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>
> Some general announcements, which may be of interest:
>
> The British Academy offers awards for postdoctoral research in the
> humanities and social sciences. Applications are invited for the
> following schemes. The next deadline is 15 April 2007
>
> Small Research Grants (up to £7,500)
> Grants are available for collaborative or individual research projects
> www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/srg.html
>
> British Conference Grants (up to £2,000)
> Grants are available for bringing key speakers to conferences held
> in the UK.
> www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/bcg.html
>
> Overseas Conference Grants (up to £800)
> Grants are available for travel expenses of a scholar delivering a
> paper at a conference overseas. www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/
> ocg.html
>
> Contact: Research Grants Department 020 7969 5217 or email
> [log in to unmask]
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>
> Symposium
> Mobile Masculinities: Spatial, Intimate and Bodily Transitions
> 16th May 2007
> Conference Room, ICOSS, University of Sheffield
>
> Theoretical and empirical issues of men and masculinities in
> relation to space, intimacy, the emotions and the body are being
> addressed within a variety of disciplines. Such theorising starts
> from assumptions about fluid and multiple masculinities, but has
> tended to assume a static framework within which to explore men's
> experiences. Men are treated as if they inhabit and perform
> masculinities in one space alone, for example either the workplace
> or domestic sphere. This symposium will give attention to the ways
> in which men exist in different spaces, sometimes simultaneously,
> and at various stages of the life course, and also how they manage
> transitions between work and home life, between being a colleague,
> friend, father and partner. By shattering the divisions between
> those separate spaces, and between apparently stable identities,
> the symposium will re-focus current theoretical issues around
> masculinity. Focusing on men's mobility and experiences, their
> strategies and performances of 'being' a man, papers will speak not
> only to masculinity, but also to gendered, classed and aged
> relationships across and beyond separate life spheres.
>
> The symposium will be interdisciplinary and will be sure to
> interest a broad range of people who work with men, as well as
> those who study them. Refreshments and a sandwich lunch will be
> provided. For further details, and to register to attend, please
> contact Professor Jenny Hockey, [log in to unmask]
>
> Programme
>
> 9.30 - 10.15 Arrival and coffee
>
> 10.15 -10.30 Welcome
>
> 10.30 - 11.00 Masculinities in transition
> Jenny Hockey, Victoria Robinson and Alex Hall
> University of Sheffield
>
> 11.00 - 11.30 Transitions from fat to slim(mer): an analysis of a
> health promotion text aimed at overweight men
> Brendan Gough
> Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds
>
> 11.30 - 12.00 Addressing sexual risk-taking in young men: wrong
> time, wrong place
> Mark Limmer
> Institute of Health Research, Lancaster University
>
> 12.00 - 12.30 'I know it's still dangerous but it's... the buzz
> you get off it': Embodied automobile young masculine identities and
> the corporeal buzz of bass and speed
> Dr Andrew Bengry-Howell and Professor Christine Griffin
> Department of Psychology, University if Bath
>
> 12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
>
> 13.30 - 14.00 Relating well: men, emotions and health
> Steve Robertson
> University of Central Lancashire
>
> 14.00 - 14.30 Crying men: performances of masculinity after
> stillbirth
> Jan Bleyen
> University of Leuven, Belgium
>
> 14.30 - 15.00 Coffee
>
> 15.00 - 15.30 Angry young men? Masculinities and emotion among
> young men in the global justice movement
> Maria Zackariasson
> University of Oslo, Norway
>
> 15.30 - 16.00 Mobile masculinities in the service sector
> Simon Breeze
> University of Kent
>
> 16.00 - 16.15 Discussion and goodbyes
>
>
> ---------------
>
> Is "qualitative data analysis" too vague for you? Are you
> wondering how to do justice to your data?
>
> If you’re researching social processes, institutions, culture,
> identity etc, but you’re unsure about how to analyse the discourse
> data from your fieldwork, then consider joining the 5 day ESRC-
> sponsored research training course:
>
> Key concepts and methods in ethnography, language & communication
>
> The programme is designed to help PhD and post-doctoral researchers
> navigate the twin perils of over- and under-interpreting discourse
> data, and it introduces a range of key perspectives and tools used
> to study language and communication ethnographically.
