From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Sep  3 16:20:41 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep  3 15:20:55 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Hurricane Katrina in Cultural Context
Message-ID: <003f01c6cf8e$0f3253e0$afe84247@Maulwaurf>

From: Casey O'Donnell <odonnc@rpi.edu>

Hurricane Katrina in Cultural Context

In the August 2006 issue of Cultural Anthropology,   American Studies 
scholar George Lipsitz writes of how policies and attitudes set in play long 
before Katrina lashed New Orleans continue to destroy the communities that 
have given the city so much of its culture and identity.   The article and 
related material is available through the journal's new website, 
www.culanth.org

Lipsitz's essay examines the underlying "social warrant" that left the city 
exposed to flood waters, abandonment and greed. In his essay the University 
of California at Santa Barbara professor of Black Studies narrates the 
history of the city as a site of suffering and joy, slavery and freedom, 
poverty and resourcefulness. The demolished neighborhoods he remembers 
endure as the source of counter-memory not only for New Orleans' African 
American citizens but also for everyone who has wanted to see beyond the 
image pushed by developers and politicians of the city as a bawdy theme 
park.

      In analyzing the strategies that seem destined to turn New Orleans 
over to such investors and politicians, Lipstiz makes an argument that the 
same forms of privatization that have been pursued in Iraq   now serve as a 
model for rebuilding New Orleans:

Displaced residents of the Seventh, Ninth, and Thirteenth Wards stand to 
lose much more from Hurricane Katrina than the owners of mansions, luxury 
apartments, office buildings, and hotels, because although they are resource 
poor, they were network rich. The reconstitution of those networks and the 
spaces and social relations that nurtured and sustained them should be the 
first priority of any rebuilding effort. They have the right to return, the 
right to rebuild, and the right to expect that Black dignity and humanity 
will be protected as diligently and as assiduously as white property.

Lipsitz's essay can be used in teaching courses in American Studies, Black 
Studies, Urban Studies, Cultural Theory and Public Anthropology. The essay 
is accompanied by commentary by anthropologists who were part of a panel at 
the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association held 
Washington D.C. in November 2005. The panelists included New York University 
professor Faye Ginsberg who spoke on the emblematic contributions of Lipsitz 
to American Studies; MIT professor Henry Jenkins on media, and Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute professor Kim Fortun on the role of scholars in 
disasters like Katrina.

The Lipsitz essay on Katrina - including an Op-Ed piece by Lipsitz in 
recognition of the first anniversary of Katrina - as well as links to the 
other essays described here can be found at www.culanth.org . 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Sep  5 11:18:42 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  5 10:18:54 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Refugees and the End of Empire
Message-ID: <4986808.1157465922664.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Call for Papers: Refugees and the End of Empire
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2006

One of the most negative legacies of the twentieth century was the
development of the refugee, a person who emerged during the inter-War 
years, as nationalism, fascism and communism gripped the European 
continent. While scholars have recognized the importance of war and the 
arrival of intolerant regimes in the construction and expulsion of 
refugees, less attention has focused upon the consequences of imperial 
collapse. All of the major Empires (broadly interpreted) which ended 
during the twentieth century, led to successor states which developed 
new forms of exclusivist national ideologies which identified, and often
expelled, sectors of their populations, which did not possess the right 
ethnic credentials. This process first manifested itself with the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire, where successor states in the Balkans 
'exchanged' populations in the era of the First World War, while the 
newly nationalist rump Turkey eliminated its Armenian and Greek 
populations. At the same time, the collapse of the Tsarist Empire also 
led to mass population displacement. At the end of the Second World 
War, the fall of the Nazi Empire in Eastern Europe resulted in the 
expulsion of Germans who had lived in Eastern Europe for centuries, 
while people who found themselves working in Germany either returned 
home or sometimes lived in refugee camps for years. The end of the 
British and French colonial Empires was also accompanied by population 
'exchanges' and expulsions, especially in the case of India/Pakistan 
and Algeria, but also in smaller colonies such as Cyprus. In the case 
of the last of these, refugees emerged over a decade after British 
retreat. Finally, the end of the Soviet Union and the emergence of 
successor states with
nationalist ideologies led to the creation of new outgroups.

The purpose of the conference is to examine the relationship between 
imperial collapse, the emergence of successor nationalism, the 
exclusion of ethnic groups with the wrong credentials, and the refugee 
experience. The conference organizers welcome proposals which look at 
these themes in all of the major cases of twentieth century imperial 
collapse. Themes of particular interest include: the role of empire in 
creating distinct ethnic populations; the emergence of exclusivist 
nationalist ideologies and their views of minorities; the attitude and 
role of successor states in the creation of refugees; and the refugee 
experience.

Proposals

Please send abstracts of around 250 words to Panikos Panayi or Pippa 
Virdee, by 30 November 2006.  

We hope to offer a small number of subsidised places to doctoral
students.

Date and Venue

29-30 June 2007 at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

 

Contact 

Professor Panikos Panayi,
School of English, Performance and Historical Studies, 
De Montfort University, 
The Gateway, 
Leicester LE1 9BH

ppanayi@dmu.ac.uk
01162078681 


Further Details

www.dmu.ac.uk/empire


From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Sep  4 15:55:50 2006
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David W. Haines)
Date: Tue Sep  5 10:19:50 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Remember Tampa
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060904144839.0238a148@gmu.edu>

To SUNTA members and friends:

As we move toward the AAA meeting in San Jose, don't
forget Tampa next spring. The deadline for submissions
is October 15. Remember to watch for the check-off
boxes for SUNTA on the SfAA web forms. That will keep
your registration at the regular SfAA rate and ensure that
papers and sessions are routed to me and the SUNTA
review committee.

Meeting information is at:
   http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2007.html

Best regards,

David Haines
SUNTA program chair

P.S. The latest list of potential sessions is reprinted
below. This is not meant to limit you--just give some
options and ideas.

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

Interim list of sessions for SUNTA with SfAA in Tampa

  1.     Plenary (former SUNTA presidents on the section's past and future)
                 Van Kemper will organize

  2.     Principles of Disaster and Displacement
                 Art Hansen art.hansen@mindspring.com

  3.     Disaster/Displacement: Case Studies
                 Doreen Indra will probably organize

  4.     Homelessness
                 Jule Adkins DrJAdkins@aol.com

  5.     Role of Faith-Based NGO's
                 Also Julie Adkins DrJAdkins@aol.com

  6.     Gentrification
                 Sam Beck sbeck@med.cornell.edu

  7.     New Technology in Fieldwork (especially Visual Anthropology)
                 Matt Durington mdurington@towson.edu

  8.     Anthropology, Urban Planning, and Sustainable Cities
Alison M Meadow ffamm1@uaf.edu may be able to co-organize
  9.     Migration and Health
                 Anahi Viladrich aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu

10.     Securitization: Risk and Policy (Community Program Level)
                 Laura Davis davi0400@umn.edu

11.     International Education: Study Abroad and Informed Tourism
                 Kimberly Jones kjones14@elon.edu

12.     Urban Fieldwork (research and teaching aspects with undergradautes)
                 Ida Fadzillah ifadzill@mtsu.edu

13.     Disability
                 Lisa Greenman pazyamore@yahoo.com

14.     Multicultural/Intercultural Higher Education
                 Greg Tanaka Gtanaka2@aol.com
                 David Haines dhaines1@gmu.edu

15.     Illegal immigration
                 Heide Castaneda hcastane@email.arizona.edu

Also:

For participation in a general poster session or two (students 
encouraged), contact:
         Jayne Howell jhowell@csulb.edu

For general refugee and migration interests, contact CORI's program chair:
         Nancy Burke nburke@cc.ucsf.edu
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Sep  5 12:55:22 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  5 11:55:30 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: New York City: Global Village
Message-ID: <2768337.1157471722837.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

From: Nicholas Bloom <nbloom3@yahoo.com>

NYIT?s Third Interdisciplinary Conference:  ?New York City: Global
Village?

Keynote Speaker: Professor Saskia Sassen, University  of Chicago

March 9, 2007

The New York Institute of Technology announces its  third
interdisciplinary conference, ?New York City:  Global Village,? which 
will address the role of New  York City as a site of international 
exchange in culture, technology, tourism and other fields.  Scholars 
from a range of disciplines are invited to  present their research at 
this one-day conference at  NYIT's Columbus Circle campus.

The conference, as in past years, will draw scholars  from around the
country and world for panel  discussions, featured speakers, and lively 
conversation. Past keynotes--including author Mark  Kurlansky, curator 
Nancy Mowl Mathews and historian  Kenneth T. Jackson--have added to the 
depth of past  conferences and drawn large audiences. (Last year?s 
conference website can be visited at  iris.nyit.edu/nycim.)

Possible themes for papers:

?Global influences on New York City (culture,  technology, 
neighborhoods, etc.) 
 
?New York City?s impact on global systems (culture,  technology, 
politics, etc.)  
?
New York as one of the emerging global cities  (international business 
and NGOs)  
?
New York as world capital (United Nations, locus for  diplomacy, 
cultural center)  
?
International cultural pluralism and artistic  exchange  
?
Labor opportunities (immigration) and exploitation  
?
Cultural integration and enclaves of identity  (Race/culture/religion
relations in a global city)  
?
New York City as a global tourism destination

A two-page prospectus and two-page c.v. must be  submitted to the
conference committee by November 15,  2006. Notification of acceptance 
or rejection will be  sent by December 1. Please send your proposal by 
email to nbloom@nyit.edu.

About our Keynote:

Saskia Sassen is the leading theorist of globalization  and its impact 
on cities. Her new book is _Territory,  Authority, Rights: From 
Medieval to Global  Assemblages_ (Princeton 2006) and a third fully  
updated and expanded edition of _Cities in a World  Economy_ (Sage 
2006). She is the author of the classic  _The Global City: New York 
London Tokyo_ (Princeton,  1991; 2nd updated ed 2001) and is the Ralph 
Lewis Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago  and 
Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School  of Economics. 
Professor Sassen?s books have been  translated into 16 languages.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Sep  7 11:52:00 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep  7 10:52:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA in San Jose: Critical Intersections/Dangerous Issues
Message-ID: <3734219.1157640720654.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

From: rthomas@aaanet.org

Response to ?Critical Intersections/Dangerous Issues? has been 
remarkably strong and varied. As the preliminary program demonstrates, 
a wide range of scholars has seized this opportunity to reach across 
boundaries and take inspired intellectual risks. The potential for 
generating new knowledge at the intersections mapped by our 2006 
program is truly exciting.

The 105th Annual Meeting will supply provocative content in an untested 
package. A total of 724 paper sessions, poster sessions and special 
events will convene in a venue most of us?including me?have never seen.

I anticipate a productive match between our theme and the conference 
site; the convention center layout will allow us to break free of 
familiar routines. There will be a lounge area for all members and an 
additional lounge just for students. Old friends and new colleagues can 
meet at the coffee stations or browse information tables for flyers and 
literature.

Search the preliminary program and abstracts to see the full offering 
of sessions and special events ?. 
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/search/search.cfm 

Check out other opportunities during annual meeting in San Jose:

Executive Program Committee Member Ruben Mendoza?s Calendar of Local 
Calendar Events  
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/ruberecs.htm 

 
Professional Development Workshops

https://secure.aaanet.org/cfp/fall/desc.htm


The Multispecies Salon, A Special Off-Site Event at UC Santa Cruz

http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/specialevents.htm 

 

And don?t forget the deadline to pre-register is October 15, and the 
deadline to make hotel reservations is October 27.   

http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2006/reg.htm and 
http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2006/hotel.htm. 

 

We look forward to seeing you in San Jose! 

Maria D Vesperi
2006 Executive Program Chair





From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Sep  8 11:35:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep  8 10:35:22 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Queer Futures: The Homonormativity Issue
Message-ID: <819287.1157726113896.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Radical History Review
Extended Deadline for Call for Papers
New Deadline: September 15, 2006

Much has changed since the Radical History Review's special "Queer" 
issue (No. 62, Spring 1995), in which historians and their allies 
explored "new visions of America's gay and lesbian past." Queers now 
unabashedly eye straight guys on cable television; films featuring gay 
characters and themes are celebrated by mainstream audiences, breaking 
box office records and winning major industry awards; "gay marriage" 
has emerged as the central civil rights cause for powerful 
organizations like the Human Rights Campaign; urban activists and civic 
boosters promote "gay business districts" as a means for achieving 
visibility and equality; and multibillion-dollar markets targeting gay 
and lesbian tourist dollars are booming.

