From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep  1 00:12:16 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Aug 31 23:12:32 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Class, Conflict and Collaboration in Greening Indian Cities (Delhi)
Message-ID: <002801c90be0$8d15dd50$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

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

PUKAR
Invites You To

The 5th Annual PUKAR Lecture

Public Interests:
Class, Conflict and Collaboration
In Greening Indian Cities

Environment and Development concerns are at the heart of building and 
regulating roads in Indian cities today.  As they try and reduce human 
and vehicular traffic, the ways in which many city planners and 
citizens' associations see and make new roads, produce particular kind 
of public space. How and why is the World-Class road made?

The speakers at the Fifth Annual Pukar Lecture will present their work 
in Delhi and Chennai, as a way to think about and beyond the effects of 
these projects in several Indian cities today.

Speakers

Amita Baviskar
Associate Professor
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

"Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws
Bourgeois Environmentalism and the Battle for City Streets"

Karen Coelho
Assistant Professor
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai

"Walkers and Hawkers: Politics of Pavements in Chennai"

Moderator

Nikhil Anand
PUKAR Associate and
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

Friday, September 5, 2008

6:00-6:30 PM Tea, 6:30-8:30 PM Lecture

Venue: Nehru Centre, Hall Of Culture,"Opposite Art Gallery", Dr.
Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai - 400 018

RSVP: By September 1, 2008

------------------------

PUKAR (Partners for Urban Knowledge, Action and Research)
Address:: 272, Municipal Tenements, Shivaji Nagar, BMC Colony, Kher
Wadi Road, Bandra (East), Mumbai - 400 051
T: 91 22 6574 8152    E: pukar@pukar.org.in
Website::www.pukar.org.in

PUKAR is an innovative and experimental initiative that aims to
contribute to a global debate about urbanization and globalization.
From us209 at cam.ac.uk  Mon Sep  1 15:48:39 2008
From: us209 at cam.ac.uk (U. Staiger)
Date: Mon Sep  1 10:52:23 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]"Signs of the City" conference, London
Message-ID: <Prayer.1.2.3.0809011448390.22519@hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk>

Dear colleagues,

I would like to draw your attention to the forthcoming one-day seminar "Signs of the City". To be held on 4 October 2008 at the Goethe Institute in London, this is an interdisciplinary event exploring perspectives on arts practice in education in relation to young people's urban culture. It will be of particular relevance to cultural researchers interested in visual methodologies, participatory arts, citizenship and European urban cultures.

The event is co-organized by the Centre of Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College (University of London), the Goethe Institute London, and youth art organizations Watermans (London) and urban dialogues (Berlin). It is based on the experiences of the European Commission funded Signs of the City project (www.citipix.net), a multi-media participatory arts project between Berlin, London, Sofia and Barcelona.  

Speakers at the event include:

?	Michael Keith, Centre of Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths  
        College, University of London
?	Gillian Rose, Cultural Geography, Open University
?	Graham Jeffery, Performing Arts Development, University of East London 
?	Ben Gidley, CUCR, Goldsmiths College, University of London
?	David Pinder, Geography, Queen Mary College, University of London (TBC)
?	Aida S?nchez de Serdio Mart?n, Fine Arts, University of Barcelona 
?	Fiona Fieber, SPACE Media, London
?	Monica Segura M?rquez, artist, Berlin
?	Rudolf Netzelmann, urban dialogues, Berlin 
?	Douglas Nicolson, artist, Space Media, London
?	Melissa Bliss, artist, Freqout, London

While attendance is free of charge, please email a.tu@gold.ac.uk by Friday, 19 September, to register for this event.

Date:      Saturday 4 October 2008 
Location:  Goethe Institute London
           50 Princes Gate
           Exhibition Road
           London SW7 2PH

-- 
Uta Staiger
University of Cambridge
us209@cam.ac.uk






From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep  1 18:48:34 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep  1 17:48:54 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 VIDEO: Solidarity Coalition with Katrina & Rita Survivors & Right
 to the City, NYC Protest
Message-ID: <008601c90c7c$823ddc60$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2743080955122219086&hl=en


Video Clip

New York Solidarity Coalition with Katrina and Rita Survivors & Right to
the City - NYC alliance Protest


Aug 31, 2008 New Orleans is on the front lines in the struggle against
displacement and gentrification in the United States ... 
From heidi.villikka at nuorisotutkimus.fi  Tue Sep  2 12:14:00 2008
From: heidi.villikka at nuorisotutkimus.fi (Heidi Villikka)
Date: Tue Sep  2 09:51:53 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Generations in flux- conference: Deadline for submitting abstracts
 is extended to 15.9.2008!
Message-ID: <5B6371C4D2750546B1DD070D8A9173A7017E2779@allisrv1>

Generations in flux

?international interdisciplinary conference on ethnicity, integration and family ties

October 23-24,2008 Helsinki, Finland

 

Deadline for submitting abstracts is extended to 15.9. 2008

          

for the following sessions:

 

3)      Intergenerational dynamics: between individualisation and interconnectedness among diaspora groups in Scandinavia

4)      Memory and belonging in diaspora communities

a.       Diaspora community, its memory through age and generations

b.      Movement and belonging: perceptions on self in an intergenerational context in diasporic communities

5)      Multiple membership and changing forms of citizenship in youth cultures

6)      Religion in the world of diversity: perspectives to religious identity and education

7)      Health and caring in immigrant populations

8)      Diversity management in global metropolis: border controls and precarious labour?

9)      Interdisciplinary approaches to the right to culture as a human right

10)   Multicultural identity and language

12)   Organising foreignness

a.       Governing territories and populations

b.      Immigrant integration: between culture and politics

13)   Research on multiculturalism, ethnic relations and racism: methodological and ethical challenges

 

Participants wishing to present papers are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 200 words.  All abstracts must be submitted online using the abstract submission form which can be found from the conference website: 

http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/sivu.php?artikkeli_id=719 <https://alli-talo.alli.fi/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/sivu.php?artikkeli_id=719> 

 

New deadline for the abstract submission is September 15. 

 

Information about the acceptance of the paper will be sent to each participant by email in 1st of October. The organisers reserve themselves the right to move papers between sessions. 

 

More information about the conference, including fees and registration, as well as about the submission of abstracts and session themes are available at http://www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi/sivu.php?artikkeli_id=685

 

Please forward this Second Call for papers to colleagues and all others with an interest in study of Ethnic Relations, International Migration or Youth Research. 

 

Heidi Villikka

Conference secretary

The Finnish Youth Research Society

Asemap??llik?nkatu 1 (2nd floor)

00520 Helsinki

FINLAND 

 

heidi.villikka@nuorisotutkimus.fi

+358 20 755 2657

www.nuorisotutkimusseura.fi

 

 

From Gillian.Vogl at scmp.mq.edu.au  Thu Sep  4 10:52:14 2008
From: Gillian.Vogl at scmp.mq.edu.au (Gillian Vogl)
Date: Thu Sep  4 10:52:19 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ARC Future Fellowships through CRSI, Macquarie Uni
Message-ID: <48BFAFCD.E8EB.0046.0@scmp.mq.edu.au>

Macquarie University is seeking Expressions of Interest from outstanding
researchers who wish to apply for an Australian Research Council Future
Fellowship to be based at Macquarie University in 2009. The Centre for
Research on Social Inclusion (CRSI) one of the ?Concentrations of
Research Excellence? (CoREs) at Macquarie University offers a rich
interdisciplinary environment with scholars engaged in philosophical,
social and cultural research on key social issues such as work reform,
globalisation, cities, migration, multiculturalism, racism and welfare (
see http://www.crsi.mq.edu.au/). 

>From 2009-2013, up to 200 new four-year Future Fellowships will be
awarded each year to mid-career researchers at two levels to reflect the
breadth of experience of candidates - Step 1 $95,000 per annum and Step
2 $135,000 per annum. Mid-career is defined as those who have between
five and 15 years experience since the award of PhD, or equivalent
research qualification of experience. Fellows will be offered continuing
positions at Macquarie University at the end of the four-year Fellowship
term, subject to performance review. If you are interested in applying
for an ARC Futures Fellowship through CRSI, please contact Associate
Professor Marion Maddox. Email: marion.maddox@scmp.mq.edu.au or Phone
(02) 9850 4431



Dr Gillian Vogl
Research Fellow
Centre for Research on Social Inclusion
Macquarie University
Tel: 0410 882 084
Email: Gillian.Vogl@scmp.mq.edu.au

From sdabbous at ndu.edu.lb  Sun Sep  7 14:46:14 2008
From: sdabbous at ndu.edu.lb (Sensenig Dabbous)
Date: Mon Sep  8 13:11:05 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Migrant voting rights - Middle East
References: <35AE4189045B448F87A8B916E2511796@Jus>
Message-ID: <195B3925FC5D064EAB3C60E69C078D16D90006@elyssa.ndu.edu.lb>

ABSENTEE VOTING SURVEY - LEBANON

 

The Lebanese Emigration Research Center is part of the stakeholder process working for electoral reform and democratization in the country. Please forward the this mail to anyone you know of Lebanese decent living in the diaspora (Gulf states, West Africa, Americas, Europe, Australia, etc.). You can find the questionnaire on the LERC website at the link below. 

Express your opinion regarding Out-of-Country Voting. Fill out the questionnaire and send it back to LERC. http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/news.htm <http://www.ndu.edu.lb/lerc/news.htm>    

Alternatively, you can download the form directly at this direct URL: http://www.ndu.edu.lb/Lerc/News/Questionnaire-out-of-country-voting-LERC-Aug_2008.doc 





From dhaines1 at gmu.edu  Sun Sep  7 18:49:33 2008
From: dhaines1 at gmu.edu (David Haines)
Date: Mon Sep  8 13:12:39 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA nominations committee
Message-ID: <200809081605.m88G5BJX030895@ppoint1.cc.ysu.edu>

To SUNTA members:

We are seeking one volunteer for our
nominations committee from the general
membership (to supplement two members
of the committee from the SUNTA board).

If you are interested, send me a quick
email. This is not onerous: just thinking
through who might be some good people
for two upcoming SUNTA vacancies and
for SUNTA nominees for general AAA
office.

Best regards,

-- David Haines (SUNTA president)


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep  8 14:37:38 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep  8 13:38:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Global Civil Society and Poverty
Message-ID: <012701c911d9$9ab3a650$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Global Civil Society and Poverty Call for Papers
Deadline: October 1, 2008


Call for short empirical case studies on global civil society 
phenomena/strategies to tackle poverty in or from the North.

These will form a chapter in the 2009 Global Civil Society Yearbook, which 
focuses on the framings, strategies and impacts of various global civil 
society actors on poverty and its alleviation.

Inspired by several exciting empirical case studies on poverty and gcs 
in/from the North, we have created an additional chapter that could comprise 
for example, the phenomena of pro-poor gifts promoted by NGOs, civil society 
responses to/impacts on post-katrina American South, the influence of the US 
Poor People's Economic Rights Commission, and microfinance in the North. 
Each case study would be 2000-3000 words, for which there is a small fee of 
?500.

We are looking for researchers - including advanced PhD students - who are 
studying any such civil society strategies/phenomena and who would be 
interested in providing short empirical case studies for Global Civil 
Society 2009.

As the deadline is 1 Oct 08, we envisage your research is nearing completion 
and you are keen to publish it in a prestigious publication.

The Yearbook, now in its eighth year, is a collaboration between the Centre 
for the Study of Global Governance at LSE, the Center for Civil Society at 
UCLA, and this year the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai.


Fiona Holland
f.c.holland@lse.ac.uk


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep  8 14:44:40 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep  8 13:45:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: AIDS in Culture IV (Mexico City)
Message-ID: <012b01c911da$93f5ec00$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers:
Aids in Culture IV: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS
M?xico City, 9 - 13 December 2008
Deadline: September 25, 2008-09-25 (deadline extended)

Focus for the 5th edition of the conference cycle "Aids in Culture: 
Explorations in the Cultural History of Aids": Imaging and Imagining Aids: 
The nature and role of images, visual representations, imagination and 
narrative interpretation in making sense of experiences of health, illness 
and disease.
Deadline for abstract Submissions: September 25, 2008 (Deadline has been 
extended).

Conference Languages: English, Castilian, German, French and Nahuatl
Homepage: http://www.aidsinculture.org

AIDS is not simply an illness or a biomedical phenomenon. The conference 
cycle "AIDS in Culture" organised by Enkidu Magazine in Mexico City and the 
International Society for Cultural History and Cultural Studies (CHiCS) in 
cooperation with CNDH (The National Human Rights Commission in Mexico) seeks 
to examine cultural responses to AIDS in different cultures and societies 
across a wide range of perspectives.

The conference will explore the processes by which AIDS is constructed as a 
cultural phenomenon and how different societies in their encounters with 
AIDS attempt to create meaning in health, illness and disease. The 
conference aims at bringing together academics working in all relevant 
disciplines as well as activists, artists and other professionals, and 
promoting innovative multidisciplinary and multicultural exchange and 
dialogue.

AIDS in Culture has already developed into an annual tradition and will be 
organised for the fifth time in 2007 in Mexico City. In 2004 Aids in Culture 
took place in the National Center for Human Rights (CNDH) in Mexico City and 
had artistic and aesthetic responses to AIDS/HIV as a special focus. The 
Artist of the Conference was Rolando de la Rosa -Mexican sculptor and 
painter-. In 2005 AIDS in Culture II was held in the Archivo Hist?rico 
Santamar?a in the city of Papantla in the Mexican Federal State of Veracruz. 
The second edition of the conference cycle had Indigenous knowledge and 
conceptions of AIDS in Latin America, Africa and New Guinea as its core 
theme. The Artist of the Conference was Morgan Alexander -American 
photo-ethnographer-.

In 2006 AIDS in Culture III returned to Mexico City. The conference was 
organised in a large number of special thematic sessions covering a diverse 
series of topics extending from "The History of AIDS Activism", 
"Representations of Aids in Literature", "Aids in Education" to "The 
Politics of Aids and Aids in Politics" and "Perceptions of Aids in Lesbian 
Sub-Cultures in Mexico". The artist of the conference was Arturo Ramirez 
Ju?rez, Mexican painter, who died of AIDS in 1987.

In 2007 the conference activities took place both in the National Human 
Rights Commission in Mexico City and in Hotel del Portal in the city of 
Puebla. The conference had a special focus on Aids and Otherness and Aids in 
narratives of identities. Many of the papers presented in 2007 addressed 
issues related to translations between cultures and re-negotiations and 
re-constructions of cultural identities in one way or another in relation to 
AIDS and HIV. In 2007 the conference exhibitions were "Vihda y Draguer?a - 
Life & Dragness" by Antonio Marquet from Mexico and "The Experiences of 
HIV/AIDS for Mothers" by Samia Omar from Kenya.

In 2008, the conference will have the subtitle: Imaging and Imagining Aids: 
The nature and role of images, visual representations, imagination and 
narrative interpretation in making sense of experiences of health, illness 
and disease.

UNESCO has proclaimed 2008 as International Year of Languages and linguistic 
diversity and coexistence will be a common theme of many academic, cultural 
and artistic activities organised by Enkidu Magazine throughout the year in 
Mexico City. Also during Aids in Culture V, there will be a stream of panel 
sessions addressing the role of local languages in combating AIDS/HIV and 
other diseases by safeguarding of local and indigenous knowledge and 
know-how.

However, also in 2008 the conference will follow a similar model as in 
previous years with a large number of thematic sessions addressing several 
different issues. Papers are welcomed on virtually all related topics and 
themes related to the cultural and social construction of Aids, 
independently of time period and space. Also papers of comparative phenomena 
will be considered. Interdisciplinary perspectives are encouraged.

Among the themes of interest are the following:

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

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

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

* DISABLED PARTICIPANTS
We are pleased to announce that printed conference materials that will be 
distributed during the conference, also will be available in large print or 
Braille on request. If you require sign language interpretation during your 
session, or you would like to distribute handouts or other materials in 
Braille during your presentation, please indicate this in the registration 
form.

Registration Form for Participants with disabilities:
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/disca.htm

Participants with disabilities are recommended to fill in this form if they 
require any special support or assistance during the event or during social 
and cultural activities before or during the conference.

* PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in 
English, Castilian, German or French by 25, September 2008. The conference 
languages will be English and Castilian. Interpretations of the conference 
theme ranging from the predictable to the surprising are encouraged.
Papers should be of approximately 20 - 30 minutes duration (circa 8 - 10 
pages). Other forms of presentation, for instance workshops, panel debates 
and poster sessions will be considered on request.

