From bvergara at sfsu.edu  Mon Jul  2 10:31:46 2007
From: bvergara at sfsu.edu (Benito Vergara)
Date: Mon Jul  2 12:31:02 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]research grant / call for papers / essay competition on
	urban studies, Berlin '08
Message-ID: <OF5BEC0CEA.F2A4D33E-ON8825730C.005ACCE9-8825730C.005ACCE9@sfsu.edu>


Urban Planet:
Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in Megacities


Essay Competition
Irmgard Coninx Research Grant 2008
Workshop and Conference in Berlin, 11-16 June 2008

International Essay Competition and Workshop organized by the Irmgard
Coninx Foundation, the Social Science Research Center Berlin and the
Humboldt-University Berlin.

Workshop participation in Berlin

50 successful applicants to the essay competition will be invited to
discuss their research with prominent scholars at some of Europe?s leading
research institutions. The workshop will take place at the Social Science
Research Center Berlin on 11 ? 16 June 2008.

Deadline for essay submission: 15 December 2007

Irmgard Coninx Research Grant

An international jury will award a three-months fellowship to three
participants to be used for research at the Social Science Research Center
Berlin, the Humboldt-University Berlin and the State library Berlin. The
Grant includes a monthly stipend of EUR 1,000 plus accommodation and its
winners will be invited to join a follow-up workshop in Berlin in
2008/2009.

Program details

In continuation of previous Roundtables on population politics and on
migration into cities, the Eight Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality
will focus on ?Collective Identities, Governance and Empowerment in
Megacities?.

These issues will be discussed in three workshops chaired. They will be
accompanied by evening lectures of prominent scholars and politicians such
as Mike Davis (author of ?Planet of Slums?) and Klaus T?pfer (former
Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme).

The Irmgard Coninx Foundation will cover travel and accommodation costs.

For details please visit our website: www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=117

For inquiries please contact us: info@irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de

Dr. Sabine Berking
Irmgard Coninx Stiftung
c/o Wissenschaftszentrum f?r Sozialforschung Berlin
Reichpietschufer 50
10785 Berlin
Tel:  0049 30 25491 411
Fax: 0049 30 25491 684
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jul 10 13:43:07 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 10 13:23:07 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: PhD Scholarship "Youths, Belonging and
	Citizenship"
Message-ID: <001c01c7c316$d8f462a0$0402a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

The Department of Cultural Geography at the University of
groningen has PhD scholarship for a project on 'youths,
belonging and citizenship'. The PhD candidate should be
able to begin working in Groningen from 01 January 2008.

Groningen is a very interesting city of approximately
180,000 people situated in the north of the Netherlands.
The city has a number of higher education institutions and
is characterized by a very active 'civic' life, with
regular public concerts and events in the central
square(s) and more than 180 cafes and pubs dotted
throughout the centrum. More than 45% of all journeys in
the city are completed by bicycle, and the city very
actively encourages sustainable transport.

The PhD would focus on the youths, belonging and
citizenship and fieldwork could be completed in a range of
settings, preferably Eastern Europe. Coursework and
Studies would be completed in English (although students
can also work in Dutch if they choose to do so). The
student would work with Dr. Bettina van Hoven and other
members of the department of Cultural Geography at the
University of Groningen. The department is part of the
Faculty of Spatial Sciences, which includes Economic
Geography, Cultural Geography, Planning, and Demography.
Further information about the faculty can be found at:
http://www.rug.nl/frw/faculteit/basiseenheden/index.

As for the financial side of the 3-year scholarship:
It pays 1422 euros per month. There is an additional
budget of 750 euros per year for international conference
costs and 100 euros for national ones.

For further information, please feel free to contact Dr.
Bettina van Hoven (B.van.Hoven@rug.nl).


