Sunday, September 30, 2007

Join Network of Concerned Anthropologists

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The Network of Concerned Anthropologists (NCA) is an independent ad hoc network of anthropologists seeking to promote an ethical anthropology. For more information, write concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.

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Pledge of Non-participation in Counter-insurgency

"We, the undersigned, believe that anthropologists should not engage in research and other activities that contribute to counter-insurgency operations in Iraq or in related theaters in the “war on terror.” Furthermore, we believe that anthropologists should refrain from directly assisting the US military in combat, be it through torture, interrogation, or tactical advice..."



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The Department of Defense and allied agencies are
mobilizing anthropologists for interventions in the
Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.

Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc
group, the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, with
the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of
non-participation in counter-insurgency, which we have
organized as a petition (see attachment). We invite
you to become a part of this effort by taking the
following steps:

Download and print the attached pledge (in .pdf
format). Ask your colleagues to sign the pledge, and
promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of
Anthropology, George Mason University, 4400 University
Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA). If it is more
convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures
and send it to us at
concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
"




See petition and details at web site at
http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Urban History Group Annual Conference

Urban History Group Annual Conference,
27-28 March 2008, University of Nottingham

Second Call for sessions and papers:

Urban Boundaries and Margins


This conference will explore the concept of boundaries and margins in
the context of the city. The theme is interpreted broadly to encompass
not only the identification of various types of boundaries - spatial,
social, cultural, economic and political - but also the
processes that help create, sustain as well as contest the legitimacy
and practices of such boundaries. This focus draws attention to the
differences as well as the similarities between various groups and
activities in the city, and explores how these could change over time.
Themed sessions will include the following:


Age and life cycle issues in urban contexts
"Them and us"; class, race, ethnicity, culture
Transgressing norms of behaviour
Shifting concepts of day and night
Marginal groups and practices
Spatial and architectural margins in the home and the city
Administrative and political boundaries
Public and private space
The representation of boundaries
Boundaries of conflict and boundaries of order

The conference committee invites proposals for individual papers as
well as for additional sessions. Abstract of up to 500 words should be
submitted to the conference organiser and should indicate clearly how
the content of the paper addresses the broad conference theme. Those
wishing to propose additional sessions should provide a brief statement
that identifies the ways in which the session will address the
conference theme, a list of speakers and paper abstracts. The deadline
for expressions of interest for sessions and papers is 30 September
2007.

In addition, the conference will also host a new researchers forum.
This is aimed primarily at those who are at an early stage in a research
project and who wish primarily to discuss ideas rather than present
findings. New and current postgraduates working on topics unrelated to
the main theme, as well as those just embarking on new research, are
particularly encouraged to submit short papers for this forum.

Graduate students can obtain a bursary to offset some of the expenses
associated with attending the conference. Please send an e mail
application to Richard Rodger rgr@le.ac.uk and ask your PhD supervisor
to also send a message confirming your status as a registered PhD
student. The Urban History Group would like to acknowledge the Economic
History Society for its support for these bursaries.


For further details please contact:

Dr David Green (conference organiser)
Email: david.r.green@kcl.ac.uk

Department of Geography
King's College London
Strand
London
WC2R 2LS, UK
Tel: 44 (0) 20 7848 2721/2599
Fax:44 (0) 20 7848 2287

Sunday, September 09, 2007

CFP: Who Claims the City?

Who Claims the City?: Thinking Race, Class, and Urban Place May 2-3,
2008 Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI

Proposals from all disciplines are invited for a conference at Marquette
University exploring "the city" as the locus of social conflict,
representation, law, ideology, desire, policy, planning, and
imagination, all inflected by lived realities of race, class, gender,
sexuality, and movement. Possible issues for consideration include:

--How has racial discourse changed as a result of shifting patterns of
immigration and migration?

What role does foreign policy play in determining domestic urban
realities?

--How have education or the arts challenged or sustained ideologies of
privilege in American cities?

-- What is the relationship between racial politics and economic
globalization?

Please submit 250 - 500 word abstracts and a brief c.v. to
artsnscience@marquette.edu by December 1, 2007. Please include
"conference proposal" in your subject line.

Heather Hathaway, Associate Professor of English Way-Klingler College of
Arts and Sciences Marquette University P.O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI
53201-1881
(414) 288-5310