* PROPOSALS FOR PANEL SESSIONS
Typically, a panel of academic papers should include 3 (maximum 4) speakers 
and 1 moderator (session chair). Each session will last for 2 hours allowing 
for 30 minutes for each speaker and a further 30 minutes for questions and 
discussion.
Proposers should submit:
(1) Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
(2) Paper titles,
(3) Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
(4) Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 
words),
(5) Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
(6) Audio-visual and other technical requirements.
If you would like to propose a panel session, and want assistance in finding 
speakers and/or a session chair, we can publish a call for papers for your 
panel session on the conference web site and distribute it in our 
newsletter. If you have an idea for a thematic panel session and would like 
us to publish a call for papers on the conference website, please send us a 
proposal by e-mail to info@enkidumagazine.com

* PROPOSALS FOR INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Abstracts are to be submitted by 15th of August 2008, along with the 
presenter's name, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation. 
It is recommended to use the form here: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/registration_en.htm when 
submitting an abstract. However, abstracts will also be accepted as e-mail 
attachments to info@aidsinculture.org
All correspondence for this conference will be conducted via email. You will 
be notified by the 25th of September 2008 whether your proposal has been 
accepted or rejected. Full conference papers should be submitted by the 1st 
of November 2008. Abstracts and summaries of the conference papers will be 
made available at the conference web page from August 2008.
We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted within 
few days. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume 
we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We 
suggest, then, to resend your abstract and resubmit your registration form, 
and if possible, suggest an alternative e-mail address. In particular 
delegates using hotmail or yahoo accounts to receive conference related 
e-mails often experience problems receiving conference information by 
e-mail.
E-mails from the conference organisers are often delivered to your spam 
folder and not to your inbox, unless you remember to add the following 
e-mail addresses: info@aidsinculture.org and liowlb@aidsinculture.org to 
your safe-list. The first address is the general e-mail address of 
AIDSinCULTURE.org and will be used to send conference newsletters and 
general information. The second, is the e-mail address of the academic 
coordinator of the conference and will be used for individual communication 
with delegates.

* EXHIBITORS, PUBLISHERS AND ARTISTS:
Artists are welcome to suggest exhibitions and displays of art during the 
conference.
Organisations, universities and publishers are welcome to sign up for 
information stands at the conference center.
The following information is required by artists, publishers and other 
exhibitors during the conference:
1) Technical Description of the information stand or artwork with 
indications of technical requirements for their presentation, the size and 
extension of the individual artworks to be presented.
2) Estimated Insurance value of the artworks
3) One image of a representative sample of artistic work from the 
exhibitions can be sent by e-mail to the conference organizers in the format 
tiff or jpg.
4) Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).
5) Description of Exhibition (300 - 500 words).
6) Short bio of artist (or organisation).

* CULTURAL AND SOCIAL PRE-CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
The academic sessions with formal paper presentations will take place 
between 9 and 13 December, 2008. In the 2 weeks before the conference, we 
will organise a number of cultural and social activities for conference 
delegates and we hope that many international delegates will consider 
arriving in Mexico City some days before the conference and participate in 
these activities, which will include a guided tour to Teotihuacan, a city 
walk through colonial and Aztec Mexico City, and an exploration of the 
floating gardens of Xochimilco.
In addition conference delegates with name badges will be given discounts 
and sometimes free access to various theatre plays, concerts, film 
screenings and other events before and during the conference. The final 
program for the cultural and social pre-conference activities will be 
published on the conference web site in September 2008 and will be announced 
also in the conference newsletter, which will be distributed by e-mail in 
the months before the conference.

* REGISTRATION FEE for "Aids in Culture V":
Payment received via PayPal or bank transfer in advance (Payments completed 
before 1. September 2008):
- Waged delegates (speakers): 150 USD/1700 MXP
- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 80 USD/900 MXP
- Media Observer: 70 USD/800 MXP
- Observer Participant (Listener): 70 USD/800 MXP
Payment in cash, payment on location, and payments received after 1. October 
2008:
- Waged delegates (speakers): 175 USD/1800 MXP
- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 100 USD USD/1100 MXP
- Media Observer: 70 USD/800 MXP
- Observer Participant (Listener): 70 USD/800 MXP

Enkidu and the participating organisations will not be able to provide 
travel support for conference delegates. It is therefore strongly 
recommended to apply for a scholarship or a grant from other sources.
Centro Cultural Enkidu
http://www.enkidumagazine.com

Calle Ezequiel Montes #37, int. 2
Colonia Tabacalera
06030 Mexico D.F.
Mexico
Email: info@enkidumagazine.com

Visit the website at http://www.aidsinculture.org


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep  9 12:54:16 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  9 11:55:30 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Global Health & Development Conference
Message-ID: <00eb01c91294$6b7e7840$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

 This Global Health Conference at Yale will likely be of interest to you, 
and we would appreciate it if you could please forward this announcement to 
anyone who may be interested in attending or presenting at the conference. 
You are encouraged to submit an abstract for a presentation related to 
medicine, public health, global health, international development, social 
entrepreneurship, among other topics.  The abstract deadline is September 
15, and abstracts must be submitted through the online system at 
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

Register and/or submit an abstract. Abstract deadline is September 15. 
Registration rate increases monthly.  Please forward widely.

Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference
Yale University
April 18-19, 2009
"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN Calls "A 
Meeting of Minds"
When: April 18-19, 2009
Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
What: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international 
conference

NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission - Abstract deadline is 
September 15
Register For Conference REGISTER NOW TO SECURE LOWEST RATE. Rate escalates 
each month.
Interested in submitting an abstract? Anyone may submit an abstract. 
Abstract submitters range from students to professionals.
Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public health, 
international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care, philanthropy, 
microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics, anthropology, 
health policy, advocacy, environmental health, service-learning, medical 
education, and public service.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA, Former US Assistant Surgeon General, Clinical 
Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown School of Medicine and Tufts 
University Medical Center; Senior Medical Advisor, amfAR (The Foundation for 
AIDS Research
Allan Rosenfield, MD, Dean Emeritus, Mailman School of Public Health; 
Professor of Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health; Professor of 
Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia 
University
Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University; 
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy 
and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General of 
the United Nations Ban Ki-moon
Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village Project
Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering 
Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Confirmed Leaders of Social Innovation Speakers
Gene Falk, Co-Founder, Executive Directors, mothers2mothers
"The HealthStore Foundation: Improving Access to Life-Saving Medicines 
through Micro-Franchising," Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and 
Co-Founder, HealthStore Foundation
"The Impact of the Food and Nutrition Crisis on the Global Health Agenda," 
Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children
Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Partners in Health; Director, 
Institute for Health and Social Justice; Assistant Professor, Harvard 
Medical School; Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, Brigham 
and Women's Hospital

Confirmed Featured Speakers
"Progress Towards Eliminating Blindness Due To Trachoma: Findings of 
Post-Intervention Impact Trachoma Prevalence Surveys in Seven Countries," 
Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International 
Trachoma Initiative
"Unearthing Local Definitions of Child Protection and Well-Being," Alastair 
Ager, PhD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health, Mailman 
School of Public Health, Columbia University
Jared Ament, MD, MPH, Clinical Research Fellow, Ophthalmology & Corneal 
Surgery, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard Medical School; 
Harvard School of Public Health
"Holistic Children's Services For Orphans Abroad," Jane Aronson, MD, 
Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and Executive 
Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of 
Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
"Workshop: How To Create An Organization To Do Community Work Abroad," Jane 
Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services; Founder and 
Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation (WWO); Clinical Assistant 
Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Elizabeth Ashbourne, Results Secretariat, OPCS, World Bank
Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana
Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor, 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Sheri Berenbach, MBA, Executive Director, Calvert Foundation
"An Innovative Program to Deliver Vision Care to Persons with Intellectual 
Disabilities - Special Olympics Lions Clubs International Opening Eyes," 
Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special 
Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes
David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence 
James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global 
Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health
"Protecting Children in Disaster and War: Efforts to Professionalize the 
Field," Neil Boothby, EdD, Professor of Clinical Population and Family 
Health, Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman 
School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Cuba: Care-Giver to the World," Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, 
Oxford University; Vice Chancellor Emeritus, St. George's University; 
Formerly Special Assistant to the President of the United States for Health 
Issues; Chair, Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Elizabeth Bradley, PhD, Professor of Public Health, Division of Health 
Policy and Administration; director, Health Management Program; Director, 
Global Health Initiatives, Yale School of Public Health
Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International
Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Epidemiology 
and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
Michael Chu, MBA, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Harvard 
Business School
James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye Clinic, 
Ghana
Lisa Croucher, Assistant Director, Education and Training, Global Health 
Institute, Duke University
"The American Medical Model - Are We Right To Export It?" Emmanuel 
d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor, International Rescue 
Committee
Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
Marva Eberhart, Teacher For Visually Impaired, Kansas City, Missouri School 
District; Unite For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
"Climate Instability: Health Problems and Health Solutions," Paul Epstein, 
MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, 
Harvard Medical School
Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human 
Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of 
Public Health at Emory University
"The Role of Cultural Competency in International Health Care and 
Volunteerism," Valda Ford, MPH, MS, RN, CEO and Founder, Center For Human 
Diversity
"Improving Eye Care in Rural Hunan Province, China," Susan Forster, MD, 
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical Studies, Department of 
Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief, Ophthalmology, Yale 
University Health Services
James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas International
Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance
Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan
"Nutritional Management of Cataracts," Heskel Haddad, MD, Ophthalmologist; 
President, Optoed Corp, Inc.
Rebecca Hardin, PhD, Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources and 
Environment and Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Susan Hayes, President and CEO, Interplast
Steve Hilton, President, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic Disease 
Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale University School 
of Medicine
"Challenges and Potential of Genetic Manipulation of Insect Vectors of 
Disease," Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology 
and Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public 
Health
"Eye Care Services in Liberia: The Post War Challenges," Kartee Karloweah, 
ON, RN, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana
"Atrocities and Social Entrepreneuriship," Zachary Kaufman, JD Candidate, 
Yale Law School; DPhil Candidate in International Relations, Oxford 
University
Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice, 
Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health
Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite 
For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana
Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders
"Improved Instruments for Trachoma Surgery," Doug Lawrence, Vice 
President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic Systems
Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of 
Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health; 
Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health 
Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering 
Director, Duke-Engineering World Health, Duke University
"A Vaccine To Prevent AIDS: When and How," John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice 
President, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)
Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society 
Initiative, The Aspen Institute
Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager, 
Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and Globalization 
Fellow, Columbia University
Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact 
Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of 
Pennsylvania
Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition, 
Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg 
School of Public Health
Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral 
Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York 
Medical College School of Public Health
"Global Health Education: The Penn Program As Example," Neal Nathanson, MD, 
Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of Pennsylvania School of 
Medicine
"Empowerment: The Key To Transforming Communities - Guatemalan Experiences," 
Cliff O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; 
Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on 
International Child Heallth
"The International Efforts of The American Academy of Pediatrics," Cliff 
O'Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty, Family Practice Group; 
Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital; Chair, AAP Section on 
International Child Heallth
Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med
"The Pathophysiology of Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis and Macular 
Degeneration," Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and 
Deputy Provost of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, 
Emory Eye Center
Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver 
College of Medicine
"Eye Care America: Providing Eye Care Needs For America's Uninsured by MDs," 
David J. Palmer, MD, Chair, Eye Care America-Senior Eye Care Program, 
American Academy of Ophthalmology Foundation
Yannis Paulus, MD Candidate, Stanford University School of Medicine
"Malaria as an Obstacle to Economic Development: Fighting Malaria on the 
River of Life, the Value of Public Private Partnerships," Steven C. 
Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects, Exxon Mobil 
Corporation
Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications
Susan Reef, MD, CDC
"The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lee Roberts, PhD, MPH, Associate 
Clinical Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public 
Health, Columbia University
Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind
Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker
Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative 
Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control 
and Prevention
Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of 
Tennessee-Memphis
"Community Eye Health Program Can Improve The Quality of Life of Poor: An 
Action Research Study from Orissa, India," Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye 
Hospital, Orissa, India
"Private Finance Models That Support Public Health Efficiency," Georgia 
Sambunaris, Senior Advisor to the Director, Office of Economic Growth, US 
Agency for International Development
Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University
Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education; Executive 
Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for Personalized 
Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of Health Sciences, The 
Ohio State University
Tamilarasan Senthil, MBBS, Consulting Ophthalmologist, Uma Eye Clinic, India
"The Future of Glaucoma Surgery: Hope For The Developing World?" Bruce 
Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology
Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University 
School of Medicine
Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former President, 
All India Ophthalmological Society
Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
"Success of Laproscopic Sterilisation in Controlling Population Growth in 
Eastern India: My Experience of 30 Years," Renu Sinha, MBBS, Former Head of 
the Obs and Gynea Department of Patna Medical College Hospital; Former 
President of Bihar Obs and Gynea Society
Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India
Marie Skinnider, MD, Health Advisor, MSF Canada
"Overcoming Barriers to Implementation of Evidence Based Practices To Reduce 
Maternal Mortality in a Rural Nicaraguan Community," Janice K. Smith, MD, 
MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in International Health at 
UTMB
Lanny Smith, MD, MPH, DTM&H, Professor of Medicine in the Residency Programs 
of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert 
Einstein College of Medicine; Assistant Director, Human Rights Clinic for 
Victims of Torture, Montefiore; Founder and President, Doctors for Global 
Health
Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID
Samuel So, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver 
Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of 
Medicine
"The Epidemiology of Human Rights," Lindsay Stark, Research Associate, 
Program on Forced Migration and Health, Mailman School of Public Health, 
Columbia University
Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives; 
Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of 
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine; Chief 
of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital
Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi
Anvar Velji, MD, Co-Founder and Treasurer, Global Health Education 
Consortium; Chief of Infectious Disease at Kaiser Permanente, South 
Sacramento; Clinical Professor, University of California at Davis
Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital, 
Ghana
Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri - 
Kansas City
Dayan Woldemichael, MD, Chad Country Director, International Medical Corps
"Global Health Inequalities: Why They Matter?" David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, 
PhD, Director, Centre for International Health; Associate Professor, 
Department of Public Health Sciences; Associate Professor, Department of 
Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of 
Toronto, Canada
Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank Human 
Development Network World Bank 


From kanacker at vt.edu  Tue Sep  9 09:25:04 2008
From: kanacker at vt.edu (Katrin Anacker)
Date: Tue Sep  9 18:51:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Housing Policy Debate volume 19 issue 3
Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20080909081209.075b3820@vt.edu>

** apologies for cross posting **

Dear Colleagues:

I am very pleased to alert you to the contents of Housing Policy 
Debate's annual Opolis issue (volume 19 issue 3), accessible under 
the following link:
http://www.mi.vt.edu/web/page/1052/sectionid/580/pagelevel/2/interior.asp

Guest Editor's Introduction
Suburban Planning -- The Future Becomes the Past
Edward J. Blakely

Articles
The Decline of Older, Inner Suburbs in Metropolitan America
Bernadette Hanlon

Greater Cleveland's First Suburbs Consortium: Fighting Sprawl and 
Suburban Decline
W. Dennis Keating and Thomas Bier

The Spatial Transformation of First-Tier Suburbs, 1970 to 2000: The 
Case of Metropolitan Baltimore
Thomas J. Vicino

Mature Suburbs, Property Values, and Decline in the Midwest? The Case 
of Cuyahoga County
Katrin B. Anacker and Hazel A. Morrow-Jones

Innovation at the Edges of the Metropolis: An Analysis of Innovation 
Drivers in Sydney's Peripheral Suburbs
Cristina Martinez-Fernandez and Tavis Potts

Outlook
Inconsistent Effects of a Feature on Home Prices -- Lang's Two-Market 
Explanation
T. Paul Hutchinson


Katrin B. Anacker, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech
Co-Editor Housing Policy Debate
e. HousingPolicyDebate@vt.edu
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Alexandria, VA 22314
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From vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz  Wed Sep 10 16:22:14 2008
From: vijay.devadas at stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Vijay Devadas)
Date: Wed Sep 10 10:51:39 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Postcolonial Popular Cultures Symposium
Message-ID: <D2B9715F-C024-4B13-9429-CCE07B42716C@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>

Dear colleagues

The Postcolonial Studies Research Network at the University of Otago  
is organizing a symposium entitled Postcolonial Popular Culture.

The call for papers is listed below.

best wishes, vijay


Postcolonial Popular Cultures: A Symposium
Organised by the Postcolonial Studies Research Network, University of  
Otago

December 14-16, 2008, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand


Keynote Speakers

Grant Farred, Professor of Africana Studies and English, Cornell  
University.
?For Our Time? Thinking the Popularity of the Postcolonial?: exploring  
the relevance of postcoloniality, and its historically difficult  
relationship to the popular, in our moment.

Kalpana Ram, Anthropology, Macquarie University.
To be confirmed

Jo Smith, Media Studies Programme, Victoria University of Wellington.
?Postcolonial Maori TV??

Call for Papers

The field of postcolonial studies has recently been called on to  
redress its lack of sustained attention to, and engagement with,  
popular cultural practices and forms. A survey of the anthologies and  
major collections informing the field suggest the point is a  
legitimate one. While scholars such as Arjun Appadurai, Paul Gilroy,  
and Kobena Mercer engage with popular cultural practices of diasporic  
and migrant communities, the postcolonial field has shown less  
attention to popular cultural forms as productive sites for exploring  
the kinds of questions that animate it.

Taking on this challenge, we invite submissions from across  
disciplines to engage with the theme of postcolonial popular cultures.  
Theoretical and disciplinary inquiries may include the constitution of  
postcolonial popular cultures, the function, role of the postcolonial  
in postcolonial popular culture, and the critical perspective offered  
by postcolonial studies. What can postcolonial studies contribute to  
the study and understanding of popular culture that has not been  
addressed by cultural studies? How would an examination of  
contemporary popular cultural practices influence significant areas of  
postcolonial theorizing: hybridity, resistance, the politics of  
representation? How would it affect the field?s focus on a certain  
literary and theoretical canon, and its arguably textual orientation?  
What economies of value shape the relative exclusion of popular  
culture in postcolonial studies?

