From michalski at ucdavis.edu  Sun Jun  1 15:59:37 2008
From: michalski at ucdavis.edu (David Michalski)
Date: Sun Jun  1 19:34:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]book request
Message-ID: <48431BC9.20004@ucdavis.edu>

Fethi,
I think someone misspelled the last name of one of the authors/editors. 
With the citation below, The Inter-Library Loan office in the library at 
your institution ought to be able to get you a copy.


Negotiating power and place at the margins
by Juliene G Lipson;  Lucia Ann McSpadden;  American Anthropological 
Association. Committee on Refugees and Immigrants. General Anthropology 
Division.
Publisher:    Arlington, VA : American Anthropological Association, 
committee on Refugees and Immigrants, General Anthropology Division, ?1999.
ISBN:    0913167959 9780913167953
OCLC:    45662812


David

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Fethi Keles wrote:

Dear all,

I have been trying to find a copy of the following to no avail: Negotiating Power and Place at the Margins (Selected Papers on Refugees and Immigrants, vol 7) Triliene G. Tipson and Lucia Ann McSpadden, Editors. 1999. 

It's one of the only two volumes (the other being vol.II, edited by MaryCarol Hopkins and N. Donnelly. 1993) in the Selected Papers series I couldn't obtain from AAA.

Any help/suggestions (including offers to sell either or both) will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Fethi Keles

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From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun  2 10:26:57 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  2 09:28:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 UK Postdoc: Exploring Intergenerational Relations Amongst African
 Migrants to Britain and France
Message-ID: <005c01c8c4b4$5953a330$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

British Academy project,

"Exploring Intergenerational Relations Amongst African Migrants to Britain 
and France"

Research Associate (fixed term 12 months from 1 September 2008)
Application Details: http://lssi.leeds.ac.uk/news/25

Closing Date:  June 19, 2008

Applications are invited for a fixed term appointment as a Research 
Associate to work on a British Academy funded project on 'Exploring 
Intergenerational Relations Amongst African Migrants to Britain and France' 
with Dr Joanne Cook (LSSI) and Dr Louise Waite (Geography).
With a PhD or close to obtaining one, or having equivalent research 
experience in a relevant academic field, you should have experience of 
qualitative fieldwork. A research background in one or more of the following 
areas is essential: Migration / Family and/or intergenerational 
relationships / Ethnicity / Postcolonial studies. You should have experience 
of qualitative research, excellent communication skills and the capacity to 
work to deadlines. You will be aware of public and academic debates in the 
field of migration and settlement/integration, and of the sensitivities and 
ethical issues related to working with diverse ethnic and faith groups and 
of working with interpreters. Travel to and from various locations to 
conduct research with recording equipment and a willingness to work flexible 
hours on occasion during the working week (in line with fieldwork 
requirements) are also essential.

University Grade 6 (?23,002 - ?27,466p.a.) The appointment will be made at 
or below ?24,403 p.a. since there are funding limitations which dictate the 
level at which the appointment can start.

Information about Leeds Social Sciences Institute (LSSI) and the project can 
be found at http://www.lssi.leeds.ac.uk/ .
Informal enquiries to Joanne Cook, email j.m.cook@leeds.ac.uk or Louise 
Waite, email l.waite@leeds.ac.uk

To apply on line please visit http://www.leeds.ac.uk and click on 'jobs'. 
Application packs are also available from Anne Prendergast, tel +44 (0)113 
343 7393, email a.prendergast@leeds.ac.uk   Job ref 318022. Closing date 19 
June 2008. It is anticipated that interviews will be held in Leeds on 
Tuesday 1 July 2008.

Job Description:  You will be responsible for the majority of the fieldwork 
for the project. This will involve community outreach, organising, 
conducting and analysing key informant interviews, focus groups and 
biographical intergenerational interviews with 30 participants. This is a 
comparative project between Britain and France (the French study is to be 
carried out separately) so you will be involved in collaborative work 
between the two teams and responsible for preparing comparative documents.

The post will be supervised by Dr Joanne Cook and Dr Louise Waite. Dr Cook 
and Dr Waite will collaborate with you in the data analysis.
It is expected that you will have a postgraduate degree in a relevant 
academic subject or relevant experience as a Research Assistant. Experience 
of qualitative research and good communication skills are essential.

The duties of the post will include:

. Carry out a systematic review of literature and migration policy under the 
guidance of the PI.
. Lead the community outreach phase of the research.
. Co-ordinate and carry out the interviews and assist with the focus groups 
with participants in the Yorkshire region.
. Support the design of the family case studies and carry out the majority 
of the interviews.
. Perform administrative duties in relation to the project, including 
managing the project web-site and updates on the project's progress.
. Support in the coding and analysis of data (under supervision, as part of 
a team).
. Liaising with other members of the team based in France.
. Managing the project data-base and organising and liaising with 
interpreters and transcribers.
. Contribute to research reports/publications arising from the project.
. Involvement in the presentation of findings of the research.
. Participate in internal and external events including local, national and 
international events as required by the PI of the project.
. Input ideas and determine your own day to day operation within agreed 
parameters of the project.
. Any other reasonable duties in relation to the project as specified by the 
PI.

Essential Qualifications:
. A research background in one or more of the following areas:
-Migration
-Family and/or intergenerational relationships
-Ethnicity
-Postcolonial studies
. Hold a PhD or be close to obtaining a PhD or have equivalent research 
experience in a relevant academic field (e.g. Geography; Sociology; Social 
Policy, Anthropology, African Studies, Development Studies).
. Demonstrate an awareness of public and academic debates in the field of 
migration and settlement/integration.
. Demonstrate an awareness of the sensitivities and ethical issues related 
to working with diverse ethnic and faith groups and working with 
interpreters.
. Experience of qualitative fieldwork, including conducting and analysing 
interviews/focus groups.
. Excellent report writing and editing skills.
. Excellent time management and organisation skills.
. Excellent communication skills, including written.
. Ability to work with colleagues from diverse disciplines and in 
multi-disciplinary international teams.
. Be able to work independently, under pressure and to deadlines.
. Be willing to travel to and from various locations to conduct research 
with recording equipment.
. Demonstrate a willingness to work flexible hours on occasion during the 
working week (in line with fieldwork requirements).

Desirable Qualifications:
. Proven interdisciplinary research skills.
. Fluency in French.
. Experience of working in an ethnically diverse field environment.
. Previous experience of working with Africans. 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun  2 10:52:41 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  2 09:55:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Applied Research Job: Community Development Specialist (Columbia, MO)
Message-ID: <008301c8c4b8$1623ca50$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Community Development Specialist (Columbia, MO)
University of Missouri

Job Title: Community Development Specialist (Columbia, MO)
Department: Extension Institution: University of Missouri
Columbia, MO   Date Posted: May. 7th, 2008
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled Position
Start Date: Available Immediately
Job Categories: Lecturer/Instructor
Academic Field(s): Agricultural Extension

Job Description:   Position Location: Headquartered in Boone County, 
Columbia, Missouri, in the Central Missouri Region, with additional 
responsibilities for Howard, Audrain, Callaway, Cole, Osage and Chariton 
counties.

Salary: $35,000-45,000 (based on applicable experience).

Specific Responsibilities: University of Missouri Extension Regional 
Specialists provide leadership and expertise to the local community within 
the assigned counties with research-based education and information. 
Specialists work side-by-side with local people to solve problems, make 
decisions, access resources and chart a course for success. Work closely 
with County Councils, program partners, volunteers, and other professionals 
to provide programmatic leadership to diverse audiences with diverse needs. 
Create linkages with University of Missouri campuses, Lincoln University, 
and other partners and funding stakeholders to plan, implement, and evaluate 
priority programs. May provide supervision and leadership to associates 
within surrounding counties.

Working collaboratively with a team of extension professionals and 
volunteers, the specialist will be responsible for giving programmatic 
leadership to community development.

Minimum Qualifications: Earned master's degree in community development, 
community economic development, or related area with appropriate community 
and economic development coursework exhibited. Related areas include adult 
education, urban or rural planning, regional or applied economics, urban or 
rural development, organizational development, public administration, public 
policy, political science, applied or cultural anthropology, rural 
sociology, sociology, social work, or community psychology.

Ability to travel and to work flexible hours including evenings and weekends 
is required to fulfill assigned responsibilities.

Additional Preferred Qualifications: Professional experience in designing, 
conducting and evaluating educational programs, and applying research-based 
knowledge in community cooperation and collaboration, capacity assessment 
and action planning, community planning, community economic development, 
public policy issue identification and framing, citizen participation, 
leadership, organizational development and resource management, and 
volunteerism to community development is desired.

Ability to work with colleagues in a multidisciplinary, issue-based approach 
to program design and delivery to impact change in one or more of the 
following priority areas: (1) enhancing economic viability, (2) building 
strong individuals, families and communities, and (3) creating and 
sustaining a healthy environment.

Application Procedure:  All interested applicants must submit a completed 
application, letter of intent, current resume and copies of all academic 
transcripts to: MU Extension, Human Resources, 205 Whitten Hall, Columbia, 
MO 65211.

If you have any questions, please call (573) 882-4721 or e-mail 
hrdext@missouri.edu .

An application form and complete position description are available at:
http://extension.missouri.edu/careers .

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Preference will be given to applications received by June 6, 2008.

EEO / AA Policy:  EEO/AA/ADA employer.

