From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb  1 20:39:53 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  1 20:40:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: 2007 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology
Message-ID: <00c201c7466b$0aca8d00$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The 2007 Harold K. Schneider Student Prize in Economic Anthropology

DEADLINE:  May 31, 2007

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

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

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

The submission deadline for the 2007 competition is May 31, 2007. Send hard 
copies to Dr. Lynne Milgram, Chair, Schneider Prize Committee, Faculty of 
Liberal Studies, Ontario College of Art & Design, 100 McCaul Street, 
Toronto, ON, CANADA, M5T 1W1; and send electronic submissions to: 
lmilgram@faculty.ocad.ca

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

From erica.lehrer at gmail.com  Thu Feb  1 15:09:13 2007
From: erica.lehrer at gmail.com (Erica Lehrer)
Date: Thu Feb  1 20:47:18 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA panel idea
Message-ID: <d8a31ad50702011509w67b29276o20973ef6b9d336be@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues-

I am putting out feelers for participants for a potential AAA panel on
"Remembering the Other" - cases where members of one group are
involved in doing various kinds of memory-work to perpetuate the
memory of another group.  I'm particularly interested in cases where
this kind of cross-group remembering/memorializing might be seen as a
form of inter-group reconciliation after a history of conflict.  But
of course cases otherwise would also be illuminating.

Any ideas or expressions of interest are welcome!

Thanks very much,
Erica

-- 
Erica Lehrer, Ph.D.					
Jackson School of International Studies
University of Washington
Box 353650
Seattle WA 98195-3650
(206) 897-1665
elehrer@u.washington.edu

From cooper at mcmaster.ca  Thu Feb  1 15:27:17 2007
From: cooper at mcmaster.ca (Matthew Cooper)
Date: Fri Feb  2 18:04:59 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Survey on Sharing Research with Study Participants
Message-ID: <000a01c7463f$5e0f1840$6700a8c0@ad.mcmaster.ca>

SECOND REQUEST

 

THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED THE SURVEY!

 

SHARING RESEARCH RESULTS WITH RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

 

Cultural anthropologists: have you shared results of your research with
participants in your projects? Or, for whatever reasons, have you not
done so?

 

I am asking for your assistance in a project looking at the sharing of
research results (data, other materials, interpretations, publications,
etc.) with participants. The project is intended to further discussion
of this issue by gathering data from sociocultural anthropologists on
their practices, experience and views. Examples of sharing might include
returning interview transcripts to interviewees, making oral
presentations, sharing publications, informal discussions with
collaborators, focus group discussions, depositing materials in an
archive, participants reading publications without having been given
them, and/or learning about the research through media reports. [The
latter two, of course, are not sharing, strictly speaking.] The study is
aimed primarily at research undertaken for academic purposes (which, of
course, includes some applied research).

 

Repatriation of cultural property and skeletal material has become a
major issue for archaeologists and physical anthropologists. A large
literature has developed on the topic in these subfields. However, there
has been little general discussion of similar issues among sociocultural
anthropologists. The two major exceptions to this generalization, aside
from the literature on participatory action research, are the edited
books by Caroline Brettell (When They Read What We Write: The Politics
of Ethnography, 1996) and Sjoerd Jaarsma (Handle with Care: Ownership
and Control of Ethnographic Material, 2002).

 

To participate in the survey, please go to
<https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=Survey152952>
https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=Survey152952

where you will find a brief anonymous questionnaire. The survey can be
started at one time and then completed at another time, if you so
choose. Responses will not be linked to your IP address and will be kept
confidential.  I will attempt to disguise any information provided by
you in the open-ended questions that might make it possible for you to
be identified in any publications or presentations based on this survey.


 

 <https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=Survey152952>
https://www.hostedware.com/secure/hs/takesurvey.asp?c=Survey152952

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Matthew Cooper

Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4L9

 

If you have received multiple copies of this announcement, please accept
my apologies. In an attempt to reach as many cultural anthropologists as
possible, I have posted it to a number of lists, which may have
overlapping memberships.

 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  2 18:10:48 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  2 18:11:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Field School: Action Research in the Andes 2007
Message-ID: <000501c7471f$63c917f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Field School: Action Research in the Andes 2007

The Center for Social Well Being offers a 3 week training program with 
courses in ethnographic field methods and languages (Spanish and Quechua) in 
the Peruvian Andes. Students are housed at the center's rural base, an adobe 
lodge on an ecological ranch in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range of the 
Callej?n de Huaylas, 7 hours northeast of Lima. Coursework provides in-depth 
orientation to theory and practice in anthropological investigation that 
emphasizes methods in Participatory Action Research, Andean Ethnography and 
Ecology. Students will have the opportunity to actively engage in ongoing 
investigations in local agricultural communities to develop effective field 
research techniques, and to acquire language skills. In addition, the 
program provides excursions to museums, archaeological sites, glacial lakes 
and hotsprings; optional recreational activities include hiking, mountain 
biking, rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, trekking, etc. Total cost is 
$2,100 US dollars. This includes all in-country travel, food and 
accommodations at the rural center, and course materials. The program is 
under the direction of Applied Medical Anthropologist, Patricia J. Hammer, 
Ph.D., and Ecologist, Flor de Mar?a Barreto Tosi. Dates: Session I June 6th 
through June 26th Session II Aug. 1st through Aug. 21st Application: 
phammer@wayna.rcp.net.pe Or click:

http://www.socialwellbeing.org/FieldSchool2003-3.htm Information: 
www.socialwellbeing.org

Contact Information
Patricia J. Hammer
Correo de Carhuaz
Caser?o de Cajamarquilla
Ancash Peru
Phone: 511-252-2947
Email: phammer@wayna.rcp.net.pe
URL http://www.socialwellbeing.org 

From dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu  Sat Feb  3 08:57:11 2007
From: dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu (Deborah Pellow)
Date: Sat Feb  3 09:43:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Details for paper submission
Message-ID: <32A8B2CB12BFC84D8D11D872C787AA9A0E52694B@EXCHANGE.forest.maxwell.syr.edu>

TO:		SUNTA members
FROM:	Deborah Pellow, President-Elect and Program Chair
RE:	Call for papers and panels, 2007 AAA meeting, Washington DC,
November 28 to December 2

The following is the basic information for panel and paper submissions
for the Washington DC AAA meeting in November. Full details of the call
for papers are in the January Anthropology News. Hard copy submission
forms can be downloaded from the AAA website at www.aaanet.org in early
February.

Theme: This year's program theme is "Difference, (In)equality, &
Justice." It is described in the January AN and should be on-line. There
are two stages of review: by SUNTA and by the AAA. Some relevance to the
theme is advisable.

Deadline: There are two different deadlines. 1) The deadline for
submission for individual papers, panels, and posters to AAA is March
30, 5 pm EST. After you have submitted your proposal, please let me know
for the sake of later tracking. 

2) For those of you who want to have a panel considered for "invited"
status, the deadline for submission to SUNTA is March 1.

Individual papers: While anyone can volunteer a paper, the likelihood of
its acceptance is greater if it is part of an organized session. By the
same token, together with my Program Committee, I will make every effort
to combine individually volunteered papers into panels. 

Requirements: To participate in the program, one must 1) be a member of
the Association in good standing, and 2) register for the meeting at the
time of submitting the completed proposal. Individuals are permitted
only one paper presentation and one other role (organizer, discussant or
chair) on the scientific program. Panel abstracts can be up to 500
words, individual paper abstracts up to 250 words.

Presentation: Sessions on the scientific program can be submitted as a
single (1.75 hours) session, or as a double (3.75 hours) session, but no
more. Volunteered papers are allotted a maximum of 15 minutes each.
Poster sessions are 1.75 hours with 7 presenters per session.

Alternative presentation formats: These include a single panel followed
by a poster session; simultaneous roundtables as a relaxed form of
session; or workshop. 



From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb  3 10:00:51 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb  3 10:12:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AIDS in Culture (Mexico City)
Message-ID: <000001c747a5$8626bc90$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers:

AIDS in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
M?xico City, 9 - 13 December 2007

the 4th conference cycle of "Aids in Culture: Explorations in the Cultural 
History of Aids: Aids and Otherness and Aids in Narratives of Identities

Deadline for abstract Submissions: August 15, 2007
Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
Homepage: http://www.aidsinculture.org


AIDS is not simply an illness or a biomedical phenomenon. "AIDS in Culture," 
organised by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City and the International Society 
for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS), in cooperation with 
CENSIDA (The National Mexican AIDS Council) and CNDH (The National Human 
Rights Commission in Mexico), seeks to examine cultural responses to AIDS in 
different cultures and societies across a wide range of perspectives. The 
conference will explore the processes by which AIDS is constructed as a 
cultural phenomenon and how different societies in their encounters with 
AIDS attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The 
conference aims at bringing together academics working in all relevant 
disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, and 
promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and 
dialogue.

AIDS in Culture has already developed into an annual tradition and will be 
organised for the fourth time in 2007 in Mexico City. In 2004 Aids in 
Culture took place in the National Center for Human Rights (CNDH) in Mexico 
City and had artistic and aesthetic responses to AIDS/HIV as a special 
focus. The Artist of the Conference was Rolando de la Rosa -Mexican sculptor 
and painter-. In 2005 AIDS in Culture II was held in the Archivo Hist?rico 
Santamar?a in the city of Papantla in the Mexican Federal State of Veracruz. 
The second edition of the conference cycle had Indigenous knowledge and 
conceptions of AIDS in Latin America, Africa and New Guinea as its core 
theme. The Artist of the Conference was Morgan Alexander -American 
photo-ethnographer-.
In 2006 AIDS in Culture III returned to Mexico City. The conference was 
organised in a large number of special thematic sessions covering a diverse 
series of topics extending from "The History of AIDS Activism", 
"Representations of Aids in Literature", "Aids in Education" to "The 
Politics of Aids and Aids in Politics" and "Perceptions of Aids in Lesbian 
Sub-Cultures in Mexico". The artist of the conference was Arturo Ramirez 
Ju?rez, Mexican painter, who died of AIDS in 1987.

This year the conference will have a special focus on Aids and Otherness and 
Aids in narratives of identities. Papers addressing related issues as well 
as translations between cultures and re-negotiations and re-constructions of 
cultural identities in one way or another in relation to AIDS and HIV are 
particularly welcome. However, also in 2007 the conference will follow a 
similar model as in the previous year with several different thematic 
sessions addressing several different issues. Papers are welcomed on 
virtually all related topics and themes, independently of time, period and 
space, as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. Also papers of comparative 
phenomena will be considered.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

-AIDS and Cultural Texts: Power and Representation.
-Representations of AIDS in art, movies, music, poetry, religion and 
literature from the 1980s until today.
-Silences and taboos in discourses on HIV/AIDS.
-Aesthetic responses to the challenge. Rituals, customs, and fetishism.
-Cultural practices that influence the spread of HIV/AIDS
-AIDS and collective and individual identities: Race, Class, Gender etc
-AIDS and Politics, Lobbying and Activism: Power, Representation and 
Activism.
-Constructions and reconstructions of AIDS in political, faith and ideology 
based discourse, legal issues and
       policy-making  throughout the world: Who has the authority to speak 
and who is silenced?
-AIDS and theory: Cultural Studies, Queer Studies, Religious Studies, 
History, Anthropology, Sociology, Literary
       Studies and all related disciplines. How do we theorize and analyse 
experiences and the meaning of illness?
-The ,significance' of AIDS for individuals and communities; the cultural 
factors influencing our perceptions of health
       and illness experiences.
-AIDS and psychosocial affects and effects. Cultures of silence.
-Indigenous knowledge and responses to AIDS
-Stories and Histories about AIDS
-AIDS and Oral History

Papers will be considered on related themes and topics from a wide range of 
perspectives. Interdisciplinary perspectives are especially welcome since 
all these topics in themselves stretch across several disciplines: history, 
literary studies, linguistics, psychology, political sciences, pedagogy, 
ethnology, anthropology, sociology...

Graduate and postgraduate students are encouraged to attend and present 
papers. Selected papers from the conference will also this year be published 
in book form.

DISABLED PARTICIPANTS
We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials that will be 
distributed during the conference, also will be available in large print or 
Braille on request. If you require sign language interpretation during your 
session, or you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in 
Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in the registration 
form.
Registration Form for Participants with disabilities: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/disca.htm
Participants with disabilities are recommended to fill in this form if they 
require any special support or assistance during the event or during social 
and cultural activities before or during the conference.

PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in 
English, Castilian, German or French by 15, August 2007. The conference 
languages will be English and Castilian. Interpretations of the conference 
theme ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.

Papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 
pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates 
and poster sessions will be considered on request.

PROPOSALS FOR PANEL SESSIONS
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers 
and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 2 hours allowing 
for 30 minutes for each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and 
discussion.

Proposers should submit:
(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) Paper titles,
(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 
words),
(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.
If you would like to propose a panel session, and want assistance in finding 
speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for your 
panel session on the conference web site and distribute it in our 
newsletter. If you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like 
us to publish a call for papers on the conference website, please send us a 
proposal by e-mail to info@enkidumagazine.com

PROPOSALS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Abstracts are to be submitted by 15th of August 2007, along with the 
presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation. 
It is recommended to use the form here: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/registration_en.htm when 
submitting an abstract. However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail 
attachments to info@enkidumagazine.com.
All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. You will 
be notified by the 15th of September 2007 whether your proposal has been 
accepted or rejected. Full conference papers should be submitted by the 1st 
of November 2006. Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be 
made available at the conference web page from August 2007.
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com

Visit the website at 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/intro_en.htm 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb  5 19:42:48 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb  5 19:43:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP (extended): Mobilising the City Panel (RGS-IBG Conference, London)
Message-ID: <003901c74987$bd6cb860$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Final Call for Papers (extended deadline)


RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2007
'Sustainability and Quality of Life'
28th - 31st August 2007, at the Royal Geographical Society with IBG,

London.

Mobilising the City: the politics of movement, fixity and representation
(Co-sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group and the Social and 
Cultural Geography Research Group)

Convenors: Jennie Middleton (King's College, London) & Justin Spinney (Royal 
Holloway University of London)

The mobilities turn in geography is now well established and has provided a 
much needed strategic basis for a timely critique of place-based accounts of 
social and cultural landscapes, practices and materialities (Cresswell, 
1997, 2002; Edensor, 1998, 2004; Wylie, 2003). Some recent accounts have 
begun to explore the relations between movement and fixity (Adey, 2006; 
Urry, 2003) yet these ideas have been explored in a relatively narrow range 
of settings. Consequently there is a need to address these issues in 
contemporary urban settings and examine the politics and obduracy of 
particular forms of mobility and movement in the city.

This session seeks to examine these issues with empirically grounded urban 
research exploring five key questions:


. Why do certain forms of mobility and immobility endure?
. What are the lived experiences of particular forms of mobility and can 
such knowledges inform a more nuanced politics of mobility/immobility?
. What are the relations and affects between different scales of 
mobility/immobility?
. What are the space-time geographies of movement and immobility?
. How, why and by whom are different mobilities and immobilities 
represented?


In asking these questions we invite papers that discuss these key issues. 
Topics may address but are not confined to:


. Domestic mobilities/ immobilities of the home, garden and work etc
. Time-space rhythms of movement and fixity in and through modes and spaces 
of mobility (the car, the station, the plane etc)
. The obduracy of landscape, materiality and practice and representations of 
place and space in (re)producing mobility and immobility (art, film, museums 
etc)
. The struggles and contradictions between mobility and immobility and 
resistances to movement and stasis (eg. the geographies and experiences of 
migrants or disadvantaged groups)


Please send abstracts no longer than 200 words to Jennie Middleton 
(jennie.middleton@kcl.ac.uk) or Justin Spinney (j.spinney@rhul.ac.uk) by 
Friday 16th February 2007 (please note extended deadline).





Jennie Middleton BA (Hons), MSc
PhD Research Student
Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS

Tel: 020 78481623
Email: jennie.middleton@kcl.ac.uk
Webpage: 
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/schools/sspp/geography/people/phd/middleton.html 

From chris.caruso at gmail.com  Mon Feb  5 09:09:17 2007
From: chris.caruso at gmail.com (Chris Caruso)
Date: Mon Feb  5 19:45:40 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SANA Conference Student Travel Awards
In-Reply-To: <000501c7471f$63c917f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
References: <000501c7471f$63c917f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>
Message-ID: <C2EF662D-B5AC-483B-BD57-A5E92A380DA0@gmail.com>

The Society of the Anthropology of North America (SANA) invites  
graduate student participants of its 2007 conference "Unnatural  
Disasters" to submit applications to the St. Claire Drake travel  
award. Qualified applicants must be currently enrolled graduate  
students without a Ph.D. who have submitted abstracts to and  
registered for the 2007 SANA conference. The student's paper should  
be based in ethnographic field research located in Mexico, the United  
States, or Canada.

The selection committee for the SANA conference travel award wishes  
to compose a cohort of fellows whose work reflects the breadth of  
North American anthropology and whose proposals demonstrate the  
commitment to social justice and politically engaged anthropology  
embodied by the awards namesake, St. Claire Drake.

To apply, submit your paper abstract, university affiliation, and  
contact information to: sanatravelgrant@yahoo.com. No additional  
materials are needed. For more information about the award and Mr.  
Drake please visit http://sananet.org/2007conf/grants.html. The  
deadline for receipt of applications is March 15.


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb  5 23:27:25 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb  5 23:28:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: New York City: Global Village
Message-ID: <007201c749a7$22757e80$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Nicholas Bloom <nbloom3@yahoo.com>

Third Interdisciplinary Conference: "New York City: Global Village"

New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
March 9, 2007, NYIT Columbus Circle Campus

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. The 
conference, as in past years, will draw scholars from around the 
country and world for panel discussions, featured speakers, and lively 
conversation.
         Our Keynote Speaker for 2007 is Professor Saskia Sassen, the 
leading theorist of globalization and its impact on cities. She 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 thirteen languages 
and include _The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo_ (Princeton, 
1991) and _Digital Formations: Information Technologies and New 
Architectures in the Global Realm_, (Princeton, 2005).
         This year's conference will also feature a multimedia 
performance of Crossing the BLVD with Judith Sloan and Warren Lehrer. 
Crossing the BLVD is a cross-media project that documents and portrays 
the largely invisible lives, images, sounds and stories of new 
immigrants and refugees who live in the borough of Queens, New York, 
the most ethnically diverse locality in the United States.

Conference Website with full schedule and registration information:

http://iris.nyit.edu/~tnauheim/nycgv/

Nicholas Bloom
New York Institute of Technology
From maarit.forde at helsinki.fi  Tue Feb  6 11:21:59 2007
From: maarit.forde at helsinki.fi (Maarit Forde)
Date: Tue Feb  6 15:29:36 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration
Message-ID: <1170753719.45c848b7c9e4e@www1.helsinki.fi>

THE FINNISH JOURNAL OF ETHNICITY AND MIGRATION

The Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration (FJEM) is a new journal 
devoted to the high quality study of ethnic relations and international 
migration.

Published biannually by the Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and 
International Migration (ETMU), this peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary 
journal provides a forum for discussion and the refinement of key ideas and 
concepts in the fields of ethnicity and international population movement.
The Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration welcomes articles and book 
review essays from researchers, professionals, and students all over the 
world. Although international in its scope of interests and range of 
contributors, The Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration focuses 
particularly on research conducted in Finland and other Nordic countries.
More information and instructions for contributors are available at

www.etmu.fi/fjem


-- 
Maarit Forde, Ph.D.

home page  http://www.valt.helsinki.fi/blogs/kmlaitin/



From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Mon Feb  5 16:37:01 2007
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Tue Feb  6 15:29:43 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Migration issues at Kunming ICAES
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20070205163431.0556b3f0@gmu.edu>

To SUNTA members and friends:

Re: ICAES and East Asian migration

As most of you already know, the International Congress
of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES) is
held every four years, with the next Congress now scheduled
for Kunming, China in July 2008.

I have been developing a set of interlinked panels on East
Asian migration for that Congress. The general structure will
be one panel on general comparative issues regarding East
Asian migration (especially its implications for development
and change) and then two more focused panels, one dealing
with the economics of migration and the other more with the
social and cultural implications.

I am particularly interested in having better representation from
Korea (because of its mix of migrants) and Vietnam (because
of the mix of border ties with China and labor and marriage ties
with Korea, Japan, and Taiwan.) But other areas and topics are
also possible.

So, if you have an interest in this, please let me know. This will
be a very good chance to think about Asian migration from within
Asia.

Please respond off-line to:

         dhaines1@gmu.edu


*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
David W. Haines
Associate Professor of Anthropology
George Mason University  SOAN 3G5
Fairfax  VA 22030

President, Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA)

Office: 703-993-3600
Web:    http://gunston.gmu.edu/dhaines1


From karpouzi341 at yahoo.com  Tue Feb  6 06:16:56 2007
From: karpouzi341 at yahoo.com (nat a)
Date: Tue Feb  6 15:29:51 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for papers: Up from the ashes: Creativity and Conservatism in
 rebuilding after disasters
In-Reply-To: <E1H92cG-00051F-Li@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <393746.58351.qm@web34112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS
   
  Up from the Ashes: Creativity and conservatism in rebuilding after disasters
   
  Wars, earthquakes, and other calamities can destroy homes and public buildings instantaneously, but in many cases, the inhabitants survive.  Whether in Late Bronze Age Greece, Nero?s Rome, or 19th century Chicago, the choices made concerning rebuilding can reflect not only the immediate physical and psychological effects of the fire, but can also illuminate ways in which survivors identify themselves in relation to their past and future, as well as how they view themselves within political and ideological spheres of the community.  Thus, the shape of the new city often reflects aspects of the old, in a way that is influenced by many factors, including the rate of survival from the disaster, the nature of authority, the desire to prevent future disasters, and the community?s reaction to the traumatic event or events which destroyed their environment.  Cities that remain derelict also present an opportunity to clarify the relationship of survivors to their former homes. 
 Whether a site is left in ruins or relocated to a more secure place, we can still learn much about the community?s perception of the town and of the disaster.  This colloquium invites student papers from all time periods, addressing the archaeology of rebuilding urban and village environments after natural and manmade disasters.  We welcome papers examining the effects of memory, trauma, and ideology in establishing the post-disaster shape of cities, as well as studies of the archaeological evidence for the changing topography of urban environments.  
   
