavations will also be conducted outside 
of the city, at the former plantation of Edward Lloyd on the Eastern 
Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, on Maryland?s Wye River.  This former 
plantation is where Frederick Douglass was enslaved as a boy, and is 
described in his autobiography My Bondage, My Freedom.  Test 
excavations were carried out during the summer of 2005, and these 
verified the location of a former quarter for slaves and the existence 
of very rich archaeological deposits from Frederick Douglass? time.  
Intensive excavations at this site will begin during the summer of 
2006, continuing this multi-year archaeological study.

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES:
This course offers training in archaeological field techniques and 
related concepts, and students will be evaluated according to the skill 
and understanding that they acquire, the quality of their work and 
their contribution to the research.  Students are responsible for 
reporting to the site each day and contributing to the fieldwork, lab 
work and ensuing discussion as each progress.  Students will complete 
weekly reading assignments that address the methods and theories of 
recent historical archaeological research.  Students will review their 
assignments at a weekly discussion led by project staff.  There will be 
weekly site seminars where students will share progress in their 
excavation units with others so that an understanding of the whole is 
always in sight.

INFORMATION:
For further information, contact: Matthew Palus (mpalus@starpower.net),
Jenn Babiarz (jbabiarz@mail.utexas.edu) or Amelia Chisholm 
(achisholm@anth.umd.edu)

Department of Anthropology
University of Maryland
1111 Woods Hall
College Park, MD 20742-7415
301-405-1429

To register for this course and other UMCP Summer 2006 courses contact 
Summer Programs, on the web: http://www.summer.umd.edu/c/ or e-mail to 
summer@umail.umd.edu.  Summer programs also posts up-to-date tuition 
information online.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 18 17:39:23 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 18 17:44:20 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CRP: Chernobyl etc.: Approaching Disaster Studies
Message-ID: <00bc01c61c80$0bfd0240$8b058696@toshibauser>

Central European University
Pasts, Inc. Centre for Historical Studies
CEU Seminar in Recent History

Chernobyl, etc.:Approaching Disaster Studies
Interdisciplinary Workshop
16-18 March 2006, Budapest

Call for Papers

Why are there apparently so many disastrous events happening nowadays? What 
is the nature of our contemporary social, political and cultural order that 
results in the mushrooming of catastrophes? What are their actual 
consequences - both negative and positive? What is the role of mass media in 
constructing and perceiving a disaster? What is the role of artists: are 
they chroniclers, interpreters, profiteers, or healers of disasters? The 
seminar will consider the concept and phenomenon of disasters as an 
inherently interdisciplinary object.
Special emphasis will be laid on the role of historical perspectives, 
however. What unique insights can historical methods and approaches bring? 
To what extent does the temporalization of the point of view help to unfold 
the genesis and meaning of disastrous events? How does history, putting a 
disaster into a historical prospective, help outline both the actual scope 
of the mishap and its most essential core traits? Which historical genres 
are useful to describe, comprehend and render familiar the unexpected? What 
are the methodological and theoretical preconditions for history to help us 
in understanding disasters? What are the shortcomings of current 
scholarship? How, speaking more broadly, can sciences and humanities be 
integrated with the arts? What is the place of history in the research and 
mitigation of disasters? Does history have the power to promote and foster 
social and cultural regeneration? What is the role of commemoration and the 
working through of trauma in mitigating the consequences of catastrophes? 
Can the history of previous natural and human catastrophes - earthquakes, 
eruptions of volcanoes or genocide and political terror - help us to learn 
about contemporary disasters?

The seminar's starting point will be the interdisciplinary discussion of 
Chernobyl: one of the most developed case studies in 'disaster studies'. 
What are the achievements of historical research of disasters, first of all 
of (but not only) Chernobyl? What is known and still remains mysterious 
about the Chernobyl disaster? Which approaches and frameworks proved to be 
efficient - and which rather hindered or even failed Chernobyl research? 
What is so special about contemporary disasters? What do we learn by means 
of 'disaster studies' about 'the most progressive', 'brave new' 
technologies: nuclear, information technology, mass media? What about the 
interaction of natural, technological and social environments? What are the 
universal traits of contemporary disasters and their social-system-, 
country-, culture-, origin-specific features? Globalization as a factor in 
disasters: does it expand the magnitude of the disastrous hazards or help to 
localize and mitigate their impact?

Scheduled one month ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, 
the workshop strives to affect the anniversary agenda, to practically help 
recovery both from Chernobyl and the aftermath of other recent disasters. 
The seminar will gather an unusually broad circle of expertise, ranging from 
historians and social scientists to ecologists, nuclear physicists and 
artists, policy-makers and environmental activists, many of them important 
witnesses and seasoned field mitigation workers - both from the Central and 
Eastern European region and worldwide. The three-day event will have several 
keynote presentations, followed by consecutive panels. The poster session 
option is considered. A collective volume will be published on the basis of 
the workshop proceedings. Workshop sessions will be open for CEU students 
and faculty and the general public. Extensive and in-depth coverage of the 
event by mass media is expected.

If you are interested to make a presentation please BEFORE JANUARY 31, 2006 
send its 1-2 page description (title, author(s) name, contact info, 
affiliation, abstract) and a half-page resume of your activities and main 
publications and projects to the Organizing Committee, Pasts Inc., Center 
for Historical Studies, CEU; http://www.ceu.hu/pasts :
aporp@ceu.hu - Dr. P?ter Apor, Pasts Inc. junior research fellow,
mirnyi@netscape.net - Sergii Mirnyi, CEU Environmental Sciences and Policy 
Department associated researcher

NOTE FOR PROSPECTIVE PRESENTERS: For this interdisciplinary event, the 
preference will be given to papers which combine scholarly thoroughness and 
multidisciplinarity with broad-audience friendliness, the latter understood 
both in terms of the choice of topic, ideas, terminology and mode of 
delivery. One of the aims of the event is to go beyond the communication 
barriers in the topic of Chernobyl and disasters, to explain the issues 
usually thought to be complex and almost 'non-perceivable' in an 
understandable way (but not vice versa, which is often the case in a 
'narrow-guild' communication). 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 18 17:47:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 18 17:52:21 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism 
Message-ID: <00db01c61c81$22c8c620$8b058696@toshibauser>

African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism

Call for Papers

African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism

The Editors of African Identities and the Center for Black Diaspora, DePaul
University are pleased to announce a special issue of the journal devoted to
exploring African Cities: Colonial Speculum and Post-Colonial Urbanism. The
special issue seeks to explore the physical and social construction of
African cities and the dense web of intricate social relations, flows,
exchanges, appropriations and adoptions that constantly shape and reshape
their diverse geographical and social spaces.

In much of the literature on African cities which was derived from the early
20th century urban theory, the primary emphasis has been to generalize about
the development of cities at different stages in history as spatially
bounded entities, imprinted with a particular way of life as well as a
distinct spatial and social divisions of labor. Given this framework,
current literature of African cities retains a focus firmly rooted in
characterizing African cities as sites of urban disorder, chaos,
ungovernability, poverty, physical and symbolic violence. These images of
African cities are reproduced and mediated by a grid of knowledge that
privileges a particular form of city building processes which developed in
Europe and North America. Criticism of this form of urban representation of
African cities is extensive, yet the problem of African urbanity both in its
colonial and post-colonial urban forms remains under theorized.
There is therefore an urgent need to explore the nature of African cities.
In part, because African cities are moving away from the "nation building"
project assigned to them by the colonial powers and post-colonial states, to
spaces in which African inhabitants are reconfiguring and remaking urban
worlds, deploying their own forms of urbanity born out of their historical
and material circumstances. It is in these new dense urban spaces with all
their contradictions that urban Africans are reworking their local
identities, building families, and weaving autonomous communities of
solidarity made fragile by neo-liberal states. Urban Africans throughout the
continent are creating and recreating dense social networks, flows,
exchanges, and knowledge with their own architectural and urban development
imprints. 1 Indeed, the pace of the new forms of African urbanity has
accelerate in recent years by the deepening political and social crisis that
has engulfed African cities. We are seeking articles that examine the
significance of African urbanitiy, its complexity and vitality in a single
region, social or historical context. Throughout the continent, urban
Africans despite diminishing resources are appropriating and transforming
the colonial city and its ideal of modernity.

Submissions
Articles should be between 6500-8000 words inclusive of notes and
references, accompanied by disc in Microsoft Word. Articles may include
black and white images scanned to disk at 300dpi. Manuscripts MUST conform
to Harvard Reference style.

They should be double-spaced throughout (including notes and references).
Because manuscripts are reviewed blind, the author's name, affiliations,
address, telephone and, fax numbers
The deadline for submission is May 30, 2006.

Manuscripts for the special issue of African Identities should be sent
directly to the Guest Editor:
Fassil Demissie, Guest Editor
Public Policy Studies, DePaul University
2320 North Clifton Avenue, Room 150.1
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 325-7356
Fax: (773) 325-7514
Email: fdemissi@depaul.edu

African Identities is a peer reviewed international cademic journal that
provides a critical forum for examination of African and diasporic
expressions, representations and identities. The aim of the journal is to
open up various horizons of the field through multidisciplinary approaches:
to encourage the development of theory and practice on the wider spread of
disciplinary approach: to promote conceptual innovation and to provide a
venue for entry of new perspectives. The journal focuses on the myriad of
ways in which cultural productions create zones of profound expressive
possibilities by continually generating texts and contexts of reflective
import.
With an emphasis on gender, class, nation, marginalization, 'otherness' and
difference, the journal explore how African identities, either by force or
contingency, create terrains of (ex)change, decenter dominant meanings,
paradigms and certainties.

Fassil Demissie, Ph.D
Associate Professor
DePaul University
2352 N. Clifton Ave, Suite 150.1
Chicago, Illinois 60614
Email: fdemissi@depaul.edu
Visit the website at http://condor.depaul.edu/~diaspora


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 19 22:34:48 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 19 22:39:59 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Summer Field School in Ethnography
Message-ID: <002901c61d72$7d22d5b0$a4058696@toshibauser>

OSEA - Open School of Ethnography & Anthropology
Application Deadline: April 10, 2006

 MIRA Project is a collaborative and comparative study of tourism
destinations and cultures in Yucat?n, M?xico. Program research locations are
the colonial city of M?rida, the hub of the Maya Riviera in Playa del
Carmen, and the Indigenous community of Pist? 3km from Chich?n Itz?, the
heart of the Maya archaeological civilization. OSEA Field School
participants gain intensive, on-site fieldwork training in ethnography and
cultural anthropology and develop new skills in interdisciplinary research
methodologies. Participants develop their own individual research project on
issues such as tourism development, governance, democracy, human rights,
indigenous identity, tourism cultures, cultural hegemony, urban development,
migration, performance cultures, tourism representation, exhibition and
staging, and multimedia ethnographic documentation. Program seminars,
fieldwork workshops, and experiential learning provides students the
training to design, conduct and complete interdisciplinary ethnographic
research in cultural anthropology. Open to undergraduates and graduate
students in anthropology, social science, and related humanities and art
fields. 9 credits in Anthropology: Courses in Visual Anthropology,
Ethnographic Methods, Anthropology of Tourism/Tourism Studies.
Conversational Spanish Required. Cost is $3,575. DATES are June 27 through
August 12, 2006. Application deadline is April 10, 2006. www.osea-cite.org

Contact Information:
Quetzil Casta?eda
2244 Martha Street
Bloomington IN 47408 USA
Phone: 812-336-2050
Email: quetzil@osea-cite.org
URL http://www.osea-cite.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Jan 19 22:57:34 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jan 19 22:58:11 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Grad Summer Program: Interrogating the African Diaspora
Message-ID: <002f01c61d75$b5403160$a4058696@toshibauser>

International Graduate Summer Seminar/Interrogating the African Diaspora

This program targets a variety of institutions in the U.S., where graduate
studies of the African diaspora are housed. Abroad, we will target a series
of institutions in Africa, the Caribbean, Europe and Latin America. The idea
is to form a group of students who will represent diverse perspectives on
the African diaspora, for each of the three years of the seminar. The
African diaspora is not conceptualized or researched in the same way in its
many locations; thus, bringing a diversity of perspectives into the course
will enrich class conversations, discussions and debates. The seminars of
July 2004, July 2005 and July 2006 are independent of one another. We do not
expect to have students who are admitted for one year apply for another
year. Written and oral fluency in English are required from all applicants.

