From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep  1 14:03:38 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  1 13:04:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Mothering and Migration Conference (Puerto Rico)
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CFP: Mothering and Migration Conference
Location: Puerto Rico
Abstract Submission Deadline: September 1, 2009 ****(TODAY!)*****

CALL FOR PAPERS

Association for Research on Mothering (ARM) and the University of Puerto 
Rico are hosting a conference on

Mothering and Migration:
(Trans)nationalisms, Globalization, and Displacement

February 18-20, 2010, University of Puerto Rico, R?o Piedras, Puerto Rico

Click here to see the full CFP.

We welcome submissions from scholars, students, activists, government 
agencies and workers, artists, mothers, and others who work or research in 
this area. Cross-cultural, historical and comparative work is encouraged. We 
encourage a variety of types of submissions including academic papers from 
all disciplines, workshops, creative submissions, performances, 
storytelling, visual arts and other alternative formats.

Topics can include (but are not limited to):

Representations/images of mothers and migration and (trans)national issues; 
globalization of motherhood; empowering migrant mothers; reproduction and 
movement of mother workers; migrant and (trans)national mothers and 
capitalism; migrant and (trans)national mothers and activism; public policy 
and migrant and (trans)national mothers; legal responses to migrant and 
(trans)national mothers; transnational movement and (anti-) racism in 
parenting; LBGT migrant and (trans)national mothers and social justice 
issues; suffering and survival of migrant and (trans)national mothers; 
impact of globalization on mothering; creating and maintaining family 
relationships; mothering and immigration policies; resistance of migrant and 
(trans)national mothers against cultural oppression; migrant and 
(trans)national mothers and politicians; transnationalism and adoption; 
migrant and (trans)national mother movements; race and (anti-) racism within 
the migratory context; theories of mothers who migrate; globalization of 
reproductive technologies and reproduction; the effects of migration on 
mothering; communal support for migrant and (trans)national mothers; 
employment and migrant and (trans)national mothers; raising children and 
migrant and (trans)national mothers; migrant and (trans)national mothers and 
the loss of identity; migrant and (trans)national mothers who build 
communities and networks; climate change and migrant and (trans)national 
mothers; mothering and cultural globalization; migrant and (trans)national 
mothers and language; migrant and (trans)national mother activists; migrant 
and (trans)national mothers and loss; displaced mothers; mothers on the 
margins; pregnant migrant and (trans)national mothers and heath care; 
migrant and (trans)national mothers and economic inequality; migrant and 
(trans)national mothers and homelessness; migrant and (trans)national 
mothers and education; transnational motherhood; violence against migrant 
and (trans)national mothers; migrant and (trans)national mothers and mental 
health issues; migrant and (trans)national mothers and disabilities; 
mothering and class issues; caregiving and motherhood in global movements; 
transnational movements; online communities of migrant and (trans)national 
mothers; ideologies in migrant and transnational communities

If you are interested in being considered as a presenter, please send a 250 
word abstract and a 50 word bio by September 1, 2009 to: arm@yorku.ca


Association for Research on Mothering
726 Atkinson, York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3
Phone: (416) 736-2100 x60366 FAX: (416) 736-5766 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep  1 14:09:54 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  1 13:10:29 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
	=?iso-8859-1?q?CFP=3A_Aids_in_Culture_VI=3A_Explorations_in_?=
	=?iso-8859-1?q?the_Cultural_History_of_AIDS_=28M=E9xico_City=29?=
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Call for Papers:

Aids in Culture VI: Explorations in the Cultural History of AIDS M?xico 
City, 9 - 14 December 2009

Deadline for abstract Submissions: 1. October (Deadline has been extended)
Conference 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.

Also in 2009 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.

* PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
500 word abstracts should be submitted to the organising committee in 
English, Castilian, German or French by 1, October 2009. 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:
Session title and a session intro (ca 100 words),
Paper titles,
Abstracts for each paper (500 words),
Short biography for each participant and the panel chair (ca 100-150 words),
Institutional affiliation and address for each participant,
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 1. October, along with the presenter's 
name, address, telephone, email, and institutional affiliation. It is 
recommended to use the form here: 
http://www.enkidumagazine.com/eventos/aidsinculture/registration_en.htm 
when submitting an abstract. However, abstracts will also be accepted as 
e-mail attachments to info@enkidumagazine.com All correspondence for this 
conference will be conducted via email. Full conference papers should be 
submitted by the 1st of November 2009. Abstracts and summaries of the 
conference papers will be made available at the conference web page.
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@enkidumagazine.com and liowlb@enkidumagazine.com 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:
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.
Estimated Insurance value of the artworks
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.
Curriculum Vitae of artist (or organisation).
Description of Exhibition (300 - 500 words).
Short bio of artist (or organisation).

* REGISTRATION FEE for "Aids in Culture V": Payment received via PayPal or 
bank transfer in advance (Payments completed before 1.November, 2009):
- Waged delegates (speakers): 150 USD/1700 MXP
- Students and unwaged delegates (speakers): 80 USD/900 MXP
- Media Observer: 70 USD/800 MX-
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

Lars Ivar Borge
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://aidsinculture.org 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep  1 14:11:41 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  1 13:11:54 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Submissions: Race in the Age of Obama
Message-ID: <01d101ca2b27$472bc450$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

CFP: RACE IN THE AGE OF OBAMA
Publication Date: January 01, 2010

RACE AND THE OBAMA PHENOMENON

We are seeking two essays to complete our edited volume on race and 
post-racialism in the age of Obama. This anthology is intended to be one of 
the first scholarly volumes on race and the Obama phenomenon, with an 
original introduction written by George Lipsitz, as edited by G. Reginald 
Daniel and Hettie V. Williams. The volume will include essays by some of the 
nation's leading scholars on the subject of race in the Obama era. 
Interdisciplinary in scope, the work currently contains submissions by 
historians, sociologists, political scientists, communications, Black 
Studies, and American Studies scholars. We specifically seek original 
[unpublished] essays on:

Race, Gender, and Election 2008 Black Politics in America (1968-2008)

Please forward a 150 word abstract and abbreviated curriculum vitae to the 
contact information below for consideration and further details about this 
project.
Hettie V. Williams Lecturer, African American History Department of History 
and Anthropology Monmouth University 400 Cedar Avenue West Long Branch, New 
Jersey 07764 hwilliam@monmouth.edu

Hettie V. Williams
Lecturer, African American History
Department of History and Anthropology
Monmouth University
400 Cedar Avenue
West Long Branch, New Jersey
07764

Email: hwilliam@monmouth.edu 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep  2 12:50:03 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep  2 11:50:36 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 CFP: SEA Meeting: Contested Economy: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage
Message-ID: <006a01ca2be5$0d2f28a0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

2010 SEA Annual Meeting

Contested Economies: Global Tourism and Cultural Heritage

April 8-10, 2010
Tampa, Florida

Co-Chairs: Sarah Lyon (University of Kentucky) and Christian Wells
(University of South Florida)

Call For Papers:
Global tourism is perhaps the largest scale movement of goods,
services and people that humanity has witnessed with the exponential
growth of international tourist arrivals, which in 2008 numbered over
900 million globally. Consequently, for anthropology
tourism has proven to be an ideal context for studying issues of
political economy, social change, development, natural resource
management, and cultural identity. And yet if tourism accounts for an
ever greater segment of national economies, it also challenges classic
theoretical descriptions of just what an economy is: What are the
commodities being consumed? What is the division of labor between
producers and clients in creating the value of tourist exchanges?

The 2010 SEA conference will bring together researchers to examine the
connections among economy, sustainability, heritage, and identity that
tourism makes explicit. Presentations and discussions will seek a new
synthesis for the anthropology of tourism. They will also aim to show
how new theories of the economics of tourism can lead to rethinking of
non-touristic enterprises-from farming to heavy industry to medical
occupations.

Paper and poster presentation topics might include, but are certainly
not limited to, the following:


* The intersection of tourism and the economy: the impact of
tourism on socioeconomic inequalities, development, wage labor, and
subsistence activities; the possibilities and limitations of
alternative and new forms of tourism


* Tourism's impact on the environment and the promise of
eco-tourism: whether negative in the form of environmental degradation
or positive through eco-tourism initiatives, protected areas, and
heightened environmental sustainability


* Theory: models and/or analytical frameworks that help us predict
the conditions under which local economies will be strengthened or
harmed, resources will be protected or degraded, and local
traditions/values will be strengthened or weakened


* Cultural heritage tourism and identity: the reification and/or
transformation of identities and cultural heritage as a result of
tourism and the commodification of culture, the dialectic between
governments and local populations over the control of tourism sites


* Economic crisis: the effects of the economic crisis on the
industry and attempts to overcome current challenges; the aftermath of
tourism and what happens when the flow of tourists is reduced in an
industry especially prone to boom and bust cycles


* Tourism and archaeology: the importance of tourism both for and
in archaeological research, interpretation and reconstruction

Poster presentations:
At the annual conference, the SEA always welcomes posters on any topic
in economic anthropology. Students and scholars whose work may not fit
the central theme of the meeting are encouraged to submit a poster.
The special poster session during the meeting is inclusive and a major
event of the SEA conference.

The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent
program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a
convivial intellectual setting. Papers are selected for a program that
allows 20 minutes for presentation and 20 minutes for discussion in a
single plenary session over two days; additional abstracts will be
selected for the poster session. Each SEA annual meeting also produces
a book on the conference theme. Submitting a paper for the plenary
session represents a commitment that you wish to be considered for
inclusion in this volume. We encourage archaeologists, cultural
anthropologists, economists, and scholars concerned with the tourism
and hospitality industry to submit abstracts. Please send a 300-500
word abstract for a paper or poster to Sarah Lyon at
sarah.lyon@uky.edu<mailto:sarah.lyon@uky.edu> or 202 Lafferty Hall,
Department of Anthropology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
40506-0024 by November 15th, 2009.
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep  2 21:45:25 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep  2 20:47:39 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities
	and Technologies in the Americas
Message-ID: <03f801ca2c30$13fd4c20$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

With apologies for any cross-posting:

Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and Technologies in the 
Americas

Panel, paper, and alternative-format presentation submissions are invited 
for the "Cultures of Movement: Mobile Subjects, Communities, and 
Technologies in the Americas" conference, to be held in Victoria, British 
Columbia, Canada, on April 8-10, 2010.

Open to students, scholars, and professionals, the conference is meant to 
build new ties amongst all those interested in the theoretical or applied 
study of mobilities. The study of mobilities is a young and constantly 
evolving interdisciplinary field. The concept of "mobility" refers to the 
social, political, historical, cultural, economic, geographic, 
communicative, and material dimensions of movement. Students and scholars of 
mobilities focus their attention on the intersecting movements of bodies, 
objects, capital, and signs across time-space, paying attention as well as 
to the way relations between mobility and immobility constitute new networks 
and patterns of social life. The multiple forms of mobility, or mobilities, 
are often taken to include-amongst others-subjects such as: transportation; 
travel and tourism; migration; transnational flows of people, objects, 
information, and capital; mobile communications; and social networks and 
meetings. While the conference is open to all themes pertinent to the study 
of mobilities from a social and cultural perspective-irrespective of the 
geographical site of empirical or theoretical attention-the main focus of 
the conference will be on the experience, practice, social organization, and 
cultural significance of forms of mobility in North, Central, and South 
America.

Whereas in Europe the new mobilities paradigm has taken a strong hold in 
academic units, professional research networks, and recognized publication 
outlets, the study of mobilities is still in its infancy in the Americas. In 
contrast, mobility is very much part of the core of the social imaginary, 
geo-politics, and cultural life of the Americas. Indeed, to be "on the move" 
is amongst the most quintessential characteristics of what it means to be a 
citizen of the Americas. Furthermore, the Americas are home to many, 
distinct mobile cultures and practices: from indigenous cultures rooted in 
traditional meanings of home to the historical institutionalization of 
colonial and postcolonial trade routes and forced relocations, from 
controversial experiments in free transnational trade, to the politics and 
experience of migration and Diaspora, from the widespread diffusion of 
portable communication technologies, to the mobilization of surveillance 
systems, and from the leisure mobilities of tourism, to the social and 
cultural significance of transportation and movement in daily life.

For more information see here: http://tinyurl.com/l6k97s

Phillip Vannini, PhD
Associate Professor
School of Communication and Culture
2005 Sooke Road
Royal Roads University
Victoria BC V9B 5Y2
CANADA
Phone: (250) 391-2600 ext. 4477
Fax: (250) 391-2694
phillip.vannini@royalroads.ca 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep  4 23:24:06 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep  4 22:24:32 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]FUNDING: Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program 
Message-ID: <011201ca2dcf$f71c2ee0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Program
(Federal Register: August 21, 2009 [CFDA# 84.170A])

Purpose of Program: The purpose of the Jacob K. Javits (JKJ) Fellowship 
Program is to award fellowships to eligible students of superior ability, 
selected on the basis of demonstrated achievement, financial need, and 
exceptional promise, to undertake graduate study in specific fields in the 
arts, humanities, and social sciences leading to a doctoral degree or to a 
master's degree in those fields in which the master's degree is the terminal 
highest degree awarded to the selected field of study at accredited 
institutions of higher education.  The selected fields in the arts are: 
creative writing, music performance, music theory, music composition, music 
literature, studio arts (including photography), television, film, 
cinematography, theater arts, playwriting, screenwriting, acting, and dance. 
The selected fields in the humanities are: art history (including 
architectural history), archeology, area studies, classics, comparative 
literature, English language and literature, folklore, folk life, foreign 
languages and literature, history, linguistics, philosophy, religion 
(excluding study of religious vocation), speech, rhetoric, and debate.  The 
selected fields in the social sciences are: anthropology, communications and 
media, economics, ethnic and cultural studies, geography, political science, 
psychology (excluding clinical psychology), public policy and public 
administration, and sociology (excluding the master's and doctoral degrees 
in social work).

Applications Available: August 21, 2009.
Deadline for Transmittal of Applications: October 5, 2009.
Deadline for Transmittal of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid 
(FAFSA): January 31, 2010.

Eligible Applicants: Individuals who, at the time of application: are 
eligible to receive a Federal grant, loan or work assistance pursuant to 
section 484 of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA); intend to 
pursue a doctoral or Master of Fine Arts degree in an eligible field of 
study selected by the Board at an accredited U.S. institution of higher 
education; and are a U.S. citizen or national, a permanent resident of the 
United States, in the United States for other than a temporary purpose and 
intending to become a permanent resident, or a citizen of any one of the 
Freely Associated States.  Applicants must also either: be entering into a 
doctoral program in academic year 2010-2011, or have not yet completed the 
first full year in the doctoral program, in an eligible field of study for 
which they are seeking support; or be entering a Master of Fine Arts program 
in academic year 2010- 2011, or have not yet completed the first full year 
in the Master of Fine Arts program, in an eligible field of study for which 
they are seeking support.

Estimated Available Funds: $1,181,385 for new awards.
Estimated Average Size of Awards: $43,755.
Estimated Number of Awards: 27.

Additional information is available online at:
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/announcements/2009-3/082109c.html 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep  4 23:38:54 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep  4 22:39:29 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: tenure-track assistant prof / ethnicity, youth,
	identity (IMES, Amersterdam)
Message-ID: <017b01ca2dd2$0cc6aed0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

From:  Nancy Foner <nfoner@spec.net>

-------------------
From: Rath, J.C.


IMES and the Dept of Sociology and Anthroplogy are hiring a tenure track 
assistant professor in anthropology with specialization in ethnicity, youth 
and identity.  Please forward this to possible candidates. Applications 
should be send in before September 14, 2009.

