From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Oct  1 10:30:43 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct  1 09:31:46 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Free Screenings of "Capitalism: A Love Story"
Message-ID: <003401ca429b$61ba8be0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Free Screenings Tonight of "Capitalism" for the Jobless and Homeless in America's Hardest Hit Cities (plus local benefit premieres all across the country) 

Thursday, October 1st, 2009 

Friends, 

We're just one day away from the widest opening I've ever had for any of my movies. Tomorrow, Friday, October 2nd, "Capitalism: A Love Story" opens on over a thousand screens across the United States, a record for an independent documentary. 

This follows last weekend's limited opening in New York and L.A. where "Capitalism" set the box office record for the highest per screen average of ANY movie released so far this year. Not just any documentary -- any MOVIE! It was, as the studio said, a good indicator of just how well the movie may do when it goes wide this weekend. I sincerely hope they're right because I believe deeply in this film. 

To kick off the national release of "Capitalism: A Love Story," I've asked the studio to offer a number of screenings in the nation's hardest hit cities -- the ones with the highest unemployment rates and highest foreclosure rates -- where those who've lost their jobs or who are in foreclosure (or have already been evicted) may attend my film free of charge. They've agreed, and so tonight (Thursday), the night before our opening day, ten cities will grant you free admission if you have fallen on hard times. The list of theaters and cities is below. You don't need to bring any "proof" of your situation -- just show up -- it's the honor system, no questions asked. 

Of course, a free movie ain't much when what you really need is a job or a place to live. And that's not going to change until the party that controls both the Congress and the White House wakes up and realizes the American people put them in charge to fix the mess created by the previous administration. For that to happen requires the active involvement of each of us. And, as I show in this movie, it's going to also require us to challenge some fundamental assumptions about an economic system that currently allows the wealthiest ONE PERCENT in this country to have more financial wealth than the bottom 95% combined. That concentration of money and power in the hands of so few people is, I believe, at the core of so many of our problems. 

So, if you're going through tough times and you live in one of the areas below, please be my guest tonight, on the eve of my new film's opening. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis. 

Also, in another five cities tonight, I have made the film available to local groups to hold benefit screenings to raise money for their local organizations -- organizations which are working toward a day when a filmmaker doesn't have to offer free screenings to people who've been put through the wringer. If you live in any of these areas (see below for the list of benefit premieres tonight), please come out and support the good work of these grassroots groups. 

So, until tomorrow, thanks for your support, and I'll see ya at the movies! 

Yours,
Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
MichaelMoore.com
Twitter.com/MMFlint
Facebook.com/MMFlint
MySpace.com/MMFlint 

"CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY" FREE SCREENINGS: 

Las Vegas, Nevada
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Cinemark Orleans
4600 W Tropicana Blvd.
Las Vegas, NV 89103 

Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday, Oct.1st, 7:00 p.m.
Harkins Christown
1620 W Monte Bello
Phoenix, AZ 85015 

Fresno, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Edwards Stadium
250 Paseo Del Centro
Fresno, CA 93720 

Saginaw, Michigan
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Goodrich Saginaw 8 Theater
3250 Kabobel Dr.
Saginaw, MI 48604 

Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Regal North Hills Stadium 14
4150 Main at North Hills St.
Raleigh, NC 27609 

Tampa / St. Petersburg, Florida
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Muvico Starlight
1800 Highwood Preserve Parkway
Tampa, FL 33647 

Elkhart, Indiana
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Carmike Encore Park 14
2701 Cassopolis Street
Elkhart, IN 46514 

Baltimore, Maryland
Thursday, October 1st, 7:30 p.m.
The Charles Theatre
1711 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201 

Cleveland, Ohio Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
AMC Westwood Town Center
21653 Center Ridge Road
Rocky River, OH 44116 

Peoria, Illinois
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:00PM
Willow Knolls 14 Theatre
4100 W Willow Knolls Drive
Peoria, IL 61615 

"CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY" BENEFIT SCREENINGS: 

Miami, Florida
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Sunrise Intracoastal
3701 NE 163rd Street
North Miami Beach, FL 33160
Benefiting: Take Back the Land 

Madison, Wisconsin
Thursday, October 1st, 7:00 p.m.
Sundance Cinemas 608
430 N. Midvale Blvd.
Madison, WI 53705
Benefiting: Madison Association of Worker Cooperatives / Union Cab / Isthmus Engineering 

San Francisco, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Embarcadero Center Cinema
One Embarcadero Center, Promenade
San Francisco, CA 94111
Benefiting: US Federation of Worker Cooperatives 

Chicago, Illinois
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 8:00 p.m.
Kerasotes City North
2600 N. Western Ave.
Chicago, IL 60647
Benefiting: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America 

Grass Valley, California
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 7:30 p.m.
Del Oro Theatre
165 Mill Street
Grass Valley, CA 95945
Benefiting: KVMR-FM 

Boulder, Colo. (past screening)
Tuesday, Sept. 29th, 8:00 p.m.
Boulder Theater
2032 14th Street.
Boulder, CO 80302
Benefiting: Present Tense Films 



From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Oct  1 10:35:37 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct  1 09:39:59 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 ANN: Studies in Transversality: Militant Research (Goldsmith College, UK)
Message-ID: <009901ca429c$137b2790$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Studies in Transversality: Militant Research
hosted by Micropolitics Research Group


Tuesday October 13th
PUBLIC LECTURE by Colectivo Situaciones (Buenos Aires)
17.00 - 19.00
Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths College


Wednesday October 14th
PUBLIC SEMINAR with A Traversad por la Cultura (Madrid), Colectivo 
Situaciones (Buenos Aires), Euromayday Hamburg, S.a.l.e. (Venice), 
Universidad Nomada (Barcelona),  and many others.
14.00 - 19.00
RHB room 342 (in red brick main building), Goldsmiths College


Studies in Transversality is a series of encounters between researchers, 
cultural workers, and organisers who are concerned with the contexts and 
consequences of their practices beyond their respective fields of 
specialisation, and who wish to open new lines of subjectivation.  This 
session is the first of the year and brings together the practices of 
Colectivo Situaciones (Argentina), and a number of groups who are 
researching and organising around questions of creative labour, knowledge 
production and contemporary social movements in the UK and Europe today. 
Working through the notion of militant research, the session aims to examine 
the separations between university based academic research, cultural 
workers, and activists, the reason why these separations exist, and to share 
the working methods of these groups.


About Militant Research
Militant research is a concept-tool that works on the premise that all 
interpretation of the world is linked to some kind of action. Related to 
practices of co-research and institutional analysis, militant research 
proposes that all new knowledge production affects and modifies the bodies 
and subjectivities of those who have participated. Rather than use research 
as a tool to categorise and separate knowledge from practice, militant 
research operates transversally, becoming part of the process that organises 
relationships between bodies, knowledge, social practices and fields of 
action.


See Marta Malo de Molina's two recent articles on militant research at:
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0406/malo/en#redir
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0707/malo/en


Colectivo Situaciones is a collective based in Buenos Aires. Emerging from 
Argentina's radical student milieu in the mid 1990s, they have developed a 
long track record of intervention in Argentine social movements, including 
work with the unemployed workers' movement of Solano, HIJOS, the 
organization of the children of the disappeared during the dictatorship and 
Creciendo Juntos, an alternative school run by militant teachers. Their 
books and pamphlets are dialogues with social movements, activists and many 
other groups, and explore the question of power, tactics of struggle, and 
how to think about revolution today. In addition to their publishing work, 
they are also working in a collectively run, alternative school. In a note 
printed on the back of many of their books, they describe their work as 
follows:


.we intend to offer an internal reading of struggles, a phenomenology and a 
genealogy, not an "objective" description. It is only in this way that 
thought assumes a creative, affirmative function, and stops being a mere 
reproduction of the present. And only in this fidelity with the immanence of 
thought is it a real, dynamic contribution.


For published texts in Spanish and English, see:
http://www.situaciones.org
http://transform.eipcp.net/transversal/0406/colectivosituaciones/en
http://info.interactivist.net/node/5490,
http://www.constituentimagination.net
http://www.commoner.org.uk/index.php?p=15


About Micropolitics Research Group
The Micropolitics Research Group investigates the forces and procedures that 
entangle artistic production and the flexible subjectivities of its 
producers into the fabric of late capitalism.  Based primarily in London, 
the group carries out analysis of issues ranging from the production of 
subjectivity in creative work, diplomacy, institutional analysis, radical 
pedagogy and concrete situations of free labour, 'carrot work', and creative 
industry.