Contact Information:
Jean Rahier
African-New World Studies / FIU
3000 N.E. 151st Street
North Miami FL 33181 United States
Phone: 305 919-5457
Email: interad@fiu.edu
URL http://www.fiu.edu/~interad


From D.Carl at shu.ac.uk  Fri Jan 20 15:08:58 2006
From: D.Carl at shu.ac.uk (Carl, Daniela)
Date: Fri Jan 20 11:12:54 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 2CFP: JOURNEYS OF EXPRESSIONS V: TOURISM AND THE ROOTS/ROUTES OF
 RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY
Message-ID: <992C06C11CBE784886035FBF9503729003337B42@bluebell.shu.ac.uk>

2nd call for papers: JOURNEYS OF EXPRESSIONS V: TOURISM AND THE ROOTS/ROUTES OF RELIGIOUS FESTIVITY, which will take place in
Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 13th to 15th March 2006. 

In this, the fifth of our continuing conference series exploring the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and festivals,
Journeys of Expression aims to discuss touristic practices in relation to forms of traditional and contemporary religious
festivity. The conference seeks to examine the meanings and roots of religious festivity within the context of tourism and related
studies, the ways by which tourists arrive at, and consume religious festivity, and the ways in which touristic practice
encounters, and in some instances shapes, the religious. 

In a world apparently struggling with the boundaries of 'the religious', we are interested in the social practice of tourism, as a
spatial displacement of the human body creating, a priori, a liminal space for mental and physical recreation. Situating this
approach within the field of tourism, we hope, permits to analyse important shifts and transformations of traditional liturgical
practices, manifested in particular by the veneration of new, now touristic forms of 'sacred' objects, spaces and elements
('nature', 'culture', 'art', 'sun', 'water', etc.). Within the contemporary transnationalised world how do we make sense of the
religious - its symbolic expression, its politicisation etc. - through both festivity and tourism? How do festivals mobilise
religious symbols to tell stories and make visible particular representations of the self? What are the festive roles attributed
to, or taken by tourists and how are these integrated with forms of festive exchange and ritual? And, how can a better
understanding of tourism-festival relationships shape agendas for 'intercultural dialogue' and peace as articulated by
international organisations such as UNESCO. 

Indicative themes of the conference include: 

- Defining Religious Festivity: Genesis, Genealogy and Displacement
- Tourism, Pilgrimage and Travel Liturgies: Variations and Continuity of the 'Sacred Journey' in the Contemporary World
- Tourism and Transnational Festival Spaces: Festive Ostentation, Sacrifice, Transgression and Exchange in the Contemporary World
- Festive Economics / Politics of Making Visible: Religious Symbols, Discourse and the Formulation of Social Spaces / Boundaries
in the Contemporary World
- Material Diasporas: Tourism Souvenirs and Meanings
- Tourism, Intersubjective Encounters and Power Relations in Religious Festivals
- The Continuity / End of War and Conflict: From Paradigms of Clash to Paradigms of Peace? 

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expression series, we wish to animate an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and
welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies, anthropology, cultural
studies, cultural geography, theology, philosophy, performance studies, cultural economics, politics, etc. If you wish to submit a
paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic file to
Daniela Carl (d.carl@shu.ac.uk ) by the end of January 2006. 

Besides the full conference fee we can also offer special daily rates for attendance: 
			?50 Pounds Sterling (student rate)
			?75 Pounds Sterling (normal rate)

In addition, the IFEA (International Festival and Events Association Europe) and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change is
organising a research stream, which will again bring together international researchers with policy makers and practitioners in
the festivals and cultural events sector. The conference will discuss the complex relationships between identities, festivals,
cultural events and tourism focusing in particular on aspects of policy, management, programming and marketing. Please contact Dr
Phil Long (p.e.long@shu.ac.uk) for further information.

Best regards,


Daniela S. Carl
Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change
Sheffield Hallam University
Owen Building, Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
UK

E-mail: d.carl@shu.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)114-225 5105








From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Jan 20 08:30:09 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Jan 20 11:57:51 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Postings, Jan. 13 - 20, 2006
Message-ID: <43D11011.8030306@sfsu.edu>

URBANTH-L Job Postings, Jan. 13 - 20, 2006
*******************************************************************
1. Stanford University, Urban Education, Tenure Track / Open Rank Position
2. State University of New York College at Cortland, Urban Sociology, 
Assistant Professor
3. International Honors Program, Boston University, Urban Ecology
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1. Stanford University, Urban Education, Tenure Track / Open Rank Position

URBAN EDUCATION FACULTY POSITION

The Stanford University School of Education seeks to hire a scholar who 
examines the cultural contexts of urban education. A focus on urban 
communities and their institutions is necessary. Disciplinary background 
is open, but expertise in anthropology and in qualitative research 
methods is especially welcome. Experience with field work in schools or 
other educational settings is necessary. The appointment will be for a 
tenure track, open rank position.

Applicants are required to provide a cover letter describing their 
research agenda and teaching interests and experience, curriculum vitae, 
and a list of three references with complete addresses and phone 
numbers. The committee will request letters of recommendation and 
samples of publications from a small group of finalists.

On line applications are available and are highly recommended. Please 
visit the Stanford School of Education faculty search on line 
application system at:

http://facultysearch.stanford.edu

A less desirable alternate is to mail application materials to the 
address below. Processing of applications received via the US Post 
Office or any overnight mail delivery service may be delayed.

Prof. Milbrey W. McLaughlin
Search Committee Chair
c/o Javier Illueca
Faculty Affairs Office
Stanford University
School of Education
485 Lasuen Mall
Stanford, CA 94305.3096

Review of applications will begin March 15, 2006 and will continue until 
the position is filled.

Stanford University is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes 
nominations and applications from women and minority groups.

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2. State University of New York College at Cortland, Urban Sociology, 
Assistant Professor

State University of New York - Cortland. The Department of 
Sociology/Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences invites 
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting in 
the fall of 2006. The department seeks candidates with a specialization 
in social or public policy and interests in one or more of the following 
areas: stratification, community development, urban sociology, and 
aging. The successful candidate will be able to teach the following 
courses in our department: Social Stratification, The Community, Urban 
Sociology, and Introduction to Social Gerontology. Preference will be 
given to candidates who also have the ability to teach our research 
methods courses and Introduction to Sociology. We seek candidates who 
demonstrate excellence in teaching while maintaining a record of active 
scholarship and service. Our teaching load is three courses per 
semester. Applicants should have or be near completion of the Ph.D. 
Review of applications will begin February 15, 2006, and will continue 
until the position is filled. Please apply online at 
http://jobs.cortland.edu and attach a cover letter, Curriculum Vitae, 
and the names, addressees, and phone numbers of three professional 
references. SUNY Cortland is an AA/EEO/ADA employer. We have a strong 
commitment to the affirmation of diversity and have interdisciplinary 
degree programs in the areas of multicultural studies.

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3.  International Honors Program
Cities in the 21st Century: People, Planning, and Politics

The International Honors Program in affiliation with Boston University,
offers a series of independent study abroad programs utilizing comparative
study around the world to multiple countries. We are currently seeking an
individual to join an interdisciplinary team of faculty and host city
coordinators for "Cities in the 21st Century," a four month long course that
will take 30 students from upper tier liberal arts colleges and universities
to one of two trajectories. The first is for the fall semester of 2005 - New
York, U.S.; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Beijing & Shanghai, China; and
Bangalore, India. The second is the spring semester of 2006 - Washington,
D.C.; Rio de Janeiro & Curitiba, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Paris,
France.

The mission of the program is to provide students with first hand experience
in the challenges of urbanization throughout the world and provide the tools
to learn how to "read a city" through a series of formal courses, homestays,
guest lectures by local academics, politicians, and policy makers, site
visits, and meetings with NGOs, neighborhood organizations and community
activists.

The ideal candidate should: a.) have a M.A. or Ph.D. or be a Ph.D. candidate
in urban planning and have expertise in urban ecology, the urban
environmental sciences, and/or urban geography, and teaching experience at
the college level; b.) be able to develop a syllabus and teach an
introductory course in urban ecology called Urban Ecology and Sustainable
Environments and contribute to a team-taught course on Urban Planning and
Urbanization in a Global Context; c.) possess not only the appropriate
technical skills to manage a field course, but the sensibilities
(flexibility, adaptability, collegiality, cultural sensitivity, etc.)
necessary for such an endeavor.

Expertise/field experience in one or more of the countries on the itinerary
is preferred, but not essential. Preference will be given to candidates with
experience leading or teaching on field-based courses, and those who have
traveled extensively and/or lived in another culture for an extended period.
Class size is 30 students with undergraduate level course work. There are
3-4 faculty members in each country plus local experts. Faculty and students
live with host families in each country.

More information about IHP is available on our Web Site: http://www.ihp.edu
. Electronic versions of all application materials are required. Please
email a letter of interest, along with vita, and names/email contact
information of at least 3 academic references, to: info@ihp.edu
(mailto:info@ihp.edu). Materials need to be received by February 1st.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 21 12:30:05 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:31:58 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Workshop: Mediascapes: Shifting Bouncaries, Contested
	Terrain (Mumbai, India)
Message-ID: <008101c61eb0$5b107380$be058696@toshibauser>

PUKAR WINTER INSTITUTE 2006
MEDIASCAPES: SHIFTING BOUNDARIES, CONTESTED TERRAIN

10 -12 February, 2006 
@ Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Campus

The PUKAR Winter Institute 2006 will be held from February 10th to 12th,
2006, in Mumbai. If you would like to attend, do get back to us with
information about yourself by January 31st 2006. Those who have registeres
earlier need not apply again.

This national seminar, co-sponsored by PUKAR and Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, will bring together leading scholars and practitioners from all
across India to explore a broad set of cultural, political, and economic
issues related to media production and consumption.  Through seminar
discussions, lectures, and films, we will consider how changing modes of
production and consumption are enabling the emergence of new media forms
and altering the ways in which citizens engage with media. 

The seminar will examine both the potentially empowering effects of such
transformations and the repressive consequences of increasingly
corporatized mass media.  We welcome your participation as we explore how
media spaces are constructed and emerge as terrains of contestation.

This seminar is part of an ongoing effort on behalf of PUKAR to engage
with a diverse group of participants on the theoretical and practical
implications of urban knowledge and action. The first seminar (Winter
Institute) held January 2004, focused on various forms of urban knowledge
and how knowledge is appropriated by individuals and institutions to
elicit action.  Last year's Winter Institute examined language as a means
by which knowledge is acquired and transmitted. It also explored the
intersection of language, identity, and urban space, considering the
cosmopolitan character of the city through its linguistic diversity. 

This year, we will continue the broader conversation on urban knowledge by
placing "mediascapes" at the centre of the discussion. Mediascapes, a
concept coined by Prof. Arjun Appadurai, describes the contentious spaces
within which media representations are produced, circulated, and
distributed. 

Sessions and Presenters: (The schedule and speakers' list is still being
finalized, but the following presenters have confirmed participation.) 