For many, such articulations of gay and lesbian identity in the public 
sphere provide evidence of true social and political progress. Yet in 
the past decade, some radical activists and scholars have cited such 
developments not as progressive signs of liberation but as reactionary 
responses linked directly to the privatizing imperatives of a powerful, 
ascendant brand of neoliberal politics that coalesced in the 1990s. 
Lisa Duggan, for example, has identified this trend as evidence of "the 
new homonormativity ... a politics that does not contest dominant 
heteronormative assumptions and institutions but upholds and sustains 
them." In accordance with this new homonormativity, prominent lesbian 
and gay rights organizations increasingly embrace agendas that vie for 
acceptance within contemporary economic and political systems, thereby 
abandoning their earlier commitments to economic redistribution and 
protecting sexual freedoms. This shift has made strange bedfellows out 
of lesbian and gay rights organizations and social conservatives: both 
endorse normative and family-oriented formations associated with 
domestic partnership, adoption, and gender-normative social roles; both 
tend to marginalize those who challenge serial monogamy and those -- 
including transgender, bisexual, pansexual, and intersex constituencies 
-- who feel oppressed by a binary gender or sex system. Moreover, 
because of its economic base in the neoliberal philosophy of consumer 
rights rather than that of citizen rights, the politics of 
homonormativity exercises an influence beyond U.S. borders, through gay 
and lesbian tourism, the global proliferation of gay and lesbian-themed 
U.S. cultural productions, and economic and political interventions 
that claim to make "gay rights" a global issue.

Many queer and/or sex-positive radicals fear such neoliberal 
strategies, not only because they undermine citizens' rights but 
because they threaten to erase the historic alliance between radical 
politics and lesbian and gay politics, at the core of which has been a 
struggle for sexual freedom. In order to counter the long-term 
consequences of historical amnesia, we need new analytical frameworks 
for talking about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer 
history that expand and challenge current models of identity and 
community formation as well as models of political and cultural 
resistance.

The RHR seeks submissions that explore the lesbian, gay, bisexual, 
transgender, and queer past in relation to contemporary conceptions of 
homonormativity, neoliberalism, and globalization in North America and 
beyond.

Some suggested topical fields include:

# Genealogies of homonormativities
# Homonormativity and racial formations
# Historical analyses of the politics of marriage and procreation in 
relation to gay and lesbian political and community formations
# Historical studies of the "domestic partner" in relation to law, 
corporate policy, privatization, and/or cultural production
# Studies of how homonormativities travel across borders, including 
histories of gay and lesbian tourism and organized interventions into 
issues in the name of "gay rights"
# Homonormativities in relation to transgender studies and politics
# Urban models of "gay gentrification" and contemporary configurations 
of LGBT identity
# Histories of gay and lesbian markets and consumption
# Analyses of academic culture and its disciplining of glbt studies, 
institutional development, and academic investments in homonormativity
# Critiques of homonormativity from queer of color and feminist of 
color perspectives
# AIDS activism and the politics of sex(uality) in transnational 
frameworks
# Globalization, gay/lesbian identities, and cultural hegemonies
# State investments in the production and sustenance of gay and lesbian 
identities
# Homonormativity, government policy, and social provision (including 
the impact of homonormative politics on such issues as health insurance 
provision, social services, and "disaster relief")
# Genealogies of gay and lesbian conservative political movements
# Sexual politics and history of the "right to privacy"
# Histories and critiques of identity and queer migrations
# Resistance to politics of homonormativity in U.S. and globally

The editors of this special edition invite contributions that explore 
these or any themes that relate to homonormativity, queer pasts, or 
queer futures. We welcome short reports and reflections, documents, 
photo essays, art and illustrations, interviews with activists or 
intellectuals, teaching resources ? including syllabi, original 
documents, and exhibit and book reviews. RHR solicits contributions 
from activists and academics.

Procedures for submission of proposals and articles:

By September 15, 2006, please submit a 1-2 page abstract summarizing 
the article you wish to submit to rhr@igc.org.

To be considered manuscripts should be submitted electronically, 
preferably in Microsoft Word or rich text format, with "Issue 100 
submission" in the subject line.

Radical History Review
Email: rhr@igc.org
Visit the website at http://chnm.gmu.edu/rhr/rhr.htm

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Sep  8 11:41:39 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep  8 10:41:47 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Global Fusion Conference 2006 (Chicago, IL)
Message-ID: <3573623.1157726499521.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Call for Papers

6th Annual Global Fusion Conference
Nation, State, and Culture in the Age of Globalization
Chicago, Illinois
Friday, September 29-Sunday, October 1, 2006
University Center, 525 State Street Chicago, IL

Certain renderings of media globalization posit a disappearing 
nation-state superseded by global corporate operations and global 
cultural practices and identities. Hybridity, cultural proximity, 
glocalization, cultural imperialism, transnational media consolidation, 
and other concepts often dance with the role of nation, state, or 
culture, but seldom consider their complex, material interactions. We 
are left with important theoretical and practical questions: How have 
identifiable global media practices transformed specific national 
identities and social interests?
	
Evelyn Bottando
Conference Coordinator
Purdue University Calumet
219-989-2420

Email: gfc@calumet.purdue.edu
Visit the website at http://www.global-fusion.org

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Sep  9 12:44:49 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep  9 11:46:48 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry, A Postdoctoral Program
Message-ID: <007101c6d427$232d4420$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

Modeling Interdisciplinary Inquiry: A Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities
and Social Sciences
Deadline: December 1, 2006

Washington University announces the sixth year of an Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship Program designed to encourage
interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching across the humanities and social
sciences. Beginning in September of 2001 the Fellowship Program has brought
to Washington University new and recent Ph.D.s who wish to strengthen their
own advanced training and to participate in the university's ongoing
interdisciplinary programs and seminars. The Postdoctoral Fellows receive
two-year appointments with stipends; for the 2006-07 academic year the
annual stipend will be $40,700. Fellows will outline a plan for their own
continuing research to be pursued with a senior faculty mentor from
Washington University. Over the course of their two-year appointment,
fellows will teach three undergraduate courses and collaborate during a
spring term in leading a seminar in the theory and methods of
interdisciplinary research.

There is no application form; applicants should submit a cover letter, a
description of their research program (no more than three single-spaced
pages), a brief proposal for the seminar in theory and methods, a curriculum
vitae, and three letters of recommendation. All materials must be submitted
in paper copy.

Steven Zwicker, Department of English
Washington University Campus Box 1122
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314-935-5190


From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Mon Sep 11 23:48:46 2006
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Tue Sep 12 10:34:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAG 2007 CFP: faith, politics and social (in)justices in
	cities
Message-ID: <06bd01c6d5e3$ad862520$0202a8c0@Jus>

CALL FOR PAPERS
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message)
 
Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2007 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
Faith, politics and social (in)justice in the city
 
Justin Beaumont, Urban and Regional Studies Institute (URSI), Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, j.r.beaumont@rug.nl

This proposed paper session explores the problematic relations between faith, politics and social (in)justice in cities. Today marks the fifth anniversary of 9-11 in New York City. The event and the calamitous Bush-Blair "Axes of Evil" and "War on Terror" aftermath in Kabul, Baghdad, London and elsewhere remind us of tense and highly problematic relations between beliefs (progressive as well as fundamentalist and moderate of all faiths), institutional representation of diverse faiths and political action on the world stage, in national arenas and within cities. At the same time national governments, particularly in the US and in the UK, have increasingly revalorized faith based actors in domestic politics of social and spatial (in)justice as the neoliberal assault on welfare continues unabated. Alongside the Clinton, then Bush, faith based agenda and emergency relief by largely Christian charities in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in the US, it is now over 20 years since the Faith in the City report exposed the realities of injustice and posited the role of faith actors in addressing social ills in UK inner cities (Faith in the City 1985). The report was condemned by Thatcher at the time of publication as "Marxist", creating a flurry of political debate and the establishment of the Church Urban Fund, but little else. While the recent Commission on Urban Life and Faith (2006) report reveals a less radical and structural analysis, where urban, contextual and Latin American liberation theologies have given way to a concern for practical social problems in "partnership" with government in a somewhat tamer and depoliticized fashion. Far less is known about these issues and their changes in time in diverse socio-institutional contexts. The session addresses contemporary geographies of faith, politics and social (in)justice in cities from an international comparative perspective by addressing the following questions:
 
* What are the social and organizational geographies of faith politicization against social injustices in cities?
* How can we account for the ideological and political ambiguity of faith actors in urban politics?
* Do these activities reveal faith actors as subordinated partners in the delivery of contracted state services, or are faith groups joining forces with political parties, trade unions and other civic associations as part of new contentious politics within cities?
* What is the role of faith actors in the politics of welfare reform and particularly urban regeneration and their changes in time in different countries?
* Do faith actors have a legitimate role to play in the achievement of the "just city" or do their activities, despite well-intentioned and enlightened theologies, serve to consolidate prevailing social and spatial injustices rather than to radically challenge the status quo?
* Which theoretical and conceptual tools are at our disposal, from urban political economy, politics of welfare, urban policies and geographies and sociologies of religion, for explaining the hypothesized changing role of faith actors in urban social and political issues and their variations by socio-institutional contexts?
 
You should submit your expression of interest and topic of your paper right away and your abstracts (250 words max.) by 25 September 2006 to j.r.beaumont@rug.nl.  Please consult the AAG website (www.aag.org) for online registration and abstract submission instructions.



----
Justin Beaumont
URSI-RUG
University of Groningen
www.justinbeaumont.com/

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Sep 12 22:12:07 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 12 21:12:22 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Latinos in U.S. Cities: Power, Politics and Culture (Wayne, NJ)
Message-ID: <00f801c6d6d1$a3a953d0$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

From: Michael Innis-Jimenez <innisjimenezm@wpunj.edu>

Latinos in U.S. Cities: Power, Politics and Culture

A one-day conference hosted by William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
Thursday, October 19, 2006
8:00am - 5:00pm

This exciting one-day conference brings together 
specialists in the social, cultural, political 
and economic impact of Latinos and Latinas in U.S. urban centers.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, October 19, 2006

8:00 a.m.          COFFEE AND REGISTRATION

9:00 a.m.          WELCOMING REMARKS

9:15 a.m.          Session 1: Historical Perspectives
Moderator: Michael Innis-Jim?nez, WPUNJ

Virginia Sanchez Korrol (Brooklyn College), A 
Tale of 2 Cities: Latina Activists in NY and South Florida, 1868-1910

Matt Garcia (Brown University), Geographies of 
Latinidad: Mapping Latina/o Identity and 
Community Formation in the 21st Century

11:00 a.m.        Session 2: Political Perspectives
Moderator: Wartyna Davis, WPUNJ

Silvia Pedraza (University of Michigan), The 
Impossible Triangle: Cuba, the US, and the Exiles

Arlene Davila (NYU), Latinos: More Americans than 
the Americans?  The Politics of Citizenship and Race

12:30 p.m.        KEYNOTE ADDRESS & LUNCH

Juan Flores (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate 
Center)  Triple Consciousness? Afro-Latinos on the Color Line

2:00 p.m.          Session 3: The Regional Perspective
Moderator: Enrique Pumar, WPUNJ

Yolanda Prieto (Ramapo College), Union City: Cuba's Northern-Most
Province

Carmen Whalen (Williams College), Urban Labors: 
Puerto Rican Women, the International Ladies 
Garment Workers Union, and New York City's Garment Industry

3:45 p.m.          ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: PANELISTS AND AUDIENCE
Moderator: Evelyn Gonzalez & Howard Lune, WPUNJ

Poster session open all day: Latino Population in 
the United States: Demographic Maps.

For more details and registration information, 
please contact Michael Innis-Jim?nez at 
<mailto:innisjimenezm@wpunj.edu>innisjimenezm@wpunj.edu

This conference is sponsored in part by the New 
Jersey Council for the Humanities.

Michael Innis-Jim?nez
William Paterson University, New Jersey
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Sep 12 22:12:01 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 12 21:12:31 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Forgotten Conflicts - Permanent Catastrophes (Durham, England)
Message-ID: <00f701c6d6d1$a34ed7c0$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>


Call for Papers. 

Forgotten Conflicts - Permanent Catastrophes. 

An international and interdisciplinary academic workshop, 14-15 April 2007
 
Sponsored by P-CON, The Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Colgate
University, U.S.A, and   the Politics-State-Space Research Group, University
of Durham, England.
 
Location: Colgate University, Hamilton, NY. 
 
Rationale
 
"A 30-year-old impoverished refugee population, tens of thousands of
settlers, a 1,000-mile wall, a stalled peace process."   
 
So begins a recent survey of politics as usual, not in Israel or Palestine,
but in what has been described as the "world's most forgotten conflict" in
the Western Sahara (Nick Dearden Morning Star, September 13, 2005).
Indeed, so "forgotten" is this most forgotten of crises that media sources
only ever remember it as such.  Variously calling it a 'Forgotten
Palestine,' 'a forgotten desert fight,' or 'forgotten land grab' affecting a
'forgotten people,' news accounts of the longstanding catastrophe affecting
the Sahrawi nation in the Western Sahara give priority to our forgetfulness
over much else. 
 
