Fall 2009
Anthropology                                                                                                  Volume 12

November 22 - November 28

Contents:

• Anthropology Happenings
• Announcements of Interest
• Fellowships/Grants
• Call for Papers

1. Anthropology Happenings

2. Annoucements of Interest

3. Fellowships and Grants

Limited Submissions Program

http://ovpr.indiana.edu/limsub/limsub.asp

2010-2011 FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

 Law and Social Science
Dissertation Fellowship & Mentoring Program
The Law and Society Association, in collaboration with the American Bar Foundation and the National Science Foundation, seeks applications for the Law and Social Science Dissertation Fellowship and Mentoring Program (LSS Fellowship).

Awards

Fellowships are held in residence at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago, IL, where Fellows are expected to participate in the intellectual life of the ABF, including participation in a weekly seminar series. LSS Fellows will receive a stipend of $27,000 per year beginning fall 2010 and are eligible for up to two years of support. Fellows will attend LSA annual meetings in both years of the fellowship and the Graduate Student Workshop in the first year of the fellowship. Fellows will receive up to $1,500 for research and travel expenses each year. Relocation expenses up to $2,500 may be reimbursed one time.
Eligibility
Third-, fourth-, and fifth-year graduate students who specialize in the field of law and social science and whose research interests include law and inequality are invited to apply. Fellowship applicants should be students in a Ph.D. program in a social science department or an interdisciplinary program. Humanities students pursuing empirically-based social science dissertations are welcome to apply. Only U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply.
Application Materials Required
Applicants should submit: (1) a 1-2 page letter of application; (2) a 2-3 page description of a research project or interest that relates to law and inequality (broadly defined) with a statement of how the applicant became interested in the research topic; (3) a resume or curriculum vitae; (4) a writing sample (a paper written for a graduate-level course or dissertation prospectus); and (5) three letters of recommendation from faculty members (including one from the faculty member who will serve as the departmental liaison – typically the applicant’s advisor). If you are also applying for the American Bar Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, please indicate so in your cover letter.
Please send TWO complete sets of application materials by December 1, 2009. One set to Mary McClintock, Law and Society Association, University of Massachusetts, 40 Campus Center Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9244; and the other to Allison Lynch,
Administrative Associate for Academic Affairs and Research Administration, American Bar Foundation, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611.
For more information, see www.lawandsociety.org or contact Mary McClintock at LSA, lsa@lawandsociety.org or Laura Beth Nielsen at lnielsen@abfn.org.

THE FLETCHER FELLOWSHIP

Named after Mr. Alphonse Fletcher, Sr.,
Fellowships are awarded to
scholars, writers, and artists
whose work contributes to improving
race relations in American society and
furthers the broad social goals of the
U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education
Decision of 1954.

Each fellowship is in the amount of $50,000.

Applications and information are available
on the Fletcher Foundation Website:

www.fletcherphilanthropy.org

Applications must be postmarked by
Monday, December 7, 2009.

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Harvard University
Chair, Fletcher Fellowship Selection Committee

Please send inquiries to GatesOffice@fletcher.com

Doctoral Fellowships in Law and Social Science
2010 – 2011
Purpose
The American Bar Foundation is committed to developing the next generation of scholars in the field of law and social science. The purpose of the fellowships is to encourage original and significant research on law, the legal profession, and legal institutions.
Eligibility
For the Doctoral/Post-Doctoral Fellowships, applications are invited from outstanding students who are candidates for Ph.D. degrees in the social sciences. Applicants must have completed all doctoral requirements except the dissertation by September 1, 2010. Applicants who will have completed the dissertation prior to September 1, 2010 are also welcome to apply. Doctoral and proposed research must be in the general area of sociolegal studies or in social scientific approaches to law, the legal profession, or legal institutions. The research must address significant issues in the field and show promise of a major contribution to social scientific understanding of law and legal process. Minority students are especially encouraged to apply.
Awards
Fellows receive a stipend of $27,000 for 12 months. Fellows also may request up to $1,500 to reimburse expenses associated with research, travel to meet with advisors, or travel to conferences at which papers are presented. Relocation expenses up to $2,500 may be reimbursed on application.
Tenure
Fellowships are awarded for 12 months, beginning, September 1, 2010.
Conditions
Fellowships are held in residence at the American Bar Foundation. Appointments to fellowships are full time. Fellows are expected to participate fully in the academic life of the ABF so that they may develop close collegial ties with other scholars in residence.
Application Process
Applications must include: (1) a dissertation abstract or proposal with an outline of the substance and methods of the research; (2) two letters of reference, one of which must be from a supervisor of the dissertation; and (3) a curriculum vitae. In addition, at the applicant’s option, a short sample of written work may be submitted.
Applications for this fellowship must be received no later than December 15, 2009.
For questions about the terms of the fellowship, contact Victoria Saker Woeste (Chair, Appointments Committee) at vswoeste@abfn.org.
Application materials should be directed to: Allison Lynch, Administrative Associate for Academic Affairs and Research Administration, American Bar Foundation, 750 N. Lake Shore Drive, 4th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60611, (312)988-6548, alynch@abfn.org.
ABF Website: www.americanbarfoundation.org