-- 
-- 
C. Wilkinson

http://kyrgyzstan.neweurasia.net  - Blogging Central Asia

Room 354
+44 (0) 121 414 8242 (work)
+44 (0) 7904 185135 (mobile, no voicemail)

Ph.D candidate
Centre for Russian & East European Studies (ERI)
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.

www.crees.bham.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/wilkinson.htm
From wagner.laru at gmail.com  Tue Jul 10 20:14:14 2007
From: wagner.laru at gmail.com (laru)
Date: Tue Jul 10 15:14:20 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Intersections Blog Summer CFP: Migration and Environmental Change
Message-ID: <1d1ddcb90707101214r3afb1e3ci988f669d8055a5cf@mail.gmail.com>

For two whole months, until *10 **September*,* *we invite submissions to
Intersections on the topic of Migration and Environmental Change. Inspired
by his efforts, we have invited Fran?ois Gemenne of the Centre for Ethnic
and Migration Studies (CEDEM, www.cedem.ulg.ac.be) of the University of
Li?ge and the Centre for International Studies and Research (CERI,
www.ceri-sciences-po.org) at Sciences Po Paris, to contribute to this Summer
Special CFP:

As natural disasters and climate change frequently make headlines in the
media, their consequences on human settlements raise increasing concerns
from policy-makers and scholars alike. In particular, the possible
population movements that would be triggered by climate change have
attracted widespread attention, some predicting that up to 200 million
people could be displaced by 2050.

Despite these concerns, the intricate and complex linkages between
environment and migration remain poorly understood and under-researched. The
academic debate revolves around those contending that large refugee flows
will be triggered by environmental change in a near future, and those who
question the direct causality between environmental change and forced
migration, insisting on the multiple, intertwined factors leading to
migration. While the term 'environmental refugees' is gaining currency, the
need to better understand the nexus environment-migration has never been
more pressing, especially from an empirical point of view. How do
environmental factors interact with other factors in the migration decision?
How are these migrants dealt with by states and governments? What kind of
assistance do they need? Will an increase in environmental changes lead to
an increase of forced migrants? What kind of environmental changes trigger
migration?

As usual, we welcome all kinds of audio, visual and written production, as
well as commentary and debate, to be sent to intersectionsblog@gmail.com.
Thank you for your contributions,
The Editorial Team
From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jul 16 00:01:23 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jul 15 23:02:08 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Becoming Urban?: Investigating the P-S Landscape
Message-ID: <00b601c7c755$9c556c20$0602a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

For further information, please feel free to contact either Nerijus Milerius
(nerijus_miler@yahoo.com) or Benjamin Cope (b.cope@zacheta.art.pl )

Call For Papers 

Becoming Urban?: Investigating the P-S Landscape

We are calling for contributions in the realms of culture
studies, social studies, urban studies, media studies, architecture and
anthropology to the volume Becoming Urban?: Investigating the P-S Landscape.
This volume aims to explore the metamorphosing urban, rural, social and
media landscapes in the geographical space usually referred to as
'post-socialist', i.e. potentially from the Balkans to Vladivostok,
including all that lies between.

However, we are acutely aware that, especially in terms of an
investigation of questions related to urban forms, this territory was
constituted as other in relation to the developed urban territory of the
Western world well before the advent of communism. In addition, it is far
from certain that socialism or communism was a distinct form of urban
organisation or whether it just represented one branch of the modernist
urban project. Also, not only was the experience of socialism lived very
differently in the different countries usually grouped under the heading
'post-socialist', but we have now had at least 15 years of something
different: is it therefore accurate to label this territory under the
heading 'socialist' even in conjunction with the epithet 'post'?

Thus, we have chosen to opt for the title "P-S" which, although
representing the first letters of Post-Socialist, also reflects our
hesitation as to whether this specific historical legacy is really the
dominant influence on the region. For P-S might equally stand for Post-Soros
and thus suggest that it is the way in which the urban societies of this
region now plug into global flows of capital and knowledge that, at least
intellectually, plays the dominant role in fashioning this geographical
space as a coherent region. Another sense of P-S which plays an important
role in our thinking is that of Post-Scriptum as a challenge to Francis
Fukuyama's controversial assertion that the liberal urban democracies of the
West constitute the end of history; in this sense, are the urban forms
emerging in the P-S landscape simply footnotes to this conclusion or are
they significant enough to suggest that there is more to history than we
have yet understood? In addition, P-S has a further connotation which might
help in interpreting this uncharted landscape, since P-S is also the German
abbreviation for horse-power (in German, Pferd-Sterke). Might it be that the
absence of stable urban structures and the difficulty of understanding what
is happening in this region gives the cities here a specific dynamism of
their own?