1. CHANGING MODES OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION: THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL

- Dr. B. Manjula, TISS

- Dr. B. P. Sanjay, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad

- Dr. Vinod Pavarala, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad


2. OPEN FORUM ON MEDIA EDUCATION: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

- Dr. Shobha Ghosh, Head, Dept. of English, SIES College

- Dr. Saradha Ganapathyraman, K.C. College

- Dr. Sudhakar Solomon Raj, Wilson College 

- Dr. B. P. Sanjay, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad 


3. MORAL PANICS: NEGOTIATING GENDER

- Dr. Shohini Ghosh, Jamia Milia Islamia

- Ms. Shilpa Phadke, PUKAR Gender & Space

- Ms. Bishakha Datta, Point of View

 
4. RETHINKING THE CITY AND URBAN IDENTITY

- Mr. Venkatesh Chakravarthy, Film maker and researcher

- Mr. Abeer Gupta, Film maker and researcher

- Ms. Paromita Vohra, Film maker  

- Mr. Rahul Srivastava, Researcher


5. PANEL ON MEDIA CENSORSHIP

- Mr. Anand Patwardhan, Film maker

- Dr. Shohini Gosh, Jamia Milia Islamia

 
6. NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND OLD BOUNDARIES

- Mr. Shuddhabrata Sengupta, SARAI, New Delhi

- Dr. Vinod Pavarala, S. N. School, University of Hyderabad 

- Mr. Indranil Chakravarty, Comet Media Foundation

 
7. IMAGING RESISTANCE 

- Ms. Madhusree Dutta, Documentary Film maker, Majlis 

- Ms. Charu Gargi, Filmmaker/Researcher 

 
We will also be showing "She Write" and "Naata," two films produced by
Drs. Anjali Monteiro and K.P. Jaysankar; and "Cosmopolis: Two Tales of a
City" by Paromita Vohra.

The keynote speaker will be Mr. Shekhar Gupta, Editor in Chief, Indian
Express. The keynote address will be delivered on Friday, 10 February, at
6:30pm, at Jai Hind College Auditorium at Churchgate.

The final schedule and description of panel sessions will be distributed
in advance of the seminar.

LOCATION:

The Seminar will be held at the Tata Institute of Social Science, Opp.
Deonar Bus Depot, V.N. Purav Marg (Sion-Trombay Road), Deonar, Mumbai 400
088. 

REGISTRATION:

Registration is required for the seminar. 

To register in advance, please send an email to: pukar@pukar.org.in with
the following details by Tuesday, 31 January 2006.

-         Name

-         Institutional Affiliation

-         Email address

-         Postal Address

-         Telephone Number

 

REGISTRATION FEES:

Although registration for the seminar is free, a nominal fee of Rs. 150.00
will be charged to cover lunches and refreshments over 3 days. 

CONTACT DETAILS:

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge Action and Research)
Address:: 1-4, 2nd Floor, Kamanwala Chambers, Sir P. M. Road, Fort, Mumbai
400 001
Telephone:: +91 (22) 5574 8152 
Fax:: +91 (22) 5664 0561
Email:: pukar@pukar.org.in
Website:: www.pukar.org.in
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 21 12:43:54 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:45:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AN CFP: Seeing Humans, Society and Culture in
	Globalization
Message-ID: <00a601c61eb2$44746ad0$be058696@toshibauser>

Dear Colleagues,

You may be interested in this Anthropology News call for papers on
globalization.  Rather than contacting the AN managing editor, you may wish
to contact SUNTA's Secretary/AN editor, Elzbieta Gozdziak
<emg27@georgetown.edu>.  If there are several SUNTA contributions,  Elzbieta
may be able to coordinate them on a page of AN, as she did with several
articles on the Paris riots, in January issue.   - AJ

AN Call for Papers: Seeing Humans, Society and Culture in Globalization
Deadline: March 20, 2006

Corporations, firms, NGOs, non-profits, governments, universities,
policymakers and a host of other entities comprised of humans interact daily
in global networks. They are underpinned, for the most part, by a neoliberal
framework constructed in assumptions about rational choices.  Many
anthropologists study these networks, frameworks and assumptions, grounding
them within particular sociocultural contexts.  Anthropology, however, has
yet to engage in an exploration of its own assumptions, findings and
responses to "globalization" in an attempt to integrate our anthropological
understanding of these processes, to evaluate the questions that frame
research and advocacy and the methods used in carrying these out, and to
communicate our contributions in this area of research to our discipline,
policymakers and the public.

Anthropology News thus invites readers to contribute short commentaries of
1,000-1,200 words or research reports of 600-800 words that address the
following questions and issues.
How do anthropologists understand globalization?   How do anthropologists
study these processes?   What are the methodological challenges in studying
globalization?   How should anthropologists now direct their research on
globalization?

What does anthropology contribute to studies on globalization that other
fields of study, such as economics, political science and sociology, could
miss?  What are the possibilities for multi-disciplinary collaborations?
How do and should anthropologists understand globalization historically?
How can biological anthropologists and archaeologists contribute to place
globalization in historical context?  What new forms of consumption and
global capitalism are currently emerging?

What entities (for example, World Bank, IMF, WTO) play a key role in
directing and regulating globalization today?  What entities (for example,
NGOs, transnational networks and UN policies) have emerged in response?
What role(s) do anthropologists play within and in relation to these
entities-as employees, consultants, ethnographers, activists?
How do neoliberal policies impact humans? Is resistance positive in terms of
locals' relations to neoliberal globalization?   What case stories exist of
such resistance?  How else do humans relate to neoliberal policies, both
successfully and unsuccessfully?

What systems of local, national, regional and international regulations of
global markets and trade have existed and are emerging?  What are the best
ways of understanding the efficacy of these systems anthropologically?
What are the new languages of protest and globalization activism?  What role
do new technologies and media play in these protests?  What role should
anthropologists have in these movements as scholars and citizens?  And how
should or should not anthropological research inform advocacy?

What new categories of identity have emerged as a result of neoliberal
policies?  How are these identities embodied, contested and related to other
identities?   What new rights and ideas of social justice have emerged in
response to these new identities?

What role do new technologies play in new forms of global labor (for
instance, outsourcing, reconfiguring production practices)?

How have globalization studies de-stabilized ideas about
"modernity/traditional" in development studies?   Are new binaries of
"global forces" and "local places" or "local authenticity" and "global
domination" useful?  What about new studies on "cosmopolitanism"?

How do other domains of human existence (such as ethics, politics,
academics, family, journalism, art, environment, health) become reconfigured
through metaphors grounded in neoliberal frameworks?  What are the
consequences of such borrowings?     What role do institutions play in these
processes?

Anthropology News invites the submission of ideas, brief articles (400-800
words) and lengthier commentaries (1,000-1,400 words) on this topic and
these questions. Using examples from their own research and disciplines,
contributors are requested to submit their thoughts as an email attachment
to Stacy Lathrop, AN Managing Editor, slathrop@aaanet.org.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 21 12:49:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 21 12:50:59 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Tourism in Asia (Leeds)
Message-ID: <00b801c61eb3$03f8bcd0$be058696@toshibauser>

Call for Papers

Tourism in Asia
10-12 June 2006, Leeds Metropolitan University
Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2006

The conference will consider new research into tourism in Asia, covering
current business trends as well as historical and cultural aspects.
Particular trends identified which will be discussed are the increasing
volume of Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean tourists visiting
Southeast Asia, the rapid growth of tourism in the Greater Mekong
Sub-region, and tourist flows between the Indian sub-continent and Southeast
Asia.

Globally, tourism analyses tend to focus on Western tourists impacting upon
Asian societies, whereas in many Asian countries the market is now dominated
by domestic tourists or nationals of neighbouring countries. To address the
lack of research in this area, key themes for the conference are domestic
and intra-regional travel and regional cooperation in tourism.

Abstracts received so far cover industry, developmental, ethnographic, and
historical aspects of tourism in Asia, and cover individual countries
throughout the region as well as intraregional processes.

Running in parallel to the main conference are two, day-long seminars, both
aimed principally at the tourism industry and NGO personnel. One focuses on
inbound tourism from Asia to northern England ('Rose and Peony') and the
other considers outbound tourism from the UK to Asia ('Dragons and Tigers').
Delegates to the main conference may attend either of these seminars at no
extra charge.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Jan 21 16:56:01 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Jan 21 16:58:01 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L](Repost) CFP: Tourism in Asia (Leeds)
Message-ID: <000801c61ed5$7ae73d40$c0058696@toshibauser>

[Apologies ... The previous version of this announcement did not include
contact information. -AJ]


Call for Papers

Tourism in Asia
10-12 June 2006, Leeds Metropolitan University
 Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
 http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lsif/the/sustainability-tina.htm

Deadline for Abstracts: January 31, 2006

Overview:
The conference will consider new research into tourism in Asia, covering
current business trends as well as historical and cultural aspects.
Particular trends identified which will be discussed are the increasing
volume of Chinese, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean tourists visiting
Southeast Asia, the rapid growth of tourism in the Greater Mekong
Sub-region, and tourist flows between the Indian sub-continent and Southeast
Asia.

Globally, tourism analyses tend to focus on Western tourists impacting upon
Asian societies, whereas in many Asian countries the market is now dominated
by domestic tourists or nationals of neighbouring countries. To address the
lack of research in this area, key themes for the conference are domestic
and intra-regional travel and regional cooperation in tourism.

Abstracts received so far cover industry, developmental, ethnographic, and
historical aspects of tourism in Asia, and cover individual countries
throughout the region as well as intraregional processes.

Running in parallel to the main conference are two, day-long seminars, both
aimed principally at the tourism industry and NGO personnel. One focuses on
inbound tourism from Asia to northern England ('Rose and Peony') and the
other considers outbound tourism from the UK to Asia ('Dragons and Tigers').
Delegates to the main conference may attend either of these seminars at no
extra charge.

Conference Themes:

The main foci of the conference will be the response of the Asian tourism
industry to new and changing markets for leisure, business and religious
tourism in terms of:

The use of tourism as a strategy for regional and local economic growth
Business responses in distributing and marketing tourism products (for
instance the use of e-communications)
Educational responses to the need for greater volume and sophistication in
facilities provision
Government and industry responses to threats to tourism (such as heightened
fear of international terrorism)
The diversity within the categories of 'tourists' and 'hosts'
The variation in tourist experiences and encounters, including nature-based,
heritage, cultural, shopping and theme tourism
The preferences, motivation and behavioural patterns of tourists in Asia
The viability of using natural and cultural heritage tourism as a means of
poverty alleviation and biodiversity conservation
The interconnectedness between tourism-generated changes and other processes
of change
The creation of tourist cultures
The ways in which global and regional messages and images are interpreted in
local settings
The objectification, classification, and signifying of ethnicity by the
state
The reaction of minority and marginal populations to national forces and
international requirements

Papers focusing on government policy and strategy developments, ethnographic
perspectives, industry perspectives, comparative studies, and case studies
based on research evidence are all welcome. It is expected that many of the
papers will be informed by the need to create a responsible, long-term
industry and by an awareness of the ethics of tourism.

Conference Participants:

The conference is aimed at academics and students involved in research into
tourism in Asia, tourism professionals wishing to gain greater insights into
this growing market, and development practitioners keen to understand how
tourism contributes to local and regional economies and how tourism can be
used as a development tool.

The conference will take place from 10-12 June 2006 and is hosted by Leeds
Metropolitan University. It is organised jointly by the Department of East
Asian Studies, Leeds University and the Tourism, Hospitality & Events School
of Leeds Metropolitan University.

Abstracts should be submitted by January 31 2006. Abstracts will be reviewed
and authors notified by February 14 2006. Full papers should be submitted
(electronic version) by May 31 2006.

