Convocatoria de la International Conference: Natural Resources and Sustainable Development Goals for Latin America, que se celebrará del 2 al 5 de septiembre 2014 en la UASLP (véase FirstCircular_EventoMexico).
Fecha límite de envío de resúmenes: Julio 1, 2014.
Convocatoria:
http://ambiental.uaslp.mx/sdg2014/index.html
Más información: eventomexico@uaslp.mx
2014 ToRS International Food Workshop: “Food, Identity and Social Change”
Sept 25-26, 2014
University of Copenhagen, Denmark (DK)
Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS)
Call for Proposals
Food draws people into the web of life and touches upon everything that matters: it expresses personhood, marks membership (or non-membership) in practically any kind of social grouping and draws lines of where morality begins and ends. Yet, food can also signify very different things from place to place, from kitchen to kitchen and from one time period to another. Social changes – such as peoples on the move (nomads, migrants, tourists), changes in intergroup relations within societies, new technologies (in mass media, biotechnology), mass production of foods and increasing globalization of foods and war – have been relatively neglected in food studies.
Food is a powerful lens for analyzing identity. This is clearly illustrated in the works of food studies that include Bourdieu’s inquiry into the taste and preferences of the French bourgeoisie and Mintz’s pioneering historical study of how high status sugar produced in the Caribbean became a working class staple to the exciting growth of more recent works by Appadurai on how to create a national cuisine and Wilk’s scrutiny of the complex culinary reactions of Belizeans to colonialism, class differentiation and modernity.
Keynote Speakers
Professor Tamara L. Bray, Wayne State University
Professor Mandy Thomas, Queensland University of Technology
Professor Richard R. Wilk, Indiana University
We welcome contributions on food, identity and social change: Why do we eat what we eat and why have different cultures and societies at different times eaten other things? What fosters social change to affect dietary patterns and changing identities? How can food offer the lens to understand the cultural and social affinities in moments of change and transformation? The topic offers an opportunity to excavate the past, to examine the present and to project into the future.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper at the ToRS 2014 International Food Workshop should submit a proposal of 300 words and relevant contact information by 1 April 2014 to Katrine Meldgaard Kjær (katrinemkjaer[@]gmail.com)
Organizers: Cynthia Chou (cynchou[@]hum.ku.dk) and Susanne Kerner (kerner[@]hum.ku.dk)
Organizing Assistant: Katrine Meldgaard Kjær (katrinemkjaer[@]gmail.com)
Via Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition: http://foodanthro.com/2014/01/19/food-identity-and-social-change-copenhagen/
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Les escribimos para invitarlos a participar en un nuevo proyecto que
pretende dar visibilidad a la comunidad de académicos digitales en español
y portugués: el *Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales
*(#AtlasCSHD).
El *#AtlasCSHD* es un proyecto que surge de la colaboración entre GrinUGR y
MapaHD avanzando en los trabajos ya realizados de forma autónoma.
Para colaborar solamente es preciso que completen el siguiente
formulario<http://grinugr.org/identificacion-de-proyectos-digitales/>,
en el que recogeremos información sobre *proyectos digitales, centros de
investigación, investigadores y otras iniciativas vinculadas con Internet y
las culturas digitales* en ciencias sociales y humanidades.
La información será incluida en el *Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y
Humanidades Digitales <http://www.atlascshd.org/>* en español y portugués.
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abierta con licencias Creative Commons.
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*Forma parte del Atlas de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Digitales en
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directamente en nuestros correos electrónicos
Muchas gracias,
Esteban Romero (GrinUGR, Universidad de Granada; erf@ugr.es; @polisea) &
Élika Ortega (CulturePlex, University of Western Ontario; eortegag@uwo.ca;
@elikaortega).
A celebrarse en Aguascalientes, del 13 al 15 de octubre de 2014.
Fecha límite de envío resúmenes: 23 de junio 2014.
Convocatoria: Convocatoria ReLaPEC 2014 (1)
Mayores informes: docienso@correo.uaa.mx
Plaza de profesor de tiempo completo en la División de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades de la UGTO, campus León, a partir de agosto 2014.
Convocatoria: DES VACANTE abril 2014
Application deadline: Sep 1, 2014
The Society of Architectural Historians is accepting applications for
the 2015 SAH International Travel Grant Program. Generously funded by
a grant from the Getty Foundation, the program provides funding to
scholars from countries that have traditionally been underrepresented
at the SAH Annual Conference to attend the 2015 conference in Chicago.