Directions:
Goldsmiths College, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross SE14 6NW
New Cross or New Cross Gate RAIL, or buses: 21, 53, 453, 171, 172, 36, 436
Directions and Campus Map: http://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media/campus-map.pdf


This event is supported by: London Centre for Arts and Cultural Exchange, 
Goldsmiths Department of Art Research Support Award, and Goldsmiths College 
Research and Knowledge Transfer Award






--
Stevphen Shukaitis
http://stevphen.mahost.org
www.minorcompositions.info
www.ConstituentImagination.net
www.autonomedia.org
http://info.interactivist.net 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Oct  1 13:54:29 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Oct  1 12:54:38 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Six-month fellowship for female social scientist
	from developing nation
Message-ID: <003f01ca42b7$d822d410$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Please help spread the word about this new opportunity:

S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n E x p
e r i e n c e

Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505) 954-7200 *
fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org<http://www.sarweb.org>

One six-month fellowship is available for a female social scientist from a
developing nation, either
pre- or post-doctoral, whose work addresses women's economic and social
empowerment in that nation.

The goal of the program is twofold: to advance the scholarly careers of
women social scientists from the developing world, and to support research
that identifies causes of gender inequity in the developing world and that
proposes practical solutions for promoting women's economic and social
empowerment.

The fellowship is expected to start on September 1, 2010 and run through
February 28, 2011.

In addition to a $4,500/month stipend, and housing and office space on the
SAR campus, the Campbell Fellow receives travel, shipping, and library
resource funds; health insurance; and the support of a mentoring committee
of established scholar-practitioners.

The following criteria guide SAR's selection of the Campbell Fellow:

* Citizenship: Applicants may not be U.S. citizens or permanent residents
and must be a national of a developing country that is currently eligible to
borrow from the World Bank (see http://go.worldbank.org/S2ADVPZVX0 for the
current list of eligible countries).

* Academic Discipline: Applicants should be pursuing research in one of the
social sciences:
anthropology, economics, education, geography, history, law, linguistics,
political science, psychology, social work, or sociology, or in an
interdisciplinary field that incorporates two or more of these disciplines.

* Research Topic: Projects that identify causes of and/or solutions to
gender inequity in the developing world, and thus contribute to women's
social and economic empowerment, will be favored. Sample topics include
education and socialization of girls; globalization and the economic status
of women; policies and practices toward family, reproduction, and women's
health; impacts of international and civil conflict on women; women's roles
in resolving such conflicts or sustaining civil society; media
representations of women and the formation of ideologies of gender; the
practice and process of gender-based development; and women in science and
technology.
SAR will select fellows on the strength of their clearly stated intention to
serve their communities and countries of origin.

* English Fluency: To facilitate full engagement in the SAR intellectual
community, applicants must demonstrate their fluency in English, such as
through their record of professional interaction in written and spoken
English.

Campbell Fellowship for Women Scholar-Practitioners from Developing Nations
S c h o o l f o r A d v a n c e d R e s e a r c h o n t h e H u m a n E x p
e r i e n c e Post Office Box 2188 * Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504-2188 * (505)
954-7200 * fax (505) 954-7235 * www.sarweb.org The application deadline is
November 1.

For application form and submission specifications go to
scholar.app.sarweb.org or contact Scholar Programs at scholar@sarsf.org or
(505) 954-7201.
This fellowship is made possible through the generous support of the Vera R.
Campbell Foundation.
For more information, visit campbell.fellowship.sarweb.org.

* Application form available at scholar.app.sarweb.org.
* An abstract, not to exceed 150 words, describing the purpose, goals, and
objectives of the applicant's research project on which they will work at
SAR.
* A proposal, no more than four double-spaced pages in length. The proposal
should describe what is to be accomplished during the fellowship, the status
of the applicant's research on the topic, and the significance of the work.
* A short bibliography, not to exceed one single-spaced page, of references
cited in the proposal.
* Curriculum vitae, not to exceed four single-spaced pages.
* Three letters of recommendation not to exceed two single-spaced pages in
length each. Letters must be received by November 1. Applicants are
responsible for ensuring that references send their letters on time.



From jamiejcross at gmail.com  Fri Oct  2 11:19:18 2009
From: jamiejcross at gmail.com (Jamie Cross)
Date: Fri Oct  2 11:22:53 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Rethinking Economic Zones in South Asia
Message-ID: <4AC5864E.1070008@gmail.com>

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * *
CFP: Rethinking Economic Zones in South Asia
Panel @ the 21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies
July 26th-29th, 2010, University of Bonn, Germany

Free trade zones, export processing zones and special economic zones 
have become controversial sites of planning, investment, and enterprise 
across South Asia. For anthropologists they have also come to be seen 
primarily as sites of 'neoliberal governance', in which national 
territory and working populations are oriented specifically in relation 
to their potential for growth and productivity.
 
This panel invites papers that rethink how economic zones operate and 
what they do.

Key questions and themes that the panel hopes to address include:

* To what extent are 'neoliberal imaginaries' realized in economic zones 
and translated into the production of neoliberal subjects?
* How have local histories of social transformation and trajectories of 
development planning shaped the implementation of economic zones?
* Are disciplinary regimes that hinge on the insecurity, flexibility and 
precariousness of labour be desribed as exceptional?
* What differences or continuities exist between economic zones and 
other spaces that are governed in relation to the global market (this 
may include sites of mineral extraction, private sector manufacturing 
and state run enterprise)?
* How have market-oriented modes of governance shaped notions of 
competition and individuality or solidarity and mutual-aid?

We invite papers based on current or recent empirical research in the 
fields of anthropology, geography, sociology, history, political science 
and development studies.  

For further information, please contract the panel organisers:
Jamie Cross, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London -- 
/jamiejcross@gmail.com/
Christian Str?empell, South Asia Institute, Ruprecht Karls University 
Heidelberg - /struempell@eth.mpg.de



/
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Oct  2 13:25:08 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Oct  2 12:25:21 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Anthropological Approaches to Confronting HIV/AIDS &
	Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Message-ID: <017c01ca437c$ea6454d0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anthropological Approaches to Confronting HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

The NAPA Bulletin is seeking contributions for a 2010 thematic issue on "Anthropological Approaches to Confronting HIV/AIDS and Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa." Please submit a 250-word abstract and a 50- to 100-word biographical sketch to Barrett Brenton brentonb@stjohns.edu, John Mazzeo jmazzeo@depaul.edu, and Alexander R?dlach rodlach@creighton.edu, the issue editors, no later than November 1, 2009.

Synopsis:

The synergism among nutritional status, immune function, and disease is known to heighten susceptibility to HIV infection and accelerate its progression to full-blown AIDS.   In addition to traditional HIV/AIDS prevention strategies and increased access to treatment, there is a great need to develop policies and programs that aim to reduce and eliminate food and nutrition insecurity in resource-poor countries affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

This call to action is even more urgent in light of the recent debate over how to best use the $10 billion to $15 billion spent annually on the prevention and treatment of AIDS.  With the revised downward estimate of the number of people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide (UNAIDS 2007), the slow development of a promising vaccine, and the discouraging results from a recent microbicide trial (Center for Global Development 2007), health experts have suggested that some of the billions of dollars spent in these efforts should be reallocated to address basic problems such as malnutrition, tuberculosis, diarrheal and enteric diseases, and malaria.  The co-occurrence of these problems with HIV/AIDS underscores the role that structural inequalities play in the spread of infectious diseases.

This issue brings together anthropologists, other social scientists, and practitioners to detail the ways in which food security measures can be effectively integrated with HIV/AIDS prevention and anti-retroviral treatment efforts in Sub-Saharan Africa.  The design and promotion of best practices that incorporate culturally, economically, and politically appropriate solutions will be highlighted throughout the volume.

Contributors are asked to consider the following questions in preparing their chapters:

1)      In what, if any ways, has food and nutrition insecurity contributed to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa?

2)      What have social scientists learned about the relationship between economic insecurity and HIV risk behaviors that can aid in the development of innovative programs that combine prevention strategies with the alleviation of food insecurity?

3)      Are there any programs currently in place that combine HIV prevention or treatment and the alleviation of food insecurity?  What can we learn from these programs in terms of best practices?

4)      What role do social scientists have in the development of policy and programming with regard to these issues?

5)      How do we design programs that are culturally appropriate and that effectively address the problem of AIDS stigmatization?  On a related issue, how do we recruit individuals into such programs and retain them through time?

6)      How can such programs be evaluated in order to measure their efficacy?