Cost for the full three days is ?190 for full delegates (includes conference
dinner and lunches but not other meals and accommodation). Student rate is
?75 (includes lunches but not conference dinner). For scale of charges
(including day rates) click here.

People presenting papers must register for the conference:
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lsif/the/042EB04847DF4B6F93A8D6BC063DC4B4.htm#

Principal contact in the first instance is: Dr. Janet Cochrane, Leeds
Metropolitan University. If your email will not go through, please try
jecochrane@onetel.com as an alternative.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jan 22 15:12:46 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 22 15:15:30 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ethnographic Field School in Buenos Aires
Message-ID: <001b01c61f90$4330c860$86058696@toshibauser>

 From: "Marta E. Savigliano" <martasa@arts.ucla.edu>


ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD SCHOOL:
CULTURE AND PERFORMANCE IN BUENOS AIRES - June 25-August 4, 2006

The University of Hawai'i-Manoa Study Abroad Center and the Department of
Anthropology have developed a 6-week intensive course in ethnographic
methods in Buenos Aires. The course focuses on current approaches to the
study of culture and performance in a complex urban setting.  Undergraduate
and graduate students are welcome to apply.

Buenos Aires offers opportunities to conduct sociocultural research on the
intersection of local and global trends; class, gender and ethnic identities
in motion; and a uniquely vibrant cultural production.  Marta E. Savigliano
(UCLA) and Jeffrey Tobin (Occidental College), professors and scholars
specializing in the anthropology of Argentina will be teaching the course.

Students will be trained in techniques of participation, observation, and
interpretation in a city known for its tango practitioners, soccer fans,
lavish beef-eaters, proud intellecctual and artistic producers, creative and
effective social movements, and conflicted memories of state terrorism.
Fieldwork exercises will take students to tango dance clubs and practice
sessions, soccer games and sports bars, city markets and asados (grilled
meat feasts) in the countryside, the neo-bohemian district of Palermo Viejo,
the museum and gravesite of Eva Peron, and the Plaza de Mayo (to walk with
the Madres).  Classroom discussions, based on fieldwork and readings, will
address methodological issues such as: defining a "field" in a complex,
urban setting; identifying and approaching participants; planning and
conducting interviews; recording meaningful observations; accounting for
competing viewpoints; participating in order to access an insider's
perspectiva without intruding; representing research findings through
writing and other media; and the use of scholarly sources to interpret
fieldwork.

Facilities: Library, computer lab (with broadband access), offices, and
classroom located in a cultural center, downtown Buenos Aires, two blocks
away from the national Congress building and its Library.

Costs: Approximately $3,800 including study abroad for 6 credits, room and
board, field trips/excursions, local transportation, laundry facilities and
internet access.  Airfare and personal expenses are not included.  Housing
is provided in centrally-located residential hotel, ten minutes subway ride
from the cultural center.

For admissions requirements and applications go to:
www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu
For additional information contact Michael Graves (mgraves@hawaii.edu),
Valerie Chong (vchong@hawaii.edu), Jeff Tobin (tobin@oxy.edu) and Marta
Savigliano (martasa@arts.ucla.edu).


--

Marta E. Savigliano, Ph.D.
Professor, World Arts and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles


From Fdemissie at aol.com  Sun Jan 22 12:56:38 2006
From: Fdemissie at aol.com (Fdemissie@aol.com)
Date: Sun Jan 22 15:18:16 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Abstract 
Message-ID: <86.36d7e00b.31052156@aol.com>

International  Conference Theorizing Africa/Black Diaspora: History and  
Memory

The Center for Black Diaspora, African Identities:  Journal of Economy, 
Culture and Society (Routledge) and the University of South Africa  Press are 
pleased to announce an international conference on  ?Theorizing African/Black 
Diaspora: History and Memory? to be held at DePaul University, May 19 and 20,  2006.

The  conference explores the intellectual history, analytical and 
interrogative  discourses that constitute the distinctive and interdisciplinary field of  
African/Black Diaspora Studies in the production of knowledge of the  
deterritorialised and transnational nature of the African/Black Diaspora. Moving  
beyond essentialist modes of theorizing about the emergent field of  
African/Black Diaspora Studies, the conference provides a venue for a critical  
exploration of history and memory and how these ideas illuminate the movement  
(geographic, cultural, political and psychological) of the African/Black  Diaspora in 
the context of globalized and transnational spaces.

In the  last half of the 20th century, African/Black Diaspora Studies emerged 
as a  critical space to interrogate dominant narratives and to 
reconceptualize the  histories, politics and cultures of the silenced voices of 
African/Black  diaspora in various academic fields. What is the state of knowledge of  
African/Black Diaspora Studies at the present moment? In what ways does the  
interdisciplinarity of the field contribute to theorizing African/Black  Diaspora? 
How does the present reconfiguration of various fields and blurred  academic 
boundaries provide new critical spaces to advance the field of  African/Black 
Diaspora Studies? What is the role of archives - past and present,  embedded 
and embodied memories in contributing to new frontiers of knowledge in  
African/Black Diaspora Studies? How does the improvisational nature of  African/Black 
Diasporic culture and its radical narratives serve as sites for  the 
production of knowledge? In what ways does the field of African/Black  Diaspora 
Studies intersect and open new conversations with other diasporas about  the past, 
present and future?

Conference Conveners:
Fassil Demissie

Sandra Jackson
Depaul University

Abebe Zegeye
University of South Africa

Selected papers  from the conference will be published in a special issue of 
African Identities,  (Routledge), and an edited book as an outgrowth of the 
conference is also  planned.

Proposal of approximately 300 -- words abstract should be sent  organizing 
Committee by March 30,2006.

Conference Organizing  Committee
Center for Black Diaspora
DePaul University
2320 N. Kemore  Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60614-3250

Proposals can be submitted by  e-mail as a Microsoft attachment, with a 
subject reading ?Theorizing  African/Black Diaspora? to: _bdiaspora@depaul.edu_ 
(mailto:bdiaspora@depaul.edu) 



From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 23 15:48:06 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 23 15:51:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP:  Prime Movers of the Atlantic World: Portugal and
	Africa
Message-ID: <002101c6205e$537f1590$74058696@toshibauser>

CFP:  Prime Movers of the Atlantic World: Portugal and Africa

 This symposium provides Luso-Africanist scholars the opportunity to discuss
a plurality of ideas about Portugal and West African societies' positions in
modifying the Atlantic world. The multidisciplinary atmosphere encourages
collaboration between diverse research and theoretical perspectives focused
on topics such as culture contact and change, ethnic relations, identity
formation, transnational networks, neo/post-colonialism, globalization, etc.

This symposium explores three important questions:
(1) How were the Portuguese unique in their maritime conduct?
(2) How did African societies react to, adapt to, and resist Portuguese
expansion?
(3) How do these real and imagined histories influence contemporary African
societies' worldviews?

WHEN: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Saturday, April 22, 2006
WHERE: SUNY Buffalo 120 Clemens Hall

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Please submit the following items for the committee's
consideration: -an ABSTRACT of no more than 300 words. The title should
appear clearly at the top of the abstract; the presenter's name should not
appear on the abstract. -a COVER SHEET with the following information:
presenter's name; presentation title; institutional affiliation (including
department) and academic status; phone number, street and e-mail addresses;
A/V needs; and a 50 word bio.

Contact Information:
Brandon Lundy
Department of Anthropology
380 MFAC
Buffalo NY 14261-0005 USA
Phone: (716) 631-5635
Email: bdlundy@buffalo.edu
URL http://wings.buffalo.edu/anthropology/Grad/AGSA/


From bjohnston at igc.org  Mon Jan 23 17:38:37 2006
From: bjohnston at igc.org (Barbara Rose Johnston)
Date: Mon Jan 23 21:30:34 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]reparations session at 2006 AAA
Message-ID: <a06200702bffb3529fb19@[192.168.1.3]>

Dear SUNTA members,

I am writing to see if there is any interest in participating in a 
reparations session being organized by the Committee for Human 
Rights.    I paste the session announcement below. Please contact me 
if you have any questions, etc...

yours truly,

Barbara

Barbara Rose Johnston
Senior Research Fellow
Center for Political Ecology
PO Box 8467 Santa Cruz, CA 95061
831-335-1769 h/o
bjohnston@igc.org
www.centerforpoliticalecology.org

Call for papers for a panel on Reparations that will be open to the 
public at AAA 2006 meetings in San Jose, California. 
Reparation is a concept that evolved as a means for nations to 
acknowledge serious violations of the laws of war and make amends. 
Today the term is used to secure remedy for an array of violations 
that occur under the guise of nationalism, militarism, and economic 
development  and include genocide, torture, slavery, and other crimes 
against humanity.   As acknowledged by the United Nations in adopting 
the Guidelines on Reparation and the Right to Remedy, reparation 
involves a variety of remedial actions that include restitution, 
compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of 
non-repetition. The proposed panel considers the anthropological 
contribution to the concept and implementation of reparation. 
Specifically we seek papers that explore the strategies, approaches, 
and efforts to facilitate the identification and implementation of 
meaningful remedy and clearly articulate our profession's critical 
contributions in efforts to secure meaningful redress. We are 
especially encouraging papers that address (1) reparations and the 
current array of abuses incurred by US military actions in the middle 
east; (2) efforts to secure remedy for historical cases of genocide, 
slavery, and other crimes against humanity, including forensic 
analysis, expert witness reports, and other evidentiary-based 
contributions; (3) essays that explore the sociocultural meaning and 
political impact of truth commissions and other mechanisms that 
attempt reconciliation with abusive past; and, (4) contributions that 
critically examine the human rights context and ethical concerns 
associated with the anthropology/reparations intersect, including 
risks to human rights victims and defenders.

Send paper proposals ASAP to Susan Slyomovics <ssly@mit.edu> or 
Barbara Rose Johnston <bjohnston@igc.org>.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 24 23:22:11 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 24 23:25:29 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Summer Field School in Ethnography 2006
Message-ID: <000d01c62166$f48d2770$6e058696@toshibauser>

From: Quetzil Castaneda <quetzil@osea-cite.org>

Summer Field School in Ethnography 2006
MIRA: Multimedia Interdisciplinary Research in Anthropology
A collaborative and comparative study of tourism destinations and cultures

2006 Program Includes a Special Workshop on Mexican Politics
http://www.osea-cite.org/program/elections2006.php

OSEA Summer Field School in Ethnography
MIRA Project: Multimedia Interdisciplinary Research in Anthropology

MIRA Project is a collaborative and comparative study of tourism
destinations and cultures in Yucatan, Mexico.  Program research locations
are the colonial city of Merida, the hub of the Maya Riviera in Playa del
Carmen, and the Indigenous community of Piste 3km from Chichen Itza, the
heart of the Maya archaeological civilization. OSEA Field School
participants gain intensive, on-site fieldwork training in ethnography and
cultural anthropology and develop new skills in interdisciplinary research
methodologies. Participants develop their own individual research project on
issues such as tourism development, governance, democracy, human rights,
indigenous identity, tourism cultures, cultural hegemony, urban development,
migration, performance cultures, tourism representation, exhibition and
staging, and multimedia ethnographic documentation.  Program seminars,
fieldwork workshops, and experiential learning provides students the
training to design, conduct and complete interdisciplinary ethnographic
research in cultural anthropology. Open to undergraduates and graduate
students in anthropology, social science, and related humanities and art
fields.  9 credits in Anthropology: Courses in Visual Anthropology,
Ethnographic Methods, Anthropology of Tourism/Tourism Studies.
Conversational Spanish Required. Cost is $3,575.  DATES are June 27 through
August 12, 2006.  Application deadline is April 10, 2006. www.osea-cite.org


contact@osea-cite.org


WHEN   Summer 2006: June 27 - August 12
Arrival on Tuesday June 27. Departures on Saturday, August 12