Contact: Manager, Human Resources
University of Missouri Extension
205 Whitten Hall
Columbia, MO 65211

Phone Number: 573-882-4721
Fax Number: 573-882-2595
E-mail: hrdext@missouri.edu 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun  3 14:44:30 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun  3 14:02:52 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Internship: PICUM, Platform for International Cooperation
	on Undocumented Migrants
Message-ID: <027001c8c5a1$85310d10$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Vacancy for an Internship at PICUM
September September-December 2008

PICUM, the Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants, 
is a
nongovernmental organization that aims to promote the respect for basic 
social rights of
undocumented migrants in Europe. PICUM seeks to achieve this aim by 
providing its
members and other interested parties with expertise, advice and support, by 
strengthening
networking amongst organizations dealing with undocumented migrants in 
Europe, and by
formulating recommendations for improving the legal and social position of 
these migrants,
in accordance with national constitutions and international treaties.

Tasks: Interns play an important role in projects and ongoing work of PICUM. 
They are
offered an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the different facets 
of promoting
social and policy change in the area of human rights for undocumented 
migrants.
For the period from September-December 2008, the intern will contribute to 
PICUM's work
in the following areas:

. Newsletter Newsletter: Collect information and report on human rights of 
undocumented
migrants in Europe for PICUM's monthly newsletter. Manage contact with 
volunteer
translators and proofreaders for newsletter.
. EU project on preventing discrimination discrimination-based violence 
against undocumented
children children: Provide support to project officer in the final editing, 
reviewing of layout
and translation of publication before printing; provide assistance in the 
organization
of the final conference to be held in December 2008.
. EU projects on access to health care services for undocumented migrants 
and
"Clandestino: Counting the Uncountable": Provide research support to program
officers where necessary.
. Update information on PICUM website and database database, maintain and 
research contact
information on media outlets.
. Funding development development: Update and compile new contacts for 
database of foundations
and other funding sources, and provide assistance where needed in completing
funding applications.
. Update PICUM's library by classifying and entering into the database 
various printed
materials on undocumented migrants.
. PICUM membership membership: provide support by processing ongoing 
applications and
gathering information about members to put on website.

Profile
. University degree
. Some knowledge of and an interest in learning more about the issues of
undocumented migrants and migration.
. Very good level of English (oral and written proficiency). Working 
knowledge of
French. Other EU languages an asset.
. Able to work independently.
. Strong writing, computer, and telephone skills are preferred.

Timeframe:
The internship is full time and is carried out in PICUM's office in 
Brussels.
Starti Starting date: ng September 1, 2008
Ending date: December 31, 2008

Terms: Unfortunately, PICUM cannot offer a stipend, but will reimburse local 
travel
costs to the office in Brussels.

Contact Information:
Please send your CV and cover letter in English by 18 July 2008 to:
administration@picum.org. More information about PICUM is available at
http://www.picum.org. 


From koptiuch at asu.edu  Wed Jun  4 19:54:34 2008
From: koptiuch at asu.edu (Kristin Koptiuch)
Date: Thu Jun  5 08:41:59 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]anyone in Costa Rica?
Message-ID: <462BF6BD2108874EB31A029DCF1998E1AADC10@EX07.asurite.ad.asu.edu>

Greetings fellow urbanth list members, I am leading a study abroad program for three weeks in San Jose, Costa Rica, and I'm wondering if any of you may also be here?  It would be lovely to meet up for a chat or dinner etc, as I am free most evenings. I'll be here in San Jose until June 22, then traveling for a week prior to return to Phoenix. 
 
I'd love to hear from you if you're here and have time to get together, best to all, Kristin Koptiuch (Az State U-West)

From j.r.beaumont at rug.nl  Thu Jun  5 16:12:13 2008
From: j.r.beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Thu Jun  5 13:09:43 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Conference announcement: Groningen, November 2008
Message-ID: <01a601c8c70d$c524e190$0302a8c0@Jus>

Apologies to those who may receive this announcement more than once. Please feel free to forward to anyone else who might be interested. Thanks.


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Conference announcement:
"Religion, politics and the postsecular city"
Groningen, The Netherlands, 12-15 November 2008
With support from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)

Chairs:
Justin Beaumont, Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Arie L. Molendijk, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

Confirmed speakers include:
James A. Beckford, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK
Paul Cloke, Geography, University of Exeter, UK
Harvey G. Cox, Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US
Kim Knott, Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK
David Martin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UK
Birgit Meyer, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Edward W. Soja, Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles, US

Theme:
Claims are increasingly made these days about the possibilities of religions in general and faith-based organizations (FBOs) in particular, for tackling social and political issues such as poverty, injustice, discrimination, and racism. The Economist recently devoted a special report to religion and public life across the globe. Combined with recent governments in the US and the UK revalorizing FBOs and ?faith communities? in matters of social policy, urban regeneration and social cohesion in state-regulated urban policies, the European public sphere is dense with unresolved questions about the ways religions are imbricated in the social and political concerns of the day. Despite these developments contemporary relations between religion, politics and urban societies remain poorly understood. The conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to theorize the changing and mutually constitutive relations between religion, politics and urban societies in ways that transcend the urban as merely built environment and physical form. The primary focus is relations between the ascendancy of public religions, deprivatization of religions and theorizations of modernity and modernities to gain sense of the postsecular city, with the closely related and more empirically relevant role of FBOs in tackling social and political issues in across various cities today. International publications are envisaged from the event.

A number of seats are available for non-speaking participants and the closing date for registration is: 27 October 2008.

Registration fee which includes coffee/tea and conference materials: regular rate (?100), (PhD) student rate (?25)

For further information please contact Ms. M. Wubbolts (m.r.b.wubbolts@rug.nl)







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Room 3.10, Landleven 1
Faculty of Spatial Sciences
University of Groningen
The Netherlands
Tel: 00 31 50 363 6910/ 3895
Skype: justin9712
Web: www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index

International Conference: Religion, Politics and the Postsecular City, Groningen, 12-15 November 2008

EU-7FP FACIT project: Faith-based organizations and exclusion in European cities

Book Reviews Editor: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie (TESG)
 





From jancius at ohio.edu  Thu Jun  5 14:17:10 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Jun  5 13:20:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Climate Destruction will Produce Millions of
	"Envirogees"
Message-ID: <030001c8c730$03555220$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Climate Destruction Will Produce Millions of 'Envirogees'
http://www.alternet.org/environment/86285/?page=1

By Scott Thill, AlterNet. Posted May 27, 2008

Chew on this word, jargon lovers. Envirogee.

It carries more 21st century buzz than its semi-official designation climate 
refugee, which is a displaced individual who has been forced to migrate 
because of environmental devastation. Maybe the buzzword will catch on 
faster and shed some much-needed light on what will become a serious 
problem, probably by the end of this or the next decade. That light is 
crucial, because so far envirogees haven't been fully recognized by those 
who certify the civil liberties of Earth's various populations, whether that 
is the United Nations or local and national governments whose people are 
increasingly on the move for a whole new set of devastating reasons.

In short, immigration is about to enter a new phase, which resembles an old 
one with a 21st century twist. For thousands of years, humanity has fled 
across Earth's surface fearing instability and in search of sustainability. 
But that resource war has kicked into overdrive thanks to our current 
climate crisis -- a manufactured war with its own clock.

And the clock is ticking.

>From earthquakes in China to cyclones in Myanmar to water rationing in Los 
Angeles, societies are shifting like their borders. And all the outcry over 
so-called illegal immigration neglects to answer one time-honored question: 
If the borders aren't standing still, why should the people who live in 
their outlines do so? Especially when they're under attack from catastrophic 
floods, fires, droughts and any number of other environmental dangers?
Right now, the 1951 Geneva Convention does not recognize the envirogee 
phenomenon, instead focusing on immigration as a result of political 
persecution. But then again, it was established over five decades ago when 
Earth's climate was anything but a terrorist. But the Geneva Convention, 
like everything that must adapt or die, needs to mutate in time with the 
rest of the world and its hyperconsuming inhabitants in order to remain 
relevant in our still-new millennium.

Here are some startling envirogee numbers to crunch: According to the 
Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Earth's fracturing 
communities will have 150 million envirogees by 2050. According to 
Australian climatologist Dr. Graeme Pearman, coastal flooding resulting from 
a mere two-degree rise in temperature would kick 100 million people out of 
their danger-zone homes by 2100.

Here's more scary data. Desertification is claiming land from China to 
Morocco to Tunisia and beyond at an increasing rate. New Orleans and parts 
of Alaska are slowly sliding into the sea, while the former, as Hurricane 
Katrina ably illustrated, is becoming a reliable target for intensifying 
weather events, human corruption and half-assed infrastructure. Aquifers 
around the world are shrinking, while acidification is claiming cropland in 
Egypt and beyond. Hypoxia has claimed portions of the ocean itself with 
alarming speed, as stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific lose oxygen and, by 
extension, the marine life that not only feeds millions but establishes the 
continuity of the food chain.

No food chain, no food. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

But numbers are fallible, which is another way of saying the above figures 
are most likely best-case scenarios. In other words, the future is now. 
According to the World Wildlife Fund, the IPCC might have taken home a Nobel 
for their statistics and bleeding hearts, but their math was significantly 
off. Worse, the rate at which these things happen is rising exponentially.

"The rate of increase in carbon dioxide concentrations accelerated over 
recent decades along with fossil fuel emissions," explained a report on 
methane and CO2 rises by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National 
Organization for Atmospheric Administration. "Since 2000, annual increases 
of two ppm or more have been common, compared with 1.5 ppm per year in the 
1980s and less than one ppm per year during the 1960s." As for methane, in 
2007 it exploded by 27 million tons after a decade with relatively no rise 
at all. Think about that next time you eat that Happy Meal.