Regards
Jan Rath
-------------------

Job Announcement
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

The Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences (FMG) is the largest 
educational and research institution in the social sciences in the 
Netherlands. The Faculty serves 7,500 students in numerous Bachelor's and 
Master's programmes in Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, 
Communication Science, Psychology, Social Geography, Planning and 
International Development Studies, and Educational Sciences. The academic 
staff is employed in education as well as research. There are over 1,100 
employees at the Faculty, which resides in a number of buildings in the 
centre of Amsterdam.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology is one of the Departments in 
the FMG. Research and education are carried out by special institutes. The 
College of Social Sciences (CSS) and the Graduate School for the Social 
Sciences (GSSS) are responsible for the undergraduate and graduate teaching 
programmes in the social sciences. Cultural anthropology is one of the 
disciplines in need of further strengthening.

An interdisciplinary research institute that focuses on issues related to 
migration and integration from an international and comparative perspective, 
the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES) is one of the research 
institutes. IMES wishes to strengthen its profile in immigrant ethnic 
minority youth & identity studies.

The Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute for Migration 
and Ethnic studies currently have an opening for an

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
38 hours per week, or 1.0 fte (full-time)

The new assistant professor is expected to spend 60 percent of his or her 
time on teaching and 40 percent on research.

Duties
strengthening the broad profile of anthropology in Amsterdam
provide general, specialist and methodological education in the Bachelor's 
and Master's programmes of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and 
(assist in) supervising graduate students
developing, carrying out and supervising social science research at a high 
academic level. This research will take place at the Institute for Migration 
and Ethnic Studies and must fit its current research programme, notably its 
research line on life courses & generational change in a European context
acquiring, or helping to acquire, external funding for research
actively contributing to the development of the discipline in national and 
international contexts by publishing and participating in national and 
international research networks and educational initiatives
the ability to immediately participate in courses taught in Dutch serves as 
a recommendation


Profile
completed doctoral thesis in the field of cultural anthropology
publications in international 'peer reviewed' periodicals and/or in books 
published by internationally recognised presses
broad knowledge in the field of general social science
specialist knowledge in immigrant ethnic minority youth & identity studies 
(as described in the IMES research programme)
thorough mastery of mastery of quantitative and/or qualitative research 
methods
a proven record of good quality teaching, preferably at both bachelor and 
master level
in a fairly short term: perfect passive, and adequate active knowledge of 
Dutch
in possession of the Dutch Basic Teaching Qualification (or foreign 
equivalent), or willingness to acquire such

More information
For more information about this position, please contact the Head of the 
Department of
Sociology and Anthropology, Dr. Peter van Rooden, e-mail: 
p.t.vanrooden@uva.nl , telephone + 31 20 5253617, or the
Director of IMES, Prof. dr. Jan Rath, e-mail j.c.rath@uva.nl , telephone 
+31-20-525-3627.

Appointment
Appointment at the Assistant Professor level will initially be for two years 
and, conditional on adequate functioning, there is the possibility of 
tenure, again conditional on adequate performance. The salary will be on 
salary scales 11/12, currently a minimum of ? 3,195 and a maximum of ? 4,970 
gross per month. The appointment will be subject to the collective agreement 
regulating employment conditions at Dutch universities. The date on which 
the appointment is to start will be determined by mutual agreement. 
Favourable tax agreements may apply to non-Dutch applicants. The UvA offers 
a very attractive pension scheme.

Job application
Applications, in the form of a letter and a full cv and overview of 
publications, ought to be send to Mrs. Thamar Zijlstra, OZ Achterburgwal 
237, 1012 DL Amsterdam, The Netherlands, t.zijlstra@uva.nl before September 
14, 2009. You can also reply via e-mail to: t.zijlstra@uva.nl.

Website
IMES http://www.imes.uva.nl/index.html
SOCA http://www.fmg.uva.nl/sociologie_en_antropologie/actueel.cfm
FMG http://www.fmg.uva.nl/english/home.cfm 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Sep  5 20:52:50 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep  5 19:53:17 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: World Social Forum 10-Year Anniversary
Message-ID: <03bc01ca2e83$fdcb40f0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

The World Social Forum's 10-Year Anniversary
Celebrations Will Start in Porto Alegre

World Social Forum
September 4, 2009

http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/

The World Social Forum's 10-year anniversary
celebrations will start in the city where everything
began: Porto Alegre. The capital of the state of Rio
Grande do Sul along with its metropolitan area are
going to hold the Greater Porto Alegre 10 years Social
Forum, from January the 25th until the 29th 2010. But
this will only be the first of several events already
scheduled for next year, as the 2010 WSF will have a
decentralized and permanent format, with events to be
held across the world sharing the global crisis as a
common theme.

For more information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=12_1&cd_language=2

Among the already programmed activities for the Greater
Porto Alegre event, there will be a 10 years World
Social Forum Seminar, organized by the Support Group to
the World Social Forum. This event will gather guests
from several parts of the world in debates on
evaluations and perspectives of the WSF process. Aimed
at social networks and movements' leaderships,
delegates of the forums' organizing committees and
intellectuals which identify themselves with the space,
this activity intends to contribute to the definition
of the course to be taken by the process. It is going
to be a space of reflection, not only on the past
experiences of the WSF, but mainly on its future.

Since its birth in 2001, in opposition to the World
Economic Forum held annually in Davos, Switzerland, the
World Social Forum was constituted as an important
initiative of mobilization and articulation of the
global civil society. From then on it has maintained a
central role against "single thought", keeping dialog
with the incipient anti-globalization movement and
offering a rich space for sharing experiences, drawing
up campaigns and for debates on alternatives to social
problems at global level.

Through these 10 years, the WSF stopped being ju
mauricruz @ camp.org.br st an event and became a global
process. Apart from the world meetings, which since
2004 (Mumbai, India) reached other countries and
continents, there are several local, national and
thematic events that are today part of the process. As
first event of the celebration of its first decade, the
Greater Porto Alegre 10 years Social Forum will fulfill
an important role of stimulating and boosting the 2010
WSF across the world.

The event is being organized by civil society
organizations of Rio Grande do Sul, with support of
local governments of the seven cities hosting
activities (Porto Alegre, Canoas, Sapucaia do Sul, Sao
Leopoldo, Novo Hamburgo, Campo Bom and Sapirange).

For more information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/download/Eventos200EN.pdf

2011 Africa WSF: next edition of the world event will
be held in Dakar, Senegal

The last WSF International Meeting, in May, approved to
hold the next World Social Forum in Dakar, in Senegal
in 2011. According to the African Social Forum
organizers, the Dakar proposal is supported by several
social movements in the region, such as feminist
organizations and trade unions. For more information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.php?cd_news=2568&cd_language=2

The US Social Forum will be held in Detroit, Michigan
June 22-26.

Another World Is Possible! Another US is Necessary!

Detroit to Host 20,000 Activists

Union member holding sigh "Big Business Beware - when
we're screwed we multiply!" The USSF will take place
June 22-26, 2010 at Cobo Hall and Hart Plaza in
downtown Detroit. Other workshops and community art and
culture programs will take place across the city. The
USSF will convene social movements from across the
United States and globally. Organizers are reaching out
to young people, people of color, unionists, laid off
and unorganized workers, welfare recipients, veterans,
persons with disabilities, indigenous people, freedom
fighters, collectives, and many others. Why a social
forum?

"This is a large scale and unique opportunity to learn
from each other's experiences, shed light on social
injustices, and build on community efforts to create
real change," says William Copeland, a USSF staff
organizer and member of the East Michigan Environmental
Action Council (EMEAC).

Key aims are to create an open space and a process for
creating movement convergence and coordination, raise
awareness of social justice issues, provide
opportunities to share experiences, and discuss
strategies that create social change and solutions to
the problems facing people across our many struggles,
sectors, regions, and diversity. Why Detroit?

"Detroit is ground zero for the economic
crisis facing millions of people, not only here in
Michigan, but across the nation," says Maureen Taylor,
a USSF staff organizer and Chair of the Michigan
Welfare Rights Organization (MWRO). "We are really
pleased to host this historic event and we're sure that
what happens in Detroit will have a huge impact not
only here but elsewhere." How do we do it?

The US Social Forum is organized by thousands of social
movement and grassroots volunteers in all sectors and
regions. The planning is underway and open to everyone
who wants to see a movement for real change succeed.
Working Groups are being formed and, using Internet
tools like wikis, you can participate and share ideas,
no matter where you are. Look at the list to the right
for ways to get involved and stay informed.

Read more: http://ussf2010.org/node/7

Other world forum events:

a) The city of Amed (Diyarbakir), in kurdish Turkey,
hosts the Mesopotamian Social Forum, from September
28th to 30th

September will be a month full of activities in the
city of Amed (Diyarbakir), in the Kurdish region of
Turkey. From the 28th to the 30th, the Mesopotamian
Social Forum (MSF) will be held . Before the event it
will also be held from the 25th to the 27th the
Preparatory Assembly for the 2010 European Social
Forum. For more information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.php?cd_news=2590&cd_language=2
Event website:
http://www.international-amed-camp.org

b) More than 6 thousand are expected to participate at
the 2nd Quebec Social Forum, to be held from October
9th to 12th, in Montreal, Canada

After its first edition in 2007, the Quebec Social
Forum (FSQ) is back on October the 8th to the 12th
2009. The organizers expect more than 6.000
participants, imagining the future of Quebec together.
Also, during the three days before the FSQ there will
be held a WSF International Council Meeting. For more
information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.php?cd_news=2591&cd_language=2
Event website:
http://www.forumsocialquebecois.org

c) From October 10th to 12th, it will be held in
Sevilla the 2009 Spanish Thematic Social Forum

With the theme "Spirituality and Ethics to another
Better World Possible", will take place at the Palace
of Congresses and Exhibitions de Sevilla (Fibes), the
Spanish Thematic Social Forum 2009. Organizers expect
the participation of about 1,500 people, who will
discuss the principles and values to build "a better
world, necessary, urgent and possible" during the three
day event. For more information:
http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/noticias_01.php?cd_news=2592&cd_language=2
Event website:
http://www.forosocialte2009.org

d) Check out the complete calendar of the actions and
events of 2009: click here:

http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=12_1&cd_language=2
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep  8 09:50:15 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep  8 08:57:32 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: FALL-SPRING STUDY GROUP ON CAPITALIST CRISIS (NYC)
Message-ID: <006101ca3083$e8b81e70$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

FALL-SPRING STUDY GROUP ON CAPITALIST CRISIS

Following our (just concluded) summer class, Howie Seligman and I will again be doing a study group in the New York City area on Marxian theory and the current crisis. If you are interested, read on. 

All applicants welcome.

TENTATIVE PLAN

Loren Goldner and Howie Seligman will be organizing a study group, starting in October, for New York City-area people on Marx's Capital (and other writings), linking Marx's critique of political economy to the current crisis of the world capitalist system.

The group will meet twice a month (day to be determined, based on people's availability), through May-June of next year, in a convenient Manhattan location (to be determined).

Space will determine the number of participants, but we aim for between 10 and 25 participants, depending on interest.

If you wish to participate, please contact Loren Goldner asap at

lrgoldner@yahoo.com

Participants should be committed to regular attendance and to keeping up with 50-100 pages of reading per meeting. Barring a need to change venues, the class will be free of charge, except for occasional contributions for photocopy expenses, refreshments, etc.

Readings will consist of selections from Marx's Capital, and articles (to be decided in consultation with the group) on contemporary developments.

The events of the past two years in particular have re-awakened a serious interest in both Marx's critique of political economy and in "current events" in the world economy. Goldner and Seligman will cooperate in putting the crisis into a Marxian theoretical perspective (Goldner), as well as providing insight into the more technical side of world market meltdown (CDO's, hedge funds, Ponzi schemes, etc.) (Seligman). The approach will not be merely "economic" (the Marxian CRITIQUE of political economy is not another variant of "economics") but will elucidate the impact of the crisis on ordinary working people, on developing actions against capitalist austerity in the US and around the world, and on the solution: abolition of the capitalist mode of production.

If successful, the study group will continue through May-June 2010.

In order to put together a viable group, we would like interested people to write something brief (200-300 words) about their background, the level of their knowledge of Marx and of the world economy, where they are coming from politically, and anything else they might consider relevant.

We are oriented above all to educating present and future activists, and will give such people priority in participation. We also hope to have a predominance of young people who are new, or relatively new, to Capital and Marxist theory generally, but that will of course be determined by the response.

Loren Goldner is a long-term independent writer and political activist. His work is available on the Break Their Haughty Power web site at

http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner

He has spent much of the past four years in South Korea, involved in the workers' movement there.

Howie Seligman recently taught a course on Taxation and Finance at the NEW SPACE in New York City. Here is the course description and a biography.

Taxation and Finance

Howard F. Seligman

The course will begin with a brief tutorial on conventional accounting, bookkeeping and financial theory. This will involve some hands on practical training, although the main emphasis will be on the history of the evolution of the theory from its original conception to the current methodologies.

This will be followed by an examination of basic economics (price theory) and its use and abuse of (accounting/finance) statistics. Again, the history of the theory from its roots in philosophy and the social sciences to its current state of being applied mathematical models will be scrutinized.

We will then survey the U.S. Income Tax System beginning with its history and moving on to its current state (of change) today. The focus will be on the behavioral implications of changes in the tax code and alternate systems being used in other countries (and being proposed by Congress today.)

Applying the building blocks of finance and taxation, we will then look at the American financial markets and the culture of the corporation. Particular attention will be paid to 'Wall Street' and the 'entertainment industry' due to their growing influence in our everyday lives via the 'information society.'

Emphasis will be placed on economic and non-economic forces that drive the markets and facilitate manipulation by the use of abstract numerical concepts. Finally, the natural symbiosis of private industry and governments will be the subject of specific anecdotes and case studies.

No requirements other than potential enthusiasm/interest.

Howard F. Seligman has been a self employed financial and tax consultant since 1984. Howard's practice specializes in the arts and entertainment fields, and he serves as the treasurer to more than fifteen arts and cultural organizations. Howard has taught accounting and finance at The Pratt Institute. His hobbies include playing Howie Solo, a singer and stand up comedian who can host your local fundraising event. He is currently researching a book on the history of the Jewish gangster in America.

You can also see Howie in action at

www.blip.tv

search HOWIE SOLO
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep  9 13:03:35 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep  9 12:03:50 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Director of the Center for NGO Leadership &
	Development (Northern Illinois U)
Message-ID: <014e01ca3167$19d2d340$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Kendall Thu <kthu@niu.edu>
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY

Center for NGO Leadership and Development: Director

Northern Illinois University anticipates hiring an entrepreneurial 
individual to become the first Director of the Center for NGO Leadership and 
Development (NGOLD), pending budgetary approval. The Center for NGO 
Leadership & Development is one of NIU's strategic planning initiatives, a 
new interdisciplinary unit that involves multiple departments and colleges. 
A primary responsibility of the director is providing leadership and 
teaching in a new undergraduate major in Community Leadership & Civic 
Engagement (CLCE). The director must be able to lead diverse faculty, staff, 
and students associated with NGOLD to achieve its mission of integrating 
undergraduate and graduate curricula and conducting scholarly research 
relevant to domestic and international settings. A primary goal of the 
center is engagement, outreach, and consulting, particularly with some of 
the 9,000 NGOs in the Chicago area. More information may be found at 
www.mpa.niu.edu/pub_ad/faculty_staff/Thurmaier.shtml.

This position requires a Ph.D. and a research record appropriate for 
appointment as a full or associate professor with tenure; the field of 
scholarship is open. Additional requirements include at least 5 years of 
experience in domestic or international NGOs, including some combination of 
research, teaching, consulting, or managerial experience and a record of 
obtaining external funding for NGO-related activities and programming. The 
ideal candidate will also possess experience in public service leadership 
and/or experiential learning. The normal teaching load for the director is 1 
course per semester, which will include undergraduate, masters (MA and MPA), 
and doctoral courses. The ideal candidate will begin January 2010 and be 
able to matriculate the first undergraduates in the new CLCE major in the 
fall 2010 term.