Tentative Publication Schedule and Deadlines:

November 1, 2009:     Abstracts and Bio-Sketches to Co-Editors

January 15, 2010:        Selected Manuscripts to Co-Editors

March 15, 2010:          Authors Return Revised Manuscripts to Co-Editors to be sent out for Peer-Review

Summer 2010:             Peer-Review Comments Returned to Authors

August 1, 2010:          Authors Return Revised Manuscripts to Co-Editors

Fall 2010:                    NAPA Bulletin Published


About the NAPA Bulletin:

Founded in 1983, NAPA strives to promote the practice of anthropology, both within the discipline and among private and public organizations.  As the official publication of NAPA, the NAPA Bulletin serves to provide information and advice concerning the business end of the practice, to review specific branches of the practice, and to integrate the practice of anthropology with theory in order to increase the knowledge and understanding of the human condition. For more information go to:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1556-4789&site=1



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From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Oct  5 11:39:29 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  5 10:40:16 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City
 (Urbana-Champaign)
Message-ID: <008501ca45c9$a7af3160$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

May 22, 2009
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City,
06/24-26/2010, Urbana-Champaign

Deadline: October 15, 2009

Call for Proposals
The Socialist 1960s: Popular Culture and the Socialist City in Global
Perspective
2010 Fisher Forum, Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
June 24-26, 2010

The 1960s witnessed an explosion of cross-cultural fertilization in a
time of world competition for the hegemony of two enduring "systems" -
capitalism and socialism. As a moment when decolonization created
immense possibilities for liberation movements throughout the world, the
1960s became the heyday of the "Second World" appeals to the newly
decolonized societies of the "Third World," as well as the reemergence
of a European "First World" as a postwar consumer society in reaction to
American hegemony. This was the moment when the "orderedness" of the
three worlds was arguably the most prominent in popular discourse and
culture, and a moment when that order was contested and destabilized.
The patterns that first emerged in the 1960s - cultural contest,
political mobility, urbanization and the rise of urban youth movements,
women's rights, the hegemony of popular over "high" culture driven by
technology - form the bases of today's discussions of globalization, its
challenges, dangers, and contestation.

The purpose of this conference will be to use the Second World, the
socialist societies of the 1960s, as the center from which to explore
global interconnections and uncover new and perhaps surprising patterns
of cultural cross-pollination. This forum will be structured around
cities as the units of analysis, and it will focus on the arena of
popular culture as played out in these city spaces. More specifically,
we invite paper proposals that focus on one of three realms of urban
popular culture - media (including cinema, television, popular music);
material culture (including spaces and their uses as well as
commodities), and leisure (including tourism and other activities). We
consider these exemplary of the circulation of objects, images, sounds,
and impressions on a level different from political programs, literature
and "fine arts." Several thematic threads will tie together this
consideration of the circulation of popular culture around and through
the Second world: mobility and cultural transmission; youth cultures and
student movements; gender; consumerism and hedonism; the state and
cultural exchange; technology and cultural dissemination; cosmopolitan
political mobilization. Our aims will be to consider what the "1960s"
meant in socialist countries, and to discuss the balance in the 1960s
between cultural global integration and continuing political
differentiation.

The core of the forum will be the socialist societies of eastern Europe
and the Soviet Union, but the forum would be enriched by participation
from scholars who study other socialist societies. We anticipate that
the conference will result in a published volume: submissions should be
original work, not previously published.

The conference organizers are Diane P. Koenker, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign (dkoenker@illinois.edu)
and Anne E. Gorsuch, University of British Columbia
(gorsuch@interchange.ubc.ca). We welcome advance inquiries.

Please send proposed paper title and abstracts to each of the organizers
by October 15, 2009. Proposals should indicate which of the conference
themes the paper addresses, and the term "Sixties" or "1960s" should be
explicit in the paper title. Selection of participants will be made by
November 30, 2009, and conference papers should be submitted by April 1,
2010.

The Ralph and Ruth Fisher Forum is held in conjunction with the Summer
Research Laboratory on Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia. The
conference is made possible by Mary and Hal Zirin's generous gift to the
Ralph and Ruth Fisher Endowment Fund in honor of Professor Ralph Fisher
and his wife Ruth. Ralph Fisher is Professor Emeritus of History at the
University of Illinois and founder of the Russian, East European, and
Eurasian Center and the Summer Research Lab.

Tracie L Wilson, PhD
Associate Director
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 International Studies Building
910 South Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
217.333.6022
wilsont@illinois.edu
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Oct  5 15:10:40 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Oct  5 14:16:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: Cities and the Housing Boom/Bust (ISA World Congress, Sweden)
Message-ID: <01c801ca45e7$5125e3c0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11-17, 2010

Cities and the housing boom/bust
Joint session of RC21 Regional and Urban Development and RC43 Housing and 
Built Environment

Organizers:
- Manuel Aalbers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 
m.b.aalbers@gmail.com
- Ken Gibb, University of Glasgow, UK, k.gibb@socsci.gla.ac.uk


Housing markets are highly dependent on the economic performance of cities. 
Yet, local housing market boom/bust is shaped not only at the city level, 
but also at the national and increasingly as the financial crisis of 
2007-2009 makes clear at the global level. Local, national and global 
factors interact to produce housing booms/busts. A housing boom may be seen 
as a sign of economic vitality of a city, but also implies an affordability 
crisis for large parts of the urban population. A housing bust may be 
connected to an economic downturn and may result in redundant housing in one 
city and only a pause in increasing house prices in another.
Possible topics for this session include, but are not limited to:
The local politics of housing

Examples of housing boom/bust

Analysis of how local, national and global factors interact in shaping 
housing markets

Local housing effects of the global financial crisis

Booming neighbourhoods in a busting city

Busting neighbourhoods in a booming city

The real estate network as a growth machine


If interested, please send an abstract of no more than 200 words to both 
organizers before October 30, 2009.

-- 
Manuel B. Aalbers, Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies 
(AMIDSt)
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130
1018 VZ  Amsterdam
The Netherlands
http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/m.b.aalbers/ 


From lknauer at umassd.edu  Thu Oct  1 15:14:01 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Mon Oct  5 15:57:47 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Travel Trade and Ethnic Transformations (Hungary)
Message-ID: <4AC4F169.6060000@umassd.edu>

7th Biennial MESEA Conference
The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas

16?20 June 2010
University of P?cs, Hungary

Call for Papers Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations

Travel, movement and mobility are essential in human life: they shape 
individualities, histories and the stories people tell. In particular, 
labor, commerce, exile, tourism, transnational and transcontinental 
migrations have led to the socio-political and cultural production of 
dominant images of subjectivities and nationhoods. People?s 
identification with ?imagined communities? and their experience with 
?encountered ones? has determined ethnicity?s and diaspora?s infinitely 
variable socio-political and cultural content. However, neither 
panethnicity nor transmigrant/postcolonial hybridity can resolve the 
crisis of a liberal commodified polity. Ideologies of difference and 
subjectivity need to be critically regrounded in the realities of global 
capitalism, political economy and the changing structures of 
institutional and disciplinary power. This conference, then, aims to 
focus on the ways that travel and trade contribute to the definition and 
redefinition of ethnic subjectivities in the realms of culture, 
politics, history, and sociology, economics and law, language, 
literature and the arts in Europe and the Americas. The following list 
of topics is meant to be suggestive rather than restrictive:

? Imperial Routes: Mapping a pan-European political sensibility as 
opposed to a racialist logic of civilization, sovereignty and 
self-government
? Travel, location, and race/ethnicity
? Kaleidoscopic ethnicity: Trade, migration and the formation of 
community identities
? Ethnicity and the politics of world trade
? Colonization and ethnicity
? Diasporic cultural forms and transcultural networks
? Diasporic and nativist identity formation ? tension or co-existence?
? Cultural and social ?rise? as conducive to cultural/social invisibility
? Cosmopolitan diasporas
? Cosmopolitanism in creative tension with the nation-state and 
assimilationist ideologies
? Deterritorialization vs. reterritorialization: De/racination in 
diaspora and the politics of origin
? Postethnicity ? global travel and ethnic (re)contextualizations
? Diaspora and trans-ethnic solidarities, such as against racism, class, 
gender, social movements
? Feminist politics of location
? Gendering diasporas within diaspora communities and across 
trans-ethnic networks
? Language, religion, and the formation of local communities
? Immigration, intermarriage, and community solidarity
? The politics and poetics of population integration
? Discourses of displacement ? routes vs roots
? Exile and postmodern migrants
? Travel, tourism and cultural politics
? Travel writing and ethnography
? Sites / Sights: Exhibitionism and commodification

Proposals can be submitted to our website between August 15 and November 
15, 2009. Submitters will receive notification of acceptance or 
rejections by December 15, 2009.

Inter/transnational and inter/transdisciplinary proposals as well as 
complete panels will be given preference.