  This colloquium will be the fifth annual paper session organized by the Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) of the Archaeological Institute of America.  It is intended not only to provide expanded opportunities for student presentations at the Annual Meeting but also to showcase innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship.  Under the title ?Up from the Ashes: Creativity and conservatism in rebuilding after disasters? the organizers will submit the selected papers as a colloquium session to the next annual meeting of the AIA (January 3-6, 2008, Chicago).  All papers in the colloquium will be subject to acceptance by the AIA Program for the Annual Meeting Committee, in accordance with standard procedures.  
   
  The SAIG would like to remind all interested students that it is possible for an individual to submit papers for both a colloquium session and an open paper session at the AIA annual meetings.  The latter is automatically withdrawn from consideration if the former is accepted. 
   
  Please send a CV and an abstract of no more than 250 words by February 21, 2007 to both session organizers, Lyra Monteiro (lmonteir@umich.edu) and Natalie Abell (abelln@email.uc.edu).  In keeping with the regulations of the AIA, we will accept only electronic submissions. All abstracts must conform to AIA guidelines (see the American Journal of Archaeology style guidelines, published in AJA 104:3-24, or the Annual Meeting Section of the AIA website; esp. ??3.1-8, 6.5., www.archaeological.org).  If the colloquium is accepted by the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee all whose papers are included must be members of the AIA in good standing by the time of the meeting.

 
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb  8 01:19:28 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  8 03:21:17 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]REV: Sinha on Hosagrahar, _Indigenous Modernities:
	Negotiating Architechture and Urbanism_
Message-ID: <017f01c74b49$19c3b2e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[x-posted from H-Urban]

H-NET BOOK REVIEW
Published by H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu (February 2007)

Jyoti Hosagrahar. _Indigenous Modernities: Negotiating Architecture and 
Urbanism_. New York:
Routledge, 2005. xiii + 234 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $43.95 
(paper), ISBN 0-415-32376-2.

Reviewed for H-Urban by Amita Sinha <sinha2@uiuc.edu>, Department of 
Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Contested Modernities

One of the few books written on the urban history of South Asia, 
_Indigenous Modernities_ is ambitious in its effort to demonstrate that 
the momentous changes in the social and physical environment of Delhi, 
taking place between 1857 and 1947, exemplified "indigenous 
modernities." In many non-Western societies, modernity arrived with 
colonialism. It was therefore an imposition from outside, not a 
homegrown enterprise evolving from within existing social structures. 
According to Jyoti Hosagrahar, what one sees in the modernization of 
Delhi are hybrid forms, not ideal types as envisaged by the global 
project of modernity. She offers infrastructure development, use of new 
technologies, introduction of novel public institutions, and growth of 
new housing typologies as examples of these hybrid forms. Every change 
in the social mores and physical spaces was contested, negotiated, 
discarded, and adapted. The end result was not a pale or an imperfect 
version of European modernism, but something different in which 
traditional and modern, old and new, coexisted uneasily in a state of 
dynamic tension, in a fluid, ever changing dialectic.

Hosagrahar sets out to read this cultural landscape in the window of 
time that ushered in modernity. In five chapters she traces the 
fragmentation of the domestic spaces of _havelis_ (mansions); the 
withdrawal of the community from the public realm; the breakdown of 
traditional health and sanitary systems; privatization; and the 
commodification of community property. Modernization extracted a 
terrible price, combining as it did urban reform with profit-seeking 
motives. The stresses generated by these imposed social changes were 
enormous and had the potential to destroy the social fabric. That, 
however, did not happen. The colonized inhabitants proved resilient and 
appropriated modernity in ways they saw fit, ensuring their survival 
and furthering their lot in life. Delhi survived the departure of 
feudalism, the birth of nationalism, and the attainment of 
independence, all in less than a century. Hosagrahar's study 
illuminates the price the city paid and its ill-gotten gains in private 
and public spheres.

In the aftermath of the Mutiny/First War of Independence (1857), 
_havelis_, residences of landowning gentry, suffered from neglect and 
were converted into warehouses and smaller residential units. These 
large houses had been the mainstay of neighborhoods, because the 
occupants supported artisans and their trades. At the same time, the 
rising entrepreneurial classes sought to live in hybrid versions of 
courtyard housing and European-style bungalows. Although the courtyards 
shrank and extended families fragmented, older lifestyles did not 
disappear entirely.

Attempts to produce public spaces as a _public good_ were contested 
vehemently, accustomed as the residents were to using available land 
for their own purposes. Enforcement of by-laws and other regulations 
met with considerable resistance since matters concerning property 
rights and territorial encroachments had previously been resolved 
within the community or arbitrated by the elders. New urban spaces 
generated by the building of institutions such as the town hall became 
the venues for nationalist demonstrations, so a kind of civic realm, 
independent of religious or royal associations, did emerge, even though 
it had a conflict-ridden genesis. New medical systems of knowledge and 
the practice of their technologies produced spaces and built forms-- 
hospitals and dispensaries--that did not entirely displace the shops of 
_hakims_ and _vaids_, practitioners of _unani_ and _ayurvedic_ systems 
of traditional medicine. Similarly municipal services including 
piped-water supply, sewage systems, and trash collection did not result 
in the banishment of sweepers.

Hosagrahar draws upon municipal archives and her own interviews with 
Delhi residents to write an urban narrative that is handsomely 
illustrated with historic maps and photographs. The earlier chapters on 
_havelis_, streets, and geographies of health make for more interesting 
reading than the last two chapters on land development and new housing 
projects meant to create a "modern" citizen. I would have liked to know 
more about the influence of changing housing typology on gender roles, 
children's socialization, family structure, and social networks or why 
certain sections of the domestic sphere, such as the kitchen and bath, 
resisted change more than others and were transplanted into the 
bungalow.[1] One also wishes that other types of public spaces, not 
just the street and square, were discussed. For example, what was the 
role of greenery in ameliorating the effects of urban congestion?

In the narrative Hosagrahar sketches out for us, neither the colonizer 
nor the colonized appears to act out of noble motives, although the 
subject population deserves our sympathy in their attempts to make 
sense of rapid social changes and adapt to them. While there was no 
outright rejection of modernity (except perhaps the last desperate 
gesture of rebellion in 1857), there was considerable resistance to 
heavy-handed authoritarian measures as well as reformist agendas. 
Private interests, more often than not, triumphed over public good.

Environmental changes were attributable to concepts and mechanisms that 
were imported, not indigenous. The forms they took and practices they 
bred, however, remain Indian and, in that assertion, Hosagrahar is 
right: Western ideals of modernity always took shape in local contexts. 
The term "indigenous modernity," though, implies an absence of an 
external causal agency that was not really the case with the colonial 
urban landscape of Delhi. A more appropriate term would have been 
"contested modernities," capturing the full flavor of Hosagrahar's 
chronicle.

In the twenty-first century, a new avatar of colonialism, 
globalization, is once again changing the urban landscape of Delhi. 
Just as sectors such as Civil Lines, Cantonment, and New Delhi consumed 
a far greater number of resources and were dependent upon old Delhi for 
services, so do the new satellite cities of Gurgaon and Noida depend 
upon older sections of the city. And just as New Delhi's landscape was 
"modern" in its definition, resting upon its differences from 
Shahjahanbad/old Delhi, so do these new developments aspire to a feel 
and image that is _global_, derived from Western prototypes.[2] 
Dualities abound in post-independence Delhi. Municipal services in most 
sections remain inadequate, squatter colonies proliferate, there is an 
acute water shortage, and most citizens do not have access to sanitary 
systems. This landscape of impoverishment is juxtaposed with a 
landscape of luxury in shopping malls, skyscrapers, and vast greenery. 
With hindsight, it is tempting to categorize the late nineteenth- and 
early twentieth-century efforts as a failed or incomplete project of 
modernity, destined to persist in its mutant form into the next 
century. Perhaps the trajectory of modernity would have been different 
had its projects been implemented with greater sensitivity to cultural 
codes and customary practices; we should plan for the future accordingly.

Notes

[1]. See Amita Sinha, "Women's Local Space--Home and Neighborhood," in 
_Bridging Worlds: Studies on Women in South Asia_, ed. Sally Sutherland 
(Berkeley: Center for South Asia Studies, Occasional Papers, No. 17, 
1991), 203-224; and Amita Sinha, "Bungalows of Lucknow Cantonment, 
India," _Open House International_  24, no. 2 (1999), 56-63.

[2]. See Anthony King, _Spaces of Global Culture: Architecture, 
Urbanism, Identity_ (New York: Routledge, 2004).

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb  8 14:58:59 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  8 15:00:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: David M. Schneider Graduate Student Essay Award
Message-ID: <00f301c74bbb$95384950$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

DAVID M. SCHNEIDER AWARD

The American Anthropological Association is pleased to announce the third 
annual competition for the David M. Schneider Award for an original graduate 
student essay. Throughout his life, David Schneider's work on kinship, 
cultural theory, and American culture was provocative and iconoclastic. The 
$1,000 award will be given in recognition of work that treats one or more of 
these topics in a fresh and innovative fashion. The presentation of the 
award will take place at the 2007 annual meeting of the American 
Anthropological Association. The winning essay will be announced in the 
Anthropology News and will be sent to Cultural Anthropology, a journal that 
David Schneider helped to found, to be reviewed for publication.

Previous Awardees
2005 Laurel A. Monnig

Eligibility:  Authors must be graduate students in anthropology who have 
been admitted to candidacy for, but have not yet received, their Ph.D. by 
June 1, 2007.  Essays may be entered into competition by either authors or 
their dissertation advisors. Awardees must be members of the AAA.

Application materials should be limited to:

An unpublished essay no more than 30 pages in length (double spaced, 12 
point font, inclusive of notes and bibliography). The essay need not 
necessarily use Schneider's ethnographic or theoretical writings but it 
should exhibit an innovative approach to one or more of the topics-kinship, 
cultural theory, or American culture-that were central to his work.

A two-page CV that includes contact information through December 2007.
A one-page abstract that clearly states the argument of your essay, its 
relevance to the topics of kinship, cultural theory, and/or American 
culture, and the key innovations it advances.

A brief letter from your dissertation advisor, director of graduate studies, 
or department chair certifying that you have been admitted to candidacy for 
the Ph.D. and will not yet have received the Ph.D. by June 1, 2007.

Four copies of the above materials should be sent to:

Kathy Ano, American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 
600, Arlington, VA 22201.
Deadline: Postmarked no later than June 1, 2007. Faxed, emailed, or late 
submissions will not be accepted.

Questions regarding the award should be addressed to: Kathy Ano, American 
Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd, Suite 600, Arlington, VA 
22201 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb  8 15:09:21 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  8 15:10:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Bush Declares War on Homeless, Low-Income Tenants
Message-ID: <010c01c74bbd$102598b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Bush Declares War on Homeless, Low-Income Tenants

By Randy Shaw
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4176
Beyond Chron
February 7, 2007

Blunted thus far in his efforts to expand America's war
to Iran, President Bush has found a target closer to
home: America's homeless and low-income tenants. The
Bush budget plan for fiscal year 2008 announced on
February 6 slashes key low-income housing programs,
while increasing America's mammoth defense budget by
11%---an increase that does not include funding for the
Iraq war. It will again be up to Congress to not only
stop the cuts, but to achieve the long overdue budget
increases necessary to stop the worsening of the
nation's homeless and housing crisis.

While the Bush Administration sends public relations
staff like Phil Mangano around the country touting
plans to end chronic homelessness, the President
continues efforts to cut housing programs for the poor.
The new Bush budget plan would reduce the vital Project
Based Rental Assistance Program, which currently funds
about 1.2 million project based subsidies, by $163
million. Public Housing funding would be cut by nearly
$400 million.

While the budget for the Section 8 Housing Choice
Voucher program would rise by approximately one half of
one percent or about $80 million. This is far less than
would be needed to keep the program operating at its
existing level, since increases in annual rent payments
to landlords will clearly exceed that amount.

This means that despite all evidence that Section 8
housing is critical for getting families out of
homelessness, the Bush Administration seeks to reduce
the number of families served by the program.

In announcing his budget, Bush said it reflected his
chief priority of 'protecting Americans.' That term
appears to only apply to American military personnel,
not low-income families whose health, education, and
futures are threatened by homelessness.

While the budget increases funding for homeless
assistance programs by $120 million, homeless advocates
recognize that this increase is greatly outweighed by
cuts to affordable housing programs. According to Nan
Roman, president of the National Alliance to End
Homelessness, "increasing access to affordable housing
is the key component to ending homelessness nationwide.
Without increases in affordable housing, community
efforts to end homelessness are doomed to failure."

Of particular concern to many San Francisco nonprofits
is Bush's proposed $736 million cut to the Community
Development Block Grant Program (CDBG). San Francisco's
CDBG program funds a wide spectrum of critical housing,
education and community development services.

To show you how far America's budget has moved
rightward in the past three decades, Richard Nixon's
1972 re-election campaign highlighted the fact that
'for the first time in 20 years we are spending more on
human resources than defense.' Nixon was a big booster
of the CDBG program, which was enacted during his
presidency and began in 1974.

The CDBG program's decimation began with Ronald Reagan,
but the program proved so popular with Republican
mayors---the money is allocated by local governments--
that it survived. But the same president who has
allocated over $20 billion for community development in
Iraq has consistently opposed providing adequate
funding to improve America's low-income neighborhoods.

Bush's budget even cuts housing for the elderly
(Section 202) by $160 million, and housing for people
with Disabilities (Section 811) by $112 million.
Housing Opportunities for People With AIDS (HOPWA)
would rise by $14 million, an amount barely sufficient
to fund this unmet need in California.

And the man who ran in 2000 as a 'compassionate
conservative' proposes to cut funding for the Emergency
Food and Shelter Program, Health Care for the Homeless,
and Grants for the Benefit of Homeless
Individuals/Treatment for Homeless.

After making great progress on winning political
support for increased federal housing funding in the
last years of the Clinton Administration, the Bush
Administration has again pushed housing and
homelessness off the national radar screen. While the
Democratic Congress will likely defeat the worst of the
budget cuts, keeping the status quo while millions are
ill-housed or homeless in America is an unfortunate if
unavoidable goal.

For a complete list of Bush budget proposals for
homelessness-related programs, go to
http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/1467. 
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb  8 17:45:52 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb  8 17:46:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Katrina Research Project on Equity (KRPE)
Message-ID: <000c01c74bd2$e59c2760$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Meredith Bethune <mbethune@tulane.edu>

Katrina Research Project on Equity (KRPE) A Network for Research on Race
and Class in the Post-Katrina Recovery A Project of The Southern Institute
for Education and Research Tulane University (Discussion List Subscription
Instructions Below)

The Southern Institute for Education and Research at Tulane University in
New Orleans started the Katrina Research Project on Equity (KRPE -
pronounced KRPE) as a clearinghouse and network for research on the impact
of race and class in the Post-Katrina recovery process in the Gulf Coast
and displaced communities.  KRPE facilitates communication and
collaboration among researchers, volunteers, and community groups
interested in research on the problems and remedies of race and class
disparities in reconstruction programs.  KRPE connects researchers to
organizations in New Orleans and the Diaspora that need research services
in either grant-supported or volunteer form.  KRPE's overriding goal is to
encourage community-directed research that promotes a just and equitable
society.

The Southern Institute has launched a new web site dedicated exclusively
to KRPE.  The site, www.katrinaresearch.org, is a tool to facilitate
networking and collaboration among researchers who want to study the
impact of race and class in the post-Katrina recovery.  It has a
searchable database of more than 100 completed and ongoing research
projects on Hurricane Katrina.  Visitors to the site can add projects to
the research database or propose new research initiatives.  Volunteers can
search for opportunities to participate in ongoing or proposed projects. 
The web site also offers a quick and easy way for researchers and
volunteers to subscribe to the KRPE e-mail discussion list, which is the
best way to stay apprised of research developments and opportunities.  It
is a moderated list with open subscription.  All postings will be reviewed
by the list moderator before posting to determine if they are appropriate.
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4.  Make sure there is no signature or any other text in the message
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so-inst@tulane.edu with the word "subscribe" and your name in the subject
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You can also subscribe by visiting our website at www.katrinaresearch.org
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HOW TO USE THIS DISCUSSION LIST

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need volunteers.  Be sure that you detail volunteer qualifications,
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discussion or in search of partners (research, community group, or
volunteer partners).  These may be "virtual" research groups that
communicate, research, and produce reports entirely via the internet or in
combination with field work in the storm region.

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reports.

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 We do not recommend that list members post general offers to volunteer on
the discussion list at this time.  The web site will be a more efficient
tool for matching volunteers to appropriate projects.  On the other hand,
if you do not see any research projects of interest on the discussion
list, feel free to post a proposal for one that may interest other list
members, including academicians, community groups, or volunteers.

This is new territory for all of us.  As times progress and the Southern
Institute increases its staffing we will offer more "on the ground"
services.  We currently provide workspace, internet access, and housing
for researchers and volunteers.  Please keep us apprised of how you use
this list (successes, failures, recommendations) so that we can make it a
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Southern Institute for Education and Research 
Tulane University MR Box 1692 
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(504) 247-1624 
so-inst@tulane.edu 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  9 18:13:37 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  9 18:18:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Young Political Activists' Perspectives on Social
	Change
Message-ID: <003901c74ca0$686c39f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The following cfp may be of interest to anthropology students.

***PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY***

What comes to mind when you see pictures of Huey P. Newton holding a
shotgun? Or the images of mass marches against the Vietnam War? Or how about
the students taking over Columbia University in '68?

Our generation has grown up in the shadow of the 1960s. The War on Iraq
strongly parallels the situation this country faced as it was bogged down in
Vietnam. The Bush administration continues its attack on a woman's right to
choose, a victory that arose from the Feminist Movement. And many people are
calling the current struggle for immigrants' rights the modern equivalent to
the Civil Rights Movement.

But how does our generation of political activists view the 1960s? What were
its strengths? What were its weaknesses? What did it achieve and what was
left out? Why did the momentum of that time finally die? And what happened
to that generation of activists and revolutionaries? There has yet to be a
collective voice from our generation that has openly attempted to answer
those questions.

Young political activists today face a complicated political climate.
Change is possible, but not easy. What lessons, both good and bad, can we
learn from the social movements of the 1960s to make sure our contemporary
activism does not go in vain?

Our goal is to compile a thorough analysis of this era. That's why we in the
Ink and Paper Collective are calling for young (30 and under) activists,
organizers, and revolutionaries of all stripes to submit letters that are
serious reflections on the 1960s. We want submissions to cover all the
particular parts of that era whether it be the Black Power movement, the
French revolt of May '68, SDS, the fight for ethnic studies in our schools,
the anti-Vietnam War movement, the Feminist movement, the Chicano movement,
the Native American movement or whatever issue you feel most passionate
about. If you have something to say, we want to hear it!

Send your submission (anywhere from 1,000 to 3,500 words), along with a
brief bio (around 75 words) to:

inkandpapercollective@gmail.com

Submissions due:        February 20th, 2007

The Ink and Paper Collective is Sam A., Javier A., and David Z.  We were
founded out of anti-war, labor, and independent media activism in our local
communities.  Some of this activism includes our participation with and
dedication to work done by groups like UCSC Students Against War, the
Student and Worker Coalition for Justice, the Labor Film Collective, and
Colectivo Media Insurgente, as well as many others. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  9 18:34:11 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  9 18:35:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]WWW: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban
	Poor
Message-ID: <006901c74ca2$d7626030$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Stephen Macek <shmacek@noctrl.edu>

Hi all, check out this new video on media representations of poverty 
and the inner city. A low-resolution, streaming version is available 
free online via Google Video (see details below).

Labor Beat #515: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the Urban Poor

In this video presentation, I analyze the hysteria over the central 
city and the urban poor that permeated American politics and popular 
culture in the 1980s and 90s. I dissect the way mainstream politicians 
(Rudolph Giuliani, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr.) , 
conservative intellectuals and the corporate media conspired to 
demonize inner city neighborhoods and their residents. In particular, I 
discuss the way that TV news reproduced and validated the right's 
stigmatizing, victim blaming images of the urban poor.  Ultimately, I 
critique the reactionary political interests served by this divisive 
discourse on urban pathology and points to what activists can do to 
counter its destructive influence.

Streaming:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1808948055843475610

To order a dvd
Indicate title "Demonizing the Inner City"
and mail $15 check to:
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More info: 312-226-3330
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Labor Beat is affiliated with IBEW 1220. Views expressed are those of 
the producer, not necessarily of IBEW. Labor Beat is a CAN TV Community 
Partner.

