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> **ASA CONFERENCE
> Call for panels for ASA10, Belfast - remains open till mid December.
>
> **ASA BLOG
> Three new posts went up today on the Financial Crisis Blog, byDr.  
> Gillian Tett and Prof. Karen Ho.
> Also posted there is October's Anthropology News on 'Economic  
> Crisis: Origins', which includes an article by Gillian Tett.
>
> Make use of an RSS feed so that you know when something new goes up.  
> Please visit the blog, participate, comment and take part in the  
> discussions.
>
> Bloggers for September 09
> Professor Alexander Robertson, Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
>
> Bloggers for October 09
> Prof. Stephen Gudeman, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
> Dr. Massimiliano Mollona, Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London  
> University
>
> Bloggers for November 09:
> Dr. Gillian Tett, Anthropologist and Assistant Editor, Financial Times
> Prof Karen Z. Ho, Anthropology, University of Minnesota
> Prof. Keith Hart, Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, London University
>
> Bloggers till mid Deecember 09:
> Prof. Bob Jessop, Sociology, Lancaster University
> Dr. Nayanika Mookherjee,
> Ethics Officer, ASA.
>
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>
> **STUDENTSHIP
> Global Uncertainties Programme: Security for All in a Changing World  
> Programme (RCUK)
> ESRC/AHRC PhD Studentship Opportunity
>
> The Department of Politics at the University of Bristol is offering  
> a +3 studentship in conjunction with Dr. Paul Higate's funded  
> research. The Studentship is entitled:
> ‘Rearticulating Military Masculinities in Private Military and  
> Security Companies’
>
> The Department of Politics invites applications from UK/EU students  
> for a three year ESRC funded +3 MPhil/PhD studentship commencing  
> January 2010. Potential candidates should already possess a good  
> recognised research training Masters degree that meets the ESRC  
> eligibility criteria for doctoral funding.
>
> Suitably qualified candidates from a wide range of social science  
> disciplines including politics, anthropology, sociology, gender/IR,  
> human geography, gender studies and related disciplines are  
> encouraged to apply. The studentship will cover tuition fees at the  
> Home/EU rate and pay an annual maintenance stipend of around £13,290.
>
> The overall aim of the PhD is to investigate how transformations in  
> soldiering ethos contribute to the changing nature of war in the  
> 21st Century. Given that national militaries are largely successful  
> at inculcating codes of honour, self-sacrifice and duty in their  
> uniformed personnel, it might be assumed that the ‘corporate ethos’  
> of Private Military and Security Companies requires veterans to  
> reassess and reconfigure their personal and professional value  
> systems as they make the transition from soldier to contractor. How  
> they manage the move from the public to the private space is  
> primarily a question of masculine organizational continuity. The  
> research will involve a total of 20 qualitative interviews with  
> private military security contractors. The ultimate objective of  
> this PhD is to reveal the range and nature of strategies used to  
> engage a ‘corporate ethos’ through the nexus linking identity work  
> with masculinity.
>
> The closing date for applications is Monday 30 November 2009.
> Interviews will be held on Monday 7 December 2009.
>
> To apply, please download and complete the Postgraduate Research  
> Application form found here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/prospectus/postgraduate/2009/intro/8/ 
>  and return with a letter of application stating why you should be  
> appointed, with your CV, two academic references and a certified  
> copy of your Masters transcript.
>
> Details of the ESRC's academic and residential eligibility  
> requirements can be found here: http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/index.aspx 
>  .
>
> For an informal discussion and further details about the project,  
> contact Dr Paul Higate on 0117 331 0848 Dr  
> [log in to unmask] For queries regarding the application  
> process or eligibility, contact Louise Chambers, Graduate Research  
> Coordinator: [log in to unmask]
>
> Applications should be sent to:
> Graduate Research Coordinator
> Department of Politics
> University of Bristol
> 10 Priory Road
> Bristol BS8 1TU
>
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>
> **CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Anthropological Association of Ireland Annual Conference:  
> Ethnography Beyond Ethnos?