Beyond this, we are concerned to ask whether an emphasis on  
postcolonial popular culture challenges specific structures of power,  
or whether popular cultural forms and practices are complicit with the  
institutions and operations postcolonial studies seek to challenge? In  
a period of rapid commodification and intense consumerism, what is at  
stake when we speak of postcolonial popular cultures? What impact is  
made on postcolonial cultural expressions by the ?global popular??

These questions are by no means exhaustive; they are offered as a  
point of entry for further discussion on the theme of postcolonial  
popular culture. Postcolonial popular culture is defined in a broad  
and inclusive way to incorporate lived and textual cultures, the mass  
media, ways of life, and discursive modes of representation. Central  
to the formation of postcolonial popular cultures are articulations of  
the economic, social and political spheres and the conference welcomes  
contributions that will highlight these issues.

Papers from across disciplines are invited to address aspects of  
Postcolonial Popular Culture, including:

Popular culture and resistance
Everyday popular cultural practices
Sport
Music
Dance
Body cultures
Fashion/clothing
Food
Television and other broadcast media
Online games, computer and other technologies
Street and community theatre
Shopping
To maintain the integrity of discussions, we ask that submissions  
address the question of popular culture in relation to some aspect of  
the field of postcolonial studies. We invite abstracts of 250-300  
words and a short bio of 100 words to be sent to Dr Brendan Hokowhitu (Brendan.hokowhitu@stonebow.otago.ac.nz 
) by 1 October, 2008.

  
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 10 12:46:04 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 10 11:46:23 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 JOB: tenure-track Urban Economic Development, U Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Message-ID: <011401c9135c$5a920dd0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Amanda I Seligman <seligman@uwm.edu>


The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Urban Studies Programs invites 
applications for a tenure-track position in urban economic development. 
Ph.D. by Fall 2009 required, in Geography, History, Political Science, 
Sociology, Urban Studies or Economics or related fields. Priority will 
be given to candidates specializing in urban political economy, 
community economic development, local and regional economic development 
policy, nonprofit studies, or related areas. A demonstrated record of 
scholarly excellence as evidenced by publications/grants is essential, 
and an interest in applied research is encouraged. The candidate will be 
expected to teach graduate (master's and/or Ph.D.) courses in Urban 
Studies as well as to develop a scholarly research agenda, possibly as 
an affiliate with the University's Center for Economic Development, 
Center for Urban Initiatives and Research, or Nonprofit Management Program.
A complete application consists of a cover letter, a CV, three letters 
of reference, and a writing sample consisting of an article or 
dissertation chapter. Cover letter, CV, and writing sample should be 
uploaded to the following URL: 
www.jobs.uwm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50620. Letters of 
reference should be addressed to: Professor Marc V. Levine, Search 
Committee Chair, Urban Studies Programs, Bolton Hall 768, PO Box 413, 
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee WI 53201. The Committee 
will begin reviewing applications by November 15, 2008. UWM is an AA/EEO 
employer.

-- Amanda I. Seligman Director, Urban Studies Programs Associate 
Professor, Department of History University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
_______________________________________________
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 10 16:13:18 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 10 15:14:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Traditions and Transformations: Tourism, Heritage and Cultural
 Change in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Message-ID: <00d001c91379$4c4683b0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Dear List member

Just a reminder that there is still time to submit an abstract for the 
forthcoming conference:

Traditions and Transformations:
Tourism, Heritage and Cultural Change in the Middle East and North Africa 
Region

In April (4-7) 2009, the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change in 
partnership with the Council for British Research in the Levant (the CBRL is 
an overseas Institute of the British Academy) will hold a major 
international conference to explore the changing relationships between 
tourism, culture and heritage across the Middle East and North Africa 
Region. Delegates from across the Middle East and the North Africa Region, 
together with scholars from the rest of the world will assemble to discuss 
the critical relationships between tourism, heritage and culture.

The Conference is being hosted by the Greater Municipality of Amman in 
Jordan and will be held in the King Hussein Cultural Centre in the heart of 
the vibrant downtown area of Jordan's Capital City. We are delighted that 
the patron of the Conference will be Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya Bint 
Al Hassan.

The aims of this inter-disciplinary conference are: To critically explore 
the major issues facing the MENA region with regard to the development of 
tourism and its relationships with heritage and culture; To draw upon ideas, 
cases and best practice from international scholars and help develop new 
understandings and research capacities regarding the relationships between 
tourism, heritage and culture in the MENA Region and; To provide a major 
networking opportunity for international scholars, policy makers and 
professionals.

The conference will feature over 150 international academics, policy makers 
and practitioners and will feature keynote addresses from Dr Taleb Rifai, 
Deputy Secretary General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, 
Professor Nezar Alsayyad, Director of the Centre for Middle East Studies at 
University California Berkeley, and Dr Seteney Shami, Programme Director of 
the Middle East and the North Africa region at the Social Science Research 
Council.


The conference seeks to promote dialogue across disciplinary boundaries and 
welcomes papers from all disciplines. Key themes of interest to the 
conference include:

. Histories, mobilities, and the symbolic / political economies of tourism;

. Tourism in the construction of places / spaces / nations;

. The role of archaeology in contemporary tourism;

. Structures / infrastructures of International tourism - 
building/architecture/ design for tourism & tourists;

. Tourism and the role of the museum;

. The conservation of heritage for tourism;

. The practices and performances of 'tradition';

. Tourist art and art for tourists;

. Intangible heritage and its role in tourism;

. Rural and urban tourism practices.


Members of the Conference Scientific Committee include: Dr Khaled Adham, 
(United Arab Emirates University), Dr Rami Daher (German Jordanian 
University), Professor Bill Finlayson (Council for British Research in the 
Levant), Dr Habib Saidi (University of Laval) and Dr Lina Tahan (Leeds 
Metropolitan University).

If you wish to submit a 300 word abstract as an electronic file (including 
title and full contact details) please do so no later than 17th October 2008 
to ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk

To participate in this conference or to learn more please contact: 
ctcc@leedsmet.ac.uk or visit www.tourism-culture.com or www.cbrl.org 


From tac at saclink.csus.edu  Wed Sep 10 09:12:05 2008
From: tac at saclink.csus.edu (Castaneda, Terri A)
Date: Thu Sep 11 11:54:25 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Tenure Track Position-Human Rights
Message-ID: <F78FCBBD0A8F0D45ABB603CECADA1F721C665CD0D3@VSL3.saclink.csus.edu>

ANNOUNCEMENT OF A VACANCY
TENURE-TRACK POSITION IN
SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Beginning Fall Semester 2009

Deadline for Application?October 15, 2008


California State University, Sacramento invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor beginning August 2009. We seek a sociocultural anthropologist with specialization in political or legal anthropology, whose scholarship broadly explores human rights as a global discourse and as an arena for asserting human agency. Geographic area open. Candidate must have an active field research agenda that engages one or more of the following topics: indigenous rights; violence; criminality, displacement; citizenship; biopolitics or governmentality. Successful candidate will be required to develop an upper division undergraduate course in the anthropology of human rights and to teach a range of undergraduate and graduate offerings. University-level teaching experience and a record of publication preferred. Ability to teach courses in Culture Theory and Ethnographic Analysis a plus.

Candidates must be available for initial interviews at the AAA meetings in San Francisco. Applications must be postmarked no later than October 15, 2008. Applicants must submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vita, a writing sample, sample syllabi for relevant courses, and contact information for three references to the Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, CSU Sacramento, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6106.
This employer offers employment benefits to domestic partners of employees. This employer prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/preference and gender identity/expression. Sacramento State is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong commitment to diversity. Jeanne Clery Act crime statistics are available.




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

Terri Castaneda, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Museum Director
Department of Anthropology
California State University, Sacramento
6000 J. Street
Sacramento, CA 95819-6106
(916) 278-6067
tac@csus.edu<mailto:tac@csus.edu>
<http://www.csus.edu/indiv/c/castanedat>


From mckennab at umd.umich.edu  Wed Sep 10 13:45:54 2008
From: mckennab at umd.umich.edu (mckennab@umd.umich.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 11 11:56:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Campus Anthros & Sustainability
In-Reply-To: <D2B9715F-C024-4B13-9429-CCE07B42716C@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
References: <D2B9715F-C024-4B13-9429-CCE07B42716C@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <20080910124554.11346bzy6mh2mbia@webmail.umd.umich.edu>

Word has it that some universities have warned "green campus"  
sustainability leaders NOT to critique the black corporate forces of  
the university. Some are upset at these behind the scenes assaults on  
their "academic freedom," but the sustainability professors have their  
administrative orders and keep quiet. MORE than that, they often  
enforce discipline against those who want to challenge local capital.  
In other words, the liberals conveniently do the work of capital.

Is your campus secure?

Three discordant movements, yet conjoined, are raging for domination.

1. Green sustainability environmentalists
2. Black monied corporatists
3. Brown-shirted forces of "homeland security."

Who shall reign in power and influence? What alliances are in  
formation? What ecologies will result?

Who gets the most monies? How does each define "health." Where are  
anthropologists in this dangerous mix?

How far can "green academy" anthropologists go without risking careers?

Is environmental security different from homeland security different  
from biosecurity?

There is a volume coming out in October that includes address part of  
this question. Several anthropologists weigh in: Biosecurity  
Interventions: Global Health and Security in Question (Lakoff and  
Collier, eds.)
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-14606-7/biosecurity-interventions

snip>
In recent years, new disease threats?such as SARS, avian flu, mad cow  
disease, and drug-resistant strains of malaria and tuberculosis?have  
garnered media attention and galvanized political response. Proposals  
for new approaches to "securing health" against these threats have  
come not only from public health and medicine but also from such  
fields as emergency management, national security, and global  
humanitarianism.

This volume provides a map of this complex and rapidly transforming  
terrain. The editors focus on how experts, public officials, and  
health practitioners work to define what it means to "secure health"  
through concrete practices such as global humanitarian logistics,  
pandemic preparedness measures, vaccination campaigns, and attempts to  
regulate potentially dangerous new biotechnologies.
<unsnip

How do anthropologists involved in "greening the academy" fit in this tempest?




From eva.schwab at boku.ac.at  Thu Sep 11 18:00:27 2008
From: eva.schwab at boku.ac.at (Eva Schwab)
Date: Thu Sep 11 11:58:58 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers - 3rd International Conference on
	Landscape Architecture X-LArch III 2009  Landscape-Great Idea!
Message-ID: <48C94EAD0200003500021F7E@gwia2.boku.ac.at>

3rd international Conference on Landscape Architecture, ILA Institute of
Landscape Architecture, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life
Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

LANDSCAPE - GREAT IDEA!  X-LArch III 2009
April 29th  ? May 1st , 2009 , Vienna, Austria

In the year of 2008, 50% of the people worldwide are living in cities,
and this number is yet to increase, changing urban landscapes at an
accelerated pace. Edward Soja and Miguel Kanai announce the global urban
age consisting of the urbanization of the globe on the one hand and the
globalization of urbanism as a way of life on the other. Globally the
structures of landscapes and settlements are converging - resulting in
types of urbanity which are hard to distinguish. In the context of
spatial development landscape plays a crucial role (at least) in the
professional discussion.

The production of landscape has always been based on a construct of
ideas. As ideas shift along societal changes, the meaning of landscape
is subject to constant mutation.  Designed and built landscapes function
as a catalogue of interpretations of nature, of society, of economics,
of cultures.

What role can landscape play to restructure our decision and
design-processes, our environment and our perception?

The conference wants to foster exchange and debate among researchers
from across Europe and beyond. It provides a forum for cross-national
and cross-disciplinary debate on the future of urbanity and landscape
and acts as a bridge between research and practitioners.

The conference LANDSCAPE ? GREAT IDEA! is looking for contributions on
the ideas behind landscapes and landscape architecture. Which is the
background for the hype of landscape in a wide range of disciplines? Can
landscape work as an instrument, as an example and if so, how?

Call for Papers: The call for papers is structured in 2 main topics,
which constitute the base for organising the individual sessions. The
conference LANDSCAPE ? GREAT IDEA! is looking for contributions on the
ideas behind landscapes and landscape architecture and the impact of the
manifestation of those ideas in design and development of landscape and
open spaces. The conference addresses all disciplines dealing with
spatial and societal phenomena of landscape. We welcome scholars from
diverse disciplines as well as practitioners: landscape architects,
artists, geographers, architects, urbanists, sociologists and others.
The selection will be based on an abstract proposed by the author(s).

Topics:
1. Scale matters

Landscape Architecture projects vary in size. Scale, however, seems to
increase in two ways: On the one hand projects themselves become bigger,
on the other hand the relational framework increases in size and
complexity. Also the concept and design of small projects are related to
the larger landscapes they are situated in.

Is there a connection between the way of interpreting, designing,
producing and using landscape and the scale of the related framework?
How can we investigate ideas and meanings through design or site
analysis? Is urbanization or de-urbanisation a reason to adapt the scale
of thinking landscape?

Key words: new approaches to site analysis, landscape research
methodology, non sites Landscape Urbanism, urban landscape, landscape as
framework, project size.

2. Landscape as a model
The frequency in which the term ?landscape? is quoted in the context of
(urban) development suggests that it is taken as a means for
improvement. In which way can landscape act as a model or an instrument
to enhance spatial qualities? How do ideas interact with the built
outcomes? Ideas and ideologies change, they seem to become
interchangeable due to globalised mechanisms. Can we identify ideas
behind ?new landscapes?, or the way they were developed?

Key words: innovative design strategies, design analysis, landscape
ideas, historical landscapes, public spaces, changing landscape uses,
cultural context of landscape and open spaces.

Deadline forPlease e-mail your abstract to: greatidea@boku.ac.at

Or submit via the conference homepage

http://x-larch.boku.ac.at/index.php/x-larch/greatidea09/schedConf/cfp

For any questions concerning the conference, please feel free to contact
us at: x-larch@boku.ac.at 

DI Eva Schwab
Institut f?r Landschaftsarchitektur
Department f?r Landschaft, Raum und Infrastruktur
Universit?t f?r Bodenkultur Wien

Tel: +43/1/47654-7235
Mob: +43/650/9436203

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 12 15:36:56 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 12 14:38:00 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: SSRC International Dissertation Research
	Fellowship
Message-ID: <000b01c91506$8af922a0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-SAE@h-net.msu.edu]

Dear Graduate Students,
 
I am writing on behalf of the IDRF program.  The Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies are pleased to announce the 2009 competition of the International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF) program, which is designed to support graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who are conducting dissertation research outside of the United States . Seventy-five fellowships of approximately $20,000 will be awarded in 2009, with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
 

The IDRF program is committed to scholarship that advances knowledge about non-U.S. cultures and societies grounded in empirical and site-specific research (involving fieldwork, research in archival or manuscript collections, or quantitative data collection).  The program promotes research that is situated in a specific discipline and geographical region and is engaged with interdisciplinary and cross-regional perspectives.

 

Applicants must have completed all Ph.D. requirements except on-site dissertation research by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2009, whichever comes first.  Fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months of dissertation research.  The fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2009 and December 2010.

 

For more detailed information on application procedures and eligibility requirements, please visit the IDRF website at 
http://programs.ssrc.org/idrf.

 

Deadline: November 5, 2008. 
 
Attached please find a PDF file and Word document advertising the 2009 IDRF competition [ed. note: these were removed from the posting because of space constrants; instead, find them at http://programs.ssrc.org and /idrf/http://soap.ssrc.org/ .].  Please disseminate the information to all interested parties.
 
Thank you,
 
Sara Getz
Fellowships Assistant
idrf@ssrc.org
 
Fellowships Office
Social Science Research Council
810 Seventh Avenue , 31st Floor
New York , NY 10019

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 12 15:39:54 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 12 14:43:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Port Cities and Networking (Bryn Mawr College)
Message-ID: <006201c91507$65e3c4b0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from H-Urban@h-net.msu.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below an announcement for "Port Cities and Networking" a 
conference that will take place at Bryn Mawr College (just outside 
Philadelphia) on November 16th and 17th.

We are currently in the process of finalizing the program, but if you 
have a paper suggestion to add, please contact me at chein@brynmawr.edu

Also contact me, if you would like more information. I will be sending 
out the finalized program once I have it.

Best
Carola Hein

A Conference and Workshop on Global Port Cities and Networking from the 
20th to the 21st Century

To be held Nov. Sun. 16th ?Mon 17th 2008

Port Cities have a long history as places of economic exchange and as 
gateways for the transmission of people, goods, built and urban form. 
Since the mid 19th century, European expansion and globalization have 
further promoted them as major nodes in a worldwide capitalist economic 
network. Through the 20th and 21st centuries port cities have continued 
to be at the forefront for the creation of new cultural and social 
practices, multi-ethnic neighborhoods, imported building materials and 
technologies, design, and urban planning. Port cities have used 
waterfronts and their transformation as spaces to attract and promote 
urban and social transformation.