Steve Macek
Assistant Professor
Speech Communication
North Central College

Webpage: http://stephen.macek.faculty.noctrl.edu/
From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  9 18:42:13 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  9 18:43:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities (migration,
	heritage, memory) (South Australia)
Message-ID: <009201c74ca3$f0c15210$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities: a conference about migration, 
connection, heritage and cultural memory

-- supported by the Innovative Universities European Union Centre and the 
European Commission's Delegation to Australia -- 

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Flinders University
Adelaide, South Australia
3 - 5 December 2007

This conference will examine issues of migration, transnational connection, 
displacement heritage, global space and cultural memory created by the 
movements of peoples between cultures in the modern world.

In the mass migrations of the last 200 years, millions of people have left 
their homelands and home cultures to settle in new places. Their motives 
have been many: the emigrant's search for new opportunities, the 
gastarbeiter's self-imposed exile, the refugee's forced flight and the 
settler's quest for trade, military advantage or fresh fields and pastures 
new have all shaped the great migrations of the modern period.

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities will explore the cultural connections 
between homelands and new lands, and the complexities of reshaping cultural 
identities and shifting allegiances between cultures of departure and 
cultures of arrival.

The conference will have three main streams:

The public policy stream will cover issues of economics, population, forced 
migration, security, 'core values', education and the managing of cultural 
impacts of migration.

The history of migration stream will include sessions on pre- and post-World 
War Two migration, recent arrivals and diasporic communities.

The cultural migration stream will include sessions on memory, writing, 
language, cultural maintenance and sustainability, and the plurality of 
migrant identities.

Conference themes

Papers are invited on the following:
The demographics of people flow: who moves where? and why?
Forced migration in the Asia Pacific
Cultural, political and economic factors shaping migration. How are 
connections made?
Bordering the nation: migration and national security
Transnationalism, citizenship and sovereignty
Gender and generational issues in the migration experience
Linguistics, diaspora and migration
Settling down, settlement patterns and return migration
Can multi-cultures and multi-ethnicities produce one nation?
Multiculturalism
Language maintenance in the new culture
Foodways
Migration, place and situated identities
Connections with the new place and (re)negotiating with the old
Home and Away: What is transferred from the home culture to the new culture? 
What cannot fit in the baggage?
Imaginary homelands: life-writing, creative writing and film responses to 
the migration experience
Unsettlement: the idea of the settler colony
Cultural memory: heritage and exchange
Transplanted cultures as tourist attractions
Fusion, 'cultural hybridity', cosmopolitanism .

Guest speakers - The conference will feature plenary session addresses by 
leading international scholars in the field, as well as parallel 
presentations by researchers and policy-makers.

Proposals for panel sessions will be considered as well as abstracts for 
individual papers. Panel proposals should include a theme for the session, 
the names of all speakers, the titles of their papers, and a session summary 
of 250-300 words.

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be submitted for each paper, whether they 
are included in a panel session proposal or not. Where abstracts are 
intended for a proposed panel session, this should be indicated on the 
abstract.

Abstracts and session proposals should be sent to Nena Bierbaum, School of 
Humanities, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australian 
5001, or by email to nena.bierbaum@flinders.edu.au by 31 March 2007. All 
abstracts will be refereed.

Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities is a conference organised by the 
Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural 
Exchange, the Centre for Research into New Literatures in English (CRNLE) 
and Flinders International Asia Pacific (FIAP). The conference organisers 
gratefully acknowledge the support of the European Commission's Delegation 
to Australia, and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre.

CONFERENCE CONTACT
Nena Bierbaum
Tel: (+61 8) 8201 2578 or (+61 8) 8201 5137
Fax: (+61 8) 8201 3635 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb  9 22:01:17 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb  9 23:43:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Things that Move: The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
Message-ID: <000001c74ccd$eaea0380$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Things that Move:
The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel
19 - 23 July 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom

Whatever the prophecies of 'virtual' reality, we inhabit and move
through the 'real' world of objects. Though tourism and travel are bound
to concepts of time and space, they are also rooted in the material
world - a tangible world of places, things, edifices, buildings,
monuments and 'stuff'. The relationships we develop and share with these
things varies from the remote to the intimate, from the transient to the
lasting and from the passive to the passionate. Within the practices of
tourism and its use (and non-use) of the material world, and, through
the act of travel, objects are given meaning, status, and are endowed
with symbolism and power. Objects construct, represent and even define
the tourist experience. Our journeys through the world of objects
generate a plethora of emotions - pleasure, attachment, belonging,
angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear - and feed on-going discourse
and narratives. Moreover, through tourism, and our touristic encounters,
the material world itself is challenged and changed.

CALL FOR PAPERS

In this, our fifth annual international research conference, we seek to
explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material
culture - the built environment, infrastructures, consumer and household
goods, art, souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes. As in previous events,
the conference aims to provoke critical dialogue beyond disciplinary
boundaries and epistemologies and thus we welcome papers from the
following disciplines: aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology,
architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural
studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape
studies, linguistics, museum studies, philosophy, political sciences,
sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning.

Key themes of interest to the conference include:
* Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic/political economies of
tourism objects
* The dialectics of tourism objects and places / spaces
* Structures / infrastructures of international tourism -
building / architecture / design for tourism and tourists
* Tourism in the museum
* Tourist art and art for tourists
* The performance of material culture in the tourism realm
* Language and the translation of objects in tourism
* The tourist souvenir - commodity fetishism and religious relics
* The tourist object as metaphor and memory
* Ownership, display and interpretation - contested pasts and
present
* Curating for tourism - collecting the worlds of the tourist
* Overcoming the material through the virtual - future realms of
tourist experience

Please submit your 300 word abstract including a title and full contact
details as an electronic file to Professor Mike Robinson
(ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk) as soon as possible but no later than March 23rd
2007.

More information on this conference can soon be found at
www.tourism-culture.com <http://www.tourism-culture.com/> .

From JerryKrase at aol.com  Sat Feb 10 10:56:37 2007
From: JerryKrase at aol.com (JerryKrase@aol.com)
Date: Sat Feb 10 14:42:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]WWW: Demonizing the Inner City - Ideology and the
	Urban Poor
Message-ID: <c19.10088e94.32ff4535@aol.com>

Stephen: Thanks. I took a look and  will use the video in my "Visual 
Sociology of Urban Neighborhoods" classes  at Brooklyn College. Remind me to put the 
$15 Czech in the male. As you show/  speak the phenomenon (stigmatizing and 
demonizing the poor; and its correlates  the anti-urban bias and racism) long 
predates the 1980s and even the 1880s. To  add to your archive of materials; when 
I was doing community organizing in the  late 60s and through the 70s I 
employed a visual strategy which can be found in  my NYU dissertation "The 
Presentation of Community in Urban Society" (1973) from  which a book Self and 
Community in the City (1982 which is on line at: 
_http://www.brooklynsoc.org/PLG/selfandcommunity/index.html_ 
(http://www.brooklynsoc.org/PLG/selfandcommunity/index.html) ) and two foundational articles were generated.  
"Reactions to the Stigmata of Inner City Living." Journal of Sociology and 
So&shy;cial  Welfare." Vol. IV, No. 7 (September) 1977: 997?1011.; 
 
"Stigmatized Places?Stigmatized  People: Crown Heights and Prospect?Lefferts?
Gardens." in Rita Seiden  Miller (eds.) Brooklyn  U.S.A.: The Fourth Largest  
City in America. New  York: Brooklyn  College and Columbia University Press, 
1979: 251?62.;  and  
"Community in the Inner City as a Moral Problem." Humanity and Society. Vol. 
3, No. 1  (February). 1979: 35?52. 
The most recent incarnation of the logic which we share can  be found in  
?The  Visual Presentation of Community: What Does Community Look Like?? in 
Senses of Place: Urban Narratives as  Public Secrets, edited by Robert Chapman, 
Pace University Institute for  Environmental and Regional Studies (PIERS), 
Volume 4, 2005: 151-75.  
As someone who spent the first 9 years of my life in The Red  Hook Houses 
(low-income housing project) and then in a neighborhood outsiders  defined as a 
growing slum (Prospect Heights, Bedford/Stuyvesant) because it was  being 
"invaded" by African-Americans, I always apprecaite those who recognize  the 
powerful stigma of place as well as race in American and many other  societies. The 
irony today is that Red Hook,  Prospect Heights and Bed-Stuy are "threatened" 
by invading hordes of yuppies. A  kind of visual circuit of capital. As you 
might imagine I have done some visual  work on this flip side as well: "Poland 
and  Polonia: Gentrification as ethnic aesthetic practice and migratory 
process." In  Gentrification in Global  Perspective, edited by Rowland Atkinson and 
Gary Bridges. London: Routledge, 2005:  185-208.  
I  will cut and paste and send you message to the International Visual 
sociology  list serve as well as my Community and Urban Sociology Section of the 
American  Sociological Association. I doubt whether Rudy will be using it in his 
hopefully  ill-fated run to replace W. 
All  the best, Jerry 


Jerome Krase,  Ph.D.
Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
Brooklyn College
The City  University of New York
From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 10 17:10:26 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 10 17:11:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Postdoc Research Associate for Urbanist in Social Sciences (Brown U)
Message-ID: <003001c74d60$54ec25f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Logan, John <John_Logan@brown.edu>

I would like to announce a likely opening for a Postdoctoral Research 
Associate at Brown University that may be of interest to urbanists in any 
social science discipline.  The starting date is flexible, but could be as 
early as June 1, 2007.  The initial appointment will be for a one-year term 
that may be renewed for a second year.  Candidates with a Ph.D. in hand are 
preferred, but those near completion of their dissertation may be 
considered.

The Research Associate will participate in a variety of research projects 
supported by external grants from NSF and NIH directed by John Logan.  One 
major current study targets the residential and labor market incorporation 
of immigrants and minorities in U.S. cities at the end of the 19th Century 
and early 20th Century.  Another investigates the impacts of hurricanes on 
settlement patterns on the Gulf Coast during 1950-2000, with an emphasis on 
what social groups became most exposed to storm risk.  Candidates should 
have experience working with census data and similar large-scale datasets; 
knowledge of mapping and spatial analysis tools is desirable.

The Research Associate will be closely tied to Brown's research initiative 
in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4) and will also be 
affiliated with the Population Studies and Training Center 
(www.pstc.brown.edu), and will have access to the considerable PSTC research 
infrastructure.

Salary will depend on the experience/credentials of the appointee and will 
include health benefits.  Applications should be sent by email to Dr. Logan 
at john_logan@brown.edu.  Include a short self-description, a curriculum 
vitae, a copy of up to three publications or working papers, and 
names/contact information for three persons who can comment on 
qualifications for this position.  This is not yet a formal search, pending 
final action by the funding agencies, but it would be desirable to apply by 
April 1.


****************************************
John R. Logan, Professor of Sociology
Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences
Department of Sociology
Brown University, Box 1916
Providence, RI   02912
http://www.s4.brown.edu

Phone: (401) 863-2267
Fax (401) 863-3213
Email John_Logan@Brown.edu 

From bcristales at msn.com  Sat Feb 10 11:52:52 2007
From: bcristales at msn.com (Beth Baker Cristales)
Date: Sat Feb 10 17:12:17 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2007
Message-ID: <BAY113-DAV9E9650295901040AB6C51C3930@phx.gbl>

Dear Colleagues, 

I'm trying to put together a panel on race and urban space for the AAA 2007. The preliminary abstract is:

Race and Urban Space

 

Race, as a social category, has long been one of the primary markers of difference used to order social, spatial, economic, and political relations in cities. From restrictive housing covenants to racialized ghettoes, police brutality to race riots, gang violence to municipal politics based on racial representation, and through the circulation of images of racialized urban space through popular culture, urban space is marked by a complex cartography of racialized difference. The papers in this panel explore different aspects of the racialization of urban space and social relations in cities. 



If you're interested in participating, please contact

Beth Baker-Cristales
Assistant Professor
California State University, Los Angeles
bcristales@msn.com<mailto:bcristales@msn.com>
bbakerc@calstatela.edu<mailto:bbakerc@calstatela.edu>
From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 10 18:15:02 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 10 18:16:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Beth Wilder Dillingham Memorial Award
Message-ID: <002b01c74d69$4d1b7b60$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Beth Wilder Dillingham Memorial Award

Awarded by the Central States Anthropological Society

Annual award given to best application for student who is working to 
complete a degree while caring for one or more children. Full details and 
application can be found at CSAS web site.

Cash Prize: $400

Eligibility Requirements:
Any level student in an anthropology program/department that has a current 
research project and is responsible for the care of one or more children.

Contact Information
Joyce Lucke
Phone: 812-376-6717
Email: paragon@qmix.net

URL http://www.iupui.edu/~csas/Awards.htm 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Feb 11 14:52:50 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Feb 11 14:53:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Book Series: Metropolitan Ethnographies
Message-ID: <008001c74e16$39304420$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear All,

We wish to announce the inauguration of a new book series, Metropolitan 
Ethnographies: Critical Anthropologies of the Urban Landscape.  This series 
should be of interest to the members of this list.  You can find more 
information at:

http://www..cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup8_seriesme.html

We look forward to hearing from you about your work.


Best regards,
Jeff Maskovsky and Hilary Cunningham


Metropolitan Ethnographies
A Series Edited by Jeff Maskovsky and Hilary Cunningham
The theoretical, political, and economic grounds for studying cities are in 
flux, and new ethnographic approaches are poised to move the field of urban 
studies forward in exciting directions. The Metropolitan Ethnographies 
series will serve as an intellectual space in which important theoretical 
and political discussions about the nature of urbanism take place. Books in 
the series will infuse studies of culture and political economy with a 
thoroughly ethnographic perspective to contribute a new understanding of 
21st century urbanism. Titles will offer fine-grained ethnographic analyses 
of the systemic forces, power relations, and spatial dynamics that form the 
foundations for how cities work. Projects on metropolises and their environs 
from across the globe (including North America ) will be strongly 
encouraged, as will studies that offer comparative and multi-sited analyses 
of urban norms and forms.

Two different types of books will be published in the series:
Anchor books, which are broadly focused, cutting edge statements on emerging 
topics in the field.  Organized as single- or multi-authored extended 
essays, they will be specifically designed to demonstrate the contribution 
of ethnography to a variety of urban topics.  Examples of the themes we 
envision for these books include:

.Urban Social Movements
.Urban Security
.Sustainable Cities and Environmental Justice
.The Global City and Global Justice
.Cities and Racism
.Urban Class Cultures
.Cities, Citizenship and Civil Society
.The Suburban
.Postcolonial Cities

In addition to anchor books, the series will consist of single-authored, 
ethnographic work that advances the field theoretically and empirically. 
Topics might include:


.The Politics of Urban Economic Development
.The Cultural Politics of Protest in Urban Areas
.The Corporatization of Urban Higher Education
.Gentrification and Environmental Justice
.Neoracism and Neoliberalism
.Urbanization and The Prison Industry
.Immigrant Rights and Urban Culture on the West Coast
.Transnational Labor Movements and Urban Immigration

While working collaboratively with both established and up-and-coming 
authors, the editors will endeavor to have all contributors bring new 
insights to the subject matter. A signal feature of the series is that it 
will take political economy, contemporary urban realities, and urban 
sustainability as core problematics. As new global forms of government, 
culture, economy and politics transform the urban landscape, there is a 
vital need for new critical work on cities and their environs.  The books 
that comprise Metropolitan Ethnographies will build on and expand the 
critical anthropological tradition and, in doing so, offer important work 
that seeks to define the debates and issues in the field.

Please send inquiries to:
Jeff Maskovsky (Jeff_Maskovsky@qc.edu) and Hilary Cunningham 
(hilary.cunningham@utoronto.ca).

Series Editors
Jeff Maskovsky is Assistant Professor of Urban Studies at Queens College and 
teaches in the Ph.D. Program in Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center . 
He currently serves as President of the Society for the Anthropology of 
North. Hilary Cunningham is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the 
University of Toronto. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Feb 11 17:53:59 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Feb 11 18:23:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: Environment Urbain/Urban Environment
Message-ID: <004a01c74e33$85ab6790$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Gilles S?n?cal <Gilles_Senecal@UCS.INRS.Ca>

Call for papers

Environnement Urbain/Urban Environment

The first issue of _Environnement Urbain_ / _Urban Environment_ is now 
available online at http://www.vrm.ca/cyber-revues.asp
  and the editor would like to invite interested scholars to submit 
their work to the journal. Interdisciplinary and international, the 
journal publishes scholarly articles, review articles, book reviews and 
critical reviews. The articles undergo peer evaluation, must increase 
knowledge in the field and be highly innovative. Manuscripts may be 
submitted in either English or French.

The journal considers for publication high quality, original texts 
dealing with one or more social, political, cultural, anthropological 
or economic aspects of the environment. However, its scope is limited 
to urban and metropolitan areas. Contributors are invited to discuss 
the situations in Qu?bec or Canada, but may also include the state of 
affairs in other parts of the world. Theoretical and methodological 
articles are also welcome.

We seek papers that, in one way or another, are connected to the 
relationship between urban societies and their environment. Relevant 
topics range from urban ecology to the history of the environment, the 
status of nature in the city, the attributes and quality of natural and 
built environments, the impact of environmental stress on health, 
metropolitan governance and environmental aspects of urban economies. 
The journal places no restrictions on the way contributors wish to 
treat these issues.

The journal editor also welcomes proposals for special issues that 
address relevant and timely topics. Proposals submitted by a guest 
editor must include a brief outline of the topic to be addressed, 
including the names of those who were asked to submit a paper for 
publication.

Presentation of manuscripts

The manuscripts must meet the standards of a high-quality, scholarly 
journal. Two readers and the editor will evaluate the texts received, 
which must be original. Manuscripts must be sent in electronic format 
to the following address: environnement.urbain@ucs.inrs.ca (please 
indicate the software and format used). They must include a summary and 
five keywords. The author(s) should provide the title, abstract and 
keywords in English and French and, if possible, Spanish. Charts, 
photographs and illustrations must be sent in JPEG format in separate 
files. Articles must not exceed 10,000 words, inclusive of notes and 
bibliography. Review articles, book reviews and critical reviews must 
not exceed 4,000 words.

Gilles S?n?cal
Editor
http://www.vrm.ca/cyber-revues.asp
From RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu  Sun Feb 11 19:54:23 2007
From: RSharman at brooklyn.cuny.edu (Russell Sharman)
Date: Sun Feb 11 22:00:54 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Attention Faculty: SUNTA Undergraduate Student Paper Prize
Message-ID: <C1F524EF.3A86%RSharman@brooklyn.cuny.edu>

SUNTA UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE 

The Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology is
pleased to announce its first annual undergraduate student paper prize
competition. We are seeking submissions from faculty on behalf of their
undergraduate students for papers that address issues pertaining to urban,
national, and transnational anthropology, and/or any of the topical areas of
interest to SUNTA, including space and place, poverty and homelessness, and
refugees and immigrants. 
 
The deadline for submitting papers for the 2007 SUNTA Undergraduate Student
Paper Prize ($100 award) is July 15, 2007. Students (and their nominators)
need not be SUNTA members, but submissions will only be accepted from
faculty. Students may not submit papers on their own behalf. Page limit
should be no more than 25 pages, and there are no rules about formatting,
though authors should be consistent throughout. The winner will be announced
at the 2007 AAA meetings. 


We would prefer all submissions by email: RSharman@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Other
arrangements may be made by contacting Russell Sharman at the above email
address. 



