How did the summer go by so fast?! October’s almost here, and Allegra is once again offering you a sample of upcoming #events in anthropology, this time courtesy of Alina Suvila, a new member of our editorial staff.
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.
Panel
“The personal is political? Emotions and resistance in the neoliberal academy”
21-22 November 2014, Babeș-Bolyai University and Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Within the11th Annual Conference of the Romanian Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology. This round-table will focus on the emotions developed within the academic work environment and their subsequent consequences in the form of modes of embodiment, enactment, organization and resistance.
Deadline for submission of abstracts was 28th of Sept 2014.
International Conference
Research Network on Religion, AIDS and Social Transformation in Africa (RASTA), Spirit and Sentiment: Affective Trajectories of Religious Being in Urban Africa.
28-30 May 2015. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Experiences and social practices of people living in urban Africa are powerfully shaped by the dynamics of affect and emotion. Moving into and residing in the vital and (economically, ethnically, socially) diverse urban centers of the continent often triggers, and is driven by, states of anxiety, insecurity and fear, as well as feelings of excitement and hope, e.g. for a better life and socio-economic liberation. In addition, urban centers, and the opportunities and risks that living in them implies, provide space for sensations of pleasure, love, care and intimacy, but also experiences of suffering, alienation and emotional drama.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 September 2014.
Worldwide congress
The World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists‘ “The Scholar, Teacher, Judge, and Jurist in a Mixed Jurisdiction”
24-26 June 2015. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Mixed Jurisdictions, as they are traditionally understood, stand at the crossroads of the Common law and Civil law. They also frequently encompass other ethnic and religious laws. Rich in legal history and complex pluralism, they are often seen as natural laboratories of comparative law. The laws, methods, and institutions of mixed jurisdictions are inevitably affected by the influence and presence of different traditions vying for supremacy or requiring reconciliation. Their added complexity places special demands upon the training of judges and jurists, the staffing of courts, the teaching of private law, the research of scholars, and the task of law reform. To what extent have these challenges been met by the actors and institutions of mixed jurisdictions?
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15th of Oct 2014. Registration is open!
International Workshop
FAQs about Open Access: The Politics of Publishing in Anthropology and Beyond.
16-17 Oct, 2014, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
This workshop, entitled FAQs about Open Access: The Politics of Publishing in Anthropology and Beyond, will address the current debates concerning how to provide free access to information and knowledge produced at academic institutions. The discussion will focus on the current politics of access to the results of publicly-funded research and will aim to elucidate sustainable and non-discriminatory formulas of free access to scientific knowledge. It will also explore how ethnographies of digital technologies, free licences and free software may contribute to expanding the debates about open access.
You can participate in it either on-site or off-site (via live streaming). Registration is open!
The 2015 Soyuz Symposium
Shifting Territories: Historical Legacies and Social Change
28 February – 1 March 2015, The Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.
The 2014 Soyuz Symposium seeks to engage scholars in an interdisciplinary debate about contemporary social, cultural, and political transformations in socialist and post-socialist regions world wide.
The Soyuz Research Network for Postsocialist Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary forum for exchanging work based on field research in postsocialist countries, ranging from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Soyuz is an interest group in the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and an official unit of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES). The Soyuz symposium has met annually since 1991 and offers an opportunity for scholars to interact in a more personal setting.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1st of Nov 2014. Registration is open!
Job Announcement
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in Legal Studies at University of Illinois – Springfield
The interdisciplinary Department of Legal Studies in the College of Public Affairs and Administration at University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) seeks applications at the tenure-track ASSISTANT PROFESSOR level with expertise in legal research, writing and analysis. In addition to teaching legal research, writing and analysis at the undergraduate and graduate levels, the candidate will be expected to offer courses that contribute to the law and society curriculum offered by the department. The position will begin August 16, 2015.
Deadline for applications: October 12, 2014.
Also: check out the new APLA Section News column on Anthropology News: Josh Clark on Human Rights and virtual fieldwork with the UN.
That’s all for now! Stay tuned for more, and remember to send us your conference notes & papers!