So what's an envirogee to do, other than opt out of wasted fantasies like 
Happy Meals, factory farming, bottled water and Hummers? What else? Move.
Which is what envirogees worldwide are already doing right now, by choice or 
by gunpoint, and will do more often than not as situations on the ground and 
in the air deteriorate.

The conflict raging in Darfur is a sobering example of the complexity of the 
situation. It has so far displaced 2-3 million people, and for all the talk 
of political or religious persecution, the fact remains that it is at its 
root an environmental crisis. An arid desert whose water is drying up by the 
day, Darfur is one of the first flashpoints of our new phase of climate 
conflict, a conflict that U.N. Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon explained in 
the Washington Post as one "that grew at least in part from desertification, 
ecological degradation and a scarcity of resources, foremost among them 
water." But this too should have been foreseen: According to remote sensing, 
Darfur sits atop of an underground lake that once used to hold over 600 
cubic miles of water and dried up thousands of years ago.

And like Darfur, we are numbly sitting atop our climatological past while it 
races to catch up with us. Parched by thirst and hungry for fossil fuels 
which, in turn, only exacerbate that thirst and the wars it engenders, 
envirogees are streaming out of these hot zones into less murderous ones, 
whose inhabitants are circling their wagons on the outsiders. Civil wars are 
breaking out. Outsiders, in turn, are becoming invaders. The irony is rich.
It gets richer, or poorer, depending on where you stand on peak oil. The 
planet's shrinking petroleum reserves are now more valuable than ever, and 
the prices for its capture and capitalization show zero sign of returning to 
normal. That expense is also beginning to be measured in lives, as carbon 
concentration exponentially increases and weather events become more 
extreme.

And you all know what they say about extreme times calling for extreme 
measures.

We've been here before, which is to say on the brink of extinction. In one 
instance, drought shrunk our numbers to about 2,000 scattered in a diaspora 
across Africa, a fearsome thought for a 21st century superpower that may be 
entering its own permanent drought. But the wrinkle is different this time 
around the tightrope: We built this coming dystopia with our own hands.

And that's going to reshape not just immigration policy, but the concept of 
immigration altogether. And that's where the envirogee comes in. The 
envirogee, you see, is on the run from himself.

In other words, and no matter how much blowhards like CNN's Lou Dobbs bitch 
and whine, the inconvenient truth of climate change, and its rampant 
resource wars for what's left of the planet's stores, remains a reality. 
Beneath genocide in Darfur lies a desert that used to be a lake. There 
probably isn't a better metaphor for our current hyperhighway to hell in 
existence, if one could argue that it was a metaphor to begin with. But one 
can't, because it is reality, pure and simple. And so are envirogees, 
regardless of the outdated assertions of the Geneva Convention or the staid 
refusals of the insurance industry to wake up and smell the hurricanes.

"If we keep going down this path," French prime minister Nicholas Sarkozy 
argued to the superpowers gathered at the Major Economics Meeting in Paris 
last month, "climate change will encourage the immigration of people with 
nothing towards areas where the population do have something, and the Darfur 
crisis will be only one crisis among dozens of others," he stressed.

That is, we won't be worried about Mexicans coming to the U.S. for economic 
reasons, or Africans doing the same in France and England. We will be 
worried about hyperviolent cyclones, floods and droughts destroying what's 
left of our jobs and the people who want them, as we all pack our crap and 
move northward, where temperate weather and more bountiful supplies of 
water, gas and food lie. We will be the ones enduring the hard stares and 
perhaps bullets fired from locals who are circling their wagons against 
victims of their own consumption and apathy.

Whether or not we can settle, literally, with that solution, time will tell. 
But according to the continually underperforming science of climate crisis, 
we won't settle for long. Barring any meaningful sociopolitical or economic 
engagement, to say nothing of much-needed technological revolution, on the 
issue, we'll have turned from territorial citizens into climate nomads, all 
in a cosmological eyeblink. 


From gghosh at sas.upenn.edu  Thu Jun  5 19:19:27 2008
From: gghosh at sas.upenn.edu (Gautam Ghosh)
Date: Fri Jun  6 11:00:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA GRAD STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
Message-ID: <6.2.5.6.2.20080605181759.048f8eb0@sas.upenn.edu>


GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER PRIZE
($250 plus favorable consideration for publication)
The Society for Urban, National, and
Transnational/Global Anthropology is pleased to
announce its annual Graduate Student Paper Prize
competition. Students in anthropology MA and PhD
programs are invited to submit papers pertaining
to urban, national, and transnational/global
anthropology and/or any of the areas of interest
to SUNTA, including refugees and immigrants,
poverty and homelessness, and space and place.
The winner?to be announced at the 2008 AAA
meetings?will receive a $250 cash prize plus
favorable consideration for publication in
City and Society. The prize is not restricted to U.S.
programs or U.S. residents. The prize is not
restricted to SUNTA members or to those who have
participated in SUNTA programming.
Guidelines: Papers should be submitted to Gautam
Ghosh at  <mailto:gghosh@sas.upenn.edu>gghosh@sas.upenn.edu  on or before
August 1, 2008. Submission by email  is preferred
but not required (contact  <mailto:gghosh@sas.upenn.edu>gghosh@sas.upenn.edu
to make other arrangements). Papers (a) must draw
on original ethnographic research and (b) cannot
have been previously published. Co-authored
submissions are acceptable provided all authors
are graduate students; co-winners would share the
cash prize. Papers should be no longer than 25
double-spaced pages including notes, citations,
etc. Formatting is flexible but authors should be
clear and consistent throughout.


Gautam
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gghosh/

gghosh@sas.upenn.edu
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA  19104
215.898.6306 (office), 215.898.7462 (fax)
215.471.4467 (home)

Info on Anthro events at:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/calendar.html

Info on Ethnohistory Workshop at:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/ethno/current.html

Info on South Asia events at:
http://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu


_____________________________
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gghosh/
gghosh@sas.upenn.edu
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA  19104
215.898.6306 (office), 215.898.7462 (fax)
215.471.4467 (home)

Info on Anthro events at:
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthro/calendar.html

Info on Ethnohistory Workshop at:
http://www.history.upenn.edu/ethno/current.html

Info on South Asia events at:
http://www.southasiacenter.upenn.edu






From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun  9 12:02:13 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  9 11:03:26 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Social Science Journal - Human Rights
Message-ID: <003801c8ca41$d2746eb0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-HUMAN-RIGHTS@H-NET.MSU.EDU]

Social Science Journal - Human Rights

From: Judith Blau
jrblau@email.unc.edu

The journal, Societies with Borders: Human Rights & the Social  
Sciences will publish 3 issues per year beginning February 09. The  
journal is posted on the Brill website: http://www.brill.nl/swb and on  
the web page of www.sociologistswithoutborders.org/

Below is the description:

What the world's peoples have in common - notwithstanding the borders  
that divide them - is the aspiration to achieve human rights - the  
rights to food, housing, health care, education, decent work, free  
speech, to speak one's conscience, as well as the right to a fair  
trial, to a safe environment, and the right to peace. What the world's  
people are beginning to discover is that this aspiration is not only a  
common one, but it can only be pursued collectively in disregard of  
the borders that divide people. People may live in societies, derive  
their identities from their societies, but the pursuit of human rights  
is pursued and coordinated across borders. The journal, Societies  
without Borders, aims for high caliber scholarly analysis and also  
encourages submissions that address pioneering thought in human  
rights, globalism, and collective goods.


Authors are cordially invited to submit articles to the journal  
editors Judith Blau and Alberto Moncada, and books for review to the  
Associate Editor Keri Iyall Smith.

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun  9 12:12:34 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun  9 11:13:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Participants: Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water
 Film Festival 
Message-ID: <008401c8ca43$416ef730$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water Film Festival

Of the many social, economic and environmental impacts and vulnerabilities
to climate change, the projected effects on the qualitative and quantitative
status of world water resources is a critical area for people's lives and
the economy.

Even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stabilized today, increases in
temperature and the associated impacts, including those on water
availability and flooding will continue for decades

Water resource issues interact with a wide range of socio-economic and
environmental sectors including health, agriculture, biodiversity, public
safety, industry and navigation. Indeed, there are few activities that do
not in some way depend on or interact with water resources.

The main climate change consequences related to water resources are
increases in temperature, shifts in precipitation patterns and snow cover,
an increase in the frequency of flooding and droughts, and the possible
large impact of future sea-level rises. There is also a growing body of
knowledge on the nature and scale of future impacts. This has led to an
increasing urgency to adapt water resource management to meet the future
challenges.

*About this Film Festival *

Today one-third of the world population comprises of youth and every
nation's hope is in youth. We believe as organizers of this Film festival
that Youth have tremendous potential and can make a difference on
alarming issues such as these. It is also true that youth cannot do it on
their own thus youth will make Intergenerational partnership to bring this
Change. But someone has to take a lead and this time it would be young
people.

This festival will be hosted with the help of local universities, colleges
and high school or Non-governmental Organizations addressing issues locally
and globally. Youth from the institution/s which hosts this festival will be
the joint coordinator/s for such a festival.

This film festival could be either a half a day to four days festival
depending on the budget raised or resources mobilized by local institutions.
We as organizers are not going to help financially but find different
resources within the institution to mobilize such an event. Today quite few
institutions have their own LCD projector, sound system and a classroom.
That's most of what we need, films and Speakers/Experts for a discussion
after the film festival we will organize.