From nessci at yahoo.com  Sun Feb 11 18:26:15 2007
From: nessci at yahoo.com (Cindy D. Ness)
Date: Sun Feb 11 22:01:54 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Panel
In-Reply-To: <E1HGI4H-0000L5-75@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <228951.71005.qm@web56413.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I would be interested in hearing from individuals who
study violence in urban settings in the United States
for a panel at next  year's AAA. I myself work on 
violence by female youths. The focus is loose but
should 
reference violence in some form or fashion. I look 
forward to any responses. I can be reached at 
nessci@yahoo.com

Cindy D. Ness, Ed.D (Harvard)
and ABD in anthropology (UPenn)





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>       	Urban Poor
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>        ANN: Postdoc Research Associate for Urbanist
> in Social Sciences
>       (Brown U) (Angela Jancius)
>    3. AAA 2007 (Beth Baker Cristales)
>    4. ANN: Beth Wilder Dillingham Memorial Award
> (Angela Jancius)
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:56:37 EST
> From: JerryKrase@aol.com
> To: jancius@ohio.edu, urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu,
> shmacek@noctrl.edu
> Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]WWW: Demonizing the Inner
> City - Ideology and the
> 	Urban Poor
> 
> Stephen: Thanks. I took a look and  will use the
> video in my "Visual 
> Sociology of Urban Neighborhoods" classes  at
> Brooklyn College. Remind me to put the 
> $15 Czech in the male. As you show/  speak the
> phenomenon (stigmatizing and 
> demonizing the poor; and its correlates  the
> anti-urban bias and racism) long 
> predates the 1980s and even the 1880s. To  add to
> your archive of materials; when 
> I was doing community organizing in the  late 60s
> and through the 70s I 
> employed a visual strategy which can be found in  my
> NYU dissertation "The 
> Presentation of Community in Urban Society" (1973)
> from  which a book Self and 
> Community in the City (1982 which is on line at: 
>
_http://www.brooklynsoc.org/PLG/selfandcommunity/index.html_
> 
>
(http://www.brooklynsoc.org/PLG/selfandcommunity/index.html)
> ) and two foundational articles were generated.  
> "Reactions to the Stigmata of Inner City Living."
> Journal of Sociology and 
> So?cial  Welfare." Vol. IV, No. 7 (September)
> 1977: 997???1011.; 
>  
> "Stigmatized Places???Stigmatized  People: Crown
> Heights and Prospect???Lefferts???
> Gardens." in Rita Seiden  Miller (eds.) Brooklyn 
> U.S.A.: The Fourth Largest  
> City in America. New  York: Brooklyn  College and
> Columbia University Press, 
> 1979: 251???62.;  and  
> "Community in the Inner City as a Moral Problem."
> Humanity and Society. Vol. 
> 3, No. 1  (February). 1979: 35???52. 
> The most recent incarnation of the logic which we
> share can  be found in  
> ???The  Visual Presentation of Community: What Does
> Community Look Like???? in 
> Senses of Place: Urban Narratives as  Public
> Secrets, edited by Robert Chapman, 
> Pace University Institute for  Environmental and
> Regional Studies (PIERS), 
> Volume 4, 2005: 151-75.  
> As someone who spent the first 9 years of my life in
> The Red  Hook Houses 
> (low-income housing project) and then in a
> neighborhood outsiders  defined as a 
> growing slum (Prospect Heights, Bedford/Stuyvesant)
> because it was  being 
> "invaded" by African-Americans, I always apprecaite
> those who recognize  the 
> powerful stigma of place as well as race in American
> and many other  societies. The 
> irony today is that Red Hook,  Prospect Heights and
> Bed-Stuy are "threatened" 
> by invading hordes of yuppies. A  kind of visual
> circuit of capital. As you 
> might imagine I have done some visual  work on this
> flip side as well: "Poland 
> and  Polonia: Gentrification as ethnic aesthetic
> practice and migratory 
> process." In  Gentrification in Global  Perspective,
> edited by Rowland Atkinson and 
> Gary Bridges. London: Routledge, 2005:  185-208.  
> I  will cut and paste and send you message to the
> International Visual 
> sociology  list serve as well as my Community and
> Urban Sociology Section of the 
> American  Sociological Association. I doubt whether
> Rudy will be using it in his 
> hopefully  ill-fated run to replace W. 
> All  the best, Jerry 
> 
> 
> Jerome Krase,  Ph.D.
> Emeritus and Murray Koppelman Professor
> Brooklyn College
> The City  University of New York
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:10:26 -0500
> From: "Angela Jancius" <jancius@ohio.edu>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]
>  ANN: Postdoc Research Associate for Urbanist in
> Social Sciences (Brown U)
> 
> From: Logan, John <John_Logan@brown.edu>
> 
> I would like to announce a likely opening for a
> Postdoctoral Research 
> Associate at Brown University that may be of
> interest to urbanists in any 
> social science discipline.  The starting date is
> flexible, but could be as 
> early as June 1, 2007.  The initial appointment will
> be for a one-year term 
> that may be renewed for a second year.  Candidates
> with a Ph.D. in hand are 
> preferred, but those near completion of their
> dissertation may be 
> considered.
> 
> The Research Associate will participate in a variety
> of research projects 
> supported by external grants from NSF and NIH
> directed by John Logan.  One 
> major current study targets the residential and
> labor market incorporation 
> of immigrants and minorities in U.S. cities at the
> end of the 19th Century 
> and early 20th Century.  Another investigates the
> impacts of hurricanes on 
> settlement patterns on the Gulf Coast during
> 1950-2000, with an emphasis on 
> what social groups became most exposed to storm
> risk.  Candidates should 
> have experience working with census data and similar
> large-scale datasets; 
> knowledge of mapping and spatial analysis tools is
> desirable.
> 
> The Research Associate will be closely tied to
> Brown's research initiative 
> in Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4)
> and will also be 
> affiliated with the Population Studies and Training
> Center 
> (www.pstc.brown.edu), and will have access to the
> considerable PSTC research 
> infrastructure.
> 
> Salary will depend on the experience/credentials of
> the appointee and will 
> include health benefits.  Applications should be
> sent by email to Dr. Logan 
> at john_logan@brown.edu.  Include a short
> self-description, a curriculum 
> vitae, a copy of up to three publications or working
> papers, and 
> names/contact information for three persons who can
> comment on 
> qualifications for this position.  This is not yet a
> formal search, pending 
> final action by the funding agencies, but it would
> be desirable to apply by 
> April 1.
> 
> 
> ****************************************
> John R. Logan, Professor of Sociology
> Director, Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences
> Department of Sociology
> Brown University, Box 1916
> Providence, RI   02912
> http://www.s4.brown.edu
> 
> Phone: (401) 863-2267
> Fax (401) 863-3213
> Email John_Logan@Brown.edu 
> 
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 11:52:52 -0800
> From: "Beth Baker Cristales" <bcristales@msn.com>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 2007
> 
> Dear Colleagues, 
> 
> I'm trying to put together a panel on race and urban
> space for the AAA 2007. The preliminary abstract is:
> 
> Race and Urban Space
> 
>  
> 
> Race, as a social category, has long been one of the
> primary markers of difference used to order social,
> spatial, economic, and political relations in
> cities. From restrictive housing covenants to
> racialized ghettoes, police brutality to race riots,
> gang violence to municipal politics based on racial
> representation, and through the circulation of
> images of racialized urban space through popular
> culture, urban space is marked by a complex
> cartography of racialized difference. The papers in
> this panel explore different aspects of the
> racialization of urban space and social relations in
> cities. 
> 
> 
> 
> If you're interested in participating, please
> contact
> 
> Beth Baker-Cristales
> Assistant Professor
> California State University, Los Angeles
> bcristales@msn.com<mailto:bcristales@msn.com>
>
bbakerc@calstatela.edu<mailto:bbakerc@calstatela.edu>
> > Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:15:02 -0500
> From: "Angela Jancius" <jancius@ohio.edu>
> To: <urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu>
> Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Beth Wilder Dillingham
> Memorial Award
> 
> Beth Wilder Dillingham Memorial Award
> 
> Awarded by the Central States Anthropological
> Society
> 
> Annual award given to best application for student
> who is working to 
> complete a degree while caring for one or more
> children. Full details and 
> application can be found at CSAS web site.
> 
> Cash Prize: $400
> 
> Eligibility Requirements:
> Any level student in an anthropology
> program/department that has a current 
> research project and is responsible for the care of
> one or more children.
> 
> Contact Information
> Joyce Lucke
> Phone: 812-376-6717
> Email: paragon@qmix.net
> 
> URL http://www.iupui.edu/~csas/Awards.htm 
> 
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From D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk  Mon Feb 12 17:57:04 2007
From: D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk (Carl, Daniela)
Date: Mon Feb 12 14:54:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]PhD studentship available
Message-ID: <D14C4E67AC145848BEFCC604AA69A6830328AB7E@leedsmet-exch1.leedsmet.ac.uk>

PhD studentship available

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University

Faculty of Arts and Society

Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Rubbish Travels: Cultural and Political Dimensions to Tourism and Waste

 

The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University offers a three year PhD studentship within the broad theme of 'Tourism and Waste'. The studentship is open to EU citizens with a master's degree in a social sciences or humanities discipline, ideally with proven research interest in critical tourism studies or related fields (epistemology, distance-enchantment, representations, cultural poetics, interculturality, contact zones, pilgrimage, material culture, heritage policy). The studentship consists of an annual ?12,300 and a tuition fee waiver. Non-EU citizens may apply, but would have to cover a reduced tuition fee of ? 5,300 per year. Successful candidates should not start later than 1 July 2007. 

 

'Waste' is one of the markers of tourism/tourists. As such it travels and 'appears' within different social and cultural settings; sometimes challenging localised hygienic systems and values while other times being accommodated and transformed. We are interested in the changing status of waste/rubbish within the scope of tourism and travel and the ways in which it shapes tourist landscapes, tourism practices, host-guest relations, hospitality and ways to deal with the stranger, etc. 

 

The successful candidate would be expected to develop and conduct his or her own research agenda and actively contribute to the CTCC's dynamic interdisciplinary research environment (with currently around 20 full-time staff and PhD researchers). We welcome all proposals that fit within the broad spectrum outlined above. Possible research themes which could be studied during this studentship include:

 

*           Contested conceptions of waste in the tourism contact zone

*           Rubbish communities and the materiality of tourism waste 

*           The aesthetics of wastelands/-landscapes

*           Contagious strangers: distance, power, purity and danger in host-tourist relationships

*           Getting wasted: tourism and late-modern spoliation rites 

*           Inherited waste: the ethics of colonial collections and other relics of the past

 

For further information or an informal dialogue, please contact Dr David Picard during office hours (d.picard@leedsmet.ac.uk - 0113 2832600-ext. 29021).

 

 

How to apply

Please send an electronic copy of your filled-in registration form (including referees' details), your cover letter not exceeding two pages and your detailed CV to Dr David Picard (d.picard@leedsmet.ac.uk <mailto:d.picard@leedsmet.ac.uk> ). Please do also send a hard copy of your filled-in and signed registration form, your cover letter and your detailed CV to:

 

Dr David Picard

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University

Faculty of Arts and Society

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

LS1 3ED, Leeds

United Kingdom

 

 

 

 

=====

Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK

 

phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541

x 28 541

fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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From D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk  Mon Feb 12 18:04:43 2007
From: D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk (Carl, Daniela)
Date: Mon Feb 12 14:56:15 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Conference Announcement & CFP: Tourism and Material
	Culture
Message-ID: <D14C4E67AC145848BEFCC604AA69A6830328AB7F@leedsmet-exch1.leedsmet.ac.uk>

***Apologies for cross posting***

List members might be interested in the following conference
announcement and call for papers.

 

 

Things that Move: 

The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel 

 

19 - 23 July 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom

 

Whatever the prophecies of 'virtual' reality, we inhabit and move
through the 'real' world of objects. Though tourism and travel are bound
to concepts of time and space, they are also rooted in the material
world - a tangible world of places, things, edifices, buildings,
monuments and 'stuff'. The relationships we develop and share with these
things varies from the remote to the intimate, from the transient to the
lasting and from the passive to the passionate. Within the practices of
tourism and its use (and non-use) of the material world, and, through
the act of travel, objects are given meaning, status, and are endowed
with symbolism and power. Objects construct, represent and even define
the tourist experience. Our journeys through the world of objects
generate a plethora of emotions - pleasure, attachment, belonging,
angst, envy, exclusion, loathing and fear - and feed on-going discourse
and narratives. Moreover, through tourism, and our touristic encounters,
the material world itself is challenged and changed.

 

CALL FOR PAPERS

 

In this, our fifth annual international research conference, we seek to
explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material
culture - the built environment, infrastructures, consumer and household
goods, art, souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes. As in previous events,
the conference aims to provoke critical dialogue beyond disciplinary
boundaries and epistemologies and thus we welcome papers from the
following disciplines: aesthetics, anthropology, archaeology,
architecture, art and design history, cultural geography, cultural
studies, ethnology and folklore, history, heritage studies, landscape
studies, linguistics, museum studies, philosophy, political sciences,
sociology, tourism studies and urban/spatial planning.

 

Key themes of interest to the conference include:

 

*        Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic/political economies of
tourism objects

*        The dialectics of tourism objects and places / spaces 

*        Structures / infrastructures of international tourism -
building / architecture / design for tourism and tourists

*        Tourism in the museum

*        Tourist art and art for tourists

*        The performance of material culture in the tourism realm

*        Language and the translation of objects in tourism

*        The tourist souvenir - commodity fetishism and religious relics

*        The tourist object as metaphor and memory

*        Ownership, display and interpretation - contested pasts and
presents

*        Curating for tourism - collecting the worlds of the tourist

*        Overcoming the material through the virtual - future realms of
tourist experience

 

Please submit your 300 word abstract including a title and full contact
details as an electronic file to Professor Mike Robinson
(ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk) as soon as possible but no later than March 23rd
2007. 

More information on this conference can soon be found at
www.tourism-culture.com <http://www.tourism-culture.com/> . 

 

 

 

 

=====

Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK

 

phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541

x 28 541

fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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From hubbert at lclark.edu  Mon Feb 12 13:31:05 2007
From: hubbert at lclark.edu (Jennifer Hubbert)
Date: Mon Feb 12 17:01:42 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 07 panel on the spectacle
Message-ID: <45D0DC99.6060405@lclark.edu>

Dear Colleagues,

Thomas Carter and I are putting together a panel on the concept of the 
spectacle for AAA 07 and are interested in seeking panelists with 
similar research interests.  I've pasted a very tentative abstract below 
for your consideration.  It's quite broad at this point to accommodate a 
wider range of possibilities but will be further narrowed once we have a 
full panel.  I myself am doing work on the 2008 Olympics in China.  
Please respond to myself (hubbert@lclark.edu, Lewis & Clark College) or 
Thomas (ethnocuba@yahoo.com, University of Brighton) if you are 
interested and/or have any further questions.  We are hoping to submit 
this for invited status and the application needs to be in by the first 
of March.  Please feel free to pass this message along to anyone who 
might be interested.

Best, Jennifer Hubbert

-- 
Jennifer Hubbert
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR 97219
503-768-7672




The Place of Spectacle and the Spectacle of Place in Anthropology
 
 
The production of social spectacles has permeated anthropological 
thinking with some, like MacAloon (1984) arguing for the coalescing of a 
sense of community while others have posited that spectacle as a form of 
ritual behaviour serves as a liminal space in which social change can be 
enacted and enabled (Turner 1967, Damatta 1984).  Still others suggest 
that spectacle does not simply facilitate change but can serve to erase 
and re-create memory and history thereby reducing social relations to 
nothing but spectacular imagery (Debord 1995).  The papers in this panel 
consider the theoretical place of spectacle in social analysis by 
considering how various spectacles are used by their participants to 
create senses of being and locatedness in the world. Among the issues 
within such considerations are the contestation of representation, the 
power dynamics within and surrounding performance, and the production of 
social memory and history.  These concerns probe the interlocking global 
and local contexts and meanings of any given spectacle; a spectacle that 
defines both a sense of being in the world, a Self , and one or more 
definitive Other(s).

From kanacker at vt.edu  Mon Feb 12 17:11:49 2007
From: kanacker at vt.edu (Katrin Anacker)
Date: Mon Feb 12 18:01:13 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Second CFP: A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and
	the New Metropolis
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20070212171107.071f0840@vt.edu>

***Apologies for multiple postings
Second Call for Abstracts (due by April 30, 2007)

International conference
Reston, Virginia, USA
April 6-April 8, 2008

A Suburban World? Global Decentralization and the New Metropolis

Hosted by Dr. Robert Lang (Metropolitan Institute), Dr. Paul Knox 
(Virginia Tech), and Dr. Edward Blakeley      (University of Sydney)

We have entered a new era where the areas outside worldwide core
cities are forming different settlement systems. In Europe, even
tight building controls have not curbed the appetite of households to
move out of the central cities. China and India, with fast-growing
middle classes, are witnessing a startling expansion of their urban
areas with rapid auto-dependent growth on the fringe. Mexico and
Indonesia are beginning to adapt American-style suburban development
patterns. As urban form changes, new research and policy have to be
created to address the challenges of sprawl, congestion, and
affordable housing. This conference will explore these and other
issues in the American as well as international context.

Tracks:
* Immigration/Changing Demographics of the Suburbs
* Special Segregation by Lifestyle/Economics; Gated Communities
* Megapolitans/Metropolitan Form
* Transportation
* Energy Consumption/Sustainable Environment
* Disasters/Adaptation
* Transnational Communities/Residential Tourism
* Governance & Regulation
* Business of Suburbia/Economic Development/Economic Space
* Suburban Decline
* Urban Form at the Neighborhood Level
* Newburbia/Newtowns
* History

Conference Website:
http://www.mi.vt.edu/

Questions:
asuburbanworld@vt.edu

Katrin B. Anacker
Post Doctoral Fellow
Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
Suite 100
1021 Prince St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
e. kanacker@vt.edu
ph. 703.838.8320
fx. 703.518.8009
www.mi.vt.edu

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb 12 18:07:32 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 12 18:09:26 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: 
Message-ID: <00f301c74efa$bb5440c0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Nancy Foner <nfoner@spec.net>

Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Should we Count, How Should we 
Count, and Why?
Montreal, December 6-8, 2007

International conference organized jointly by the
Quebec Inter-University Centre for Social Statistics (QICSS, Montr?al) and 
the
Institut national d'?tudes d?mographiques (INED, Paris)

Call for Papers

During the second half of the 20th century, important international 
migration flows have greatly contributed to the
appearance of pluralist societies, and a large number of ethnic groups have 
emerged mainly as a result of
immigration. In the context of globalization, and a slow-down of population 
growth in many countries, immigration
and ethnic diversity represent major challenges at the dawn of the 21st 
century.

Among the new challenges confronting national governments, international 
organisations and civil society alike in
the face of this growing ethnic diversity, is a rising political and social 
demand for evidence-based policies. This
raises the question of collecting data on ethnic groups in order to estimate 
their number, describe their
characteristics and identify factors of social and economic integration. In 
particular, measuring the extent and
nature of the diverse forms of discrimination is essential to the 
formulation, monitoring and evaluation of antidiscrimination
policies, be they national, regional or global.

Social statistics have always been at the core of political and social 
debates. In Canada, the rising demand for
data on diverse social dimensions including ethnicity has justified the use 
of substantial public funds for the
collection of such data, through censuses or large-scale social surveys. In 
Europe and in many other parts of the
world, the situation is more complex; although the demand for ethnic data is 
growing, there is no consensus about
the relevance of producing official ethnic statistics.

There is a good deal of international variation in the way in which 
discrimination based on national or ethnic origin
is viewed. In Canada, survey or census questions on ethnic origins are 
explicitly justified on the grounds that
Charters, legislation and equal opportunity programmes need to be closely 
monitored. This is not the case in
many other countries. Apart from a few countries like England which are 
similar to Canada, most European
nations (e.g. France) are opposed to including ethnic questions in official 
statistics. The adoption of antidiscrimination
policies by the European Union, however, means that there is now strong 
pressure to produce
ethnic statistics.

The main objective of the International conference on Social Statistics and 
Ethnic Diversity: Should we count,
how should we count and why? is to establish links between the production, 
analysis, uses and interpretation of
social statistics related to ethnic diversity. More specifically, the 
Conference aims to address the following
questions:

- Should we count? This is essentially an ethical issue. Does distinguishing 
and characterizing
populations according to their ethnic origins constitute a risk of 
stigmatization or is it, on the contrary,
an asset for measuring and explaining discrimination and for demanding more 
inclusive policies?

- How to count? Here, the focus is on methodological considerations. There 
are many ways to
measure ethnic origin and discrimination: what are the best and most common 
practices in this area,
taking into account the historical, socio-economic and political 
specificities of each society?

- Who is and who is not counted? This question is an extension of the 
preceding one and aims at
identifying biases and limitations in official statistics. Who is not 
counted is very revealing of the
political criteria underlying methodological choices.

- Why count? What are the characteristics of legal, social and economic 
integration and nonintegration
(discrimination)? Is it possible (desirable?) to develop internationally 
comparable
indicators of integration? What rights should be granted to the different 
categories of migrants
(permanent, temporary, refugees, irregular, etc.)? All questions that 
require innovative data sources
(e.g. administrative data and longitudinal surveys) whose future orientation 
needs careful
consideration.

The Conference aims to encourage international exchanges in order to 
document the diversity of situations,
namely:

- the experience of countries of immigration (Canada, the United States, 
Australia, etc.)
- the European experience
- the experience of countries of the South (Africa, Latin America, Asia, 
etc.).
The Conference also aims to generate debate between the many different 
actors involved:
- organizations that produce statistics
- researchers
- users (including civil society, in particular NGOs involved in 
anti-discrimination activities).

Submissions of Proposals

This conference aspires to bring together decision makers, policy analysts, 
community workers, and scholars
(including students). Persons interested in submitting a paper proposal 
should send a one-page abstract (around
500 words) by May 1st, 2007 simultaneously to the three following addresses: 
a.gagnon@umontreal.ca;
victor@acpd.ca; simon@ined.fr . Presentations can be made in French or 
English. Authors will be notified of
acceptance by June 1st, 2007.

Students whose papers are accepted may be eligible for some financial 
support. For more information, contact Am?lie Gagnon (coordinator) at 
a.gagnon@umontreal.ca or consult the QICSS (www.ciqss.umontreal.ca) or INED 
(www.ined.fr) websites. 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 13 14:40:20 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 13 14:41:15 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEW FILM: Journey into the American Immigration Nightmare
Message-ID: <004e01c74fa6$ce8d2330$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Peter Cohn  <pcohn@goldenventuremovie.com>

A Journey into the American Immigration Nightmare

Because of your scholarly interest in immigration, I've taken the liberty of
writing you about Golden Venture, a new documentary film I produced
and directed, now available through New Day Films (www.newday.com).
The film chronicles the ongoing struggles of the 300 Chinese immigrants
who were aboard the freighter Golden Venture when it ran aground off
New York City in June, 1993. The deaths, detentions and deportations
that followed marked a crucial turning point in US immigration policy.

You may already know about the film: it premiered at the 2006 Tribeca
Film Festival and also screened at the Amnesty International festival in
Washington, DC. The film has been shown at Princeton University,
the American Museum of Natural History and many other educational
and film festival venues. More than 80 universities and colleges have
already added the film to their collections.

Recognizing the film's value for educators, the two leading library review
publications have recommended Golden Venture. The Library Journal
wrote: "We feel for these immigrants, we want them to stay and find
satisfying lives here, but we also see the concerns inherent in illegal
immigration. Highly recommended, especially for educational purposes."

Library Journal said this: "A compelling and timely portrait of human
courage, resilience, and compassion, set against a backdrop of bigotry,
fear and political infighting, this is recommended."

Professors of political science, law, sociology, anthropology, Asian
American studies and others have found that the political, cultural and
legal questions raised by the film stimulate discussion and further 
research.
As the immigration debate continues to rage, the story of the Golden
Venture is more relevant then ever.