So are the P-S civilisations at last becoming urban, in the
sense of catching up with the western and only model of urban civilisation,
or does the relationship to the legacies of history here open up new forms
of urban interaction? Or is it, in the age of the post-metropolis or
post-modernity, too late to become urban: what kind of urban forms are
emerging in the age of the domination of the global media village? Or do
these societies remain obdurately rural - or perhaps the 'rural' elements in
the P-S cities give them a special form of urban energy? Or are there also
radical changes happening in provincial and rural settlements, and in the
countryside, which are also linked to changes in urban life and the dominant
modes of economic production?

We see all these questions as being open and requiring new
theoretical and empirical approaches to try to map this confusing cultural
space. For simply importing Western urban theories seems inappropriate to
map a space which is itself being produced by a distorting/distorted
encounter with forces from the West?  Equally, while Marxism is appealing in
a context where the questions of who owns what and where does the profit go
are complicated and urgent, returning to Marx as a tool for analysing the
ruins of communism also seems questionable. Thus, to try to bring thinking
closer to what is really happening in  P-S societies, an anthropological
turn might seem a fruitful direction to take, but what then might be the
role of thinking in seeking to build models to explore this experience?

Articles, therefore, are expected be based on empirical evidence
from a city, cities, or the countryside in the region, but will also seek to
open up new theoretical avenues for dealing with the complex socio-cultural
organisation of this region.

Contributions should be in Russian and preceded by an abstract and keywords
in Russian, and followed by an abstract and keywords in English. Please also
attach short biographical information: i.e. institution where you work and a
brief mention of books/articles already published. Articles should be
submitted to us in electronic form before July 1st 2007, but it would be
helpful if those wishing to contribute an article could signal their
intention to do so earlier.

The publication is a product of an International Higher Education Support
Programme and will be published through the European Humanities University
Publishing House in Minsk. It is also planned that the best articles from
this volume will form the core of a publication in English under the same
title, scheduled for 2008.


For further information, please feel free to contact either Nerijus Milerius
(nerijus_miler@yahoo.com) or Benjamin Cope (b.cope@zacheta.art.pl )

From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jul 17 03:24:35 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jul 17 03:28:27 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Jobs/Internships with the Mexican Solidarity Network
Message-ID: <003c01c7c83b$49774f50$0602a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

National Program Coordinator Position:

The Mexico Solidarity Network is currently seeking a full time staff person 
for a position that includes both teaching, as part of a study abroad 
program in Mexico, and organizing in the United States around issues 
confronted by undocumented workers, Zapatista solidarity and solidarity with 
the families of femicide victims in Ciudad Juarez and Chihuahua. Starting 
salary is $25,000 with a raise to $30,000 after a six-month probationary 
period.

Additional Qualifications:  The position will be based in Mexico between 3 
and 8 months per year and in one of our offices the rest of the time. 
Orientation and training will take place in Chicago, IL.

The position requires:
- At least a Master's degree in political science, economy, Mexican history, 
development, social movements or related field.
- Experience in grassroots organizing in the US context.
- Experience in teaching and/or popular education, with a grounding in the 
Marxist critique of capitalism and social movement theory.
- Experience in and knowledge of Mexico.
- A valid drivers license (either US or Mexican) and the ability to drive a 
15-passenger van.
-English and Spanish fluency, including the ability to teach in English.

This position includes health insurance and four weeks paid vacation per 
year.

Please forward your cover letter, resume, and writing sample to 
MSN@MexicoSolidarity.org.

Full-Time Internships in Chicago or Washington, DC:
The Mexico Solidarity Network is no longer accepting applications for 
internships in either office at this time.  Please be sure to check back in 
the spring, or subscribe to our email list where announcements get posted 
first.