Note that MESEA will award two Young Scholars Excellence Awards. For 
more information please see: http://www.mesea.org



From jhowell at csulb.edu  Mon Oct  5 14:27:36 2009
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Mon Oct  5 17:04:56 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FWD: AAA Photo Contest Deadline Extended
Message-ID: <0DC46F65-1532-4649-B5FC-7DF318EEC0A1@csulb.edu>

AAA Photo Contest: Deadline Extended to Oct 15

Due to popular demand, we have extended the deadline for submitting  
photos to the 2009 AAA Photo Contest to October 15. Use the online  
submission form to enter today: www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/ 
Photo-Contest-form.cfm. For more information see www.aaanet.org/ 
issues/anthronews/photocontest.cfm.
Winning photographs will be published in Anthropology News in 2010,  
placed in the AN Flickr gallery, and displayed in the AAA office. To  
see last year?s winners, finalists and semifinalists, visit the 2008  
AAA Photo Contest page: www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/ 
2008photocontest.cfm. Questions? E-mail Amy Goldenberg at  
photos@aaanet.org.

Dinah Winnick
Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
dwinnick@aaanet.org
Visit the new AAA blog: http://blog.aaanet.org
From allan.dawson at mac.com  Mon Oct  5 17:04:43 2009
From: allan.dawson at mac.com (Allan Charles Dawson)
Date: Mon Oct  5 17:05:49 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: "Engaging Engagement"-Soc. for Latin American and CaribbeanAnth,
 Merida, Spring 2010
Message-ID: <C7B6114A-49E9-4745-B6DC-8F5DD18D9B4A@mac.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology: SLACA 2010  
SPRING CONFERENCE, MARCH 24-27, 2010, IN
MERIDA, MEXICO

The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology will hold its
Second Annual Spring Conference, along with the Society for Applied
Anthropology, in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, under the theme  
"Vulnerabilities
and Exclusion in Globalization."


-------

ENGAGING ENGAGEMENT IN LATIN AMERICA IDENTITY POLITICS: FROM  
ANTHROPOLOGICAL ACTIVISM TO THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF ACTIVISM

Engaged anthropology exhorts practitioners of the discipline to tear  
down the walls in both our research and in our classrooms; that we  
should all, in and through our work, strive to be activists. To be  
sure, anthropology?s history of working closely with non-Western  
societies?those that have often borne the brunt of such oppression? 
behooves us to be ever-vigilant and mindful that our research is not  
used to further or maintain conditions wrought by colonialism, racism,  
sexism or global capitalism. Engaged anthropology challenges us to? 
when possible?to take up the cause of these peoples and bring the  
unique methodological and theoretical approaches of anthropology to  
bear in aiding the communities in which we live and work. Frequently,  
this means helping communities to redefine their identity?ethnic,  
religious, political, ecological and economic?vis-?-vis national  
governments, state ideologies, international development policies and  
legal frameworks in order to gain access to resources, status and  
land. These redefinitions can result in the rewriting of histories,  
traditions, memories and collective identities in response to changes  
in government policy, new constitutions, or external pressures.

The present panel seeks papers that critically examine the role of  
activist approaches in reconstructing historical identities and  
memories in the Latin American and Caribbean context?from indigenous  
peoples to victims of despotic governments to the descendants of  
maroon slave communities.

Moreover, it specifically seeks papers that questions this approach to  
activist anthropology that privileges political and social objectives? 
however commendable?over theoretical, and epistemological concerns.

--
Abstracts should be sent by October 15, 2009 to Allan Dawson,  
Department of Anthropology, Drew University (adawson@drew.edu) or Ari  
Gandsman, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of  
Ottawa (agandsman@gmail.com)

--
Allan C. Dawson, Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Drew University
36 Madison Aveune
Madison, NJ, 07940, United States.

Phone: +1.973.408.3292 / Fax: +1.973.679.2821
From anthroyeti at gmail.com  Sun Oct  4 09:26:31 2009
From: anthroyeti at gmail.com (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Edward_Gonz=E1lez-Tennant?=)
Date: Mon Oct  5 17:08:31 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Online Petition to Aramark "Sign an Agreement with the
	CIW" 
Message-ID: <002901ca44ed$e819e6f0$b84db4d0$@com>

Greetings,

 

 A couple of months ago myself, members of the Student/Farmworker Alliance
(SFA), and (largely student) members of the AAA began a national petition
asking Aramark to sign an agreement with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
(CIW). This initiative is part of the SFA?s ?Dine with Dignity? campaign,
you can read more about that here http://www.sfalliance.org/foodservice.html


 

Today, I?d like to ask you to sign the online petition:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/accountability-for-aramark

 

This petition will be hand delivered to Aramark HQ this December during the
AAA meetings. If you would like more information about that aspect of this
action, please visit http://activism.anthroyeti.com/AAActa/

 

Sincerely,

Ed Gonzalez-Tennant

PhD Candidate in Anthropology

University of Florida

 

From aservign at maxwell.syr.edu  Mon Oct  5 20:34:05 2009
From: aservign at maxwell.syr.edu (Ana Servigna)
Date: Thu Oct  8 16:34:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FW: Taking Up Space (An Interdisciplinary Conference)
In-Reply-To: <001701ca4613$dc0a83c0$941f8b40$@edu>
References: <001701ca4613$dc0a83c0$941f8b40$@edu>
Message-ID: <6817A5620F074C44B571801932C2EE19C5D61926@suex07-mbx-09.ad.syr.edu>

FYI

________________________________________

-----Original Message-----
From: H-NET Urban History Discussion List [mailto:H-URBAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU] On
Behalf Of Wendy Plotkin
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:20 PM
To: H-URBAN@H-NET.MSU.EDU
Subject: CFP: Taking Up Space (An Interdisciplinary Conference)

From: Patrick McElwee <patrick.mcelwee@duke.edu>

Call for Papers
Taking Up Space: An Interdisciplinary Conference

Hosted by Duke History Graduate Students with
Support from the Sociology Department, Latino/a
Studies, and the Women's Studies Program
January 29, 2010 (Abstract Submissions due November 1, 2009)

A central feature of Western scientific thought
originated by Ren? Descartes and elaborated
further by physicists and mathematicians has been
a notion of space as a container within which
objects exist and actions take place. Despite the
widespread acceptance of all-encompassing
mathematical and physical space as part of our
inherited common sense, scholars have
increasingly questioned its relevance for the
spaces of human activity. They have explored
other spaces, including literary space, social
space, mental space, the space of the body,
racialized and gendered spaces, cities, regions,
oceans and the globe. They have drawn attention
to the production of spaces, the power relations
imbued within them, and various ways in which
space can be productive, prohibitive or
instrumental for human actors. There has also
been renewed attention to scholarly spatial
methodology regarding scale and the appropriate
distance between the research and the researched.

We invite scholars across disciplines to submit
papers for a one-day conference during which we
will place into dialogue a wide variety of
approaches to questions of space and consider
their application to historical inquiry. We
specifically encourage with works in progress or
at an early stage in their research, including
pre-dissertation graduate students, to apply.
Drawing on diverse traditions, we hope to explore
how to understand the production and productive
capacity of sites, locations, scales, and geographies.

Submissions to the conference could address, but
are by no means limited to, the following topics:

        o The production and erosion of particular spaces.

        o Lived spaces and hegemonic spaces.

        o Landscapes and their meanings.

        o The spatial constitution of identities, politics and knowledges.

        o Relations between Mathematical,
physical, mental and social space.

        o Capitalist structures, creative
destruction and alternative or oppositional economic spaces.

        o Money, capital and the trend toward
eliminating spatial differentiation.

        o Fixed investments in space.

        o Modern, premodern and postmodern spaces.

        o Mobility, territory, nationalism and community.

        o Geographic scales, social topography,
cartography and globalization.

        o Ideologies of space.

        o Racial, class and gender power relations embodied in landscape.

        o Social movements and public space.

        o Environmental histories of natural and
built environments and ecosystems.

        o Uneven development and disruptions of historical periodizations.

        o The history of science and technology.

        o Scholarly distancing and other spatial methodologies.

The conference will consist of panels organized
around specific questions with a commenter.
Please submit an abstract of no more than 350
words by November 1, 2009, to Patrick McElwee at
pmm21@duke.edu. Those selected will be notified
by November 15, 2009. The conference will take
place at Duke University on Friday, January 29, 2010.