You can learn more by going to www.goldenventuremovie.com. The film
can be ordered directly via www.newday.com or by calling 888.367.9154.

If you have any questions or would like to discuss the film, please do not
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Sincerely Yours,
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Director/Producer
347-697-7101
pcohn@goldenventuremovie.com

PS: For a 10 percent reduction in the price, please use promotional code 
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This message was sent by: Hillcrest Films, 6168 Delafield Ave, Riverdale, NY 
10471 

From D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk  Tue Feb 13 11:59:56 2007
From: D.Carl at leedsmet.ac.uk (Carl, Daniela)
Date: Tue Feb 13 15:00:53 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Journeys of Expressions VI: Diaspora community festivals, cultural
 events and tourism
Message-ID: <D14C4E67AC145848BEFCC604AA69A6830328AB8C@leedsmet-exch1.leedsmet.ac.uk>

Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

 

Journeys of Expressions VI: 

 

Diaspora community festivals, cultural events and tourism

 

 4-6 October 2007, York, United Kingdom

 

Organised by:

 

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University

 

 

Journeys of Expression VI will bring together researchers who share
interests in diaspora community cultures as expressed, translated and
consumed through festivals and cultural events. The conference
encourages contributions from contrasting but related theoretical and
conceptual approaches from Social Science and Humanities disciplinary
perspectives. The conference will also attract researchers from the
fields of tourism and festival studies.

 

The enforced, encouraged or voluntary movement, migration and dispersion
of people over centuries and in recent years is reflected in the family
backgrounds, life histories and cultural practices of communities in
many countries, regions and cities worldwide. Mobilities associated with
the processes of globalisation are demonstrably, if unevenly
contributing to an acceleration of migration for more or less permanent,
official and legal settlement of people beyond their 'homelands'. 

 

In many cases, diaspora communities have been subject to hostility and
discrimination in their adopted countries and some remain relatively
impoverished, marginalised and excluded from 'mainstream' society.
Others, in contrast have been more socially and economically successful
and have either retained distinct diaspora community identities or have
become more integrated with other communities over time. 

 

Tourism has also grown substantially and unevenly in recent years, with
tourists increasingly encouraged to attend and participate in 'exotic'
and 'characteristically authentic' displays of community life in
destinations visited. Such tourism typically features the packaging,
promotion and consumption of diaspora community neighbourhoods, food and
shopping and importantly festivals and cultural events.

 

The relationships between diaspora communities, festivity, cultural
events and tourism are therefore of considerable interest to academic
researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural and tourism policy
makers and practitioners in many countries.

 

Theoretical issues and themes to be explored at this conference include:

 

*	Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with
festivals and cultural events;

 

*	Histories of diaspora communities' mobilities and the
transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new
community circumstances and settings;

 

*	Relationships between diaspora communities and the 'homeland'
and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural
events;

 

*	The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora festival
forms - e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish - religious and
secular, established, emerging and contested;

 

*	The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in policies
and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and
anti-racism;

 

*	Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora
community members -  inter-generational issues;

 

*	Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural
city;

 

*	Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural events;

 

*	Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora
community festivals and cultural events;

 

*	Performing diaspora community arts through festivals;

 

*	Diaspora tourism markets.

 

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expressions conference series, we
wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes
and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary
backgrounds including: tourism studies, festival studies, sociology,
anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc. If
you wish to submit a paper proposal, please send a 300-word abstract
with full address and institutional affiliation details as an electronic
file to Dr. Philip Long (p.e.long@leedsmet.ac.uk). The deadline for the
reception of abstracts is 16 April 2007. Please find regularly updated
information regarding this conference, registration procedures and (at a
later stage) a programme at our website www.tourism-culture.com.

 

 

 

=====

Daniela Carl

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts & Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

The Old School Board

Calverley Street

Leeds

LS1 3ED

UK

 

phone +44 (0)113- 283 8541

x 28 541

fax +44 (0)113- 283 8544

www.tourism-culture.com

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 13 21:40:11 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 13 21:41:12 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Summer Internships with the Inter-American Dialogue
Message-ID: <008001c74fe1$775d2f20$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Internship Opportunities

The Inter-American Dialogue offers full and part-time volunteer internships in the fall, spring and summer semesters for students interested in the dynamics of inter-American relations. The Dialogue is a forum for sustained exchange among leaders of the Western Hemisphere and an independent, nonpartisan center for policy analysis on economic and political relations in the Americas. It regularly convenes U.S. and Latin American leaders from the public and private sectors and diverse political perspectives to search for cooperative responses to hemispheric problems. Covering a wide scope of issues, it is engaged in an ambitious effort to improve the quality of debate and decision making on U.S.-Latin American relations and to promote new opportunities for hemispheric political, social, and economic cooperation.

Responsibilities:

    * As assigned, assist the president, associates and staff with research and writing on current issues affecting U.S.-Latin American relations. Program areas include: democracy and human rights, multilateral governance, trade and economic relations, women leaders, and education policy reform. Country specific and regional topics (i.e. Central America, Cuba, Brazil and Peru) are also monitored
    * Attend and report on Washington-area briefings, working groups, and meetings;
    * Write articles for Dialogue/Di?logo, the newsletter of the Inter-American Dialogue;
    * Perform administrative tasks including: compiling press clippings, assisting in conference organization and outreach, editing and translating documents, and intermittent copying, faxing and mailings.

Qualifications:

    * Undergraduate or graduate students majoring in the social sciences with a focus on Latin America/Caribbean;
    * Demonstrated research and writing ability, plus excellent communications skills;
    * Interest in the economic, social, and political issues affecting the Americas;
    * Proficiency in English and Spanish and/or Portuguese;
    * Computer proficiency in MSWord, Excel and the Internet.

Duration:

A minimum of eight 16-20 hour weeks are required during the fall and spring semesters. Summer interns are expected to work full-time (30-40 hours per week).

To Apply:

Please submit a cover letter, resume, brief writing sample (1-2 pages) and one letter of recommendation to the "Internship Coordinator" at the address below. Applications are accepted throughout the year, however please note the following deadlines for each term:
Summer

Fall

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From nessci at yahoo.com  Wed Feb 14 06:43:42 2007
From: nessci at yahoo.com (Cindy D. Ness)
Date: Wed Feb 14 19:51:44 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Re: AAA Panel on Urban Violence in the United States
In-Reply-To: <E1HGeXG-0003pv-2d@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <243658.24543.qm@web56413.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I wanted to put forth a second call for particpation
in an AAA panel: Anthropoligical Inquiry into Urban 
Violence in the United States. I've received a
response from
two interested people so far and was hoping to add one

more person to the panel, if at all possible, to the
panel.
Should anyone be interested on have questions, please 
get in contact with me at: cness@jjay.cuny.edu or
nessci@yahoo.com.

Many thanks,
Cindy Ness


 
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From smcohen at umich.edu  Tue Feb 13 18:05:07 2007
From: smcohen at umich.edu (Susanne Cohen)
Date: Wed Feb 14 19:52:24 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA 07 Panel on Global Pedagogies
Message-ID: <000701c74fc3$73ce1090$d84d1841@Susanne>

Call for papers:

Form, Content, and the Promise of Method:  Intersections of Global
Pedagogies and Historical Change 
Proposed panel for the AAA Annual Meeting, Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007, Washington,
DC

Many different types of educators, from corporate trainers to religious
leaders to secondary school teachers, draw upon globally circulating ideals
about self and society in their efforts to create new types of subjectivity
and social relations.  In such contexts, teaching methods often become a
focal point of ideological claims and contestations, as social actors make
links between the "form" of teaching practices and their "content,'
investing certain practices with a particular power to transform society and
social life.  Yet in situations of significant historical change, such
connections between form and content can be particularly unpredictable. This
panel seeks to explore and question such links between form and content of
teaching practices in conditions of globalization, paying particular
attention to questions of historical continuity and disjuncture.  What role
do considerations of teaching methodology play in projects to create
subjectivities that reflect various global ideals-whether these are
connected to religious movements, ethnic diasporas, or neoliberal models of
independent action?  What types of claims do social actors of all types,
whether international aid agencies or parents engaged in informal teaching
practices, make about the form and content of particular educational
techniques, such as role plays, games, study circles, experiential learning,
use of electronic media and the internet, and particular forms of testing
and evaluation, and how is this related to their own positionality in larger
historical and global milieus?  How, more generally might we conceptualize
the relationship between pedagogical form and content in global contexts:
Do certain types of instruction inevitably produce certain types of
personhood and social relations, and what types of intended and unintended
consequences can follow from a particular methodological choice?  How do
longer-standing traditions in teaching and learning interact with newer
approaches, and what do the forms that ensue tell us about the relationship
between form and content in situations of historical change?  What moral and
social anxieties are expressed in debates about proper forms of education
and training, and how are these shaped by local and international relations
of inequality and authority?

The two organizers of this panel engage these questions in the context of
post-socialist Russia.  One of us works on workplace training programs aimed
to instill market-oriented communication skills, the other on legacies of
atheist public pedagogy in post-Soviet religious groups. Ideally, papers on
this panel will reflect a range of geographic regions and examine diverse
educational settings, from the corporate world to schools, families,
international aid agencies, and religious organizations.

If interested in participating, please send an abstract (250 words) to
Susanne Cohen (smcohen@umich.edu) and  Sonja Luehrmann (sluehrma@umich.edu)
by February 28. 


From zgursel at berkeley.edu  Wed Feb 14 12:48:21 2007
From: zgursel at berkeley.edu (Zeynep Gursel)
Date: Wed Feb 14 19:59:28 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Brokering Images, Casting Differences (3/16/07;
	AAA '07)
Message-ID: <a06240816c1f925bae3b0@[192.168.1.101]>

Call for Papers
Proposed Session
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2007
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC

BROKERING IMAGES, CASTING DIFFERENCES:
Practices of Anticipating the Imagination of Others
Zeynep Devrim G?rsel, University of California, 
Berkeley & Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, New York 
University

We live in times of constant production and 
consumption of images, incessantly being 
represented, interpellated by images, and 
engaging in acts of representing others. Yet in 
whose image(s) are we being cast and who is doing 
the casting? What constitutes knowledge 
production in the visual realm and on what terms 
do the stakes of visual production get 
negotiated? 

This panel broadly examines the production and 
circulation of "images"-both as visual 
representations of peoples and things as well as 
the public perceptions sparked by them. Paying 
specific attention to the practices of various 
kinds of image brokers whose job it is to select, 
edit, and arrange for the circulation of images 
they themselves have not produced, the panel will 
address the kinds of work enacted upon visual 
representations that shape how they are framed 
and intended to be taken up by a broader public. 
Arguing that the temporal management of past 
categories and future uses is a central feature 
of image brokering, the panel will attend to the 
specific practices of anticipation and 
imagination used by image brokers in various 
ethnographic locations.  Focusing on the moments 
of selection as critical sites to investigate the 
decision-makers' imagination and the brokering of 
images as an everyday practice of imagination, 
the panel will explore the political potential of 
these practices, including the role of stereotype 
and innovation, or how particular images get 
repeated and transformed.

We invite paper submissions to address these 
issues through any of the following sets of 
questions:


 How do expectations of what something should 
look like inform the selection of images?

 What are the linguistic dimensions of these visual practices?

 How are categories of peoples and things 
produced in institutional settings through 
everyday discursive interactions and visual 
practices of image brokers?

 How do image brokers put images to work? To what types of work are they put?

 What kind of labor is image brokering?

 What are the broader structural constraints of 
image brokers' work and how does attention to 
their everyday practices reveal something more 
about these constraints?

 How do we think about imagination in a context 
where cultural producers anticipate the impact of 
a particular image on a viewer's imagination?

 How does the image broker's imagination and 
his/her anticipation of the imagination of others 
shape the ways in which both the past and future 
get imaged?

Please send abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute 
papers and a brief bio or cv to Stephanie 
Sadre-Orafai, sso212@nyu.edu, or Zeynep Devrim 
G?rsel, zgursel@berkeley.edu by Friday, March 16, 
2007.



-- 
Zeynep Devrim G?rsel
PhD. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley

(510) 642 2854
From jacottle at ucdavis.edu  Wed Feb 14 22:32:10 2007
From: jacottle at ucdavis.edu (J Cottle)
Date: Thu Feb 15 12:10:15 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers AAA Annual Meeting
Message-ID: <45D3FE6A.9000004@ucdavis.edu>

Call for Papers

Immigration and Health Disparities: Case Studies of Survival and Resilience
Proposed Panel for the AAA Annual Meeting, November 28-December 2, 2007, 
Washington DC

This panel addresses immigrants? stories of survival and resilience in 
dealing with physical and mental ailments vis-?-vis the social and 
health obstacles imposed by organized medicine. In a global context of 
reduced public health services, restricted coverage and eligibility for 
state-sponsored health insurance, this panel calls for an in-depth 
reflection on the impact of disparities on immigrants? health outcomes 
and health strategies. Papers in this panel weave the stories of 
immigrants as both patients and caregivers. Exclusion from mainstream 
health systems are intertwined with accounts of informal sources of 
support, with attention to the connections between structural 
determinants and immigrants? staggering tales of resistance. In 
particular, we will examine immigrants? (access) barriers to health care 
(e.g., institutional and financial) and the role of informal social webs 
that help them navigate health care services and find alternative 
sources of care. Papers will explore the challenges faced by immigrant 
caregivers, as well as non-biomedical health practitioners, in taking 
care of vulnerable immigrant populations in developed nations. We also 
welcome work that includes comparisons among countries.

If interested in participating, please send an abstract to Anah? 
Viladrich (aviladri@hunter.cuny.edu) and Julia Cottle 
(jacottle@ucdavis.edu).


From sphmce at gwumc.edu  Thu Feb 15 12:30:02 2007
From: sphmce at gwumc.edu (Mark Edberg)
Date: Thu Feb 15 14:30:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Proposed panel for 2007 AAA meeting
Message-ID: <45D4524A020000DC00005045@gwia.nw.gwu.edu>

To SUNTA Members:

Seeking interest and papers for the following proposed panel...

Proposed Title: Anthropologists Addressing Youth Violence in Both 
Domestic and Global Contexts 

Description: This session will highlight the work and contribution of
anthropologists to the study of violence (and violence prevention)among
youth/young people in both a domestic and global context, focusing on
the intersection of poverty, marginalization, globalization and gender
roles in contributing to local and transnational cultures of violence.
Presenters/papers would include those addressing the following issues:
urban and suburban youth violence in the U.S.; gang violence, including
transnational youth gang issues (e.g., Mara Salvatrucha, Vatos Locos,
etc.); youth and child soldiers/guerrilla fighters worldwide (e.g., West
Africa, Middle East); and media representations of violence. 

If interested, please let me know.

Mark Edberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Prevention and Community Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
Joint Appointment, Department of Anthropology
The George Washington University
(202) 530-2330
medberg@gwu.edu 
sphmce@gwumc.edu 

Mark Edberg, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Prevention and Community Health
School of Public Health and Health Services
Joint Appointment, Department of Anthropology
The George Washington University
(202) 530-2330
medberg@gwu.edu
sphmce@gwumc.edu

From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb 15 18:00:23 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb 15 18:05:14 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Defining Space: International Interdiscplinary
	Conference
Message-ID: <009001c75155$1696cc80$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Hugh Campbell <hugh.campbell@ucd.ie>

Defining Space
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Newman House, University College Dublin
Friday 12-Saturday 13 October 2007

Call for Papers

This conference sets out to investigate the meaning and role of space 
in contemporary cultural theory and practice. Often invoked as the key 
parameter for understanding twentieth-century culture, does space 
retain this centrality today? In the mid-1940s, such influential 
exponents of modernist culture as Sigfried Giedion, Clement Greenberg 
and Joseph Frank asserted the primacy of space in the theory and 
practice of architecture, art and literature respectively, defining the 
modern by divorcing it from temporal or historical forms of 
understanding. Since the 1970s, however, space has been increasingly 
problematised: imploded through technological acceleration (Virilio), 
emptied out by the circulation of consumer goods (Baudrillard), 
transformed into a trap through surveillance (Foucault), or manipulated 
to conceal profound economic transformations (Fredric Jameson and David 
Harvey). The once reassuringly neutral category of space has been 
unmasked as uncanny and warped (Anthony Vidler), inflected by relations 
of gender (Doreen Massey) and race (Homi Bhabha). After a century 
largely devoted to thinking and creating in spatial terms, does space 
remain a viable paradigm or has it reached a point of exhaustion, 
simultaneously banal and fraught?

The aim of this conference is to investigate the current relevance of 
the spatial paradigm in theory and practice across the arts and social 
sciences. It seeks to do so through an exploration of four interrelated 
themes: experience (the existential interaction between individuals and 
communities and the spaces they inhabit), construction (the making and 
remaking of those spaces), representation (the depiction of those 
spaces in the media and the arts), and theorisation (the conceptual 
understanding of space in relation to its experience, construction and 
representation). Although not seen as exhaustive, when taken together 
these four themes, and the continuities and tensions between them, 
provide a framework for thinking about the relations between theory and 
practice, the academy and the artworld, the arts and social sciences, 
the social and the aesthetic. Scholars and practitioners in all fields 
are invited to propose papers that address any aspect of space in the 
modern and contemporary period. Proposals for panels mixing 
theory/criticism and artistic and/or architectural practice are 
particularly welcome.

Confirmed keynote speakers to date include: Barry Bergdoll (Columbia 
University/MoMA, New York), Steve Pile (Open University, UK), Anthony 
Vidler (The Cooper Union, New York)

For further enquiries, please contact Dr Hugh Campbell, UCD School of 
Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering (hugh.campbell@ucd.ie) or 
Dr Douglas Smith, UCD School of Languages, Literatures and Film 
(douglas.smith@ucd.ie) or consult the website 
www.ucd.ie/arcel/defining_space.html. Please submit proposals for 
papers (300 words maximum) and panels (of maximum three participants 
with individual abstracts) by e-mail to both of the above addresses by 
31 March 2007.

Dr. Hugh Campbell
Senior Lecturer, Architecture
UCD School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering,
Richview, Clonskeagh,
Dublin, Ireland
From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Feb 15 18:03:32 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Feb 15 18:06:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Graduate Conference on Activism and the State of
 Neo-liberalism (Budapest)
Message-ID: <00a301c75155$86ece2d0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Graduate Conference on
Activism and the State of Neo- liberalism
22-23 June 2007 in Budapest, Hungary

Abstract Deadline: 31 March  2007

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European 
University is pleased to announce its First Graduate Student Conference that 
will take place in Budapest on 22-23 June 2007. The conference aims at 
bringing together graduate students, scholars, and activists who are 
committed to understanding forms of neo-liberal governance and capitalist 
states as well as the concrete mechanisms of resistance to and contestation 
of neo-liberal imperatives. We invite abstracts that address related 
theoretical concerns, discuss empirically based research, or present the 
particular experiences of activists. Our goal is to bring together 
participants of a variety of disciplines and geographical loci.


Our key speakers include:
Dr Gavin Smith (University of Toronto), who will talk on "Organic ideology 
and political economy: Modes of resistance and modes of rule".

Dr Paul Stubbs (The Institute of Economics, Zagreb), who will talk on uneven 
neo-liberalisms and the present problems and possibilities for various kinds 
of activism.

Submitted abstracts shall address one of the topics of the panels:

PANEL DISCRIPTIONS


1. Panel: States of Neo-liberalism

The panel seeks to discuss the complex and often ambiguous processes 
connected to the transformations that states are going through due to 
neo-liberal reforms of the last decades. The 'retreat' of the nation-state 
from economic and social regulations has been accompanied on the one hand by 
the increasing prominence of supranational organizations like the IMF or 
World Bank, and on the other by increased opportunities for sub- national 
groups or organizations. At the same time, the state itself is undergoing 
important transformations, inviting further analysis of how practices of 
neo-liberal governmentality are relayed through clearly identifiable state 
policies and apparatuses.

This panel invites contributions focusing on:
the new types of relations between state actors and non- state actors such 
as social movements, NGOs, international organizations, and the business 
sector;
the novel practices of the neo-liberal state such as re- scaling, devolved 
sovereignty, and the new forms of spatiality and their cultural-ideological 
representations.


2. Panel: Of markets and transnational movements

This panel invites papers that examine the concrete links between civic 
activism and donors, charity organizations and other funding bodies. The 
focus of the panel is on the specific cases of distribution and/or 
competition for money in the framework of the marketization of civil society 
and the paradoxes of cooperation between civic movements and trans/national 
sponsoring agencies.

The panel encourages the submission of abstracts related to the following 
themes:
civil society initiative, fund raising, accountability;
allocation of aid, conditionality of financial support, transnational donors 
and European Union initiatives.


3. Panel: Fighting subalterities

Though subalterity seems a position from which the most urgent criticisms of 
the global neo-liberal regime and its transfiguration onto local politics 
can be launched, it is also a condition that people usually seek to 
overcome. This panel seeks to explore the complex processes involved in 
simultaneously organizing as a subaltern group and overcoming subalternity, 
i.e., of 'fighting subalternities'. In particular we hope to look at how the 
internal dynamics of organized subaltern (indigenous, Roma, dalit..) 
movements have been affected by neo-liberal rule.

The panel calls for papers that look at:
the divisive pressures of neo-liberalism on leaders and constituencies of 
subaltern social movements;
the difficult connection between lived subaltern experiences and their 
public, political representations.


HOW TO APPLY

Applicants from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to 
submit an abstract (not more than 300 words) and a short cv to the following 
e-mail address:

Activism_vs_Neoliberalism@yahoo.com (cc: to oustinova- 
stjepanovic_galina@phd.ceu.hu).