The main NIU campus is located in DeKalb, Illinois, a welcoming community 60 
miles west of Chicago. NIU enrolls more than 22,000 domestic and 
international students, including over 6,400 graduate students, and offers 
instruction in DeKalb, Hoffman Estates, Rockford and Naperville to serve the 
metropolitan Chicago region.

Applicants must submit a letter of application, CV, and contact information 
for three references. These required materials may be submitted 
electronically or by US mail; supplemental materials should be submitted by 
US mail. Review of complete applications will begin on October 12, 2009, but 
the search will remain open until the appointment is made. Send applications 
to: Professor Kurt Thurmaier, Division of Public Administration, Northern 
Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, or kthur@niu.edu. Northern Illinois 
University is an AA/EEO institution that strongly encourages applications 
from women and minority candidates. 


From astuesse at gmail.com  Wed Sep  9 17:26:21 2009
From: astuesse at gmail.com (Angela C. Stuesse)
Date: Wed Sep  9 19:31:42 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Fwd: Call For Proposals Transforming Race Conference, Kirwan
  Institute
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>><http://www.osu.edu>The<http://www.osu.edu> Ohio State University
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>>Greetings Friends:
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>>
>>The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity is pleased 
>>to announce the Call for Proposals for its second biannual 
>>conference, entitled Transforming Race: Crisis and Opportunity in 
>>the Age of Obama, to be held March 11-13, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio.
>>
>>We seek innovative proposals that address any of three thematic 
>>tracks: Racial Dynamics and Systems Thinking; Race Talk; and Race, 
>>Recession, and Recovery. We invite practitioners, community 
>>organizers, scholars, researchers, and others to submit proposals 
>>for papers, entire panels, workshops, performances, fishbowls, and more!
>>
>>Please visit our web site, 
>><http://transforming-race.org>http://transforming-race.org, for 
>>conference details and updates. To encourage widespread 
>>participation, please feel free to share this e-mail and attachment 
>>with your networks. Should you have any questions, contact Rebecca 
>>Reno at<mailto:reno.34@osu.edu>reno.34@osu.edu.
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>>Download the Call for Proposals at: 
>><http://transforming-race.org/transformingrace_cfp.pdf>http://transforming-race.org/transformingrace_cfp.pdf
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>>
>>Andrew Grant-Thomas
>>Deputy Director
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>>Senior Research Associate
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From cue at gse.upenn.edu  Wed Sep  9 17:20:00 2009
From: cue at gse.upenn.edu (Center for Urban Ethnography)
Date: Wed Sep  9 19:32:32 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 Call for Papers: 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research
 Forum
In-Reply-To: <1904636362.7603541252527514880.JavaMail.root@zm-mbx-levy.zimbra.upenn.edu>
Message-ID: <399347895.7605461252527600206.JavaMail.root@zm-mbx-levy.zimbra.upenn.edu>

Greetings!

We are pleased to announce that the 31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, February 26 - 27, 2010 is accepting proposals now. Please see the Call for Papers in the email and help circulate it widely among your programs.

Thank you!

Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA


31st Annual Ethnography in Education Research Forum
?Creativity, Crisis and Qualitative Research: Re-imagining Education in a Changing World"

February 26 - 27, 2010 

Center for Urban Ethnography
University of Pennsylvania
Graduate School of Education
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

***CALL for PAPERS***
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 2, 2009
NOTIFICATION:  early November, 2009
REQUIRED PREREGISTRATION FOR PRESENTERS: December 1, 2009

We live in an era of rapid changes, and this year has had especially dramatic ones: a global economic crisis, the inauguration of the first African-American President of the United States, and the massive popularization of iPhone-type mobile web devices, to name a few.  In U.S. education, for example, charter schools and more and more public schools are experimenting with new ways of doing teaching and learning, from online course formats to ?small school? models to ways of making do with smaller budgets and staff.  How have the social, economic, cultural, and technological changes of our time influenced our ways of teaching and learning, inside and outside of school, as well as our ?ways of knowing? as researchers and practitioners? And how do we create new ways of teaching, learning, researching, and knowing, amidst change?

There has been much talk of change in our societies, from suggestions of a post-racial era, to predictions of minority-majority demographic shifts and class mobility, to initiatives for financial reorganization and school accountability.  In such times of crisis, or opportunity, ethnographers and qualitative researchers are uniquely positioned to be able to find, understand, and share creative new ways of learning and knowing.  At this 31st annual Ethnography in Education research forum, we hope to hear about and share creative re-imaginings and new ways of doing education, with an eye towards the future of education reform, research, and practice.

Plenary speakers:
Samy Alim, University of California at Los Angeles

Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Boston College, and Susan Lytle, University of Pennsylvania

Doug Foley, University of Texas at Austin

Bonny Norton, University of British Columbia

All proposals may be submitted online beginning August 14:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

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 by selecting the appropriate submission track, 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 by selecting the appropriate submission track, 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. 
Presenters must follow specific guidelines available online: 
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/dacinstructions.php

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. Abstract (limit 100 words) 
This should be a brief overview of the work to be presented.

B. Description (limit 1500 words)
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.  Please indicate if it is a Work-in-Progress in the body of your Description. 

Special Instruction for Group Sessions
Submit Abstract 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. 

All proposals must be submitted online:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/cue/forum.php

Questions
E-mail: cue@gse.upenn.edu

From gghosh at sas.upenn.edu  Wed Sep  2 22:59:37 2009
From: gghosh at sas.upenn.edu (gghosh@sas.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed Sep  9 22:28:28 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]SUNTA Undergraduate Paper Prize Extension & New
	Elligibility
Message-ID: <1251943177.4a9f230923800@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@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.  The SUNTA web
site (http://www.sunta.org) for additional descriptions information prior to
submission.

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

Thanks and best wishes,

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


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  Fri Sep 11 10:32:24 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 11 09:32:37 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Applicants: Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: A Forum
	for Young Leaders (Berlin)
Message-ID: <002501ca32e4$4fc0fb20$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Applications

Cultural Diplomacy in Europe: A Forum for Young Leaders
Next Weeklong Seminar (19th - 23rd October 2009, Berlin)

The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy is pleased to announce the details of 
our forthcoming Weeklong Seminar for the program Cultural Diplomacy in 
Europe: A Forum for Young Leaders, which will take place in Berlin from 
19th - 23rd October, 2009. The forthcoming Weeklong Seminar will focus on 
the following themes:

1.      The history and development of cultural diplomacy
2.      How cultural diplomacy is conducted, both by individual European 
countries and by the European Union
3.      An exploration and analysis of some of the main cultural divides in 
Europe, and a consideration of how they can be addressed through cultural 
diplomacy
4.      The relationship between Eastern and Western Europe, 20 years after 
the fall of the Berlin Wall
5.      The challenges presented by migration in the EU
6.      The perspectives on European unity and future prospects for United 
Europe

Who can apply?
The program is open to all individuals with an interest in European 
relations and cultural exchange.

What will the Weeklong Seminar involve?
The program for the Weeklong Seminar will consist of lectures, seminars, 
workshops, and cultural activities in and around Berlin. The participants 
will meet with leading figures from the political, diplomatic, academic and 
civil society spheres to discuss the state of European relations and 
consider how they can be supported through organised cultural exchange.

What is the aim of the Weeklong Seminar?
The Seminar aims to inform the participants about the field of Cultural 
Diplomacy and its importance today, raise awareness of key issues in the 
European relations, create a network between the Seminar participants, and 
give them creative ideas and support for future initiatives they can 
organise.

What happens after the Seminar?
After completing the Weeklong Seminar, the participants become members of 
the Cultural Diplomacy in Europe Forum. They are then supported by the ICD 
in conducting research, in organising and developing leadership initiatives, 
and are invited to join the ICD Online Forum where they can network with the 
other Young Leaders from around the world. The Forum activity is aimed at 
creating sustainable initiatives that bring the European countries closer 
together.

Where can I find more information?

Further information about the next Weeklong Seminar, including the online 
application forum, can be found under:

http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/youngleadersforums/index.php?en_forums_cde_next-weeklong-seminar

Further information about the Forum as a whole can be found under:

http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/youngleadersforums/index.php?en_forums_cde_about

Further information about the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy can be found 
under:
www.culturaldiplomacy.org

Any enquiries regarding the program can be sent to 
europe@culturaldiplomacy.org

We look forward to your contact,

Warm Regards,


Katharina M?ller

Managing Director

Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD)

Keithstr. 14, 10787 - Berlin, Germany
Mobile: 00.49.(0)157 - 75 54 59 37
Phone: 00.49.(0)30 - 2360 7680
Fax: 00.49.(0)30 - 2360 76811

europe@culturaldiplomacy.org
www.culturaldiplomacy.org 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 11 12:07:18 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 11 11:07:30 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Metropolis and Common Life NYC
Message-ID: <004801ca32f1$909bd7c0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Metropolis and Common Life NYC 9/17


The Metropolis and Common Life
Michael HARDT and Neil SMITH in dialogue on the themes of "Commonwealth," 
Hardt and Negri's newest book.


THURSDAY, September 17th
7PM (doors at 6PM)


ABRONS ARTS CENTER
Henry Street Settlement
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, NY 10002


Free and open to all


There will be a signing afterwards and "Commonwealth" will be available for 
purchase (before its official publication date).


For more information, see: thisisforever.org/commonwealth
or (f) 212 777 6026 and (e) malav[at]bluestockings[dot]com


Sponsored by THIS IS FOREVER event and discussion series in celebration of 
BLUESTOCKINGS 10th anniversary.  More events to come!


DESCRIPTION
On Thursday, September 17th (7PM), at Abrons Art Center in the Lower East 
Side, Michael Hardt will be speaking on the publication of "Commonwealth," 
his latest book co-authored with Antonio Negri.  When Empire appeared in 
2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of 
globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more 
democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael 
Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued 
in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world 
and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth.
Drawing on scenarios from around the globe and elucidating the themes that 
unite them, Hardt and Negri focus on the logic of institutions and the 
models of governance adequate to our understanding of a global commonwealth. 
They argue for the idea of the "common" to replace the opposition of private 
and public and the politics predicated on that opposition. Ultimately, they 
articulate the theoretical bases for what they call "governing the 
revolution."


Michael Hardt will be in dialogue with Neil Smith, renowned critical 
geographer, about the social relations of the metropolis as they function as 
the site for the production of common life, the site of hierarchy and 
exploitation, and the site of antagonism and revolt. 
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Fri Sep 11 12:09:06 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Fri Sep 11 11:09:15 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Africans in Europe in the long twentieth century:
 Transnationalism, translation and transfer (Liverpool)
Message-ID: <005501ca32f1$d0a594a0$0200000a@D7ZX4M91>

Africans in Europe in the long twentieth century: Transnationalism, 
translation and transfer
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Liverpool
30-31 October 2009

The past few years have seen a flowering of historical research on Africans 
in Europe and the growth of new networks of scholarship on the subject. 
Most of this work acknowledges that as colonial or ex-colonial subjects, as 
migrants, and as members of a global population for whom a common identity 
and fate were increasingly claimed in terms of diaspora, Africans often 
moved from one mono- or plurilingual context/contact zone into another. 
This could be the result of physical relocations, of a transfer of 
administrative jurisdiction over them from one colonial power to another (as 
after 1918), or indeed of participation in transnational literary and 
political networks.  But much current research remains limited to particular 
national metropolitan contexts, their languages and institutions, with the 
themes of transnationalism and translation addressed largely through 
triangulations between Africa, Black America and the respective country of 
'settlement'.  The conference brings together new research by both 
established scholars and early career researchers, with the aim of provoking 
discussion around those moments where Africans found themselves at the 
interface between European cultures, asking about the implications for 
subjectivity and everyday life as well as for cultural and political 
practice of having to deal with and through different languages and modes of 
social interaction.
Speakers from the UK, Continental Europe and the United States include 
Elleke Boehmer, Sara Lennox, Susan Pennybacker, Donald Carter, Lisa Shaw and 
Stefanie Michels

The conference is organised by Professor Eve Rosenhaft and Dr Robbie Aitken, 
in the context of the AHRC-funded project Germany-France-Moscow-Africa: 
Survival, Politics and Identity among German Cameroonians, ca. 1890-1960.

The conference will take place at the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre, 
Princes Road, Liverpool: http://www.kuumbaimani.org.uk/

Registration fees: ?60 full rate / ?30 for students (?30 / ?15 for one-day 
registrations), to cover the cost of lunches and refreshments at the 
conference.  Places are limited, so please register early and in any case 
before 15 October. Registration will be on line at the following URL (follow 
the link for School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies): 
https://payments.liv.ac.uk/catalogue/products.asp?deptid=10&catID=&hasClicked=0
The conference will begin at 10.30 on Friday, 30 October and end at 5 p.m. 
on 31 October.  Advice about accommodation in Liverpool can be found here: 
http://www.visitliverpool.com/site/accommodation
Updates to the programme will be available at
http://www.liv.ac.uk/soclas/conferences/index.htm

For enquiries, please contact Dr Christoph Laucht, c.laucht@liv.ac.uk


Provisional programme

(The conference will begin at 10.30 on 30 October and end at 17.00 on 31 
October)


Friday, 30 October
African cultural production in the European frame
Christopher Hogarth (Wagner College), Africans in European Literature: 
Language, Publication and Reception
Paul Davis (University of Indiana), Cosmopolitan Artistic Formations and the 
Politique Culturelle of Painting in Bamako, Mali, 1950s-1970s
Sara Lennox (University of Massachusetts), Postcolonial Writers in Germany: 
Dualla Misipo and Kum' a Ndumbe III
Narrating transnational lives
Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), Nile Baby (reading and discussion)
John Sealey (Exeter), The Greatest Escape: Filming Black Experience (short 
film and discussion)
Stefanie Michels (K?ln), Andrea Manga Bell and her Mother-in-Law Emily 
Engome Dayas - Some Methodological Reflections on 'Race', Gender, and 
Diaspora
Polychrome France
Lisa Shaw (Liverpool), Black Brazil(ians) in Paris in the First Half of the 
Twentieth Century
Jennifer Boittin (Penn State), Black Communities in Urban France: The 
Africans and Afro-Caribbeans of Marseille and Paris during the Interwar 
Years
Germanophone Lives
Holger Stoecker (Berlin), Bonifatius Folli - A Togolese Language Informant 
in Berlin
Sara Pugach (California State), A Death in Berlin: Africans in Health and 
Illness in Late 19th-Century Germany
Saturday, 31 October
Radical Encounters
S. Ani Mukherji (Brown), To Create Anticolonial Culture: Black Cultural Work 
in 1930s Moscow
Elizabeth Williams (Goldsmith's), African Diasporic Agency in the 
Anti-Apartheid Movement
New perspectives on Black Britain
Mark Christian (Miami University), Rethinking Liverpool Black
Daniel Whittall (Royal Holloway), Contesting the Racialisation of Urban 
Space in Britain 1931-1948
Jose Lingna Nafafe (Birmingham), Luso-African Migrants in the West Midlands
Post-postcolonial Europe
Elly Omondi Odhiambo (Independent Researcher), Can You Speak African? 
Africans in Northern Ireland: A Transnational Experience in Anglo-Celtic 
Subcultures
Donald Carter (Hamilton College), Ethnographic Perspectives on Africans in 
Italy
Closing discussion
Susan Pennybacker (Trinity College, Hartford) opening comment
 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Sep 13 22:20:35 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep 13 21:20:48 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB:  Postdoc Fellow at the Advanced Institute for
	Contemporary China Studies (Zhuhai, China)
Message-ID: <027101ca34d9$92829760$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Post-doctoral Fellow in HKBU-UIC Joint Institute for Research Studies and 
the
Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies (ACCS)

The Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies (ACCS), Hong Kong 
Baptist
University, welcomes applications from outstanding and self-motivated
candidates possessing a PhD degree for appointment as Post-doctoral Fellow
under the above scheme in disciplines like: Business and Management, 
Humanities
and Social Sciences and Science and Technology. Further details on the post 
are
available at:
http://accsweb.hkbu.edu.hk/users_files/090710%20Ad%20for%20Post-doctoral%20Fellow_Eng.doc


The appointees are expected to reside in Zhuhai, China. Zhuhai is situated 
in
the southwest of Pearl River Delta of Guangdong Province. It borders 
Jiangmen
to the northwest, Zhongshan to the north, and Macau to the south. It is also
conveniently connected with Hong Kong.