If you think this is not going to work, we would like to tell you it did
work earlier with the World Youth Water Alliance Film festival (a program of
the Global Citizens for Sustainable Development) successfully hosted in
India, China, Philippines, Japan and USA. Please see the link:
http://wateralliance.org/Events.html

The first film festival will be launched in Tokyo, Japan at the
China-India-Japan Forum in July 2008. This film festival will then travel to
countries such as India, China, Korea, USA, Greece, New Zealand and others
up to December 2009.

If you are interested to host Global Citizens' Climate Change and Water film
festival at your institution or if you want to submit films for this
Festival please contact us at filmfestival@globalcitizens.org.in

and regionally

Asia - Anugraha John: ajohn316@globalcitizens.org.in

USA - Nina Gregg: ngregg@att.net and charter.US@alliance21.org

Europe - Yolanda Ziaka: charte.europe@otenet.gr

Pacific - Betsan Martin: betsan@response.org.nz

Thank you

Yours sincerely

*Anugraha John, Anabel Tonkovi, Nina Gregg, Pat Keeton, Ruma Sen, Zhao
Baisheng, Yolanda Zaika and Betsan Martin.*


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 09:53:24 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 08:54:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Genocide: The Future of Prevention (Sheffield/UK)
Message-ID: <007901c8caf8$fca41110$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

From: Juergen Zimmerer < j.zimmerer[at]sheffield.ac.uk >
Subject: CFP: Genocide: The Future of Prevention
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Call for Papers

Genocide: The Future of Prevention
1st Global Conference on Genocide
by the International Network of Genocide Scholars
at the Centre for the Study of Genocide
and Mass Violence/The University of Sheffield/UK
9 - 12 January 2009


In December 2008 the world will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UN 
"Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide" 
(1948). Politicians all over the world will praise its achievements and 
the progress made so far in the fight against genocide. And rightly so, 
as the achievements are many, mainly in the area of punishment and 
mobilisation of public opinion. The Convention firmly rooted genocide in 
international law, which is increasingly successful in bringing 
perpetrators of genocide to trial. Genocide as a crime is now also part 
of public consciousness (at least in most parts of the world), and 
Non-Governmental Organizations in particular campaign tirelessly against 
mass violence. The devotion of hundred of thousands to the cause of 
human rights and the rule of law warrants recognition and applause.

Prevention, however has failed. If the people of Darfur, Chad, DR Congo 
or Zimbabwe, to name but a few, were invited to the celebrations of the 
Convention, the world would get a rather grim picture. On almost all 
continents, people are persecuted, expelled or killed because of their 
race, religion, gender or political affiliation. Collective violence, 
whether organised and conducted by states or sub-state actors, is 
endemic in many regions, and despite all the human rights rhetoric the 
international community closes its eyes or sits on its hands.

This failure, however, cannot only be blamed on political elites alone. 
Genocide Studies, as an academic discipline, is responsible as well. The 
failure of the international community to develop effective mechanisms 
for prevention is paralleled by academia's seeming incapacity to 
critically reflect on the dilemmas of prevention as well as to develop 
new theoretical approaches that escape the limitations of the control 
paradigm (Oxford Research Group), which rests on the misleading and 
dangerous assumption that global security can be guaranteed and threads 
controlled by military force rather than addressing the root causes of 
conflict. Traditional ideas about prevention, which see genocide as a 
dysfunction of an otherwise working international political and economic 
system that can be contained by policing, have not been developed 
further to offer satisfying answers to the many challenges of the 21st 
century, especially the relationship between global injustice and 
violence or environmental change and genocide, which will in all 
likelihood drastically increase the occurrence of genocidal moments.

In order to address these pressing questions, the International Network 
of Genocide Scholars (INoGS; < http://www.inogs.com >) together with the 
Centre for the Study of Genocide and Mass Violence (SGMV) at The 
University of Sheffield/UK (< http://www.genocidecentre.dept.shef.ac.uk 
 >) will dedicate the 1st Global Conference on Genocide, Sheffield, 9-12 
January 2009 to sustainable genocide prevention for the 21st century. 
"Genocide: The Future of Prevention", the inaugural event in INOGS' 
biannual series of Global Genocide Conferences, will take stock of 
Genocide Studies and move on to develop new ideas about prevention.

We therefore invite suggestions for panels and papers on all aspects of 
the study of genocide and mass violence, past, present and future. 
Submissions should reach us no later than 15 July 2008. Brief abstracts 
(250 words per paper, panel suggestions should additionally briefly 
state the rationale of the panel, including short CVs and institutional 
affiliation; all in one word file) should be e-mailed to Tricia 
Ellis-Evans (< tricia@paceprojects.co.uk >).

Topics of particular interest would include (but are not restricted to) 
the following:

-Prevention
-International law and genocide
-Education and genocide prevention
-Holocaust and its representation
-Genocide in art, literature and film
-Colonial mass violence
-Cultural genocide and ethnocide
-Reconciliation, restitution and recognition
-Genocide denial
-Politics of apology
-Forms of remembrance and memory politics
-Climate change and mass violence
-Social origins of mass violence
-Genocide and the International Order
-Humanitarian interventions: chances and problems
-Gender and violence
- Late Ottoman population policy
- Soviet mass violence
- From Indonesia to Cambodia: genocides in Cold War Asia
- From Biafra to Darfur: mass violence in post independence Africa

We would be grateful, if you circulate this cfp as widely as possible.

Juergen Zimmerer
Director, Centre for the Study of
Genocide and Mass Violence/ University of Sheffield,

Humanities Research Institute
The University of Sheffield
34 Gell Street
Sheffield
S3 7QY

< http://www.genocidecentre.dept.shef.ac.uk/ >
< j.zimmerer@sheffield.ac.uk >
From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 12:21:55 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 11:24:46 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 QUERY: Improving educational opportunities for refugees and asylum seekers 
Message-ID: <018901c8cb0d$f0e8ef70$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

I am the co-ordinator of an NGO in Ireland working with Refugees and Asylum 
Seekers. Our main aim is to get them status to remain in Ireland, assist 
with English language learning needs and assistance towards integration and 
employment. We are currently working on funding applications around 
development education, particularly gender and development. I was wondering 
if any Urbanth-L colleagues could give us some guidance as to the steps we 
need to take in developing a strategy to introduce gender development 
education into the second level education system here. We would be very 
grateful for any assistance that you could offer as we currently have 562 
clients registered with us for assistance but have access to very little 
funding to deliver programmes.

Can I just say that correspondence on this listserv is most informative and 
has offered us a lot of direction. We have also participated in a number of 
Conferences and seminars worldwide highlighted through your e-mails. It has 
opened a new world of resources to us.

Many thanks,
Anne Nolan
Co-ordinator
Information and Support Unit for New Communities
Mount Sion
Barrack Street
Waterford
353 51 852564 (office landline) or 353 87 912 8166 (Cell phone) 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 12:32:47 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 11:34:47 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 QUERY REPOST: Improving educational opportunities for refugees and
 asylum seekers
Message-ID: <003c01c8cb0f$4cbb2420$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[moderator's note: Ann Nolan's email was not included in the previous email. 
Apologies for the reposting.]

From: Anne Nolan <anne.nolisu@gmail.com>

I am the co-ordinator of an NGO in Ireland working with Refugees and Asylum
Seekers. Our main aim is to get them status to remain in Ireland, assist
with English language learning needs and assistance towards integration and
employment. We are currently working on funding applications around
development education, particularly gender and development. I was wondering
if any Urbanth-L colleagues could give us some guidance as to the steps we
need to take in developing a strategy to introduce gender development
education into the second level education system here. We would be very
grateful for any assistance that you could offer as we currently have 562
clients registered with us for assistance but have access to very little
funding to deliver programmes.

Can I just say that correspondence on this listserv is most informative and
has offered us a lot of direction. We have also participated in a number of
Conferences and seminars worldwide highlighted through your e-mails. It has
opened a new world of resources to us.

Many thanks,
Anne Nolan
Co-ordinator
Information and Support Unit for New Communities
Mount Sion
Barrack Street
Waterford
353 51 852564 (office landline) or 353 87 912 8166 (Cell phone)
Email: anne.nolisu@gmail.com 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 15:17:16 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 14:19:13 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia
Message-ID: <00b601c8cb26$3d619420$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

We call for papers towards an edited volume tentatively titled Curried 
Cultures: Globalization, Food and South Asia.

Globalization makes national boundaries porous, as people, culture, goods, 
and ideas, move from one part of the world to another. New links are forged 
between the social structure and economy, between global markets and local 
governments, and between diverse cultures and peoples. During the process of 
globalization, the categories of the 'local' and the 'global' which were 
previously distinct, now become increasingly interwoven and problematized. 
This volume seeks to explore these changing categories in the globalizing 
world, by using the production and consumption of food, in and of South Asia 
as a lens with special emphasis on identity formation and maintenance.

The preparation and consumption of food affects various aspects of identity 
such as ethnic affiliation, gender constructs, notions of hierarchy, 
regional, micro regional, caste, and class based affiliations, national 
identity and so on. Food can be used variously as a signifier of 
cosmopolitanism, globalism, localism, traditionalism, or nationalism, and 
this book will discuss these various ideas with specific ethnographic 
examples located in of South Asia.