Please state clearly if you are interested in presenting your paper within a 
specific panel. If not, your paper will be allocated to one of the panels 
upon our discretion. Completed applications should be submitted 
electronically no later than 31 March 31 2007. Applicants will be notified 
about the results by 15 April. Presentations should not be longer than 15-20 
minutes. A written outline of the presentation should be submitted two weeks 
before the conference. For any further questions, please contact us at 
Activism_vs_Neoliberalism@yahoo.com (cc: to sphstl01@phd.ceu.hu).

Visa
Those requiring support to obtain a visa to Hungary, please contact us 
mentioning your passport details.

Funding
Limited funding to cover travel costs and accommodation is available. 
However, we encourage participants to also try to find travel support at 
their home institutions.


- - -
Dept. of Sociology, St. Anne's building,
NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare
Tel. (+353-1) 708 3985
http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/ 

From durban2007 at towardanafricawithoutborders.org  Fri Feb 16 01:47:44 2007
From: durban2007 at towardanafricawithoutborders.org (Toward an Africa Without Borders)
Date: Thu Feb 15 21:59:23 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Toward an Africa Without Borders' 3rd International Conference
 - From Theory to Practice
Message-ID: <W9022213777180081171590464@webmail11>

Please disseminate widely. Thank you?

Toward an Africa without Borders Conference? 2007: From Theory to Practice
July 5-8, 2007 - DurbanUniversity of Technology, Durban, South Africa

The Toward an Africa Without Borders organizing committee invites scholars and activists from all disciplines and professions to submit abstracts or panel proposals for consideration for our third international conference to be held in Durban, South Africa July 5-8, 2007. The conference features keynote speakers Horace Campbell, Andile Mngxitama, and Chengiah Rogers Ragaven. Toward an Africa Without Borders is dedicated to opening borders, both physical and metaphorical, and to promoting unity and solidarity between groups in the Diaspora and Africa by facilitating strategic alliances and discussions that lead to partnerships for positive action in the name of Pan-Africanism. 

The conference will consist of various panels and round-table discussions, and will highlight four Featured Panels. 

Featured Panels:**

Activism Across Borders 
How can activism [and scholarship] cross and break down borders, be they geographic borders or borders dividing gender, class, language, ethnicity, religion, age, etc.? What are the benefits or drawbacks of conceptualizing activism in terms of such ?borders??
Africa & the Media: Borders of Perception
How do media affect the perception of Africa in both Africa and the Diaspora? How can international and domestic African media work to expand understanding or facilitate cooperation? What is the role of state and journalist control/censorship in this process?
Pan-Africanism: Theory and Practice
How can Pan-African ideas and theories be put into practice in today?s Africa? How can Pan-African theory facilitate positive action and collaboration throughout Africa and the Diaspora? What are the benefits and/or pitfalls of Pan-Africanism in the context of activism and scholarship?
South Africa?s Role in Africa and the World
How does the idea of "South African Exceptionalism" complement or impair the Pan-Africanist agenda? Is South African Exceptionalism a myth or reality?How does South Africa's role within SADC and the African continent affect issues such as immigration and domestic and foreign policy, in general? What are the advantages and disadvantages of the model ofsocial change employed by South Africa post liberation?

**If you would like your abstract to be considered for one of the featured panels, please clearly indicate that on your submission.

In addition to these featured panels, the conference welcomes scholars and activists to discuss such issues as, but not limited to:
Arts/performance & Pan-Africanism
What role does culture play in today?s Pan-African movement?How can the arts and performance better serve to bridge Pan-African ideology and activism?How effectively does art bring politics to the people and vice versa?
Literature of Africa and the Diaspora
What recent and historical works of African and Diaspora literature contribute to Pan-Africanism?How is contemporary literature mobilizing a new vision of Pan-African identity and politics?What borders are constructed between continental and Diaspora artists regarding these issues?Do writers in Europe and the United States share the same conception of Pan-Africanism as their continental peers? 
African Women: Struggle and Strength
What role do African and Diaspora women play in the struggle toward an Africa without borders?What challenges do they face?What strengths do they contribute?
Language and Africa
How does language factor into the Pan-African debate today? Do linguistic and language barriers pose viable threats to Pan-African possibilities, or should linguistic diversity be embraced?How practical and how problematic is English as the lingua franca of the Pan-African movement?How accessible ? and how relevant ? is Pan-African discourse to the general public?
Globalization, Africa, and the Diaspora
What is Africa?s role in globalization? How has globalization altered Africa and the Diaspora? Has it been for better or worse? Does globalization build or erase borders?Where does Pan-Africanism stand in relation to other models of global identity, nationhood and/or belonging?
Religion, Ethnicity, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora
What is the role of religion, ethnicity, and/or identity in erecting or destroying borders in Africa and the Diaspora? How can these concepts contribute or detract from cooperation, understanding, and collaboration between peoples? How can these borders be negotiated to end genocide in Africa?
Africa and Foreign Relations
What is the impact of African nations? foreign policy on cooperation and understanding across geographic borders? How can Africa benefit from improved and continued partnerships with not only the West, but also the Middle East and Asia?
Health and Medicine in Africa
What are the borders affecting improvements in health care and medicine distribution/availability in Africa? How can breaking down these divisions help Africa cope with and eliminate the major health issues affecting the continent?
Africa and the Environment
How can Africa work to improve the environment? What is Africa?s role in the global climate crisis? What is the impact of environmental change on African peoples?
Refugees, Immigration, and Pan-Africanism 
How can applying the ideas and ideals of Pan-Africanism assist the continent and the Diaspora in dealing with refugee and immigration issues?
Government Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations, and Development
What are the roles of these organizations in development projects in Africa? What are the borders that affect their work? How can re-conceptualizing these various borders better facilitate their work?
Emerging Global Powers in Africa
What role do emerging global powers, such as China and India, and their growing economic involvement, play in Africa? How does this new involvement compare with previous involvement of ?traditional imperialists?? What is the impact of this involvement on African-based initiatives for trade, development, social and political advancement?
African Sexuality
Are gender and sexuality the least porous of African frontiers?What are the borders that prevent the acknowledgment or acceptance of homosexuality in Africa?Does Pan-Africanism have a role in eliminating sexualized borders, and if so, what is that role? What affect will South Africa's marriage inclusion law have upon sexual identities across the continent? How does Pan-Africanism benefit or deter the discussion of sexuality in Africa?

Submission of abstracts & activists? proposals for discussion topics: Abstracts should be limited to 250 words, and should include the author's name, title, affiliation, and full address (including telephone, fax, and e-mail). Activists are strongly encouraged to submit proposals for round-table discussions on these and related topics. Please visit our web site - www.towardanafricawithoutborders.org - for more information and to submit abstracts and proposals online. If you have any questions, please e-mail us at Durban2007@towardanafricawithoutborders.org, or call Denise St. Clair at 608-226-0535. If you are unable to access the web site, you can also submit proposals by mailing them to Toward an Africa Without Borders, c/o Denise St. Clair, 4518 Maher Avenue, Madison, WI, 53716. Or, you can fax them to 608-694-4118. 

Deadline for submission: April 15, 2007


From tworonov at email.arizona.edu  Thu Feb 15 12:38:41 2007
From: tworonov at email.arizona.edu (T. Woronov)
Date: Thu Feb 15 22:00:21 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]panel proposal AAA '07 "Children and Governmentality"
Message-ID: <BAA04E3A-2574-4F0F-B991-FC13753F0072@email.arizona.edu>

Apologies for cross-postings

Call for papers

Governing Children, Producing Citizens
Proposed CAE Panel for the AAA Annual Meeting, Nov 28-Dec 2, 2007,  
Washington,
DC

	In the past several years, Foucault?s work on  governmentality has  
been enormously productive across the social sciences.   
Anthropologists in particular have begun to link ethnographic  
observations and methods to Foucault?s theories, adding a rich body  
of data from around the world that explores how Foucault?s concepts  
help us understand social practices.
	With a few notable exceptions, however, relatively little research  
in education or the growing field of the anthropology of children has  
been influenced by this body of theory.  Yet this is an especially  
fertile area for research and theorizing, for schools are a central  
institution for producing citizen-subjects, while practices and  
ideologies around children are central to the rationalities and  
techniques of government around the world.
	This panel seeks to bring together a critical mass of scholars who  
bring a Foucauldian perspective to bear on research on children,  
classrooms, and schools, arguing that these are privileged sites for  
explicating and extending the concept of governmentality as a  
particularly modern form of power.  How are children constituted as  
subjects of government?  What technologies are brought to bear on  
children to produce them as appropriate subjects?  What kinds of  
state (and other) rationalities conceptualize children, schools and  
education as sites of governance?  How are children learning "the  
conduct of conduct"?
	Current panelists engage with these questions in the context of  
Latin America, East Africa, and China.  We seek additional panelists  
who examine diverse settings and processes to understand how children  
become citizen-subjects.   If interested, please send a 250 word  
abstract by Feb 28th to Terry Woronov (tworonov@email.arizona.edu).

Thanks.



From roconnell at rwu.edu  Fri Feb 16 12:32:59 2007
From: roconnell at rwu.edu (Roxanne O'Connell)
Date: Fri Feb 16 14:33:02 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers - New Media and the Global Diaspora
Message-ID: <FEBC1630-AEF2-45B6-B07C-F98BC6046538@rwu.edu>

NEW MEDIA & THE GLOBAL DIASPORA
Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
October 5-7, 2007

The Global Communication Program and the Center for Global and  
International Studies at Roger Williams University in Bristol, Rhode  
Island, are sponsoring a symposium addressing the relationship of New  
Media to the global diaspora. The symposium focuses primarily on the  
migrations of the past 100 years and how the ?living traditions?  
transmitted by these communities are continually subject to loss,  
gain and interpretation. New Media plays a role, both direct and  
indirect, in this process as these traditions become transplanted  
into their ?new home.?

The symposium has the following objectives:

* To encourage academic discourse focused on transnational migratory  
populations and the role new media plays in transmitting and  
sustaining their living traditions.
* To create a forum for researchers in the liberal arts and other  
disciplines studying the nature, significance and consequence of  
global migration
* To provide a concert performance of traditional music and dance  
illustrating the vitality of these living traditions.

We envision this symposium as a celebration of global communication,  
the liberal arts, and Roger Williams University's mission to ?bridge  
the world.?


Deadline for Submissions: April 1, 2007

The New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium will focus primarily on  
the migrations of the past 100 years and how the ?living traditions?  
transmitted by these communities are continually subject to loss,  
gain and interpretation. New Media plays a role, both direct and  
indirect, in this process as these traditions become transplanted  
into their ?new home.?

We envision this symposium as a celebration of global communication,  
the liberal arts, and the university's mission to ?bridge the world.?  
We also hope to provide opportunities for undergraduate research  
through a panel reserved for Phi Beta Delta, the honor society for  
International Studies, and by involving students in the planning and  
execution of the event.

We intend that this symposium provide a forum for researchers in the  
many disciplines studying the nature, significance and consequence of  
global migration. We welcome papers and panel proposals in the fields  
of politics, anthropology, sociology, communication, rhetoric, arts,  
literature and history with a particular focus on how New Media  
differentiates the 20th century immigrant experience from earlier  
migrations. We include, as the closing event of the symposium, a  
concert and dance illustrating some of the living traditions these  
communities have nurtured in their ?new home.?

Paper Submissions
Authors should submit research paper proposals consisting of a 300-  
to 500-word abstract via the online form (http://faculty.rwu.edu/ 
roconnell/callForm.html). Do not submit full papers. The abstracts  
should give a clear sense of the scope of the research and the method  
of inquiry used. Conclusions should be highlighted for works that  
have been completed by the submission deadline. Do not send full  
research papers for consideration. However, authors of proposals  
accepted for presentation at the conference must submit complete  
research papers, not exceeding 30 pages, to their discussant two  
weeks prior to the conference.

Panel submissions
All submissions should be submitted using the form available at  
http://faculty.rwu.edu/roconnell/callForm.html. Panel organizers  
should include  a description of the session?s focus, the issues to  
be discussed, and a list of panelists (potential and confirmed),  
including affiliation in the abstract field.

All paper and panel proposals will be coded and identifying  
information will be removed prior to proposal review.

All abstracts and panel proposals must received by April 1, 2007.  
Authors will be notified by May 20, 2007.

Additional Info
Details can be found at http://faculty.rwu.edu/roconnell
Questions about paper proposal submissions can be directed to the  
symposium planning office at roconnell@rwu.edu.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Roxanne M. O'Connell
Assistant Professor of Visual Communication
Associate Editor, Reason & Respect: A Journal of Civil Discourse
Secretary, Phi Beta Delta - RWU Chapter Epsilon Rho
Roger Williams University - NC 101 - http://www.rwu.edu
Spring 2007 Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays 1:00-2:00 pm;  
Tuesdays 11:00 am -1:00 pm

Change is inevitable, struggle is an option.

Co-Director, New Media & the Global Diaspora Symposium, RWU October  
2007 - http://faculty.rwu.edu/roconnell
Co-Chair, AEJMC Visual Communication Division, "Best of the Web"  
Competition, August 2007
Webmaster, 21st Annual Visual Communication Conference, Estes Park  
Colorado, June 2007 - http://www.campviscomm.org
Webmaster, VisComm Division, National Communication Association
Web Officer/Editor, Media Ecology Association

office - 401-254-3249
h/o - 401-396-9375
cell - 508-560-6178
fax - 401-633-6699

From amberapple at msn.com  Fri Feb 16 14:28:28 2007
From: amberapple at msn.com (Peg Aloi)
Date: Fri Feb 16 14:34:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Forging Folklore: Witches, Pagans and Neo-Tribal
	Cultures (Harvard 5/3-5/5)
Message-ID: <BAY101-F3044725D6DCF1FF76843C1D4950@phx.gbl>

Forging Folklore: Witches, Pagans and Neo-Tribal Cultures

Thursday May 3rd through Saturday May 5th 2007

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Keynote Address: Ronald Hutton, University of Bristol (England)
Special Guest Speaker: R. J. Stewart


Call for Papers
Following upon the success of the 2006 conference =93Charming and Crafty:=
=20
Witchcraft and Paganism in Contemporary Media,=94 the Committee on Degree=
s in=20
Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University is pleased to present a two-=
day=20
colloquium on folklore and its uses and contexts within contemporary paga=
n=20
culture. Abstracts are sought which address the following topics (other=20
approaches welcome):

1. Ethnic folklore influences upon contemporary pagan practice (e.g.
    Celtic Druidism, Norse Paganism, Strega, Voodoo, etc.)
2. Folkloric tropes in ritual construction and/or authorship (agrarian
    cults, planting cycles, seasonal festivals, etc.)
3. Folk magic, folkways and folk beliefs appropriated for contemporary
    practice
4. Folklore vs. history and the creation of =93authenticity=94 in pagan
    culture
5. Contemporary pagan media and folklore
6. =93Creative=94 folklore: New oral tradition and faux lineage in the
    crafting of pagan identities
7. Folklore in media representation: film, TV, etc.

We welcome ideas for panels, which will be typically composed of three=20
presentations. Individual sessions will be twenty minutes including=20
questions. Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words by February=20
18th, 2007. Email submissions are preferred.

Please direct any questions or submissions to Hannah Johnston and Peg Alo=
i=20
at: charmingcrafty_at_aol.com.

This conference is hosted by the Committee on Degrees in Folklore &=20
Mythology at Harvard University, and is organized by Professor Stephen=20
Mitchell (Chair, Folklore & Mythology, Harvard), Peg Aloi (Lecturer in Me=
dia=20
Studies, Emerson College) and Hannah Johnston (Lecturer in Media Studies,=
=20
Emerson College).



From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb 16 19:33:59 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb 16 19:35:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Summer Institute on Citizenship and Migration
	(Berlin)
Message-ID: <00c501c7522b$5eb57490$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
25.06.2007-06.07.2007, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Deadline: 28 Feb 2007

SIAS Summer Institutes 2007-2008

The SIAS Summer Institutes are designed to support the development of
scholarly networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from
Europe and the United States. The program seeks to explore theoretical,
methodological, and empirical issues, promote the integration of
approaches and interpretations from various disciplines into the
participants' research, review the state of research in that discipline,
and identify promising areas for further research.

Each institute will accommodate twenty participants and will meet twice,
once in Europe and once in the United States. Participants will present
their research and collaborate on new projects at the seminars and
between the two meetings. Participants will be expected to attend both
meetings. The program will provide stipends and cover travel and lodging
costs for both the European and the American meetings. The institutes
are open to Ph.D. candidates and scholars who have received a Ph.D.
since 2001.

------------------------------------------------------------------------
SIAS Summer Institute 2007-2008 on "Citizenship and Migration"

Both Western Europe and the U.S.A. are in the midst of social changes
triggered by new migration patterns that put established conceptions of
national citizenship under unprecedented strain. Among the questions
about citizenship provoked by these changes are the following:

What can appropriately be demanded in the way of integration into to a
common civic culture of prospective citizens whose formative cultural
experience is often remote from and sometimes repugnant to the
established civic culture in the state to which they have migrated?

What are the parameters of just immigration policy to nations which are
vastly more prosperous than the ones from which most prospective
citizens come?

To what extent (if at all) can the legitimacy of national and
supra-national political institutions be established through citizen
loyalty under conditions of increasing pluralism and how (if at all) are
multiple loyalties to be accommodated without precipitating disabling
levels of political conflict?

We assume that such questions can only be adequately addressed on an
interdisciplinary basis that engages such fields as philosophy,
political science, law, sociology, history, and education. Therefore, we
welcome applicants from these and other fields whose scholarly interests
are broadly relevant to the questions we have identified.

Conveners:
Eamonn Callan, Professor of Education, Stanford University, USA

David Miller, Professor of Political Theory, University of Oxford,
Nuffield College, England


Application Procedure:

To apply, send the following, in English, to the appropriate address
below:

1. A completed application
2. A curriculum vitae
3. A statement of up to 1,000 words (not counting cited references)
detailing current research interests and past research and writing
related to the institute topic
4. A list of not more than five background readings potentially relevant
to all participants of the summer institute
5. One letter of recommendation

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Petria  Saleh
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstra?e 19, 14193 Berlin

030 89001 -116
030 89001 -100
psa@wiko-berlin.de 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 17 00:54:00 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 17 01:18:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (for student activists)
Message-ID: <001101c7525b$51aef2f0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Attention Student Activists!
     
The Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund <http://www.davisputter.org/>
has applications available for student activists who are
building the progressive movement and will be enrolled
in school during the 2007-08 academic year.  Our website
provides answers to questions about the Fund, the
application process, and the students we support.  If
you know of students working for peace and justice, or
if you have a list of activist contacts, please send
this announcement along and refer potential applicants
to the Fund's website:  www.davisputter.org.

Since 1961 the Davis-Putter Fund has provided need-based
grants to students who are able to do academic work at
the college level and are involved in building movements
for social and economic justice. Grantees are both
graduates and undergraduates enrolled in accredited
schools for the period covered by their grant.  Although
citizenship is not a consideration, applicants must live
in the United States and plan to enroll an accredited
program in the US in order to qualify

The maximum grant is $8,000 and may be considerably
smaller depending on the applicant's circumstances and
the funding available.  All the funds come from
individual donors and there are 25-30 grants awarded
each year.  Grants are for one year although students
may re-apply for subsequent years.

Applications and the supporting documents --
transcripts, a personal statement, two letters of
recommendation, a photograph, financial aid reports --
must be postmarked by April 1.  Final decisions are not
announced until July.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 17 12:12:18 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 17 12:29:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Research Network on Corruption Anthropology
Message-ID: <003901c752b8$f88cb6e0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Steven Sampson, Social Anthropology, Lund University, Lund, 
Sweden  steven.sampson@soc.Lu.se

I am in process of co-organizing an interdisciplinary research network 
for scholars interested in corruption and anti-corruption. This 
corruption research network will be called Corenet. Most of the board 
members (from Birmingham, Nottingham, Melbourne, Bremen, etc.) on the 
Corenet board are from political science, policy studies and development 
studies. At present, I am the only anthropologist. Much corruption 
"research" consists of documentation, measurement, and consulting 
reports on anti-corruption programs. This network would take a broader 
view, including issues of governance, trust-building, social capital, 
and analysis of the anti-corruption industry itself (which is my own 
interest). The site will include a database, mailing list, and a 2008 
research conference. We are also seeking funding.  If you, your 
colleagues, or doctoral students are  interested in these issues, please 
contact me at  steven.sampson@soc.Lu.se.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 20 19:47:37 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 20 19:48:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Workshop: Local Space and Social Conflict
Message-ID: <01bf01c75551$e55f04b0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Workshop: Local Space & Social Conflict

Wednesday, 30.5.2007, 12-18h
Center for Metropolitan Studies,
TU Berlin
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 3rd floor
Germany

Social struggles emerge at the local level in the form of conflicts over 
public and private spaces. The transformation of socio-spatial 
environments as a result of what is commonly called 'globalization' has 
led to a deepening of social divisions and a re-hierarchization of 
space. This scalar re-organization becomes particularly visible within 
large urban centers, since it is here that many of the policies and 
practices responsible for this transformation have been and are being 
implemented. In response to intensified interurban competition, policies 
have shifted towards the attraction of investment, tourism and the 
middle classes to the inner city, while simultaneously tightening 
control over the urban poor. Visible poverty as well as non-conformity 
to norms that advance the above policies is pressurized due to a fear of 
social instability.
This process is contested. Urban social movements increasingly address 
the local level. 'Anti-globalization' activists highlight the spaces in 
which a neoliberal political economy is implemented and is at its most 
vulnerable. Local grassroots initiatives turn against the exclusionary 
effects of the new urban politics (e.g. gentrification, privatization, 
or festivalization of urban cultural events) as well as more 
NIMBY-oriented local initiatives.