The conference intends to bring together outside speakers and Bryn Mawr 
and Haverford faculty with interests in the topic of port cities and 
waterfronts taking an interdisciplinary and international approach. 
Existing literature on port cities mostly discusses them as a series of 
cities with ports without examining similarities or linkages. 
Similarly, research on waterfronts tends to put examples side by side 
rather than investigate whether global (capitalist economic) networks 
have led to particular interchange and interaction between these 
cities, transforming them into an identifiable group. The conference 
will thus ask questions such as: What are the common characteristics of 
port cities? Are there connections other than the existence of a port 
that allow us to consider port cities as different kinds of cities? Are 
there-and have there been over time-particular challenges facing these 
cities? How did maritime mobility, economic globalization, and 
migration manifest itself in waterfront cities? Does the networking 
between these cities influence their urban development, social 
composition, etc.? What are the connections between research on 
waterfront issues and questions of port cities? Is there a hierarchy 
between port cities?

Organized by Carola Hein, Jeff Cohen, Kalala Ngalamulume, Jim Wright, 
Peter Magee, Steve McGovern, Laurie Hart, Linda Gerstein from Bryn Mawr 
and Haverford Colleges.

Sponsored by the Center for Social Sciences, Center for Visual Culture, 
a Mellon Tri-Co See Grant.

Questions and information please contact:

Carola Hein, Growth and Structure of Cities Program
Bryn Mawr College
101 N. Merion
Bryn Mawr
PA 19010-2799
USA
chein@brynmawr.edu

Tentative schedule Port Cities and Networking:

Nov. 16th: 9:30? 18:00 Public Presentations (15 min each plus 15 min 
discussion)

9:00-10:15: Global Exchange and Local Impact
(Discussant: Denise Scott Brown)?

Stephen Ward (Oxford Brookes University)
Port Cities and the Global Exchange of Planning Ideas

Lars Amenda (Universit?t Hamburg)
The Container Revolution: Adapting local harbors to standardized global 
trade

Louis Nelson (University of Virginia)
Culture, Crisis and Context: Eighteenth-Century Port Towns in the 
Greater British Caribbean

Peter Magee (Bryn Mawr College)
Ports Without Water and the Ship of the Desert


10:30 ? 11:45 Urban Governance and Territorial Organization
(Discussant: Linda Gerstein)

Myron Echenberg (McGill)
Port Cities and Public Health: Control Measures Against Bubonic Plague, 
1900-1950

Kalala Ngalamulume (Bryn Mawr College)
Saint Louis (Senegal): From Trading-Post to Colonial Port-City/Capital,
19th-early 20th centuries

Bert Schijf (University of Amsterdam)
The ports of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, 1850-1940. Global Orientation and 
Local Competition

Stephen Ramos (Harvard University)
Infrastructral Urbanism in Dubai: The Case of Jebel Ali Port as a 
Mechanism for Territorial Organization

LUNCH

12:30-13:45 Innovation and Preservation
(Discussant: Jeff Cody)?

Jeff Cohen (Bryn Mawr College)
The fabric of a port city: building typologies near 19th century 
Philadelphia's waterfront

Sandra Sch?rmann (Hamburg)
The Hamburg Harbor Model from 1900 and its International Impact and Context

Gene Desfor (York University, Toronto)
Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-nature and Toronto's Changing 
Industrial Waterfront

Jonathan Farris (Western Carolina University)
Treaty Ports of China: Dynamics of the Local and Global in the West's 
Architectural Presence

14:00-15:15 The Mediterranen and Beyond: Ancient and contemporary port 
cities and networking
Discussant: Lynn Hollen Lees (University of Pennsylvania)

Jim Wright (Bryn Mawr College)
Ports and Maritime Networks in the Mediterranean: an archaeological 
perspective

Celine Fremaux (Laboratoire "In Visu", CNRS/INHA ? Paris)
Urbanism, Architecture and Migration in the Port Cities of the Suez 
Canal: Exchange and resistence.

Laurie Hart (Haverford College)
Marseille: "Gateway to the Orient" and the New North-South Frontier

Patrick O'Flanaghan (University College Cork)
The Atlantic Port City in a Cross Cultural Context

15:30 pm ? 16:45 Waterfronts and the Promotion of Port Cities
(Discussion: Rosemary Wakeman, Fordham University)

Dirk Schubert (HafenCity Universit?t Hamburg)
Learning from the Waterfront

Hans Harms (HafenCity University Hamburg)
Changes of Seaport Cities in the second half of the 19th Century 
through large Infrastructure Projects, Created to Adjust 
(pre-industrial) Seaports to the new Transportation Conditions with 
Steamships, Railroads,Warehousing etc.

Steve McGovern (Haverford College)
Evolving Visions of Waterfront Development in Postindustrial 
Philadelphia: The Formative Role of Elite Ideologies

Carola Hein (Bryn Mawr College)
Urban Identity in a Global Market: An analysis of Hamburg's large-scale 
urban transformation projects in their local and international context 
between 1842 and 2008


17:00 ? 18:00 Concluding Discussion


Monday 17th 9am-5:30 pm
The participants gather in closed workshops (or with participation on 
invitation) to exchange comments on the articles, discuss conference's 
comments and decide on details regarding the final publication.

There are opportunities for meeting with groups of presenters or 
inviting speakers to classes.



Supplementary papers submitted at the EAUH Lyon to be distributed, see:
Port Cities: Social, Cultural, and Built Repositories of Globalization 
and Networking in the 19th and 20th Century (Main Session 11)
(http://eauh.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/browse_sessions.php)

Organizers: Carola Hein (Bryn Mawr College) and Lars Amenda (University 
of Hamburg)

Dirk Schubert (HafenCity University Hamburg) (attending BMC conference 
with a revised topic)
Port Cities and Waterfronts ? Global Planning Ideas and Local Identities

Carol Krinsky (New York University) (possibly attending in BMC)
New York City: How Its Port Shaped Its Architecture

Malte Fuhrmann (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
The Transplantation of Overseas Infrastructure and Customs in the Late 
Ottoman Port Cites as a Struggle to Redefine the Social Order

Marisa Yiu (University of Hong Kong)
Hong Kong's Transformative Image as a Port City: from British Colony to 
a Special Administrative Region of China

Laurent Fourchard (University of Bordeaux)
Lagos: Between National and World History (1861-2007)

Mathieu Grenet/Athanasios Gekas (European University Institute, Florence)
Cosmopolitanism Managed? Trade and Politics in Mediterranean Ports 
c.1770-c.1870

-- 
Carola Hein
Associate Professor
Growth and Structure of Cities Program
Bryn Mawr College
http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/CHein.htm
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 12 15:43:01 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 12 14:44:40 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Surveillance Societies: What Price Security?
Message-ID: <006501c91507$66a036e0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Surveillance Societies: What Price Security?
 
Conference hosted by Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York
 
April 24-26, 2009 in New York City
 
Keynote Address by David Lyon, Director of the Surveillance Project, Queens University

Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York invites participation in an international conference to be held at Macaulay on April 24-26, 2009. The organizers welcome papers and roundtable discussions that focus on the tensions between systems of security within and between societies and systems of surveillance over members of those societies. We seek broad theoretical inquiries as well as interdisciplinary cultural, legal, historical, literary, and social science approaches.
 
Possible panel topics: historical considerations, zones of surveillance, scopic economies, religious and juridical apparatuses, networked societies, reconsiderations of Orwell and Foucault, surveillance, security, and emotion, nationalism and security, militarization, literature and film 
 
For more information, visit macaulay.cuny.edu/conference/surveillance.html


Sylvia Tomasch, Ph.D.
Associate University Dean for Academic Affairs
Macaulay Honors College (CUNY)
35 West 67th Street
New York, New York 10023
212 729-2918
fax: 212 580-8130
sylvia.tomasch@mhc.cuny.edu
http://www.macaulay.cuny.edu
From kbrondo at memphis.edu  Fri Sep 12 17:32:47 2008
From: kbrondo at memphis.edu (Keri V Brondo (kbrondo))
Date: Sat Sep 13 00:23:44 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP - SfAA Panel on Urban Development
Message-ID: <98FF8E34866BAF4AACA99AE2682D821F3A2065CA4E@itexbe5.uom.memphis.edu>


Please share this CFP  with interested colleagues .




Shouting out, standing up: Community voices and urban community development



Organizers: Katherine Lambert-Pennington and Keri Vacanti Brondo



There is a well established literature on the significance of social networks to community building and development. Anthropologists working in transitioning urban communities often find themselves and their work immersed in the dynamics of power, competing voices, and the negotiations of community identity that come into play in redevelopment processes. Given that community voices are at the center of participatory action research, our session seeks to engage the questions: How do community voices become a mechanism of community building and how can they become a force in community change? Through a case study approach, papers in this session will explore roles of community voice in community heritage, neighborhood organizing, community revitalization, and youth initiatives.



Guiding Questions

?             Whose voices? What happens when new, typically unheard voices enter into community building and neighborhood planning and development processes?

?             To what extent is there a connection between voice and action (agency) ? does having a voice lead to community engagement and activism?

?             How, methodologically, do we capture community voice or engage community members to speak for themselves?


If you are interested in participating, please contact almbrtpn@memphis.edu<mailto:almbrtpn@memphis.edu> by September 19.  Abstracts will be due October 1.


SfAA 2009, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 17-21.
Conference theme; ?Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement, Partnerships, and Practice.?   More information can be found at: http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html.


_____________________________
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Memphis
304 Manning Hall
Memphis, TN 38152
901.678.3289


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Sep 13 16:45:57 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep 13 15:46:14 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Human Trafficking and the Sex Industry (Dublin)
Message-ID: <011801c915d9$58f668c0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Dear Colleague,

Labour Women has recently held Open Events on 'Human Trafficking & the Sex
Industry'. Due to the interest, Labour Women will be hosting an Open Event
on this topic in Cork. Please find details below and also attached. Please
circulate. Many thanks.


Human Trafficking & the Sex Industry

               Open event

     hosted by  Labour Women

Date : Thu 25th September  8pm
Venue :  The Metropole Hotel, MacCurtain St, Cork

Speakers :
Chair : Kathleen Lynch TD

 "Welcoming words" :
            Sinead Ni Chulachain, Labour Women Chair
            Cllr Catherine Clancy & Cllr Lorraine Kingston
"Human Trafficking & the Sex industry in Ireland and Cork" :
            Mary Crilly, Cork Sexual Violence Centre
"Trafficking Bill 2008 " :
             Pat Rabbitte TD, Labour Spokesperson for Justice

Does human trafficking exist in Ireland??
What is the connection with human trafficking and the sex industry?
What does human trafficking have to do with Cork?
How can we combat human trafficking?


Everyone welcome!
For more information and RSVP contact Kirsi Hanifin Labour Party 01-6784721
/ 087-6258043 or Kirsi.hanifin@labour.ie.
RSVP by 23rd Sept for us to have an idea of numbers, you are welcome to
attend without RSVP.


Kirsi Hanifin
Women and Equality Officer
The Labour Party
17 Ely Place
Dublin 2
Tel. 01-6784700
kirsi.hanifin@labour.ie
www.labour.ie/women



From greenbau at cas.usf.edu  Sat Sep 13 06:42:40 2008
From: greenbau at cas.usf.edu (Greenbaum, Susan)
Date: Sun Sep 14 22:16:32 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Heritage Concentration at USF
Message-ID: <0727A1230121BD47A7B4399F070424856A97B0@MAILBOX2.cas.usf.edu>

The Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida (http://anthropology.usf.edu <https://frontend.cas.usf.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://anthropology.usf.edu/> ) announces a new Concentration in Heritage Studies. This concentration, which joins existing ones in cultural resource management and biocultural medical anthropology, allows graduate students to create a focused plan of study around issues in cultural heritage preservation, interpretation, and representation. Students in this concentration will learn to identify, document, and critically interpret the significance of cultural heritage in urban, rural, and non-US settings, with a particular emphasis on community-based and collaborative approaches to these issues. One course, Issues in Heritage Studies, is required. In addition, students choose electives from a list of courses offered in the program including museum methods, public archaeology, heritage tourism, ethnohistory, museums in culture, ethnicity and public policy, heritage research and management, oral and life history, among others. For more information, contact Christian Wells, Graduate Director (cwells@cas.usf.edu) or visit the website: http://anthropology.usf.edu/graduate <https://frontend.cas.usf.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://anthropology.usf.edu/graduate> .

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Sep 14 23:45:41 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep 14 22:46:07 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
Message-ID: <00c401c916dd$2a23c2e0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

From: Sarena Seifer <sarena@u.washington.edu>


The call for proposals for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health's 
11th Conference "Creating the Future We Want to Be: Transformation 
Through Partnerships," April 29-May 2, 2009 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is 
now available under "coming up" at www.ccph.info.  The proposal deadline 
is October 10, 2008.

Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) promotes health (broadly 
defined) through partnerships between communities and higher educational 
institutions, including through service-learning and community-based 
participatory research.    Learn more about CCPH at www.ccph.info

Be sure to mark your calendars for April 29-May 2, 2009 and plan now to
join hundreds of your colleagues for 4 days of skill-building, 
networking and agenda-setting!

Proposals for pre-conference workshops, story sessions, skill-building 
workshops, film screening and discussion session, and posters are sought 
that relate to one or more of these sub-themes (see the complete call 
for proposals for specific examples).

(1) Journeys of Transformation - proposals that demonstrate the 
transformational power of community-campus partnerships.

(2) Sustaining partnerships and the outcomes they achieve - proposals 
that demonstrate how partnerships and the outcomes they achieve can be 
sustained over time.

(3) Building capacity - proposals that demonstrate strategies for 
building capacity among all partners involved in a partnership.

(4) Community-campus partnerships as a global movement - proposals that 
demonstrate community-campus partnerships from across the globe. We are 
especially interested in sessions that are proposed and sponsored by 
international networks of these partnerships.

(5) Innovative and promising partnership practices - proposals that 
demonstrate innovative and promising practices in partnerships.

(6) Community-based participatory research as a tool for social justice 
- proposals that demonstrate community-based participatory research 
(CBPR) as a tool for social justice.  We welcome proposals that use a 
different term to describe work that has similar meaning (e.g., action 
research, empowerment research, community owned and managed research).

(7) Interprofessional, interdisciplinary and/or intersectoral 
collaborations - proposals that demonstrate these sorts of collaborations.

(8) Youth and student leadership - proposals that demonstrate the 
leadership roles played by youth and students in community-campus 
partnerships.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 15 02:57:08 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 15 02:32:27 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: PESO Eric Wolf Prize
Message-ID: <000e01c916fa$b1df0d30$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Announcement for the Eric Wolf Prize

The Political Ecology Society (PESO) announces the Eric Wolf Prize for the
best article-length paper based on dissertation research.  We seek papers
based in substantive field research that make an innovative contribution to
Political Ecology.  To be eligible for the competition, scholars must be ABD
or have received their Ph.D. within the two years prior to publication of
this announcement.  A cash prize of $500 accompanies the award and the paper
will be published in the Journal of Political Ecology.

The preferred format for papers is electronic, but CDs and paper will also
be accepted.  Please use the style guidelines provided on the Journal of
Political Ecology webpage: http://jpe.library.arizona.edu/.  Electronic
copies should be sent to walsh@anth.ucsb.edu and paper and CD copies to
Casey Walsh; Department of Anthropology; University of California, Santa
Barbara; HSSB Room 2001; Santa Barbara, CA. 93106-3210.  The deadline for
submission is December 15, 2008.



****************************************************************************
Josiah McC. Heyman
Professor of Anthropology
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University Ave.
El Paso, TX 79968 USA


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 15 16:14:43 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 15 15:15:20 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: A Scene from HBO's The Wire, Set in Baltimore
Message-ID: <006401c91767$52021bb0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

A scene from HBO's The Wire, which is set in Baltimore
David Simon, The Guardian,
Saturday September 6 2008

Baltimore - it's been an ordinary week in Maryland's largest city. The
August heat broke and one can nearly sleep with a window open; the
Orioles are again down in the cellar in the American League East; the
city murder rate is a bit behind last year's blood-letting, and if it
holds into the fall, politicians and police commanders will compete to
claim credit.

The stories in the Baltimore Sun remain fixed on the surface, each of
them premised on the givens: schools will open next week and provide
more or less the same inferior education as previous years; Johns
Hopkins is building its biotech park expansion where the East
Baltimore ghetto used to be and the ghetto is migrating due east and
north-east; the biotech park will be great for white folk with college
degrees, for those with union cards, the factories are still closed
and the port is still losing cargo to Norfolk; a shooting here, a
cutting there ...

All in all, an unremarkable summer.

Save for one lonely headline the other day - something that genuinely
intrigues. It's a curious item - a draft report by a local non-profit
foundation, a simple statistical study of the difference between
Baltimore criminal juries and those of the surrounding, suburban
counties.

It seems that in Baltimore, one of the most violent cities in America,
jurors are far more reluctant to convict criminal defendants than in
the suburban enclaves that ring the city.

The report upset the city's chief prosecutor; she thought its
conclusions "politically divisive" and asked the foundation to either
amend the draft study or kill it entirely. The press mocked her for
this, of course, and rightly so, while on the radio here, white
talk-show hosts had fun speculating about why city jurors - read
"black people" - won't do their civic duty when it is, in fact, their
communities that are so overwhelmed by crime.