The aim of the new program is to bring international academics, museum
professionals and heritage conservationists to the SAH conference and
to help them build upon their international professional networks.
SAH will award between 12 and 15 fellowships to practicing historians
of the built environment in late 2014. The award covers the following:
– Travel expenses to and from the 2015 Annual Conference in Chicago,
April 15-19 (sah.org/2015)
– Hotel accommodations
– A per diem
– Conference registration
– Two years of membership in SAH
Professionals working in a college, university, museum or conservation
organization located in a country that has not traditionally been
represented at the SAH Annual Conference are eligible to apply. Such
areas include, but are not limited to, Asia, Africa, Latin America and
Eastern Europe. SAH membership is not required to apply.
The application deadline is September 1, 2014. For more information
and to apply, please visit http://www.sah.org/getty-travel-grants.
Deadline: Aug 15, 2014
View. Theories and Practices of Visual Culture
No. 7: Postcolonial Image Archives
“These archives smell of vinegar and not of ashes. They are not grey.
Their colors are white, light blue and green, and sepia. These are not
shades of total destruction but rather of an ongoing decay.” This
poetic description by Tobias Hering concerns African film archives,
their condition, and our (lack of) memory of them. It might also
reveal a certain aspect of a Western way of thinking which forces us
to represent postcolonial countries as colorful and entropic
landscapes of ruin. However this image seems much more complex,
multilayered and (while acknowledging the controversial status of this
term) hybrid. What is the character of the images sitting in these
archives?
As a point of departure in issue 7 of “View” (3/2014) we would like to
take precisely the colors and smells of non-European visual archives,
and examine the narratives surrounding them. We would like to analyze
the meaning of archiving / collecting / gathering in a context other
than Western, and those discourses that allow one to speak of it. We
would also like to address the ambivalence of Western narratives and
images which depict the “postcolonial situation”: do they reveal more
of ourselves than of the countries and problems they directly relate
to? Last but not least, we would like to ask: is there such a thing as
a “postcolonial image” what is it like?
We are especially interested in visual archives devoted to the
postcolonial condition that are either institutional (e.g. Southern
African Freedom Struggles, c.1950-1994) or private (e.g. Gadalla
Gubara’s film archive), as well as projects dealing with the history
and decline of postcolonial archives (eg. Filipa César’s work with
Guinea-Bissau film archives), projects concentrated on the production
of images in a postcolonial context (e.g. Jan Simon working in
Nigeria, Catarina Simão undertaking the theme of film production in
Mozambique), and projects devoted to images of postcolonial amnesia
(e.g. Christine Meissner). We would also like to comment on images of
(postcolonial) ambivalence: both historical examples (such as the
films of Jean Rouch, Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil, Glauber Rocha’s O
Leão de Sete Cabeças), and contemporary (Renzo Martens’ Enjoy Poverty,
Jørgen Leth’s Haiti. Untitled). We are also interested in
institutional aspects of this phenomenon: in the way non-European
museums of photography establish their collections (e.g. Instituto
Moreira Salles), and the way “postcolonial images” and their curators
(e.g. Okwui Enwezor) function in the art field.
Deadline for submitted texts: 15th August 2014.
For editorial and technical requirements, go to:
http://widok.ibl.waw.pl/index.php/one/about/submissions
In case of questions, email: redakcja@widok.ibl.waw.pl
For further information about the magazine:
http://widok.ibl.waw.pl/index.php/one/index
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CFP: View, issue 7: Postcolonial Image Archives. In: H-ArtHist, May 8,
2014. <http://arthist.net/archive/7660>.
3rd Global Conference: Sex and the State
Friday 17th October 2014 – Sunday 19th October 2014, Montreal,
Quebec, Canada
Call for Presentations:
What are the parameters of “good” sexual citizenship?
How do we legally define “good” and “bad” sexual behaviour?
What ethical grounds are adopted to distinguish between good sex and
bad sex in the Law?
How have former “sexual outlaws” challenged their exclusion and
gained the status of full citizens?
How do we define and regulate sex crime and how do we seek to deter
it?