We want to explore these issues along the following questions: What are 
the mechanisms and larger social structures behind local struggles? How 
and why are certain local conflicts controlled, appeased, ignored or 
even fostered and induced by state intervention? Which new forms of 
exclusion are produced? How is and can exclusion and control be 
contested at the local level?
The focus of the workshop is on cities in Europe and North America. Our 
goal is to investigate the empirical richness of concrete conflicts, but 
always in relation to larger social and political-economic processes.

The workshop aims at providing PhD-students and Postdocs from any 
discipline with an interest in critical urban studies with the 
opportunity to present and discuss their work in an informal environment.

Preliminary schedule:
12.00 - 13.30 Introduction: Neil Smith
13.30 - 13.45 Coffee break
13.45 - 15.45 Paper presentation no. 1 + 2
15.45 - 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 - 18.00 Paper presentation no. 3 + 4
18.00 - open end: Food & drinks

To make a fruitful discussion possible, we want to restrict the number 
of participants to a maximum of 15-20 people. We therefore expect 
reliable registration. Texts will be circulated in advance and should be 
read by all participants in advance for an engaged and informed 
discussion. For those coming from outside Berlin, information about 
cheap hostels will be provided and we will try to find private 
accommodation with local students if needed.

If you want to participate please send an e-mail with brief CV and 
research interests. If you are interested in doing a 20-minute paper 
presentation please include an abstract.

Bas van Heur, bas.vanheur@metropolitanstudies.de
Jenny K?nkel, jenny.kuenkel@metropolitanstudies.de
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Feb 20 19:51:54 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Feb 20 19:53:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 NEWS: New Study Details Devastating Effects of Eminent Domain Abuse
 on African Americans
Message-ID: <01d001c75552$82bc82a0$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

New Study Details Devastating Effects of Eminent Domain Abuse on African 
Americans
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
CONTACT: John Kramer; Lisa Knepper
February 14, 2007

Arlington, Va.-"Eminent domain has become what the founding fathers sought 
to prevent:  a tool that takes from the poor and the politically weak to 
give to the rich and politically powerful," concludes Dr. Mindy Fullilove in 
her new report released today titled, "Eminent Domain & African Americans: 
What is the Price of the Commons?"

Eminent Domain & African Americans is the first in a new series of 
independently authored reports published by the Institute for Justice, 
Perspectives on Eminent Domain Abuse, which will examine the different 
aspects of eminent domain abuse from the vantage point of noted national 
experts.  The release of this inaugural report is particularly timely this 
month, as millions around the nation learn about African American history.

In this study, Dr. Fullilove, a research psychiatrist at the New York State 
Psychiatric Institute and a professor of clinical psychiatry and public 
health at Columbia University, examines the effects of eminent domain abuse 
on the African American community.  Focusing specifically on the Federal 
Housing Act (FHA) of 1949, Dr. Fullilove finds that "[b]etween 1949 and 
1973 . 2,532 projects were carried out in 992 cities that displaced one 
million people, two-thirds of them African American," making blacks "five 
times more likely to be displaced than they should have been given their 
numbers in the population."
Although urban renewal under the FHA was discontinued in 1973, Dr. Fullilove 
reported "the tools of urban renewal had been honed through 20 years of 
projects.  Politicians and developers found that they could repackage 
eminent domain and government subsidies in many new ways, facilitating the 
taking of land for 'higher uses.'"

Dr. Fullilove shares the story of David Jenkins-who lost his Philadelphia 
home to urban renewal in the 1950s-to illustrate the devastating impacts of 
forced displacement.  "Within these neighborhoods there existed social, 
political, cultural, and economic networks that functioned for both 
individual and common good," explains Dr. Fullilove.  "These networks were 
the 'commons' of the residents, a system of complex relationships, shared 
activities, and common goals"-the loss of which cannot be replaced or 
remedied.

"What the government takes from people is not a home, with a small 'h', but 
Home in the largest sense of the word:  a place in the world, a community, 
neighbors and services, a social and cultural milieu, an economic anchor 
that provides security during the ups and downs of life, a commons that 
sustains the group by offering shared goods and services," continues Dr. 
Fullilove.
"Dr. Fullilove's pioneering research reinforces the need for state and 
federal legislative reforms of eminent domain laws," said Steven Anderson, 
director of the Castle Coalition, which helps homeowners nationwide fight 
eminent domain abuse.  The Castle Coalition is a grassroots organization 
coordinated by the Institute for Justice, which litigated the Kelo eminent 
domain case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 2005.  Anderson said, "Property 
owners nationwide-particularly minorities, as evidenced by this paper-will 
remain vulnerable to seizures by tax-hungry governments for land-hungry 
developers until the use of eminent domain is reined in and limited to only 
true public uses."

A recent example of eminent domain targeting African American communities 
can be found in Riviera Beach, Fla.  Despite the state's new restrictions on 
eminent domain, city officials are pursuing a plan to remove thousands of 
mostly low-income, African American residents from their waterfront homes 
and businesses to make way for a luxury housing and yachting complex.  The 
Institute for Justice is representing property owners there who want to 
protect their rights and save what rightfully belongs to them.
In addition to her clinical and teaching duties, Dr. Fullilove is the author 
of Root Shock:  How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We 
Can Do About It, which takes a powerful look at the effects of urban renewal 
on African Americans.  She coined the term "root shock" to describe the 
devastating effects of forced displacement. 

From rebecca24 at usa.net  Wed Feb 21 18:21:25 2007
From: rebecca24 at usa.net (Rebecca Prentice)
Date: Wed Feb 21 23:31:18 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AAA Embodying Labour: Fieldwork as (at) Work
Message-ID: <283LBusNE9694S06.1172082085@cmsweb11.cms.usa.net>

Call for Papers

Proposed Panel for the AAA Annual Meeting, November 28-December 2, 2007, 
Washington DC


Embodying Labor:  Fieldwork as (at) Work

The workplace is an increasingly critical site of ethnographic inquiry, where
the processes of globalization, neoliberalism, and late capitalist expansion
intersect with everyday employment practices and human labor.  As fieldsites
shift from "communities" to factories, malls, workshops and offices, how might
fieldwork in the workplace and the embodiment of labor by anthropologists
contribute to the redefinition of "the field" in research practice?

This panel aims to bring together a wide range of scholars who have made "the
workplace" their fieldsite with an eye to addressing just such a question.  In
factories, retail outlets, and export-processing zones, anthropologists probe
questions of a global nature through grounded ethnographic practices in the
particular sites - workplaces - where the meanings and possibilities of "the
global" become manifest.  Employment as fieldwork redefines an
anthropologist's sense of the "work" of research, through the internalization
of particular spatial and temporal disciplines, physical movements, moral
economies, and forms of sociality.  Our panel explores some of the theoretical
and methodological dimensions of workplace-centered ethnographic projects,
through a focus on the embodied subjectivities, postures, and practices
required of the anthropologist who takes on the role of "worker."

Specific questions which this panel plans to address include:

* What are the challenges and traps of workplace ethnography?  How does
contribution to the functioning of the workplace through employment "work on"
the researcher's perspective and subjectivity?

* How does participant observation in the workplace confront our most
"ingrained dispositions"?  To what extent can the embodied subjectivity of the
researcher become an instrument of inquiry?  How do our emotional experiences
in the workplace, our friendships and attachments, relationships of hierarchy
and authority, affect us as both researchers and as persons?

* What is the role of payments, wages, and other forms of compensation in
shaping and informing the experiences of employment as fieldwork practice? 

* What are the politics and ethics of workplace research and covert
anthropology?  What distinguishes anthropology from investigative journalism
and other forms of embedded inquiry and reportage?

* Geographies of the workplace: where does the workplace begin and end
spatially, temporally, and psychologically?  How are workplaces used and what
are the implications of describing their  usage?  How do these sites contest
fixed notions of "the workplace" and contribute to our understanding of work
itself?

* Exit strategies: How does work linger on the body, both physically and
emotionally?

* How does "working" as a form of participant observation figure within our
accounts of fieldwork, and our interpretations of the field? 


If you are interested in participating on this panel, please email an abstract
to Gavin Whitelaw (gavin.whitelaw@yale.edu) and Rebecca Prentice
(r.j.prentice@sussex.ac.uk), by March 4.







From eveline.duerr at ethno.uni-freiburg.de  Mon Feb 19 05:29:46 2007
From: eveline.duerr at ethno.uni-freiburg.de (Eveline Duerr)
Date: Wed Feb 21 23:32:48 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ICAES 2008 - call for papers
Message-ID: <web-81787986@uni-freiburg.de>

Call for papers
Creative Capacity: Cultural Diversity as Potential and
Problem in South Pacific Cities
Convenor: Eveline D?rr

Academic Session for the Commission on Urban Anthropology,
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences (ICAES): Humanity, Development and Cultural
Diversity, Kunming, China, July 15-23, 2008

Cities have been identified as key centres of intercultural
encounters and dialogues, constituting compact spaces where
the myriad facets of interculturality become manifest. This
is particularly evident in cities of Australasia and the
island countries of the South Pacific, where exchange,
mobility and diversity have been enduring and crucial
features since historical times. Globalisation processes
intensified these characteristics and contemporary city
dwellers are mobile across urban spaces and beyond national
boundaries, creating wide ranging transnational networks
which transport powerful imaginaries of homelands, distant
places, interpretations of modernity as well as goods,
services and remittances. Cities also offer a range of
choices in lifestyles and are places of imagined
modernities which affect generations and gender
constructions. 
In 2001, cultural diversity was acknowledged for the first
time as ?the common heritage of humanity? by the UNESCO?s
Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity. The
articulation and adoption of further declarations on
cultural plurality reflect its increasing significance for
political agendas worldwide and defines it as a
characteristic of humanity. Following these lines, this
proposed session critically reviews current notions and
implications of cultural diversity in cities from broadly
three different angles: representation, cultural politics
and spatial perception.
 
The representation of harmonious multiculturalism and
plurality as a political vision advocating tolerance and
offering possibilities is part of neo-liberal aspirations
and economic globalisation. In this vein, creative
celebrations of cultural identities find expression in
performances, re-invented rituals and other colourful
representations. Cultural diversity can also be
conceptualised as economic value adding to the seemingly
timeless exotic flair of the South Pacific as often
suggested in Western imaginations. However, these cultural
politics and performances may not result in social
integration but rather may produce conflicts, segregation,
deprivation, discrimination, discourses on cultural
pollution and other forms of social exclusion. These
dynamics are often recognised as part of the relationship
between minority groups and the dominant society but they
can also characterise relations among diverse minority
groups competing in the urban context. Concepts of
indigeneity are reformulated as political instruments or as
controversies over the legal implication of firstness
challenging claims to group specific rights, the
universality of human rights and access to scarce
resources. Changing cultural compositions require also a
political response in terms of revised urban policies and
good governance strategies. Particular attention is given
to urban conditions and adjustments for social justice and
sustainable development. Increasing cultural diversity
alters also the ways of conceiving urban space. Dynamic
processes of placemaking are driven by diverse
interpretations and uses of the urban environment and the
way space is appropriated and re-conceptualised by cultural
specific strategies. 
Comparative and reflective anthropological research based
on fieldwork contributes to the understanding and analyzing
of these essential urban challenges. Papers addressing
these aspects in contemporary societies are welcome.

Please email your abstract (ca. 200 words) accompanied by
information about the author (name, affiliation) to
Eveline.Duerr@aut.ac.nz. Deadline for paper proposals is
July 31st 2007. For more information about the ICAES
conference see http://www.icaes2008.org

From karpouzi341 at yahoo.com  Tue Feb 20 05:40:50 2007
From: karpouzi341 at yahoo.com (nat a)
Date: Wed Feb 21 23:33:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED - Up from the ashes: Creativity and
 conservatism in rebuilding after disasters
In-Reply-To: <E1HHjxw-000456-93@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <20070220134050.99154.qmail@web34113.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS-EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 1, 2007
   
  Up from the ashes: Creativity and conservatism in rebuilding after disasters
   
  Wars, earthquakes, and other calamities can destroy homes and public buildings instantaneously, but in many cases, the inhabitants survive.  Whether in Late Bronze Age Greece, Nero?s Rome, or 19th century Chicago, the choices made concerning rebuilding can reflect not only the immediate physical and psychological effects of the disaster, but can also illuminate ways in which survivors identify themselves in relation to their past and future, as well as how they view themselves within political and ideological spheres of the community.  Thus, the shape of the new city often reflects aspects of the old, in a way that is influenced by many factors, including the rate of survival from the disaster, the nature of authority, the desire to prevent future disasters, and the community?s reaction to the traumatic event or events which destroyed their environment.  Cities that remain derelict also present an opportunity to clarify the relationship of survivors to their former homes.
  Whether a site is left in ruins or relocated to a more secure place, we can still learn much about the community?s perception of the town and of the disaster.  This colloquium invites student papers from all time periods, addressing the archaeology of rebuilding urban and village environments after natural and manmade disasters.  We welcome papers examining the effects of memory, trauma, and ideology in establishing the post-disaster shape of cities, as well as studies of the archaeological evidence for the changing topography of urban environments.  
   
  This colloquium will be the fifth annual paper session organized by the Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) of the Archaeological Institute of America.  It is intended not only to provide expanded opportunities for student presentations at the Annual Meeting but also to showcase innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship.  Under the title ?Up from the ashes: Creativity and conservatism in rebuilding after disasters? the organizers will submit the selected papers as a colloquium session to the next annual meeting of the AIA (January 3-6, 2008, Chicago).  All papers in the colloquium will be subject to acceptance by the AIA Program for the Annual Meeting Committee, in accordance with standard procedures.  
   
  The SAIG would like to remind all interested students that it is possible for an individual to submit papers for both a colloquium session and an open paper session at the AIA annual meetings.  The latter is automatically withdrawn from consideration if the former is accepted. 
   
  Please send a CV and an abstract of no more than 250 words by March 1, 2007 to both session organizers, Lyra Monteiro (lmonteir@umich.edu) and Natalie Abell (abelln@email.uc.edu).  In keeping with the regulations of the AIA, we will accept only electronic submissions. All abstracts must conform to AIA guidelines (see the American Journal of Archaeology style guidelines, published in AJA 104:3-24, or the Annual Meeting Section of the AIA website; esp. ??3.1-8, 6.5., www.archaeological.org).  If the colloquium is accepted by the Program for the Annual Meeting Committee all whose papers are included must be members of the AIA in good standing by the time of the meeting.

 
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From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Feb 23 13:45:36 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Feb 23 13:46:19 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]PhD Summer School: Technologies and their Environments:
	The Circulation of Materials, People and Knowledge (Darmstadt)
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From: Mikael Hard <hard@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de>

INVITATION

to the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Summer School

Technologies and their Environments:
The Circulation of Materials, People, and Knowledge in 20th-Century Europe

organized by
the Graduate School "Topology of Technology"
and the International Collaborative Network "Tensions of Europe"

This interdisciplinary Ph.D. summer school explores the embedding of 
modern technologies in their environments through concepts such as 
"circulation," "metabolism," and "ubiquity." Focusing on 20th-century 
Europe, it investigates how technology has become so closely 
intertwined with its surroundings that the old distinction between 
culture and nature no longer seems to make sense. Rivers like the Rhine 
have been turned into traffic arteries, and Scandinavian forests have 
been transformed into plantations. To supply Europe with fresh tomatoes 
and masses of tourists with fresh water, Andalusian wells are nowadays 
drilled up to 1 km deep and surface water is being piped in from ever 
more distant areas. Quickened by the globalization of the world's 
economy and the internationalization of engineering knowledge, 
technologies now span the world and threaten to reduce the earth to 
little more than a source of raw materials. Fresh air and water-what in 
Europe used to be called "common goods"-are not only becoming 
increasingly rare, but also increasingly commercialized.

The summer school explicitly problematizes and historicizes these 
developments. It asks how the situation just described has evolved and 
by what means these negative developments may be arrested or deflected. 
Its focus lies on 20th-century Europe, but comparisons with other parts 
of the globe will also be undertaken and the successive globalization 
of environmental problems will be discussed.

The one-week course takes familiar discourses as its point of 
departure. For example, critical philosophers, historians, and 
sociologists have for some time now analyzed our dependence on 
technology by speaking of a "second nature," and concerned scientists 
and engineers have tried to reduce the environmental impact" of 
production processes and products. In technology studies concepts such 
as "infrastructure," "system," and "network" have been applied to 
analyze the close relationship between technology and society, and in 
environmental studies the impact of our lifestyle has been investigated 
by means of a concept like "ecological footprint."

The organizers of the summer school acknowledge the importance of these 
approaches, but wish to go one step further. By exploring the 
potentials of the so-called spatial turn in the social sciences and the 
humanities, they hope to contribute both theoretically and 
methodologically to the development of a "topology of technology." This 
implies that we encourage applications from Ph.D. students who deal 
with spatial aspects of technology. Students who are interested in the 
potential of a topological approach for understanding the technological 
integration of Europe are especially welcome.

The organizers invite Ph.D. candidates from various fields to spend one 
week together to discuss the historical origins and future challenges 
of a system that has become increasingly problematic to sustain. Only 
by combining insights and perspectives from several disciplines will it 
be possible to increase our awareness of the increasing omni-presence 
of technological systems and products in various environments. The 
program is deliberately interdisciplinary, and the teachers come from 
history, sociology, and engineering.

Time and Place

The summer school will be held 8?13 July, 2007, at the Jakobsberg 
monastery, beautifully situated, overlooking the Rhine valley, ca. 40 
km west of Frankfurt (www.klosterjakobsberg.de).

Teachers

The course will be taught by teachers from three countries and representing
three disciplines:
- Sabine Barles, Paris, France
- Cornelis Disco, Twente, Netherlands
- Mikael H?rd, Darmstadt, Germany
- Dieter Schott, Darmstadt, Germany
- Wilhelm Urban, Darmstadt, Germany
- Heike Weber, Darmstadt, Germany
All teachers will be present throughout the whole week and will, in 
addition
to giving a plenary lecture, be available for group discussions and for
participation in the presentation of the individual PhD projects.

Program Structure

The topics of the five days are:
Monday, 9 July: Circulation and Metabolism as Analytic Concepts
Tuesday, 10 July: Resource Management in Europe and Overseas
Wednesday, 11 July: The Industrialization of Nature
Thursday, 12 July: Streams of Waste in the Consumer Society
Friday, 13 July: The Spatial Turn in Technology Studies: Summary and 
Outlook

The program consists of:
- plenary lectures (45 min.) given by the teachers, and additional time 
(30 min.) for questions and discussion
- group discussions (45 min.) on the basis of the lectures and 
pre-circulated reading material (a total of 6 groups, each joined by 
one of the teachers, minutes to be kept by one participant)
- presentations (20 min.) by PhD candidates of individual projects (in 
2 parallel sessions), followed by discussion (20 min.)
- an excursion on the Rhine
- shared meals and social events

Requirements and Credits
All participating PhD candidates are expected
- to read the provided set of texts (ca. 300 pages) in preparation for 
the course
- to take an active part in discussions
- to give a 20-minute oral presentation in English on their 
dissertation theme

In addition, those students who wish to receive a diploma need to 
submit a 15-page (6,000 words) paper in English on one aspect of their 
dissertation or on a topic discussed in the course before 15 Sept., 
2007. Students who fulfill all these requirements will receive a 
diploma for 6 ECTS credits (work load: 180 hours) from the organizers.

Organizers

The summer school is organized by the graduate school "Topology of 
Technology," a newly established program at Darmstadt University of 
Technology, funded by the German Research Council (DFG) 
(www.ifs.tu-darmstadt.de/gradkoll-tdt), and by the international 
collaborative network and research program "Tensions of Europe," 
coordinated by the Foundation for the History of Technology at 
Eindhoven University of Technology (www.histech.nl/tensions). The goal 
of the interdisciplinary graduate school is to improve our knowledge of 
the spatial aspects of technical change and usage. In the Tensions of 
Europe research network the ambition is to get a better understanding 
of the emergence of Europe by using concepts such as circulation and 
appropriation of technologies and knowledge.

Costs

The participation fee amounts to 195 ?, incl. (subsidized) 
accommodation for five nights in a double-room and full board, but 
excl. travel costs. All additional local costs will be carried by 
"Topology of Technology" and "Tensions of Europe." Ph.D. candidates who 
are not able to raise the necessary amount for travel and lodging may 
apply for funds.

Formalities

Ph.D. candidates interested in the topic are invited to apply. An 
application, including a curriculum vitae and a one-page abstract of 
the Ph.D. project, should be submitted no later than Tuesday, 10 April 
2007, to topologie@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de. Applications for travel grants 
or fee waivers have to be accompanied by a declaration of the 
candidate's economic situation and institutional affiliation.

The summer school is planned for 34 participants. In case more students 
apply, the organizers reserve for themselves the right to make a 
suitable selection. Please direct any questions you might have to 
Mikael H?rd (hard@ifs.tu-darmstadt.de, tel. +49-61 51 16 30 97) or 
Dieter Schott (schott@pg.tu-darmstadt.de, tel. +49-61 51 16 20 44).