The curious fate of the Western Sahara in mass media demands critical
reflection on the political status of "forgotten conflicts": from those that
we remember to forget to those that we forget to remember.  'Critical,' in
the sense that any analysis worthy of the name would have to address the
political relation between the phenomenon of 'forgotten conflicts' and their
interpretation as such.  In other words, the forgotten conflicts we wish to
examine are not solely the particular instances that live on at the extreme
margins of an 'attention economy,' but rather, the ones that are advanced in
the belief that concepts like an 'attention economy,' or  'disaster
fatigue,' are sufficient to explain forgotten conflicts to begin with.  The
working premise of this workshop, then, is that as a contemporary political
phenomenon the 'forgotten conflict' is not reducible to a catalogue of its
occurrences. Consequently, the 'Forgotten Conflicts' project aspires to
treat conflicts and their forgetting  as reciprocally related historical
phenomena. 
 
Advanced as a joint initiative of Colgate University's Peace and Conflict
Studies Program [P-CON] and the University of Durham's
'Politics-State-Space' Research Group, the "Forgotten Conflicts" meeting
will bring together approximately 15 scholars from around the globe in order
to address the epistemological, historical, ethical, and political
implications of this phenomenon.  Our aim is to develop and publish an
important dialogue between scholars representing an array of disciplines,
focusing in particular on the way that the very existence of 'forgotten
conflicts' shapes contemporary understandings of the politics of violence.
We therefore invite applications from key researchers in geography,
international politics, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, politics,
history, and law, who are developing research into the role of a tradition
of forgetting (as opposed to collective memory) in the understanding of the
modern history of conflict. 
 
 
Organization of the Workshop
 
The 2-day workshop will privilege thorough and substantive interaction, with
the aim of facilitating engaged and critical responses to the topic.  To
this end, papers will be submitted in advance of the workshop and posted on
a firewalled web site for participants to read before the event; at the
workshop itself short presentations by each speaker will be followed by
extended in-depth discussion of the issues addressed. To keep the event
focused and intimate, the workshop will be limited to 15 participants, all
of whom will submit papers.
 
Practical details regarding the venue, program, costs, timetable,
accommodation and transport will be sent to all accepted participants. The
charge for the event will be nominal. Because the budget for the event is
limited, participants will be expected to cover their own transport and
accommodation arrangements using information provided by the organizers.  We
anticipate that we will be able to provide a number of subventions for the
travel and accommodation of graduate students. 
 
Submission of Abstracts
 
Please email abstracts of 250 words to all three of the organizers by 10
November 2006.
 
David.Campbell@durham.ac.uk
nries@mail.colgate.edu
dmonk@mail.colgate.edu
 
Publications
 
Select papers from the event will be published in an edited volume or,
possibly, a journal special issue. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Sep 12 11:33:20 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 13 22:34:20 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Curious Lives of Documents (graduate)
Message-ID: <003d01c6d678$65341710$c5d2eb84@SOCBA021>

From: Chris Kortright <cmkortright@ucdavis.edu>

Call For Papers:
 
The Curious Lives of Documents
 
One-Day Graduate Student Symposium
University of California Davis
 
Friday, March 2, 2007

Documents are pervasive artifacts: sought after, collected, venerated,
hidden, depended on and fabricated by intellectuals of all paths of
life. They are more than the inscribed papers that circulate in
economies of information and decay in archives.  Passports, financial
bulletins, official government papers, maps, scientific reports and
judicial verdicts-they are networks in and of themselves, performances
surrounded by stories, fed by the social, and empowered to reveal and
conceal. The Curious Lives of Documents Symposium seeks to bring
documents into focus, to interrogate their textures-their shifting
contexts, and the simultaneous practices and relationships that
surround them.
 
The document is a point of friction that operates between what becomes
official truth, what is left unsaid and what must remain secret.
Technological innovation and social relations affect the materiality
of documents, and release them from the surface of paper. As academics
we participate in these tensions. Are we, as scribes, too easily
seduced by the work of other scribes? From the shifting social life of
documents to our role as document makers, this symposium seeks to make
visible the curious lives of documents as ethnographic subjects.
 
The Symposium & Midnight University
 
This will be a one-day symposium, the intent of which is
to provide a space for senior graduate students to present their work
and for lively discussions on the symposium theme and panelists'
projects. Panel presentations will be limited to 15 minutes (7
double-spaced pages) and each panel will have a discussant. Following
the symposium and reception, there will be a Midnight University in
which alternative forms of expression and presentation will be
explored. The organizers of the Midnight University encourage new
forms of presentation-all forms of media are welcome and encouraged. 
 
To best explore the curious lives of documents, we must be willing to
investigate the document from various perspectives and with divergent
approaches. The symposium and the Midnight University hope to provide
various venues for individuals to explore their work in a variety of
ways. 

Guidelines for Submissions for Symposium and Midnight University: 
 
All presentations should engage the conference theme and
abstracts should clearly indicate the argument of the paper (in 200
words) and include title, name of presenter, institutional
affiliation, day and evening phone numbers, mailing, email address and
indicate if submission is intended for the Symposium or the Midnight
University.  
  
Abstracts (200 words) Due: Thursday, November 30, 2006 6pm
 
Direct all correspondence (and abstracts) to: docu.conference@gmail.com

From marky at umail.ucsb.edu  Wed Sep 13 14:44:09 2006
From: marky at umail.ucsb.edu (Mark A. Schuller)
Date: Wed Sep 13 22:34:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CPF: Critical Ethnographies of Contemporary U.S.
	Development
Message-ID: <20060913134409.atsu4zvq74k4wgo8@webaccess.umail.ucsb.edu>

Critical Ethnographies of Contemporary U.S. Development: New Policies,  
Practices and Institutions in the 21st Century

Proposed session for the 67th Annual Society for Applied Anthropology meetings
Tampa, FL


Foreign development in the U.S. has undergone a series of dramatic  
changes during the past few years. New policies have taken root, such  
as the abstinence-oriented AIDS prevention program, for the first time  
open to religious groups, as part of the new President?s Emergency  
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). ?Transformational development?  
accompanies a renewed focus on ?fragile states? following the  
President?s National Security address naming development as the third  
pillar in the fight against terrorism. Another change in development  
practice and orientation is ?performance-based management,? especially  
for health-related programs. There has been a flowering of new  
development institutions as well, such as the office of the Global  
AIDS Coordinator and the Office for Coordinator for Reconstruction and  
Stabilization (S-CRS), ambassador-level posts in the State Department.  
A new organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),  
implements the focus on transformational development. Finally, in  
January 2006, the Secretary of State announced a reorganization of  
development assistance, naming a new ?Director of Foreign Assistance.?

These new programs, policies, and structures have been heralded as  
more effective, responsive, cost-effective and successful, having been  
designed following lessons learned ? specifically from failures ? of  
the first half-century of the development experience. Are these new  
directions meeting their stated goals? What effects do they have on  
local communities? What are the unforeseen consequences? To date,  
these new directions have not been rigorously analyzed by independent,  
on-the-ground, ethnographic evaluations. This session aims to serve as  
a forum for critical analysis and discussion of contemporary U.S.  
development policies, practices, and institutions, in the spirit of  
generating new tools for policy analysis and evaluation. In addition,  
session participants will be encouraged to explore new approaches for  
community advocacy appropriate to the shifting terrain.

Interested panelists are invited to contact session organizer Mark  
Schuller at marky@umail.ucsb.edu by October 1st with a title and  
general ideas. If selected, panelists will be required to register for  
the SfAA meetings and submit a 100-word abstract by October 15th.




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 13 23:55:57 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 13 22:56:09 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: International Essay Competition on Population
	Politics, Migration and Human Rights (Berlin)
Message-ID: <00d701c6d7a9$4fdc7290$0200a8c0@Maulwaurf>

International Essay Competition on Population Politics, Migration and Human 
Rights
Conference and workshop participation in Berlin February 2007

ICS Scholarship/ Grant for 2007

New Extended Deadline: September 24th, 2006

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation is continuing its program on human rights with 
an international conferences and adjunct workshops to address the 
social,political, theoretical, and pragmatic issues of human rights today.

As in the years before the "Berlin Roundtables on Transnationalism" will 
start its new topic with an essay/working paper competition.

The 2007 conference and workshops will focus on Population Politics and 
Human Rights:

45 essayists will be selected by an international jury and invited to join 
the international conference and workshops in Berlin from February 15th - 
20th 2007.

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover costs of travel to and 
accommodation in Berlin for invited participants.
Furthermore, for the best essay the Irmgard Coninx Foundation will award to 
up to three workshop participants a three months research grant in Berlin 
for the year 2007 at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin (WZB) and the 
Humboldt University. The recipient will also be invited to join the workshop 
in 2007/8.

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will provide for a monthly stipend of 1000 
Euro plus accommodation.

For essay details, application procedure and additional information, please 
visit our website:
http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

email: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
Imgard Coninx Stiftung
c/o Wissenschaftszentrum f?r Sozialforschung Berlin
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin


From mbrand at wooster.edu  Thu Sep 14 00:51:51 2006
From: mbrand at wooster.edu (Mieka Brand)
Date: Wed Sep 13 23:52:33 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: SF Hilton settles!
Message-ID: <450899970200005B00001501@mailgate.wooster.edu>

For those wondering what ever happened with Hilton's management - union
dispute in San Francisco, here's a timely update (and some good news)
forwarded from the Critical Geography list.



------------------------------
Mieka Brand
Visiting Assistant Professor
The College of Wooster
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
mbrand@wooster.edu

From mbrand at wooster.edu  Thu Sep 14 01:42:51 2006
From: mbrand at wooster.edu (Mieka Brand)
Date: Thu Sep 14 03:23:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Fwd: SF Hilton settles!
Message-ID: <4508A58B0200005B0000150E@mailgate.wooster.edu>

I think the forwarded message didn't go through the first time I sent
this -- here is a text version of the announcement and article.  FYI
(originally sent by Christopher Niedt to the Critical Geography list)



Hi everyone,

There's great news from San Francisco, where UNITE-HERE Local 2 just
settled with the Multi-Employer Group that includes the SF Hilton!  The
contract is a good one that includes card-check neutrality for new
hotels,
unprecedented raises, and 2 years of back pay at the new wage rates.

A report by David Bacon follows below.

Best,
Chris Niedt


> SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 9/13/06 - San Francisco hotel workers announce
that
their union, UNITE HERE Local 2, has reached agreement on a new contract
with the city's leading hotels.  UNITE HERE Local 2
> negotiated for over two years with thirteen San Francisco Class A
hotels
in the Multi Employer Group, and went without a contract during that
time.  The union acheived its major goals, including card-check
neutrality to make it easier for workers in non-union hotels in San
Francisco and San Mateo Counties to join the union. Workers won
> substantial wage and benefit increases, and defeated an attempt to
make
them accept a two-tier arrangement giving new workers a lower wage and
benefit standard.  The union accepted no concessions.
> Negotiations are part of a national campaign, Hotel Workers Rising, in
which hotel unions in many cities are negotiating new contracts this
year.  San Francisco workers took a strike vote in August, along with
workers in Hawaii, Chicago, Toronto and Monterey. When the Local 2
contract expired two years ago, the union wanted a new agreement that
would expire this year, so that it would be able to negotiate at the
same time other hotel locals were bargaining in other cities.  The MEG
refused, and Local 2 struck four hotels for two weeks.  The MEG then
locked workers out of all its hotels for nine weeks.  Employers were
finally forced to lift the lockout, with the intervention of Mayor Gavin
Newsom, but the union had to continue to work without a contract until
the completion of the new agreement. Local 2's bargaining
> committee recommended the contract unanimously, and the membership is
expected to ratify it by a large majority. Contracts have also expired
in over thirty other SF hotels, covering over 5000 workers, and
> negotiations there are continuing.  The union says it will not accept
a
lower standard in those hotels.
>


------------------------------
Mieka Brand
Visiting Assistant Professor
The College of Wooster
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
mbrand@wooster.edu




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Thu Sep 14 20:14:47 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 14 19:15:04 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call to Faculty for Projects (Dissertation Proposal
	Development Fellowship)
Message-ID: <00f401c6d853$963cccd0$0200a8c0@Maulwaurf>

Call to Faculty for Projects

Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship

The Social Science Research Council is organizing a new Dissertation
Proposal Development Fellowship(http://www.ssrc.org/programs/dpdf/), funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program is actively recruiting
research directors to lead small groups of graduate fellows in two workshops
that frame summer predissertation research in a series of research fields.
Research fields are generally subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains
with common intellectual questions and research styles. These may be
emerging disciplines, be constituted around geographic regions not
traditionally mapped by current funding structures, or develop from novel
ways of encouraging comparative and interdisciplinary work, including a
focus on specific kinds of sources. Research fields can be topical in focus,
transnational in scope, or comparative. There will be two research directors
per group; five groups will be funded in 2007. Research directors must be
tenured, experienced supervisors of thesis research. Each director will
receive a $7,500 stipend; fellows will receive up to $5,000 in research
support. Joint proposals from two faculty (due Nov. 15, 2006) consist of
letters of interest - up to 5 single-spaced pages - including a short
bibliography and describing the relevance of the research field, the kind of
graduate students who might be recruited, and proposed activities for each
of the two workshops, plus authors' CVs. For more information, contact SSRC
staff at dpdf@ssrc.org.