We are interested in papers that focus on a number of themes:
. The entry of multi national food corporations into South Asia and the 
response to these foods
. The rise of a global food industry in South Asia
. South Asian foods and Identity
. The history of South Asian foods and spices, and their globalization 
through colonization
. The Mughal empire, travel and food
. The British Empire, colonial discourse and food
. South Asian urbanism and street food
. Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi restaurants and the politics of the 
diaspora in the UK, Australia and the Middle East
. Women, food and the family: contemporary ethnographies
. The South Asian diasporic family and the relationship to food, and culture
. Nostalgia, the homeland and identity enacted and performed through food
. Menus, cookbooks and the reading of the diasporic condition
. Micro regional and caste based foods in South Asia and their global faces
. Nepali cuisine with its many variations, rural and urban divides
. Sri Lankan cuisine, travel and the exoticization of south Asian food
. Bangladeshi cuisine, chefs and international food markets
. Pakistani cuisine, specialty restaurants and the Middle East markets
. The popularity of South Asian "curry" in Japan and other Asian countries
. The recent popularity of South Asian foods and their connections 
(perceived or otherwise) with a medical therapeutic politics of being
. The politics of authenticity and the return to "indigenous" foods
. The emergent agro industry in South Asia and the changing face of urban 
food
. Urban foods of South Asia and their globalization
. The exoticization of South Asian foods, travel and new forms of 
representation
. Any other themes of interest

Please email a 500 word abstract to:

Tulasi Srinivas
Assistant professor of Anthropology
Emerson College
Tulasi_Srinivas@emerson.edu

The deadline for receiving abstracts is September 30, 2008. The abstracts 
must contain affiliation details as well as current contact information.

Editors will review the abstracts and authors of accepted abstracts will be 
invited to contribute to an edited volume by December 1, 2008. Submission 
date for final drafts is March 1, 2009.

Joint Editors:

Tulasi Srinivas
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Emerson College
and
Krishnendu Ray
Assistant Professor
Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health
New York University 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 15:30:33 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 14:31:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Urban Culture (6/20/08; MAPACA, 10/30-11/1/08)
Message-ID: <00d501c8cb28$194bd670$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

CFP: Urban Culture (6/20/08; MAPACA, 10/30-11/1/08)

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, October 30th-November 1st, 2008.

Small neighborhood cafes and stores are closing down, giving way to new 
condo buildings and chain stores; favorite parks dwindle in size, giving way 
to various markets and corporate businesses.Pedestrians smile to the tunes 
coming from their i-pods but not to each other.What is becoming of our 
cities? What is becoming of us, the residents of these cities? This year, 
the Urban Culture area of MAPACA aims to understand the production, 
negotiation, and loss of public space in the metropolitan city, in light of 
current conditions, such as the proliferation of technology, the effects of 
natural disaster, gentrification, and globalization. Presentations about 
unique, ordinary, temporary, and permanent public places are welcome as are 
presentations about the formation, sustenance, and disappearance of public 
self, itself a function of public place, in the context of the city. We seek 
historical or ethnographic studies of public sites, poetic accounts of 
personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated 
or surprisingly improvised public events in the city. If interested in 
participating in a workshop on "writing the urban," in addition to 
presenting a paper, please, indicate so. Please, send your 1-page paper 
abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to 
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by June 20th, 2007. This year, the 
Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in Niagara 
Falls, ON, Canada, Oct. 30th to Nov. 1st, 2008. Check also: www.mapaca.net.

Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10003
bmm202@nyu.edu 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Tue Jun 10 23:02:29 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Jun 10 22:03:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]POSTDOC: Space, the city and organization
Message-ID: <018601c8cb67$372809e0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

Postdoctoral Scholarship: Space, the city and organization

The Haniel Foundation (Germany), the University of St. Gallen 
(Switzerland) and the Leuphana University Lueneburg (Germany) invite 
applications to a 12 months-Postdoctoral program dedicated to "Space, the 
city and organization". The scholarship is scheduled for the academic year 
of 2008/09, to start on October 1, 2008.

The last years brought a renaissance of "space" as conceptual and 
analytical category as well as renewed attention to the spatiality of 
human life. Viewing space as an ongoing area of activity, the city as 
organizing platform is now (again) at the forefront of debate in the 
social and human sciences.

Applicants for the Postdoctoral Scholarship must hold a PhD in the Social 
Sciences or the Humanities and should have a number of publications in 
either of these fields. The ideal candidate should have a strong 
interdisciplinary interest in the issues outlined above. Furthermore, the 
candidate would be a productive and independent person preparing for an 
international academic career. The successful applicant will be based at 
the University of St. Gallen's Center for Social Enterprise. The duration 
of the PostDoc-Scholarship is for a minimum of one year with the 
posssibility for extension. The salary is 2500 EUR per month and also 
covers travel expenses.

Furthermore, the prospective scholar will be involved in setting up a 
seminar series at the universities in St. Gallen and Lueneburg, bringing 
together an international group of leading researchers in the field of 
spatial and urban theory to share their insights and ideas.
Interested candidates should electronically submit application documents 
along with a brief outline of research interests - and the corresponding 
research intentions as regards the scholarship - to Dr. Timon Beyes 
(timon.beyes@unisg.ch). Please send pdf-files only. Applications must be 
received no later than June 20, 2007.

Both Universities are committed to increase the number of women in science 
and therefore encourage women to apply for this PostDoc position.
 
Dr Richard G. Smith,
Senior Lecturer in Human Geography,
Centre for Urban Theory,
Department of Geography,
School of Environment & Society
Swansea University,
Singleton Park,
Swansea,
SA28PP,
UK
Email: r.g.smith@swan.ac.uk
Tel: +44(0)1792 602558
Fax: +44(0)1792 295955
Web Page:
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrich
ardg/

Forthcoming Book, Jean Baudrillard: Fatal Theories:
http://www.routledgesociology.com/books/Jean-Baudrillard-isbn9780415464420

Forthcoming Event (welcoming Paper & Poster Submissions), UGRG Annual 
Conference "Urban MultipliCITIES":
http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/
From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Jun 13 11:49:00 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 13 10:50:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Ethnography of NYC, Qualitative Summer Research
	Training
Message-ID: <023c01c8cd64$a0406ea0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from Comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu]

ResearchTalk, Inc., a qualitative research consulting company, would
like to announce the feature event of our Professional Development
Series:

The 6th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive

Location:  Long Island, New York
Dates:      August 9-14, 2008Website: 
http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_08.html

Our Summer Intensive features two-day and half-day courses, with an
explicit focus on the intersection of theoretical foundations and
practical skills across a range of qualitative analysis topics.
Featured Class, taught by Elijah Anderson:

*           August 9-10: Everyday Ethnography

The 'Everyday Ethnography' course provides insight into the ethnographic
method of social research.  Dr. Anderson is currently Lanman Professor
of Sociology at Yale University.  His publications include: A Place on
the Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men, Code of the Street:
Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, and Streetwise:
Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community.

Special Offer: Register for Dr. Anderson's class and receive a 20%
discount off your entire registration fee.  Enter the code "EE08" on the
registration form to receive the discount.  This offer applies to
standard pricing only and cannot be combined with any other discounts.
Payment must be received by June 27, 2008 to receive the discount.

Other Summer Intensive instructors include:
Kathy Charmaz * John Creswell * Leslie Curry * Carolyn Ellis * Alison
Hamilton * Valerie Janesick * Ray Maietta * Paul Mihas * Patricia
Pugliani * Debra Skinner

Additional course topics include:
Autoethnography * Coding * Grounded Theory * Large-Scale Qualitative
Research * Longitudinal Qualitative Research * Mixed Methods * Narrative
Analysis * Qualitative Data Collection * Qualitative Methods *
Qualitative Software (ATLAS.ti and MAXQDA) * Qualitative Writing

Please visit our website at http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_08.html
or email us at info@researchtalk.com for course schedules, registration
form, detailed course descriptions and instructor bios, information on
hotel accommodations, and more.

Jeff M. Petruzzelli, Program Coordinator
ResearchTalk, Inc.
Ph: (631) 218-8875

Email: information@researchtalk.com

Website: www.researchtalk.com





Hi Dr. Friedman,

I saw your email address on the CUSS website and had a question about the 
listserve.

ResearchTalk, Inc. is a qualitative research consultation company based in 
Long Island, NY.  Each year we sponsor a conference called the Qualitative 
Research Summer Intensive here on Long Island.  The event features a series 
of professional development workshops covering a range of topics relevant to 
qualitative analysis, taught by leading scholars in the field.  This year's 
event takes place in August.

We are happy to have Dr. Elijah Anderson teaching a course called 'Everyday 
Ethnography', on August 9-10.  We thought that his class might be of 
interest to CUSS members, and would like to inquire about the possibility of 
posting a message to the listserve describing our event and highlighting Dr. 
Anderson's course.  I am including a listserve message below, beneath my 
signature.

Please let me know if it is possible for you or another CUSS to post the 
message to the list on our behalf, or if you think we should join the list 
and post the message ourselves.

I thank you for your time and consideration.  Please contact me with any 
questions.

Thanks,
Jeff


Jeff M. Petruzzelli, Program Coordinator

ResearchTalk, Inc.
1650 Sycamore Avenue, Suite 53
Bohemia, NY 11716
Ph: (631) 218-8875
Fx: (631) 218-8873
Email: jeff@researchtalk.com

*2008 Qualitative Research Summer Intensive - August 9-14, 2008*



MESSAGE FOR LISTSERVE:

Subject: Everyday Ethnography with Elijah Anderson

Body of email:


ResearchTalk, Inc., a qualitative research consulting company, would like to 
announce the feature event of our Professional Development Series:

The 6th Annual Qualitative Research Summer Intensive
Location:  Long Island, New York
Dates:      August 9-14, 2008
Website: http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_08.html

Our Summer Intensive features two-day and half-day courses, with an explicit 
focus on the intersection of theoretical foundations and practical skills 
across a range of qualitative analysis topics.