Mikael H?rd
Darmstadt University of Technology
From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 24 14:23:10 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 24 14:24:09 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Engaging the City presents the Lost Highway Expedition (Kyong
 Park lecture, NY)
Message-ID: <001b01c75849$3c48f660$0300a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

ENGAGING THE CITY presents

LOST HIGHWAY EXPEDITION

A lecture by
KYONG PARK

Tuesday, February 27, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street (between Canal & Hester)
Tel 212.995.1774

Seating is limited. RSVP dfabricius@earthlink.net

>From July 30 to August 24, 2006, a collection of individuals from three 
continents traveled together through Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, 
Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo in the Lost Highway 
Expedition. The general path of this 'socio-aesthetic movement' was to 
discover new ideas and practices of Balkanization. The importance of 
understanding Balkanization has been underestimated, as we begin to see more 
and more of such fragmentation in the proliferation of economic, social and 
cultural enclaves, extraterritorial phenomena, shrinking cities, global 
cities, "tiger mappings" of political territories, gerrymandering of voting 
districts and other apartheids.

 About 100 travelers joined more than 200 participants from the region, 
moving as a network of smaller groups with paths over a wider area. The 
participants often moved from one group to another, and entered and left the 
expedition at any point. The Lost Highway Expedition was intentionally 
under-programmed to become an anarchistic practice of cultural production. 
By motivating the participants to define the project and its programs, it 
was also an experiment in the behavior of an emergent swarm. As a 
decentralized and non-hierarchical network, it was designed to produce 
multiple process and independent projects after the expedition - i.e., 
exhibitions, forums, publications, workshops.

Kyong Park was the founding director of Centrala Foundation for Future 
Cities in Rotterdam (2005), the editor of Urban Ecology: Detroit and Beyond 
(2005), a co-curator for "Shrinking Cities" in Berlin (2002-2004), a 
founding member of the International Center for Urban Ecology in Detroit 
(1999-2001), a curator of the Kwangju Biennale in South Korea (1997) and the 
founder/director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York 
(1982-98).

Lost Highway Expedition is a project by Centrala Foundation and the School 
of Missing Studies. Its founding members are Azra Aksamija, Katherine Carl, 
Ana Dzokic, Ivan Kucina, Marc Neelen, Kyong Park, Marjetica Potrc and Srdjan 
Jovanovic Weiss, together with partners in the cities of the Lost Highway 
Expedition.

Engaging the City is an independent monthly lecture series that serves as a 
venue for individuals in a variety of professions who engage the 
extraordinary and exciting complexity of contemporary cities in novel ways. 
Lecturers are from the fields of architecture, urban planning, and urban 
design, but also art, philosophy, film, and activism.

This lecture is supported by The New York State Council on the Arts
and The Four of Babylon 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sat Feb 24 14:48:16 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Feb 24 14:49:06 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff,
	Public Things (Toronto)
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Out of the Ordinary: Urban Humdrum, Everyday Stuff, Public Things
Date: Febuary 28, 2007

Oblivious to grand theories, city dwellers go about their lives simply. They 
gamble and pray, drive and shop, work and rest: each routine taken for 
granted. Out of the ordinary emerges a study of urban culture. We are 
seeking Sociologies of Ordinary Culture that stop to consider humdrum habits 
as public acts, proposing that collective life is produced through everyday 
things that at first seem uninteresting. Done week-in-week-out: society is 
built upon the leisurely plod of the workaday. The collective rites of 
public life are, perhaps, precariously reliant on the mundane. Directly or 
indirectly, papers will rescue these routines from obscurity, transforming 
them instead into the tools city dwellers use to craft sense out of their 
milieu.

Papers may include but are not limited to the following topics:

- Driving and traffic
- Shopping and consumption
- Scanning, browsing, reading
- Fun and free time
- Cleaning, grooming, clothing
- Neighbors and strangers
- Watches, clocks and being on time
- Policing, inspecting, enforcing
- Maintenance and repair
- Garbage and recycling
- Lotteries and Prayers
- Coffee, Alcohol, and Cigarettes

Please submit your name, affiliation, paper title and a 300 word abstract to 
Paul Moore (psmoore@ryerson.ca) or Diego Llovet (dllovet@yorku.ca) by 
February 28th, 2007. Confirmations will be given by March 5th, 2007.

Panels are part of the annual meetings of the Canadian Sociological 
Association (CSA), in conjunction with the Congress for the Humanities and 
Social Sciences, in 2007 hosted by the University of Saskatchewan in 
Saskatoon. The conference will take place between May 29 and June 1, 2007.

Diego Llovet
Culture of Cities Project and
PhD Student
Department of Sociology
York University
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3

Email: dllovet@yorku.ca 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Feb 25 14:44:14 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Feb 25 14:45:10 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA Panel on Local Islams
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AAA Panel on Local Islams

The topic of 'local Islams' is an important one to take up and develop, 
particularly in the context of non-majority Muslim societies. I would 
like to be part of, or help organize, a comparative panel on the 
differing manifestations and belief structures that exist in the 
diaspora vis a vis public political culture and 'national values.'
Here, I would like to push beyond the Islam and democracy compatibility 
question or the integration/assimilation/fit question and examine from 
a local level how Islam is lived, understood, debated, and how this 
affects questions of public recognition, voices, policy and change.
That is, how is Islam lived differently in different countries and what 
are the links that bridge the local communities to nationhood as 
historically understood? How does Islam change the nature of public 
political discourse and how does the public political discourse change 
the negotiations of individuals in the grassroots? What can we learn 
from a comparative view on this subject?

The final abstract may change, given the paper ideas that are 
submitted. Please contact Melanie Adrian at adrian@fas.harvard.edu if 
you are interested in participating. It would help if you would send a 
draft of an abstract or a description of your paper. Please do so by 
March 15, as the AAA deadline is fast approaching.


Melanie Adrian
PhD Candidate
Social Anthropology and the Study of Religion Harvard University

Tel: 617.996.9100

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Feb 26 16:46:09 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Feb 26 16:51:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: World History, Migration, Immigration and Travel
	(ABC-CLIO Encyclopedia Entries)
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Call for Authors:

ABC-CLIO is in the process of developing a 21-volume Encyclopedia of
World History that should prove to be a central reference work in this
emerging field. We are seeking interested scholars to prepare 600-1200
word articles with a global perspective in the areas of World History,
Migration, Immigration, and Travel.

Authors will receive writing credits and free access to the online
version of the completed encyclopedia (List value: $1800). Authors who
contribute 3,000 words or more will also receive $300 in credit towards
purchase of ABC-CLIO books. Due date: April 27.

If you are interested in writing 1 or more of the entries listed below,
please send a c.v. to Fred Nadis and/or Monique Vallance:

FNadis@abc-clio.com
MVallance@abc-clio.com

Thank you.
Yours,

Fred Nadis, Ph.D.
Writer-Editor
ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Drive
Santa Barbara, CA 93117-5505
phone: (805) 968-1911 x132
toll free: (800) 368-6868 x132
fax: (805) 685-9685


WORLD HISTORY ENCYCLOPEDIA

OPEN TOPICS - MIGRATION AND TRAVEL
Era 9 ERA 9 (1945-PRESENT)
Topic 3 Migration to/from/within Latin America 700
Topic 3 Migration to North America 700
Topic 3 Refugees from Ecological Disasters 700
Topic 3 Guest Worker Programs and Migration (W. Eur, U.S., Mid East,
Asia) 1000
Topic 3 Refugee Exploitation 900
Topic 4 Response to Global Migration
Topic 4 Border Militarization 1000
Topic 4 Immigrants' Rights Advocacy, by Region 1000
Topic 4 Nomadic Peoples and Modern States 800

Era 8 ERA 8 1900-45
Topic 2 International Migrations
Intro Introduction 1000
Topic 2 Migration from Africa 1000
Topic 2 Migration to Europe 1000
Topic 2 Migration to Oceania 600
Topic 2 Jewish Diaspora 1000
Topic 3 Domestic Migrations
Intro Introduction 600
Topic 3 Within Europe 1000
Topic 3 Within Oceania 1000

Topic 4 Ethnic and Forced Migrations
Intro Introduction 600
Topic 4 Jews 1000
Topic 4 Refugees as a Phenomenon 600

Era 7 ERA 7 1750-1914
Topic 2 Forced Migrations:  Indigenous Peoples in the Americas,
Australia,
Topic 2 Penal Colonies in Australia 600
Topic 2 The Maori in New Zealand 600
Topic 3 Voluntary Emigration, 1750-1914
Intro Introduction 1500
Topic 3 Indian Emigration to Africa, Trinidad, Guyana, and the Indian
and Pacific 600
Topic 3 European Migration to Africa, Australia, and New Zealand 1000
1000
Topic 3 Jewish Migration to Palestine 600
Topic 3 Gold Rushes in Australia and California 700
Topic 4 Internal Migration in Europe and the Americas
Intro Introduction 1000
Topic 4 The Great Trek:  Boer Migration in southern Africa 600
Topic 4 The Lure of the Cities 1000
Topic 5 World Exploration, 1750-1914
Intro Introduction 1000
Topic 5 Explorations in Central and Southwest Asia 600 600
Topic 5 Exploration in Southeast Asia 600 ABC CLIO (SE Asia) 600
Topic 5 European Explorers in the Pacific 1000
Topic 5 The Mapping of Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania 600
Topic 5 Polar Expeditions 1000

Era 6 ERA 6 1450-1770
Topic 2: New Channels for Cultural Contact and Exchange
Overview: Expanding the Sealanes 500
Topic 2 Dhimmis, "the People of the Book": Christian and Jewish traders
in the Ottoman Empire 750
Topic 2 Safavid Shi'ism as Isolationist Force in Central Asia 750
Topic 2 From the Manor to the City: Continued Urbanization in Europe
750
Topic 2 Island Migration: Carribean Ocean Patterns 750
Topic 2 The Portuguese Discovery of Australia 500
Topic 3: Agents of Contact
Overview Overview 750
Topic 3 The Plano da India 750
Topic 3 A Great Wave: Chinese Migration Manchuria, Szechuan, Taiwan, and
the Southwest 750
Topic 4:  Forced Migration: Enslavement and the Slave Trade
Overview: Traditions and Innovations in Slavery
500
Topic 4 Maroon Communities in the Americas and Caribbean 500

ERA 5 ERA 5 1000CE-1500 CE
Overview A World on the Move: The Growing Interconnectedness of
Peoples
Vignette The Pilgrim from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma 1000
Topic 1 The Road to Sanctification: Pilgrimage Routes
Overview Old and New Pieties; Old and New Pilgrimage Routes
500
Topic 1 New Routes to Mecca 500
Topic 2 Peoples on the Move
Overview The Passage of Willing and Unwilling Migrants 500
Topic 2 North African and Arab Migrants to Sub-Saharan Africa 500
Topic 2 The Continuing Drang Nach Osten: Colonists into Eastern Europe
500
Topic 2 Slave Trade across the World 1500
Topic 2 Moving Sugar Plantation Laborers to the Atlantic Islands
500
Topic 2 The Forced Migration of Incan Subjects 500
Topic 2
Topic 3 The Vicissitudes of Traditional Avenues for Exchange 1000
Overview Traditional and New Caravan Routes and Sea Lanes:
1000-1500 500
Topic 3 Caravans across the Sahara 600
Topic 3 From the Swahili Coast to the Straits of Malacca: The Indian
Ocean Ecumene 1000
Topic 3 Long-distance Trade Routes in the Americas: Turquoise Routes and
Inca Trails 750
Topic 3
Topic 4 New Avenues for Cultural Contact and Exch
Overview Opening  New Routes: 1000-1500 500
Topic 4 Chinese Oceanic Commerce in the Age of Southern Song 600

ERA 4 ERA 4 (300CE-1000CE)
Topic 1 Migration and Ethnic Modification
Intro 1. Overview 1000
Topic 1 2. Migration and Ethnic Change in Early Medieval  West Africa
400
Topic 1 Polynesian Dispersals 1000
Topic 1 Settlement of Madagascar 750
Topic 4 4. Trade Diasporas on The Indian Ocean Littoral 400
Topic 5 Pilgrimages and Civilization
Intro 1. Overview 1000
Topic 5 3. The World of Buddhist Pilgrimages 1000
Topic 6 Modes of Travel in Medieval times
Intro 1. Overview 500
Topic 6 2. Overland Transportation 1000
Topic 6 3. Canal and river transport in China 1000

ERA 3 ERA 3 (1000 BCE - 300 CE)
Topic 1 Introduction 500
Greek exploration and colonization of North Africa, western
Mediterranean, and Black Sea 600
Expansion of the Maya into the lowlands and highlands 900
Formation of the indigenous nomadic peoples of the North
American plains 500
Nonm-Arawak emmigration into Caribbean-sidebar
Topic 2 Armies and Associated Travelers
Introduction 500
Achaemenid and Parthian military and administrative movements
around the Near East 1000
Topic 3 Voluntary travelers
Introduction 500
Pilgrimage in the ancient Near East 500
Topic 4 Involuntary Migrants
Introduction 500
Refugees from the Cuiculco eruption 300

ERA 2 ERA 2 (4000 BCE - 1000 BCE0
Intro Thematic Introduction 750
Topic 1 Voluntary Sojourners (Strangers in a Strange Land)
Topic 1 4. Bronze Age Traders
Topic 1 5. Regulating the Movement of Foreigners
Topic 2 Armies and peoples on the move
Topic 2 2. Early Bantu in West Africa 1,500
Topic 2 3. The Bantu Language
Topic 2 4. Bantu Agriculture and Subsistence Regimes
Topic 2 5. The Bantu Migration
Topic 2 Movements in Mesopotamia 3,000
Topic 2 1. The Uruk Expansion 1,000
Topic 2 2. The Kassites 1,000
Topic 2 The Indo-Europeans
Topic 2 2. What Happened to Harrapan Civilization? 600
Topic 2 3. The Homeland Problem 600
Topic 2 4. Horses and Chariots
Topic 2 5. The Spread of Indo-European Languages 600
Topic 4 Avenues and routes of travel
Topic 4 1. Navigating the Nile
Topic 4 Crossroads of Europe and Asia: Lapis from Afghanistan and Amber
from the Balkans
Topic 4 3. The Mediterranean 600
Topic 4 5. Southeast Asia 600
Topic 4 6. The Red Sea 600
Topic 4 7. The Indian Ocean 600
Topic 4 8.  Jade Routes to China 600
Topic 5 Modes of transportation
Topic 5 2. river craft
Topic 6 The arts and travel
Topic 6 3. Mesopotamian Accounts of Foreign Lands
Topic 6 4. Late Mycenaean Travel in The Odyssey
Topic 6 5. Travel in the Vedas
Topic 8 The Concept of the Frontier
Topic 8 3. The Indo-Aryan Frontier
Topic 8 4. The Chinese Frontier: Beyond the Wei River

ERA 1 ERA 1
Topic 1 Topic Out of Africa-the first time
Topic 1 1. The adaptive radiation of Homo erectus
Topic 1 a. the genetic evidence for a coastal migration into SE Asia
Topic 1 2. A failed migration into Europe by Homo antecessor
Topic 1 3. H. heidelbergensis moves across Africa into the Middle East
and Europe
Topic 2 Topic: Out of Africa-the second time
Topic 2 1. Homo sapiens moves across Africa and beyond
Topic 2 a. early humans at Skuhl and Qafzeh
Topic 2 2. Homo sapiens enters East and Southeast Asia
Topic 2 a. the colonization of Australia and New Guinea
Topic 2 3. What happened to Homo erectus in Asia?
Topic 2 a. the genetic contribution of H. erectus to H. sapiens in China
Topic 2 4. Into Europe and across central and northern Asia
From martasa at arts.ucla.edu  Sun Feb 25 19:49:38 2007
From: martasa at arts.ucla.edu (Marta E. Savigliano)
Date: Mon Feb 26 20:08:02 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Buenos Aires, Culture & Performance, Study Abroad Summer
	2007
Message-ID: <p06240825c207c27cbee9@[192.168.0.124]>

Please distribute widely
Tango and the "Macho" Cult

Summer Study Abroad in Buenos Aires, July 1 ? August 4, 2007

The GLOSAS (Global South Advanced Studies) Center 
and the University of Hawai?i Study Abroad 
Program invite applications for the 2007 summer 
session on 
<http://faculty.oxy.edu/tobin/buenosaires07.htm>Culture 
and Performance.  Two parallel 5-week intensive 
courses are offered:

<http://www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu/documents/BuenosAires07DNCE495course.doc> 
Tango, National Identity and Cultural 
Translations, Professor:  Marta Savigliano. 
Introduction to tango history, tango styles, 
movement analysis, and movement experience. 
This course explores the politics of popular 
culture, tracing tango?s travels from the 
brothels of Buenos Aires to the cabarets of Paris 
and the shako dansu clubs of Tokyo; from 
Hollywood screens to Finnish popular festivals to 
Broadway stages.  Films and texts will be used to 
take a critical look at exoticism and 
auto-exoticism.  Local and international 
struggles over tango?s meanings and 
representations will be analyzed and discussed 
including gender, sexuality, class, race, and 
national identity that interweave in the making 
of different tango styles, tango bodies, and 
tango communities. Tango studio classes (to learn 
tango argentino movement techniques as currently 
practiced in dance clubs or milongas) are an 
integral part of the course.  Studio classes, 
taught by professional tango dancers, will be 
offered three times a week at introductory and 
intermediate levels. (DNCE 495:  Topics in 
Dance-- 3 credits,  A-F only.)

<http://www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu/documents/BuenosAires07ANTH315course.doc> 
Machos: Latin American Masculinites, Professor: 
Jeff Tobin.  This course encourages students to 
think critically about the concept of machismo by 
reviewing a variety of ways of being manly 
throughout Latin America with a focus on Buenos 
Aires.  Case studies include men's roles in tango 
clubs, sames-sex tango practices, soccer fans, 
asado (Argentine barbecue), and the military 
repression of 1976-1983. (Anth 315:  Sex and 
Gender or WS 495: Selected Topics--3 credits, A-F 
only.)

Both courses are taught in English.  Course 
credits: 3 units each. Undergraduate and Graduate 
students are welcome to apply.  Credits towards 
degrees at any University are processed through 
University of Hawai?i Study Abroad Program.

Students interested in taking Spanish courses, at 
any level, as well as in taking Independent 
Courses not for credit should contact Marta 
Savigliano (martasa@arts.ucla.edu) or Jeff Tobin 
(tobin@oxy.edu) directly.

<http://www.wac.ucla.edu/person.php?pid=27>Marta 
E. 
<http://www.wac.ucla.edu/person.php?pid=27>Savigliano 
(UCLA) and <http://faculty.oxy.edu/tobin/>Jeffrey 
<http://faculty.oxy.edu/tobin/>Tobin (Occidental 
College), are professors and scholars 
specializing in the anthropology of Argentina, as 
well as gender and performance studies.  They 
will be assisted by local guest specialists in 
the field.

Facilities:  Library, computer lab (with 
broadband access), offices, and classroom are 
located in the GLOSAS (Global South Advanced 
Studies) Center in downtown Buenos Aires, two 
blocks away from the national Congress building 
and its Library.

Costs:  $3,707 (US dollars) including study 
abroad and instructional fees for 6 credits, 
library and computer lab access, supplies, shared 
accommodations, meals, laundry, airport transfer, 
subway passes, excursions, welcome and farewell 
dinners, health insurance, and International 
Student Identity Card.  Single accommodation is 
available with a $122 supplement.  Airfare and 
personal expenses are not included.  Housing is 
provided in centrally-located residence hotel, 
ten minutes subway ride from the GLOSAS center.

For admissions requirements and applications go 
to: <http://www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu/> 
www.studyabroad.hawaii.edu.  For poster go to: 
http://faculty.oxy.edu/tobin/buenosaires07.htm. 
For additional information contact:


Valerie Chong (<mailto:vchong@hawaii.edu>vchong@hawaii.edu)
  Jeff Tobin (<mailto:tobin@oxy.edu>tobin@oxy.edu)
  Marta Savigliano (<mailto:martasa@arts.ucla.edu>martasa@arts.ucla.edu )

Application Deadline March 12, 2007
-- 
Marta E. Savigliano, Ph.D.
Professor, World Arts and Cultures
University of California, Los Angeles















From MPolson at gc.cuny.edu  Tue Feb 27 15:22:06 2007
From: MPolson at gc.cuny.edu (Polson, Michael)
Date: Thu Mar  1 16:44:59 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Performing Urban Struggle--Thurs, Mar 1, 6:30PM--Grad Ctr,
	CUNY
Message-ID: <06B4E8BFED446D4CA5B3ED7DB3A3D4210153ED1C@MAILBE.acad.gc.cuny.edu>

Performing Urban Struggle

 

Thursday, March 1, 6:30 - 8:00pm

 

Elebash Recital Hall

The Graduate Center, CUNY

365 Fifth Ave (btwn 34th & 35th)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

No registration. Questions? 212-817-2005 / ch@gc.cuny

 

 

Bracketed by performances by Anu Yadav, whose one-woman show was
developed with and based on the stories of families who protested the
government-funded relocation and demolition of their public housing
project in Washington D.C., this interdisciplinary panel discussion will
explore the intersections between education and activism, between policy
making and poor people's movements. Discussants include Ira Shor,
Professor of Composition and Rhetoric at the Graduate Center, CUNY and
author of the recent 3-volume series on the late Paulo Freire, along
with activists Willie Baptist, Co-Coordinator of the University of the
Poor and Poverty Initiative Scholar in Residence at Union Theological
Seminary, and a representative from Picture the Homeless. The panel will
be moderated by Stephen Pimpare, Assistant Professor of Political
Science at Yeshiva College and author of the forthcoming The Indignant
Poor: A People's History of Poverty and Welfare. 

 

For more information see the website www.caperstheplay.com
<http://www.caperstheplay.com/>  or http://web.gc.cuny.edu/Humanities/ 