Contact Information
Neal Profitt
810 Seventh Avenue
New York NY 10019
Email: dpdf@ssrc.org
URL http://www.ssrc.org/programs/dpdf/


From ariamg at nus.edu.sg  Thu Sep 14 16:40:15 2006
From: ariamg at nus.edu.sg (Arianne Marie Gaetano)
Date: Thu Sep 14 23:34:48 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CALL for PAPERS
Message-ID: <7B86BA358120B242B493F46E76ACBA494C717B@MBX03.stf.nus.edu.sg>

Conference Announcement and Call for Participation "SEXUALITY AND SPACE"
Preconference of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting

Sponsored by the Sexuality and Space Specialty Group of the AAG and the
School of Social Sciences and Department of Geography at Sonoma State
University 
Date: April 17, 2007
Venue: The Women's Building, 3543 18th Street, San Francisco, CA

The aim of this one-day conference is to bring together scholars working
in a range of fields to explore the topic of "Sexuality and Space". 

For more than a decade, geographers have recognized the sexualization of
space and the spatialization of sexuality.  From an initial emphasis on
gay and lesbian urban spaces in the 'west', the geographical study of
sexualities has expanded to incorporate such topics as queer movements
and activism in multiple sites, nationalism, public health,
heterosexualities, transgenderism, tourism, heteronormativities,
homonormativities, globalization, the 'pink' market, migration and
mobilities, geopolitics, cyberspace, embodiment, and rural and
non-metropolitan sexualities. We seek to further broaden and deepen
scholarship on sexuality and space by inviting contributions that
explore these topics and as many more as participants' imaginations
permit. 

In the spirit of interdisciplinary engagement that has been pivotal to
the growth of this geographical sub-field, this invitation to grapple
with such geographical concerns as space, place, mobilities, landscape
and environment is extended to sexuality studies scholars working across
the humanities and social sciences. At the same time, this event is an
opportunity for critical geographers working in any of the discipline's
sub-fields of cultural, political, economic, urban and feminist
geography to explore the ways in which discourses and practices of
sexual normativities and non-normativities are part of the production of
space at various scales and sites. 

Work on any geographical site, historical period, and topic of
geographical relevance is welcome. We are particularly interested in
contributions that examine "sexuality and space" from the interstices of
multiple approaches including queer, feminist, postcolonial, critical
race and materialist theories.

Proposals for all manner of papers, panels, multi-media or other
presentations will be considered. 

Please send abstracts (250 words) and proposals for panel or other
presentations to Natalie Oswin (geoon@nus.edu.sg) by December 1. 
 
Enquiries and expressions of interest can be directed to any member of
the organizing committee:
Michael Brown, Department of Geography, University of Washington
(michaelb@u.washington.edu) Lawrence Knopp, Department of Geography,
University of Minnesota-Duluth (lknopp@d.umn.edu) Natalie Oswin,
Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
(geoon@nus.edu.sg) Damon Scott, Department of Geography, Sonoma State
University (damon.scott@sonoma.edu)





From robrien at temple.edu  Fri Sep 15 17:17:07 2006
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Fri Sep 15 23:43:46 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Doubletree San Jose: Union YES! Monterey
 Hotel Workers Tentative Agreement!
Message-ID: <20060915161707.ANS10318@po-b.temple.edu>

---- Original message ---- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:35:12 -
0700 From: "Kelly Dugan" 
<kdugan@unitehere2.org> Subject: Doubletree San Jose: Union 
YES! Monterey Hotel Workers 
Tentative Agreement! To: "'Kelly Dugan'" 
<kdugan@unitehere2.org> 

Link: File-List Link: Edit-Time-Data 

The good news continues. 

After months of tough negotiations, UNITEHERE! Local 483, 
the hotel workers Union in Monterey, came to a pending 
agreement with Global Hyatt Corporation on a new 4-year 
contract at 1 a.m. on September 14. The tentative pact, 
which awaits a union membership approval vote on Tuesday, 
averted a strike threat at the Hyatt Regency Monterey and 
Park Hyatt Carmel Highlands during this busy Monterey Jazz 
Festival weekend. The agreement would cover 485 Hyatt 
Corporation hotel workers. 

The tentative agreement includes wage and benefit increases 
totaling over $5 per hour over the course of the 4-year 
contract. A $1 per hour wage increase for non-tipped workers 
proposed in the 4th year of the agreement would be the 
largest annual pay raise in Local 483 history. 

Yesterday, nearly 300 workers at the Doubletree San Jose had 
the opporutunity to choose the Union. Contrast this with our 
3 year fight to organize the Parc-55, the 7 year fight 
to organize the Marriott, and 9 year fight to "re-organize" 
the Sir Francis Drake. This allows us to see that one 
victory leads to another. One day San Francisco settles, the 
next, workers in San Jose have a voice on the job. 
****************************************
Es mejor vivir con miedo que no vivir por miedo
 
Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
robrien@temple.edu 
215-803-5181

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Sep 16 01:23:45 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep 16 00:23:59 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Globalization and the American South
Message-ID: <00de01c6d947$e7cdafc0$0200a8c0@Maulwaurf>

CALL FOR ESSAYS: GLOBALIZATION AND THE AMERICAN SOUTH, A SPECIAL THEME
ISSUE OF /SOUTHERN CULTURES/

Southern Cultures/ is soliciting articles on the experience
of globalization in the American South and the cultural, economic, and
social impact of these changes on the region. We are especially
interested in discussions of Hispanic immigration to the modern South,
but other subjects are also welcome.  Essays may emphasize history or
contemporary experience. The issue will appear in the Winter  2007-08
issue. The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2007.

            Published for the UNC Center for the Study of the American
South by UNC Press, /Southern Cultures/ provides a rich forum of
animated, informed voices discussing all aspects of southern life. A
peer-reviewed, nonprofit quarterly, the journal features the best of
academic and general interest writing.

            For more information on the journal and details on
submitting a manuscript, see the Southern Cultures website at
www.southerncultures.org <http://www.southerncultures.org/>. Please send
three paper copies of manuscripts to Managing Editor, /Southern
Cultures/, UNC Center for the Study of the American South, 409 Hamilton
Hall, CB#9127, UNC-CH, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-9127. Electronic
submissions should be sent to southerncultures@unc.edu.

--Lisa Eveleigh
Managing Editor, /Southern Cultures/
eveleigh@mindspring.com
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Sep 17 13:32:19 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep 17 12:32:30 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Assessing the New York City Transit Strike of 2005
	(CUNY)
Message-ID: <002701c6da76$d97bc080$0200a8c0@Maulwaurf>

ASSESSING THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT STRIKE OF 2005

A one-day conference organized by CUNY's Joseph S. Murphy Institute for 
Labor, Community and Policy Studies; Cornell Labor Programs; and Transport 
Workers Union Local 100. Featured speakers include Saskia Sassen, Frances 
Fox-Piven, Josh Freeman, Roger Toussaint, Stanley Aronowitz and many more.
1 - 6 p.m. on Thursday, September 28

CUNY GRADUATE CENTER
5th Avenue at 34th Street
New York City

$15 (make check payable to "GSUC Auxiliary Enterprise")
Center for Labor, Community, and Policy Studies
Joseph S. Murphy Institute, CUNY
212-827-0200
Email: jeannette.gabriel@mail.cuny.edu 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sun Sep 17 13:37:23 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep 17 12:37:36 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships--2007
Message-ID: <002b01c6da77$90227ae0$0200a8c0@Maulwaurf>

Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Dissertation Fellowships--2007
Deadline: October 10, 2006

The Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellowships in Women's Studies support the 
final year of dissertation writing for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities 
and social sciences whose work addresses issues of women and gender in 
interdisciplinary and original ways. Awards of $3,000 each are applicable to 
research/travel costs. Applications are available *online only*. To learn 
more, and to apply, visit http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies. Potential 
applicants who have questions AFTER a full review of the Women's Studies 
Fellowship Web site may email ws@woodrow.org.

Women's Studies Program
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
609-452-7007
Email: ws@woodrow.org

Visit the website at http://www.woodrow.org/womens-studies 


From rcentner at berkeley.edu  Tue Sep 19 16:41:02 2006
From: rcentner at berkeley.edu (Ryan Centner)
Date: Tue Sep 19 22:03:17 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Papers--Beyond Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora
 in Latin America
Message-ID: <451071FE.504@berkeley.edu>

from Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley Sociology:

Please distribute widely.  Thanks!

CALL FOR PAPERS ? 2007 CONFERENCE

Beyond Visibility: Rethinking the African Diaspora in Latin America
University of California-Berkeley
March 1-2, 2007

Sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology*

Abstract Submission Deadline: November 3, 2006

In recent years there has been an explosion in scholarship that goes
beyond recognizing the presence of Afro-Latin Americans and towards
interrogating this topic more deeply.  Through this inaugural conference,
we intend to build on this momentum--advancing inter-disciplinary
scholarship on the African Diaspora in Latin America by moving towards
research that critically engages the theoretical and methodological
challenges of this research. Organized by the Afro-Latino Working Group at
UC Berkeley?s Center for Latin American Studies, we aim to create a forum
for graduate students to dialogue with established scholars whose work
explores the African Diaspora in Latin America. This conference will
foster new dialogues about race, ethnicity, culture, society, economy,
politics and nation in the academic world.

The conference will feature a series of graduate student panels as well as
a faculty keynote and roundtable discussion from preeminent scholars
working on the African Diaspora in Latin America.  We invite abstract
submissions from current graduate students on a diverse array of topics
and disciplinary orientations that are both theoretical and empirical in
content. The conference is oriented towards graduate students pursuing
projects about the African Diaspora in the Americas (including Mexico,
Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean).
Specifically, we strongly encourage papers that address under-theorized
regions in the Americas as well as comparative and regional works. We
offer the following themes as submission suggestions:

?	Theory and Pedagogy: New Directions in the Field
?	Social Movements and the Politics of Race
?	Media and Cultural Representations
?	Identity, Race and Ethnicity
?	Migration and Transnationalism
?	Folklore and National Identity
?	Comparative Historical and Literary Analysis

500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organizing committee via
email as word documents or PDF files. Please submit abstracts by November
3, 2006. Submissions should include the abstract, current contact
information, presentation title and current C.V. Accepted authors will be
notified by December 15, along with full submission guidelines for papers
and/or presentations. Full papers are due on January 5. All papers and
presentations must be available in English. Papers will be made available
through the Center for Latin American Studies.

Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: afrolatinogroup@berkeley.edu
or via USPS to Vielka C. Hoy, Afro-Latino Working Group, 660 Barrows Hall,
#2572, Berkeley, CA 94720.

Please check our website regularly for updated conference and registration
information:
http://www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Research/workinggroups/groups/afrolatino.html

*We would also like to thank our other sponsors which include the
Departments of African American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese at UC
Berkeley.


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 20 21:38:56 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 20 20:39:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Katrina: After the Storm Summit
Message-ID: <007c01c6dd16$63362670$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

From: Mark Olson <mark.olson@duke.edu>

Katrina: After the Storm Summit, Sept. 27-30 at 
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
http://www.katrinasummit.uiuc.edu/ -- available 
via webcast, http://www.hastac.org/live/ --

A year after hurricane Katrina's devastation of 
the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coasts, 
rebuilding efforts are finally moving forward. 
But it's the remaining, deeper tears in the 
region's social fabric that will be the main 
focus of a unique series of dialogues and events 
at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
(and webcast online at www.hastac.org) designed 
to build community, connect diverse local and 
national audiences and ignite real and long-lasting 
positive change.

The four-day summit "Katrina: After the Storm - 
Civic Engagement Through Arts, Humanities and 
Technology" will take place Sept. 27-30. The free 
summit is being organized to engage the public in 
critical conversations about issues that arose in 
Katrina's wake, including social justice and 
equity, broken connections and the need for 
community healing.  The summit is also part of 
the HASTAC ("haystack": the Humanities, Arts, 
Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory) 
InFormation Year 2006-07, a yearlong program that 
promotes the human and humane dimensions of 
technology. HASTAC is an international consortium 
of humanists, artists, scientists, social 
scientists, and engineers, with over 80 participating 
institutions.

Using advanced multicast audio and video 
technology, the summit also will connect members 
of the U. of I. and local communities with virtual 
communities at many venues.