Alternative Economy Internship Program:
The Mexico Solidarity Network is looking for students, recent graduates or 
community organizers who are interested in doing an internship in their 
city. There is no need to relocate for the internship and you can do it 
while attending college, high school or even while working another job! The 
internship program is part of a fair trade/solidarity program organized by 
the Mexico Solidarity Network in coordination with three Zapatista women's 
cooperatives and a Zapatista coffee cooperative. During the internship, you 
will learn about the Zapatista struggle for autonomy and alternatives to the 
predominant capitalist model. You will also have the opportunity to develop 
strong public speaking skills.  The internship is a paid position, with the 
amount of income depending on your time and organizing capacity.

Interns will receive material on indigenous rights and fair trade. Each 
intern will start with a package of fair trade items, including textiles and 
coffee produced by Zapatista cooperatives. Interns will organize at least 
one public presentation each week at which you will discuss indigenous 
rights and fair trade, and sell fair trade items produced in Zapatista 
cooperatives. You can keep 20% of the income from sales. Interns are 
expected to devote 3 to 6 hours per week, and can expect to earn anywhere 
from $50 to $100 per week.

Presentations and sales can be organized at Sunday church services, 
community events, local universities, farmers markets, etc. For example, you 
can arrange to make a five-minute presentation at the end of a church 
service on Sunday morning, then sell fair trade items after the service. Or 
you can set up a table at university events, such as concerts, public talks 
or even in the cafeteria. You can arrange house parties where you discuss 
fair trade and indigenous rights and also sell fair trade items. You can 
also request five minutes to speak at community events that are already 
organized, then set up a table at the events. Through this internship you 
will be part of a growing fair trade movement that supports 
cooperative-based production in Zapatista communities.

How to Apply:  Please complete the following application and return it to 
MSN@MexicoSolidarity.org.  Or call 773-583-7728 for more information.

NAME:
ADDRESS:
CITY, STATE, ZIP:
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
TELEPHONE NUMBER:
WHERE DO YOU ATTEND SCHOOL?
WHY DO YOU WANT TO INTERN WITH THE MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK?
HOW MANY HOURS A WEEK CAN YOU DEVOTE TO YOUR INTERNSHIP?
WHAT POSSIBILITIES EXIST IN YOUR COMMUNITY FOR SELLING FAIR TRADE ITEMS?
WHAT UNIVERSITY, COMMUNITY OR SOCIAL GROUPS HAVE YOU WORKED WITH OVER THE 
PAST FIVE YEARS?
THE MEXICO SOLIDARITY NETWORK IS LOOKING FOR INTERNS WHO CAN MAKE AT LEAST A 
SIX MONTH COMMITMENT. WE CANNOT ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FOR COMMITMENTS OF LESS 
THAN SIX MONTHS. WHAT DATES ARE YOU AVAILABLE?

WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF ZAPATISMO?
WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF FAIR TRADE?
PLEASE PROVIDE TWO REFERENCES:
IF SELECTED AS AN INTERN, THE FIRST SHIPMENT OF SUPPLIES HAS A VALUE OF 
APPROXIMATELY $700. BECAUSE WE DON'T RECEIVE ANY MONEY UP FRONT FROM 
INTERNS, MSN ASKS THAT INTERNS PROVIDE A MAJOR CREDIT CARD NUMBER AS A MEANS 
OF INSURANCE. DO YOU HAVE A CREDIT CARD THAT COULD BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE? 

From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Tue Jul  3 14:38:15 2007
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Sun Jul 22 14:45:41 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Elections: Addendum
Message-ID: <200707031338.l63DcCZ1009106@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

In the email I just sent on SUNTA
elections, I listed Gautam Ghosh as
at U Penn Museum. He is actually
in the U Penn Dept of Anthropology
which happens to be physically
located in the Museum. Sorry for
any confusion. -- David

*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *
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 lknauer at umassd.edu  Mon Jul 23 12:21:36 2007
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Mon Jul 23 12:06:11 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Deadline extended for 2007 SUNTA Graduate Student prize
Message-ID: <46A4C780.1020700@umassd.edu>

(Please excuse any cross-posting)