Patrick McElwee
Duke University
Department of History
http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/history/grad/specialty.html

H-Urban:  http://www.h-net.org/~urban/ (including logs & posting guidelines)
Posting Address:  h-urban@h-net.msu.edu / mailto:h-urban@h-net.msu.edu
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From hcastane at cas.usf.edu  Tue Oct  6 18:30:56 2009
From: hcastane at cas.usf.edu (Castaneda, Heide)
Date: Thu Oct  8 16:34:43 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]University of South Florida Postdoctoral Scholars Program
	in "Sustainable Societies"
References: <4A67477F02000089000F1592@gwial1.is-svr.luc.edu>
Message-ID: <F18AE6A4F5670341A25AAC08D742D4470300A7AE@MAILBOX2.cas.usf.edu>

University of South Florida Postdoctoral Scholars
Social Sciences and Humanities, 2010-11
Sustainable Societies

The University of South Florida has embarked on an ambitious program to enhance its rising stature as a pre-eminent research university with state, national and global impact, and position itself for membership in the Association of American Universities through: (1) Expanding world-class interdisciplinary research, creative and scholarly endeavors; (2) promoting globally competitive programs in teaching and research; (3) expanding local and global engagement initiatives to strengthen sustainable and healthy communities; and (4) enhancing revenue through external support.  Details are available in the USF Strategic Plan (http://www.ods.usf.edu/plans/strategic/).

As part of this initiative, the University of South Florida is pleased to announce the second year of its Postdoctoral Scholars program in the social sciences and humanities. The over-arching theme for this year?s scholars is Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world. Potential themes include (but are not limited to) population movements; communication, technology, and information issues; cultural diasporas; health, economic, educational, and environmental disparities; ethnicity, gender, aging; cultural heritage and identity; sustainable development; ethics; or security issues. Specific research and geographical areas are open, and applicants may be considering both past and contemporary questions.

Postdoctoral Scholars will: (i) contribute to one or more of the priority goals of the strategic plan; (ii) work closely with distinguished faculty; (iii) participate in interdisciplinary and programmatic seminar series; (iv) teach one course each semester; (v) continue to build an independent research record and engage in publishing refereed articles and creative scholarship; and (vi) seek external funding.

Postdoctoral Scholars
Five postdoctoral scholarships will be awarded in the 2010-11 academic year with appointments beginning August 7th 2010. Appointments are for full time employment (40 hours per week) and are renewable for an additional academic year subject to satisfactory progress. The salary is $40,000 per year and the University contributes to a health insurance program for postdoctoral scholars and their dependents (up to $5,000). Support for travel to academic conferences will also be available. Scholars will be responsible for relocation and housing expenses.

Eligibility
Applicants must have a doctoral degree in one of the following disciplines: Anthropology, Communication, English, Geography, Government and International Affairs, History, Philosophy, Sociology or an affiliated program, earned no earlier than 2007. Candidates who will have successfully defended their dissertations by May 1, 2010 will also be considered, however the doctoral degree must have been conferred prior to the first day of employment. Note: applicants must have received their doctoral degree from an institution other than the University of South Florida. 

Application
Letters of application and supporting material should include the following:
1. A cover letter stating your interest in the Postdoctoral Scholarship. Provide details on (i) how your research and teaching expertise would contribute to the theme of Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world and the goals and aspirations of the USF Strategic Plan; (ii) the department or departments with which you would like to be affiliated; (iii) teaching experience and courses that you would like to offer; and (iv) your long-term goals.
2. A curriculum vitae.
3. Two letters of reference.
4. Scanned copies of up to three of your published papers/scholarly works or book chapters (maximum of 3).
5. Scanned copies of current academic transcript from all degree awarding institutions.**

Send all application materials to:
The USF Graduate School at postdoc@grad.usf.edu

Application review will begin on November 15

Final application submission deadline November 30

**Original transcripts will need to be mailed by those individuals who receive formal offers.

The University of South Florida is one of the nation?s top 63 public research universities and one of 39 community engaged public universities as designated by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of teaching. USF was awarded more than $380 million in research contracts and grants last year. The university is authorized to provide 224 degrees at the undergraduate, graduate, specialist and doctoral levels, including the doctor of medicine. The University has a $1.6 billion annual budget, an annual economic impact of $3.2 billion, and serves more than 47,000 students on campuses in Tampa, St. Petersburg, Sarasota-Manatee and at USF Polytechnic. USF is a member of the Big East Athletic Conference.

USF is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Equal Access employer.

Departmental Websites:
Department of Anthropology: http://anthropology.usf.edu/
Department of Communication: http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/
Department of English: http://english.usf.edu/
Department of Geography: http://www.cas.usf.edu/geography/index.html
Department of Government and International Affairs: http://gia.usf.edu/
Department of History: http://history.usf.edu/
Department of Philosophy: http://www.cas.usf.edu/philosophy/
Department of Sociology: http://sociology.usf.edu/

Selection Criteria
1. Strength of research/creative scholarship record and demonstrated promise of a successful academic career.
2. Research and teaching experience in Sustainable Societies: Building social, cultural, and environmental capital in a globalized world aligned with the goals of the USF Strategic Plan especially interdisciplinary inquiry, global initiatives and community engagement.
3. Teaching experience and contributions that fit within USF programs.


++++++++++++++++++++
Heide Casta?eda, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC 107
Tampa, FL 33620-8100
Tel: (813) 974-0786
 


From G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk  Fri Oct  2 16:50:15 2009
From: G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk (G.B.Prato)
Date: Thu Oct  8 16:35:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Beyond Multiculturalism
Message-ID: <2EA6D63AE264BA4EA1CA3E63B8850AC225A311BCFE@MAPI.ad.kent.ac.uk>

Some colleagues have alerted me that the flyer of the book "Beyond Multiculturalism" didn't get through. 
Here it is again.
Best,
Giuliana
_______________________________________

Now available from Ashgate Publishing?

Beyond Multiculturalism
Views from Anthropology
Edited by Giuliana B. Prato, University of Kent, UK

?There are many ways of considering what it might mean to think ?beyond? multiculturalism, and the value
of this volume is that it offers a diverse range of perspectives from within anthropology, sociology and other
disciplines that take this challenge seriously. The focus on ?really existing? multiculturalism, not only in North
America and Europe but also in South America and Asia, is particularly welcome?
? Duncan Ivison, University of Sydney, Australia


While the anthropological field initially shied away from the debate
on multiculturalism, it has been widely discussed within the fields
of political theory, social policy, cultural studies and law. Beyond
Multiculturalism is the first volume of its kind to offer a comparative,
worldwide view of multiculturalism, considering both traditional
multicultural/multiethnic societies and those where cultural pluralism
is relatively new. Its varied case studies focus on the intersections
and relationships between cultural groups in everyday life using
employment, identity, consumption, language, legislation and policy
making to show the unique contribution anthropologists can bring
to multiculturalism studies. Their work will be of great interest to
scholars of race, ethnicity, migration, urban studies and social and
cultural geography.


Contents: Introduction ? beyond multiculturalism: anthropology
at the intersections between the local, the national and the global,
 GiulianaB. Prato; A visual approach to multiculturalism, Jerome
Krase; Immigration and its impacts on Canadian cities, Eric Fong;
The transnational family among urban diaspora populations, Paula
 Rubeland Abraham Rosman; Minorities in Italy: the cases of Arb?resh
and Albanian migrations, Giuliana B. Prato; Dynamics of exclusion
and integration: a sobering view from Italy, Italo Pardo; Socio-ethnic
interaction and identity formation among Qom-Toba in Rosario,
 H?ctorV?squez and Graciela Rodr?guez; Workers in late modernity:
traditional working-class culture in capitalist globalization, Suzana
Burnier; Young urban migrants between 2 cultures, Danila Mayer;
Migration, the emergence of multi-ethnic cities and ethnic relations
in China, Zhang Jijiao; Sharing cultures: integration, assimilation
and interaction in the Indian urban context, Sumita Chaudhuri; The
consumption of experience and the ethnic market: cosmopolitan
identity beyond multiculturalism, Silva Surrenti; Index.
includes 7 figures and 6 tables

To order, please visit: www.ashgate.com
All online orders receive a discount
Alternatively, contact our distributor:
 BookpointLtd, Ashgate Publishing Direct Sales,
130 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4SB, UK
Tel: +44 (0)1235 827730 Fax: +44 (0)1235 400454
Email: ashgate@bookpoint.co.uk
August 2009
236 pages
Hardback
978-0-7546-7173-2
?55.00

Sample pages for published titles are available to view online at: www.ashgate.com
____________________________
Dr Giuliana B. Prato
Co-Chair, Commission on Urban Anthropology, IUAES
School of Anthropology and Conservation,
Marlowe Building
University of Kent, Canterbury,
Kent CT2 7NR, UK
Tel.: +44 (0)1227 700366 (personal)
         +44 (0)1227 823942 (Dept. Secretary)
Fax.: +44 (0)1227 827289
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Oct 13 12:11:32 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Oct 13 11:11:44 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Eco-cities - Between Vision and Reality (London)
Message-ID: <016a01ca4c17$74d056d0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>


University of Westminster Symposium: Governance and Sustainability 
programme/ Centre for the Study of Democracy

Eco-Cities - Between Vision and Reality


Friday, 13 November 2009, 2 - 6 pm
The Pavilion, University of Westminster
115 Cavendish Street, London W1W 6UW

Presentation of global eco-city survey
Prof Simon Joss, Prof Robert Kargon, Dr Arthur Molella

Round-table discussion
Dr John Barry, Queen's University Belfast
Anders Franz?n, Head of Planning, City of V?xj?
Peter Head OBE, Director, Arup, London
Guillermo Reynes, Director, GRAS Arquitectos, Madrid
Professor Yvonne Rydin, University College London

The debate about global climate change and advances in technological 
innovation have given rise to a new, rapidly growing international 
phenomenon: eco-cities. From Malm? to Johannesburg, and from Portland to 
Dongtan, diverse eco-city initiatives are in the process of being designed, 
piloted and put into practice. Whether completely new developments or 
so-called 'retro-fits', eco-cities represent fascinating 'urban laboratories', 
combining visionary ideas with technological innovations for more 
sustainable living.