WHERE  Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico
Program includes:
- 7 nights in Playa del Carmen, Jewel of the Maya Riviera
- 26 nights in Merida, the Colonial capital city of Yucatan
- ?10 days in Piste & Chichen Itza, the heart of Maya Civilization

FORMAT Field School Training Program in Interdisciplinary Research

WHAT     Students receive training in interdisciplinary ethnography and
research methodologies based in intensive fieldwork participant observation

Students design, conduct and complete independent research projects
Areas of Investigation include Tourism, Urbanism, Migration, Development,
Cultural Ecology, Globalization, Performance Art, Exhibition, Political
Economy, Politics and Democracy, Election Process and Governance, Visual
Anthropology, Media Studies and Design

HOUSING  Posadas, hostels, and family run hotels

CREDITS  9 credits in Anthropology
Courses in Visual Anthropology, Ethnographic Methods, Anthropology of
Tourism/Tourism Studies

LANGUAGE    Conversational Spanish Required. Speaking knowledge of German,
Italian, French, and Japanes is an asset to be used in individual research
design

COST   $3,575 for MIRA 2006

Program Fee covers tuition, lodging, most meals (except for dinners and
during break) for 7 days & nights in Playa del Carmen, 26 in Merida & 10 in
Piste; project related transportation between these sites; planned program
excursions; and group entrance fees to archaeological sites (program trips
include Chichen Itza and Tulum; final scheduling may also include Coba, Ek
Balam, Uxmal, and other other Puuc Sites)

Additional costs include all personal items, consumption, and activities;
most dinners during program; lodging and food during breaks; purchase of
course materials both prior to departure and on-site; for details

Visit MIRA at OSEA for Program Details

Quetzil E. Castaneda, Ph.D.
Founding Director, OSEA
quetzil@osea-cite.org
812.336.2050

Bloomington, Indiana and Merida, Yucatan
www.osea-cite.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 25 14:21:41 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 25 14:25:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (and the role of
 place/environment)
Message-ID: <011b01c621e4$97c94d10$84058696@toshibauser>

**Final Call for Papers**

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Journal Special Issue
"Settings for Collaboration: The Role of Place"

Co-edited by Luigina Ciolfi, Geraldine Fitzpatrick and Liam Bannon

SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 15th May 2006


Background
Existing Recent work in HCI, CSCW and -more recently- interaction design has
begun to critically examine the concept of place, its meaning and the
implications for design. Early work by Erickson (1993) and Harrison and
Dourish (1996) suggested that place, is a more appropriate concept rather
than space is the notion that for providing an appropriate suitable
framework for understanding people's interaction with their physical
environment.
More recently, a consideration of place has been introduced in studies of
particular domains such as geographical technologies, collaborative systems
and interactive environments. In particular, increasing attention is being
paid to the notion of place as a useful conceptual tool when studying
people's interaction with ubiquitous computing environments, whereby
computational power augments and enhances existing features of actual
physical environments. Place provides a frame for understanding how people
relate to complex environments that include technology, physical and
material resources and especially other inhabitants.
A debate is emerging regarding different conceptual definitions of place and
on their implications if introduced within the HCI, CSCW and interaction
design areas, particularly in terms of methodological approaches. The
meaning and implications of these different notions needs to be discussed
and analysed, and especially when the notion of place is applied to
understanding social and collaborative activities in a number of locales,
from work environments, to public spaces,. This is even more so as new forms
of collaboration are enabled through ubiquitous computing environments.


Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* conceptual frameworks for understanding place
* methodological approaches for studying interaction and communication in
place
* case studies describing the design and evaluation of spatially distributed
and mobile technologies
* case studies of human experience of place mediated by technologies


SUBMISSIONS
Deadline for submissions: 28th February 2006
Notification of Acceptance: 15th May 2006


Submission of manuscripts (between 5000 and 10000 words, a figure equals 250
words) are invited. At this stage no specific format is required, however
you are invited to follow the layout guidelines given at:
http://www.springer.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,11855,4-40100-70-35755499-0,00.h
tml


Please **email** your submission (in MS Word or Acrobat PDF format) to
luigina.ciolfi [AT] ul.ie


REVIEW BOARD
Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Barry Brown, University of Glasgow (UK)
Matthew Chalmers, University of Glasgow (UK)
Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK)
Anne Galloway, Carleton University (Canada)
Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado (USA)
Jesper Kjeldskov, University of Aalborg (Denmark)
Eva Hornecker, University of Sussex (UK)
John McCarthy, University College Cork (Ireland)
Leysia Palen, University of Colorado (USA)
Mark Perry, Brunel University (UK)
Dan Shapiro, University of Lancaster (UK)


GUEST EDITORS
Luigina Ciolfi, University of Limerick (Ireland)
Geraldine Fitzpatrick, University of Sussex (UK)
Liam Bannon, University of Limerick (Ireland) Please contact luigina.ciolfi
[AT] ul.ie if you have any queries





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Dr. Luigina Ciolfi
Interaction Design Centre
Engineering Research Building, ER1 005
University of Limerick, Ireland
Tel. [+353] 061 213530
Fax. [+353] 061 213484
Skype: luigina.ciolfi
Web: http://richie.idc.ul.ie/luigina/
         http://www.idc.ul.ie/
         http://www.shared-worlds.org/
         http://www.idc.ul.ie/nomads/
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 25 14:31:09 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 25 14:34:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN:  Upwind Downwind: Cities, Air and Health
Message-ID: <014401c621e5$e85cefb0$84058696@toshibauser>

Upwind Downwind: Cities, Air and Health
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Feb 27-28, 2006

 The conference serves as an important networking and information forum for
the exchange of research findings and innovative ideas to improve air
quality. It also highlights the roles that industry, community groups,
academia and government play in achieving air quality improvements.

Featured Speaker: Lawrence D. Frank, PhD., AICP, ASLA

Day 1: Air Quality, Public Health and Planning
Focuses on the newly emerging partnership between public health and planning
with respect to improving air quality in urban environments.

Science for Decision-Making
Illustrates the use of science in decision-making and development of new
projects, policies and regulations.

Day 2: Airshed Agreements and Regulations
Examples of airshed agreements in North America, in addition to Ontario's
new air quality regulations, will be highlighted.

Partnerships
Concrete examples of citizen groups, non-government organizations, industry,
academia and local, provincial and federal governments partnering to improve
air quality.

 Registration (before Feb 1, 2006)
$250 (Corporate, Academic, Government)
$80 (Students, Community & Non-Profit Groups)

Late Registration (after Feb 1, 2006)
$295 Corporate, Academic, Government)
$80 (Students, Community & Non-Profit Groups)

Exhibit booths available: $500 + taxes

Location:  City Hall, 71 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8P 4Y5 Canada
Contact: totham@mcmaster.ca
 http://www.mcmaster.ca/mieh/events/special.htm


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Jan 25 14:35:39 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jan 25 14:39:29 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: The Sixth International Ecocity Conference: From Theory and
 Planning to Development (India)
Message-ID: <014a01c621e6$89d06b10$84058696@toshibauser>

The Sixth International Ecocity Conference
"From Theory and Planning to Development-
Transforming a City into an Ecocity"
August 5 - 12, 2006, Bangalore, India

As part of the International Convention of the Cities of the Future

The Sixth International Ecocity Conference follows five pioneering
conferences, the first held in Berkeley, USA (1990); Adelaide, Australia
(1992); Yoff/Dakar, Senegal (1996), Curitiba, Brazil (2000) and Shenzhen,
China (2002).

The Conference Series brings together the world's best and brightest in the
emerging field of ecological urban planning, design and development.

Topics to be addressed include: whole systems ecological city planning and
implementation, best practices and case studies from around the world,
sustainable transportation and healthy non car dependent living, global
warming abatement through ecocity development, energy issues including peak
oil and gas, re-localization of economies, ecological design of buildings
and integrated building programs, urban villages and eco-villages,
bioregional planning, urban agriculture, local food, edible landscaping,
delivery of goods and services, healthy watersheds, waste water, rainwater,
solid waste, zero waste, flood and disaster prevention through ecological
design, cultural sensitivity and celebration through ecocities, reclaiming
agricultural land and open space from sprawl, equity and fair trade, healthy
lifestyles, community, identity, safety, quality of life for both people and
nature.

Who should attend: Mayors, city managers, planners, architects, developers,
designers, environmental specialists, social justice activists and
organizers, permaculture practitioners, farmers, gardeners, teachers,
students, businesses, corporations, non profit organizations,
environmentalists, writers, wilderness advocates, bioengineers,
transportation planners, bicycle advocates, waste treatment specialists,
ecologists, regional planners, water specialists, community organizers, and
anyone wanting to learn more about the healthy city of the future: the
ecocity.

Additional Information/Registration Details
Normal Participant - USD 250
Student - USD 125
Author - USD 187.5

The registration fee includes conference fees, meals and Bangalore excursion
arranged during the conference.

Note: (a) Authors are eligible for special discount (25%). (b) Delegations
with 6 members & above are eligible for special discount (25%). (c) Authors
/ Delegates are allowed only one of the above 2 discounts (whichever
higher). For more information, visit:
http://www.tciconferences.com/ecocity2006/ecocity2006.htm

Conference Website:
http://www.tciconferences.com/ecocity2006/ecocity2006.htm

TCI Travel Corporation, India's premier destination and event management
organization, is developing a webpage with Project Agastya, the host
organization, for conference registration, accommodations, transportation
and sight seeing.

About the Host Organization, Project Agastya
Project Agastya, an initiative of the 25/Bangalore Foundation, is a unique
experiment in Bangalore - a Citizens' voluntary initiative with active
support, co-operation & participation of the Central & Karnataka
Governments, the industry, Educational & Research Organisations, NGOs,
Residential Associations, Community Based Organisations, facilitators,
experts, etc., for transforming Bangalore into a Sustainable eco-city by
2025.

Led by prominent citizens of Bangalore such as Justice M N Venkatachalaiah
(Rtd.), President, The 25/Bangalore Foundation [Former Chief Justice of
India], Dr. A Ravindra, IAS (Rtd.), Chairman of the Steering Committee
[Former Chief Secretary to the Government of Karnataka], etc., The
25/Bangalore Foundation and Project Agastya seeks to enhance the quality of
life in Bangalore by transforming Bangalore into an Sustainable eco-City
within a time frame, through efficient participation of Government, various
stakeholders and NGOs, and deployment of Environmentally Sound Technologies.

Project Agastya has done pioneering work in several of its initiatives such
as Urban Water Resources Management (incl. Water Conservation, Stakeholder
participation, Pollution control, Rain Water Conservation, etc.), Integrated
(Solid) Waste Management, E-Waste Management, Eco-Tourism, Urban
planning/Eco-cities, and Integrated & Sustainable Energy Management.