Everyone had something to say for a day or two, and of course, after
that brief span of time, the entire issue disappeared into the glowing
mediafest that was Michael Phelps and his remarkable collection of
gold medals. Phelps is from Baltimore, by the way. As he is not
wrapped in crime-scene tape, hampered by a budget shortfall or unable
to raise his standardised test scores to the national average, we
claim the great Olympian with considerable pride. The boy can swim,
yes he can.

In any event, the story about the reluctant city juries slipped
quickly below the waves in the Beijing pool without anyone ever
seriously inquiring into the why of it, much less attempting to do any
actual reporting on the matter.

Anomaly noted. Half-assed speculation offered. On to new business.

But here's the thing of which we can all be certain, the thing that
fuels all the dramatic arcs of The Wire, in fact: the why is the only
thing that actually matters. The who, the what, the when, the where,
even the how - every other building block in which journalists and
policy planners and political leaders routinely trade - amount to
nothing beyond the filler, interchangeable with the facts flung a year
ago, a year from now and decades hence.

The why is it. The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why
is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms
bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable
instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything
and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic
joke.

And in the American city, at the millennium, the why has ceased to exist.

When I read reviews and commentary on The Wire in the British press, I
am usually moved to a peculiar and conflicted place. I'm gratified by
the incredible amount of verbiage accorded our little drama and I'm
delighted to have the fundamental ideas and arguments of the piece
discussed seriously.

But at the same time, I'm acutely aware that our dystopian depiction
of Baltimore has more appeal the farther one travels from America. The
Wire is, of course, dissent of a kind and it is true that there are
many of my countrymen who are in fundamental disagreement with the
manner in which the nation is being governed and managed. But somehow,
it sounds better to my ear when it's my own people talking trash and
calling our problems out.

At the same time, it's not just a question of standing, but of nuance
as well. I get that we've been the bull in the china shop
internationally, that we've been arrogant and tone-deaf in so many
arenas for so many years, and now, with the margins of the American
empire being pressed, everyone is ready to embrace the requisite
number of I-told-you-so moments. Fair enough. We had it coming. But
the emotion in all of that sometimes leads the overseas commentary
about Baltimore and The Wire toward something that I don't recognise
as accurate.

Baltimore is not the inner circle of hell. It is not entirely devoured
by a drug economy that serves as its last viable industry. It is not a
place in which gangsters routinely fire clip after clip, spraying the
streets in daylight ambushes. It is not unlivable, or devoid of
humanity, or a reservoir of unmitigated human despair.

I live in Baltimore, in a neighbourhood that is none of these things.
I am vested in the city and its future and I can drive you to places
in this city that would transform even the most devout Wire fan into a
fat, happy tourist. Baltimore's charms are no less plentiful than most
American cities.

And yet there are places in Baltimore where The Wire is not at all
hyperbole, where all of the depicted tragedy and waste and dysfunction
are fixed, certain and constant. And that place is, I might add, about
20 blocks from where I live.

That is the context of The Wire and that is the only context in which
Baltimore - and by reasonable extension, urban America - can be fairly
regarded. There are two Americas - separate, unequal, and no longer
even acknowledging each other except on the barest cultural terms. In
the one nation, new millionaires are minted every day. In the other,
human beings no longer necessary to our economy, to our society, are
being devalued and destroyed. Both things are true, and one gets a
sense, reading the distant reaction to The Wire, that Europeans are
far more ready to be convinced by one vision than the other.

I used to quote Churchill as declaring that a first-rate mind was one
that could maintain two opposing ideas at the same time. It certainly
sounded Churchillian to me until someone better read pointed out that
this notable quote is by F Scott Fitzgerald.

At first this disappoints, because the quote, to me, seems to argue
for political nuance, for subtlety and precision in state affairs. For
a long while, the literary origin of the credo made no sense.

But then, The Wire.

As with Fitzgerald, we were selling story only. And at all points,
when filming our drama, we understood that we were arguing the case of
one America to the other. We were not saying everything, showing
everything. We focused on the urban dynamic of drugs, crime and race.
We argued the fraud of the drug war and offered an elegy for the death
of union labour and the working class. We ruminated on the political
infrastructure and its inability to reform. We picked a fight over the
decline of public education and the lie behind our national claim to
equality of opportunity. And lastly, we suggested that in the end, no
one in our media culture is paying attention or asking hard questions.

We did not contemplate immigration. We largely ignored sex-based
discrimination, feminism and gender issues. We spoke not a word about
the pyramid scheme that is the mortgage crisis, or the diminishing
consumer class, or the time bomb that all of our China-bought debt
might prove to be. Nor did we glory in the healthy sectors of the
American economy, in the growth industries of the information age. We
did not embrace Brooklyn Heights and West Los Angeles, Silicon Valley
and Marin County. Hell, we didn't even rest for more than a day or two
in Roland Park or Mount Washington or Towson - those Baltimore
neighbourhoods that define a viable, monied America. We spoke to the
other part of town, the forgotten place, the one they don't tell many
stories about, at least not in the medium of entertainment television.
It was a story rooted in truth, but it wasn't the only story or the
only truth. Who, but a second-rate mind, would claim otherwise?

Yet in my country, they actually argue the point. While British
audiences might believe The Wire to represent more than it does,
Americans - many of them, at least - are quick to argue that it
doesn't represent everything and is therefore, somehow, not
representative of anything at all.

Was the Wire myopic? Should it have been allowed to dwell for five
seasons on that in America which is broken and brutal? Was it not
obliged, as an act of journalistic equanimity, if not dramatic power,
to display portions of the America where human lives are not
marginalised and discarded?

Well, there are about 350 television shows about the affluent America,
the comfortable America, the viable and cohesive nation where everyone
gets what they want if they either work hard or know someone or have a
pretty face or cheat like hell. That America is available every night,
on every channel in the Comcast package.

For a brief time, there was one television drama about the other America.

Are we really going to debate whether it was one too many?

Which brings us back to this week in Baltimore and that jury report,
the one that everyone had something to say about, but no one actually
bothered to analyse. The draft study, which tracked jury trials in
Baltimore over a one-year period from July 2005, found that jurors in
surrounding, predominantly white suburban counties were 30 times more
likely to convict defendants of the most serious charge. Overall in
the surrounding counties, the acquittal rate was 27%. In the city, it
was 43%. And the disinclination of Baltimore juries to convict drug
defendants on serious charges was even more pronounced, according to
the Baltimore Sun.

The Sun's coverage indicated that the report's author had speculated
vaguely as to "population characteristics and socioeconomic factors"
being relevant to the statistical variance. The Sun itself provided no
additional analysis, reportage, thought or speculation as to why city
juries behave as they do.

Again, the why of the thing. The only part that really matters.

Because in my city, we have fought the drug war to the very end of the
line, with sergeants becoming lieutenants and majors becoming colonels
and city mayors becoming state governors. We have done so for decades,
one day into the next, one administration after another, each claiming
progress and measuring such in arrest rates, drug seizures, crime
stats. And no one asks: why?

No one asks why, with all the arrests and seizures, the availability
and purity of narcotics and cocaine has actually increased over the
past three decades. No one asks why, with all the law enforcement
committed, whole tracts of the city have nonetheless degenerated into
free-fire war zones. No one asks why police commanders are routinely
able to reduce the rates of robbery, or rape, or assault significantly
in any time period prior to an election, while the murder rate - in
which the victim can't be obscured or clerically "unfounded" - stays
as high as ever. And now, this week, no one asks why men and women
from Baltimore, upon being given a chance to strike a blow against
disorder and mayhem by convicting those charged criminally, would
shirk their responsibility.

Well, here it is, plain as day...

In order to elect Baltimore's mayor as Maryland's governor, crime had
to go down. And when that mayor was unable to do so legitimately,
through a meaningful deterrent, his police officials did not merely go
about cooking their statistics, making robberies and assaults
disappear by corrupting the reporting of such incidents, they resorted
to something far more disturbing.

For the last years of his administration, Mayor Martin O'Malley
ordered the mass arrests of citizens in every struggling Baltimore
neighbourhood, from eastside to west. More than 100,000 bodies were
dragged to Central Booking in a single year - record rates of arrest
for a city with fewer than 700,000 residents. Corner boys, touts, drug
slingers, petty criminals - yes, they went in the wagons.

But school teachers, city workers, shopkeepers, delivery boys - they
too were jacked up, cuffed and hauled down to Eager Street - hundreds
of them a night on the weekends. Some were charged, but few were
prosecuted. And in 25,000 such cases, they were later freed from the
detention facility without ever going to court; no charges were
proffered because, well, no crime had been committed.

I wasn't arrested. Nor was Ed Burns or Dominic West or Aidan Gillen.
Nor were my neighbours or the Baltimore Sun's editors or the members
of the Maryland Club. But then, we're all white. Among the black
members of my cast and crew, it was often impossible to drive from the
film set to home at night without being stopped - and in some cases
detained or arrested - on nonexistent probable cause and nonexistent
charges. The crackdown came wholly in black neighbourhoods and it
landed wholly on the backs of black citizens.

And now, just a few years later, comes this document that causes the
state's attorney to deny the obvious and leaves everyone else
wondering weakly and vaguely as to the why of it. Is it so hard to
understand that the same people who had their civil rights cleanly
dispatched, who spent nights in jail because police officers lied on
them and dragged them off without charge - that these people might be
inclined to disbelieve the word of law enforcement in any future
criminal case?

In places like West Baltimore, the drug war destroyed every last thing
that the drugs themselves left standing - including the credibility of
the police deterrent. To elect one man to higher office, an entire
city alienated its citizenry and destroyed its juror pool.

Mayor O'Malley is now Governor O'Malley. The police commanders have
all been promoted. A daily newspaper that had no stomach for
addressing the why a decade ago when it had 400 editors and reporters,
a newspaper more consumed with prize submissions and gotcha stories
than with complex analysis of its city's problems, now has 220 bodies
in its newsroom and is even less capable of the task. And nothing, of
course, changes.

Yes, such a scenario is grist for The Wire. We could have easily built
half a season out of the collapse of the Baltimore jury pool and the
inability of city prosecutors to bring cases into court.

Yet there is also something appalling in the suggestion that a
television drama - a presumed entertainment - might be a focal point
for a discussion of what has gone wrong in urban America, for why we
have become a society that no longer even recognises the depth of our
problems, much less works to solve any of them.

But where else is the why even being argued any more? Not in the
stunted political discourse of an American election cycle, not in an
eviscerated, self-absorbed press, not in any construct to which the
empowered America, the comfortable and comforted America, gives its
limited attention. To know why city juries won't participate in the
drug war any more, to know why they have opted out of our collective
dysfunction, you'd have to travel to the other America - to West
Fayette Street or Park Heights Avenue or East Madison Street or any
other of the forgotten places. And, well, as has already been said, we
are separate nations at this point. Few of us ever cross the frontier
to hear voices different from our own. ?

? A newspaperman for 13 years, David Simon is the author of Homicide:
A Year On The Killing Streets, published in the UK by Canongate, as
well as an executive producer and writer of HBO's The Wire.

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 16 01:07:58 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 16 00:08:22 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FUNDING: Princeton Ctr for African American Studies Postdoctoral
 Fellowships
Message-ID: <006c01c917b1$d1208770$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
2 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

The Center for African American Studies at Princeton University invites 
applications from pre-tenure scholars and recent Ph.D. recipients in all 
disciplines for two postdoctoral fellowships. These fellowships will be 
awarded for the academic year 2009-2010 to emerging scholars who will devote 
their ten-month residency at Princeton to writing about race in the national 
or global contexts and, with the approval of the Dean of the Faculty, to 
teaching one semester-long undergraduate course.

Applicants should have received the doctorate within the past five years and 
cannot be in the process of writing a dissertation. The Postdoctoral 
Fellowship period extends from September 1, 2009 until July 1, 2010 and 
provides a competitive salary. A selection committee of Center for African 
American Studies faculty evaluated applicants on the basis of:
?         The significance of their proposed research and its relevance to 
the purposes of the center;
?         The quality of their previous research and their ability to 
benefit from the activities of the center;
?         The contribution they are likely to make to higher education in 
the future through teaching and writing about race.

How to apply: Applicants must submit all of the following information by 
November 7, 2008.
1.       Curriculum vitae
2.       Scholarly paper (written in the past three years)
3.       Statement of no more than 1,500 words describing the proposed 
research project
4.       Three letters of recommendation (at least one from someone who was 
not a dissertation supervisor) sent directly to the Center for African
          American Studies by November 7, 2008
5.       Syllabi for three undergraduate courses

We strongly recommend that all interested candidates use the online 
application process. You may apply online at http://jobs.princeton.edu. For 
more information or questions, please contact: Dr. Noliwe Rooks, Associate 
Director, 609.258.4718; nrooks@princeton.edu.

For general application information and instructions for 
self-identification, see:
http://www.princeton.edu/dof/ApplicantsInfo.htm.

For complete application information and instructions see:
http://www.princeton.edu/africanamericanstudies/news/opprotunities.

Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with 
applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 16 13:58:19 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 16 12:58:54 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Indiana University of PA Cultural Anthropologist
Message-ID: <002801c9181d$6fa4cf80$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

 Anthropology-Cultural Anthropologist
 
The Position: The Anthropology Department at Indiana University of 
Pennsylvania announces two anticipated tenure-track positions in cultural 
anthropology at the assistant professor level. The successful applicants 
will demonstrate a commitment to a four-field approach, enthusiasm for 
mentoring undergraduates, and strong teaching skills. Our small but 
vibrant department is seeking individuals who are able to work 
cooperatively within a collegial department of diverse faculty members. 
Candidates should have an active program of research and scholarly 
publications. Teaching responsibilities will include sections of our 
introductory four-field course plus one or more of the following 
specialties: applied anthropology, ethnographic research methods, regional
courses (linked to internal programs such as Pan African and Southeast 
Asia studies major), and environmental anthropology. Other areas of 
specialization such as food and culture, international public health, 
diaspora studies, and transnationalism/social movements will be 
considered.

Qualifications: Ph.D. in anthropology and evidence of teaching 
effectiveness are required. Candidates must communicate effectively and 
perform well during the interview, which may include a teaching 
demonstration. All applicants must be work eligible.

How to Apply: Send letter of application, c.v., and the names of three 
references, transcripts, and evidence of teaching ability to Chair, 
Cultural Anthropology Search Committee, Indiana University of 
Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA 15705. Fax 724-357-7637. Review of applications 
will begin November 1, 2008, and continue until the positions are filled.

IUP is member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education and is 
an equal opportunity employer M/F/H/V.
From kbrondo at memphis.edu  Mon Sep 15 12:32:11 2008
From: kbrondo at memphis.edu (Keri V Brondo (kbrondo))
Date: Tue Sep 16 13:32:33 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP - Faith-based development 
Message-ID: <98FF8E34866BAF4AACA99AE2682D821F3A20DDA1B4@itexbe5.uom.memphis.edu>

Please share the following CFP with interested colleagues.

Developing Community / Developing People: Intersections of Faith and Development in Local-Global Contexts

Organizers - Keri Brondo, Tara Hefferan, and Robert Connolly

There is a significant and growing literature on faith-based initiatives to the underserved from rural areas of the developing world to urban centers of the West, and a growing focus on how such initiatives serve as alternative development models. Our session seeks to engage with the question: Can faith-based development constitute an alternative to conventional top-down development paradigms, including those of governmental social services and models based on trickle down corporate investment.  Papers in this session present case studies of alternative national and international faith-based development and the perceptions of their success through the lenses of the actors involved.


Possible specific themes to which individual papers might address:

*         What are the measures of "success" in faith-based development? (from infrastructure improvements and health indicators to building awareness or true twinning possibilities, etc.)

*         How do the actors involved in faith-based initiatives perceive of such endeavors as spaces to negotiate and contest social and economic injustices?

*         To what extent do the individuals involved in faith-based development see a linkage between the provision of social, medical, and economic support service and evangelicalism?

*         How are faith-based models shaped by the specific cultural contexts in which they emerge and evolve?



If you are interested in participating in this panel, please send an email to Keri Brondo (kbrondo@memphis.edu<mailto:kbrondo@memphis.edu>) by Friday, September 19, 2008.  Abstracts will be due October 1, 2008.


_____________________________
Keri Vacanti Brondo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Memphis
304 Manning Hall
Memphis, TN 38152
901.678.3289


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 17 22:29:30 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 17 21:29:51 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: In Search of the Postfordist City: Concepts and the Meaning of
 Urban Space and Society
Message-ID: <005601c9192e$02a704e0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from h-urban@h-net.msu.edu]

4th Annual Conference TGK Berlin-New York
September 25th-27th
Fordham University Lincoln Center
113 West 60th Street
New York, NY 10023

"In Search of the Postfordist City: Concepts and the Meaning of Urban 
Space and Society"

Conference program and directions to the campus at:
www.fordham.edu/urbanstudies or www.metropolitanstudies.de

Conference Schedule

Thursday, September 25        12th Floor Lounge, Lowenstein Building

5:00 pm    Welcome by Dean Nancy Busch,  Graduate School of Arts and 
Sciences (Fordham University)

Rosemary Wakeman 
(Fordham  University)
Heinz Reif  (TU Berlin)

5:30 pm.  Keynote Lecture by David  Harvey (City University New 
York):  "The Right to the City"
7.00 pm.  Opening Reception

Friday, September 26  McNally Auditorium, School of Law

8:30 am   Registration and Coffee

8.50 am   Welcome by Volker Berghahn (Columbia University)


9:00 ? 10:30 am.  Panel 1: Historicizing Postfordism: Was There Really 
a Break in the 1970s?