This symposium - which brings together academics, architects, engineers, 
planners and practitioners - aims to explore this new global phenomenon by 
discussing what exactly we mean by 'eco-cities'; how they are different from 
'normal' cities; why they have suddenly become so fashionable among 
politicians, policy-makers and planners; whether they deliver on their 
promise to be more sustainable; and who decides where, when and how they are 
built.

The event is hosted by the University of Westminster's Governance & 
Sustainability Research Programme. Convenors: Simon Joss (University of 
Westminster), Robert Kargon (Johns Hopkins University), Arthur Molella 
(Smithsonian Institution). For more information visit 
www.wmin.ac.uk/governance+sustainability

RSVP Charlotte Regan. Email: charlotte.regan@my.westminster.ac.uk


The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by 
guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 
Regent Street, London W1B 2UW. 


From meara.butler at gmail.com  Mon Oct 12 12:57:57 2009
From: meara.butler at gmail.com (Meara Butler)
Date: Tue Oct 13 11:13:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Deadline Extended for TAC Film Festival Entries: Oct 31
Message-ID: <650c55f0910121157i384a6b18m41506da205159f26@mail.gmail.com>

Please excuse the necessity of cross-posting.

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



Dear film producer and distributor friends,



*We have extended our deadline* to submit entries for the 2010 edition of *The
Archaeology Channel* International Film and Video Festival.  This is the
only international competition for this genre in the entire Western
Hemisphere and a wonderful showcase for your work.  Our new deadline for
receipt of entries is October 31, 2009.  This extension will accommodate a
number of prospective entrants who have asked for more time.  TAC Festival
2010 takes place May 18-22, 2010, in the Soreng Theater of the Hult
Centerfor the Performing Artshere in
Eugene, Oregon, USA.  Attached here is the revised entry form with our
guidelines.  Please read the guidelines carefully, as we depend on you for
accurate information.  Further information is posted at
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/TACfestival.shtml.



*Please do not wait* to send your entries, because a burdensome flood of
entries at the last moment will slow down our review and notification
process.  In previous years, some entries regrettably were rejected because
of errors in entry forms or problems with the film review copies.  If you
allow plenty of time for these problems to be resolved, you can help assure
that you will not be excluded from consideration.  Also, we encourage you to
make plans to attend the Festival to represent your films and also to
participate in our Conference on Cultural Heritage Film.



For our last Festival, we received 87 entries from 25 countries.  We hope to
exceed those numbers this year and to attract the world?s best films in our
genre to this competition, but we need your help to accomplish this.  With
your support and participation, we can continue to grow TAC Festival as a
promotional tool for your good work.



Please share this announcement with others you know who may have films
suitable for entry. Many thanks and best wishes to you all.



Richard M. (Rick) Pettigrew, Ph.D., RPA
President and Executive Director
Archaeological Legacy Institute
4147 E. Amazon Dr.
Eugene, OR 97405
USA
RPettigrew@aol.com
www.archaeologychannel.org
541-345-5538
541-338-3109 (fax)
Skype: rick.pettigrew



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

Meara Butler

Meara.Butler@gmail.com

Archaeological Legacy Institute ListServe Coordinator
From vergara.benito at gmail.com  Wed Oct 14 12:08:05 2009
From: vergara.benito at gmail.com (Benito Vergara)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:08:05 -0700
Subject: [URBANTH-L] JOB: Two (2) Visiting Faculty Fellow Positions,
	Sociocultural Anthro, Colby College
Message-ID: <34ec80c40910140908x2b992e54u2d60994fcf046754@mail.gmail.com>

The Department of Anthropology at Colby College invites applications
for a one-year visiting Faculty Fellow, beginning September 1, 2010.
Ph.D. (preferred) or ABD. Teaching experience is necessary. The
successful candidate will be expected to teach introduction to
sociocultural anthropology, an area course (to complement existing
offerings), and two other courses (in conjunction with departmental
needs and the candidate's areas of interest; topics in gender,
medical, and/or environmental anthropology are encouraged).
Applicants should send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, evidence of
teaching skills and accomplishment, and the names of three referees
to Anthropology Search Committee, Department of Anthropology, Colby
College, Waterville, ME 04901. Review of applications will begin
November 1, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
Colby is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed
to excellence through diversity, and strongly encourages applications
and nominations of persons of color, women, and members of other
under-represented groups. For more information about the College,
please visit the Colby Web site: www.colby.edu For more information,
contact Mary Beth Mills, Chair, Department of Anthropology Colby
College, Waterville, ME 04901 or e-mail: memills at colby.edu

The Department of Anthropology and the African-American Studies
Program at Colby College invite applications for a joint one-year
visiting Faculty Fellow position, beginning September 1, 2010. Ph.D.
(preferred) or ABD. Teaching experience is necessary. The successful
candidate will be expected to teach introduction to sociocultural
anthropology, and three additional courses, at least two of which
should explore topics in the African Diaspora. Preference will be
given to specialists in the Caribbean or other African Diaspora
communities in North or South America (e.g., including Canada) but
outside the United States. Applicants should send a cover letter,
curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching skills, and names of three
references to African American Studies/Anthropology Search Committee,
Department of Anthropology, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901.
Review of applications will begin November 1, 2009 and will continue
until the position is filled. Preliminary interviews will be
conducted at the AAA meetings. Colby is an Equal Opportunity/
Affirmative Action employer, committed to excellence through
diversity, and strongly encourages applications and nominations of
persons of color, women, and members of other under-represented
groups. For more information about the College, please visit the
Colby web site: www.colby.edu


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Oct 14 13:28:33 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:28:33 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] ANN: Quandrant Fellowship (U Minnesota)
Message-ID: <01b601ca4cf3$c49c1e10$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

*Call for Applications: Quadrant Fellowships*

Scholars pursuing interdisciplinary work are invited to apply for a
semester-long Quadrant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota to be
held in academic year 2010-2011. Quadrant is a joint initiative of the
University of Minnesota Press, a leader in interdisciplinary scholarly
publishing, and the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), a catalyst and
incubator of research and discussion across disciplinary boundaries.

Complete applications should be sent to the postal address given below
and *postmarked by November 20, 2009*. 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.

During their semester in residence at the IAS in Minneapolis, fellows
will receive a stipend of up to $30,000, depending on rank and
experience; fellowships include medical and dental coverage. At the IAS,
fellows will participate in weekly lunches, coffees, and public lectures
with a lively interdisciplinary community that includes University of
Minnesota fellows and other Quadrant fellows. They will also be involved
in at least one of Quadrant's research and publishing collaboratives:
Design, Architecture, and Culture; Environment, Culture, and
Sustainability; Global Cultures; and Health and Society. Fellows will
give a public lecture and will present a work-in-progress in a workshop
setting with their Quadrant collaborative group or groups. In addition,
they will work directly with an editor from the University of Minnesota
Press to develop their manuscripts for submission. Manuscripts submitted
to the University of Minnesota Press will undergo standard peer review
and Press board approval process.

*Application Procedures*

To apply for a Quadrant Fellowship, please submit *five* copies of the
following materials to the mailing address <#mailing_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 Groups you would
     like to join; if you would like to join more than one, please
     indicate this. Include a discussion of how participation in an
     interdisciplinary setting as part of Quadrant 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 sent
to the following postal address and *postmarked by November 20, 2009*:

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

Fellowship offers will be made in February 2010, pending renewal of funding.