The appointees will carry out research work under the supervision of a 
Fellow of
ACCS, as well as to undertake teaching duties and tutorials for 
undergraduates,
etc. The appointment is usually for a period of one to two years. Additional
subsidy will be provided to the Post-doctoral Fellows and their Professors 
at
HKBU such that they can travel between Zhuhai and Hong Kong, as well as to
attend conferences in Hong Kong and carry out research-related field 
studies.
With increasing influence of East Asia and China, this fellowship scheme is 
a
great prospect for early career PhDs who are interested in and engaged in
research topics related to the region to acquire research and teaching
opportunities and more practical experience in China.

Applications will be welcome until the positions are filled. Any enquiries
related to the above vacancy should be addressed to accs@hkbu.edu.hk. Please
feel free to visit the website of ACCS: http://accsweb.hkbu.edu.hk. Thank 
you
for your kind attention.

-----------------------------------------------------
Enquiries on ACCS and its programmes can be diverted to the following
correspondence:
Director: Prof Victor F.S. SIT (Chair Professor)
Executive Officer: Miss Janet TANG
Executive Assistant: Miss Rachel WAN
Tel: +852 3411-2105
Fax: +852 3411-2104
Email: accs@hkbu.edu.hk
Address: Advanced Institute for Contemporary China Studies, 5/F, David C Lam
Building, Hong Kong Baptist University, 34 Renfrew Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong
Kong 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 15 19:45:10 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 15 18:45:19 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Global Games and Local Legacies: Understanding
	Olympics Outcomes in Host Cities (Vancouver)
Message-ID: <014001ca3656$2f67ce60$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>


Dear colleagues,

The Urban Studies program at SFU Vancouver is pleased to announce that registration is now open for our upcoming  symposium,  "Global Games and Local Legacies: Understanding Olympics Outcomes in Host Cities." Scheduled for Thursday October 22nd and Friday October 23rd, 2009, the program features an international panel of speakers discussing the impact of the Olympics on host cities both past and future.

The symposium will take place Thursday afternoon and Friday morning. A preliminary program of events, including further information on each of our panel presentations, can be found below.

Your presence is warmly welcomed at this event, and we encourage you to reserve early as space is limited. Please RSVP to legacies@sfu.ca and indicate which days you would be interested in attending (Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, or both). We encourage you to circulate this invitation to other interested colleagues and students.

Regards,

Carolyn Ruhland
Master of Urban Studies candidate
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
----------

Draft Symposium Program
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

12:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-15:00 SESSION 1: DEFINING LEGACY

Moderator: Nick Blomley (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University)

1. Lance Berelowitz (Urban Forum Associates, Vancouver)
"Vancouver's Date with the Olympics: Growing a Culture of Excellence?"

2. Greg Andranovich (California State Los Angeles) and Matthew J. Burbank (University of Utah) 
"Image, Tourism and Urban Regeneration- and Then What? Contextualizing Olympic Legacies"

3. Michael Dawson (History Department, St. Thomas University)
"Putting Vancouver "on the map": the Local Dynamics of the 1954 British Empire & Commonwealth Games in International Perspective"

4. Iain Macrury (London East Research Institute, University of East London)
To be confirmed

15:15-17:15 SESSION 2: CONTESTING LEGACY

Moderator: Eugene McCann (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University)

1. Chris Finlay (Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania)
"Pacific Gateway Promises: the interaction of Vancouver's 2010 global tourism and investment narrative with local sociocultural identities and urban policy"

2. Martin Muller (Department of Human Geography, Goethe-Universit?t Frankfurt am Main) 
"Looking ahead: how the Winter Olympics 2014 will transform the city of Sochi"

3. Alfonso Valenzuela Aguilera (IURD, University of California at Berkeley)
"Mexico 1968: Disjunctions of Democratic Resistance and Modernity in the City"

Friday, October 23rd, 2009
8:00-8:30 Registration
8:30-10:30 SESSION 3: BUILDING LEGACY

Moderator: Noel Dyck (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University)

1. Brenda Parker (Urban Planning & Policy Program, University of Illinois at Chicago)
"Community Benefits Ordinance: Democracy or Complacency in Chicago?"

2. Jessica Doyle (City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology) 
"The Would-Be Global City: Atlanta and the 1996 Olympic Games"

3. Robert Oliver (Department of Geography, Virginia Tech)
"Toronto's Olympic aspirations: the Olympic bidding legacy in one modern western city"

10:45-12:00 Closing Plenary
Closing remarks by host-city mayors Al Duerr (mayor of Calgary, 1989-2001) and Professor Valentino Castellani (mayor of Turin, 1993-2001)



-- 
James DeFilippis
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-3822 ext: 734


From aangelini at gc.cuny.edu  Mon Sep 14 18:29:28 2009
From: aangelini at gc.cuny.edu (Alessandro Angelini)
Date: Fri Sep 18 19:12:21 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP AAG: Spatializing "Camps:" Lived Experiences and Built
	 Environments of Confinement
Message-ID: <a1afe9d70909141329x2fddc5eiaa78405e7613153@mail.gmail.com>

please excuse the cross-listing...

Call for Papers
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting,
Washington DC April 14-18, 2010**

*Session: Spatializing ?Camps:? Lived Experiences and Built Environments of
Confinement*

Over the past two decades there has been a resurgence of interest in refugee
camps, asylum and detention centers and other spaces in which people are
confined. Many academic working on such sites have described them as
?non-places,? ?states of exception? and ?camp-villes? revealing the peculiar
juridico-political conditions of such sites and defining the subjugation of
its inhabitants. However, refugee and internment camps, detention centers
and other such sites are not only proliferating but many have also aged over
the past half century.  These sites are becoming increasingly complex as
their spatial logics have expanded and evolved. The evolution of the built
environment in camps and the development of networks of such spaces indicate
the subtle but important ways in which those that occupy these sites
exercise agency and political will.

 This panel aims to analyze the spaces of containment themselves. We seek
papers that attempt to unsettle some of the commonly held ideas about these
?spaces of exception? through a careful investigation of their built
environments. Among the questions that could be raised are: how, for
example, do people build and live in such spaces and what impact does that
have on their subjectivity? How do the construction, destruction, and
appropriation of emergency shelter/internment housing and structures of
confinement affect the subjectivity of those who are confined to these
spaces and those who confine them? How does an analysis of the materiality
and spatiality of these sites unsettle our ideas of agency and resistance?
How could such spaces possibly provide new insights into the processes of
urbanization?

To present a paper please submit an abstract following the AAG guidelines *by
October 10, 2009* and send it to Romola Sanyal: romi_s@berkeley.edu or
Lynne Horiuchi: horiuchi@berkeley.edu
From Ahmed.Afzal at purchase.edu  Wed Sep 16 22:49:36 2009
From: Ahmed.Afzal at purchase.edu (Afzal, Ahmed)
Date: Fri Sep 18 19:15:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Job listing, Media, Society & Arts
In-Reply-To: <E1MjxgQ-0006uy-N4@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
References: <E1MjxgQ-0006uy-N4@unix1.cc.ysu.edu>
Message-ID: <BE965DE52639754D861D91B4F8F3CB6408DEAA94@SVEXCHBE01.purchase.edu>

Posting Number:  0800045    
Job Title:  Assistant Professor of Media, Society & the Arts    
Application Deadline:  10-14-2009  
Department:  Social Sciences    
Full-Time or Part-Time:  Full-Time    
Salary:  $51,000    

Description:  Purchase College SUNY invites applications for a full-time
tenure-track Assistant Professor position of Media, Society and the Arts
(MSA) beginning fall 2010 (subject to budgetary approval). We seek an
interdisciplinary colleague with training in anthropology whose research
and teaching explore the intersection of media, society and the arts.
Courses include introduction to media and cultural studies and visual
and ethnographic theories and methods. A description of typical course
offerings can be found at: Media, Society & the Arts. 

Purchase College is an undergraduate institution located 25 miles north
of New York City. It houses a unique combination of Liberal Arts and
Sciences and arts conservatory programs.    

Qualifications:  We seek candidates whose areas of specialization might
include: art worlds, virtual cultures, embodiment, and subcultures,
and/or those whose interests are centered on specific media, e.g.,
music, film, or new media. Production experience and an interest in
teaching methods-based courses are strongly desired. The ideal candidate
will have undergraduate teaching experience and be committed to
mentoring students, in addition to conducting research. Geographical
area is open, but preference will be given to scholars whose work
focuses on the Caribbean, Latin America, or Europe. As part of regular
duties, the successful candidate will offer courses that contribute to
the Anthropology program and the college's general education program. A
Ph.D. in anthropology is required by August 2010.    

Special Note:  Required: The names and contact information of three
references must be included in this application. Also, please attach one
writing sample under "Other Document."    

DEADLINE/Date to be filled:  09/01/2010    


From miamigringa at gmail.com  Fri Sep 18 20:18:15 2009
From: miamigringa at gmail.com (Debra Rodman)
Date: Fri Sep 18 19:18:21 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]call for participation: merida 2010
In-Reply-To: <35dbda3c0909170947w36b6462ejad08043a10542f0d@mail.gmail.com>
References: <35dbda3c0909170947w36b6462ejad08043a10542f0d@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <35dbda3c0909181618o716d4e39u2fa2bf18794ada31@mail.gmail.com>

With apologies for cross listing!!!!!!

Call for Participation

SfAA 2010 Merida

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below our session proposal for SfAA, on anthropological
contributions to the immigration question, especially immigration
reform and accompanying debate . ?We would be grateful if you could
also forward this along to any and all colleagues and listservs who
you think would be interested.


Session Proposal:

The Disconnect Between Migrant Lived Experiences and Public Policy:
Anthropological Contributions to Migration Reform

Session Organizers:

Debra H. Rodman (Randolph-Macon College)
James Loucky (Western Washington University)

Anthropologists, in their goal for cultural relativism are sensitive
to the problems of reifying the ?other?. ?In studying migration,
anthropology questions the power of place in establishing cultures as
bounded and territorialized and is able to explore it?s own critique
of the discipline by creating news ways of understanding cultural
processes that are not bound by an ?us? and ?them?. One way to think
about cultural difference is to explore the processes of the
production of difference in a culturally, socially, and economically
interconnected world. Anthropologist?s interest in transnational
migration comes from this shift away from looking at cultures as
distinct entities and emphasizes the interconnectedness of a global
world. Anthropology attempts to turn from a project that sees cultures
as separate and discrete to one that explores the construction of
difference. ?Studying immigration illuminates the process of the
production of difference. Anti-immigrant discourse and immigration
policy perpetuate hegemonic ideals of nationhood and identity while
disempowering the ?other.? How can anthropology research and its
attendance to the migrant's lived experiences assist in developing
just and humane migration policy?


Please submit abstracts to Debra Rodman: drodman@rmc.edu by September 30, 2009.
Note: SfAA deadline for paper abstracts: October 15, 2009.



--
Debra H. Rodman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Women's Studies
Randolph-Macon College
cell ? ?(804) 878-5475

From Michael.E.Smith.2 at asu.edu  Thu Sep 10 13:38:39 2009
From: Michael.E.Smith.2 at asu.edu (Michael Smith)
Date: Fri Sep 18 19:18:51 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Post-doctoral position in comparative urbanism
Message-ID: <F97F402E6CF9B54EAEDC7F2AB1D719C403938A1C@EX05.asurite.ad.asu.edu>

Arizona State University

School of Human Evolution and Social Change

Postdoctoral research position in comparative urbanism

Job Vacancy Announcement

 

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@asu.edu <mailto:Lisa.Meierotto@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.

 

submitted by:

Dr. Michael E. Smith

Professor of Anthropology

School of Human Evolution & Social Change

Arizona State University

www.public.asu.edu/~mesmith9/

 

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sat Sep 19 09:35:52 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sat Sep 19 08:36:15 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: SfAA 2010 Merida
Message-ID: <001c01ca3925$c2e28a00$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: miamigringa@gmail.com

Call for Participation

SfAA 2010 Merida

Dear Colleagues,

Please find below our session proposal for SfAA, on anthropological
contributions to the immigration question, especially immigration
reform and accompanying debate . We would be grateful if you could
also forward this along to any and all colleagues and listservs who
you think would be interested.

Saludos,
Debra H. Rodman


Session Proposal:

The Disconnect Between Migrant Lived Experiences and Public Policy:
Anthropological Contributions to Migration Reform

Session Organizers:

Debra H. Rodman (Randolph-Macon College)

James Loucky (Western Washington University)


Anthropologists, in their goal for cultural relativism are sensitive
to the problems of reifying the "other." In studying migration,
anthropology questions the power of place in establishing cultures as
bounded and territorialized and is able to explore its own critique
of the discipline by creating news ways of understanding cultural
processes that are not bound by an "us" and "them". One way to think
about cultural difference is to explore the processes of the
production of difference in a culturally, socially, and economically
interconnected world. Anthropologists' interest in transnational
migration comes from this shift away from looking at cultures as
distinct entities and emphasizes the interconnectedness of a global
world. Anthropology attempts to turn from a project that sees cultures
as separate and discrete to one that explores the construction of
difference. Studying immigration illuminates the process of the
production of difference. Anti-immigrant discourse and immigration
policy perpetuate hegemonic ideals of nationhood and identity while
disempowering the "other." How can anthropology research and its
attendance to the migrant's lived experiences assist in developing
just and humane migration policy?


Please submit abstracts to: Debra Rodman by September 30, 2009.
Note: SfAA deadline for paper abstracts: October 15, 2009. drodman@rmc.edu



--
Debra H. Rodman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Anthropology and Women's Studies
Randolph-Macon College
cell =A0 =A0(804) 878-5475

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Sun Sep 20 16:56:48 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Sun Sep 20 15:57:04 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Public Anthropology Reviews, Request for Review
	Material
Message-ID: <008901ca3a2c$7fec6010$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

*/American Anthropologist/* *Launches "Public Anthropology Reviews" -
Request for Submission of Review Materials*

AAA is pleased to announce the launch of "Public Anthropology Reviews,"
a new review section in /American Anthropologist./

Public Anthropology Reviews will highlight anthropological work
principally aimed at non-academic audiences, including websites, blogs,
white papers, journalistic articles, briefing reports, online videos,
and multimedia presentations. The editors will also consider other
traditional and innovative mechanisms for communicating anthropological
research and concepts outside of academic realms and welcome
suggestions. Please note that this review section will complement
existing review sections and will therefore not review books, films or
museum exhibits.