Chairs: Mary Nolan (New York University)
Oliver Schmidt (TU Berlin)

William Sites (University of Chicago): So When, Exactly, Was 
Black  Fordism? Race, History and Urban Theory

Ralph Blessing and Mary Rocco (Hunter/CUNY): Postfordist Urbanism and 
the Changes in Academic Planning

Stefan H?hne (TGK Berlin-New York): Efficiency in Movement. 
Fordist  Ideologies in Contemporary Urban Transit

Lukasz Stanek (Delft University): The Emergence of Urban Society? 
The  Research of the Institut de Sociologie Urbaine (1962 ? 1974)

10:45 am. ? 12:15 pm.   Panel 2: Changing Spatial Patterns:  From 
Center to Periphery and vice versa?

Chairs: Allison L. C. de Cerre?o (Wagner/New York University)
Doreen Jakob (TGK Alumna ?Urban Research Program/ Griffith University)

Andrew Needham (New York University): Power Plants, Landfills, and 
Vacation Homes: Hinterland Social Inequality and the Modern Metropolis

Meredith Ten Hoor (Princeton University): Building a Postfordist 
Market? Architecture, Food, and Information in the Transfer from Les
Halles to Rungis

Johanna Schlaack (TGK Berlin-New York): Airport City versus Airport 
Suburbia: Emerging Forms of Postfordist Urban Growth

Wolfram Hoefer (Rutgers University): 'The Oranges in New Jersey' 
-  Searching for the Postfordist City in the Design Studio

12:15 ? 1:45 pm.  Lunch and Poster Presentations

1:45 ? 3:15 pm.  Panel 3: Producing and Consuming Culture: The Fordist 
Versus the Postfordist City?

Chairs: Sharon Zukin (CUNY)
Mark Naison (Fordham University)

Miriam Greenberg (University of California at Santa Cruz): Urban 
Branding and the Postfordist City: The Case of New York City in the
1970s

Michael Ralph (New York University): The Hip Hop 
Generation's  Postindustrial Politics

Kristina Graaff (TGK Berlin-New York): Testimony, Self- 
Commodification, and Entrepreneurialism: Street Literature as Product
and Producer of the Postfordist Condition

Ingo Bader (TGK Berlin-New York):  Is the Music Industry a Prototype 
for the Postfordist Economy?


3:15 ? 4:15 pm.  Panel 4: Security and Urban Warfare: A New Dimension 
of Postfordism?

Chair: Dorothee Brantz (TU Berlin)

Peter Marcuse (Columbia University): Controlling the City: The Criminal 
Justice System Today

Ashley Dawson (CUNY): Adjusted Cities and the Urban War Machine

4:30 ? 6:00 pm.                     Panel 5: New Paradigms of Urban 
Interaction: What is Postfordist Social Inequality?

Chairs: John Mollenkopf (CUNY)
Ayala Fader (Fordham University)

Margit Mayer (FU Berlin): From Fordist Inequality to Postfordist 
Exclusion and Inclusion

Noa Ha (TGK Berlin-New York): Public Space as Space of Labor, Street 
Vending in the Postfordist City

Stefan Wellgraf (TGK Berlin-New York): Conceptualizing Postfordist 
Social Inequality: Lessons from Ethnographic Research of Marginalized 
Urban Youth in Berlin"

7:00 pm   Buffet Dinner, Cafeteria Atrium, Lowenstein Building

Saturday, September 27  McNally Auditorium, School of Law

8:30 am   Registration and Coffee

9:00 ? 10:30 am.   Panel 6: Architecture and the Spatiality of Late 
20th- Century Urbanism: How has the Appearance of Cities Changed Since 
the 1970s?

Chairs: Christine Boyer (Princeton University)
Peter Marcuse (Columbia University)

Tracy Neumann (New York University): 'Goodbye, 
Steeltown'?:  Postindustrial Urban Landscapes in the Great Lakes Region

Alessandro Bus? (TGK Berlin-New York): Urbanity Sells, and Comes 
from  Above: Rezoning, Rebranding and Auctioning Harlem's Main Street

Cordelia Polinna (TGK Berlin-New York): Urban Renaissance London: 
A  New Urban Design Paradigm for the City Center

Harald Bodenschatz (TU Berlin): Contours of a 'Third Center' in 
the  European Metropolis

10:45 am. ? 12:15 pm.  Panel 7: Social Housing ? No Future in  the 
Post-Fordist City?

Chairs: Owen Gutfreund (Columbia University)
Nicholas Bloom (New York Institute of Technology)

Marieke van Rooy (TU Eindhoven): Public Housing at a Turning 
Point:  The Netherlands, 1960-1980

Ari Sammartino (Oberlin College): Co-op City, Crisis and 
Community,  1965-1975

Sabine Horlitz (TGK Berlin-New York):  The Construction of a Blast:  No 
Random Crisis. The 1972 Demolition of the Pruitt-Igoe Public
Housing Project.

Nicholas Anastasakos (Brown University): Reconstituting the Fringe: The 
Political Culture of Homelessness in Manhattan, 1972-1979

12:15 ? 1:45 pm.                    Lunch and Poster Presentations

1:45 ? 3:15 pm.                      Panel 8: The City as a Place 
of  Work and Leisure: How  Did  Postfordism Affect Urban Practices?

Chairs: Wolfgang  Kaschuba (HU Berlin)
Hasia Diner (New York University)

Seamus O'Hanlon and Tony Dingle (Monash University, Australia): From 
Manufacturing Zone to Crisis Zone to Lifestyle Precinct: 
Economic  Restructuring and Social Change in Inner Melbourne, 1971-2001

Anne Vogelpohl (TGK Berlin-New York): Blurring Spheres of Life: 
Challenges for Work and Play in the Postfordist City

Riza Baris ?lker (TGK Berlin-New York): Ethnic Entrepreneurship as 
a  Postfordist Reflection

Clara E. Rodriguez (Fordham University): Latinos on TV and in Film in 
Pre and Post Fordist NYC

3:30 ? 5:30 pm.   Panel 9: Searching for the Just  City, Fighting for a 
Right to the City -- Book Presentations and  Roundtable Discussion

James Connolly, Cuz Potter, Johannes Novy, Justin Steil, Ingrid  Olivo, 
Peter Marcuse (Columbia University): _Searching for the Just
City_ (Routledge, 2009)

Tom Angotti (Hunter/CUNY), Sam J. Miller, (Picture the Homeless),  Rene 
Francisco Poitevan, (New York University): _New York for 
Sale:  Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate_ (MIT Press, 
November, 2008)

Roundtable Discussion with Peter Marcuse (Columbia University), Tom 
Angotti (Hunter/CUNY), Rene Francisco Poitevan (New York University); 
Sam J. Miller (Picture the Homeless); James Connolly, Cuz Potter, 
Johannes Novy, Justin Steil, Ingrid Olivo (all Columbia University), 
Right to the City Alliance, et. al.

5:30 pm   Conference Closing

Jun. Prof. Dr. Dorothee Brantz
Center for Metropolitan Studies
Technische Universit?t Berlin

From eleana.kim at nyu.edu  Wed Sep 17 15:10:38 2008
From: eleana.kim at nyu.edu (Eleana J Kim)
Date: Wed Sep 17 22:36:08 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Anthropology of China position
In-Reply-To: <E1KfzRy-0002iK-58@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1KfzRy-0002iK-58@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <f20aa5151749a.48d10fde@mail.nyu.edu>

DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY

CHINA SEARCH - JOB ADVERTISEMENT

The University of Rochester invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level in the anthropology of China.  This position is one of several anticipated as part of a multi-departmental interdisciplinary initiative in the field of Chinese/East Asian Studies.

All topical specializations will be considered; ethnographic research that considers China in both a regional and global context is strongly encouraged.  Ph.D., demonstrated excellence in research, and experience in teaching are mandatory. Candidates must be able to teach undergraduate courses in social and cultural anthropology at all levels and courses in their own areas of specialization. Successful candidates will also be prepared to participate in interdisciplinary research centers and graduate programs.

In their cover letter, applicants should describe their current research and their approach to teaching and send it along with their vita and the names of three referees to Robert J. Foster, Chair, Dept of Anthropology, PO Box 270161, Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester NY 14627-0161.  Review of applications will begin November 1 and continue until the position is filled.

The University of Rochester, an Equal Opportunity Employer, has a strong commitment to diversity and actively encourages applications from candidates from groups underrepresented in higher education.

09/11/2008

>>>>>>>>>><<<<<<<<<<

Eleana Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology 
University of Rochester
440 Lattimore Hall
UR Box 270161
Rochester  NY  14627-0161
(585) 275-8740




From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Sep 18 01:24:37 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 18 03:37:10 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Self and Substance: Drugs, Culture, and Society
Message-ID: <002001c91946$7aba61d0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers

Self and Substance: Drugs, Culture, and Society
April 10-11, 2009

Drugs and drug users have generated a complicated and enduring dialogue with 
political and social developments, often spurring robust debate, and often 
directing events throughout history. This conference will be a two-day 
interdisciplinary gathering of scholars studying a wide range of licit and 
illicit drug-issues. This conference is particularly interested in how drug 
and addiction-related subject matter has been historically constructed 
through literary, institutional, and popular discourse. The program 
committee invites critical and theoretical work from scholars in the 
Humanities and Social Sciences, as well as in other fields including 
Pharmacy, Biology, and Chemistry.

The conference seeks papers on an array of topics including, but not limited 
to the following:

- Drugs, health, and community
- The science of addiction (including drug treatment)
- Drug laws and drug-users?? rights
- Crime, punishment and imprisonment
- Drug subcultures
- Drug consumption and identity
- The construction of the "addict" through racism and classism
- Women and substance abuse
- Drug trafficking and globalization
- The rhetoric of drug consumption and/or prevention
- The confluence of the war on terrorism and the war on drugs

Paper abstracts of roughly 250 words should be sent by email to Allan Borst 
(borst@illinois.edu) by November 15, 2008. Proposals will be read blind by 
the program committee. Please include "Self and Substance" in the subject 
line.


Allan Borst
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
English Building
Email: borst@illinois.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 19 13:50:10 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 19 12:50:39 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: U of Wisconsin Madison, African Diaspora Studies
Message-ID: <006e01c91a77$ca9ff200$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

University of Wisconsin Madison - African Diaspora Studies

Location: Wisconsin, United States
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Assistant, Associate or Full Professor

African Diaspora Studies - U. of Wisconsin-Madison. The University of  
Wisconsin-Madison seeks candidates for a new faculty position in the  
field of African diaspora studies. Appointment to begin in August  
2009. The committee is seeking a scholar irrespective of discipline,  
of assistant or associate or full professor rank, whose primary  
specialization lies in some aspect of African diaspora studies,  
focusing upon the linkages between African diasporic communities and  
Africa, the dynamics of the forced or voluntary migration that led to  
the creation of those communities, their interactions and relations  
with societies of encounter, and the adaptation, reproduction and  
transformation of African institutional, cultural and expressive  
forms in diasporic settings. The committee particularly welcomes  
applications from candidates in Anthropology, Political Science,  
Sociology, Geography, or related social science fields.

Interested persons should send a curriculum vitae, a statement of  
their background and interest in African diaspora research and  
teaching, a sample of publications or writings, and three names of  
potential references to: Professor Tejumola Olaniyan, Chair, African  
Diaspora Search Committee, African Studies Program, University of  
Wisconsin-Madison, 205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive,  
Madison, WI 53706-1397. To ensure full consideration, the application  
should be received by October 30, 2008.

Unless confidentiality is requested in writing, information regarding  
the names of applicants must be released upon request. Finalists  
cannot be guaranteed confidentiality.

The University Wisconsin is an affirmative action/equal opportunity  
employer.

Contact Info:
Professor Tejumola Olaniyan
Chair - African Diaspora Search Committee African Studies Program
University of Wisconsin-Madison
205 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive Madison, WI 53706-1397
Website: http://africa.wisc.edu/
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 19 14:25:33 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 19 13:25:57 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Inequality, Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging (San Paulo, Brazil)
Message-ID: <013901c91a7c$ba47e2f0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

[forwarded from Comurb_r21@email.rutgers.edu]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that ISA-RC21 will have a Sao Paulo conference on 
August 23-25, 2009, Sao Paulo, Brazil. The conference theme is Inequality, 
Inclusion and the Sense of Belonging.

Rationale: Cities have experienced considerable cultural, political and 
economic change during the past few decades. The roles performed by social 
actors and by the state have diversified rather than weakened, as was 
predicted by some in academic debates. Spatial segregation has changed less 
than was forecast in the literature but the social meaning of segregation 
varies depending upon demographic and social structure. The idea of 
polarization remains strong but it is now clear that this is too simple a 
concept to grasp the diversity of urban situations.

Nevertheless, inequality remains a central feature of societies, although 
inequality is now more fragmented, and more associated with specific groups. 
Class identities have also changed, and in a broader sense, so too has the 
way people understand their participation in society. Social inclusion 
remains a key material, symbolic and political issue in a variety of 
national situations, although also marked by local features in each case. In 
countries where the issue of inclusion was considered to be resolved, at 
least politically, some social groups have experienced a declining sense of 
involvement in society, reposing the problem of social belongingness.

Social configurations have become significantly more heterogeneous, 
combining local historical, spatial and political factors with economic and 
political elements of broader amplitude. This Conference intends to address 
these issues in a transdisciplinary way, focusing mainly on their 
association with social inequalities and with the identities that mark 
contemporary cities.

The Call for Session Proposals:
We'd like to solicit session proposals related to the conference theme. We 
also welcome other urban topics. Followings are some examples. Please send 
your session proposal with its title and short description (within 150 
words) to the Sao Paulo conference committee (isasp2009@cebrap.org.br) with 
a copy to Eduardo Marques (ecmarq@uol.com.br) by November 20, 2008. We'll 
start the call for papers on January 10 and ends on April 30, 2009

-The new direction in urban inequality and poverty
-The new interpretation of urban inequality
-Comparative perspective on poverty
-The sense of belonging to neighborhoods and cities
-The state and urban inequality and poverty
-Urban mixed policies
-Comparative urban policies on inequality and poverty
-Urban justice and public policies
-Urban environment
-Urbanism and urbanization in history
-Configuration of urban spaces
-Territory, culture and identities
-Actors and political conflicts
-Space, networks and scales


Kuniko Fujita
President
ISA-RC21 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 22 12:20:20 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 22 11:20:34 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy
	Fellows
Message-ID: <00c301c91cc6$bdc05290$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>


Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program

Purpose: To allow midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social 
scientists to participate in a one-year residency in Washington, D.C., 
working for Congress on health policy issues.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Seeks Applications for Health Policy Fellows 
Program

Deadline: November 14, 2008

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows program provides a 
comprehensive experience at the nexus of health science, policy, and 
politics in Washington, D.C. The fellowship provides the opportunity for 
exceptional mid-career health professionals and behavioral and social 
scientists with an interest in health and health care policy. Fellows 
experience and participate in the policy process at the federal level and 
use that leadership experience to improve health, health care, and health 
policy.

Exceptional candidates from academic faculties and nonprofit health care 
organizations are encouraged to apply. Applicants may have backgrounds in 
the following disciplines: allied health professions; biomedical sciences; 
dentistry; economics, or other social sciences; health services organization 
and administration; medicine; nursing; public health; or social and 
behavioral health. Beginning in 2008, applicants will be able to select 
whether to apply from a sponsoring institution or as an individual. Track 1 
applicants will maintain their affiliation with their originating academic 
institution or nonprofit health care organization. Track 2 applicants will 
have their fellowship stipend administered by the Institute of Medicine.

Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of the United States or 
its territories at the time of application. The foundation encourages 
applications from candidates who come from groups that historically have 
been underrepresented.

Up to ten grants of up to $165,000 each will be made in 2009. Each fellow 
will receive up to $94,000 for the Washington stay (September 1, 2009, 
through August 31, 2010) in salary, plus fringe benefits or fellowship 
stipend. Fellows will receive an additional allowance for relocation.

November 14, 2008-Deadline for receipt of applications.
January 8, 2009-Selection of semifinalists.
February 18, 2009-Board interviews of semifinalists and announcement of 
selections.

See the RWJF Web site for the complete Request for Proposals: 
http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org

Contact:

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
mmichnich@nas.edu
Office: (202) 334-1506
http://www.healthpolicyfellows.org 


From jaustin at uwm.edu  Fri Sep 19 10:49:05 2008
From: jaustin at uwm.edu (Joe A Austin)
Date: Mon Sep 22 11:26:52 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Inquiry: African Americans and Neo-Bohemia?
In-Reply-To: <1941363259.10271701221835197400.JavaMail.root@mail01.pantherlink.uwm.edu>
Message-ID: <1234696011.10274501221835745377.JavaMail.root@mail01.pantherlink.uwm.edu>

Greetings,

Apologies for cross-postings.

I have a phd student in Urban Studies who is pursuing a project, drawing on Lloyd's (neo-bohemia) and Florida's (creative class) work, on African Americans (or minorities), neo-Bohemias, and neighborhood development.