Quadrant is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information, please visit these 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
Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Group
<http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php#environment>
http://www.ias.umn.edu/quadrant.php#environment

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
Carte <mailto:cart0227 at umn.edu>r, at cart0227 at umn.edu.

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Oct 14 16:12:47 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:47 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] POSTDOC: Arizona State research post,
	"Urban Organization through the Ages: Neighborhoods,
	Open Spaces, & Urban Life"
Message-ID: <02eb01ca4d0a$b5b4fef0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
(formerly the Department of Anthropology) seeks a recent Ph.D. for a
Postdoctoral research position to begin in early 2010. The scholar
will assume a leadership role in a collaborative, transdisciplinary
research project on comparative urbanism titled "Urban Organization
through the Ages: Neighborhoods, Open Spaces, and Urban Life." The
project, which is currently in the second year of a five-year
operation, seeks to explain the origins of modern urban life through a
research project that is transdisciplinary, cross-cultural, global,
and deeply historical. The project directors, who are faculty members
in the fields of archaeology, geography, political science, and
sociology, are using comparative research methods to analyze ancient,
preindustrial, and modern cities on key issues concerning
neighborhoods and open spaces. The postdoctoral scholar will become a
member of the research team with a major role in research design, the
collection and analysis of data, and write-up. We expect this person
to make significant intellectual contributions to the project, to work
with the project directors on integrating disciplinary perspectives,
and to supervise a team of student assistants and volunteers. More
information about the project can be found at:
http://latelessons.asu.edu/urban.


The ideal applicant will have a broad and creative intellectual
approach to social research, and a track record of publications and
grants. Applicants should have research experience in urbanism, and
training in a relevant discipline, such as archaeology, urban history,
human geography, sociology, or socio-cultural anthropology. Scholars
whose experience and skills combine more than one of the following
will be given preference: transdisciplinary research; comparative
methods; historical research; database construction and management;
statistics; GIS.


This position is funded through 2012. Applications will be considered
beginning immediately and continuing until the position is filled.
Applicants should email a cover letter explaining their qualifications
and interest along with a Curriculum Vitae and names/contact
information for three references to:


Lisa Meierotto

School of Human Evolution & Social Change

Arizona State University

PO Box 872402

Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

Lisa.Meierotto at asu.edu

(480) 965-0610



Information about the School can be found at http://shesc.asu.edu.A
background check is required for employment. Arizona State University
is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to
excellence through diversity. Women and minorities are encouraged to
apply.

Christopher G. Boone
Associate Professor
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
http://cgboone.personal.asu.edu

From lknauer at umassd.edu  Thu Oct 15 07:02:07 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:02:07 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP: Working with Immigrant Populations
Message-ID: <4AD7012F.8060501@umassd.edu>

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Ethics and Politics of Research with Immigrant Populations

President?s Interdisciplinary Conference

June 4-5, 2010

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Deadline for Submissions: December 21, 2009

CONFERENCE CHAIRS

Bic Ngo, Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, 
University of Minnesota
Martha Bigelow, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and 
Instruction, University of Minnesota
Stacey J. Lee, Professor, Department of Educational Policy Studies, 
University of Wisconsin, Madison

PLENARISTS

Jorge A. Bustamante, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of 
Notre Dame
Nancy H. Hornberger, Professor of Education and Director of Educational 
Linguistics, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Awad Ibrahim, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education of the 
University of Ottawa, Canada

OVERVIEW

The University of Minnesota's President's Interdisciplinary Conference 
Initiative supports inquiry that fosters collaboration between scholars 
in divergent fields and across institutions. This interdisciplinary 
conference addresses the question: What are the epistemological and 
ethical considerations in research with immigrant populations? The 
purpose of this conference is to engage university and community 
colleagues and students from a variety of disciplines and interests in 
consideration of this and other questions about ethics and epistemology 
in their research practices.

Participants in this conference will include individuals from diverse 
methodological and disciplinary areas, such as education, social work, 
anthropology, urban studies, the humanities, and the health professions. 
The conference will emphasize the implications of practices in research 
design, data collection, analysis and writing of research that involves 
immigrant populations. These conversations will include concerns related 
to Institutional Review Boards, as well as those that move beyond IRB, 
including presentation and dissemination of findings, sharing of 
research design, and advocacy issues.

We invite proposals that address researchers? dilemmas as they move 
into, through, and beyond their work with immigrant communities.

To sustain and extend the work and conversations of this conference, we 
will select a small number of conference presentations for revision and 
publication in a peer-reviewed edited book.

SUBMISSIONS

We encourage the following types of submissions:

Individual presentations, such as research reports or academic papers, 
artistic expressions or performances, and structured dialogs between 
researchers and community partners about negotiating research dilemmas 
and processes.

Symposia of three or four related research reports or academic papers.

For more information about themes addressed by the conference and to 
submit a proposal, please visit www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research.


********************************************************
CALL FOR PAPERS
President's Interdisciplinary Conference
Ethics and Politics of Research w/ Immigrant Populations
June 4-5, 2010, University of Minnesota
http://www.cehd.umn.edu/Immigrant-Research




From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Oct 17 21:30:34 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:30:34 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] ANN: Global Ethnography Call for Participants
Message-ID: <012001ca4f92$9c4e5800$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Dear All Public Anthropologists,

The 350 International Day of Climate Action is nearly upon us, coming up 
next Saturday, October 24 - http://www.350.org/
This seems like an incredibly unique opportunity for anthropologists to 
engage in a worldwide, cross-cultural event by conducting a one-day "global 
ethnography."

This is a call for anthropological action. The idea is to get 
anthropologists in as many places as possible around the world to attend and 
document the October 24 event, share observations with each other and engage 
in a collective, reflective process in which, through an 
anthropologically-rigorous endeavor, we could contribute to the civil 
society action. We could gather the observations into a publication to reach 
out to web-based journals.

If you are interested, please contact me at jk6582a at student.american.edu
Also, please forward this along to any anthropologists you know. I look 
forward to collaborating together!

Sincerely,
Julie Koppel Maldonado

-- 
Julie Koppel Maldonado
PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
American University, Washington D.C.
jk6582a at student.american.edu
jkmaldo at gmail.com 



From allan.dawson at mac.com  Fri Oct 16 13:54:56 2009
From: allan.dawson at mac.com (Allan Charles Dawson)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:54:56 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP - The Global South; Special Issue on Latin America
Message-ID: <33180AAE-4B31-4AF3-A2A2-870D15A438FF@mac.com>

CALL FOR PAPERS
THE GLOBAL SOUTH 4.1 (Spring 2010)
Latin America and Globalization

The Global South is an interdisciplinary journal, published  
semiannually by Indiana University Press.  The journal focuses on how  
world literatures and cultures respond to globalization.  Its premise  
is that the various Souths?from the North American South to the  
European South, Latin and Central America, Africa, Asia, and Australia? 
share comparable experiences that differentiate them from mainstream  
and hegemonic cultures in their locations.   Since many of these  
Souths share not necessarily a common wealth, but various issues of  
marginalization and inadequate access to means of production and  
amenities under globalization, TGS is concerned with the intersections  
among their experiences.  The journal is interested in how authors,  
writers, and critics respond to issues of the environment; poverty;  
immigration; gender; race; hybridity; cultural formation and  
transformation; colonialism and postcolonialism; modernity and  
postmodernity; transatlantic encounters, homes, and diasporas;  
resistance and counter discourse; among others under the superordinate  
umbrella of globalization.  The current Call for Papers is for a  
special issue on Latin America.

Latin America is a culturally rich and complex society due to a blend  
of cultures and ethnic identities, including European, African, and  
Native American.  Resultantly, a discussion of Latin America in  
relation to Globalization must account for the rich diversity of Latin  
America in language, literature, history, religion, culture, economy,  
science, and technology. The Global South 4:1: Latin America and  
Globalization will feature responses to globalization by scholars in  
Latin American studies all over the world.  The editor of this special  
issue, Adetayo Alabi of the University of Mississippi, invites high- 
quality original essays.  As consistent with the journal?s  
interdisciplinary scope, submissions from scholars working in all  
areas of Latin American studies are invited.  Possible topics include,  
but are not limited to, the following:

* Discoveries and Cultural Contacts
* Historical and Colonial Relations with Spain and Portugal
* Cultural and Political Revolutions
* Nationhood and Racial Identities
* Discourses of Mestizaje / Mesti?agem / Hybridity
* Social Stratification and Mobility
* North-South Relations
* South-South Relations
* Industrial Revolution and Imperialism
* Marketing Culture: From Samba and Salsa to Carnival and Capoeira
* Globalization and Paradigmatic Shifts
* Globalization and the Asian Influence in Latin America
* Globalization and Latin American Music
* Globalization and Afro-Latin America
* Globalization and US Latino Relations
* Globalization and Gender
* Globalization and New World Order
* Globalization and Cultural Resistance
* Gender and Social Development
* Globalization and Visibility
* Globalization and ?Recolonization?
* Globalization, Discourses, and Theories
* Globalization and the ?Latin American Dream?
* Globalization and Disillusionment
* Globalization and Orality
* Globalization and Religion
* Globalization and Political Activism
* Globalization, Creativity, and Production
* Globalization and the Latin American Economy

This Special Issue of The Global South is scheduled for publication in  
March 2010.  Please submit abstracts along with a short bio by  
November 10, 2009, final drafts of essays by December 31, 2009, and  
inquiries to Adetayo Alabi.  Essays should be 25-35 double-spaced  
pages long and should follow the MLA style.