These sorts of questions lie at the centre of this project, which
explores the issue of sexual citizenship and its terms of belonging
and exclusion. We wish to critically engage with the ways in which
proper sexual citizenship, or “erotic civility”, and sex crime, or
“erotic incivility”, have been articulated and regulated, in a
manner that moves beyond simple disciplinary attentions to policy,
social norms and values. The terrain of sex Law, its prohibitions and
its sanctions, will be examined with a particular focus on the dual
function of the Law, its normative and its executive functions, which
define the parameters of good erotic citizenship while policing the
“erotically uncivil”, by intervening in instances of deviation
from normative erotic civility.
We also wish to make central the issue of Ethics and examine its role
in guiding prohibitions, permissions and regulations of different
sexual conduct and sexualities, to flesh out the complex ways states
and social institutions regulate sexual conduct in contemporary
societies. Specifically we aim to explore the ways in which the Law
and other forms of regulation have been used to police and repress
desire and pleasure, and the ways in which such prohibitions and
regulations have been changed, subverted, challenged or transgressed.
Proposals, papers, presentations, workshops and pre-formed panels are
invited on issues related to any of the following themes:
1. Sex Crime and the Law
-Rape and the law against sexual coercion and violence
-Sex laws and diversity in sexual identity and conduct
-Sex laws and comparative research on sex and sexuality in different
societies
-The relationship between sex law and notions of good or ethical
sexuality
-Sex laws and sexual pathology and prejudice in contemporary societies
-Sex law and the lessons of historical legal prohibitions or
regulations of sex and sexuality
2. Sex Law and Its Agencies
-Sex law and the judicial process
-Sex Law and policing sex and sexualities
-Sex Law and the selectivities of the state
– Sex Law and the role of the state in regulating and prohibiting sex
and sexualities
-Sex Law and the discretion within criminal justice systems
3. Ethics and the Principles of Sexual Conduct
-What are the principles and standards of sexual ethics?
-What sex and sexualities should be prohibited, regulated or
permitted?
-What forms of sexual orientations, behaviours and relationships are
ethical or unethical?
-How should ethics relate to sex law and what other ideas of
principles should inform sex law apart from ethics?
-Can we have ethically unsound sex that is legally permissible?
-What are the problems of talking ethically about desire and pleasure?
4. Sex Law and Regulating Desire
-Sex law and Sex Work – pornography and prostitution
-Sex Law and Sex Acts – permissible and impermissible sex
-Desires, pleasures and the conceptual bases for ethical or legal
forms of prohibition or regulation
-Regulation through knowledge – sex education and institutional
sexual regulation
-Regulation of particular sexual agents – disability, mental illness
and other regulatory discourses
-Regulation and culture – representing good and bad sex
5. Sex Crime and Its Agents
-Understanding and treating the perpetrators of sex crime
-Support and services for the victims of sex crime
-Sex crime and the impact on survivors
-Sex crime and its impact upon police and support agencies
-Justice and obligation – the legal system and its impact on sex
crime perpetrators and victims
The Steering Group particularly welcomes the submission of pre-formed
panel proposals. Papers will also be considered on any related theme.
In order to support and encourage interdisciplinary and
transdisciplinary engagement, it is our intention to create the
possibility of starting dialogues between the parallel events running
during this conference.
What to send:
300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 17th September 2014. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or
RTF formats with the following information and in this order
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in
programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of
abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: SS3 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as
bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all
paper proposals submitted. 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 look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Serena Petrella: serep@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: ss3@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Gender and Sexuality programme of
research projects. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions
which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and
presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the
conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested
delegates from the conference.
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should
attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make
this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.
For further details of the conference, please visit:
Monday 20th October – Wednesday 22nd October 2014, Montreal, Quebec,
Canada
Call for Presentations:
How do we understand the different desires and pleasures that people
engage in, and by which they define who they are and how they interact
with others? How do we conceive of and make sense of different
sexualities beyond simple and often flawed notions of ‘normal’ and
‘abnormal’ or ‘deviant’ or ‘perverse’? What is at stake
when we discuss sex and sexuality in the context of embodiment and the
material (and messy) physicality of sex play? How do desires,
identities, behaviours and practices interplay in sexual expressions
in contemporary life? What challenging questions do we face in
researching and theorising sexuality in the 21st Century?