Ecocity 6 Chief Organizer

Rajeev Kumar
Co-founder/Chief Executive Officer,
Project Agastya
E-Mail : ecocity6@gmail.com
Mobile : (+91) 98861 94776/98801 07467

Local Secretariat in the Americas
Ecocity Builders
PO Box 697
Oakland, CA, 94604
Contact: Kirstin Miller
kirstin@ecocitybuilders.org
1-510-419-0850
www.ecocitybuilders.org


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 27 00:07:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 27 00:07:37 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TOC: City and Community, December 2005
Message-ID: <001b01c622ff$90eaf540$a5058696@toshibauser>

Table of Contents
City and Community, Vol. 4, no. 4 (Nov. 2005)

1. Editorial Introduction
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00140.x

2. "Everybody's Going: City Newspapers and the Early Mass Market for Movies"
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00142.x
Paul S. Moore

3. "Fashionable Quarters in the Postindustrial City: The Ticinese of Milan"
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00143.x
Laura Bovone

4. "NIMBY and the Civic Good"
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00144.x
Timothy A. Gibson

5. "Community in Cyber Space? The Role of the Internet in Facilitating
and Maintaining a Community of Live Music Collecting and Trading"
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00145.x
Peter P. Nieckarz

6. Book Reviews
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00146.x

7. About the Authors
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2005.00147.x


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 27 00:26:23 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 27 00:26:54 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: The Last Place on Earth (Hmong Refugees in
	Minnesota)
Message-ID: <003f01c62302$3fb8f2f0$a5058696@toshibauser>

Jan 25 2006 -- Minneapolis/St. Paul City Pages

The Last Place on Earth
by Paul Demko + photos by Jayme Halbritter
http://citypages.com/databank/27/1311/article14042.asp

After the final remaining Hmong refugee camp in Thailand closed, Minnesota
greeted five thousand new residents with warm words and closed doors. Now
many are homeless and struggling to survive.

CHUE YANG ARRIVED IN THE UNITED STATES in July 2004. The 40-year-old married
father of six initially settled his family in Atlanta with the help of his
wife's relatives. He had spent the prior 26 years living in Hmong refugee
camps in Thailand. Yang had little work experience, had never driven a car,
and could speak almost no English.
Last January, Yang and his family relocated to Minnesota, where the bulk of
his relatives live. The eight-person family moved into a two-bedroom
apartment in north Minneapolis that cost $665 a month, not including
utilities. With no one in the household working, and just a welfare check to
support them, the bills quickly piled up. Yang says that he borrowed at
least $3,000 from relatives to feed and shelter his family.
Finally in August, unable to keep up with his bills, Yang moved his family
to Mary's Place, a homeless shelter in north Minneapolis, just off Olson
Highway. The family now shares a two-bedroom apartment in the 92-unit
facility. "I just need a place to save some money and pay off my bills,"
Yang says on a recent weekday afternoon, speaking through a translator at
Mary's Place. He wears a white dress shirt and black pants that are too big
for his stocky, barely five-foot frame. "We're happy to be here. When we
came from Thailand we didn't have anything."
Yang has recently secured a job, working 30 hours a week as a janitor for $8
an hour. "It's a job," he responds when asked how he likes the work. But
he's uncertain when-or if-he'll have the financial resources to move his
family into their own residence.
 Yang's family was among the first Hmong refugees to show up at Mary's Place
seeking help. At the beginning of July there wasn't a single Hmong resident
at the facility, run by the nonprofit group Sharing & Caring Hands. But in
the ensuing months, as word has spread in the refugee community, families
have been arriving at an alarming clip. As of last week, there were 221
Hmong residents at Mary's Place-157 of them children. The overwhelming
majority of them are among the roughly 5,000 Hmong people who have settled
in Minnesota during the last two years, following the closure of the last
refugee camp in Thailand.
"I think what happened is there were a lot of people in this situation and
nobody knew where to go," says Charlotte Kinzley, a family advocate at
Mary's Place. "It's not something that the Hmong community has ever really
had to deal with." The influx has already severely taxed the nonprofit
group's ability to meet needs. "There have been times when we've had to turn
families away because we didn't have space," says Kinzley.
"More and more are being evicted," adds Mary Jo Copeland, the founder of
Sharing & Caring Hands, speaking of the refugees. "I see the eviction
notices on all these people. It's just incredible." Copeland notes that the
organization has also seen a huge spike in the number of Hmong people coming
to Sharing & Caring Hands to pick up free clothing. "They don't have any
coats," she says. "They don't have any shoes."
The situation at Mary's Place is just one facet of an emerging housing
crisis among recent Hmong refugees. Few have viable job skills or speak
English. Many are running up debts to relatives or living in squalid,
overcrowded conditions.
Youa Vang, a 36-year-old married mother of seven, arrived in Minnesota in
November 2004. At first, she says, her family shared a two-bedroom apartment
in north Minneapolis with broken windows, a furnace that seldom worked, and
numerous cockroaches. The rent was $700. No one in her household has a job.
They moved to Mary's Place in September. Vang is bewildered by her new
country. "Everything has to do with writing, reading, and money," she says,
speaking through a translator, her faced lined with wrinkles that belie her
age. "Thailand and Laos are different situations."
Tony Yang, a family therapist with Ramsey County Mental Health Center, says
that he had a client whose family lived in a condemned, cockroach-infested
home in St. Paul for half a year because they couldn't find another
affordable residence. Yang worries about how such dismal living conditions
will affect the psychological health of refugees. "It's all interconnected,"
he says. "If you're not able to meet those basic needs, it obviously drives
those mental health issues."
With so many children among the Hmong residents at Mary's Place, there's
also a concern about the housing instability's impact on their education.
"Becoming homeless always is disruptive to education," says Margo Hurrle,
who monitors homeless students enrolled in the Minneapolis public school
system. "Just the emotional upheaval that you go through, it delays your
academic progress."
 Jim Anderson, Ramsey County's planner for immigrant and refugee services,
figures that the folks at Mary's Place are in some ways lucky. "Right now
they're in better shape than a whole lot of families," he says. "I've
actually been amazed that they've been able to free up that many apartments
over a relatively short period of time."
While those familiar with the situation praise Mary's Place for stemming a
potential catastrophe, many also wonder whether living at the
Catholic-affiliated shelter will only further the refugees' disaffection and
culture shock. The walls of the center are adorned with crosses and
religious paintings. Mandatory Thursday meetings for residents are basically
church services. After making some announcements, Mary Jo Copeland leads the
assembled through prayers and hymns. Most of the Hmong staying there are not
Christians.
"How would I feel as a Catholic if I had to have a menorah and Star of David
in every room of my shelter?" says Monica Nelson, director of community
development at The Bridge for Runaway Youth, a Minneapolis nonprofit group
that works with homeless young people. "It's religiously insensitive."
Nelson also questions whether Mary's Place and other facilities that shelter
homeless people-already taxed with roughly 20,000 people living without
permanent shelter on any given night in Minnesota-can handle the added
stress. "It's helpful to the families that they are able to stay there, but
it is unhelpful to the system," says Nelson. "When you keep packing in more
and more people, the quality of the service goes down."
State Sen. Mee Moua, who is Hmong, says that she only became aware of the
situation after getting a call from a worker at Mary's Place. "With winter
coming and the high cost of utilities I'm not surprised," says the St. Paul
legislator. "The reality is that when the bills start to pile up people can
borrow and make ends meet for two or three months, but there comes a point
where you're just like, 'Oh, I can't do that anymore.'"
Moua visited Mary's Place in November, meeting with the residents. "Some of
the people were pretty emotional," she says. "They're pretty disillusioned."
Moua is concerned that the inability of these refugee families to make ends
meet will fuel anti-immigrant sentiments, even though they are here at the
invitation of the U.S. government. Earlier this month, Gov. Tim Pawlenty
proposed several new measures aimed at cracking down on illegal immigrants,
most notably a new 10-officer police unit charged with arresting
undocumented residents. "I'm very concerned that these families are going to
get stigmatized," Moua says. "Given the reality of the current political
climate of the state of Minnesota-where I think it's not inaccurate to say
that there's a chill towards immigrants- I certainly don't want to feed that
flame."
 IN DECEMBER 2003, THE U.S. AND THAI governments announced an agreement to
close the final Hmong refugee camp, known as Wat Tham Krabok, and resettle
the families in this country. At the time there were roughly 14,500 people
living in the camp, which surrounded a Buddhist monastery.
Many Hmong fought on the side of the U.S. during the Vietnam War. Fearing
persecution after the U.S. withdrawal, hundreds of thousands fled to
Thailand. But they were deemed illegal immigrants by the Thai government and
restricted to refugee camps. Starting in the late '70s, waves of these
refugees have made their way to the U.S. Today it's estimated that there are
250,000 people of Hmong heritage across the country.
Starting with an initial influx of roughly 60 refugees in 1976, the Twin
Cities gradually attracted the largest Hmong population in the country. A
2004 report by the Minnesota State Demographic Center estimated that there
are 60,000 Hmong residents in the state. Therefore it was immediately
evident that a significant chunk of the refugees from Wat Tham Krabok would
ultimately end up settling in this area. Initial estimates predicted that
the state would see an influx of 5,000 additional residents.
At the time that the resettlement program was announced, public officials
made countless statements about welcoming the displaced families to
Minnesota and making their transition to a new culture as seamless as
possible. Then-St. Paul Mayor Randy Kelly led a delegation to inspect the
Wat Tham Krabok refugee camp and see what the needs of the residents would
likely be once they arrived in the U.S.
"We didn't know anything about this population anymore," says Ramsey
County's Jim Anderson, a member of the St. Paul delegation who also spent a
decade working at refugee camps in Thailand. "We didn't know who was there.
We didn't know if it was an elderly population or a sick population. We
didn't know if they had any education."
 The delegation of experts spent two weeks at the camp, interviewing 91
families about their living conditions, health status, and educational
backgrounds. Upon returning to Minnesota, they created a report detailing
the potential services that would be needed by the refugees when they
arrived. The findings were disturbing, if hardly surprising. Almost
two-thirds of the refugees were under the age of 18. Chronic malnutrition
was endemic. Literacy rates were higher than in previous waves of refugees,
but English language skills were almost nonexistent. Many of the people had
spent the majority of their lives living in refugee camps, dependent on the
benevolence of others for food and shelter. Few Hmong refugees had any
notable work experience.
In March 2004, the Pioneer Press editorial board lauded the benevolent
spirit of Minnesotans after a packed house showed up at Lao Family Community
in St. Paul to hear about the reconnaissance mission to Thailand. "The
hundreds of people who attended-and the dozens turned away at the door when
the hall overflowed-were a testament to St. Paul's and Minnesota's big heart
and roll-up-the-shirtsleeves spirit in the face of a challenge," the
unsigned editorial opined.
While the refugee influx was slower than anticipated at first, 4,972 former
residents of Wat Tham Krabok have so far relocated directly to Minnesota,
according to the Minnesota Department of Health. In other words, the state
has received almost exactly the number of refugees it anticipated.
But as the housing woes now plaguing recent Hmong refugees show, they have
not always found the open arms and abundant social services so widely
praised and promised by politicians and editorial writers. "There's a big
difference between me saying I welcome you here and me saying I'll assist
you financially in settling," notes Monica Nelson.