You can read more about The Global South at http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/gso


From jhowell at csulb.edu  Fri Oct 16 17:55:49 2009
From: jhowell at csulb.edu (Jayne Howell)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:55:49 -0700
Subject: [URBANTH-L] FWD: Anthropology News "Repatriation" CFP Deadline
	extended to Nov 16
Message-ID: <7AA0FDDA-9C83-4216-B1AD-C63F548BD9E6@csulb.edu>

Forwarded message from Dinah Winnick at Anthropology News:

Thanks to the tremendous response that Anthropology News received to  
our anthropology of water CFP, we are featuring the water theme in  
both our January and February 2010 issues. This means that the  
repatriation theme will now appear in our March 2010 issue, with the  
deadline for article proposals extended to November 16, 2009. The CFP  
is included below, and can also be accessed online at www.aaanet.org/ 
issues/anthronews/CFP-Repatriation.cfm.  We would love to feature  
content from as diverse a range of anthropological perspectives as  
possible.

Best,

Dinah


Anthropology News Addresses Repatriation: Submit Your 300-Word  
Article Proposal by Nov 16

In recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Native American Graves  
Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), Anthropology News seeks  
contributions for a thematic issue on repatriation, broadly  
conceived. Since its passage in 1990, NAGPRA has prompted significant  
and compelling conversations on issues such as intellectual property  
rights, identity politics, human rights and professional ethics.  
Beyond NAGPRA, researchers, educators and practitioners in all areas  
of anthropology engage with questions involving repatriation on a  
daily basis, whether tracking the lineage of a museum artifact,  
informing policy on cultural heritage, or facilitating the return of  
refugees following a conflict.

We welcome proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies,  
Field Notes articles, photo essays, news stories and interviews that  
address the repatriation of people, objects and intangible heritage  
from a wide range of angles including (but not limited to):

Visual heritage and intellectual property in a digital age
Illegal artifact excavation and trafficking
Interpreting genetic/cultural affiliation and patrimony
The consultation process and new collaborations
Tribal heritage programs and tribal sovereignty
Displacement/endangerment of people and artifacts through conflict
Refugee resettlement and diasporic cultural communities
Return of economic migrants
Memory, identity and temporality
Global discontinuities in repatriation policy
Practices related to NAGPRA compliance
Human rights and social justice

Guidelines
To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word biosketch  
to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick at aaanet.org).  
Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution  
photographs (tiff or jpg), each with a caption and credit. Selected  
authors will be asked to submit commentaries of 1000-1200 words or  
shorter pieces for other article types.

New proposal submission deadline: November 16, 2009
Early submissions are encouraged.


Dinah Winnick
Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
dwinnick at aaanet.org
Visit the new AAA blog: http://blog.aaanet.org
  

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Oct 18 16:19:18 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:19:18 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP: Remembering Totalitarianism: The Redemption of
	Former Rule in the Built Environment
Message-ID: <01d001ca5030$48866520$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Mia Fuller <miafuller at gmail.com>

Call for papers: 1st International Meeting, European Architectural History Network (EAHN)
June 17-20, 2010
Guimar?es, Portugal
http://www.eahn2010.org/
deadline for abstracts: October 30, 2009

Remembering Totalitarianism: The Redemption of Former Rule in the Built Environment

The practice of damnatio memoriae - the deletion of all traces of a previous ruler - dates to antiquity. There is no such simple approach, though, to the re-use or re-naming of such vestiges in the built environment. In the 20th and early 21st centuries - in the aftermath of right- and left-wing regimes of total rule, from Spain to Estonia - issues of preservation and commemoration, rather than erasure, have become lightning rods for political sentiment. Only in Germany are signs of terminated totalitarianism absolutely forbidden; alternatively, in France, the Vichy regime has been collectively swept under the rug perhaps even more effectively than by constitutional decree. But in numerous other post-fascist and post-communist settings, emblematic government buildings and monuments remained. These have sometimes been re-inscribed as counter-totalitarian, or more often treated as though they were unimportant, neutral signs of a defeated tyranny; and with the passing of living memory, new generations have indeed seen them as such.

Since 1989, however, in an increasing number of instances citizens have demanded the retention, even the honoring of constructions identified with their own past subjugation - from one point of view - or former glory and better rule than today's - from another. In a post-totalitarian Europe, in other words, the meaning of politically charged buildings is up for grabs more than ever before. This session aims to present case studies to this effect, and beyond that, to develop a comparative framework for such studies. Can we consider the protection of relics of Italy's fascist past - architectural and monumental, much in evidence and increasingly restored rather than demolished - as similar to the epic statuary and massive architecture of the former Soviet bloc? Are there similarities in the motivations and mechanisms for such preservation, and even renewed political consecration? And if so, does this suggest that the rehabilitation of atrocious collective memory is sometimes preferable to the denial of such recollection altogether? Papers should address the delicate balance of selective collective memory in the built environment, but they need not be limited to modern or contemporary cases, nor to strictly national or governmental topics.

Please send paper proposals and short CVs by email to: Prof. Mia Fuller, Italian Studies Department, University of California, 6303 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-2620, USA, Fax number 1. 510. 642. 6220, Email: miafuller at gmail.com.

From gghosh at sas.upenn.edu  Sun Oct 18 17:47:48 2009
From: gghosh at sas.upenn.edu (gghosh at sas.upenn.edu)
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:47:48 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] SUNTA Undergraduate Paper Prize Extension & New
	Eligibility
Message-ID: <1255902468.4adb8d04899fc@webmail.sas.upenn.edu>

All,

The deadline for the SUNTA undergraduate paper prize has been extended till
October 31st.  Submissions should be sent by email to Dr. Gautam Ghosh
(gghosh2 at gmail.com).

Moreover, those who have already graduated may compete -- as long as they
graduated in 2009.  However, the work submitted for consideration should have
been prepared while an undergraduate.

Please note that ONLY FACULTY can submit undergraduate essays for the
competition, i.e., on behalf of their students.  Please consult the SUNTA web
site (http://www.sunta.org) for additional descriptions and information PRIOR to
submission -- including requirements regarding length etc.

Any questions should be directed to Dr. Gautam Ghosh
(gghosh2 at gmail.com).

Thanks and best wishes,

Gautam Ghosh
_____________________________________
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~gghosh/
gghosh at sas.upenn.edu
Department of Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania Museum
3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA  19104
215.898.6306 (office), 215.898.7462 (fax)


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

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

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





From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Oct 19 13:08:45 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:08:45 -0400
Subject: [URBANTH-L] ANN: SFAA Abstract Submission Extended Deadline
Message-ID: <010e01ca50de$d9334c60$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Society for Applied Anthropology <news at sfaa.net>


***Abstract Deadline Extended to October 31 for the Merida Meetings***

President Allan Burns has approved a request from Program Co-chairs
Liliana Goldin and Francisco Fernandez to extend the deadline for the
receipt of abstracts for the Merida Meeting to October 31. This
decision replaces the earlier deadline of October 15.

This decision will be particularly helpful for those who found they
were unable to make the October 15 deadline.

The Program Co-chairs submitted this request after talking with members
of the Program Committee and other colleagues. They learned that
additional time was required by persons who proposed to develop
sessions with international participation. Their request was also in
response to the very large number of Latin American colleagues who plan
to participate, but who did not receive the meeting information until
recently.

Please pass this information to those colleagues that you think will be
interested. A copy of the Program theme statement is included on the
web site at:

http://www.sfaa.net/sfaa2010.html

If you have any questions about the theme, or the ways that your
research might fit into the Program, please contact Prof. Goldin at
goldinliliana at gmail.com or Prof. Fernandez at frepetto at uady.mx.

The Hyatt-Regency Merida will serve as the host hotel for the Meeting
next March. We have negotiated a very competitive guest room rate
($90/night, single/double) for meeting participants. You may make your
reservations by contacting 52 999) 942 12 34, ext. 3010 or 3011.