Featured Class, taught by Elijah Anderson:
.           August 9-10: Everyday Ethnography

The 'Everyday Ethnography' course provides insight into the ethnographic 
method of social research.  Dr. Anderson is currently Lanman Professor of 
Sociology at Yale University.  His publications include: A Place on the 
Corner: A Study of Black Street Corner Men, Code of the Street: Decency, 
Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City, and Streetwise: Race, Class, 
and Change in an Urban Community.

Special Offer: Register for Dr. Anderson's class and receive a 20% discount 
off your entire registration fee.  Enter the code "EE08" on the registration 
form to receive the discount.  This offer applies to standard pricing only 
and cannot be combined with any other discounts.  Payment must be received 
by June 27, 2008 to receive the discount.

Other Summer Intensive instructors include:

Kathy Charmaz . John Creswell . Leslie Curry . Carolyn Ellis . Alison 
Hamilton . Valerie Janesick . Ray Maietta . Paul Mihas . Patricia Pugliani . 
Debra Skinner

Additional course topics include:
Autoethnography . Coding . Grounded Theory . Large-Scale Qualitative 
Research . Longitudinal Qualitative Research . Mixed Methods . Narrative 
Analysis . Qualitative Data Collection . Qualitative Methods . Qualitative 
Software (ATLAS.ti and MAXQDA) . Qualitative Writing


Please visit our website at http://www.researchtalk.com/summer_08.html or 
email us at info@researchtalk.com for course schedules, registration form, 
detailed course descriptions and instructor bios, information on hotel 
accommodations, and more.

Hope to see you in August!

Thanks,
Jeff

Jeff M. Petruzzelli, Program Coordinator
ResearchTalk, Inc.
Ph: (631) 218-8875
Email: information@researchtalk.com
Website: www.researchtalk.com 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Fri Jun 13 18:08:52 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Jun 13 17:10:09 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]WWW: The Right to the City - Lecture by David Harvey on
	Myspace
Message-ID: <005801c8cd99$b3b541b0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from CRIT-GEOG-FORUM@JISCMAIL.AC.UK]


From: Anders Lund Hansen  <anders.lund_hansen@KEG.LU.SE>

Dear all,

With permission from David Harvey, it is possible to watch his lecture on
The Right to the City at:

www.myspace.com/anders_lund_hansen

All the best,
Anders

______________________________________________
Anders Lund Hansen, phd, assistant professor
Department of social and economic geography
Lund University
S?lvegatan 10, 223 62 Lund, Sweden
phone +46 46 222 8762; fax +46 46 222 8401
homepage www.keg.lu.se/html/person.aspx?ID=3
______________________________________________


From gianluca.miscione at gmail.com  Sun Jun 15 14:16:00 2008
From: gianluca.miscione at gmail.com (Gianluca Miscione)
Date: Mon Jun 16 08:48:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Fwd: IFIP-TC9 HCC8 - Social Dimensions of ICT Policy / PROGRAMME
Message-ID: <011a01c8ced9$36c7fbc0$5327280a@gianlucml>

Please circulate









IFIP-TC9 HCC8

8th International Conference on Human Choice and Computers

on

Social Dimensions of ICT Policy

 

University of Pretoria

25-26 September 2008

 

Thursday 25 September

 

9:00 - 9:30      Opening session

                        Welcome speeches by conference organizers at the University of Pretoria

 

9:30 - 10:30     Plenary session: keynote speech

Communication, Information and ICT Policy: Towards enabling research frameworks, Robin Mansell

 

10:30 - 11:00   coffee break

 

11:00 - 12:30  Plenary session: Issues of governance of the information society

?  15 Years of Ways of Internet Governance: towards a new agenda for action, Jacques Berleur
      a.. Free and Open Source Software in low-income countries: emergent properties? (panel): Gianluca Miscione (chair), Dorothy K. Gordon, Kevin Johnston
 

12:30 - 14:00  lunch break

 

14:00 - 15:30 Track 1: Harnessing the empowering capacity of ICT

      a.. Government policies for ICT diffusion and  the governance of grassroots movements, Magda Hercheui 
      b.. Egyptian women artisans: ICTs are not the entry to modern markets, Leila Hassanin 
      c.. Digital divides and the role of policy and regulation: a qualitative study of Greece, Panayiota Tsatsou
 

                        Track 2: National information systems infrastructures

?         Institutional strategies towards improving health information systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, Solomon B. Bishaw

?         Technology, globalization and governance: research perspectives and prospects, Diego Navarra and Tony Cornford

?         Globalization and national security issues for the state: implications for national ICT policies, Jackie Phahlamohlaka

 

15:30 - 16:00  coffee break

 

16:00 - 17:30  Track 1: ICT and development in Africa

?         Examining trust in mobile banking transactions: the case of M-PESA in Kenya, Olga Morawczynski and Gianluca Miscione

?         Next generation ICT policy in South Africa: towards a human development-based ICT policy, Walter Brown and Irwin Brown

?         Challenges of ICT policy for rural communities: a case study from South Africa, Mpostol Jeremia Mashinini

 

                        Track 2: ICT in education

?         A human environmentalist approach to diffusion in ICT policies, Elaine Byrne and Lizette Weilbach

?         ICT and socio-economic development: a university's engagement in a rural community in Yola, Nigeria, Jainaba M.L. Kah and Muhammadou M.O. Kah

?         Lessons from a dropped ICT curriculum design project: a retrospective view, Roohollah Honarvar

 

Friday 26 September

 

9:00 - 10:00    Plenary session: keynote speech

                        Dorothy Gordon

 

10:00 - 10:30  coffee break

 

10:30 - 11:30  Plenary session: panel on the policy implications of a UK mega-programme in the health sector

Evaluating 'Connecting for Health': policy implications of a UK mega-programme, Kathy McGrath (chair) Jane Hendy, Ela Klekun, Leslie Willcocks, Terry Young

 

11:30 - 12:30  Plenary session: panel on ICT and women's empowerment

Gender research in Africa into ICTs for empowerment (GRACE), Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb (co-chairs), Gertrudes Macueve, Ibou Sane

 

12:30 - 14:00 lunch break

 

14:00 - 16:00 Track 1: European Union and national ICT policies

?         Empowerment through ICT: a critical discourse analysis of the Egyptian ICT policy, Bernd Carsten Stahl

?         American and African geospatial myths: the argumentative structure of spatial data infrastructure initiatives, Yola Georgiadou and Vincent Homburg

?         ICT policy as a governable domain: the case of Greece and the European Commission, Ioanna Chini

?         National variations of the information society: evidence from the Greek case, Dimitris Boucas

 

                        Track 2: Challenging two fundamental institutions of modernity: IPR and measurement

?         Social networks within filtered ICT networks: internet usage within Iran, Farid Shirazi

?         No-IPR model as solution to reuse and understanding of information systems, Kai K. Kimppa

?         Measuring ICT for development, Anouk Mukherjee

?         Open Access and Action Research, Mathias Klang

 

16:00 - 16:30 coffee break

 

16:30 - 17:30  Closing plenary session: Discussion of emerging issues on ICT policy research,  Chrisanthi Avgerou (chair)

 

From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun 16 09:54:27 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 16 08:55:28 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied
	Anthropology
Message-ID: <016801c8cfb0$1ea62da0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>

WHITEFORD GRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
IN APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY
 
The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) announces
its 2009 Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology, in honor
of Michael B. Whiteford and Scott Whiteford. Papers submitted to the award?s
committee are limited to a maximum length of six thousand words, including
bibliography, have an applied component, and be based on field research
carried out in Latin America, the Caribbean, or among first-generation
migrants from these areas.  The papers can be written in English, Spanish,
French or Portuguese and have been submitted to be presented at the 2009
SLACA Spring meetings in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marc 17-21.  The student
should be a member of SLACA.
 
The award is intended to help two students attend the 2009 SLACA Spring
Meetings, which will be held jointly with the Society for Applied
Anthropology in Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17 - 21, 2009.  The prize
consists of US $200.00 for a student registered in a graduate program in the
U.S.A. or Canada, and US $300 for a student registered in a graduate program
in Latin American or the Caribbean. Scott Whiteford will present the prize
during a SLACA event at the Santa Fe meetings.  We encourage anthropology
departments to support students entering the competition by providing
additional conference travel funds.
 
The Whiteford Graduate Student Award in Applied Anthropology in Latin
America/Caribbean was created through the enduring support of Michael B. and
Scott Whiteford who have donated all of the royalty income from their book
Crossing Currents: Continuity and Change in Latin America to the Society for
Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology since its publication in 1998.
Their contributions have allowed SLACA to support the travel of scholars of
Latin America in presenting their work at the annual meetings of the
American Anthropological Association. We are proud to extend the Whiteford?s
generosity to students? emerging scholarship at the annual meetings of the
Society for Applied Anthropology.
 
Please address queries and send papers to Walter E. Little at
wlittle@albany.edu

From summerinstitute.2008 at gmail.com  Fri Jun 13 11:59:43 2008
From: summerinstitute.2008 at gmail.com (Liz Grefrath)
Date: Mon Jun 16 08:57:15 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Civil Liberties after 9/11 lecture - invitation
Message-ID: <65d196df0806130759w6a2874c1x2aac7b952233cad2@mail.gmail.com>

Dear Friend,

You are cordially invited to the two public lectures hosted by the 2008
Summer Institute of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office is
proud to offer two public lectures on the themes of oral history, advocacy
work and the law.