> School of Social Sciences and Philosophy
> Trinity College Dublin
> 7th and 8th May 2010
>
> When we think of ethnography we probably think of descriptions of a  
> people rooted in a place, and/or interpretation of the meanings they  
> attach to themselves, their actions and predicaments; ie ethnography  
> involves studying an ethnoi held to comprise human being. Much  
> ethnography is still recognizably like this, but anthropologists  
> have long worried about reifying ethnos  worries that have presented  
> themselves sharply in the Irish context. The conference will explore  
> this dilemma and its implications for ethnographic practice and for  
> teaching ethnography.
>
> While we hope that the conference will have a critical edge, we are  
> as interested in papers that defend the study of peoples and their  
> cultures as we are in papers that critique it. We are also  
> interested in papers that seek to move ethnography beyond ethnos not  
> in the name of criticism, but of practicality. One could not think  
> about a conference on 'ethnography beyond ethnos' without including  
> papers on the application of ethnographic techniques to study issues  
> and problems in corporate and medical settings and to evaluate  
> social programmes. We anticipate a special panel on ethnographies  
> conducted in medical and applied settings convened by Cormac  
> Sheehan, Irish Centre for Social Gerontology, National University of  
> Ireland Galway.
>
> Without wishing to impose a spurious unity on the conference or to  
> suggest a false unanimity among the various people involved in  
> organizing it, it is important to note that the spirit of Foucault  
> is somewhere in the background. He is there in the initial framing:  
> the reification of ethnic categories and invocations of ‘the people’  
> in the management of populations is a quintessentially Foucauldian  
> concern. But he could equally feature in discussion of the  
> application of ethnographic research to social, health or corporate  
> problems and issues. And he is at the centre of moves towards a post- 
> human anthropology.
>
> The AAI invites papers that address the following issues and  
> questions:
> • The dilemma of peoples and places: implication for research and  
> teaching
> • The methodological implications of a shift from nation to state,  
> from culture to the practices and concrete manifestations of  
> government
> • Multiculturalism, conflict resolution and the management of  
> diversity
> • Design ethnography and ethnography which 'has designs'
> • Globalization and de-globalization: institutions, processes and  
> networks
> • Virtual communities and netnogaphy
> • What is left of ethnos when humans have been de-centred?
>
> Papers from research students are particularly welcome. All  
> participants will be expected to become members of the AAI. See the  
> website for details: http://www.anthropologyireland.org/membership1.htm 
> . Conference Registration: Euro15.00 on the door.
> Please email abstracts (300 words) to Andrew Finlay at [log in to unmask] 
>  by Friday 22 January 2010.
>
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>
> **Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology
>
> The Bard Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History  
> announce a Research Fellowship in Museum Anthropology. The  
> fellowship provides support to a postdoctoral investigator to carry  
> out a specific project over a two-year period. The program is  
> designed to advance the training of the participant by having her/ 
> him pursue a project in association with a curator in the Division  
> of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).  
> The Fellow will also be expected to teach one graduate-level course  
> per year at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC). The Fellow will thus be  
> in joint residence at BGC and AMNH. The fellowship includes free  
> housing.
>
> A major purpose of the BGC-AMNH Research Fellowship in Museum  
> Anthropology is to promote mutual scholarly interest and interaction  
> among fellows, BGC faculty and students, and AMNH staff members.  
> Candidates for Research Fellow are judged primarily on their  
> research abilities and experience, and on the merits and scope of  
> the proposed research.
>
> Candidates with a research interest in the History of Collecting for  
> Anthropology Museums are especially encouraged to apply for the  
> 2010-12 fellowship. The successful candidate will have the  
> opportunity to develop a research program drawing from the Asian  
> Ethnographic Collections at the AMNH. We wish to encourage scholarly  
> investigation of how objects move from the sacred and particular to  
> the market, and of the collecting process and the role of  
> collectors, whether scholars, missionaries or dealers.
>
> Application Procedures: Interested researchers should send a  
> statement of research accomplishments and intentions, curriculum  
> vitae including list of publications, and three letters of  
> recommendation to Research Fellowship Competition, Bard Graduate  
> Center, 18 W.86th Street, New York NY 10024, USA. Research  
> Fellowship applications must be postmarked by December 15. At this  
> time, applications are not accepted by fax or e-mail.
>
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