4. Call for Papers

2nd. International Conference on Caribbean Studies (ICCS)
II Conferencia Internacional en Estudios Caribeños
Deuxième Conférence Internationale des Études sur les Caraïbes

“The Many Caribbeans and the Bicentennial of the Continental
Spanish American Independence Movements”

 University of Cartagena
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
March 15-19, 2010

Comunicación No. 2:

République Française
Ambassade de France à Bogota
www.ambafrance-co.org/

Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) 2010 Conference CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) announces its sixth sesquiannual conference at the Hotel La Contessa in San Antonio (Texas, USA), January 14–17, 2010.

SALSA’s conferences are the preeminent locus for the exchange of research, ideas, and information among scholars interested in lowland South America, its past and contemporary peoples, cultures, economies, and environments.

NOTE:  THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS BEEN EXTENDED.  SUBMISSIONS BY POST MUST BE POSTMARKED DECEMBER 1; SUBMISSIONS BY E-MAIL MUST BE SENT BY DECEMBER 4

Presentation Formats

Individual presentations. There will be sixteen 40-minute slots for individual presentations of recent research findings and discussion. The purpose of the extended time period is to provide time for ample discussion, or for more creative presentations.  We hope presenters will benefit from feedback from our members, with their diverse perspectives and experience.

Discussion forums.  Several “Forum Sessions” will be devoted to discussion of presenters’ short papers (3-7 pages).  To submit a paper to a forum, please provide a brief (100 word) description of the paper you would prepare for the panel you wish to participate in.  Individual papers and thematic matter will benefit from ample discussion and exchange of ideas.  Forum themes are:
1.      Body, soul, state, and world market: integrating levels of analysis in greater Amazonia;
2.      Redefining language group and culture area: understanding the past and present of lowland South America;
3.      From domestication and landscapes to perspectivism and consubstantiality:  rethinking the relationships between the human and nonhuman in Amazonian studies;
4.      Disconnecting/Reconnecting the lowlands and the highlands: rethinking a geographic and analytical distinction.

Poster session. We encourage attendees to consider creative ways to use multi-media displays to communicate to other scholars and to a wider audience.

Submit your paper titles, abstracts, or forum discussant preferences to Program Director Steven Rubenstein (steven.rubenstein@liv.ac.uk).  Conference registration and hotel reservations are through Trinity University of San Antonio.  For more information, please visit:
http://www.salsa-tipiti.org/Conferences/conferences.html

27th Annual Visiting Scholar Conference
Center for Archaeological Investigations, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Making Senses of the Past:
Toward a Sensory Archaeology
March 26-27, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Human interaction with the surrounding world is mediated through our senses. Yet archaeological
interpretation has traditionally been dominated by visual descriptions, thus effectively marginalizing
the senses of smell, taste, hearing, and touch as unmeasurable ways of engaging with the world. This
has led to a silent, odorless, disembodied, and sense-less past. Recent work, however, has explored
alternative ways to make sense of past societies, investigating soundscapes, olfactory and haptic
analyses, and somatic memory, as well as other less tangible visual qualities such as shimmer and
color.
This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest in such sensory modes of
approaching the past, and it will cross boundaries between chronological periods, geographical
regions, and material specializations.
Potential themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
• the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects •
• multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and consumption of material culture •
• the recognition of sensory hierarchies in past societies •
• embodied practices, including memory •
• the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present •
Submissions
Please submit a 300 word abstract plus title to Dr. Jo Day (contact details below). PDF files are
preferred. Presentations will be limited to 25-30 minutes. Deadline for submission: 1st December
2009. The CAI selection committee will review the abstracts, and authors will be notified of the
decision in mid-December. Papers are eligible for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume published in
the Occasional Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Conference attendance is open to all. For registration details and other information see:
www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/day/vsconf.html
For further information, or with any queries, contact:
Dr. Jo Day, the 2010 CAI Visiting Scholar, at joday@siu.edu (618) 453-5032

Graduate Archaeology at Oxford and the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford invite the submission of proposals for papers and posters to an interdisciplinary conference titled "Death, Disasters, Downturn: The Archaeology of Crises." Oxford, 24-25 April 2010.