We are now accepting submissions for materials to be reviewed in the
June 2010 issue of AA. Please send materials for review, ideas for
review essays and inquiries to the review editors at the addresses
listed below:



Editors: Melissa Checker (CUNY Queens C), Alaka Wali (Field Museum) and
David Vine (American U)



Addresses for Inquiries, Ideas and Submissions of Materials for Review:


publicanthreviews@gmail.com <mailto:publicanthreviews@gmail.com>



Melissa Checker

Department of Urban Studies

250 Powdermaker Hall

Queens College/CUNY

6530 Kissena Blvd.

Flushing, NY 11367



*Guidelines for Review*

*Review purpose and tone*

*       The public anthropology reviews are intended to expose the AA
readership and broader audiences to anthropological work appearing in a
wide variety of media and non-traditional formats principally aimed at
non-anthropological audiences that is both accessible to the public and
a fundamental part of public life.
*       Reviews can include websites, blogs, white papers, journalistic
articles, briefing reports, and other gray literature, online videos,
and/or multimedia presentations and tools. The editors will also
consider other and other traditional and innovative mechanisms for
communicating anthropological research and concepts outside of academic
realms and welcome suggestions. .
     *       Reviews should offer constructive critique, discussing how
the reviewed work contributes to theory, method, and practice in
anthropology. In addition, reviews should highlight and address the
work's demonstrated or potential impact on its intended audience and its
social impact more generally.
  *       Reviewers might also wish to discuss the fit between form and
content, where appropriate-i.e., is the media format chosen (web page,
blog or other medium) adequate to the anthropological content of the
work, and/or how well was the content shaped to fit the chosen form?
 Reviewers should point to both limitations and potential of innovative
use of media formats.
    *       The tone of the reviews should be the same as for other
review sections (book, visual anthropology).
    *       Dialogical reviews should be conversations between the
anthropologist and an "interlocutor", about the impact and import of the
work.
   *       We encourage reviewers to write in clear, broadly accessible
language and to be lively and forward-looking, in keeping with the
intent of the new section.
From Ahmed.Afzal at purchase.edu  Fri Sep 18 20:28:50 2009
From: Ahmed.Afzal at purchase.edu (Afzal, Ahmed)
Date: Mon Sep 21 15:45:57 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Job Listing, Media, Society and the Arts
Message-ID: <BE965DE52639754D861D91B4F8F3CB6408DEAA9D@SVEXCHBE01.purchase.edu>

Posting Number:  0800045    

Job Title:  Assistant Professor of Media, Society & the Arts    

Application Deadline:  10-14-2009  

Department:  Social Sciences    

Full-Time or Part-Time:  Full-Time    

Salary:  $51,000    

 

Description:  Purchase College SUNY invites applications for a full-time
tenure-track Assistant Professor position of Media, Society and the Arts

(MSA) beginning fall 2010 (subject to budgetary approval). We seek an
interdisciplinary colleague with training in anthropology whose research
and teaching explore the intersection of media, society and the arts.

Courses include introduction to media and cultural studies and visual
and ethnographic theories and methods. A description of typical course
offerings can be found at: Media, Society & the Arts. 

 

Purchase College is an undergraduate institution located 25 miles north
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Qualifications:  We seek candidates whose areas of specialization might

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and/or those whose interests are centered on specific media, e.g.,
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area is open, but preference will be given to scholars whose work
focuses on the Caribbean, Latin America, or Europe. As part of regular
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From emccann at sfu.ca  Mon Sep 14 20:54:03 2009
From: emccann at sfu.ca (Eugene McCann)
Date: Mon Sep 21 15:47:18 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
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Message-ID: <3A404145-E648-4182-874F-66FC1F8C135F@sfu.ca>

Call For Papers, Assoc. American Geographers Meeting, 14-18 April,  
2010, Washington DC

Assembling ?parts of elsewhere?:  Urban politics and policies on the  
move

Organizers: Eugene McCann (Geography, Simon Fraser University) and  
Kevin Ward (Environment and Development, University of Manchester)

A great deal of urban politics and urban policy-making is  
characterized by actors? engagements with places elsewhere.  Indeed,  
for Allen and Cochrane (2007), urban regions are assemblages of  
?parts of elsewhere;? their very constitution is only conceivable and  
made operational through the way that they draw together and  
articulate various people, processes, and forms of knowledge that  
exist and extend beyond the individual locality.  This insight has  
its origins in the work of David Harvey and Doreen Massey, among  
others.  Both have emphasized, in their own ways, how places are  
moments in wider processes that link them to wider geographies and  
histories.  Yet, despite a longstanding acceptance of the relational  
geographies and sociologies of place and the problematic nature of  
the category, ?urban,? much remains to be done in analyzing precisely  
how, where, and with what consequences urban policy-making and urban  
politics operate in and through individual cities.

Recent work on policy transfer, policies-in-motion, or policy  
mobilities has deepened our understanding somewhat (for example, the  
2009 special issue of Geoforum on ?Remaking governance, mobilizing  
policy,? (Peck and Theodore, eds.) and the forthcoming volume  
Assembling Urbanism (McCann & Ward eds., Minnesota Press)).  The  
purpose of this session is to deepen and extend the discussion by  
bringing together a range of scholars whose work analyzes how urban  
political and policy actors (broadly defined to include those working  
in state institutions, in business, and in grassroots activist  
organizations, among others) engage with places elsewhere as they  
seek to shape their place.  We invite papers from a variety of  
theoretical and methodological positions, exploring a diversity of  
empirical cases.  Possible themes include (but are not necessarily  
limited to):

1. Conceptual

?      Political economy-derived conceptualizations of urban neo- 
liberalization

?      Post-structural understandings of governmentality, spatiality,  
subjectivity, and assemblage as applied to global-urban policy-making  
and political action

?      Cultural theorizations of mobility in the context of urban  
policy and politics

2. Methodological

?      Archival and documentary analysis of discourses of connection  
among cities

?      Ethnographies of institutions, organizations, and individuals  
involved in the movement of policies and in translocal ?resistance  
transfer?

?      Comparative urbanism and other techniques for understanding  
the geographies and histories of city to city inter-connections

?      Interpretations of landscapes and the parts of elsewhere held  
within them

?      Theoretically-informed mappings and quantifications of policy  
transfers and of geographies of urban policy and political knowledge

3. Empirical

?      Specific cases of globally-circulating policies and best  
practices and their impact on particular places

?      Policy tourism and the means through which actors in different  
cities move between cities, learning, adapting, translating and  
implementing policies

?      City twinning, and other formal relationships that exist in  
and through which policies can be moved about

?      Institutional infrastructures that facilitate and channel  
knowledge transfer (UN, Trade organizations, EU learning networks etc.)

?      Oppositional political movements and their use of global  
circuits to undermine existing policies (eg the World Social Forum)


Authors are invited to submit a 250 word abstract to both the session  
organizers, Kevin Ward (kevin.ward@manchester.ac.uk) & Eugene McCann  
(emccann@sfu.ca) by Monday 5 October.




_______________________________________________________
Dr. Eugene McCann
Associate Professor
Graduate Program Chair
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6
Canada

Email:  emccann@sfu.ca
Phone (Direct):  778.782.4599
Phone (Departmental Office):  778.782.3321
Fax:  778.782.5841
http://www.sfu.ca/~emccann

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 22 18:00:27 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 22 17:00:42 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]
 FINAL CALL: California Public Anthropology Publishing Competitions
Message-ID: <013601ca3bc7$b9b8b0e0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

From: Rob Borofsky <borofsky@publicanthropology.org>


There has been a very positive response to the California Public 
Anthropology Publishing Competitions.  Yet I am repeatedly surprised to 
discover some people -- particularly students -- do not know about them. 
Some of you are going to apply.  That is great!   But some of you may not 
know about the Publishing Competition.  And, even more likely, there are 
students, faculty, and friends at your school or elsewhere who do not.

My request is that you forward the enclosed links on to any and all 
people -- students, faculty, friends, and contacts
(inside or outside of academia) -- who you think would be interested.  Thank 
you.

Here are the links:

Description of the California
Public Anthropology Publishing Competition:
  http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/2009-Competition-1.htm



The Winning 2008 Proposal in the Professional Category:
 http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/2009-Winning-Professional-Proposal-2008.htm  You Tube Video from the Graduate Student Winner:http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/2009-GradStudent2008Video.htm  You Tube Video from the Professional Category Winner:http://www.publicanthropology.org/Bookseries/2009-Competition-MayCB.htm     Regards,     Rob Borofsky -- Dr. Rob Borofsky Director, Center for a Public Anthropology Professor of Anthropology, Hawaii Pacific University Editor, California Series in Public Anthropology Webmaster, www.publicanthropology.org & www.publicanthropology.net

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Sep 24 11:57:25 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 24 10:57:44 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]NEWS: 'As Detroit Goes' by Micele Gibbs
Message-ID: <00be01ca3d27$57a8ce60$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

>From the Field

"As  Detroit Goes"

Occasional Paper No. 7  - Fall 2009

By Michele Gibbs
http://www.realoaxaca.com/from-the-field/index.html

In the wake of 9/11/01, it was common to hear black
Detroiters say the only reason Detroit wasn't attacked
is that from the air, it looked bombed-out already.
This was a reality produced by policies of aggressive
`urban removal' begun in the late 1980's which gutted
the historic core black neighborhoods to build freeways
to new sports stadiums and casinos (the hallmarks of
`revitalization") while allowing city services to
residents to deteriorate.  Outsourcing and
international competition shrank the job market.
Predatory lending flourished alongside redlining. And
with charter schools siphoning off many of the best
students, teachers, and curricular models,public
education languished, putting a whole generation in
peril of marginalization for life.

This `state of emergency' has been black Detroit's
condition for at least the past decade.  Only now, the
industry built on its back has crashed, making a
chronic condition acute for the working poor and
sending shockwaves through the destabilized black
middle class.

Look at the statistical picture:

- Detroit's population is 85% black.

- Unemployment is over 30%, the highest in the nation.
Most of these job losses are long-term and will not
return.

- Detroit's foreclosure rate is the highest in the
nation.

- 40% of its people live in poverty.

- The Standard & Poors credit rating for Detroit
property is "junk," for the first time ever.

Combine that with an unprecedented scale of crime and
malfeasance by public officials with recent convictions
of former Mayor Kilpatrick, some city council members,
down to Detroit Public Schools staff embezzling money
and stealing school equipment (eg, computers, lab
supplies, etc) meant for classrooms amounting to
millions of dollars in `lost revenue' and black
Detroiters are outraged.  They are also energized.
There are many layers to this energy. Although the
system is decrepit, bankrupt, and broken down, lights
dim and roof leaking, from years of experience we know
how to see in the dark.

Consider the crisis in public transportation.  I, like
100's of thousands of Detroiters, depend on the bus on
a daily basis.  When I arrived for my yearly visit this
mid-August, the mayor, Dave Bing, elected to finish out
the former mayor's term, announced his plan to
eliminate bus service on weekends, cut back several key
routes, and lay off a minimum of 100 drivers. This
caused a predictable uproar at the street level which
grew through a series of neighborhood city hall
meetings.

The mayor's justification was `economic'. The
translation for folks was "You don't have jobs, anyway,
so stay home. You don't need to go anywhere."  This
callous indifference, adding insult to injury, was the
most galling of all.  At the Wayne County Community
College town hall meeting there was standing room only,
with an estimated 400 in attendance. Hear them:

"I've been a job developer for 11 years," said Shirley
Jackson Carter. I've placed thousands of workers at
area hotels and worked with many new businesses
including locations in the suburbs.  Most job
applications require you to have transportation.
Everybody knows that."

Audrey Taylor works at the Detroit Public Library.  She
says,"Our staff gets out at 6pm and we work Saturdays
and Sundays,"'We've had cases of workers being raped
waiting for a ride when the buses don't come, and
lately they're transferring us all over the place so
carpooling won't work,  We need the buses."

Senior citizens condemned the cuts. Josie Hughey said,
"As an 83-year-old who has paid taxes all my life, I
say this is like scraping the bone before you cut the
fat.  Bing and his executives have cars and chauffeurs.
They need to confiscate all those cars, sell them and
save the insurance.  Stop taking from the poor to give
to the rich."

Angeline Holmes was so angry that tears streamed down
her face: "All my life I've been riding the bus, worn
out my shoes. Dave Bing, have you ever walked in our
shoes?  My father had an eighth grade education; my
mother never went to school because she had to raise
nine brothers and sisters.  I've worked all over this
city as a cleaner;  all days and hours.  Everybody
knows the Grand Belt line is essential. You can't cut
it.  I've been to the mountain and I'm not going to the
back of the bus again."

Ministers pointed out that cutting weekend service
would mean elderly people won't be able to get to
church. Melody Currie, director of the Kelly-Morang
Senior Center, said only one worker has a car and all
the seniors using the center take the bus.

A 21 year-old college student said,"I'm just now
getting my life back on track and you're not going to
take it back.  Young Brothers United has helped save
countless lives with HIV awareness sessions and our
biggest day is Sunday."

Others said massive closings have eliminated
neighborhood schools in walking distance and the cuts
would have a major impact on the mobility of students
and the disabled.

"The money is there," said  DOT driver Curtis Ray."DOT
got $37.5 million in economic stimulus funds.  We're
the people that make this city run. We can do without
the mayor; but we can't do without the workers."

The next day, as I boarded the Woodward Ave. bus on my
way downtown, the driver put his hand over the fare-box
and said,"That's alright.  Take a seat."  I did; and
asked the sister next to me,"Is he just being nice or
is this normal?" She responded, "Both,  The boxes or
something else break down all the time.  But he's not
pulling over, either."

Before getting off, I asked the driver,"When is your
shift over?"  He said,  "6 o'clock."  It was noon.  I
asked,"Going to finish your shift like this?" He
smiled, "Yes, maam."  I smiled back, "Ride on."

By the end of two weeks of public pressure, Mayor Bing
was forced to withdraw the proposal for "further
study."

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

And what of veteran auto workers who still have their
jobs?

Bill is 49 and has worked on the line at the GM Warren
Ave Truck plant making transmissions for 25 years.  His
family moved to Detroit from Cincinnati in 1968, when
that period's Viet Nam war spiked production needs.
>From a workforce of 4000 in the mid-80's, this plant
now only employs 500. Bill is one of them, and glad to
be.  When I ask him about the future, he laughs and
says he knows the old jobs won't come back again but he
hopes to make his 30 and out.  "Of course, he says,
"they're working those of us who are there like there's
no tomorrow, with 14hour back to back shifts.  I'm just
taking it one hour at a time."

He is a calm man, for whom pacing is important.  These
next five years are particularly critical since they
also coincide with his 14 year-old son's high school
and emerging adult years.  He would like them to be as
stable as possible.  Commenting on the current economic
situation, he says," In order to see reality, sometimes
you have to feel pain.  This is a wake-up call to us.
In the old days, you'd have a job; jou were in the
union; that meant something.  Not to say you didn't
have to fight for your rights; but at least you could.
Not now.  Take the most recent contract:  we had one
day to vote.  One day.  No discussion.  The biggest
change was that up `til now, the person working next to
you on the line must get the same pay as you.  The
union had fought for that principle foryears.  Now new
hires only get half.  If you get $28 an hour, they get
$14 with no benefits, health insurance, or pension. And
for senior workers like myself , every wage increase
and cost of living benefit has been rescinded and
health care costs for retirees will be paid for in the
form of stock, not cash, Who knows what that will be
worth?"

"As for management, I see the `new GM' still making a
lot of the old GM mistakes.  For example, we operate on
a `team'concept, the whole point being, as I see it,
that team leaders should replace the need for
`supervision.' But we are still top heavy.  Also, the
basic plant equipment has long exceeded its `life
expectancy' already, causing more breakdowns and
injuries, especially to new workers."

"What I have learned is that we can't rely on the
system; we need to take care of each other.  When I was
a child, my mother raising me as a single parent, used
to spend a lot of her time working a stall at the Flea
Markets that were common in Detroit then.  I used to be
ashamed.  Now I understand.  Then I didn't even get
what she was actually providing.  That was her way of
hustling for an independent living and creating a
support network, too.  Through one of her contacts, a
woman at GM's human resources division, I got hired at
GM and have been there ever since.  Now yard sales are
coming back.  People are learning how to make what they
have go farther."