The 2008 Summer Institute lectures will explore the parallel uses of oral
history and legal testimony in the classical definition of advocacy as
"finding and giving" voice. Relationships between human rights commissions,
tribunals and oral history documentation will be explored ? as well as
specific uses of oral history in legal advocacy work in capital crimes
proceedings, land claims work involving oral memory in indigenous
communities and the documentation of vulnerable communities in transition
generally.

Lectures will be held in 501 Schermerhorn Hall (
http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/), located on Columbia
University's Morningside Heights Campus. All lectures are free and open to
the public.

Hope to see you at the event. Please forward this announcement to anyone who
might be interested.
Best,

Liz Grefrath
Program Coordinator, Summer Institute

*Monday, June 16**
7:30 - 9:00pm*

*Michael Ratner, "War on Democracy: Civil and Human Rights Post-9/11"
Response: Gara LaMarche, "The Importance of Philanthropic Advocacy in the
Post-911 Era"*

*Michael Ratner* is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR),
a non-profit legal organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the
rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights. Over the last four decades CCR has lent its
expertise and support to virtually every popular movement for social and
racial justice. Since 9/11 CCR has spear-headed the struggle to restore the
fundamental right of habeas corpus and continues to combat the illegal
expansion of executive power and the American torture programs that have
undermined fundamental rights in the name of the so-called "war on terror,"
by representing victims of torture, rendition and domestic spying. Michael
Ratner was co-counsel in representing Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United
States Supreme Court in 2004. His leadership in the arena of human rights
continues to strengthen the role of the international rule of law to promote
justice and oppose armed aggression. He is the author of many books and
articles, including *Against War with Iraq* and *Guantanamo: What the World
Should Know* and the textbook, *International Human Rights Litigation in U.
S. Courts*. He has taught law at Yale Law School and Columbia University Law
School. Ratner is also the co-host of the popular radio program "Law and
Disorder." The recipient of many honors, he was also included in The
National Law Journal's list of "100 of the Most Influential Lawyers in
America."

*Gara LaMarche* is President and CEO of the Atlantic Philanthropies. Before
joining the Atlantic Philanthropies in April, 2007, Gara LaMarche was vice
president and director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute.
Prior to joining OSI in 1996, LaMarche served as associate director of Human
Rights Watch and was director of its Free Expression Project (1990-1996) and
the Freedom-To-Write Program of the PEN American Center (1988-1990). From
1976 to 1988, he served in a variety of positions with the American Civil
Liberties Union, including associate director of its New York branch
(1979-1984) and executive director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union
(1984-1988). In 1988-1989, he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future
of the City of New York. He is a graduate of Columbia University.

*Tuesday, June 17
**7:30-9:00pm*
*Winona** Wheeler, "Indigenous Oral Histories under the Gun: Bamboozled
Methodologies"*

*Winona Wheeler* (Cree/Assiniboine/Saulteaux/Irish/English with a dab of
Scot) is a member of the Fisher River Cree First Nation, Manitoba. She has
taught Indigenous Studies since 1988 and is currently an Associate Professor
in the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research at Athabasca
University. Dr. Wheeler has successfully petitioned the Canadian government
for land claims rights using oral history as a form of evidence.

For more information, please contact Liz Grefrath at
ecg2109@columbia.edu<summerinstitute.2008@gmail.com>
From jancius at ohio.edu  Mon Jun 16 10:03:53 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Jun 16 09:05:17 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Green Harbor Ph.D. Prize for Anthropological
	Fieldwork
Message-ID: <018801c8cfb1$711a01f0$1effa04c@D7ZX4M91>


Green Harbor Prize
For Anthropological Fieldwork

The Green Harbor Prize is a $500 award sponsored by Green Harbor Financial
to support anthropological fieldwork on economic activities that are
sustainable, eco-friendly, culturally sensitive, committed to community
engagement, and/or socially responsible.  This is intended as supplemental
funding for Ph.D. candidates doing their field research, and will only be
awarded to students who are (or will be) in a position to use the funds
for fieldwork-related expenses. Only students in graduate programs located
in CO,CT,DC,FL,GA,IN,MA,MD,NH,NY and VA will be eligible.

Preference will be given to proposals that explore the actual or theoretical 
linkages
between the proposed anthropological research and the field of socially 
responsible
investing.  Such exploration may be provisional.  The research does not have 
to be on
or about investment per se.  Applications will be accepted until April 30, 
2009,

Please see the following link for more information:

http://www.greenharborfinancial.com/Green_Harbor_Anthropology_Prize.aspx 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jun 18 10:32:04 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 18 09:33:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships,
	2009-12
Message-ID: <00ac01c8d147$b75037b0$9201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2009-2012

 The Princeton University Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts invites 
applications for three-year postdoctoral fellowships 2009-2012 for recent 
PhDs (January 2006-June 2009) in humanities or social sciences. FOUR 
appointments to pursue research and teach half-time include: Open discipline 
(two fellowships); Humanistic Studies; East Asian Humanities. Annual 
stipend: approximately $69,500. Application deadline: October 1, 2008. For 
details, see website www.princeton.edu/~sf

Contact Information
Lin DeTitta
10 Joseph Henry House
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544 USA
Phone: 609 258-4717
Email: ldetitta@princeton.edu
URL http://www.princeton.edu/~sf 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jun 18 10:34:16 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 18 09:35:33 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
	Fellowships
Message-ID: <00b001c8d148$05332eb0$9201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University awards 
approximately 50 fully funded fellowships each year. Radcliffe Institute 
fellowships are designed to support scholars, scientists, artists and 
writers of exceptional promise and demonstrated accomplishment, who wish to 
pursue work in academic and professional fields and in the creative arts. 
Applicants must have received their doctorate or appropriate terminal degree 
by December 2007 in the area of the proposed project. Radcliffe welcomes 
proposals from small groups of scholars who have research interests or 
projects in common. Please check the Web site for more information. The 
stipend amount is $70,000. Fellows receive office space and access to 
libraries and other resources of Harvard University. During the fellowship 
year, which extends from early September 2009 through June 30, 2010, 
residence in the Boston area is required as is participation in the 
Institute community. Fellows are expected to present their work-in-progress 
and to attend other fellows??? events. Applications must be postmarked by 
October 1, 2008. For more information, visit our Web site at 
www.radcliffe.edu. Write, call, or e-mail for an application: Radcliffe 
Application Office 8 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 ph: 617-496-1324 fax: 
617-495-8136 fellowships@radcliffe.edu

Eligibility Requirements: Scholars in any field with a doctorate or 
appropriate terminal degree at least two years prior to appointment (by 
December 2007) in the area of the proposed project are eligible to apply. 
Only scholars who have published at least two articles in journals or edited 
collections or one refereed journal are eligible to apply.

Contact Information
Jeff Potts
Email: jpotts@radcliffe.edu
URL http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/apply.aspx 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jun 18 21:06:06 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 18 20:09:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: The International Network for Urban Research and Action (INURA)
Message-ID: <00e601c8d1a0$91038a40$9201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>


Please circulate widely

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

INURA - The International Network for Urban Research and Action
INURA is a network of people involved in action and research in localities 
and cities. The Network consists of activists and researchers from community 
and environmental groups, universities, and local administrations, who wish 
to share experiences and to participate in common research. Examples of the 
issues that Network members are involved in include: major urban renewal 
projects, the urban periphery, community-led environmental schemes, urban 
traffic and transport, inner city labour markets, do-it-yourself culture, 
and social housing provision. In each case, the research is closely tied to, 
and is a product of, local action and initiative. [.] More info: 
http://www.inura.org/whatis.html

INURA Annual General Meeting 2008
This year's INURA conference with the topic "Non/De/Re- regulation: limits, 
exclusions and claims", will take place in Athens and its region (October 
03-10, 2008). As every year the "Annual INURA Conference" is a one-week 
event and is divided into two parts: First, we will explore the city of 
Athens through field trips and public events (Athens, October 03-06), 
followed by a retreat to the southern coast of Attika (Attiki region, 
October 07-10).

Call for papers
INURA08 Call for papers for the retreat
Due date for abstracts: September 5, 2008

Overview:
This year's INURA conference with the topic "Non/De/Re- regulation: limits, 
exclusions and claims", will take place in Athens and its region (October 
03-10, 2008). As every year the "Annual INURA Conference" is a one-week 
event and is divided into two parts: First, we will be exploring the city 
through field trips and public events (Athens, October 03-06), followed by a 
retreat to the countryside (Anavissos, October 07-10).

The retreat is a central feature of the International Network for Urban 
Research and Action. The purpose of the retreat of this year is (1) to 
present and discuss papers relating to the conference theme, (2) to present 
ongoing research and activism of INURA members, and (3) to focus on INURA 
specific matters (such as common research project, diversity and power 
relations, etc.). The retreat offers a relaxed setting for social 
interaction and networking.

Please note: Neither the retreat nor the conference have the character of a 
formal academic conference or workshop!!

Papers/Presentations/Inputs:

The ?retreat committee? welcomes and encourages contributions informed by 
research and/or activism by individuals or groups to the following topics:

1. The overall theme of the conference: " NON/DE/RE- regulation: limits, 
exclusions and claims "

2. Research, work and activities connected to the Common Research Projects 
of INURA

3. Contributions related to the INURA network and the wanted links between 
research and action, common projects, past, present and future.

Contributions should reflect on the following questions and issues:

Links Between Research and Action:

. How can radical research/projects inform and support progressive urban 
social and political movements and struggles?
. How to deal with the necessity particular and local issues/projects to 
wider and global movements and goals?
. What is the tradition/experience in your city/country with co-operation 
between academics, artists and activists?
. How to overcome unequal power relations- formal and informal hierarchies, 
discriminatory practices etc- inside collective (academic/activist) 
institutions and projects?