Lectures, panel discussions and other activities 
will focus on topics ranging from understanding 
and predicting dangerous weather, disaster 
preparedness and deployment of mobile hospitals 
to re-imagining public schools and the role of 
social entrepreneurship in rebuilding 
communities.  Also, ongoing throughout the summit 
will be "MiX TAPEStry: A Hip Hop VR Experience," 
a collaboration between the U. of I. Krannert Art 
Museum's Collaborative Advanced Navigation Visual 
Arts Studio (CANVAS) and Duke University that 
will give middle school students hands-on 
experience with virtual-reality technology while 
learning history.

The summit opens with "A Cajun Fais Do-Do C-U 
Style" beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday, September 
27. The event will feature a screening of 
excerpts from "Perseverance: Putting It Back 
Together One Day at a Time," a documentary 
ethnography project about one man's determination 
to rebuild his home in New Orleans' Lower Ninth 
Ward, produced by U. of I. graduate student Maria 
Lovett; a panel discussion, musical and 
spoken-word performances, and an opportunity for 
the public to record personal stories.

Following two days of presentations and 
performances, the summit culminates with "New 
Orleans Rising: A Town Hall Meeting," from 2 to 
3:30 p.m. Saturday, September 30. The meeting was 
engineered with the vision of bringing together 
participants from Champaign-Urbana and sites 
across the country to share ideas for creating 
strong communities that can effectively manage 
future disasters.

More information about the summit, including 
registration instructions, event times and 
locations, sponsors and partners, is available on 
the Web at www.katrinasummit.uiuc.edu. For those 
unable to attend the "Katrina: After the Storm" 
events in person, a live webcast feed will be 
available on the HASTAC website.  Please register 
at https://www.hastac.org/user/register/ and then 
visit http://www.hastac.org/live/ for more 
information.  [Quicktime, VLC or other 
MPEG-4-compatible media player 
required.]  Podcast and vodcast versions of the 
webcasts will also be made available after the 
event.   Everyone is invited to contribute to 
discussion about the events and related issues on 
the online forum (http://www.hastac.org/forum/29).
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 20 23:49:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 20 22:50:15 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: PhD Scholarship on Circumpolar Concepts of Home (ESF -
 Eurocores)
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PhD scholarship on circumpolar concepts of the home
Deadline: October 30, 2006

Home, Hearth, and Household in the Circumpolar North Funded by ESF -
EUROCORES The Centre for Sami Studies, University of Troms?, invites
applications for a three year PhD studentship financed by the Norwegian
Research Council under the auspices of the European Science Foundation's
BOREAS research programme. The candidate will be expected to carry out
primary research leading to a doctoral dissertation in colloboration with an
international group of scholars. The topic should be related to that of our
research programme, which will compare the vernacular architecture, the use
of space, and social dynamics of indigenous households in Sapmi (Northern
Scandinavia and Northwest Russia). The full programme is an
interdisciplinary project combining the efforts of anthropologists,
archaologists, and historical demographers. The candidate would write their
dissertation in one of these three disciplines, but would be expected to
engage with researchers in the other areas. We would also expect the
candidate to reflect on our goals of sharing methods and revitalising skills
in communities. This position also offers resources for field research and
the opportunity to travel to international seminars organised by the ESF. An
application should stress primary research in a region of Sapmi and one of
the three research trajectories.

Contact Information:
David Anderson
Centre for Sami Studies
Tromso 9037 Norway
Email: david.anderson@sami.uit.no

URL http://www.sami.uit.no/boreas/


From heffera2 at msu.edu  Fri Sep 22 10:05:49 2006
From: heffera2 at msu.edu (Tara Hefferan)
Date: Fri Sep 22 10:23:31 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Nominations:  Squeaky Wheel Award
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Please distribute widely.

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Call for Nominations:  Squeaky Wheel Award

The Committee on the Status of Women in Anthropology (COSWA) is seeking
nominations for the Squeaky Wheel Award.  This award recognizes individuals
who have demonstrated the courage to bring to light and investigate
practices in anthropology that are potentially discriminatory to women, or
have acted to improve the status of women in anthropology through activities
that raise awareness of women?s contribution to anthropology or identify
barriers to full participation by women in anthropology.  Names of nominees
can be sent to Trudy Turner, Chair COSWA, at trudy@uwm.edu by October 10,
2006.


From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Sep 22 08:44:57 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Sep 22 10:45:12 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Guide, Sept. 1 - 20, 2006
Message-ID: <005701c6de55$ae331e90$0a995bb0$@edu>

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1. San Jose State U, Anthropology, Tenure Track
2. UC Berkeley, Global Studies, Lecturer
3. Colby College, Latin America, Anthropology, Asst. Prof. (3 positions)
4. U of Illinois at Chicago, Transnational/Global Anthropology, Asst. Prof.
**********

1. San Jose State U, Anthropology, Tenure Track

San Jose State University, Anthropology Department seeks cultural
anthropologist for full-time, tenure track position for Fall 2007. Candidate
should have research or work experience connected with one or more of the
following: non-governmental or non-profit organizations, corporations, labor
unions, small businesses, grassroots organizations, and governmental
agencies; geographic and topical areas open, complementing existing
expertise. For full description go to
http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/thissem/jobs.html

Send letter of application, curriculum Vitae, statement of teaching
interests/philosophy and research plans and at least three original letters
of reference with contact information by December 8, 2006 to Dr. C.N.
Darrah, Chair Search Committee, Anthropology Department, San Jos? State
University, One Washington Square, San Jos?, CA 95192-0113. Please include
Job Opening ID (JOID) 012509 on all correspondence.

Contact Information:

	
Job code: JOID# 012509
E-mail : gmontez@email.sjsu.edu
Phone : 408-924-5341
Fax : 408-924-5348
Ms. GLORIA MONTEZ
ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR
ANTHROPOLOGY
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
ONE WASHINGTON SQUARE
SAN JOSE, CA 95192-0113
USA

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2. UC Berkeley, Global Studies, Lecturer

Global Studies/Research Methodologies: University of California, Berkeley.
The International and Area Studies Teaching Program (IASTP) invites
applications for one or more part-time non-senate faculty positions to teach
Interdisciplinary Research Methodologies and/or Global Studies for the
spring 2007 semester with the option of possible renewal. International and
Area Studies offers six innovative and interdisciplinary undergraduate
majors: Political Economy of Industrial Societies, Peace and Conflict
Studies, Development Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Asian Studies, and
Latin American Studies. In addition, it houses 3 interdisciplinary graduate
programs: a concurrent MA in International and Area Studies, and graduate
groups in Asian Studies and Latin American Studies. Duties of the position:
Teaching one or more of the following courses: a) Interdisciplinary Research
Methodologies: This core methods class for IAS majors has the mandate to
train students in a wide range of social science methodologies, to teach
them how to relate different theories to methods, and to prepare them for
research design and thesis research. b) Global Studies: Introductory and
advanced courses in Global Studies, especially those that are able to draw
upon current debates and research in anthropology, sociology, geography, and
even the humanities. IASTP already offers courses with a focus on political
science and political economy. There is some flexibility in the substantive
and regional areas that might be covered by this position. Rank: Non-senate
faculty. Salary: $40,044 minimum full-time annual salary base. Actual salary
base would be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Minimum
appointment is for one course at 33% per semester or 17% full-time employee
annualized. However, the search committee is open to hiring 1 candidate to
teach multiple courses. Minimum qualifications: Ph.D. in a relevant field or
a post-graduate degree with substantial related practical and research
experience. A strong interdisciplinary orientation and a commitment to, and
experience with, undergraduate teaching are desirable. Application:
Applications must include: a) Letter of application; b) Curriculum vitae; c)
Sample course syllabus/syllabi; d) Names, addresses, and e-mails of 3
referees. Reference letters no required at time of initial application.
Apply to: Lecturer Search: IASTP, c/o Ariadne H. Prater, Assistant to the
Dean; International and Area Studies Teaching Program; 101 Stephens Hall
2306, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720-2306.
Effective: Spring 2007. Option of renewal pending curricular needs and
budgetary approval. Closing date: October 15, 2006. UCB is an equal
employment opportunity employer.

Contact Information:

	
Job code: 0107
Phone : 510.642.8218
Fax : 510.642.9850
Mrs. Ariadne H. Prater
Assistant to the Dean
International & Area Studies Teaching Pr
University of California - Berkeley
101 Stephen Hall
MC #2306
Berkeley, CA 94720-2306
USA

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3. Colby College, Latin America, Anthropology, Asst. Prof. (3 positions)

The Anthropology Department at Colby College invites applications for a
tenure-track appointment at the assistant professor level, beginning
September 1, 2007, for candidates with demonstrated research and teaching
expertise in the anthropology of Latin America.  The successful candidate
will teach one section of introduction of cultural anthropology per year, a
regional course on Latin American ethnography, as well as three additional
courses to be determined in conjunction with departmental needs.  We
encourage applications from scholars whose areas of teaching and research
interest complement those of existing faculty and may include such areas as:
medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, anthropology of religion
and consciousness, critical poverty studies, anthropology of race and
ethnicity, media and expressive culture, urban anthropology.  The successful
candidate should have Ph.D. in hand and be able to teach courses that will
complement the existing Anthropology program.
  Please send letter of application, vita, statements of teaching and
research interests, a concise writing sample, and names and contact
information for three references to Prof. Jeff Anderson, Chair Search
Committee (Latin America), Anthropology Department, Colby College,
Waterville, ME 04901.  Review of applications will begin October 1, 2006 and
will continue until the position is filled; initial interviews will be
conducted at the AAA meetings in November 2006.
    Colby is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed to
excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages applications and
nominations of persons of color, women, and members of other
under-represented groups.  For more information about the College, please
visit the Colby Web site: www.colby.edu

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The African-American Studies Program and the Anthropology Department at
Colby College invite applications for a tenure-track joint appointment at
the assistant professor level, beginning September 1, 2007. We seek an
anthropologist whose teaching and research deal centrally with the Caribbean
region (broadly defined) and its diverse populations of African descent. In
addition to ethnographic experience, candidates should have a broad
knowledge of the cultural history and political economy of the region. The
successful candidate will teach one section of introduction to cultural
anthropology per year, a regional course on Caribbean ethnography, as well
as three additional courses, at least one of which will examine critically
the African diaspora in the western hemisphere and the Atlantic world. We
encourage applications from scholars whose areas of teaching and research
interest complement those of existing faculty and may include such areas as:
medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, anthropology of religion
and consciousness, critical poverty studies, anthropology of race and
ethnicity, media and expressive culture, urban anthropology. The successful
candidate should have completed the Ph.D. in Anthropology or in a closely
related interdisciplinary program (e.g. African American, Africana, or
Caribbean Studies) and be able to teach courses that will complement both
the African-American Studies and Anthropology programs.
Please send letter of application, CV, writing sample or samples, statement
on teaching interests and evidence of teaching ability, statement of
research interests, and contact information for three references to: Prof.
Mary Beth Mills and Prof. Cheryl T. Gilkes, Search Committee, African
American Studies Program and Anthropology Department, Colby College,
Waterville, ME 04901. Review of applications will begin on October 10, 2006
and continue until the position is filled. Initial interviews will be
conducted at the 2006 AAA meetings in San Jose, CA, November 15-19, 2006;
however, all applicants will be considered regardless of whether they can
attend the AAA meetings.
        Colby is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed
to excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages applications and
nominations of persons of color, women, and members of other
under-represented groups. For more information about the College, please
visit the Colby Web site: www.colby.edu

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The International Studies Program at Colby College invites applications for
a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level for candidates with
specialization in international human rights and anthropology, beginning
September 1, 2007. We seek a scholar with a Ph.D. in anthropology and
demonstrated research and teaching interests in the human rights arena. The
ideal candidate will have an interest in exploring both international human
rights policy and its impact on diverse communities and social settings. We
seek individuals with areas of expertise in the field of anthropology and
human rights that may include one or more of the following: refugees and
displaced populations, genocide or racial/ethnic violence and their
aftermaths, civil war and other conflict zones, environmental and/or
indigenous rights movements, religious/ethnic/gendered modes of persecution,
and/or the roles and practices of international institutions (courts, NGOs,
humanitarian aid), among other topics. Sub-specialties of interest include
community-building and non-governmental organizations, media studies, and/or
urban studies. Geographic area is open; however we strongly encourage
candidates with specialization in North Africa, the Middle East, South or
Central Asia, the Balkans, or other regions without substantial
representation in the Colby curriculum. The successful candidate will have
strong interdisciplinary interests, be able to teach courses that will
complement the existing International Studies and Anthropology programs and
will contribute actively to the development of Colby's growing International
Studies Program and to Colby's Oak Institute for the Study of International
Human Rights. 
      Please send letter of application, CV, a writing sample or samples,
three letters of recommendation, and evidence of teaching ability to:
Professor Paul Josephson, Search Committee, International Studies, Colby
College, Waterville, ME 04901. Review of applications will begin on October
20, 2006 and continue until the position is filled; initial interviews will
be conducted at the 2006 American Anthropological Association meetings in
San Jose, CA, November 15-19, 2006.
        Colby is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed
to excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages applications and
nominations of persons of color, women, and members of other
under-represented groups. For more information about the College, please
visit the Colby Web site: www.colby.edu


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4. U of Illinois at Chicago, Transnational/Global Anthropology, Asst. Prof.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Anthropology, invites
applications and nominations for tenure-track positions in Medical
Anthropology and Transnational/Global Anthropology to begin in August, 2007.
The department expects to add two faculty members in total, selected from
the areas mentioned. Appointments are expected to be at the Assistant
Professor level and are pending budgetary approval.