Right now Mary's Place and other homeless shelters are basically the only
option for Hmong refugees who cannot afford to pay rent on the open market.
The waiting lists for Section 8 vouchers, which allow families to pay just
30 percent of their income for rent, are so extensive that they are not a
feasible option. The Section 8 list maintained by the Public Housing
Authority of St. Paul, for example, has been closed since 2002. "It just got
to the point where we didn't think it was providing a service to anyone to
still be taking names," says Al Hester, the city's housing policy director.
Even so, there were still 1,602 names on the list as of the end of November.
The news is no better in Minneapolis. Currently there are almost 7,000
households waiting for subsidized housing. The city's housing authority
hasn't added any new names to the waiting list since 2003.
The prospects of getting into subsidized housing projects are just as
dismal. In St. Paul there are now roughly 7,000 people on the waiting list
to gain residence at developments such as Mt. Airy Homes or McDonough Homes.
The city owns 4,235 units of subsidized housing, meaning the wait to land a
unit will almost certainly be years. "Frankly, we've been talking again
about whether we have to close that list," says Hester. "It's kind of
wait-and-see right now."
 What's more, the motivation (and consequentially the dollars) to build
additional public housing stock has evaporated in recent years. In St. Paul
the housing authority hasn't purchased or built any new public housing in a
decade.
Perhaps the most troublesome aspect of the Hmong housing situation is that
it was eminently predictable. "We knew going in that probably the biggest
difficulty that was going to face the new arrivals was housing," says Ramsey
County's Anderson. "There's no subsidies available and there's no public
housing available."
In 2004, Ramsey County applied for a grant from the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services to help subsidize housing costs. It would have
provided $500 per month in housing assistance for 18 months to the neediest
25 percent of refugees relocating to Ramsey County. The grant application,
however, was rejected. "Currently there's really nothing that will provide
ongoing assistance," concludes Anderson. "It's a real big, big problem."
Accordingly there are very few resources available to assist refugees who
are facing the prospect of homelessness. In 2004 the St. Paul Foundation
dispensed $600,000 to nonprofit groups around the state to allocate as
emergency grants for struggling immigrants. Refugees (Hmong or otherwise)
who had been in the country for less than two years were eligible. The
maximum total grant, however, was $750. "It doesn't really meet housing
needs all that well, but it can pay for a month's rent," says Michael
Conaboy, program associate at the St. Paul Foundation. All of that money,
however, has now been dispensed to local agencies, and there are no plans at
present to provide additional funding for the program.
Senator Moua says that after meeting with the Hmong residents of Mary's
Place she talked with her own mother about how the family made ends meet
upon arriving as refugees from Thailand in 1978. The answer: public housing.
Then she asked her mother-in-law the same question. The answer: public
housing.

NANCY JANE MEYER, AN ENGLISH instructor at Hmong American Partnership, sees
the barriers to work that Hmong refugees face every morning. For four hours
each weekday she helps 15 students become proficient in the language of
their new country. The goal is to provide them with enough English skills to
land a job and support their families. Her students were among the early
arrivals from Wat Tham Krabok, and have been in the country for more than a
year. Even so, it's immediately evident on a recent Friday morning in her
St. Paul classroom how far they have to go.
"Good morning, everyone," Meyer says to her class.
"Good morning, Teacher," they respond in unison.
The lesson plan today focuses on the letter L. "What word do you know that
begins with bl?" Meyer asks. "Black," one student answers. "What word do you
know that begins with cl?" she continues. "Class" is the first response. The
exercise continues through fl, gl, pl, and sl, with the students dutifully
calling out words from their limited vocabularies.
Meyer, who has taught English to nonnative speakers for more than a decade,
says that it takes anywhere from five to seven years for a student to become
proficient in the language. Only two of her students have managed to land
jobs so far, part-time gigs at Fed Ex. The rest of them survive on monthly
checks from the state's welfare fund, the Minnesota Family Investment
Program, and loans from family members.
But in some respects these students are among the more fortunate of the
recent refugee arrivals. They are at least enrolled in English classes and
taking steps toward becoming employed. Hundreds of other people are stuck on
waiting lists. In St. Paul alone, for instance, there are 135-175 Hmong
refugees waiting to begin classes, according to the St. Paul Community
Literacy Consortium.
And this situation is far from an anomaly. "There are waiting lists all
across the metro area, and that's been going on for quite some time now,"
says Eric Nesheim, executive director of the Minnesota Literacy Council.
Nesheim says that his organization and others lobbied the Legislature last
year to increase funding for adult language classes, citing the influx of
refugees, but their efforts proved fruitless.
"This whole system was devised by people who know nothing about refugee
resettlement or language acquisition," Meyer says. Students often tell her
that they'd rather be back in the refugee camp. "It's cold here, they don't
speak the language, and they live in the same crowded conditions as in the
camp," Meyer notes.
 When the subject of Mary's Place is brought up during her class, several
students indicate that they have heard of the place. One of them wants to
know if there is a similar shelter in St. Paul that they can go to and live
for free.
Cha Vang, one of the students in class today, arrived in Minnesota in
October of 2004 with his wife and five children, all under the age of 10.
Prior to that he'd lived in various refugee camps in Thailand since he was
eight years old. Relatives helped him find a two-story house to rent in St.
Paul, near Oakland Cemetery, just west of Interstate 35E. The cost: $1,350
per month, not including utilities. "It's more than my entire income," Vang
says, speaking through an interpreter. In fact, with six children, the
family is entitled to an MFIP grant of exactly $1,350. (The couple had
another child after arriving in the U.S.)
In addition, Vang owes money for the plane tickets that brought his family
to Minnesota, roughly $3,000, payable in monthly installments. Last January,
four additional family members, including his mother and his brother, joined
the household, bringing total occupancy to 12. None of them has a job.
After class the 30-year-old refugee provides a tour of his home. It's a
dilapidated two-story yellow structure with no shutters and peeling paint.
Inside the furnishings are extremely sparse. A Clinton-era computer sits in
one corner of the living room. An old 12-inch TV is on the floor. The only
furniture is a well-worn two-person couch. The six kids sleep in one
bedroom, split between three mattresses. Vang and his wife, Pa Hang, sleep
in the other downstairs bedroom. The remaining four relatives share the
upstairs.
Vang is obviously embarrassed by the humble surroundings, but he hopes that
things will eventually improve. "Right now I go to school, study English,"
he says quietly, without aid of an interpreter. "I want to go to work."


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 27 16:09:35 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 27 16:17:54 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Connecting Papers and Panels for AAA 2006
Message-ID: <001b01c62386$02551cc0$bc058696@toshibauser>

Networking: If you have ideas for panels--or are looking for papers for
your panel or a panel for your paper--send a short note either to me or to
 to all SUNTA members via the URBANTH-L listserv
(urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu)

The below abstract is for a work in progress. I am looking for a panel that
might be a good fit.

Thanx, bdf

Beverly D. Frazier, M.Div, MBA
Ph.D. Candidate
Program for Religion and
Social Policy Research
3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-573-7942

Pre-Dissertation Fellow
Program for Research on Religion
and Urban Civil Society
3814 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
www.prrucs.org
215-746-7116

ABSTRACT:

Ethnographic Portraits from a Faith-based Cognitive-Behavioral
Reentry Intervention and Program in the Philadelphia Prison System:
REST Philly

Beverly D. Frazier,
School of Social Policy and Practice
University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Committee:

Ram Cnaan, PhD., Chair
Elijah Anderson, PhD.
John DiIulio, PhD.

Each year hundreds of thousands of individuals are incarcerated and
released - more than ever in American history, more than anywhere else in
the world. Many of those released return to communities and families that
have limited capacity to support their reentry. These men and women entered
jail or prison with limited human, social, spiritual and economic/financial
capital which is further depleted during their imprisonment. They received
little rehabilitation through pre- or post-release reentry interventions and
programming. Most ex-prisoners need such resources and guidance in securing
housing and employment, reconnecting to families, and overcoming substance
abuse. Also, over the past decade there has been an increase in the number
who 'churn' or recycle through prison and parole.

There are, therefore, enormous opportunities for programs and interventions
to enhance the public safety, health, and cohesion of the communities that
are at the center of this cycle by improving reentry outcomes for
ex-prisoners. The literature has shown that institutions of faith can and do
play a significant role in easing the reentry process. With the expansion of
charitable choice legislation and growth of the federal Office of
Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, public funding for faith-based
reentry programming and interventions has increased and continues to
increase. Yet, there are only a few studies on faith-based prisoner reentry
interventions and programming. Some evidence suggests that faith-based
programs may be effective in improving prisoners' behavior, reducing
recidivism rates and improving inmates' adjustments to life after
incarceration. However, there is no research that provides a comprehensive
picture of the values, spiritual norms and shared understanding of life
among prisoners during their reentry process. If faith-based programs are
effective, even for a subgroup of ex-prisoners, we need to know how the
process of reentry is constructed and shaped.

This proposal outlines the significance, necessity, and feasibility of a
nine-month ethnographic site study of Black and Hispanic women who
participated in REST Philly, a faith-based reentry intervention and
aftercare program. The study takes place in two primary locations: a
Philadelphia Prison System correctional facility and a local
Philadelphia-based congregation. The study begins during a three-month,
faith-based cognitive-behavioral intervention, while subjects are still
incarcerated, and continues for six months post-release, while subjects
participate in a faith-based reentry support group. The same group of women
will be studied throughout the nine-month period.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Jan 27 16:20:44 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jan 27 16:21:49 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Poverty, Vulnerability and Migration Choice
Message-ID: <007701c62387$962804c0$bc058696@toshibauser>

From: Ellen Hertz <ellen.hertz@unine.ch>

Please find the below call for papers for "Poverty, Vulnerability and
Migration Choice" workshop - 18-19 May 2006, Geneva - organized by
IMISCOE and Sussex Centre for Migration Research - Migration DRC.
This is a IMISCOE A2 cluster workshop, open to researchers, policy-makers
and others interested. Abstracts (500 word) are welcomed by 17th
February 2006.

With best wishes,
Cristina Pantiru
E-mail: M.C.Pantiru@sussex.ac.uk


Poverty, Vulnerability and Migration Choice.
18-19 May 2006, Geneva

Call for papers
The study of linkages between broad conceptualisations of poverty,
vulnerability and
migration is of growing interest to researchers and public policy-makers in
the field of
development. There is an emerging consensus that poverty, rather than simply
causing
migration, can be a barrier to certain forms of mobility, whilst migration
can also have
complex effects on the livelihoods of the poor.

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the interconnections between
poverty and
vulnerability on the one hand, and the process of migration on the other.
The aim is to
stimulate dialogue between actors and stakeholders working in the areas of
poverty and
migration, including researchers, government bodies and non-governmental
organisations.

We invite proposals on the following themes:

. Migration as a livelihood strategy of the poor and vulnerable
. The extent to which different types of migration are accessible to the
poor
. The effects of migration on poverty and development in host and source
locations
. The challenges, opportunities and limitations of existing datasets on
migration

The papers should fall broadly within the main questions in discussion:
Under what
conditions are the poor able to consider migration as a livelihood strategy
and what
determines the success of such a strategy? How do poverty and vulnerability
affect the
choice and necessity to migrate in different settings? How migrant status
(regular/irregular) and destination affects livelihood strategies, poverty
and vulnerability?
What explains choice and necessity to migrate and to return in different
settings for a
range of categories of migrants: return, current, repeat, non-migrants?
Which types of
migration are accessible to the poor? What are the implications of migration
strategies for
the poor, their households and their communities? In what ways return and
repeat
migration can be facilitated for the advantage of community and national
growth and
development?

Abstracts (500 word) are welcomed from academics, researchers, policy-makers
and
others by 17th February 2006.

Please send abstracts and full papers (due by 14th April) via e-mail to:
Rachel Sabates-
Wheeler at R.Sabates-Wheeler@ids.ac.uk.

For details please contact: Cristina Pantiru at M.C.Pantiru@sussex.ac.uk, or
by telephone
at + 44(0)1273 877684 or visit the following websites:

IMISCOE members: http://www.imiscoe.org/about/partners.html and
SCMR-DRC: www.migrationdrc.org

Contact:
Sussex Centre for Migration Research
University of Sussex
Falmer, Brighon BN1 9SJ
United Kingdom
www.sussex.ac.uk/migration
T +44(0) 1273 877007
+44(0) 1273 877684
+44(0) 1273 877683
F +44(0) 1273 873158 .