I would appreciate suggestions of *any* potentially relevant secondary literature, and would be happy to share the results with the list.

Thanx in advance. Take care, Joe Austin, UW-Milwaukee

From basvanheur at gmx.net  Mon Sep 22 12:05:41 2008
From: basvanheur at gmx.net (Bas van Heur)
Date: Mon Sep 22 11:32:18 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]2nd Cfp: AAG2009 - The Cultural Economy of Small Cities
Message-ID: <003701c91c92$638dcc50$2aa964f0$@net>

Apologies for cross-posting - Second call for papers:

 

Annual Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas,
22-27 March 2009

Paper session:
The Cultural Economy of Small Cities: Creativity, Knowledge and Urban
Spatial Development.

Organizers: Mark Jayne (Geography, School of Environment and
Development, University of Manchester, UK) and Bas van Heur
(Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio, Faculty of Arts and Social
Sciences, Maastricht University, NL).

The last decade in particular has seen the emergence of a discourse
that understands creative production as central to the economic
development of urban spaces. The `urban' in this context, however, has
almost invariably referred to large global or capital cities such as
London, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam or Berlin. With a few
exceptions (e.g. Christopherson 2004; Bell and Jayne 2006), small
cities have been ignored and remain under-investigated. This session
tries to counter this bias in urban geography by focusing on the
following questions:

In what ways are policy strategies developed for large cities
applicable to small cities?

Are creative entrepreneurs such as artists, designers and musicians -
i.e. those actors analytically privileged in most studies on the
creative economy and the cultural industries - the most relevant
actors in the case of small cities? Or should we be looking for other
creative and innovative actors (and actor constellations) in other
fields?

Large cities tend to dominate the surrounding landscape through their
concentration of media, jobs and governmental institutions. How does
this urban hierarchy shape the very attempts of small cities to
develop and promote local creative economies?

To what extent do the dynamics of small cities necessitate a
rethinking of dominant theories and concepts used to explain the
creative economy?

Authors that address these - and other relevant - questions are
invited to submit a brief abstract (not more than 250 words) to the
session organizers Mark Jayne (mark.jayne@manchester.ac.uk) and Bas
van Heur (b.vanheur@vks.unimaas.nl) by October 1st at the latest.

 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 23 11:40:10 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 23 10:41:38 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Graduating as a Migrant? Professional and Labour Mobility Since 1989
Message-ID: <002401c91d8a$7696daa0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call for papers

Graduating as a Migrant? Professional and labour mobility since 1989

With the accession of Central and Eastern European countries to the  
EU the flows and perceptions of professional and labour mobility  
and migration have changed noticeably. One need only think of the  
issue of access versus restriction for Western European labour  
markets or the influx of students and graduates from Eastern  
Europe. Arguably, this story goes back to 1989.. And is also  
embedded in the wider European trends of encouraged mobility. Is a  
new and mobile generation of Europeans emerging? Does education 
and labour migration across Europe, possibly repeated, mean  
Europeanization?

For example, we are seeking research and review articles that do  
one of the following (other topics may be proposed and such  
proposal would be very welcome - this is also an open search for  
ideas):

- Clarify how, worldwide, the flows and perceptions of mobility and  
migration have changed since 1989 and the end of the Cold War, the  
collapse of state socialism, the rise of globalism and so on. For  
example, with the end of East-West rivalry, students and graduates  
seemingly are viewed less as souls to be won than as customers for  
higher education and this is true even for Indian students in Australia.
- Examine how the face of migration has changed in Western Europe  
(e.g. from post-colonial to intra-European migration, plus former  
Soviet Union; from South to East and so on), in particular in  
relation to graduate and professional mobility. Various Western  
European countries are seeking to attract or repel migrants as  
public discourse and policy changes..
- Deal with policy and conflicts in the European Union, possibly  
contrasting policies for higher education (and research) with those  
of the wider labour market, including the persistent calls of  
employers for better conditions for mobility;
- Consider the consequences of this new professional mobility and  
migration for the receiving countries, the sending countries and  
the migrants themselves;
- Contrast to new East-West mobility with second-generation  
migrants and their education (social/professional mobility).

Particularly welcome at this stage would be studies that are either  
comparative and relatively broad, giving an overview of flows and  
perceptions across Europe, review sending or receiving countries,  
or discuss the issue at the European level. On the other hand, it  
would be interesting to hear more about the lives of the  
professional mobile and the migrants (life histories, interviews,  
ethnography etc.). Finally, cases that discuss new significant  
professional migration outside Europe (e.g. Chinese or Indians to  
Australia) or to Europe would be welcome to round off the picture.

This call for papers is embedded in ongoing publishing and  
conference projects of the Research Network 1989 and is intended to  
lead to further research. Among these are:
- A panel on the integrated flows but possible divisive perceptions  
of East-West migrants, as part of a conference on the impact of  
1989 on Europe, which is to be held at the European University  
Institute in November 2008;
- A working paper series as well as a publishing programme, which  
includes a book publication for 2009;
- Participation in further conferences in 2009 that revolve around  
the 20th anniversary of 1989.

A good selection of information is available online and interested  
authors are asked to have a look at these materials.

Please email your expression of interest to: chris.armbruster at  
eui.eu

Responses are requested in the form of an abstract by 10 October  
2008. One page with contact details is sufficient in the first  
instance. Authors are encouraged to indicate how their ideas are  
relevant to a wider audience of scholars and of the public.

Chris Armbruster
Executive Director, Research Network 1989
http://www.cee-socialscience.net/1989/

Full papers available on the Internet:

Discerning the Global in the European Revolutions of 1989
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1261202

Explaining 1989 - Soviet Imperial Breakdown and Structural Stasis
http://ssrn.com/abstract=790524

Only a Bright Moment in a Century of War, Genocide and Terror? On  
the Significance of the Revolutions of 1989
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1261193

The Quality of Democracy in Europe: Soviet Illegitimacy and the  
Negotiated Revolutions of 1989
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1153416

Soviet Relations Of Domination: Legitimate or Illegitimate?
http://ssrn.com/abstract=790508
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 23 12:12:24 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 23 11:16:03 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Contemplating Migration and Settlement in Global and Local Contexts
Message-ID: <006601c91d8e$ccdb3790$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CFP: Contemplating Migration and Settlement in Global and Local Contexts
Location: Ontario, Canada
Submission Deadline: October 4, 2008

Immigration and Settlement Studies-Ryerson University
Graduate Student Conference
Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario

The Immigration and Settlement Studies program is pleased to announce the 
First Annual Graduate Student Conference, to take place on the 4th of 
October 2008 at Ryerson University. Immigration and Settlement Studies is 
the first interdisciplinary program in Canada focusing on migration and 
settlement issues past, present, and future. The organizing committee 
considers the importance of academic involvement in issues that are both 
community and globally oriented. Given the renewed debates surrounding 
immigration issues such as Bill C-50, the Commission on Reasonable 
Accommodation, Temporary workers, and the Canadian Experience Class, among 
others, we consider the timing of this conference to be particularly 
relevant. This event offers graduate students across all disciplines the 
opportunity to present and discuss their research ideas with fellow students 
in a professional, intellectually vibrant, and supportive forum.

The theme for this year's conference is Contemplating Migration and 
Settlement in Global and Local Contexts. We are especially interested in 
papers that address the following issues:

. Social location and its impact on migration
. Empire, colonialism
. Transnationalism: understanding citizenship, diasporas
. The settlement experience: breaking barriers, building bridges
. Representations of the immigrant in media and literature
. Policy matters

Presenters should be current graduate students or students who have recently 
completed graduate studies (2 years).We also encourage submissions from the 
visual, sound and performing arts. All accepted art submissions will be 
exhibited at the conference location.

We encourage all students interested in presenting at the conference to 
submit an abstract. Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Please include a 
separate information sheet containing the following:

1) Name
2) Affiliation: Institution/Department/Program of Study
3) Email address
4) Title of abstract as it appears on submission
5) A short personal profile of no more than 5 lines.

Abstracts and personal information forms in WORD format should be submitted 
electronically at ISSgradconference@gmail.com no later than August 22nd, 
2008. We will notify all authors about acceptance of their papers by 
September 5th, 2008. Presenters of the accepted papers will be then asked to 
send PowerPoint slides or a brief summary (no more than 2 pages in length) 
by September 12th, 2008.

For more information, please contact the organising committee at 
ISSgradconference@gmail.com

ISS Organizing Committee
Ryerson University
Email: issgradconference@gmail.com 


From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Tue Sep 23 15:11:57 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Tue Sep 23 17:12:19 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 JOB: American Univ., Anthropology, Asst. Prof. / Assoc. or Asst.
 Prof. (2 positions)
Message-ID: <34ec80c40809231411h5101ab54mc73330c60ad5ec97@mail.gmail.com>

The Department of Anthropology, American University, seeks two
anthropologists to fill tenure track appointments beginning in August
2009., One appointment is at the rank of assistant professor; the
second is at the rank of assistant or associate professor. Desired
area(s) of specialization include: environmental justice,
migration/displacement, gender/sexuality, medical, and/or human
rights. Ethnographic research in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe,
Africa, the Middle East, or Asia is preferred. We are especially
interested in scholars whose interests include the innovative use of
digital media in communicating anthropological ideas and values, and
who can play an active role in mentoring a new generation of students
in public anthropology. Teaching assignments include courses in the
university's General Education program, areas of research interest,
theory, and research methods. PhD completed by fall 2009, publication
record, and teaching experience required. Other responsibilities
include advising students, mentoring women and minority students;
conducting and publishing research, and participating in department,
college and university service. American University is seeking highly
dedicated teachers and scholars who are deeply committed to
interdisciplinary learning, the application of new technologies in
teaching and scholarship, and to the preparation of students for life
in a diverse and rapidly changing global society. Minorities and women
are strongly urged to apply. Send c.v., description of research
interests and teaching experience, and names of three references to:
Tenure Track Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Battelle
T-23, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC
20016. Review of applications begins October 1, 2009 and will continue
until the position is filled. AA/EEO. This employer offers employee
benefits to same-sex domestic partners of employees and prohibits
discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation/preference and
gender identity/expression.

From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Wed Sep 24 19:10:59 2008
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Wed Sep 24 21:11:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Univ. of Akron, Cult. Anthro, Asst. or Assoc. Prof.
Message-ID: <34ec80c40809241810v398430cdo1b5c43fb187e5657@mail.gmail.com>

The University of Akron seeks a scholar in Cultural Anthropology at
the assistant or associate professor level to start in Fall 2009. The
successful candidate will have expertise in political economy, urban
anthropology or cultural theory. Geographic area of specialization is
open. Candidates must have an active research agenda with the
potential to involve undergraduates. Evidence of excellence in
teaching is required. Ph.D. in Anthropology is also required. Formal
methods training that adds expertise to the range of our faculty will
be favored. The department has a growing tradition of undergraduate
research through community-based research and service-learning. Clear
potential to contribute to this emphasis is a plus. Responsibilities
include teaching introductory and upper-division undergraduate
courses, departmental and university service, and
research/scholarship. In addition to any university start-up funds,
the department provides endowed research support of $30,000 over the
first 3 years. Salary and rank commensurate with record. Review of
applications begins November 1, 2008 and will continue until the
position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be held at the AAA
meeting for candidates able to attend. Candidates should send a letter
of application, curriculum vitae, and the names and addresses of three
referees to: Search Committee Chair, CSAA, The University of Akron,
Akron, Ohio 44325-1910. The University of Akron is committed to a
policy of equal employment opportunity and to the principles of
affirmative action in accordance with state and federal law.


Carolyn Behrman
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-1910
330-972-6695

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 24 23:30:22 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 24 22:30:45 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Skilled Migrant Networks and their Impact on INtegration in
 Host Countries
Message-ID: <000d01c91eb6$ada80280$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CFP: Skilled Migrant Networks and their Impact on Integration in Host Countries

11th Metropolis National Conference
19-22 March 2008
Calgary, Alberta
http://www.metropolis2009.net/

Amidst a growing literature on skilled migration, scholars have increasingly
focused on different types of social networks to understand why migrants are
attracted to various places and also what their experiences have been of
assimilating and integrating into host countries.  However, there have been
relatively few attempts to construct a conceptual framework incorporating
different types of migrant social networks to advance our understanding of
how these relationships impact on migrant integration and retention. This
presentation workshop aims to formulate such a conceptual framework and
suggest some policy recommendations to facilitate migrant integration. In so
doing, this workshop bridges the following three Priority Areas of the
Metropolis Project:
 
- Citizenship and social, cultural and civic integration
- Economic and labour market integration
- Welcoming communities

We invite papers that focus on migration experiences at the local, regional
and national levels. Contributions from a range of disciplines addressing
any of, but not exclusive to, the following themes would be welcomed:

- Expatriate or sending state networks in host countries
- Transnational or cross-regional social networks
- Economic, social and cultural impacts of migrants on host countries
- Assimilation and integration of skilled migrants 
- Relationships between governments and citizens

Please send expressions of interests or abstracts (about 150 words) to Will
Harvey (will.harvey@ubc.ca) or Elaine Ho (elaine.ho@ubc.ca) by 10 November 2008.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Sep 25 16:49:37 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 25 16:05:16 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: Homeless Numbers Growing in Suburbs
Message-ID: <00fe01c91f49$f5292d80$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Homeless numbers growing in suburbs

By Jeff Nagel - Langley Times

Published: September 20, 2008 12:00 PM

The number of homeless people has more than doubled in many parts of the 
Lower Mainland since 2005, according to the 2008 Homeless Count.

The 24-hour snapshot conducted by volunteers March 11 found 2,660 homeless 
people in Metro Vancouver - a 22 per cent increase from the previous count 
in 2005 and up 137 per cent from the first count in 2002.

While more than half the total homeless remain in the City of Vancouver 
(1,372), the numbers are up sharply in the outlying cities.
The Tri-Cities saw the biggest jump, up 140 per cent (91 homeless counted 
versus 38 in 2005).

The increase was 110 per cent in Burnaby (up from 40 to 84); 102 per cent in 
Maple Ridge/Pitt Meadows (42 to 85); and 70 per cent in Richmond (33 to 56.)

Surrey had 402 homeless counted - up five per cent from 2005 - the second 
largest concentration of counted homeless in Metro Vancouver. Vancouver's 
numbers were up six per cent.

New Westminster (123, up 34 per cent) and North Vancouver (116, up 40 per 
cent) had the third and fourth largest homeless populations in the region.
Outside Vancouver city limits, homelessness climbed an average 35 per cent.
The final report, released Tuesday, gives the latest and most complete 
picture of the scope of the problem. It also uncovers disturbing trends 
about who is homeless.

Organizers pointed to the rising rate of homelessness among middle-aged 
people and seniors.

"We're seeing aging on the streets and aging in shelters," said Val 
MacDonald, executive director of the Seniors Services Society. "We're seeing 
increased numbers of seniors who have never been homeless in their lives but 
due to the absence of support services are now homeless."
The median age of homeless people counted was 41 in this count, up from 38 
in 2005.

Nine per cent of the homeless counted were age 55 or older and another 28 
per cent were between 45 and 54.

Those who are homeless have been that way for longer than found in previous 
counts.

Forty-eight per cent of those counted - 1,017 people - have been homeless 
longer than a year. That's up sharply from 20 per cent homeless more than a 
year in 2002 and 35 per cent in 2005.

MacDonald said that's a sign the problem is becoming "very entrenched on our 
streets."

She blames the lack of support and services that would allow more people to 
live independently.

Many of the homeless are chronically mentally ill and drug addicted, factors 
MacDonald said stems from the end of institutionalized care.
"They are people who will not go into housing," she said. "So they're 
chronically on the street."

Aboriginal people continue to be heavily represented among the homeless.

The working poor are also being increasingly forced into emergency shelters, 
the report found, noting 100 fully employed people were counted in shelters.
The province has bought numerous hotels and other properties for conversion 
into supportive or subsidized housing for the homeless.

But advocates say increased services and supports are also needed.

"All levels of government have to make a commitment to support these 
 people," MacDonald said.

People surveyed were asked where they consider to be their home.

The results show cities like Vancouver, Surrey, and to a lesser extent New 
Westminster and Langley are magnets for homeless people from other places.
Eight per cent of those surveyed said home for them was elsewhere in B.C., 
and another 18 per cent said elsewhere in Canada was home.

The top reasons given for being homeless included lack of income (25 per 
cent), cost of housing (19 per cent), addictions (17 per cent), and abuse, 
family breakdown or conflict (10 per cent).