For the position in Medical Anthropology, we seek a Socio-cultural
Anthropologist with an active research program in global/international
health, health and nutrition, reproductive health, infectious diseases,
and/or anthropological demography.  Geographic area is open. The successful
applicants will join a growing community of scholars who are integrating
research interests in the Department of Anthropology, the School of Public
Health (UIC) and the Field Museum.

For the position in Transnational/Global Anthropology we are looking for a
Socio-cultural Anthropologist with research interests in one or more of the
following areas: transnational labor, anthropology of neoliberalism and
global capitalism, critical ethnography of globalization and transnational
cultural phenomena. The geographic area is open.

PhD should be completed by the time of the appointment. The candidates
should also demonstrate scholarly productivity, the potential for grant
support, and teaching experience. Review of applications will begin on
November 15, and will continue until the positions are filled.  For fullest
consideration submit CV, cover letter describing qualifications, and the
names/addresses of three references to the Search Committee Chair,
Department of Anthropology, M/C 027, 1007 West Harrison Street, The
University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago Illinois 60607-7139 by December
26, 2006.  UIC is Chicago's largest university and the location of the
state's major public medical school.  It also has one of the most diverse
student bodies in the nation.  The University of Illinois is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.

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The Program in Anthropology at The University of Texas at Arlington invites
applications for a tenure track or tenured appointment at the assistant or
associate professor level in social/cultural anthropology. Although area of
research specialization is open, we seek a scholar whose research interests
will complement and strengthen those of our cultural anthropology faculty
(i.e., globalization, international migration and medical anthropology);
applications are particularly invited from scholars in public anthropology,
political anthropology and development anthropology. Preference will be
given to candidates with an active research agenda in Africa, Asia or Latin
America. The successful candidate will be prepared to teach undergraduate
and graduate courses in anthropological theory as well as in his/her topical
areas of expertise. The Anthropology Program emphasizes a four-field
approach and currently includes a permanent faculty of five, with two
cultural anthropologists, two archaeologists and one biological
anthropologist.

The University of Texas at Arlington, a public Doctoral/Research Extensive
institution, is a part of the University of Texas System, enrolling
approximately 25,000 students in 81 undergraduate, 73 master's and 35
doctoral programs. It is located in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, a
vibrant and growing region of north Texas. Arlington, a city with a suburban
feel and a pleasant and affordable place to live, has an ethnically and
culturally diverse population. Its proximity to both Dallas and Fort Worth
provides outstanding cultural and recreational opportunities, including
world-renowned museums, symphony, opera and ballet and professional sports.
Arlington is conveniently located near DFW International Airport.

Applicants must have PhD in hand by the beginning of the Fall 2007 semester.
Review of applications will begin immediately, and will continue until the
position is filled. Applications (including cover letter, curriculum vitae
and three letters of reference) should be sent to Dr. Shelley L. Smith,
Chair, Anthropology Search Committee, Program in Anthropology, Box 19599,
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX 76019. Applications from
underrepresented groups are especially encouraged. UT Arlington is an Equal
Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.


Contact Information:

	
Dr. Shelley L. Smith
Chair, Anthropology Search Committee
Program in Anthropology
The University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19599
Arlington, TX 76019-0599
USA


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Sep 22 13:44:15 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 22 12:44:23 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Paradigmatic Cities?
Message-ID: <1865984.1158943455810.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Paradigmatic Cities?

A two-day conference organised by the RGS-IBG Urban Geography Research 
Group

Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th November 2006
Scottish Trade Union Congress, Glasgow, Scotland

Urban studies has a long history of identifying particular cities as 
emblematic of urbanism more generally. Through such processes certain 
cities have emerged as 'obligatory points of passage' within the urban 
studies literature: whether because apparently emblematic of particular 
'urbanisms' (for example, Paris as the birthplace of urban modernism, 
or Los Angeles as the eponymous 'post-metropolis') or of more specific 
processes (for example, 
revanchism = New York, diversity = Toronto).

Such tendencies have come in for sustained critique in recent years. 
Where some have launched what might be termed a 'thin critique' 
(challenging the paradigmatic status of one city, only to substitute 
that city for another), others have mounted a more serious challenge to 
the identification of 'paradigmatic' cities per se. Yet despite these 
critiques, tendencies remain in the urban studies literature to focus 
disproportionately on a small number of cities, as well as to identify 
newly paradigmatic places (witness the re-emergence of a 'Chicago 
School' at this year?s AAG).

This two-day event aims to provide a forum for discussion and debate 
around the epistemologies and politics of paradigmatic thinking in 
urban studies, policy and practice.

To help foster discussion the event will be organised around a 
combination of Key Note addresses, shorter position papers and group 
discussion.

Confirmed Key Note Speakers include:

Juliet Davis, Canterbury School of Architecture
Rob Imrie, King's College, London
Donald McNeill, King's College, London
Jenny Robinson, Open University

Registration:
?50 (Postgraduate/unwaged: ?10)

Those interested in participating should complete and mail the attached 
registration form, with registration fee enclosed, to:

Urban Geography Research Group
C/O Jennie Middleton
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London WC2R 2LS

____________________________________

**Deadline for registration: 20 October 2006**
____________________________________

Visit http://www.urban-geography.org.uk for:
(1) registration form; (2) conference flyer; and (3) directions to venue


Questions can be directed to any of the following:

Jennie Middleton, King's College London (jennie.middleton@kcl.ac.uk)
Jon May, Queen Mary, University of London (j.may@qmul.ac.uk)
Gesa Helms, University of Glasgow (g.helms@socsci.gla.ac.uk)
Scott Rodgers, King's College London (scott.rodgers@kcl.ac.uk)

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Sep 23 00:09:18 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 22 23:09:46 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Changing Asian Family as a Site of (State)
	Politics
Message-ID: <000b01c6debd$b03a3df0$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

The Changing Asian Family as a Site of (State) Politics
Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
Deadline: October 1, 2006

The conference aims to bring together scholars of Asia whose work
interrogates the state-family relationship. We invite scholars to reflect on
the complex political processes that produce "the Asian family" and to
analyse the consequences of these processes for state and society.

The rapidly changing face of Asia is perhaps most sharply represented in the
changing composition, functions, and meanings of its families. Scholarship
on the Asian family has highlighted the myriad ways in which changes in the
organization of economic lives, demographic trends, social mobility
opportunities, migration patterns and global cultural influences have
affected the shape, form, and significance of "the family" in people's
lives. Scholars have long acknowledged the family as an important site of
state action within the context of these changes. The tendency remains,
however, to conceptualize the family and the state as distinct entities-with
the state impacting on the family-rather than formed in relation to each
other. In this framework, the "public" state steps in to "interfere" with
the "private" family only on specific "problems." In this way, despite the
richness of this scholarship, studies of the family continue to stand
somewhat outside larger debates about political systems and state-society
relations. Contemporary Asian state actors also contribute to perpetuating a
view of "the Asian family" as private and primordial, and hence, its own
actions as ameliorative and apolitical.

This conference focuses on the relational formation of state and family by
highlighting the complex and sometimes contradictory power struggles and
negotiations that render possible or impossible particular definitions of
the contemporary Asian family, as well as the consequences of these
processes on larger questions of political culture and state-society
relationships. We aim to bring together scholars of the region whose
research investigates the politics of state-family relations through these
questions: How are familial forms produced-what are the political processes
that produce specific definitions of "family members," "family relations,"
and "familial responsibilities and rights"? On the other hand, what are the
consequences of these political processes-on individuals, on civil society,
on the state's own authority, and more broadly, on the texture and tone of
power relations in society?
Key themes that follow:

State definitions of "the family": rhetoric and practice; variations across
time and space;

"The family" as site of mobilization, movements, contestations and/or
cooperation among different actors, vis-?-vis the state. These interactions
may include different government agents, non-governmental organizations, and
individuals in both national and transnational contexts, and contestations
may be based around class, ethnic, gender, and other group interests and
agenda;

The reach of the state and its limits in relation to its definitions of
meanings, forms, and functions of family;

The (re)production of inequality and equality through interactions between
state and family;

The (re)production of political culture and political subjectivity as a
result of state and family interactions: the generation of interests,
identities, and legitimate and illegitimate political behaviour;

"Powerful" families-such as families of political elites and royal
families-and their roles in shaping the definition of family in specific
contexts, and in shaping state and family relations;

The changing family as a site where there is rethinking of the state and
civil society in the era of rapid global change.  We invite historians,
sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and other social
scientists working on Asia to submit paper proposals.
We hope to select from the conference papers articles for one to two special
journal issues.

Please submit paper abstracts (maximum 300 words), by 1st October 2006 to
Alyson Rozells. Decisions will be made by the beginning of November.
Complete papers are due 15th March 2007. Speakers will be provided
with accommodation, and partial reimbursement for air-travel may be 
available.

Alyson Rozells
Asia Research Institute
National University of Singapore
Shaw Foundation Building,
Block AS7, Level 4, 5 Arts Link,
Singapore 117570
Tel: (65)6516 8787
Fax: (65)6779 1428

Email: ariaar@nus.edu.sg
Visit the website at
http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=493


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Sep 25 11:22:01 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 25 10:22:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Refugee Studies Center (RSC) Public Seminar Series (Oxford, UK)
Message-ID: <4351108.1159194121427.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Michaelmas Term 2006
RSC Public Seminars

Website: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

Convened by Dr Graeme Rodgers, Research Fellow

The following seminars will take place at 5.00-6.30pm on Wednesdays, 
Seminar Room One, Department of Development Studies/Queen Elizabeth 
House, Mansfield Road,Oxford

11 October "The Nature of Displacement:Conservation and
Marginality on the Mozambique-South Africa
Borderland "Dr.Graeme Rodgers (RSC,Oxford)

18 October "Refugees' Agency and Aid Agencies in Africa "
Dr.Oliver Bakewell (IMI, Oxford)

25 October "Voluntary and Involuntary Movement:The 
UN's Role in Developing a New Understanding of International
Migration "Ms. Stephanie Grant (Harrison Grant Solicitors,
London)

1 November "Do Not Fix It -The Refugee Regime between
Legalisation and Vagueness "Ms.Anna Schmidt
(University of California, Berkeley)

8 November Re-thinking the Concept of ?Generations 
in Forced Migration "Prof.Peter Loizos (London School 
of Economics)

15 November "Trans-Saharan Migration to the 
Maghreb and the EU: Historical Roots and 
Recent Trends "Dr. Hein de Haas (IMI, Oxford)

22 November "Legal Aid to Refugees: A Report from 
the Field "Prof. Barbara Harrell-Bond (American 
University in Cairo)

29 November Harrell-Bond Lecture
Shami Chakrabarti ,Director of Liberty, (Title to come).
5.00pm ,South School,Examination Schools,Oxford,
reception to follow.

For more information contact:

Dominique Attala
Refugee Studies Centre
Department of International Development (QEH)
University of Oxford,Mans oeld Road
Oxford,OX1 3LA
Email:rscmst@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk

Seminars might be subject to change at the last 
minute, please refer to our website for updates.
A portable induction loop is available on request.

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Mon Sep 25 21:09:21 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 25 20:09:32 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Contributors: Migration and Activism in European History
 since 1945
Message-ID: <006601c6e100$0607c560$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

Call for Contributors: Migration and Activism in European History Since 1945
Deadline: November 1, 2006

This edited book collection will seek to explore the relationship of
migration to political and social activism in contemporary Europe. Recent
scholarship has shown that migrants are often excluded from traditional
modes of political participation in their host countries and have only
limited interaction with native activists. Migrant self-organizing appears
to be related in part to the failure of the political Left, pro-immigrant
organizations, and international support structures to adequately address
the multiple needs of "new" immigrant communities.

Papers are sought that will attempt to address the challenges faced by
migrant and native activists who work together and to understand the
complexities of building effective political and social movements. Examples
of both successes and failures in the construction of anti-racist and
anti-sexist strategies are sought. Contributions should focus on migrants
from non-European countries to any country/countries in Europe.