From ccmcarthy at verizon.net  Sun Jan 29 07:45:57 2006
From: ccmcarthy at verizon.net (C McCarthy)
Date: Sun Jan 29 13:31:51 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Request
Message-ID: <001301c624eb$1ccd7820$2f01a8c0@theblueboy01>

 Hi, my name is Chris.  I am in the Urban and Regional Planning Masters
 program at Cal Poly, Pomona in California.  I am researching the question of
 how is the traditional role of urban public spaces changing because of
 technology.  By technology I mean cell phones, laptops, Ipods, or any other
 portable technology that is used in public spaces.  I am in the beginning
 stages of my research and am putting together a literature review.  If
 anyone has any sources that could assist with my research I would be
 greatful if they would share them with me.  I can be contacted at
 ccmcarthy@verizon.net
 Thank you, cmc.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Jan 29 14:50:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jan 29 14:51:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Fulbright Humanity in Action's International Human Rights
 Summer Fellowship (undergrad)
Message-ID: <003101c6250d$3de70270$b4058696@toshibauser>

From: Fulbright Association <fulbright@fulbright.org> 
To: FULBRIGHT@LISTSERV.LOUISVILLE.EDU 
Subject: Seeking Applicants for Int'l. Human Rights Summer Fellowships 

The Fulbright Association is pleased to forward to you information on 
Humanity in Action's International Human Rights Summer Fellowship program. 
Please see message below or visit http://www.humanityinaction.org for more 
information. 

Best regards, 

Marshall 
  
**************** 
Marshall Ellis 
Senior Director, Membership 
Fulbright Association 
666 11th Street, NW, Suite 525 
Washington, DC  20001 
Ph: (202) 347-5543 
Fax: (202) 347-6540 
marshall.ellis@fulbright.org 
www.fulbright.org 
  
Find events for Fulbrighters online at http://www.fulbright.org/calendar. 


============================================================= 
SEEKING APPLICANTS FOR INT'L. HUMAN RIGHTS SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS 
Organization: Humanity In Action 
Application Deadline: February 7, 2006 
Eligibility: Sophomores, Juniors, Seniors from US Colleges/Universities 
Website (to download applications & learn more): 
http://www.humanityinaction.org 

Humanity in Action sponsors six summer programs on minority issues in Europe 
and the United States. This year we will select a total of 70 students from 
U.S. colleges and universities to participate in the 2006 programs. We are 
looking for applicants from all majors with a commitment to human rights and 
minority issues. The 2006 summer programs will take place in Amsterdam, 
Berlin, Copenhagen, New York, Paris, and Warsaw. Because we are seeking to 
recruit the best of the best, we pay virtually all of the costs of 
participation. 

Humanity in Action (HIA) is a New York-based not-for-profit organization 
that seeks to engage, inspire, and empower future human rights leaders by 
giving them the opportunity to meet current human rights leaders in the 
context of transnational educational programs. In each program, American 
students work with an equal number of university students in the host 
countries. (Note: European students from HIA host countries can also find 
applications for the program on the website). Although each program focuses 
on current minority and human rights issues in the host country, in all 
programs students study histories and theories of resistance to the abuse of 
human rights and the development of international human rights doctrines and 
institutions in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust. HIA engages 
Fellows in an ongoing trans-Atlantic dialogue about the challenges that 
democratic societies encounter as they experience new degrees and forms of 
diversity. 

Upon completion of the summer program, HIA seeks to further the personal and 
professional growth of participants by offering a network of Senior Fellows 
(graduates of the program) in the U.S. and Europe, periodic lectures and 
conferences, and eligibility for a variety of prestigious internships 
(currently including the International Criminal Tribunal for the former 
Yugoslavia, Interpol, the U.S. House of Representatives, the European 
Parliament, and others). Complete information about HIA and the full range 
of our programs can be found on our website: http://www.humanityinaction.org 
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 30 15:09:15 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 30 15:13:56 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Fellows Program, Duke University
Message-ID: <006601c625d9$0f9fa710$8d058696@toshibauser>

From: "Milissa Markiewicz" <mmarkiew@duke.edu>

FELLOWSHIP- Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Fellows Program, Duke University

Duke University

The Joel L. Fleishman Civil Society Fellows Program

Created in honor of the Institute's founding director, the Joel L.
Fleishman Civil Society Fellows Program provides a select group of leaders
from nonprofit organizations, international NGOs, foundations, government,
socially responsible businesses, and other civil society groups with the
opportunity to spend a four-week residential sabbatical at Duke University's
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.

While at Duke, Fellows perform research and work with Institute faculty and
other Duke affiliates on issues related to the development of civil society.
 Applicants are selected based upon their proposed research topic and how
they intend to utilize Duke's resources to benefit their professional work
in society.  Housing and program expenses are covered.  In addition, each
Fellow receives a $6000 stipend.

Full-time academics are not eligible to apply. The 2006 Fellowship period
will begin October 1, 2006.  The Application deadline is May 1, 2006.
Applications can be downloaded from the program website:
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/civil/index.html.

Contact:

Milissa Markiewicz, Program Director, 919-613-9244 or
mmarkiew@duke.edu

Milissa Markiewicz
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
Duke University
Box 90253
Durham, NC 27708
USA
Tel: (919)613-9244
Web: www.pubpol.duke.edu

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Jan 30 18:47:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jan 30 18:49:22 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award (undergraduate and graduate)
Message-ID: <003e01c625f7$9bbfb5a0$ad058696@toshibauser>

The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award

Eligibility Requirements: Student at any level of student (undergraduate or
graduate) who is responsible for the care of one or more child as they
pursue their education or research in anthropology

Applications are now available online. The Beth Wilder Dillingham Award was
established in 1989 to honor Beth Wilder Dillingham's contributions to the
CSAS and to assist undergraduate or graduate students in any subfield of
anthropology who are responsible for the care of one or more children. An
applicant for the Dillingham Award may be male or female, need not be
married, and need not be the legal guardian.

Contact Information
Pat Gray, CSAS Award Committee Chair
Dept of Anthropology, PO Box 413
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Milwaukee WI 53211 USA
Phone: 414-229-4822
Email: jpgray@uwm.edu
URL http://www.iupui.edu/~csas/Awards.htm


From CFish at bmcc.cuny.edu  Tue Jan 31 08:50:10 2006
From: CFish at bmcc.cuny.edu (CFish@bmcc.cuny.edu)
Date: Tue Jan 31 22:06:03 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: technology in urban space
In-Reply-To: <E1F3cO6-0000gT-9p@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <OF224F2793.D8EC7A1B-ON85257107.004BDA18-85257107.004C039C@bmcc.cuny.edu>

There is a good essay I use in teaching freshman writing=="Cell Yell: 
Thanks for (Not)Sharing by Eric Taub.  It delves into the issue of public 
space, private/public and generational differences 

Cheryl J. Fish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, English
Borough of Manhattan Community College
City University of New York
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 31 22:20:27 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 31 22:22:14 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Katrina Media Fellowships (for documentary film)
Message-ID: <006d01c626de$7839d8d0$b8058696@toshibauser>

This may interest visual anthropologists  - AJ


The Open Society Institute (OSI) is pleased to announce a one-time
fellowship competition in response to critical issues of poverty, 
racism, and government neglect that were laid bare by Hurricane Katrina.

The Katrina Media Fellowships
(http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/katrina) will 
support media makers working in photography, print and radio journalism, 
and documentary film and video to generate and improve media coverage 
of issues exposed by Katrina and to stimulate and sustain a national 
conversation on these issues.

Applicants may propose projects that expand and deepen the public's
understanding of race and class inequalities that were brought to light 
by Katrina's aftermath. Applicants may also propose projects that 
address the government's response to problems caused or illuminated by 
Katrina, the use or misuse of public funds, the role of private 
contractors, the effectiveness of clean-up and rebuilding efforts, 
citizen involvement in these efforts, and lessons learned that should 
inform the handling of future natural and man-made disasters. In 
addition, applicants may propose projects that draw attention to
OSI's current or past programmatic priorities using Katrina as the
frame. These priorities include, but are not limited to, access to legal 
services and government assistance, criminal justice reform, improving 
end-of-life care and access to health care, and education reform.

OSI expects to award 12 to 15 fellowships in mid-May 2006. Fellows will
receive between $15,000 and $35,000 to carry out projects in 
photography, print, radio, and documentary film and video production. 
Award amounts will cover a stipend and project expenses and will vary 
depending on the project duration, medium, and costs involved. The 
fellowship term is one year and begins June 15, 2006.
OSI will give special consideration to applicants who have been
displaced from or are residents of the Gulf Region.

Application deadline is 5:00 p.m. EST on Friday, March 31, 2006.

For more information and a link to the fellowship guidelines, please
visit the Katrina Media Fellowship website at:

http://www.soros.org/initiatives/justice/focus_areas/katrina

Please distribute to anyone who you feel would be interested.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Jan 31 23:37:29 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jan 31 23:39:23 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Theorizing Power in the Post 9/11 World
Message-ID: <00c101c626e9$3bace5a0$b8058696@toshibauser>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Seventh Annual International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC) Conference

May 18 - 21, 2006 The Hotel Roanoke & Conference Center Roanoke,
Virginia

THEORIZING POWER IN THE POST 9/11 WORLD

The Alliance of Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought
(ASPECT) at Virginia Tech in partnership with the International Social
Theory Consortium, (ISTC) will host the 7th Annual ISTC Conference May
18-21, 2006, in Roanoke, Virginia at The Hotel Roanoke & Conference
Center.

The objective of this annual conference is to provide a forum for
multidisciplinary dialogue between social theorists of all disciplines
and occupations. The conference organizers invite paper and panel
proposals from a variety of theoretical perspectives and intellectual
traditions, and especially welcomes proposals that continue the
Consortium's dialogue among theorists working in the Global South and
North. This conference also explicitly welcomes social activists engaged
in transforming power relationships at various scales. As this year's
host, ASPECT is particularly interested in inviting panels that embrace
in equal measure social, political, ethical and cultural theory in
relationship to the conference theme.

Previous ISTC conferences have been hosted in Singapore, Toronto, Tampa,
Dubrovnik, Sussex and Lexington, Kentucky.

Possible sub-themes to be addressed may include, but are not limited to
the following:

1. New theorizations of power post 9/11
2. Classic theories of political, cultural, and social power
3. Geographical theorizations of power
4. Empire and its discontents
5. National and comparative perspectives on "race," racialization,
ethnicity and nativism
6. Cultural forms of neo-liberalism
7. Non-corporate and corporate models of globalization
8. Islam, Christianity and Judaism as forces for social justice
9. Technology, science and democracy
10. Analytic approaches to power and justice
11. Visualilty, media and representation
12. Memory and mourning
13. Theories and practices of civil society
14. Mediations of post 9/11 power: Race, Gender, Class
15. Militarism, war, and the disciplining of national bodies
16. Patriotism and class
17. Discourses on inter-civilizational dialogues
18. Terror, torture, and human rights
19. Gender, sexuality and critical theory
20. Postcoloniality in an (ongoing) age of imperialism
21. Theorizing development and anti-development
22. Varieties of capitalism and anti-capitalisms
23. Global civil society and the ethics of place
24. Transnational social movements
25. Governance and governmentality
26. Radical, plural, and other varieties of democracy
27. Techno-nature
28. Health: Bio-ethics and bio-power
29. Demographies and cartographies of power
30. Immigration, citizenship and imagined national communities
31. Contemporary and historical perspectives on civic nationalism and
patriotism
32. Constitutionalism and its institutions

SUBMISSION

Abstracts (between 150 and 200 words in length) for paper and panel
proposal should be submitted by February 15, 2006 to:

E-MAIL: wnatter@vt.edu
FAX: 540-231-6078
MAIL: 7th ISTC Conference
ASPECT
531 Major Williams Hall (0130)
VA Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

For further inquiry, please contact:
Karen Jenkins
E-mail: karenjen@vt.edu
Telephone: 540-231-2839

All conference papers will receive consideration for inclusion in a
publication containing the proceedings.

REGISTRATION

Conference registration will be open in January 2006.  Visit the ASPECT
website at http://www.ASPECT.vt.edu for further information.

Organized by the ASPECT Program, with the generous support of the
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech 
