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Summer 2008
July 6 - July 12 Contents:
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1. Anthropology Happenings |
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2. Announcements of Interest |
Limited Submissions Program http://www.srs.indiana.edu/LimSub/LimSub.asp 2008 Professional Seminars in Historic Preservation & Cultural Resource Management Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival The University of California Press, in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology, is sponsoring two international competitions focused on encouraging anthropologically inclined authors to address major public problems and broad audiences. Both competitions will award book contracts at early stages in the research/writing process. The hope is that an author, knowing that he or she has a book contract in hand prior to conducting research or writing a manuscript, will move beyond academic styles and write about a major public concern in a manner that non-academics find valuable. (click here for more) Submission deadline is October 1, 2008. |
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3. Fellowships and Grants |
For information on the grant and fellowship opportunities available through the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, please see the following website: www.loc.gov/kluge |
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4. Call for Papers |
7th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Education January 4 - 7, 2009 Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa Honolulu Hawaii, USA Submission Deadline: August 15, 2008 For complete description of conference please visit the website: http://www.hiceducation.org Call for Rural Development Special Issue The Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, a peer-reviewed web journal focused on the issues and policies of the Great Plains, is calling for research articles addressing rural development and community sustainability. Suggested possible topics could include rural economic growth, role of natural amenities and tourism in rural areas, rural landscape and cultural heritage, natural resource extraction, community development, rural population change, bio-energy production, transmigrational integration and ethnic change, technology and rural community social structure, and the role of agriculture in rural development. These topics are examples, and acknowledging the complexity of rural development, the journal is open to papers in any area dealing with rural issues. Empirical research articles are especially welcome, however, the journal is also interested in social capital and other traditional qualitative approaches. Deadline for submission is October 1, 2008. Authors will be notified by November 15 of acceptance. Publication will be January 1, 2009 Further information about th Call and Online Journal of Rural Research & Policy can be found at our website: http://www.ojrrp.org GRADUATE STUDENT REGIONAL CONFERENCE FROM RES PUBLICA TO THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS: THE COMMON GOOD IN TRANSITION AND TRANSLATION OCTOBER 9-11, 2008 The University Of Notre Dame will host a regional interdisciplinary conference for graduate students from area schools. As a member of the planning committee for this event, I am writing to cordially invite the graduate students in the Anthropology department at Indiana University to answer the call for papers and participate in what we hope will be the first of many annual meetings. The conference will take place on the Notre Dame campus over three days, with a welcome dinner on Thursday evening and sessions on Friday and Saturday. Sessions will feature three or four 20-minute presentations, followed by questions from peers; a format we hope will provide an ideal experience for students at various stages in both master's and doctoral programs. We have assembled a number of distinguished speakers whose present work touches upon this year's conference theme, The Common Good. Professors David Nirenberg (University of Chicago), Constance Furey (Indiana University-Bloomington), and Jonathan Daly (University of Illinois-Chicago) will be among the guest speakers at the conference. The generous support of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the University of Notre Dame Graduate School, and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, has allowed us the opportunity to provide funds for lodging, food, and travel to those students presenting papers. In other words, your students need not worry about the cost. A conference poster suitable for printing is attached to this email. It contains all of the necessary information. In about two weeks, your department will receive a larger colorized version of the poster, along with a formal written invitation. We look forward to receiving your graduate students' thoughtful work on The Common Good, and to hosting your students next October in South Bend, Indiana. Workshop: “Food and Migration” February 1, 2009 School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London It is increasingly recognized within anthropology and other disciplines that the study of ‘foodways’ is important in understanding the ways in which people construct their ideas of who and what they are. However, the ways in which this plays itself out in the context of migration has not received much attention thus far. As these processes play themselves out, they create the potential for deliberate statements, through foodways, of continuity or change. Individuals or groups may draw on new notions about appropriate feeding, offering and sharing relationships involving food and drink, and about the appropriate elements and structure of eating and drinking events, to alter relationships within the migrant group as well as to generate new relations outside the group. They may also cling to existing foodways and the relationships which go with them to resist change. These complex processes are likely to lead to tensions within a migrant group, particularly between generations. We hope that this conference will both provide a context for sharing existing knowledge about migrant foodways and also an opportunity to discuss the possibility of future research carried out on a collaborative basis among different migrant groups to one country and/or from one country or group of countries, including potential sources of funding for such research. In planning such future research, we would welcome the collaboration of scholars from other disciplines, such as nutrition. We therefore welcome participation not only from those presenting papers but also from scholars who would be interested in the possibility of collaborating in planning future research. Please send paper proposals and any enquiries to the convenors: Monica Janowski, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex (M.Janowski@sussex.ac.uk) Paru Raman, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (pr1@soas.ac.uk) 150 Years of Evolution –Darwin's Impact on the Humanities and Social Sciences A symposium in honor of the 200th Birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of "Origins of Species" at San Diego State University 20-22 November 2009. Researchers and scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit papers addressing the impact of Darwin's ideas in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Both disciplinary-specific and broadly interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged.
Please submit abstracts of no more that 500 words in length to mark.wheeler@sdsu.edu no later than 30 November 2008. Accepted papers must be completed by the date of the symposium to be included in the published proceedings. Accepted papers will be announced 1 February 2009. For more information, contact: Mark Wheeler, Symposium Chair Department of Philosophy, SDSU (619) 594-6706 or by email: mark.wheeler@sdsu.edu |
