It’s time for some EVENTS! This is what’s happening in Anthropology (and beyond). Follow the news, join networks, participate in workshops and conferences – and remember to CONTACT US if you’re organising an event you think Allegra should feature! You can reach us by email at allegralab@gmail.com.
And Happy Halloween to everyone !!!
APLA Graduate Student Workshops at AAA 2014
Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops in which small groups of graduate students and faculty convene around thematic conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues. These workshops offer an intimate mentorship context in which students can engage in intensive discussions regarding specific problems in their anthropological research and writing.
1. Trial and Evidence in Science and Law
2. Representation in Political and Legal Anthropology: Moving Beyond the Textual (early PhD students)
3. Positioning Social Media in Ethnographic Research
4. Law and Politics of Environmental Justice
5. Legal Futures, Technological Futures
More information you can get from Suraiya Anita Jetha at sjetha@ucsc.edu
Deadline extended to: October 30, 2014. Application is opened here.
Job Opportunity
Program Associate at National PREA Resource Center, operated by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Through September 2016, this position will support the National PREA Resource Center (PRC), a project operated by NCCD via a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA). Click here for more information about PRC. Travel is required at varying rates but approximately 25% time. This position provides support via research, writing, data collection and analysis, event planning, training development, and general project management. Projects will include working with corrections, detention, and law enforcement professionals; service providers; government agencies; and other key stakeholders. See pdf attachment for more details.
Deadline: October 31, 2014.
A collaborative workshop. Cultures of Mending.
Call For Participation
Mending is a multifaceted practice. It has long-established roots spanning centuries of human productive effort. Today it is experiencing a revival as a result of grassroots innovation movements and initiatives which seek to foster repair, re-use, upcycling and other creative forms of waste prevention.
The focus of this collaborative workshop is the production of mending cultures by individual and collective human and non-human agencies; in other words, shared practices oriented around prolonging the usable lives of material things, recognising the durability of both the object and the value(s) and meaning(s) associated with it. In conjunction with practitioners, activists, and thinkers from diverse disciplinary background we seek to explore the practices and knowledges at the heart of mending culture(s); the meanings created and drawn upon; how such a culture is – or could be – produced; and the most significant barriers to its long-term sustainability.
Candidates are invited to apply via the submission of a 1,000 to 1,500 word position statement outlining their vision, ideas or experiences in relation to one topic from the above list.
Deadline by 17th December 2014. Applications should be sent on mendrs.symposium@gmail.com
Accepted submissions will be confirmed by 19th January 2015. Please direct any questions to rebecca.collins@chester.ac.uk
Workshop “The Radicalisation of Care: Practices, Politics and Infrastructures”
CALL FOR PAPERS
19 & 20 November 2014, Barcelona, Open University of Catalonia
Speakers: Madeleine Akrich, Blanca Callén, Jérôme Denis & David Pontille, Rob Imrie, Joanna Latimer, Daniel López, Andrew Power, Tomás Sánchez Criado, Vololona Rabeharisoa, Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Celia Roberts, Manuel Tironi & Myriam Winance.
Graphic report by Carla Boserman
The event is free, although registration is needed.
May 6-8, 2015 | Helsinki, Finland
Call For Papers
Is culture the fourth pillar of sustainability alongside the ecological, economic and social aspects? How does culture act as a catalyst for ecological sustainability, human well-being and economic viability? What would our futures look like if sustainability was embedded in the multiple dimensions of culture?
Proposals from all disciplines will be considered, provided they make an original academic contribution to the study of culture and sustainability and explicitly analyse multiple dimensions of culture in sustainable development. The abstracts (250-300 words) should be submitted through an online submission system.
Deadline is December 5, 2014, registration is open.
The conference Rethinking Sámi cultures in museums
26 November – 28 November, Eilert Sundts Hus, UiO
The conference aims to bring scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and institutions together, in order to exchange perspectives and expand scholarship on Sámi issues related to museums. Registration is required.
In the last few years, the politics of collection, representation and curation of Sámi heritage in museums have received increased attention and are now engendering a number of new opportunities and challenges for both museum theory and practice.
There is a felt need to bring academics and museum professionals in contact to build upon and valorize the excellent research on Sámi collections and displays that is being conducted in museums, colleges and universities throughout the Sámi area and beyond.
The intention with the conference is to offer a springboard for long-term exchanges and discussions that will foster our grasp of the politics of representation of Sámi cultures, both in an historical and contemporary perspective, and generate a better understanding of the roles that museums have played and can play in the (re)definition, interpretation, and representation of Sámi cultures.
The conference International Society for the Academic Study of Shamanism
Workshop “Carbon. Democracy and Revolution: Critical perspectives from the Middle East and the Mediterranean”
With keynote lecture by Professor Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University
Durham University, 13-14 February 2015
Social revolutions, civil war and crippling economic crises: what is going on in the Middle East and South Eastern Mediterranean? Are the revolutions and wars in Egypt, Syria or Libya connected to the economic crises in Greece, Italy or Cyprus? How do carbon resources and energy competition affect these tense social, economic and environmental inter-relations? What is the future of ‘carbon democracy’ and what are its geographic and political ramifications?
Abstract deadline *December 1st*: please e-mail your abstracts to both Maria Kastrinou (maria.kastrinou@brunel.ac.uk) and Matteo Capasso (matteo.capasso@durham.ac.uk). We will let you know the outcome of our decision by December 12th.
That’s all for now! Stay tuned for more, and remember to send us your conference notes & papers!