He continues,"Your immediate community allows you to
have and do certain things.  It decides what amount of
damage you can cause and how to correct that damage.  I
need the person on the corner to peep out the window or
come on the porch, to be there for the block.  Constant
back up, for when a sewer line collapses or a tire gets
slashed."

"Living off the land should always be something we do.
Produce.  Grow things.  We used to call the `plant'
the' plantation'.  We forgot that even under slavery we
maintained an independent subsistence economy.  Well,
we're remembering now how important that is to
survival."

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

Bill is not alone in reaching these conclusions.  On
Detroit's Eastside, Mark Covington, 37, started by
cleaning the garbage off three lots adjacent to his
home. A married father of eight, he decided it was a
good time and place to begin gardening.  This native
Detroiter, who was an environmental service technician
cleaning oil refineries in Toledo and other Midwestern
cities until he lost his job in Dec. 2007, now is an
urban farmer. He says, "This is now my full-time job.
I grow produce on ten lots and people are welcome to
come and take what they need  -  for free. I help out
with The Greening of Detroit (a non-profit that helps
11,000 people in Detroit, Highland Park, and Hamtramck
build and maintain 800 gardens) which pays me to till
gardens.  It's all about self-sustainability. The goal
with current gardens is to provide the community with
food."

68 year old Cornelius Williams is owner of Vandalia
Gardens Urban Farmers LLC, building gardens for people
from Detroit to Grand Rapids. He grows collards,
cucumbers lettuce, kale, squash and other vegetables in
100 garden beds in Detroit alone.  Sometimes people
tell him his approach is a `step backward.' He
recalls,"Somebody asked me if gardening wasn't
reverting back to slavery.  I said,"I ain't growing
cotton."

On the Northwest side of town black educator Malik
Yakini's Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
is taking root on 2 acres in Rouge Park allocated by
the city council for urban farming projects. "Gardens
enable us to become producers rather than consumers,"
says Yakini.  Volunteers there cultivate organic
vegetables, two beehives, a composting operation and
hoop house for year-round food production.  Produce is
sold at the growing number of farmers' markets in the
metro area.  In the summer, a city-initiated jobs for
youth program places over 45,000 highschool age youth
in these agricultural projects.

The examples multiply and more vacant lots become
garden plots. Adjacent to them, the foreclosed brick
homes that used to be valued at $200,000 are now going
at auction for $5,000.  And they are being bought - not
by speculators to flip for profit, but by families to
rebuild and live in for posterity.

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

Fortunately, there is one person in city government who
has seen the significance of the current structural
crisis and been heartened by the activity of Detroit's
people at the grassroots.  Her name is JoAnn Watson.
She is President pro-tem of Detroit's Common Council.
And in addition to hope and faith, which she has in
abundance, she has a plan..

It is 8:30 am on a typical workday. JoAnn Watson has
already been at her desk working for an hour. Her staff
is on duty and her phones are answered by a human being
who knows her schedule.  As we sit having coffee and
our conversation opens, she says, "The post-mortems
that the white racist media is pronouncing on Detroit
do not define us.  We are not pitiful, poor, or
powerless.  We just don't know, or forgot, what to do
with the resources we have.  Wind, water, arable land.
Now that the manufacturing system has completrely
crashed, we have an unprecedented opportunity to start
over." "That is why I authored the Resolution passed by
Common Council a year ago to bail out Detroit.  Since
then I have been working with Dr.Soji Adelaja, Director
of the Land Policy Institute at Michigan State Univ.,
to develop a new green direction for the rebuilding of
our local economy. Identifying  regional natural assets
on which to base the plan is critical. The expertise of
Dr. Adelaja and his team has been invaluable.  The
political argument is obvious:  "How do you bail out
the auto industry and not the workers?  Come on, now.
You can't bypass Detroit."  But, more importantly, we
realize that a whole new economic paradigm is needed.
Not bandaids for the old one.  And this is what we call
Detroit's Marshall Plan and what we have received
approval for at the gubernatorial level and pursued
just last month with a presentation to Pres. Obama's
Urban Policy and Affairs staff.  That presentation by
the Michigan Delegation was very positively received
and it was praised for being highly consistent with
their emerging national policy on how to revitalize
major metropolitan areas.  So, we are "on the table"
for further discussion."

She continues,"I am not worried.  The epicenter of the
movement for social change has been Detroit from the
Abolitionist Mvt., the rise of organized labor, Black
Consciousness from Civil Rights to Reparations, to
"What's Goin' On' and having been touched and shaped by
many currents of that movement from the age of 14, I
feel it in my soul." "I know the richness of our
history and the energy of our community when it pulls
together.as it does in times of crisis, as it has
always done."  "We have the knowledge and the physical
capacity to create a healthy future here  if we only
have the political will."

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

One test of Detroit's political will is in the offing
next summer, as it prepares to host the U.S. Social
Forum from June 22-26,2010.  At that time between
30,000 and 35,000 activists from all over the nation
are expected to convene to discuss labor rights, social
justice issues, new economic strategies, and
participate in a schedule of educational tours and
cultural events. The five anchor groups charged with
the planning and implementation of this major event are
Michigan Water Rights Org, Jobs With Justice, Centro
Obrero, East Michigan Enviromental Council, and
Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice.

I attended a planning meeting of these organizers which
takes place every two weeks at Central Methodist Church
in downtown Detroit and is open to the public.
Committee reports concerned everything from checking
total handicapped accessability of conference meeting
and living accomodations to how neighborhoods would be
chosen for murals being planned by the youth.  All
committee members: old and young, black, latino, and
anglo, male and female, addressed their issues and each
other with calm good nature, united in a common effort.

After the meeting, Elena Herrada, Director of Centro
Obrero (a legal and educational organization that
serves Detroit's Latino community) remarked,"It's
exciting.  The old road has ended and we're making a
new one.  We've been looted of all resources here and
we have to start over together. We've gotta do
something.  People are being forced into transformative
postures.  We want the U./S. Social Forum to be a
channel for that energy."

This year in Detroit, I saw signs everywhere of the
energy generated when people rally in defense of each
other and their own best interests.

If the future is in these hands, I'm not worried,
either.

May the detritus not trip us.  Stay tuned.

From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Thu Sep 24 11:58:40 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Thu Sep 24 10:59:22 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AN: AAA Photo Contest
Message-ID: <00d301ca3d27$8b2e32c0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Give Us Your Best Shot: Enter the AAA Photo Contest by Oct 1

Did you take photos during fieldwork this summer? Do you have snapshots from 
a public event or images documenting everyday life? The American 
Anthropological Association invites all members to participate in our 2009 
photo contest. Each member may submit up to 5 photographs that are rooted in 
anthropological work, and have been taken within the last year. We welcome 
photos from all fields and subfields of anthropology, as well as from 
anthropologists at any career stage.

Access the online entry form today at 
www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/Photo-Contest-Form.cfm. Submit your photos 
by Thursday, October 1. For details and submission tips see the contest 
website at www.aaanet.org/photocontest. Please take a moment to peruse your 
photos and see if there's anything you'd like to submit. If you have 
questions, email Amy Goldenberg at photos@aaanet.org.

Selected photos will be published in a spring issue of Anthropology News, 
displayed in the AAA offices, and added to the AAA Flickr gallery. Galleries 
of the 2008 winners, finalists and semifinalists are available at 
www.flickr.com/photos/anthropologynews/sets/.

Dinah Winnick
Associate Managing Editor, Anthropology News
American Anthropological Association
dwinnick@aaanet.org 


From avrambornstein at yahoo.com  Fri Sep 25 14:30:09 2009
From: avrambornstein at yahoo.com (Avram Bornstein)
Date: Fri Sep 25 16:34:52 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Battle of Seattle 10 year anniversary issue
Message-ID: <614721.78076.qm@web65511.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>

Announcing:
N30 + 10: global civil society, a decade after the Battle of Seattle 
a special Issue of Dialectical Anthropology
Guest edited and introduction by Avram Bornstein
with
Stanley Aronowitz 
Reflections on Seattle 1999 
Avram Bornstein 
In-betweenness and crumbled hopes in Palestine: the global in the local of the occupied territories 
Deeadra Brown 
Poem - Depth of field 
Hilary Cunningham 
Mobilities and enclosures after Seattle: politicizing borders in a "Borderless" world 
Paul Durrenberger 
If you have a strong union, you don?t need a necktie: U.S. labor and global solidarity 
Marc Edelman 
Peasant?farmer movements, third world peoples, and the Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization, 1999 
Ron Hayduk 
Radical responses to neoliberalism: immigrant rights in the global era 
?
Now available in libraries and online at: http://www.springerlink.com/content/nv4712866n41/?p=06f9463b192c4038a95ecdcd2819bbdd&pi=0
From gonick at berkeley.edu  Mon Sep 21 14:23:20 2009
From: gonick at berkeley.edu (Sophie Gonick)
Date: Fri Sep 25 16:36:00 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Call for Papers: IASTE 2010 'The Utopia of Tradition'
Message-ID: <c3acb6ef0909211323m12871727wabac692bca7f0d12@mail.gmail.com>

*INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL
ENVIRONMENTS *

*THE UTOPIA OF TRADITION *

IASTE 2010
AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT
15-18 DECEMBER 2010

*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS *

In recent years IASTE scholars have examined traditions and their multitude
of built forms in an
increasingly interconnected global landscape. To advance this effort, this
conference seeks to study
how tradition inspires and informs changing concepts of utopia in theory and
space. Utopian
theories and plans emerge from a complex symbiotic relationship with
traditions that are based on
notions of the ideal. Indeed, utopias cannot be understood without
understanding the traditions
from which they develop.

At its etymological root, utopia embodies both the theoretical paradox of an
ideal place, eu-topia, and
a non-place, ou-topia, rendering it an impossibility. As an ideal place,
utopia relies on tradition, but as
a non-place it attempts to negate it. Although most utopias have spatial
manifestations, they often
attempt to harness and make static the traditions used to create these
spaces. The geographies of
utopia physically ground tradition, but tradition simultaneously controls
these very same
geographies. This contemporary moment of economic crisis necessitates a
re-examination of this
dynamic.

The word ?utopia? is no longer as commonly referenced in professional
practice as it was a few
decades ago. However, architects, planners, and politicians continue to look
for and disseminate
notions of ideal forms. Regulated by ethnicity, religion, or race, the
identity enclaves of many
modern nations use territory to perpetuate the vision of a perfect community
based on specific
traditions. The continuation and strengthening of tradition, cloaked in the
language of utopia, may
thus be seen to provide the focus for new gated communities in the
developing world, the
dreamscapes in cities around the Persian Gulf and the Pacific Rim, and the
faux-colonial homes in
American suburbs. On the other hand, there is an emerging discourse that
reconceptualizes utopia
itself, not as a product but as an open process aimed at transforming,
rather than transcending, the
existing condition.

Perhaps the relationship between utopia and tradition can best be understood
by examining
dystopia, utopia?s twin other. Dystopia finds its clearest manifestation in
literary and filmic
representations, such as 1984 and Blade Runner, which embody complex
imageries of terror, control,
and urban anxiety. Tradition, in these brave new worlds, has often been
explicitly rejected, and new
forms are introduced as alternatives.

The historical development of utopia both draws upon and creates anew
certain traditions of space,
citizenship, and government. Those engaged with the idea of utopia have
always come back to its
physical realization within space, however elusive and/or illusory. In
writing his Republic, Plato drew
heavily on Greek traditions of warfare, civic engagement, and physical form,
while Augustine of
Hippo?s City of God was a response to a particular moment of empire and
decadence. Thomas More
created a sketchy ideological geography of ?no place? as a mythical island
with a-spatial intonations.
Since the Renaissance, when architects and artists such as Vitruvius
searched for the citte felice,
practitioners have tried to create physical spaces that would provide
Eden-like environments for
humankind. In more recent times, the modernist schemes of Ebenezer Howard
and Le Corbusier
envisioned ideal spaces that claimed to erase difference. This IASTE
conference will focus on the
theme of utopia and tradition in the twenty-first century.

The conference will attract an interdisciplinary group of scholars and
practitioners from around the
world working in the disciplines of anthropology, architecture, art and
architectural history, city and
regional planning, cultural studies, geography, history, landscape studies,
sociology, and urban
studies. They will present papers related to the following three themes:

Track 1. Utopian Ideals versus Traditional Physical Realities.
Central to the conference theme is the main tenet that utopias use tradition
in their formulation and
perpetuation of the ideal. Inquiries regarding attributes of utopia that may
be rooted in certain
traditional practices are encouraged in this line of inquiry. This track
seeks to explore the
convergence of ideals and realities as well as the underlying concepts of
utopia and how they relate
to a given traditional context or are manifested in space.

Track 2. The Practices of Utopia and the Politics of Tradition.
The deployment of tradition demands a certain selectivity that negates some
forms of the past while
celebrating others, making this exercise inherently political. In
constructing utopias, practitioners
also draw upon traditional discourses, practices, and forms, thus
politicizing the quest for ideal
communities. A key component in interrogating utopia and tradition is the
political backdrop against
which they occur. Examining the linkages between utopias, politics, and
tradition, papers in this
track are encouraged to investigate how tradition is deployed within the
political sphere, and the role
the state plays in formulating notions of community and governance.

Track 3. Utopia and the Space of Difference
By the end of the twentieth century, the crisis within modernism and the
critical opposition to
authoritarianism had caused a retreat from the idea of utopia as an ideal
and perfected spatial form.
This track seeks to examine new concepts of utopia that have risen to
question its previous
incarnations and established traditions. Papers in this track are encouraged
to explore how the latest
utopias have become more of an open process that engages both the present
condition and the
forbidden, the unseen and the marginalized, straying from the imagined
idyllic landscapes towards a
new politics of difference.


SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Please refer to our website www.ced.berkeley.edu/iaste for detailed
instructions on
abstract submissions. A one page abstract of 500 words and a one page C.V.
are required. For
further inquiries, please email IASTE Coordinator Sophie Gonick at
iaste@berkeley.edu.
Proposals for complete panels are welcome. All papers must be written and
presented in English.
Following a blind peer-review process, papers may be accepted for
presentation in the conference
and/or publication in the Working Paper Series.
Contributors whose abstracts are accepted must pre-register for the
conference, pay registration fees
of $400 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE membership fee), and
prepare a full-length
paper of 20-25 double-spaced pages. Registered students may qualify for a
reduced registration fee
of $200 (which includes a special discounted $25 IASTE membership fee). All
participants must be
IASTE members. Please note that expenses associated with hotel
accommodations, travel, and
additional excursions are not covered by the registration fees and have to
be paid directly to the
designated travel agent. Registration fees cover the conference program,
conference abstracts, and
access to all conference activities including receptions, keynote panels,
and a tour of the Beirut
Central District.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
February 12           Deadline for receipt of abstracts and CVs
May 5                      Notification of accepted abstracts for
presentation
July 15                   Deadline for pre-registration and full paper
submissions for possible
publication in the Working Paper Series.
October 5                Notification of accepted papers for the Working
Paper Series
December 15-18     Conference program
December 19, 20, 22, & 21 Optional trips

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Nezar AlSayyad, IASTE President, University of California, Berkeley
Mark Gillem, IASTE and Conference Director, University of Oregon
Howayda Al-Harithy, Local Conference Director, American University, Beirut,
Lebanon
Sophie Gonick, IASTE and Conference Coordinator, University of California,
Berkeley
Leila Solh, Local Conference Coordinator, American University, Beirut,
Lebanon
Lanbin Ren, Conference Administrative Assistant, University of Oregon
Vicky Garcia, CEDR Conference Administrator, University of California,
Berkeley

CONFERENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Eeva Aarrevaara, Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah, Heba Farouk Ahmed, Joseph
Aranha, Greig Crysler,
Howard Davis, Mona Harb, Hildegarde Heynen, Anne Hublin, Samir Khalaf,
Duanfang Lu, Jala
Makhzoumi, Robert Mugerauer, Sylvia Nam, Mina Rajagopalan, Ipek Tureli,
Montira Horayangura
Unakul, Dell Upton, Marcel Vellinga

CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Center for Behavioral Research, American University of Beirut
Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley
Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley
School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon

CONFERENCE SITE & ACCOMMODATIONS
The conference will be held at American University of Beirut?s West Hall
with accommodation at
nearby hotels. In order to be able to obtain special room rates,
reservations should be made online,
over the phone, or through email at the conference hotel:

Gefinor Rotana Hotel, Hamra, Beirut, http://www.rotana.com/property-6.htm,
E-mail:
gefinor.hotel@rotana.com

Other accommodations with a special IASTE discount:

Casa d'Or Hotel, Hamra, Beirut, http://www.casadorhotel.com/, E-mail:
Info@casadorhotel.com

POST-CONFERENCE TRIPS
Two optional one day trips are offered at participant?s expense to Byblos
and Tripoli, or to Baalbek
and Anjar, on Sunday, December 19, 2010.