Papers that engage with historical themes within any humanities or social
science discipline are preferred. Researchers must demonstrate a commitment
to a methodological framework that is sensitive to the intersections of
gender, race, and class. Contributions are welcome from scholars at any
level of their professional careers.
Themes:

Migrants in native organizations (e.g. trade unions, political parties,
feminist groups)
Migrants and international organizing (e.g. NGOs, the UN, the EU)
Migrants and transnational organizing (i.e. simultaneous activism in home
and host countries)
Autonomous migrant associations and their interactions with native
organizations and governmental structures

Proposals should include:

A 750-1000 word abstract

A brief curriculum vitae (2 pages)

Full contact information including mail, email, and phone/fax numbers

Proposals are due 1 November 2006. Contributors will be notified by 30
January 2007 if their proposals have been accepted. Full articles of 6000 to
8000 words will be due no later than 31 May 2007. Proposals will be accepted
in English, French, or Italian. Final papers must be in English.

Wendy Pojmann, editor - is Assistant Professor of modern European history at
Siena College in New York and the author of Immigrant Women and Feminism in
Italy (Ashgate 2006).

Proposals and questions should be addressed to:
Wendy Pojmann
History Department
Siena College
515 Loudon Road
Loudonville, NY 12211-1462
USA
++1-518-786-5003 (tel)
++1-518-782-6548 (fax)
Email: wpojmann@siena.edu


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Tue Sep 26 19:53:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 26 18:53:27 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Shaw on Buckler, Mapping St. Petersburg
Message-ID: <003101c6e1be$8dc96620$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

H-NET BOOK REVIEWS
Published by H-HistGeog (June 2006)

Julie A Buckler. _Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape_.
Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2005. 364 pp.
Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 
0-691-11349-1.

Reviewed by: Denis J. B. Shaw, School of Geography, Earth and
Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK.


The Textual Topography of an Imperial City

St. Petersburg is a city whose literary heritage is particularly
rich. Created as Russia's new capital by Peter the Great "out of
nothing" on the swampy delta of the River Neva at the beginning of
the eighteenth century, an act with few parallels in modern times,
the city has seemed to many to symbolize the clash between modernity
and tradition, aspiration and authenticity, and dream and reality,
which lies close to the heart of modern culture. For the Russian tsar
and his associates the city was meant to represent the ambition and
power with which he aimed to endow his realm, signaling Russia's
emergence on the world stage as a thoroughly modern European state.
To this end he strove to equip his new capital with all the
paraphernalia of modern urban living, beginning with a plan and an
architecture which would reflect the grandeur and excitement of
European metropolitan life, to the greater glory of the Russian
empire itself and of the dynasty which ruled it. To thousands of
Peter's subjects, however, aristocrats, merchants, peasants and
others, who were dragooned or otherwise persuaded to live in the
city, St. Petersburg was far from glorious. Remote, forbidding,
unRussian and set in a hostile environment, the city's life proved an
unpleasant, difficult and frequently dangerous place for many. More
often, perhaps, it simply provided the context (the means or their
lack) within which people struggled to lead their lives. But given
this background and the extremes between utter poverty and great
wealth displayed in the city, plus the fact that it was the capital
in both the political and (Moscow notwithstanding) the cultural
sense, St. Petersburg was the stage for the creation of some of
Russia's greatest literature. That literature is particularly
celebrated for its engagement with the depths and also the heights of
human experience. Not surprisingly, writers found some of the best
material for their explorations of the human condition within the city 
itself.

This book is not, however, an evocation of St. Petersburg's classical
literary heritage, rich though that heritage is. That, as the author
Julie Buckler rightly says, has been done by others. Rather the
author attempts something slightly different. It is to reflect upon
the way that the city, both as a physical place and as a social
milieu, is represented in the writings, designs, stories, anecdotes,
memoirs, guides and legends of "the cultural middle," the middlebrow
and the lowbrow worlds which, in both Russian history and literature,
have so often been elided between the world of the famous and the
cultural elite and that of the masses. Buckler thus tries to
recapture something of the everyday world of literary and artistic
production and imagination, a world which was probably more familiar
to the mass of St. Petersburg's citizens than that of high society on
the one hand or that of the lower depths on the other. The accent is
upon the late imperial period in the city's history, between the
early and later parts of the nineteenth century when literary
production was particularly intense and variegated (though there are
frequent references to both earlier periods and to later Soviet and
even post-Soviet times). In thus investigating what she calls the
city's "textual topography," the author has evidently benefited from
reading those scholars such as cultural geographers and others who
have pondered the problems of representing cities in cultural texts.
Familiarity with the work of Michel Foucault, Henri Lefebvre, Michel
de Certeau, Raymond Williams and Georg Simmel, as well as with more
recent work by David Harvey, Edward Soja, Brian Harley, James Duncan
and others, has greatly contributed to the book's significance beyond
literary studies to the social sciences more generally.

The book's flyleaf suggests that what Buckler shows is that imperial
St. Petersburg was "a living cultural system." But, in fact, as this
book so amply demonstrates, it was in no sense "a system," but rather
a chaotic cultural complex which is dealt with here in eclectic
fashion. Thus chapter 1 examines architectural styles in the city
between the 1830s and the 1890s as shown in its apartment buildings,
commercial outlets, public institutions and private houses,
demonstrating a middlebrow eclecticism which reflects the rapidly
changing social structure of the industrializing city and which was
resolutely frowned upon by the guardians of good taste. Chapter 2
moves on to consider how the city and its physical elements and
monuments were represented in the writing of the period, which again
is eclectic in form and style. Particular attention is paid to the
varied ways in which writers depicted, responded to, and ultimately
constituted some of the city's principal spaces, notably the
celebrated statue of the Bronze Horseman, and the Nevsky Prospekt,
the city's principal thoroughfare. The next chapter surveys the
city's travel literature in the form of guidebooks, cultural
histories, journey accounts and similar material to show how the city
is differently conceived by different individuals, groups and
interests, as is also the case with the next genre examined, that of
the urban legend. Chapter 5 considers the city as a variable space,
highlighting the different literary roles of, and the different
evaluations placed upon, both central and peripheral spaces--notably
the imperial palace-parks beyond the city's boundaries, its
settlements of dachas or weekend and summer cottages in the nearby
countryside, its slums, and finally its industrial districts. What is
surprising in this account is the fact that, whilst the first three
spatial types play a prominent role in the Petersburg text, the
industrial districts, unlike those of other industrial cities like
London, Paris and New York in their respective texts, find almost no
place--a striking testimony, perhaps, to the ambivalent attitude
towards modernity displayed by many Russian writers of the period.
The variegated (and yet in certain ways surprisingly similar)
experiences of writers coming to live or stay in the city are evoked
in the following chapter, followed by a consideration of memory and
loss in the story of the city, especially in terms of catastrophes
and threatened catastrophes through flood, fire, and other forms of
destruction as reflected in cemeteries, museums, place names and
similar features. The city's three-hundred-year history, celebrated
in 2003, with memories of the centennials of 1803 and 1903,
conclude the book.

It is difficult to do justice to a book of such variety and depth in
this short account. The book will repay reading and rereading in
depth, not only for its own sake, but also for the sake of the city
it describes. In her introduction, the author states, "where the
Petersburg mythology asserts remarkable unity, I seek pluralism;
where this mythology asserts Petersburg's essential difference, I
emphasize the city's more ordinary qualities" (p. 25). In this she
succeeds admirably. And yet, for all that, St. Petersburg still
emerges as a quite remarkable place.

Copyright (c) 2006 by H-Net, all rights reserved. H-Net permits the
redistribution and reprinting of this work for nonprofit, educational
purposes, with full and accurate attribution to the author, web
location, date of publication, originating list, and H-Net:
Humanities & Social Sciences Online. For other uses contact the
Reviews editorial staff: hbooks@mail.h-net.msu.edu. 


From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 27 13:44:59 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 27 12:45:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Youth Culture/s in Europe (UK)
Message-ID: <6849676.1159375499859.JavaMail.acjancius@ysu.edu>

Youth Culture/s in Europe

CALL FOR PAPERS

A One-Day Conference to be held on 29th June 2007 at Loughborough 
University, UK

The conference is sponsored by the Journal of Contemporary European 
Studies and seeks to provide a forum for critical, interdisciplinary 
debate on discourses of youth cultures in European countries.

Contributions from a wide variety of perspectives are encouraged, 
either as single country or comparative studies, such as:

-         Youth culture and /class/gender/race
-         Youth culture as political contestation
-         Consumption and cultural resistance
-         Cultural practice and commodification
-         Immigrant youth culture
-         Youth-specific media
-         Boys and the 'feminisation' of education
-         'Girl power'
-         Youth as 'key to the future'
-         Youth and crime
-         Global youth culture
-         Spaces of youth culture
-         Poverty and unemployment

To find out more about the JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES, 
please visit the journal website at:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.

Proposals for papers of approx. twenty minutes in length are invited on 
any aspect of this topic.

Proposals, including a 200-400 word abstract, should be sent by 30th 
October 2006 to the organizers at the following address:



Martha W?rsching
Department of Politics, International Relations & European Studies
Loughborough University
LOUGHBOROUGH
LE11 3TU/UK
0044-(0)1509-222 998
M.M.Worsching@lboro.ac.uk




From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 27 19:05:13 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 27 18:05:31 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Contributions: Spatial Justice
Message-ID: <007901c6e281$07711d70$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Volume 14, Summer 2007: Spatial Justice

"Spatial justice" is an emergent concept, variously explored in fields
as diverse as urban planning, architecture, sociology, geography, and
others. Provisionally, we define spatial justice as the "fair and
democratic distribution of societal benefits and burdens across spaces
of various scales." Spatial justice strengthens concepts of social
justice by recognizing that space is socially produced, and that space,
in turn, shapes social relations. Volume 14 will bring together articles
from academics and practitioners to theorize and examine the application
of spatial justice as a framework for action. We welcome papers that
address a wide variety of topics -- regional democracy, transit and
environmental justice, anti-gentrification efforts, and resistance to
public housing redevelopment, among many others. We welcome manuscripts
from all disciplines and using various methodologies. We intend to
publish a combination of case studies, theoretical analyses, research
and policy briefs, design conceptualizations and personal accounts; feel
free to contact us by email to discuss your ideas.

Critical Planning, the Journal of the UCLA Department of Urban Planning,
aims to provide in-depth, innovative and critical analysis of topics
pertaining to the planning field. As a peer-reviewed publication,
Critical Planning welcomes original, high quality submissions.

Feature articles are generally between 5,000 to 7,000 words, while
shorter pieces are between 1,000 to 3,000 words. All submissions should
be written according to the standards of the Chicago Manual of Style,
15th Edition. Footnotes should be placed at the end of the document.
Please double-space all parts of the manuscript and leave one-inch
margins on all sides. Tables and images should be separated from the
text. Images should be provided in .TIF format, not exceeding a width of
5 inches and a resolution of 600 dpi (a width of 3000 pixels). Include a
cover sheet with the title of the article, the author's name, phone
number, email address and a two-sentence biographical statement.

Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate to:

Critical Planning
C/O Gregory Morrow, Deirdre Pfeiffer
and Ava Bromberg, Managing Editors
UCLA Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
3250 Public Policy Building
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656

Email: critplan@ucla.edu
Website: http://www.sppsr.ucla.edu/critplan/

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis. Early submissions are
encouraged. The deadline for submission is December 15, 2006.
From acjancius at ysu.edu  Wed Sep 27 19:05:20 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 27 18:05:39 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Jornadas Afroargentinas
Message-ID: <007a01c6e281$07b63cc0$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

From: Luz Marina Mateo <luzmateo@hotmail.com>

Dear friends: my name is Luz Marina Mateo (a journalist and student of
International Relationships, and afroargentinean woman). I?m one of the
organizators of the "Jornadas Afroargentinas". I?m sending de information
about our activity. Thanks.

Primeras Jornadas Afroargentinos Hoy: invisibilizaci?n, identidad y
movilizaci?n social.
5 y 6 de octubre de 2006.
Patrocinado por el CONICET, Resol. N? 062/06.
Organizan: Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo (UNLP), Instituto de
Relaciones Internacionales (UNLP), Departamento ?frica.

Dirigido a investigadores, docentes y estudiantes de todos los niveles,
funcionarios de organismos de gobierno, organizaciones no gubernamentales y
comunidad en general.

Entrada libre y gratuita. Se otorgar? certificado de asistencia previa
inscripci?n.

Muestra Pl?stica "Cabo Verde: entra?ables lazos" a cargo de Graciela Silva.
Videos: "Afroargentinos", de Jorge Fortes-Diego Ceballos y "Negro, Che", de
Alberto Masl?ah.

Lugar: Auditorio del Museo de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y
Museo, UNLP, Paseo del Bosque s/n, La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Auspician: Asociaci?n Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y ?frica (ALADAA),
Asociaci?n Caboverdeana de Ensenada, Uni?n Caboverdeana de Dock Sud.

Informes: jornadasafroargentinas@hotmail.com  o (0221) 15-558-0198, Luz
Marina Mateo.