>
> During 2007 the course will be taught through four intensive
> meetings hosted in London and Leeds:
>
> 22 & 23 March (London): Linguistic ethnography: Why, what & how?
> 25 May (Leeds): Verbal text in situated interaction: Micro-analysis
> 20 July (Leeds): Texts in the material world: Multi-modal analysis
> 16 November (London): Ethnography beyond the event: Transcontextual
> analysis
>
> There will also be follow-up sessions in which course graduates can
> discuss with more experienced researchers specific issues arising
> from their own work. Spaces are strictly limited, so candidates are
> advised to apply as soon as possible. Some bursaries for tuition
> and travel will be available in cases of demonstrated need.
>
> For more information, please go to www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/clc/elc/,
> or contact [log in to unmask]
>
> The programme is organized from King’s College London, the
> Institute of Education University of London, and Oxford University,
> as part of the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative
> (www.rdi.ac.uk). The Programme Team is:
> Professor Ben Rampton (Director) Professor Jan Blommaert Ms.
> Celia Roberts Dr. Carey Jewitt Dr. Adam Lefstein Dr. Jeff Bezemer
> Melissa de Graaff (Administrator)
>
> ---------------------
>
> In 2006, the ESRC announced the launch of an annual prize in honour
> of the SSRC's founder and first chairman, Michael Young.
>
> The prize has been conceived to encourage new social scientists to
> communicate their research in a lucid way to non-academic
> audiences. The Michael Young Prize will reward work which is of
> relevance to a wider audience, based on research of evident social
> and economic value and political bearing and which achieves insight
> into contemporary society and the patterns and dynamics of social
> change. The successful submission will win £5,000 and assistance
> from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Young
> Foundation in publishing and promoting your work through a variety
> of publications and media.
>
> Details of how to apply are available on ESRC Society Today:
> www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/young
>
> This annual competition will be run by the ESRC with support from
> the Young Foundation.
>
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>
> INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
>
> HISPANIC CULTURAL HERITAGE: FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY AND FANTASY
> LITERATURE
> 11th-15th June 2007, Instituto Cervantes, London.
>
> The Instituto Cervantes is delighted to announce that it is
> organising a seminar entitled Hispanic Cultural Heritage: Folklore,
> Mythology and Fantasy Literature.
>
> This five-day event, organised in conjunction with the University
> of Extremadura (Spain), will take place at the Instituto Cervantes
> in London from 11-15 June 2007. Each day will cover different
> themes, so delegates may choose to attend one or more days. The
> seminar will provide an opportunity for colleagues to critically
> explore the present panorama of literary and folklore genres -
> examining the unique aspects of the Hispanic contribution - and to
> share best practice among British and Spanish universities, with
> the aim of promoting joint research.
>
> Themes will be: folklore and popular traditions related to fantasy;
> myths and traditions of the Iberian Peninsula; fantasy literature
> in Spanish and its sub-genres (magic realism, science-fiction,
> terror, sagas etc) fantasy literature and mythology compared;
> literary-folklore relations in Hispanic literature; analysis of
> specific authors and literary works; fantasy themes and motifs;
> cultural heritage as an educational resource; cultural and tourist
> itineraries from myths and legends; myths in films and visual images.
>
> Keynote speakers: Professor Eloy Martos Núñez (University of
> Extremadura); Professor Pedro Cerrillo Torremocha (University of
> Castilla-La Mancha); Ana Paula Guimarães (Institute of Traditional
> Literary Studies, Nova University Lisbon); Professor Antonio Gómez
> Yebra (University of Málaga).
>
> Full details, including a call for papers will be available soon on
> http://www.unex.es/eweb/sil.
>
> The University of Extremadura will provide certificates of
> attendance to those who request it. For further information and
> expressions of interest, please send an e-mail with your personal
> details and professional credentials to the seminar secretary,
> Gemma Belmonte [log in to unmask]
>
> Attendance at this event will be free.
> The official languages of the conference are Spanish and English.