"From plagues to economic collapses, natural disasters to the deaths of loved ones, crisis, in its social, economic, psychological, biological, and  ecological manifestations has indelibly shaped human existence. Since it is often in the breakdown of societies that the structures which composed them become clearest, crises provide an especially good window onto how groups have functioned historically.  It can affect entire communities or single individuals; it can be confined to a singular time and space or it can reoccur episodically. As some of the most fascinating moments in human history, isolated cases or forms of crisis have been much-discussed among scholars within single fields. Rarely, however, have such debates crossed the boundaries of specific disciplines to be studied in a wider, over-arching context."

The goal of this conference is to start a discussion about the archaeological study of crises from across disciplines: sciences, archaeology, anthropology, ancient history.  The questions we will raise are manifold: what constitutes a crisis? Which groups in the past have been most affected by crises?  How can the archaeological record shed light on crises of various magnitudes? Most importantly, how can the archaeology of crisis be used to shed light on societies past and present?

Participation is restricted to graduate students. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words in length and should be sent as attachments (in PDF format) to: gao@arch.ox.ac.uk
Deadline for abstract submission: Sunday, 6 December 2009. Selected papers will be published in a volume, as part of the GAO monograph series.

For further information visit: the GAO website (http://www.arch.ox.ac.uk/conferences/articles/gao-annual-conference.html)

Making Senses of the Past:
Toward a Sensory Archaeology
March 26-27, 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS
Human interaction with the surrounding world is mediated through our senses. Yet archaeological
interpretation has traditionally been dominated by visual descriptions, thus effectively marginalizing
the senses of smell, taste, hearing, and touch as unmeasurable ways of engaging with the world. This
has led to a silent, odorless, disembodied, and sense-less past. Recent work, however, has explored
alternative ways to make sense of past societies, investigating soundscapes, olfactory and haptic
analyses, and somatic memory, as well as other less tangible visual qualities such as shimmer and
color.
This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest in such sensory modes of
approaching the past, and it will cross boundaries between chronological periods, geographical
regions, and material specializations.
Potential themes for papers include, but are not limited to:
• the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects •
• multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and consumption of material culture •
• the recognition of sensory hierarchies in past societies •
• embodied practices, including memory •
• the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present •
Submissions
Please submit a 300 word abstract plus title to Dr. Jo Day (contact details below). PDF files are
preferred. Presentations will be limited to 25-30 minutes. Deadline for submission: 1st December
2009. The CAI selection committee will review the abstracts, and authors will be notified of the
decision in mid-December. Papers are eligible for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume published in
the Occasional Papers series of the Center for Archaeological Investigations.
Conference attendance is open to all. For registration details and other information see:
www.cai.siuc.edu/vspages/day/vsconf.html
For further information, or with any queries, contact:
Dr. Jo Day, the 2010 CAI Visiting Scholar, at joday@siu.edu (618) 453-5032

The Indiana University Religious Studies Graduate Symposium
Religion, Nature, and Innovation

Thursday, February 25th – Friday, February 26th, 2010

Call for Papers
In conjunction with the Indiana University-Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences themester on “Evolution, Diversity, and Change,” the graduate students in the IUB Religious Studies Department are hosting a symposium titled “Religion, Nature, and
Innovation.” Though the university-wide interest is in marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin‟s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, we welcome papers focused not only on evolution but a variety of other topics related to nature and innovation broadly construed. We anticipate topics such as conceptions of nature; the relationship of traditions to environmental movements; innovations in human attempts to manipulate, care for, or submit to the natural world; theories about the natural and supernatural; paradigms of change and evolution within the field of religious studies; understandings of nature in ethics and conceptions of authority; or the nature of religion. We welcome papers from graduate students in any departments and disciplines, beyond religious studies.
Please submit a 300-word abstract by Friday, January 8th, 2010 to iugradconf@gmail.com

CALL FOR PAPERS
BODIES, BORDERS, AND RESISTANCE IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA
AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE HELD
AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON
APRIL 9-10, 2010

 What does it mean to be a Black person in diaspora, perpetually leaving home to recreate home someplace else?  Who defines the borders that can be called home?  Who determines what identities are acceptable?  What parts of self do they take or leave behind each time they move or recreate?  What do they resist most: remembering or forgetting?