Of those on the street the night of the count, 32 per cent said they didn't 
stay in a shelter because they dislike them and 16 per cent said they were 
turned away because the shelter was full. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Sep 25 17:20:04 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 25 16:20:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Asst. Prof of Cultural Anthropology, Southern
	Methodist U (global health and cultural diversity)
Message-ID: <015e01c91f4c$1aa423b0$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Southern Methodist University

Tenure Track Assistant Professor - Cultural Anthropology

Southern Methodist University Department of Anthropology in Dedman College 
invites applications for a tenure-track appointment as assistant professor 
in cultural anthropology beginning August 2009. We seek to hire a scholar 
with expertise in medical anthropology who can contribute to our 
programmatic emphasis on global health and cultural diversity. Preference 
will be given to candidates with field experience in Asia, Africa, or the 
Middle East. Applications may be submitted electronically or by letter, and 
should include a statement of research and teaching interests, a current CV, 
and contact information for three references. To ensure full consideration 
for the position the application must be received by November 10, 2008, but 
the committee will continue to accept applications until the position is 
filled. The committee will notify applicants of its employment decision 
after the position is filled. We will conduct interviews at the AAA 
meetings. Applications should be sent to Caroline B. Brettell, Chair, Search 
Committee/Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Southern 
Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275-0336 or cbrettel@smu.edu. SMU will 
not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, 
sex, age, disability or veteran status. SMU is also committed to 
nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 26 15:16:40 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 26 14:16:54 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Asylum (Vienna, Austria)
Message-ID: <001001c92004$0a0a6060$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Call For Papers

*Asylum:*

*20th Century Case Studies*

Vienna, 15--16 October 2009

On the occasion of its 25th anniversary the Bruno Kreisky Archive  
Foundation is soliciting conference papers that treat various aspects  
of the reception of refugees throughout the 20th century. Totalitarian  
regimes, armed conflict, natural disasters and grinding poverty forced  
people to leave the place they used to life in in the hope for open  
borders and opportunities to build a life in a new country. The  
individuals and groups turned into refugees met a wide range of  
reaction: from warm welcome to exclusion, tolerance, neglect, support,  
etc. The focus of the conference lies on those who chose to receive or  
not to receive people, individuals or groups, having experienced  
forced migration: state institutions, private groups, NGOs,  
individuals, and how they reacted: policies, strategies, and images of  
those needing and/or wanting to enter.

The organizers welcome papers from political scientists, historical  
anthropologists, historical sociologists, and social or political  
historians. No restrictions concerning geographic area apply. The  
working languages of the conference will be English and German. The  
conveners plan to publish a volume of selected and revised  
contributions after the conference.

Prospective participants are asked to submit an English version of (1)  
a 500 word (max.) abstract and (2) a curriculum vitae of no more than  
three pages by 31 October 2008 to:

Dr. Maria Mesner
Stiftung Bruno Kreisky Archiv
Rechte Wienzeile 97
A-1050 Wien
AUSTRIA

e-mail: maria.mesner@univie.ac.at
Fax: +43 1 545 30 97

Interested scholars will be informed of the status of their  
submissions before the end of November 2008.

Please share this information with potentially interested colleagues!
From cue at gse.upenn.edu  Fri Sep 26 19:52:21 2008
From: cue at gse.upenn.edu (Center for Urban Ethnography)
Date: Mon Sep 29 12:37:31 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ethnography in Education Research Forum CFP
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(please forward widely)

SUBMISSIONS OPEN THROUGH OCT. 1

30th Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
?Ethnography for Social Justice in Education?

February 27 and 28, 2009
Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

***CALL for PAPERS***
ONLINE SUBMISSION OPEN:  August 15, 2008
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 1, 2008
NOTIFICATION:  early November, 2008
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS:  December 2, 2008

Reinventing Anthropology "is for people for whom 'the way things are' is not reason enough for the way things are ?who ask of anthropology what they ask of themselves ? responsiveness, critical awareness, ethical concern, human relevance, a clear connection between what is to be done and the interests of mankind" (Hymes 1969: 7).

On this 30th anniversary of the Ethnography in Education Research Forum, we reflect on Dell Hymes' vision of anthropology in the service of social justice.  In his prolific and powerful writings, and in his leadership of Penn's Graduate School of Education, Hymes proposed not only a vision but a set of ways of doing ethnography in education --from ethnographic monitoring and the ethnography of communication to the ethnopoetics of oral narratives and the ethnography of language policy-- that have inspired and informed researchers for a generation and more.  In this year's Forum, we hope to explore the myriad uses educational ethnographers are making of these and other ways of working to change schooling and education for the better, in the ongoing project of reinventing anthropology.

Plenary speakers:
Shirley Brice Heath, Brown University
Kris Guti?rrez, University of California Los Angeles
Brian Street, King?s College
Patricia Carini, co-founder of the Prospect School
Margaret Himley, Syracuse University


TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS: 
Proposals are requested for presentations in the following categories:
1.  Individual Paper (Traditional or Work-in-Progress)
2.  Group Sessions (Traditional or Work-in-Progress)
3.  Data Analysis Consultation

Practitioner Inquiry: For Individual Papers and Group Sessions, you may choose to designate your presentation as PRACTITIONER INQUIRY.  Practitioner inquiry presentations focus on research by teachers and other practitioners in educational settings (e.g., school principals, counselors, non-teaching aides, parents, students, and other members of school communities). Practitioner inquiry presentations are particularly featured on Saturday, known as Practitioner Inquiry Day.

1.  Individual Papers: (15 minutes)
Individual papers by one or more authors.  Either final analyses, results, and conclusions (Traditional) or preliminary findings and tentative conclusions (Work-in-Progress) may be submitted.  Indicate practitioner inquiry, if you so choose.

2.  Group Sessions (75 minutes) 
A full session of no fewer than three, and no more than six presenters, including a discussant.  These sessions may vary in organization: a set of individual papers, a panel discussion, a plan for interaction among members of the audience in discussion or workshop groups are possible formats.  Either final analyses, results, and conclusions (Traditional) or preliminary findings and tentative conclusions (Work-in-Progress) may be submitted.  Indicate practitioner inquiry, if you so choose.

3. Data Analysis Consultation (30 minutes)
Individual submissions only.  Presenters offer data along with questions about analysis for consultation with expert researchers and conference participants.  Data analysis consultation is by definition Work-in-Progress. 

PROPOSAL EVALUATION CRITERIA:

1.  Significance for education
2.  Conceptual orientation
3.  Methodology 
4.  Interpretation
5.  Quality of analysis 
6.  Depth and clarity

FORMAT OF PROPOSALS: 
Everyone must submit:
A. Summary (limit 100 words) 
This should be a brief overview of the work to be presented.

B. Description (limit 1500 words, including references)
Selection is based on the description.  A detailed description of the work to be presented should be submitted including conceptual orientation, data collection and analysis methods, data interpretation, and significance to education.

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Summary and Description of the session overall, as specified above.  If the session consists of a set of individual papers, the group session proposal must also include a description for each individual presentation. 
Instructions and forms for submission are available online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

Submission system opens August 15
Questions
E-mail: cue@gse.upenn.edu


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 29 13:47:57 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 29 12:48:18 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The Lefts and the Global Justice Movement
Message-ID: <00c101c92253$222c0530$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

CfP - Partecipazione e Confitto 

N. 1/2010

CfP : The Lefts and the Global Movement: historical, political and 
cultural paths toward collective action transnationalization     


When the Global Justice Movement (GJM) entered the public arena in 
November 1999 with the protests against the third World Trade 
Organization conference in Seattle, it presented itself as an unusual 
coalition of traditional organizations, new social movements, and 
emerging groups contesting neoliberal globalization (Levi and Murphy 
2006: 652). Similar alliances developed on the old continent, although 
with an important difference: while organizations of the socialist or 
communist tradition, including political parties, are largely absent 
from the GJM in the US, they are quite central in the European GJM, 
where the large European trade unions are historically closely 
intertwined with these parties and organizations (Bartolini 2000). 
Alongside this block of parties, trade unions, and collateral 
organizations that we consider as the 'traditional Left', we find a 
'radical Left' sector of parties, grassroots trade unions and groups of 
autonomous, anarchist or Trotskyite tradition, with their roots in the 
New Left of the 1970s (della Porta and Rucht 1995; Tarrow 1989). 
Another context, in which the traditional and the radical left 
interacted at the moment of the Global Movement formation, was the 
Latin American one. Both in Europe and in Latin America, the 
relationships between these two sectors of the Left, and between them 
and the others groups, have not always been linear, but characterized 
by both cooperation and competition, openness and closure, cross-
fertilization and indifference.   

The emergence of the Global Movement has been an opportunity for the 
traditional Left to re-activate in social mobilization and to find a 
way out the domestic politics boundaries, within which it remained long 
time confined.  At the same time,  both sectors of the Left are able to 
guarantee resources and visibility, besides micromobilization potential 
to the young Global Movement. However, as the sketched comparison 
between the United States and Europe just suggests, the relationships 
between the Left and the Movement seem to vary from context to context, 
and this highlights the importance of national/local resources, 
traditions and political opportunities, somehow confirming the (only 
apparently rhetorical) image of "rooted cosmopolitans" (Tarrow 2005). 
If political science and sociology literature on the Global Justice 
Movement is already reach, it hardly systematically investigated its 
relationships  with the different sectors  of the Left.  This issue of 
"Partecipazione e Conflitto" is meant to overcome such lacuna, and 
wants to host contributions with an empirical, and possibly 
comparative, approach. We will also consider contributions with an 
historical approach on the past transnational activism (old 
internationalism, the '68, etc.). 

We call for contributions that deal with the following aspects:

a) Comparative analysis of leftist groups which mobilize within the 
Global Movement.
b) Diachronic (Historical) Analysis  of the leftist transnational 
activism.
c) (Possibly comparative) analysis of the relationships between 
traditional and radical left within the movement.
d) Analysis of the conceptions and practices of democracy  within the 
leftist groups involved in the movement.
e)  Analysis of the evolution and the cross-fertilization of leftist 
political cultures.

Those contributions which provide a deep theoretical framework and 
combine both quantitative and qualitative methods, will be highly 
appreciated.


Editors:
Massimiliano Andretta (University of Pisa) andretta@sp.unipi.it
Gianni Piazza (University of Catania) giannipiazza@tiscali.it

The articles must be sent to the editors (via e-mail) and to the 
Review via  its e-mail: partecipazioneeconflitto@gmail.com, before 
1/12/2008.

The articles will be published in Italian, but they can be submitted 
also in English. They must not overcome the maximum length of 60,000 
types (spaces, notes and references included). They must be sent with a 
short abstract (200 words). The articles will be assessed by three 
anonymous referees (one internal and two external to the Review 
Board),.

From Daniel.Renfrew at mail.wvu.edu  Mon Sep 29 14:38:18 2008
From: Daniel.Renfrew at mail.wvu.edu (Daniel Renfrew)
Date: Mon Sep 29 13:50:41 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP SfAA/PESO proposed session, "Activism and Life Itself"
Message-ID: <48E0DA57.E5A8.0053.0@mail.wvu.edu>

Call for Papers for Proposed Session: "Activism and Life Itself"

Conference Theme: Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement,
Partnerships, and Practice
Society for Applied Anthropology / Political Ecology Society (PESO),
Co-sponsor
69th Annual Meeting - March 17 - 21, 2009 - Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html 

The struggle for "life itself" has become a widespread rallying cry for diverse social movements and grassroots politics, including movements oriented around human rights, environmental justice, ecological or biological life, and human health and well-being.  Why has the call to struggle for life itself become so compelling and prevalent?  How is the defense of life linked to perceived or experienced threats posed by capital conversion of biological life, human health, or nature, such as through new biotechnologies or novel forms of "primitive accumulation"?  How are activists' concerns with life itself related to broader processes of globalization, free market reforms, the dismantling of the welfare state, and changing conditions of citizenship and sovereignty-over nation, nature, bodies-in the crisis-ridden global economy?  This session draws together papers exploring the diverse calls for local action against what has increasingly become a perceived global challenge to "life itself."

Interested participants should send a 100 word abstract to Thomas Pearson (twpear@gmail.com) and Daniel Renfrew (Daniel.Renfrew@mail.wvu.edu) by October 7th.



Daniel E. Renfrew
Assistant Professor
Division of Sociology and Anthropology
West Virginia University
PO Box 6326
Morgantown, WV 26506-6326
Tel: 304-293-5801, ext. 3212
Email: daniel.renfrew@mail.wvu.edu


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 30 14:25:33 2008
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 30 13:25:46 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Institute for Advanced Study Fellows, U of
	Minnesota
Message-ID: <00ec01c92321$8f0ce650$0201a8c0@D7ZX4M91>

Quadrant, a joint initiative of the University of Minnesota Press and the
Institute for Advanced Study, invites scholars pursuing interdisciplinary
work to apply for one of four semester-long residential fellowships to be
held in academic year 2009-2010 at the University of Minnesota. Applications
must be postmarked by November 1, 2008. Please note that the fellowship may
not be used for work toward a degree and is not open to faculty or staff at
the University of Minnesota.

Fellows will receive a stipend of up to $30,000, including the cost of
benefits, for one semester. During the tenure of their fellowship, they will
be in residence at the Institute for Advanced Study in Minneapolis and will
participate in at least one of Quadrant's faculty-led research and
publishing collaboratives: Design, Architecture, and Culture; Environment,
Culture, and Sustainability; Global Cultures; and Health and Society.
Fellows will either present a chapter-in-progress in a workshop setting with
their Group or give a public talk. Also while they are in residence, Fellows
will be able to work directly with University of Minnesota Press editors in
developing their work. They may submit work completed while on the
fellowship to the University of Minnesota Press for publication through its
standard peer review and faculty committee approval process.

Please direct any questions regarding the fellowship to Anne Carter at 
cart0227@umn.edu.

Application Procedures:

To apply for a Quadrant Fellowship, please submit seven copies of the
following materials to the address given below:

Your research proposal (no longer than 1,500 words). Describe the research
or creative project you will undertake during your residence. Indicate which
of the four Quadrant Collaboratives you would like to join and include a
discussion of how participation in the Quadrant project would advance your
work
* An abstract of your proposal (200 words)
* A curriculum vitae
*  In addition, ask three people familiar with your work and this project to
submit letters of support directly to the address below.
All application materials, including letters of support, should be
postmarked no later than November 1, 2008, and mailed to:

Professor Ann Waltner, Director
Institute for Advanced Study
University of Minnesota
131 Nolte Center
315 Pillsbury Dr. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Fellowship offers will be made in February 2009.

Quadrant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. To learn more, please
visit these web pages:

 <http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php>
About Quadrant <http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php>
http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php

 <http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php#design> About Quadrant's Design,
Architecture, and Culture Group
<http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php#design>
http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php#design

Call for Applications <http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php>
http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrantapply.php

If you have questions, please contact the Quadrant Coordinator, Anne Carter
<mailto:cart0227@umn.edu> r, at cart0227@umn.edu.

John Archer
Professor and Chair
Scholar of the College

Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
235 Nicholson Hall ? University of Minnesota
Faculty Profile  http://cscl.umn.edu/people/facExp.php?UID=archer
From hecky at email.arizona.edu  Tue Sep 30 11:55:21 2008
From: hecky at email.arizona.edu (Ronald Hector A. Villanueva)
Date: Tue Sep 30 16:39:51 2008
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Papers for Proposed Session: "The Possibilities of Doing
 Good, Social Movements in an age of Neoliberalism"
Message-ID: <20080930105521.7q40swckwgkgg4wc@www.email.arizona.edu>

Call for Papers for Proposed Session: "The Possibilities of Doing Good, Social
Movements in an age of Neoliberalism"


Conference Theme: Global Challenge, Local Action: Ethical Engagement,
Partnerships, and Practice Society for Applied Anthropology / Political Ecology
Society (PESO), Co-sponsor.
69th Annual Meeting - March 17 - 21, 2009 - Santa Fe, New Mexico
http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2009.html

Call for Papers for Proposed Session: "The Possibilities of Doing Good, Social
Movements in an age of Neoliberalism"

Social changes per political scientist Karol Soltan (1996) are large scale,
require revolution or extensive institutional reform, and have pervasive and
long term societal consequences.  Several social movements worldwide, working
with the bottom of the pyramid or the poorest of the poor, claim success in
social change.  Some social movements are spurring social change by inspiring
change, and addressing poverty via massive mobilization of people, resources,
technology, and skills, and developing strong community relationships.  Many
have replicated and are "scalable" globally.  What are the anthropological
perspectives on the successes, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, best
practices, inherent challenges, and "new' empowerment models?

Interested participants should send a 100 word abstract to Hecky Villanueva at
hecky@email.arizona.edu or livingplanet2001@yahoo.com by
October 7th.

Long version:

The Possibilities of Doing Good, Social Movements in an age of Neoliberalism

Social changes according to the political scientist Karol Soltan are large
scale, require either revolution or extensive institutional reform, have
consequences that are pervasive in society, and have long term effects.  A
number of social movements worldwide, working with the bottom of the pyramid
and/or the poorest of the poor, claim success in forging social change.  By
inspiring change, responding to poverty via massive mobilization of people and
resources, forging partnerships and leveraging  money, technology, and skills,
and developing strong community relationships; these social movements are
spurring change in the welfare, housing, environment, livelihood, social
justice sectors, among others.  Many of these have been replicated elsewhere
and are "scalable" globally.  What are the anthropological perspectives in
these latest iterations of social movements? What are the common threads in the
successes, problems, threats, and opportunities?  What are the anthropological
lessons here?  How are relationships established, maintained, and strengthened?
How is empowerment and capacity building initiated and maintained?  How are
cultural differences helping or undermining activities?  We are intent at
looking at best practices, inherent challenges, new models of development and
empowerment.

If you are studying or part of a "successful" social movement that is
transnational in nature or is present in numerous areas in one country, please
share your story.



--
Hecky Villanueva
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
U. of Arizona