A two day/two night trip to Damascus, Syria, is also available on Monday,
December 20-
Wednesday, December 22, 2010.

To participate in any of the three additional trips, please contact Mr.
Charbel Salem, Nakhal Travel,
http://www.nakhal.com, E-mail: tours@nakhal.com.lb or charbel@nakhal.com.lb

Note: An additional visa may be necessary for travel to Syria. Please check
with your local consulate.

INQUIRIES
Please use the following information when making inquiries regarding the
conference.

Mailing address:
IASTE 2010
Center for Environmental Design Research
390 Wurster Hall #1839
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1839

Phone: 510.642.6801
Fax: 510.643.5571
E-mail: iaste@berkeley.edu
Website: www.ced.berkeley.edu/iaste
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 28 19:56:48 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 28 19:04:13 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: The European City, Politics & Cultural Identity
Message-ID: <021b01ca408f$fbda9e30$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Call for Papers: The European City, Politics & Cultural Identity

The European city, its buildings, structures and spaces, are deeply imbued with cultural identity, and therefore heavily invested with political action.  The shaping of the city is subject to political contestation and the city is a forum for cultural and political performance.  These sessions will examine multiple-facets of these relationships.

Papers should  focus on the European city and may address the following topics and others:

-          Urban space and political performance

-          Architectural symbolism and cultural politics

-          Political decision-making, urban planning & architecture

-          Urban space and the construction of identity

-          Toponymy, culture and politics

-          Urban morphology, history and identity

-          Popular representation of urban form and space

 If you are interested in participating in a session, please email your abstract to Joshua Hagen at (hagenj@marshall.edu) or Paul Stangl (paul.stangl@wwu.edu) by October 21 2009.


-- 
James DeFilippis
Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Rutgers University
33 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732-932-3822 ext: 734
From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Mon Sep 28 22:32:56 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Mon Sep 28 22:56:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]JOB: Research Chair in Inner-City Issues & Community
	Learning & Engagement (Winnipeg)
Message-ID: <002101ca40b0$635c5e20$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

Canada Research Chair In Inner-City Issues
and Community Learning and Engagement

The University of Winnipeg has designated a Tier I Canada Research Chair in 
the area of
"Inner-City Issues and Community Learning and Engagement". The University is 
seeking
exceptional candidates for this interdisciplinary position and invites 
nominations.

The University of Winnipeg has a strong commitment to the inner-city milieu 
and especially
to the people who call it home, which has resulted in a strong foundation of 
research
expertise and direct programming for inner-city residents. Over the last 40 
years, The
University of Winnipeg has also developed as a centre of excellence in urban 
research
including the establishment of an Institute of Urban Studies in 1969. The 
Institute has
become a national research centre grounded in community and urban studies in 
the area of
Inner-City Issues and Community Learning and Engagement.

The University of Winnipeg is set within a complex and ever-changing urban 
environment.
>From this vantage point, the University is uniquely positioned as an active 
community
member within a diverse inner-city neighbourhood and within the dynamic 
fabric of the
downtown. The University of Winnipeg as well as many other urban campuses 
throughout
North America is actively committed to community change through active 
campus expansion
as well as direct programming aimed at meeting the needs of inner-city 
residents and
nontraditional students.

Within the mandate of a new Canada Research Chair, we are particularly 
interested in
contributing to the development of policies and programs that will address 
the needs of the
Aboriginal, refugee, and immigrant communities that make up the largest 
proportion of
Winnipeg's inner-city neighborhoods. The Chair will contribute to the 
ongoing development
of a healthy, safe, and socially responsible inner-city community with 
vitality and
sustainability. Accordingly, it is expected that the Chair will contribute 
to the continued
development of an interdisciplinary and action-based research agenda 
directed at issues
related to housing, concentrated poverty, immigrant settlement and 
adjustment, youth at risk,
and the urban Aboriginal experience. The role of active community learning 
and
engagement that includes the function of universities and other institutions 
and their impacts
through programming and development, particularly in inner-city areas, will 
be of strong
consideration. Implicit in this action-based methodology is an approach that 
blends
rigorous scientific methodology with the needs of the community, building on 
an established
2 record of research success that works with communities, not apart from 
them. Evaluation
of the effectiveness of the policies and programs aimed at addressing the 
needs of these
communities will form an important component of the work of the Chair.

To complement and enhance the research focus of The University of Winnipeg, 
it is expected
that the new Canada Research Chair will work with all levels of government, 
members of our
academic and non-academic community, and especially with the University's 
Institute of
Urban Studies and its extensive engagement with community organizations and 
inner-city
residents. Fundamentally, the research team assembled by and collaborating 
with the Chair
is expected to contribute to the development of policies and actions that 
address the needs of
inner-city, and in particular those living in Winnipeg and its inner-city 
neighbourhoods.
Furthermore, the scholarly and community-learning and engagement output 
generated by
the Chair's research team, in parallel to the action-oriented agenda, will 
be expected to have
local, national, and international impact.

Nominations must include a curriculum vitae and a statement of research 
objectives and
teaching interests. The statement should be a maximum of 5 pages (single 
spaced) using the
Times New Roman font and a font size of 12.

Nominations must be received by Friday, October 16, 2009. Please forward to:

Barbara Doran
Administrative Officer
Office of the Provost and Vice-President (Academic)
The University of Winnipeg
Winnipeg, MB, R3B 2E9
Telephone: (204) 786-9120
Fax: (204) 774-4134
Email: b.doran@uwinnipeg.ca

Candidates are requested to arrange for three letters of reference to be 
submitted directly to
the address above.

The University of Winnipeg is committed to employment equity, welcomes 
diversity in
the workplace and encourages applications from and nominations of all 
qualified
individuals. 


From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Tue Sep 29 09:59:45 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Tue Sep 29 09:00:03 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Journeys & Justice: Forced Migration, Seeking Asylum,
	and Human Rights (Leeds, UK)
Message-ID: <001901ca4104$bbef57a0$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>



**********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
JOURNEYS AND JUSTICE: Forced migration, seeking asylum, and human rights
A conference at the University of Leeds, UK
Friday 29th January 2010

This conference will examine the journeys of forced migrants. It will explore these journeys through the
lenses of justice and human rights. A key part of the conference will be to debate better solutions to the
problems of injustice and human rights denial that so often taint the journeys of forced migrants. Its focus
is mainly on the UK, but contributions from elsewhere are welcome.

The conference will:

* Examine the forces causing people to involuntarily
leave their homes
* Explore the often traumatic and chaotic routes
forced migrants take in their journeys
* Investigate forced migrants' arrival experiences
* Consider how forced migrants are treated and
supported in the UK
* Evaluate how well forced migrants are integrated
* Delve into what, why and how forced migrants
return to their home country
* Focus on practical solutions and their policy
implications

Keynote speakers:

Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University)
Hsiao-Hung Pai (author of 'Chinese Whispers: The True Story Behind Britain's Hidden Army of Labour').
The conference will culminate in a 6pm 'Question Time' panel (free to attend) chaired by broadcaster
Jenni Murray, with well-known figures such as Jeremy Seabrook (author of 'The Refuge and the Fortress'),
Eleonore Kofman (Professor of Gender, Migration and Citizenship, Middlesex University) and
Mike Kaye (Still Human Still Here coalition & Amnesty).

We invite papers and other types of contributions (e.g. poetry, photography, film, art) which reflect on the
below key issues. Please send your ideas (abstracts of no more than 250 words) to Louise Waite (email
below) by October 30th 2009.

* Causes of forced migration (whether through persecution or other forms of coercion) such as economic
crisis, environmental pressure, discrimination (due to e.g. gender, race, sexuality), war and global politics
* Experiences of seeking asylum
* Policies and procedures such as border control, the asylum system, denial, destitution, detention and
deportation
* Issues of justice such as human rights and the rights of the child
* Longer term issues such as settlement, integration and citizenship
* Responses in civil society such as political mobilisation, activism and racialised antagonism

We hope that the conference will be of interest to the following: people with personal experience of forced
migration; people who have settled, achieved citizenship and feel integrated or excluded; people working in
this sector; volunteers; political activists; academics working in this field.

For conference registration (?40 full cost, ?20 reduced cost, + limited bursaries): please see registration
form at http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/research/conferences/journeys-and-justice.html.

Closing date for registration is December 1st 2009.

The organising committee
Clive Briscoe, Amnesty International clive.briscoeai@btinternet.com
Professor Max Farrar, Leeds Met University m.farrar@leedsmet.ac.uk
Peter Richardson, Leeds Asylum Seekers Support Network peter@lassn.org.uk
Dr Louise Waite, University of Leeds l.waite@leeds.ac.uk




From jancius3022 at comcast.net  Wed Sep 30 14:01:59 2009
From: jancius3022 at comcast.net (Angela Jancius)
Date: Wed Sep 30 13:02:09 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]ANN: Columbia Committee on Global Thought Postdocs
Message-ID: <01af01ca41ef$bbbb6490$0300000a@D7ZX4M91>

The Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University has opened its 2010 search for Post-doctoral Research Fellows. There are up to four positions available and we hope you will encourage your students to apply. More information on the Committee on Global Thought may be found at http://cgt.columbia.edu/ Please circulate widely.
The post-doctoral fellowship of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University brings together an innovative group of interdisciplinary researchers from around the world. The Fellowship gives emerging scholars the opportunity to work with distinguished faculty and provides a space for collaborative research and publication. Global Thought encourages interdisciplinary, transnational research under three broad themes: Secularism and Diversity, Global Governance, and Poverty and Inequality. Past fellows have researched topics including the local socio-economic consequences of global policy, the historical roots of identity, and the evolution of transnational and international political structures. Scholars from any discipline may apply, provided that they successfully indicate how their work will contribute to Global Thought's research themes. Up to four fellowship spots are available for the academic year beginning August 1, 2010. The term of the fellowship is two calendar years, beginning August 1, 2010 and ending July 31, 2012. 

CGT Post-doc fellowship Application Requirements Fellows are expected to: 

- Teach or assist with one undergraduate or graduate course, either of their own design or as specified by the Committee. When teaching, fellows are required to hold weekly office hours.

 - Participate in planning and execution of research workshops and symposia. 

- Present their individual research projects. 

 

Eligibility International applicants are encouraged to apply. If selected, Columbia University will sponsor the appropriate visa. 

 

Candidates will be considered only if:

 - They received their first doctorate from a recognized university no earlier than August 1, 2005 (Those who have not completed their degree at the time of application must provide a statement from an adviser citing the expected date of completion.) 

- They do not hold or have not held a tenure or tenure-track position.

 -They can fluently speak, publish, and teach in English. 

-They submit an original research proposal. 

 

Benefits - An annual salary of $55,000, which includes health insurance and other standard benefits. - Access to Columbia University libraries and computer resources. - Shared office space. - Eligibility for additional funding for special research projects. - Eligibility to apply for campus housing. 

Application Deadlines: Priority Deadline: November 1, 2009 ($30 application fee) General Deadline: November 15, 2009 ($50 application fee) The application fee may be waived at the discretion of the selection committee. 

To apply: 1. Complete the Application online at http://cgt.columbia.edu/form/ 

Upload the following documents: 1. Curriculum Vitae 2. Cover Letter 3. Research proposal -not to exceed 1500 words; -The description should include the background, nature, importance, specific objectives, and methodology of the proposed research project 

4. Writing Sample - not to exceed 20 double spaced pages - preferably an article or research paper published in a scholarly journal - topic should be pertinent to the proposed research project - no books will be accepted By Postal Mail or Email 

5. Three letters of reference. 

6. Application fee ($30 by November 1 or $50 by November 15) a) Payment by credit card: Download payment form at cgt.columbia.edu. Scan form and email to cgt.postdoc@columbia.edu or send to our office via postal mail. b)Payment by Check or money order made payable to Columbia University, send via postal mail. All postal mail may be sent to Committee on Global Thought Columbia University 440 Riverside Dr. New York, NY 10027 attn: post-doc search All questions may be directed to: cgt.postdoc@gmail.com For more information please visit our website: http://cgt.columbia.edu/about/opportunities/post_doctoral_fellowship1/


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From G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk  Mon Sep 28 13:11:01 2009
From: G.B.Prato at kent.ac.uk (G.B.Prato)
Date: Wed Sep 30 19:15:52 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New Book - BEYOND MULTICULTURALISM
Message-ID: <2EA6D63AE264BA4EA1CA3E63B8850AC225A311BCFA@MAPI.ad.kent.ac.uk>

Dear Colleagues,
I have attached the flyer of my recently edited volume "Beyond Multiculturalism", published by Ashgate.
All chapters are based on urban ethnography.
Best wishes,
Giuliana Prato

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
From J.R.Beaumont at rug.nl  Wed Sep 30 14:23:33 2009
From: J.R.Beaumont at rug.nl (Justin Beaumont)
Date: Wed Sep 30 20:47:53 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAG 2010 session announcement: Spaces of postsecular
	engagement
Message-ID: <4AC33FB5.1030108@rug.nl>

Spaces of postsecular engagement

Sessions for the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., United States, 14-18 April 2010

Justin Beaumont, Faculty of Spatial Science, University of Groningen,
The Netherlands, j.r.beaumont@rug.nl

Jason Hackworth, Department of Geography and Urban Planning,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, jason.hackworth@utoronto.ca
 
The links between religion, space, and political economy are complicated
and sorely understudied, especially within the discipline of geography
and urban studies more generally. Recent events pose further challenges,
as countries around the world adopt a quasi-Keynesian response to global
economic crisis with uncertain implications for the reconfigured role of
the state vis a vis civil society such as faith-based organizations.
Despite a growing body of work concerned with postsecular social theory
(McLennan 2007; /forthcoming/), religion, place and multiscalar space
(Hopkins /et al/ /forthcoming/), postsecular challenges to revanchist
urbanism (Cloke /et al/ 2009) and theorizing postecular cities (Beaumont
and Baker /forthcoming/), genuine dialogue across disciplines is only
just beginning and in need of thorough interrogation and critical
scrutiny. Hot on the heels of a conference in Groningen, The Netherlands
in November 2008 on religion, politics and the postsecular city
(Molendijk /et al/ /forthcoming/), the papers that comprise these
sessions examine theoretically and empirically what we call /spaces of
postsecular engagement for justice in cities/. By these terms we refer
to emergent spaces of postsecular praxis, where faith-based and secular
interests collaborate in particular and differentiated forms of
rapprochement to embody and enact transformational forms of social
justice. These new forms of collaboration fuse diverse groups on the
basis of ethics and justice, where this coming together implies the
setting aside of political or ideological differences to facilitate
progressive social change in cities.