The study of sexuality has developed significantly over the last 20
years and this revamping of the ‘sexualities’ conference seeks to
explore issues of sex and sexuality relationally. It departs from the
understanding that sexuality is socially constructed and reproduced
through practices. Classifications and definitions of sex, gender and
sexuality are constructed in our culture but they come “alive” and
are embodied as people define themselves as particular sexual
subjects, and engage in sex according to specific orientations and
desires. This position-taking of individuals occurs in the context of
specific social spaces and social structures, such as gender, class,
race and ethnicity, etc. As people intimately interface and erotically
engage with one another, sexual practices are reproduced and
re-grooved, at times shaping and ingraining classifications of
difference and inequality; at times new and novel ways to understand
and live sexuality are forged, transforming the realm of possibility
beyond the normative.
The project seeks to develop a space for discussion and debate about
the interplay of identities, orientations, desires, pleasures, taboos,
relations, behaviours and practices of sex and sexuality across a
range of critical, contextual and cultural perspectives. Seeking to
encourage innovative, creative, inter, multi and post disciplinary
dialogues in national and global contexts, we welcome papers from all
disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand
what it is to be sexual and how sex and sexuality are negotiated and
lived. We particularly welcome papers that explore the creative spaces
where biology, sexology, psychology, psychoanalysis, sociology, arts
and humanities, philosophy and contemporary theories and critiques –
social constructionism, queer theory, crip theory and affect theory
– collide, oppose, conjoin and intermesh, bringing one another to
fruitful crisis.
We welcome traditional papers, panels, workshop proposals and other
forms of performance – recognising that different disciplines
express themselves in different mediums and seek submissions on any of
the following themes:
1) Being/Desiring/Doing
-Homogeneity and heterogeneity, sameness and diversity, identity and
fluid sexualities.
-Theories sexuality – merging social constructionism, queer theory,
crip theory and affect theory.
-The other from within; unfixed sexualities, fluid identities; a
sexual ethics for our times.
-What are the limits and scope to defining ourselves in social spaces
through our desires?
-Structures, institutions and systems.
-Acts and interactions; representations and symbols.
2) Sexual and Embodied Practices
-Embodiment, bodies and mapping desires in flesh.
-Sex as economic, social and symbolic capital.
-Bonds of lust and desire; unleashing and containing; unlocking and
repressing.
-Body rituals and exchange: aesthetics, explorations, games,
representations.
-Persons re-inventing their bodies, desires and lust.
-Consumption and consumerism: sex for purchase, sex work, sex toys.
3) Sexual Space/ Sexual Time
-The public and the private: linking social and intimate identities
and sexuality.
-Hooking-up, casual sex, one-night stands; sex with strangers.
-Local sexualities, international sexualities; sexual tourism.
-Pre-modern, modern and postmodern sexualities and their expressions.
-Old tech, new tech, new sex? Phone sex, cyber-sex, web sex and
virtual sex.
4) Sexual Affect and Relationships
-Sexual relationships: from marriage to fuck buddies.
-The entanglements of romance and desire, sex and social relations,
love and pleasure.
-Norms that rule our sexual lives; the death or killing of desire and
lust.
-The meaning of sexual relationships: commitment, respect, exchange,
use.
-Isolation, loneliness, estrangement and sexual deprivation.
-Pleasures of the self; masturbation as detached sex?
-Detachment and the destruction of trust; betrayal, cheating and
infidelity.
-Separation, mourning and bereavement; unlinking, unloving and
unsexing.
5) Narrative, Aesthetic and Creative Representations of Sexuality
-The theatre of sex and sexual beings; sex on stage and on the stage
of life.
-The secular and the religious; the heretical and the sacred and their
place in our desires.
-Dreams, fantasies and desire; symbols, meaning and the unconscious.
-Unfixing sexual categories of the self through art and artistic
creation and narratives.
-The grammar of lust and desire in artistic creation and
representation.
-Pornography and the erotic: artistic representation, aesthetic and
creative virtue, narrative displacement?
-Is there a creation of new sexual territories by way of art and the
aesthetic realm?
6) Sexual Citizenship: Belonging and Activism
-Sexual diversity – scope and limits?
-Sex, health and safety and the impact of technologies and medicine.
-New sexual expertise, changing understandings of the sexual?
-Inequality, power relations, domination and sexuality.
-Normalisation and the good sexual citizen; dissidence and the refusal
to comply.
-Social movements and their impact on rights and institutional change.
-Sexual freedom, personhood, resistance and rebellion.
7) Uncomfortable Territories
-Violence and sex; sexual abuse; abjection and sexuality; subjection
and the sexual self.