The graduate society of the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies at Indiana University seeks abstracts for the seventh annual Herman C. Hudson Symposium.  This year our theme is “Bodies, Borders, and Resistance in the African Diaspora”.  We are also excited to announce that the Honorable Cynthia Shepard Perry, former United States Ambassador to Burundi and Sierra Leone, will give the keynote address. 

We are interested in (but will not limit ourselves to) papers examining: the black body as a site of memory and sociopolitical capital; the intersections of class, mobility, and diasporic consciousness; the role of social institutions as resistance; the commodification of blackness in popular culture; the role of civil wars and transnational conflicts in redefining diaspora; national borders and immigration; the role of technology in creating global black communities; race, gender, and class in the 21st  century; and the agency of black diasporic communities in defining borders and modes of resistance. 

Interested panelists should submit a one-page abstract of an unpublished paper and a one-page CV.  Presenters who are interested in displaying visual art should submit a digital CD of their work along with a one-page abstract discussing the details of their piece(s).  Panel proposals should include a description of the panel’s theme, a one-page abstract from each paper, the name of the panel chair, and a one-page CV for each participant.  All abstracts should include the academic affiliation of each participant.

Submission Deadline: January 31, 2010
Please email abstracts and accompanying information to the attention of: Shana Riddick at hchs@indiana.edu. If submitting a CD, please indicate this in your email.  CD should be mailed to the attn of: Shana Riddick at the enclosed address.

Bloom: Cross Pollination and Cultivation of Food Systems, Cultures and Methods

The Twelfth Annual Joint Annual Meeting
of the
Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS)
Agriculture, Food and Human Values Society (AFHVS)
with
the Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN)

 June 2 to June 6, 2010
Hosted by Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Organizer and Local Arrangements:  
Richard Wilk, Indiana University  wilkr@indiana.edu
                                                    
Program Committee Chairs:   [GWG1] 
Beth Forrest,  Culinary Institute of America  b_forres@culinary.edu  and
Alice Julier, Chatham University  apjulier@gmail.com    
Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: 
Janet Chrzan[GWG2] , University of Pennsylvania  jchrzan@sas.upenn.edu 

From when seeds are first planted in the ground, many factors affect a harvest.   Food systems are shaped by everything from the weather and the soil to equipment, human skills, and social interventions from community rules, governments, migrations, and strife. Likewise, after harvest, the distribution, preparation, and consumption of foodstuffs are all by individuals acting according to cultural and social expectations. Thus, it can be said that food is cross pollinated by ion of ideas and conceptions all the way through the agriculture and food system. A similar cross pollination also characterizes agriculture and food studies as intellectual domains.   Food is inherently cross-disciplinary, requiring scholarly flexibility and integration.  Our research and writing becomes more robust by manifesting cross pollination  of  theories and methods.  Furthermore, students of food must recognize the complex nexus of material and social components that make food, like sex, uniquely interesting. Expanding and embracing the practical, everyday aspects of food systems nourishes the field and leads to new methodological and ethical questions with broader applicability.  As Anthropologist Mary Douglas asserted, "a radical approach to food's place in civilization would require the whole range of food's social uses to be considered."   For this conference, we call for papers that span and cross the sciences, humanities, and social sciences, while also taking the practical knowledge of food system citizens seriously.

The conferenceseeks to celebrate the interconnectedness of food studies and to promote the understanding of food and agriculture.  Although our organizations encourage a broad spectrum of topics at our conferences, we are enthusiastically encouraging papers and sessions that speak directly to the theme. We also encourage full panel submissions and roundtable sessions on all topics related to the social, cultural, political, and ethical organization of food and agriculture.
o   The Cultivation & Sustainability of Food Systems
o   Issues of Boundary Crossing: Migration, Globalization, Interpretation; Class, Gender, Race
o   The Inter-connectedness of Agriculture, Food, & Pedagogy
The Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition will be joining the conference for the first time.   We welcome abstracts for papers, posters, and panels on all aspects of food, nutrition, and agriculture, including those related to:
Art, media, and literary analyses
Change & development
Culture & cultural geography
Ethics & philosophy
Food safety & risk
Gender and ethnicity
Globalization of agriculture and food
History
Inequality, access, security, & social justice
Knowledge
Local food systems
Pedagogy
Politics, policies, & governance in national & global contexts
Research methods, practices & issues
Social action & social movements
Sustainability
Science & technologies

Conference Location
Indiana University, located in the college town of Bloomington, amid rolling hills of southern Indiana, is the ideal place for our conference. Consistently voted as among the most beautiful campuses in the USA, it boasts natural resources, cultural events, an impressive art museum, an array of musical venues (including opera, symphonic, bluegrass), a Tibetan monastery, and a thriving regional food scene.  The campus, less than an hour from the Indianapolis International airport, is reached by a scheduled shuttle bus.  Accommodations range from thrifty dorm rooms to local hotels and charming B&Bs. The conference will be held on the beautiful grounds of the university campus.