>
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>
> Ethnographic Database Project - Invitation to contribute
>
> The Ethnographic Database Project (EDP) is a web-based tool for the
> collection of comparative ethnographic data. The EDP allows
> anthropologists to enter data about their field”\Ãwøß research
> using a set of standard codes developed for cross-cultural
> application; the codes relate to a society’s organization, kinship
> and marriage practices, subsistence economy, and pattern of sexual
> division of labor. The EDP is in the form of a web-based
> questionnaire, which can be accessed from any computer connected to
> the internet.
>
> The EDP aims to complement widely-used comparative ethnographic
> datasets such as the Ethnographic Atlas and the Standard Cross-
> Cultural Sample by: (i) obtaining data directly from
> anthropologists who conducted field research in the societies of
> interest, (ii) using standard codes developed for cross-cultural
> application for all societies, (iii) expanding the range of
> societies for which coded ethnographic data are available.
>
> The first stage of the EDP includes societies speaking Indo-
> European languages, which are underrepresented in the existing
> ethnographic databases. We welcome contributions from researchers
> who have conducted fieldwork in societies speaking these languages.
>
> Visit the EDP website at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucsalfo/EDP to read
> more about this project, to view a sample version of the EDP, and
> to find out how to contribute. Please forward this link to anyone
> who may be interested in this project!
>
> Laura Fortunato
> Department of Anthropology
> University College London
> [log in to unmask]
>
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>
> INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE AND BIOETHICS COLLABORATIONS
> 'International science and bioethics collaborations: critical
> approaches to new knowledge relations' is a new three-year £1.5
> million research collaboration in Social Anthropology between the
> Universities of Cambridge, Durham and Sussex (Principal
> Investigator: Professor Marilyn Strathern, Cambridge, UK) to which
> the ESRC is contributing £1.2 million and supporting two PhD
> studentships. The project aims to address current social, economic
> and cultural issues of international collaboration, knowledge
> transfer and capacity building in biomedical science and bioethics,
> and involves development of a network of research partners across
> the Asian sub-continent.
>
> Recruitment: Four fixed term post-doctoral appointments are to be
> made and one fixed term administrative post will be filled: http://
> www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/internationalsciencevacancies.html
>
> Further information about the project can be found at: http://
> www.socanth.cam.ac.uk/research/placebo/
> internationalscienceandbioethicsproject.html
>
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>
> Australian National University's School of Archaeology and
> Anthropology is sponsosring a conference on:
> "Rural Futures in Developed Countries: Australia, America, Europe"
> to be held at University House on the 20-21 July (a Friday and
> Saturday) 2007.
>
> Themes include:
> - multiple and changing land use patterns in the context of
> agrarian transition, with attention (for Australia) to drought
> conditions
> - the strength and limits of values which underpin policy and
> popular support for farming and/versus other rural activities
> - attempts to regulate and manage land use and change in land use,
> especially given the exit of many (especially smaller) farmers from
> the land
> - contributions that ethnography can make to documenting and
> understanding these matters
>
> The conference is organised by Francesca Merlan. There is no
> registration fee but people will be asked to pay $10 a day at the
> door to contribute to morning and afternoon tea and coffee. If you
> are planning on attending it would be good if you could let
> Francesca know by email <[log in to unmask]>. There will
> be both local and international participants and a program will be
> available on AASnet, ANTHROGRAD and Anthropology@ANU in mid-April.
>
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>
> The Globe in a Glass Case
> Ethnographic Collections in Ireland
>
> National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin
> Friday 11 - Saturday 12 May 2007
>
> What makes a collection 'ethnographic'? How should we present these
> collections? How should a museum make the link between the objects
> and the people who crafted them? What is the future of ethnographic
> collecting?
>
> Ireland is home to a large number of ethnographic collections and
> objects, both in the hands of the state and of private collectors.
> Only a small proportion of this material however is actually on
> public view. This conference will try to draw attention to this
> material, and has brought together some prominent invited speakers,
> respected experts in their field who represent major museums, to
> discuss this material in the light of the most recent contemporary
> debates about collecting and the treatment of material heritage.