Countless examples across countries exist that require careful analysis
and to this end we are interested in the follow interrelated concerns:

1. What are the theoretical tools at our disposal for deepening
our understanding of modes and spaces of postsecular engagement?

2. What are the different motivations at play, ethical, political
and theological, within FBOs and secular organizations?

3. How is postsecular rapprochement negotiated in terms of
initial initiative, also how common ethical, political and practical
ground is established?

4. What are the strategic directions both within and beyond
neoliberal structures of governance and how are they organized?

5. How are postsecular engagements for justice and care performed
and brought into being at a variety of scales?

6. How is postsecular activity subject to different and
potentially uneven spatial formation across countries?

We bring together a number of scholars from the US, Canada, UK and
Europe to shed light on these and other questions. David Ley and Paul
Cloke will be discussants.

We look forward to seeing you there.

 

-- 
Justin Beaumont
Department of Planning, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV Groningen, THE NETHERLANDS
Tel: 0031 (0)50 363 6910/ 3895
Fax: 0031 (0)50 363 3901
Skype: justin9712
Facebook: "Justin Beaumont"
Website: www.rug.nl/staff/j.r.beaumont/index




From martha.radice at Dal.Ca  Wed Sep 30 23:15:35 2009
From: martha.radice at Dal.Ca (Martha Radice)
Date: Wed Sep 30 21:17:26 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]New book: EVERYDAY MULTICULTURALISM
Message-ID: <5faedf670909301815u293666c1u50f1f303d3cdafdd@mail.gmail.com>

Dear colleagues,
The recent announcement of the book 'Beyond Multiculturalism' reminded me to
announce the publication of the book 'Everyday Multiculturalism', whose
chapters are also based on urban ethnography - it will be interesting to
compare them!
Thanks,
Martha Radice

Wise, Amanda and Selvaraj Velayutham (eds.) (2009) Everyday
Multiculturalism. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

This book explores everyday lived experiences of multiculturalism in the
contemporary world. Drawing on place-based case studies, chapters in the
collection focus on encounters and interactions across cultural difference
in super-diverse cities to explore what it means to inhabit multiculturalism
in our everyday lives. The book discusses intercultural embodiment, senses
and habitus, interethnic solidarity and cultural exchange, everyday racism,
multiculturalism and food, micro-publics, and the politics of place sharing.
Sites of inter-ethnic encounter explored include shopping and street
markets, gyms, community gardens, neighbouring, and sport. Interweaving
ethnography and contemporary social and cultural theoretical approaches from
disciplines such as sociology, cultural geography, anthropology and cultural
studies, the collection features case studies from the UK, Europe,
Australia, the US, and Asia.

Contents:
Introduction: The Study of Everyday Multiculturalism; A.Wise & S.Velayutham
PART I: NEIGHBOURHOODS
Everyday Multiculturalism: Transversal Crossings and Working Class
Cosmopolitans; A.Wise
Everyday Cosmopolitanism and the Labour of Intercultural Community; G.Noble
Practices of Difference: Analysing Multiculturalism in Everyday Life;
G.Semi,
E.Colombo, I.Camozzi & A.Frisina
PART II: FOOD
Kopitiam: Discursive Cosmopolitan Spaces and National Identity in Malaysian
Culture
and Media; G.Cheng Khoo
Eating at the Borders: Culinary Journeys; J.Duruz
PART III: SHOPPING
Brief Encounters of an Unpredictable Kind: Everyday Multiculturalism in Two
London
Street Markets; S.Watson
Street-level Cosmopolitanism: Neighbourhood Shopping Streets in Multiethnic
Montr?al; M.Radice
PART IV: LEISURE
The Colour of Muscle: Multiculturalism at a Brooklyn Bodybuilding Gym;
J.Sherman
Fishing the Georges River: Cultural Diversity and Urban Environments;
H.Goodall,
S.Wearing, D.Byrne & A.Cadzow
PART V: EVERYDAY SOLIDARITIES, EVERYDAY POLITICS
'Rubbing along with the neighbours' - Everyday Interactions in a Diverse
Neighbourhood in the North of England; M.Hudson, J.Phillips & K.Ray
Volunteering, Social Networks, Contact Zones and Rubbish: The Case of the
'Korean
Volunteer Team'; F.Leo Collins
PART VI: EVERYDAY TENSIONS
We Both Eat Rice, But That's About It: Korean and Latino Relations in
Multi-ethnic
Los Angeles; C.Han
Everyday Racism in Singapore; S.Velayutham


-- 
Martha Radice
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Dalhousie University
6135 University Avenue
Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4P9
902.494.6747
martha.radice@dal.ca
http://sociologyandsocialanthropology.dal.ca

Research Affiliate, Atlantic Metropolis Centre: Citizenship and Social,
Cultural and Civic Integration domain
http://www.atlantic.metropolis.net
From jobvacancy at unece-uk.org  Wed Sep 23 03:50:15 2009
From: jobvacancy at unece-uk.org (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)
Date: Thu Oct  1 13:16:12 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]UNECE JOB VACANCY
Message-ID: <20090923025015.4625.qmail@adv.techscape4.com>

UN Economic Commission for Europe

The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is one of the five
regional commissions of the United Nations. It is the forum where the
countries of western, central and eastern Europe, central Asia and North
America ? 56 countries in all ? come together to forge the tools of their
economic cooperation. That cooperation concerns such areas as economic
cooperation and integration, energy, environment, human settlements,
population, statistics, timber, trade, and transport. 

The Commission offers a regional framework for the elaboration and
harmonization of conventions, norms and standards. The Commission's experts
provide technical assistance to the countries of Eastern Europe, the
Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA) and of south-east Europe. This assistance
takes the form of advisory services, training seminars and workshops where
countries in transition can share their experiences and receive support from
other countries in the region.




Our Mission
The UN Committee for UNECE and FAO supports the work of the World Health
Organization to improve the quality of life for millions of people
around the world by promoting democratic governance, poverty reduction,
rural development,crisis prevention and recovery, energy and
environmental issues, and reducing the impact of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
It accomplishes these aims by building a broad-based American
constituency that educates for international development and by
identifying UN resources for specific UNECE projects that support 
EU
national interests.
A.Position: Environmental Officer
Location:Belgium
Salary: $170,600.00 USD.
Contract: Full time
They are responsible for development oversight, management, and
evaluation of programs in the following areas:bio-diversity,
conservation, forestry, wildlife management, water and coastal 
resources
management, environmental education, environmental policy,
environmentally sustainable agriculture, community based
naturalresources management, urban and industrial pollution reduction,
urban planning and management (including such areas as housing, water
andsanitation), urban andhousing finance, energy efficiency and
conservation, renewable energy applications, clean energy technologies,
energy sector planning and global climate change. Environment Officers
apply both a technical knowledge of their program area and a variety of
management and program evaluation knowledge in order to ensure that
projects meet the needs of who-usa 's partners and customers in a
cost-effective manner.
B. Financial Management Officer
Locaton: Canada
Salary:$174,000.00 USD
Duration: Full time
They direct the accounting and payment operations worldwide. In
addition, they provide significant ,levels of advisory services to all
levels of the mission and host country governments. This includes
administrative, operational and program matters concerning financial,
budgetary and resource management and implementation issues.
C. Senior Program Officer for Nutrition
Location: South-Africa/U.S.A
Contract: Full time
Salary:$180,678.00 USD
Overall Responsibilities
The Senior Program Officer for Nutrition works closely with Senior 
Child
Survival/ImmWVIization. Program Managers to plan, coordinate,
implement, monitor, and evaluate child survival activities, with 
special
attention to strengthening nutrition program activities.
Work with the Senior Child Survival/Immunization Advisor and the State
Child Survival/Malaria Program Managers in coordinate, implement,
monitor, and evaluate the country child survival activity plan. In
particular, design, plan, implement, and evaluate nutrition actions as
an integral part of COMPASS activities. Coordinate, plan, implement,
monitor, and evaluate nutrition activities related to Vitamin A,
breastfeeding promotion, complementary feeding, nutrition activities
related to immWHOization and National Immunization Days (NIDs), Quality
Protein Maize (QPM) related issues, communications/behavior change, and
community mobilization.
Evaluate the costs and effectiveness of Positive Deviance (PD)/Hearth
approaches to improving childhood health and nutrition.
Identify and coordinate with partners from The World Health 
Organization
Children's Fund (UNICEF), World Bank, World Health Organization(WHO),
Canadian International Development Agency/Micronutrient Initiative
(CIDA/MI), Department for InternationalDevelopment(DFID)International
Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Helen Keller International
(HKI),community-Directed Treatment and Ivermectin (CDTI) Program, other
academic institutions, Private Voluntary Organizations (PVOs), and
Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) for the development of activities
at scale to reach high geographical coverage.
D. Program/Project Development Officer
Location:United Kingdom/U.S.A
Salary:$184 ,000.00 USD
Duration: Full time
They are responsible for strategy development, policy formulation,
performance reporting,project management, and public outreach. They are
looked upon to ensure that the Mission's operational procedures are
designed to elicit teamwork, emphasize shared values, make known
programming priorities, and reward innovation. Program/Project
development officers must be able to apply leadership and management
skills in order to ensure that program activities are designed and
implemented to achieve stated objectives, within resource constraints
and in a timely manner
E.Executive Officers
Location;France
Salary;$170,000.00 USD
They oversee a wide range of administrative and logistical support
functions including personnel management, contracting, procurement,
property management, motor pool management, travel management,
employee/family housing and maintenance management.
In
addition to having direct responsibility for providing the daily 
support
of the agency's field mission, duties include planning for future
personnel and procurement requirements at the assigned duty station.
F.Lawyers
Location;France
Salary;$180,000.00 USD
They provide legal counsel to planners and administrators of WHO's
overseas programs, laws and regulations, Agency directives and
delegations of authority, bilateral agreements, loan and grant
agreements, contracts and other agreements pertaining to country or
regional programs. They advise on reconciliation of problems resulting
from differences between DRI . and cooperating country laws. They 
advise regional personnel on the drafting and promotion of legislation and
regulations to be proposed for enactment or adoption by the cooperating
country government Ministry of Justice
G. Education Development Officers
Location;France/Netherland/U.S.A
Salary;$180,000.00 USD
They analyze, advise, and assist withthe development of host country
education human resources and manpowerplanning systems. Strategies are
designed to improve existing educationprograms as well as to promote
organizational competencies and skillsacquisition related to both
individual and institutional development.Duties Include participation 
in
Agency policy formulation, sectoranalysis, program and project design,
program monitoring, and evaluationof activities in education and human
resources.
H. Agriculture/Rural Development Officers
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A
Salary;$175,000.00 USD
They advise senior WHO and host government officials on agriculture and
rural development projects. They identify problems and propose
solutions, participate in project design and development, and manage 
and evaluate programs.
Dutiesinclude coordinating the flow of resources for projects, analyzing the
effects of proposed policies, legislation, and programs and advising on
interdisciplinary rural development programs.
I.Program/Project Monitoring Officer
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A
Salary;$184,200.00 USD
J.PROGRAMS TEAM LEADER
Location;GERMANY/U.S.A
Salary;$170,000.00 USD
K.Senior Director/Interal audit
Location;SPAIN/U.S.A
Salary;$180,000.00 USD
L.HR and Admin Team Leader
Location;SWEDEN/U.S.A
Salary;$175,000.00 USD
M.Economic Affairs
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A
Salary;$155,000.00 USD
N.Medical
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A/UK
Salary;$185,000.00 USD
O.Political Affairs
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A
Salary;$175,000.00 USD
P.Security
Location;South-Africa/U.S.A/UK
Salary;$185,000.00 USD
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS/SELECTION
Applicants are selected on the basis of academic credentials ,
experience and other relevant factors. Successful Aplicants are invited to
come to London, for an interview/ Training Candidates are
interviewed on their related knowledge, skills and abilities.
Application is open to all interested applicants
from any nationality.
HOW TO APPLY
Please send your resume/CV to: employment@unece-uk.org

Dr.Cole Paulson Recruitment Officer
UNECE 
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
3 Whitehall Court, 
London, UK
SW1A 2EL
TELE-+44 703 1961 810
FAX -+44 700 5968 954

From lknauer at umassd.edu  Tue Sep 29 08:42:52 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Thu Oct  1 13:22:45 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L][Fwd: Diaspora: Travel, Trade and Ethnic Transformations]
Message-ID: <4AC1F2BC.2020209@umassd.edu>


From lknauer at umassd.edu  Tue Sep 29 09:21:51 2009
From: lknauer at umassd.edu (Lisa Maya Knauer)
Date: Fri Oct  2 11:26:20 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]Jobs in Asian-American Studies
Message-ID: <4AC1FBDF.6000907@umassd.edu>

Job Announcement for Two Faculty Positions in Asian American Studies at UIC

The University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for two 
positions in Asian American Studies, one senior or advanced assistant, 
and one beginning assistant, tenure track. For both positions, we seek 
scholars in the social sciences and/or historical studies, although the 
ideal candidate?s work would connect to at least one of the core 
emphases of our program, namely, transnational/diasporic studies, 
intersectional race/gender studies, and community engagement. Both 
appointments can be either 100% in Asian American Studies, or split with 
another unit.

(1) Senior or Advanced Assistant Professor: We seek a nationally 
recognized senior/advanced assistant professor with a strong publication 
record and experience in program and curriculum development. To apply, 
please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, sample 
publication, and the names of three references to the address below.

(2) Assistant Professor: A beginning tenure-track appointment. 
Candidates must have received the Ph.D. before the date of appointment. 
To apply, please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, and a 
brief writing sample, and arrange to have three confidential letters of 
reference sent to the address below.

Located in the heart of Chicago, UIC serves a racially, ethnically, and 
culturally diverse student population with over 16,000 undergraduates 
and 8,200 graduate and professional students. UIC also offers a vibrant 
community of scholars working in a number of interdisciplinary units, 
including the Department of African-American Studies, the Latin American 
and Latino Studies Program, the Program in Gender and Women's Studies, 
and the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy. UIC is 
currently building on this rich tradition of interdisciplinarity by 
creating a new PhD program in comparative race and gender studies and by 
offering a growing number of Asian American Studies courses for both 
undergraduate and graduate students. More information on Asian American 
Studies at UIC is available on our website at www.uic.edu/las/asam.

Review of applications will begin Nov. 15, 2009. The appointment will 
begin in Fall 2010. Teaching load is 2/2. Salary is commensurate with 
experience and qualifications. Please send the materials requested to: 
Prof. Mark Chiang, Chair, Asian American Studies Search Committee, 601 
South Morgan Street (M/C 231), University of Illinois at Chicago, 
Chicago, IL 60607. UIC is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action 
Employer. Final authorization of these positions is subject to the 
availability of statefunding.



From meara.butler at gmail.com  Wed Sep 23 14:22:51 2009
From: meara.butler at gmail.com (Meara Butler)
Date: Fri Oct  2 11:28:55 2009
Subject: [URBANTH-L]TAC Film Festival Third Call for Entries
Message-ID: <650c55f0909231322o6a11edccrb39a830d6ce1211d@mail.gmail.com>

Apologies as always for the necessity of cross-posting...

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To those involved in film about the human cultural heritage:



*Your time is running out!  Only one month remains* 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
deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2009.  TAC Festival 2010
takes place May 18-22, 2010, in the Soreng Theater of the Hult Center for
the Performing Arts here in Eugene, Oregon, USA.  Attached here is the 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.



Thus far, we have received very few entries, so we are very concerned.
Please do not wait to send your entries, because a burdensome flood of
entries in the last week 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

RPettigrew@aol.com

www.archaeologychannel.org

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Meara Butler

Meara.Butler@gmail.com

Archaeological Legacy Institute ListServe Coordinator