The deadline for submitting papers for the 2007 SUNTA Graduate Student 
Paper Prize ($250 award) has been extended to September 10, 2007. Papers 
should 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.
Guidelines:  Papers must be based on original ethnographic research and 
must not have been published elsewhere. Submissions from all graduate 
students, international students as well as U.S. residents, are welcome. 
Co-authored papers are acceptable although winners would have to split 
the cash prize. Papers should be no longer than 25 double-spaced pages 
(as with most journal articles). There are no rules about formatting, 
although authors should be consistent throughout.  The competition is 
not limited to SUNTA members, nor to papers presented at the 2007 AAA 
meetings. Professors and practicing anthropologists are urged to 
nominate worthy candidates. The winner will be announced at the 2007 AAA 
meetings. The winning paper will be considered favorably for publication 
in City and Society.
We would prefer all submissions by email: lknauer@umassd.edu

For further information or to submit entries contact Lisa Maya Knauer: 
lknauer@umassd.edu

From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jul 25 14:15:39 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jul 25 13:16:16 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change
Message-ID: <003801c7cedf$706981a0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR AUTHORS: 

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

This comprehensive work will be marketed and sold to college, public, and
academic libraries and includes some 700 articles, covering all aspects of
the world environment and related disciplines in the social sciences,
including terms and practices, profiles of climate change by country,
biographies, and descriptions of environmental organizations. Each article,
ranging from 550 to 5,000 words, is signed by the contributor.

If you are interested in contributing to the encyclopedia, it can be a
notable publication addition to your CV/resume and broaden your publishing
credits. Payment for the articles are honoraria that range from a $50 book
credit at Sage Publications for article submissions totaling 500 to 1,000
words up to a free set of the finished encyclopedia (a $400 value) for
contributions totaling 10,000 words. More than this, your involvement can
help assure that credible and detailed data, description, and analysis are
available to students of climate issues.

If you would like to contribute to building a truly outstanding reference
with the Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, please contact
Maria Siano, Ph.D., by e-mail at golsonbooks2@hotmail.com. Please provide a
very brief summary of your background in environmental and geographic
issues.
From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jul 30 15:53:02 2007
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jul 30 14:54:21 2007
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
Message-ID: <00c601c7d2da$e0b6ac40$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

American Council of Learned Societies Announces Guidelines
         for Digital Innovation Fellowships
 
 Deadline: October 3, 2007
 
 The American Council of Learned Societies ( http://www.acls.org/ )
 invites applications for the third annual competition for the
 ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships. Funded by the Andrew W.
 Mellon Foundation ( http://www.mellon.org/ ), this program
 supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines
 of the humanities and humanities-related social sciences. It is
 hoped that funded projects will help advance digital humanistic
 scholarship by broadening understanding of its nature and
 exemplifying the robust infrastructure necessary for creating
 further such works.
 
 Fellowships are intended to support an academic year dedicated
 to work on a major scholarly project that takes a digital form.
 Projects may involve development of new digital tools that
 further humanistic research; research that depends on or is
 greatly enhanced by the use of such tools; the representation
 of research that depends on or is greatly enhanced by the use
 of such tools; or some combination of these features. ACLS does
 not support creative works (e.g., novels or films), textbooks,
 straightforward translations, or purely pedagogical projects.
 
 ACLS will award up to five ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships.
 Each fellowship carries a stipend of up to $55,000 toward an
 academic year's leave and provides for project costs of up to
 $25,000.

 This program is open to scholars in all fields of the humanities
 and the humanistic social sciences*. Applicants must have a Ph.D.
 degree conferred prior to the application deadline. An estab-
 lished scholar who can demonstrate the equivalent of the Ph.D.
 in publications and professional experience may also qualify.
 U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status is required as of
 the application deadline.
 
 Visit the ACLS Web site for further information.
 
 RFP Link: http://www.acls.org/difguide.htm

* Appropriate fields of specialization include but are not limited to: 
American studies; anthropology; archaeology; art and architectural 
history; classics; economics; film; geography; history; languages and 
literatures; legal studies; linguistics; musicology; philosophy; 
political science; psychology; religious studies; rhetoric, 
communication, and media studies; science, technology, and medicine 
studies; sociology; and theater, dance, and performance studies. 
Proposals in the social science fields listed above are eligible only if 
they employ predominantly humanistic approaches (e.g., economic history, 
law and literature, political philosophy). Proposals in 
interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary studies are welcome, as are 
proposals focused on any geographic region or on any cultural or 
linguistic group.