>
> For more details, see the website at www.anthropologyireland.org or
> e-mail [log in to unmask]
>
> Conference Organisers:
> Dr Seamas O'Siochain, NUI Maynooth
> Dr Pauline Garvey, NUI Maynooth
> Dr Adam Drazin, Trinity College Dublin
>
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>
> Please find below a link to a job vacancy for a researcher to work
> at the Department of Social Medicine in Bristol.
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/RH062.html
>
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>
> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> MELANCHOLIC STATES
> INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES
>
> LANCASTER UNIVERSITY
> 27-29 SEPTEMBER 2007
>
> INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE with PAPERS, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES
>
> Confirmed speakers: M. Jacqui Alexander, Veena Das, Ayse Gul
> Altinay, David Eng, Yehudit Kirstein Keshet, Ranjana Khanna, Roz
> Mortimer, Kavita Panjabi, Nandita Sharma, Gaye Chan, Cynthia Weber.
>
> The concept of melancholia has assumed widespread and varied
> currency across numerous fields. Sometimes used to refer to a state
> of mind or to an affective state; sometimes used to speak of
> racialised, gendered, or queer subjectivity; other times used as a
> tool of analysis of political states or as a mobilising tool to
> convene constituencies of solidarity; yet other times, melancholia
> founds collective memory and associated artefactual practices, or
> describes the conditions of professional practice organised around
> a public service ethic. Positioned as a condition to be claimed,
> transcended, or negotiated, ‘melancholic states’ seemingly speaks
> to the contemporary zeitgeist – the post/neo-colonial era.
>
> The provenance of the concept of melancholia in psychoanalysis and
> the proliferation of its use elsewhere, offer grounds for
> revisiting the potential and limits of the concept – this
> conference aims to explore the ways in which the idea of
> ‘melancholic states’ speaks to the complexity of the present.
>
> We encourage papers from various inter-disciplinary backgrounds
> namely women studies, postcolonial, critical race, critical
> psychology, politics, international relations, sociology,
> anthropology, geography, art and design, queer studies, that
> address, among others, the following questions:
> · what is the relationship between melancholia and the turn to
> questions of affect, emotion, and feeling within the social
> sciences and humanities?
> · what new analytical avenues are potentially opened up or closed
> down by the mobilisation or deployment of the concept of melancholia?
> · is its analytical traction geographically, temporally, and
> politically limited and limiting?
> is melancholia imbricated in the current preoccupation with borders
> and border identities, within academic debates and politics rhetorics?
> · does melancholia provide the grounds for a critical and
> theoretically informed response to a political present increasingly
> organised around the axis of democracy/terror?
> · in what ways might it offer the grounds for the formation of
> solidarities and constituencies of belonging ‘locally’ and/or
> transnationally, in which feeling is identified as a legitimate and
> central axis?
> · what might the limitations of such solidarities be, especially in
> a context in which it is increasingly difficult to articulate clear
> political identities in the current conjunction of global/national
> political agendas?
> can melancholic states further or renew an understanding of
> identifications involved in responses to international calls for aid?
> to what extent is melancholia and/or hope the condition motivating
> NGO’s in their work on poverty and/or the environment?
> · are the subjectivities of public sector professionals
> increasingly characterised by melancholia in the context of the
> demise of the public service ethic?
> · in what ways is collective memory organised around melancholia
> and how might this impact on the selection, design and production
> of objects and practices of remembrance?
> · is a melancholic state a productive site for artistic practices
> that interrogate forms of subjection and violence?
> · are melancholic states and various forms of spiritual practice
> mutually imbricated or mutually exclusive?
> · can it help grasp the complexities of historical and contemporary
> subjectivities as produced and lived at the intersection of
> numerous modalities of difference?
> · to what extent are melancholic subjects produced by competing
> social imaginaries, and how are these played out in everyday life?
> · is melancholia the condition of the desiring subject of the 21st
> century?
>
> Please note that number of participants will be limited to 120.
>
> For information, visit the conference website http://
> www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/melancholicstates/registration.htm , or
> contact Gail Lewis [log in to unmask], or Anne-Marie Fortier
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Abstracts of no more than 500 words to be submitted by 23 APRIL
> 2007. Please send to: Gail Lewis [log in to unmask]; or
> Nayanika Mookherjee [log in to unmask]
>
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