Tours, Tastings and Other Local Events
As usual, the first day of the conference will be filled with local tours, organized to showcase the best local connections to food and agriculture. These will include excursions to wineries, organic farms, Amish communities, a thriving farmers market, as well as an amazing variety of ethnic restaurants and an enthusiastic campus community.

Procedures for Submitting Abstracts for Papers, Panels, or Events

DUE DATE: February 1, 2010

TYPES OF SESSIONS: Submissions may include proposals for (1) individual papers, (2) full panels (between 3-4 papers on a theme) roundtables  (informal presentations or discussions with multiple participants), or (3) events (for example: films, readings)may be proposed.

FORMAT: Abstracts only. Electronic submission.   Abstracts – please name the document as follows: with lead author's last name  and ASFS in the title (ex: julierASFS.doc). If the submission is a panel or a roundtable, please include the word in the title (ex: julierASFSpanel.doc or julierASFSroundtable.doc)
Submissions may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats All proposals should include, in this order: (1) type of submission (e.g., paper, panel, or event); (2) title; (3) submitter's name, organizational affiliation, and full mailing address; (4) submitter's e-mail address; (5) submitter's telephone number, (6) names and organizational affiliations of co-authors or co-organizers; and (7) abstract of 300 or fewer words that describes the proposed paper, panel, or event. Panel proposals should include a panel abstract and individual abstracts for each of the papers on the panel as well as contact information (name, affiliation, email) of the moderator and all panel members. Individual paper proposals and roundtable proposals should be a single abstract with names and contact information for all presenters.

SUBMISSION  Please send  abstract electronically to: asfs2010@gmail.com. For questions or concerns, please contact Beth Forrest: b_forres@culinary.edu

ACKNOWLEGEMENT AND NOTIFICATION: All proposals sent by e-mail will be acknowledged within one week of receipt.  Notification of status of proposals will be sent by February 20th. We regret that our peer review process does not enable us to provide critique, only "accept" or "not accept" status.  We reserve the right to limit multiple submissions by the same author.

STUDENT PAPER COMPETITIONS: To encourage participation by undergraduate and graduate students and to recognize excellence, both ASFS and AFHVS invite submissions to their student paper competitions. Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts to the conference as well. Information for both competitions appears below. Please note that a paper may be submitted to only one, not both, of the competitions. For more information, please see: www.food-culture.org  (ASFS) and www.afhvs.org  for more information on deadlines and submission guidelines.

ASFS Student Paper Committee: Riki Saltzman, Riki.Saltzman@iowa.gov
AFHVS Student Paper Contact: Richard Haynes  rhaynes@phil.ufl.edu [GWG3] 

Cultural Manifestations of Violence and Socio-Cultural Trauma

Folklore Forum is seeking articles for its upcoming special issue on cultural manifestations of violence and socio-cultural trauma.  In particular, this issue seeks to examine the expressive and performative processes through which various cultures respond to, enact, and otherwise negotiate experiences of trauma and violence.  Folklore Forum invites proposals that consider, but are not limited to, the following themes and issues:
  -  music in traumatized communities
  -  music, dance, poetry as responses to violence
  -  disruption to performative communities
  -  expressive culture and the amelioration and reconciliation of trauma
  -  artists and musicians as political activists against violence
  -  historical nostalgia and performative recollections of violence and trauma
  -  expressive culture as a means to sustain or circumvent violence
  -  cultural appropriation as violence

Deadline for submission is 1 February 2010.
•  All documents should be submitted to folkpub@indiana.edu.
•  In the subject line include attn: submissions editor and your name •  Only electronic submissions in .doc, .docx, .txt, or .rtf will be accepted •  Each copy should have a separate title page. On the title page, please give your name, e-mail address, and telephone number •  Your name should not appear on the document pages

Folklore Forum is a space for the free exchange of ideas on the cutting edge of folklore, folklife and ethnomusicology, a space where up-and-coming scholars can interrogate existing paradigms and cultivate a rich intellectual landscape with a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Folklore Forum is the journal of Trickster Press, a graduate-student-run publishing house affiliated with the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology of Indiana University.