PROGRAMA

Jueves 5 de octubre

9.00.- Bienvenida: Dra. Silvia Ametrano (Dir. Museo de La Plata), Dr.
Norberto Consani (Dir. del IRI-UNLP), Dra. Gladys Lechini (IRI-UNLP), Prof.
Marta Maffia (FCNyM-UNLP).
10.00.- Gladys Lechini (CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Rosario,  IRI-UNLP)
"Los estudios africanos en Am?rica Latina. Herencia, presencia y visiones
del otro".
11.00.- Luz Marina Mateo (IRI-UNLP). "Afrodescendientes en Am?rica Latina y
pobreza en el marco de los Objetivos de Desarrollos del Milenio".
12.00.- Dina Picotti (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero) "La
importancia de una pol?tica cultural y educativa para el reconocimiento de
la identidad afroargentina como sujeto hist?rico. Algunas consideraciones
desde la experiencia universitaria".
Marisa Pineau (CONICET, UBA, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes).
"Eurocentrismo e historia. La ausencia de los africanos en las universidades
argentinas".

13.00.- Almuerzo

14.30.- Laura L?pez (Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, CAPES/CNPq).
"Los afrodescendientes como sujetos pol?ticos en la Argentina.
Articulaciones locales y transnacionales".
15.30.- Alejandro Frigerio (FLACSO, CONICET). "Representaciones de raza y
cultura negra en la Buenos Aires multicultural".
16.30.- Miriam Gomes (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero). "Comunidades
negras en la Argentina. Inserci?n e invisibilizaci?n".
18.00.- Afroargentinos (Video). Direcci?n: Jorge Fortes y Diego Ceballos.
Duraci?n: 75m.


Viernes 6 de octubre

9.30.- Boubakar Traor? (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero). "Los
inmimgrantes senegaleses. Caracter?sticas y mecanismos de inserci?n".
10.30.- Marta Maffia (CONICET, UNLP). "Ser caboverdeano en Argentina.
Cuestiones identitarias y estrategias de invisibilizaci?n/visibilizaci?n de
los migrantes caboverdeanos y sus descendientes".
11.30.- Pablo Cirio (Inst. Nac. de Musicolog?a "Carlos Vega"). "De la
etnograf?a al escenario: Ertivio Acosta y una propuesta de identidad musical
afro para la provincia del Chaco".

12.30 Almuerzo

14.00.- Diana Maff?a (UBA, I.F.C. y P. Hannah Arendt). "Fotos narradas:
haciendo visible la propia identidad".
15.00.- Mesa Redonda: "Mujeres afroargentinas en di?logo":
Carmen Platero (Comedia Negra de Bs. As.); Luc?a Molina (Casa
Indoafroamericana de Santa Fe); Pocha Lamadrid (?frica Vive); Graciela Silva
(Comunidad Caboverdeana de Ensenada y La Plata); Selma Sim? (Comunidad
Caboverdeana de Ensenada y L.P.); Miriam Gomes (Uni?n Caboverdeana de Dock
Sud); Luz Marina Mateo (Comunidad Caboverdeana de Ensenada y L. P.).

17.- Caf?

17.30.- Video "Negro Che". Direcci?n: Alberto Masl?ah. Duraci?n: 95m.
19.00.- Cierre


From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Sep 28 12:42:14 2006
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 28 11:44:33 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Texas A&M Postdoctoral Fellow (Urban Livability,
 Resilience, Sustainability)
Message-ID: <000301c6e314$abb53b30$c5d2eb84@SOCBA021>

Postdoctoral Fellow
Texas A & M University @ Galveston
Deadline: contact William Merrell (merrellw@tamug.edu)

Texas A&M University at Galveston and the Houston Advanced Research Center 
are seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow with expertise in coastal processes, 
hazards, and planning to participate in the development and implementation 
of strategies that address coastal urban livability, resilience, and 
sustainability. The position will be located on the Texas A&M University at 
Galveston campus in the Center for Texas Beaches and Shores. Principal 
activities will be focused on Galveston Futures, a long-term project aimed 
at using community input and innovative visualization techniques to help 
design sustainable futures in coastal communities.

This position requires knowledge of principles and practices of urban and 
coastal planning. Applicants should be skilled in the use of geographic 
information systems, computer-aided planning support tools, and software 
packages for database development and management. A Ph.D. in Planning, 
Natural Resource Management, Geography, or related fields is expected. The 
fellowship has an annual salary of $38,000 with standard Texas A&M 
University at Galveston benefits. Its duration is one year with the 
possibility of reappointment.

Applicants should send a resume and the names of three references to William 
Merrell at merrellw@tamug.edu. Texas A&M University at Galveston is an 
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer committed to excellence 
through diversity.


Phone:409-740-4732
Dept.: Center for Texas Beaches and Shores
Address:1001 Texas Clipper Rd Suite 301
Galveston, TX 77554
United States 

From acjancius at ysu.edu  Fri Sep 29 00:19:30 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 28 23:19:41 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: City Seminars at Columbia University, 2006-07
Message-ID: <006101c6e376$15dbcbd0$0300a8c0@Maulwaurf>

City Seminars at Columbia University, 2006-07

Academic Year 2006-7

Tuesday Oct. 10-Elizabeth Blackmar, Columbia University, "Of REITS and
Rights: Looking at Contemporary Real Estate Developments"


Monday November 6-Jonathan Soffer, Polytechnic University: "Ed Koch and
New York's Municipal Foreign Policy"


Thursday December 7-Nicholas Lemann, Columbia University, and Arnold
Hirsch, University of New Orleans: "New Orleans from the Inside Out"


Thursday January 25-Marni Sandweiss, Amherst College: "Passing Strange:
Clarence King's Odd Double Life in Late Nineteenth-Century New York"


Monday February 26: Casey Blake, Columbia University, "'West Side Story'
Fifty Years Later"


Wednesday March 28-Brian Purnell, Bronx African American History
Project, Fordham University: "'Taxation without Sanitation is
Tyranny'-Civil Rights Struggles Over Garbage Collection in Brooklyn, New
York during the Fall of 1962"


Thursday April 26-Pablo Piccato, Columbia University: "Crime and Urban
Communities in Twentieth-Century Mexico City"


Thursday May 10-Carl Nightingale,  State University of New York at
Buffalo,  "Splitting Cities in Chicago and Johannesburg: Towards a
Transnational History of Early 20th Century Urban Racial Segregation"

From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Fri Sep 29 11:05:54 2006
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Fri Sep 29 13:06:08 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]URBANTH-L Job Guide, Sept. 25-29, 2006
Message-ID: <006601c6e3e9$88335b30$989a1190$@edu>

**********
1. Gettysburg College, Anthro, Asst. Prof.
2. U of Texas, Austin, Urban Geography, Asst. Prof.
3. Berry College, Anthro, Asst. Prof.
**********

1. Gettysburg College, Anthro, Asst. Prof.

Position: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology and
Anthropology
Salary: Unspecified
Institution: Gettysburg College
Location: Pennsylvania
Application deadline: 12/1/2006

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology invites applications for an
entry level tenure-track position in Anthropology to begin in August 2007.
We seek a broadly trained cultural anthropologist working on globalization
and transnationalism who is committed to undergraduate teaching. Possible
research interests include migration, trafficking, health, tourism, heritage
and identity, popular culture and expressive arts, environmental movements,
and violence. Geographic area open. The successful candidate must be
prepared to teach Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; to share
responsibility for upper-level courses in History of Anthropological Theory,
Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology, and/or the senior capstone seminar;
and to offer courses in his or her topical or regional specialties. This
position represents an expansion of the anthropology program to support the
recently established anthropology major and will contribute to the College's
new globalization studies major. Completed Ph.D. in Anthropology required by
the time of appointment. Teaching experience preferred.

Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located within
90 minutes of the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area. Established in
1832, the College has a rich history and is situated on a 220-acre campus
with an enrollment of over 2,500 students. It is consistently ranked in the
top 50 liberal arts colleges in the nation. Gettysburg College celebrates
diversity and invites applications from members of any group that has been
historically underrepresented in the American academy. The College assures
equal employment opportunity and prohibits discrimination on the basis of
race, color, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, and
disability.
Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, and names of three
references (at least one of whom can speak to teaching) to:

Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology Gettysburg College
300 N. Washington Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325

Fullest consideration will be given to applications received by December 1,
2006.

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2. U of Texas, Austin, Urban Geography, Asst. Prof.

TEXAS, AUSTIN 78712. The University of Texas at Austin. Assistant Professor.
The Department of Geography and the Environment and the Center for African
and African American Studies invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor position with a starting date of September 1, 2007. The
areas of specialization are the Cultural Geography of the African Diaspora
or Urban Geography with a focus on African-American communities. Position
duties will include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, research,
and service to the Department, Center, and University. Applicants must hold
a Ph.D. at the time of appointment, demonstrate publication potential and a
clearly defined research agenda, and present evidence of teaching abilities.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of research and
teaching interests, sample publications, and three letters of reference to
the address below. OCT 06-229.
Apply: Dr. Paul Adams, Search Committee Chair, Department of Geography and
the Environment, 1 University Station, A3100, Austin, TX 78712. Questions
may be directed to him at paul.adams@mail.utexas.edu or 512-232-1599. Review
of applications commences December 1, 2006 and will continue until the
position is filled. A criminal background check will be conducted. The
University of Texas is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer.

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3. Berry College, Anthro, Asst. Prof.

Position: Tenure Track Cultural Anthropology
Salary: Unspecified
Institution: Berry College
Location: Georgia

Anthropology: The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Berry College
invites applications for a tenure-track position in cultural anthropology at
the assistant professor level beginning August 2007. Area specialty open;
expertise in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, or the Middle East
preferred. The successful candidate will be expected to teach introduction
to cultural anthropology, applied anthropology, and additional courses that
complement the offerings of the department. Background in gender, ethnicity,
and/or globalization and transnationalism a plus; experience/expertise in
archeology helpful. Send application letter, vita, and three letters of
recommendation to: Dr. Anne Lewinson, Search Committee Chair, P.O. Box
495010, Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia 30149-4010. E-mail inquiries to
alewinson@berry.edu. Review of applications will begin November 15, 2006 and
continue until the position is filled. We are seeking candidates with a
strong commitment to liberal arts education in a small college setting.
Candidates must demonstrate commitment to undergraduate teaching excellence,
advising and mentoring students, professional development, and scholarship.

Contact Information:

E-mail : alewinson@berry.edu

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From robrien at temple.edu  Fri Sep 29 13:50:20 2006
From: robrien at temple.edu (Robert T. O'Brien)
Date: Fri Sep 29 14:20:26 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Looking for a AAA roommate?
Message-ID: <20060929125020.AOS97595@po-b.temple.edu>

Hey, all.

I've got a room with two beds at the Wyndham San Jose from 
the 15th to the 18th. I'm looking for someone to room with. 

The room cost is $300 total, so I'm asking for $150 or best 
offer.

Best,

Rob
****************************************
Es mejor vivir con miedo que no vivir por miedo
 
Robert T. O'Brien 
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology 
Temple University 
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From acjancius at ysu.edu  Sat Sep 30 01:09:49 2006
From: acjancius at ysu.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep 30 00:10:02 2006
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: SUNTA Poverty Working Group
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Dear SUNTA,

Karen Curtis and I have organized a meeting/reception at AAA to bring
the SUNTA poverty working group back.  I have pasted in some
information about it.  I hope that those whose research, scholarly,
and political interests include these topics will be able to attend.
Refreshments (not anything fancy; this is about poverty after all)
will be provided.

Susan Greenbaum


                                SUNTA Working Group on Poverty

                                    Resuscitation Reception

                               Thursday, November 16, 2006

                                                 8-9 PM

                              Meeting Room B-1, Concourse
                          San Jose McEnery Convention Center

                              Refreshments will be served.

Poverty and homelessness are fundamental and growing concerns in urban
settings and the global economy.  SUNTA previously sponsored a working
group on these issues which lapsed several years ago.  The purpose of
this meeting is to reactivate this entity, and to reexamine the role
of SUNTA and AAA in addressing the theoretical, political, and policy
issues entailed in research and practice related to poverty.

 If you are engaged in research about poverty, homelessness, welfare,
or related topics, please attend this reception.   This will be a
semi-formal discussion of ideas about how to instigate more interest
and awareness of Anthropologists and fellow travelers, especially
those who might have influence on policy and practice.

Some obvious actions of a work group like this would include
organizing panels at AAA and allied professional meetings; developing
special issues of City & Society, North American Dialogue,
Transforming Anthropology, and other section journals; sponsoring
informational events for media at annual meetings; developing
collections of syllabi and bibliographies.

Other topics we might explore include:

1. Changing the public discourse and perceptions about the causes of poverty

2. Linking housing, health, and economic polices to recent increases
in rates of poverty.

3. Production of white papers and other documents intended to marshal
evidence and narratives about the implications of poverty, potential
solutions for these problems, and identities of the real culprits in
the intensifying war on the poor.

For information contact Susan Greenbaum (greenbau@cas.usf.edu) or
Karen Curtis (kacurtis@udel.edu)