-Sex and animals, sex and pets; sex, desire and love across species
boundaries.
-Family, blood bonds and sex within boundaries of kinship; desire, sex
and incest.
-Sex games and sexual play that make people uncomfortable.
-Scatological desire and sex; death, lust and sex.
-Dislocated, homeless, disassociated, uprooted sex, desire and lust.
Proposals will be considered on any related theme.
What to send:
300 word proposals should be submitted by Friday 11th July 2014. If an
abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be
submitted by Friday 17th September 2014. Abstracts should be submitted
simultaneously to both Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word or
RTF formats with the following information and in this order
a) author(s), b) affiliation as you would like it to appear in
programme, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of
abstract, f) up to 10 keywords.
E-mails should be entitled: Sexualities 7 Abstract Submission.
Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using
footnotes and any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as
bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all
paper proposals submitted. 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 look for an alternative
electronic route or resend.
Organising Chairs:
Serena Petrella: serep@inter-disciplinary.net
Rob Fisher: sexualities7@inter-disciplinary.net
The conference is part of the Gender and Sexuality programme of
research projects. It aims to bring together people from different
areas and interests to share ideas and explore various discussions
which are innovative and exciting. All papers accepted for and
presented at the conference must be in English and will be eligible
for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be developed for
publication in a themed hard copy volume(s). All publications from the
conference will require editors, to be chosen from interested
delegates from the conference.
Inter-Disciplinary.Net believes it is a mark of personal courtesy and
professional respect to your colleagues that all delegates should
attend for the full duration of the meeting. If you are unable to make
this commitment, please do not submit an abstract for presentation.
For further details of the conference, please visit:
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TRANSMIC ITN Marie Curie European Project. Position to be held at : Aix Marseille University (France)
ITN Marie Curie TRANSMIC project
‘Transnational Migration, Citizenship and the Circulation of Rights and Responsibilities’ (TRANSMIC) is a project funded under the European Commission’s Marie Curie actions. This Initial Training Network will run from 1 September 2014 to 31 August 2018. The aim of the project is to contribute to the understanding of transnational migration, in particular by looking at the conditions for and effects of transnational migration, possibilities for the mobility of migrants’ rights to be enhanced, and the links between migration, citizenship, and migration and development.
The TRANSMIC project is coordinated by Maastricht University (The Netherlands), and also includes as partner institutions the universities of Liège (Belgium), Minho (Portugal), Oxford (UK), Aix-Marseille (France), Tampere (Finland) and Warsaw (Poland), as well as the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.
Job description
In the framework of the TRANSMIC project, the Doctorate School ED355 (Espaces cultures et sociétés – http://www.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/formations/ecole-doctorale) of Aix-Marseille University is recruiting a Ph.D. researcher in the field of human geography ans social sciences. The Ph.D. student will be hosted at the Maison Méditerranéenne des sciences de l’homme d’Aix en Provence, in the research unit UMR CNRS 7303 TELEMME (http://telemme.mmsh.univ-aix.fr/ ).
The Ph.D. student will work on a project on transnational social welfare of migrants and their families back home with a special focus on Latin American migrants living in Europe. Transnational relationships between migrants and their family and friends at home create new and modified forms of providing social welfare, or security, in both destination and origin countries. These entail formal and informal provisions. This project aims to study how migrants navigate these informal and formal systems of social welfare by focusing on the following questions. How do migrants fulfill their rights and responsibilities towards people at home (nuclear or extended family) in order to receive or provide social security? What challenges do they experience in qualifying for formal social welfare in European countries, and how do they navigate these challenges in order to ensure security for themselves and their family?
This project will use a multi-sited research design in which both destination and origin countries are studied. It is closely linked to another project in the TRANSMIC ITN based at the University of Maastricht (Netherlands) in which transnational social welfare between migrants from African countries to Europe are studied.
It is expected that the two researchers will work in close collaboration with each other, including stays at each other’s universities, and will be supervised by the lead researchers in both universities, Prof. V. Mazzucato and Dr. V. Baby-Collin.
Starting date: between 1 September 2014 and 1 November 2014
Requirements
Working conditions
Application (electronic version)
Candidates are invited to submit their application that should consist of:
The deadline for submitting your application is May 31st, 2014 at noon (French time).
Please send your application via email to : virginie.baby-collin[@]univ-amu.fr