Submission Procedure:

Participants interested in presenting papers, films etc. or interested in 
organizing and preparing group sessions/workshops should submit a 250 word 
abstract, with a title that capture the core idea of your contribution, the 
general topic of what you want to address, how you will approach it, and 
what you hope to achieve. In addition, if/how the presentation/session is 
connected to the topics mentioned above.

Abstracts of proposed presentations are due by September 5, 2008. All 
abstracts of proposals and questions related to the presentations at the 
retreat should be send to: inura08@gmail.com

More info: http://inura08.wordpress.com/


*****************************************************
Chiara Tornaghi, PhD
Dept. of Sociology and Social Research
University of Milano-Bicocca
Italy

 


From jancius at ohio.edu  Sun Jun 22 11:39:48 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Jun 22 10:41:11 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Beyond the Tipping Point: Asian Development in an Urban World
Message-ID: <022201c8d475$ef23c4a0$9201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

UNU-WIDER Project Workshop,
Beyond the Tipping Point: Asian Development in an Urban World

This workshop will take stock of what we know and what we need to know about
cities and development in Asia, gather experiences of urbanization and urban
growth from the region, and offer policy options for an inexorably
urbanizing world.

We invite submissions of papers written on Asian cities on the topics
outlined in the call for papers at
http://www.wider.unu.edu/events/project-meetings/en_GB/15-12-2008/ . Those
wishing to present a paper should send a detailed abstract by 15 July 2008
to the email address given below. All applicants should submit a short CV,
including their full contact address, institutional affiliation, relevant
publications and professional experience, nationality, age and gender. Final
drafts of accepted papers are required by 15 November 2008.

There is no workshop fee. Subject to UN policies and procedures, UNU-WIDER
will cover the costs of meals, airport transfers and accommodation for
all-and air travel costs for some-workshop participants. Preference will be
given to funding participants from developing countries.

Project Directors:
Jo Beall, London School of Economics
Basudeb Guha Khasnobis, UN-WIDER (Basudeb@wider.unu.edu)
Ravi Kanbur, Cornell University
Email: bangkok@wider.unu.edu
From info at sfaa.net  Tue Jun 24 16:17:36 2008
From: info at sfaa.net (Society for Applied Anthropology)
Date: Wed Jun 25 12:57:38 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SfAA Call for Papers
Message-ID: <C486C090.15A90%info@sfaa.net>

Dear Colleagues,
 
Please publicize the following on your website, distribute to listserves,
and/or forward to your publications editor for newsletters, etc.
 
 
 
CALL FOR PAPERS
 
The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (papers and
posters) for the Program of the 69th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March
17-21, 2009.  The theme of the Program is ?Global Challenge, Local Action:
Ethical Engagement, Partnerships and Practice?.
 
The Society is a multi-disciplinary association that focuses on problem
definition and resolution.  We welcome papers from all disciplines.  The
deadline for abstract submission is October 15, 2008. For additional
information on the theme, abstract size/format, and the meeting, please
visit our web page (www.sfaa.net, click on ?Annual Meeting?).
 
If you have a webpage for links, please add the following:
 
The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce our 69th Annual
Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March 17-21, 2009.
For meeting information visit
http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html

Please contact me if you have any questions.
 
Melissa Cope
Society for Applied Anthropology
PO Box 2436
Oklahoma City, OK  73101
405-843-5113
405-843-8553 (fax)
melissa@sfaa.net



From jancius at ohio.edu  Wed Jun 25 19:38:15 2008
From: jancius at ohio.edu (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Jun 25 18:39:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Abe Fellowships
Message-ID: <008301c8d714$2a107ae0$9201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Abe Fellowships
 Deadline: September 1 annually
 http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the Japan Foundation  
Center for Global Partnership (CGP), and the American Council of 
Learned Societies (ACLS) announce the annual Abe Fellowship 
competition.  

The Abe Fellowship is designed to encourage international multidisciplinary
research on topics of pressing global concern. The Abe Fellowship
Program seeks to foster the development of a new generation of
researchers who are interested in policy-relevant topics of long-range
importance and who are willing to become key members of a bilateral  
and global research network built around such topics.

The Abe Fellowship Research Agenda
 
Applicants are invited to submit proposals for research in the social
sciences and related fields relevant to any one or combination of the
following three themes:


1) Traditional and Non-Traditional Approaches to Security and  
Diplomacy

Topic areas include transnational terrorism, internal ethnic and
religious strife, infectious diseases, food safety, climate change,  
and non-proliferation, as well as the role of cultural initiatives in  
peace building.

2) Global and Regional Economic Issues

Topic areas include regional and bilateral trade arrangements,
globalization and the mitigation of its adverse consequences,
sustainable urbanization, and environmental degradation.

3) Role of Civil Society

Topic areas include demographic change, immigration, the role of 
NPOs and NGOs as champions of the public interest, social 
enterprise, and corporate social responsibility.

Research projects should be policy relevant, contemporary, and
comparative or transnational.


Fellowship Terms

Terms of the fellowship are flexible and are designed to meet the  
needs of Japanese and American researchers at different stages in their
careers. The program provides Abe Fellows with a minimum of 3 and
maximum of 12 months of full-time support over a 24 month period.
Part-time residence abroad in the United States or Japan is required.

Eligibility


* This competition is open to citizens of the United States and
Japan as well as to nationals of other countries who can demonstrate
strong and serious long-term affiliations with research communities in
Japan or the United States.

* Applicants must hold a Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their
field, or equivalent professional experience. Applications from
researchers in professions other than academia are encouraged.


Contact Details

For further information and to apply, go to:
http://fellowships.ssrc.org/abe

Contact SSRC staff at abe@ssrc.org

From lance.arney at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 14:00:56 2008
From: lance.arney at gmail.com (Lance Arney)
Date: Thu Jun 26 13:01:29 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]an amazing conceptual map representing globalization
Message-ID: <4863cb49.0913c00a.293a.4151@mx.google.com>

For anyone studying globalization, globalizing capitalism, neoliberalism,
etc., there is an excellent conceptual map available at:

http://aworldmap.com/

Click on "PDF version of the map" to download a free version.


"A WORLD MAP: in which we see..." is a conceptual mapping project about
globalization, its processes and forces. Mapping concepts and discourses
rather specific geographies, it traces how, as a supra-national system of
economies, laws and institutions, globalization builds itself upon the
exclusion of certain persons and how prisoners and refugees, by rendering
them "without rights," are then used to fill these excluded positions.
.


From bmm202 at nyu.edu  Sat Jun 28 11:48:41 2008
From: bmm202 at nyu.edu (Blagovesta Momchedjikova)
Date: Thu Jul 17 15:00:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Urban Culture (deadline extended 7/10/08; MAPACA,
 10/30-11/1/08)
In-Reply-To: <f25782645ddd.48398de6@mail.nyu.edu>
References: <f25782645ddd.48398de6@mail.nyu.edu>
Message-ID: <f24aa148434e.48664137@mail.nyu.edu>

dear all: 
the deadline for submissions for the conference has been officially extended till july 10th, 2008. so, if you still have work you would like to present, please, do not hesitate to e-mail me. 
thanks. 
blagovesta

Urban Culture Area, Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture 
Association, Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, October 30th-November 1st, 
2008. 
  
Small neighborhood cafes and stores are closing down, giving way to new condo buildings and chain stores; favorite parks dwindle in size, giving way to various markets and corporate businesses?Pedestrians smile to the tunes coming from their i-pods but not to each other?What is becoming of our cities? What is becoming of us, the residents of these cities? This year, the Urban Culture area of MAPACA aims to understand the production, negotiation, and loss of public space in the metropolitan city, in light of current conditions such as the proliferation of technology, the effects of natural disaster, gentrification, and globalization. Presentations about unique, ordinary, temporary, and permanent public places are welcome as are presentations about the formation, sustenance, and disappearance of public self, itself a function of public place, in the context of the 
city. We seek historical or ethnographic studies of public sites and events, poetic accounts of personal geographies through cities, and explorations of highly orchestrated or surprisingly improvised events in designated areas in the city. 
If interested in participating in a workshop on ?writing the urban,? in addition to presenting a paper, please, indicate so. 
 
Please, send your 1-page paper abstracts and 1-paragraph recent bios as virus-free, Word attachments to Blagovesta Momchedjikova, bmm202@nyu.edu, by July 10th, 2008. This year, the Mid-Atlantic Popular Culture/American Culture Association meets in Niagara Falls, ON, Canada, October 30th to November 1st, 2008. Check: http://www.mapaca.net/confer/conferHome.html. 
  
Blagovesta Momchedjikova, PhD
New York University
Expository Writing Program
411 Lafayette, 4th Floor
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From chris.caruso at gmail.com  Thu Jun 26 13:47:59 2008
From: chris.caruso at gmail.com (Chris Caruso)
Date: Thu Jul 17 15:01:48 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey
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Announcing a new open course:

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Professor David Harvey has been teaching Marx's Capital Volume I for
nearly 40 years. Now, for the first time, his entire course is being
made available online at:

http://davidharvey.org

This free online course consists of 13 two-hour video lectures by
David Harvey, sharing his famous close reading of the text of Marx's
Capital, Volume I. You can watch the videos online, or subscribe to
the podcast. The first three classes are already available, and a new
class is being posted each week.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the City
University of New York (CUNY) and author of numerous books, including
The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, and A Brief
History of Neoliberalism.

http://davidharvey.org

