Reminder of annual ASA Award for Teaching and Lecturing in Anthropology
The ASA welcomes nominations for this award - the annual deadline is 1 November. Nominations can be made by any member of the ASA who is teaching at a UK or Commonwealth university. As well as giving public recognition to outstanding teaching quality, the award provides the recipient with a year’s free membership of the association. For further details please see: http://www.theasa.org/networks/latan/prize.shtml
ASA18 conference call
The ASA's 2016 conference will be held in Durham, and December 2017 will bring a joint ASA-AAS-ASAANZ conference in Australia, hosted by the anthropology department in Adelaide. It is now time to start thinking about the 2018 conference, and the ASA committee welcomes proposals. The deadline for these is 1 September 2015, and the address for submissions is [log in to unmask]
ASA committee posts
Are you interested in becoming the ASA's next honorary secretary? Our current secretary's term comes to an end this autumn. The post-holder prepares agendas for meetings, in consultation with the chair, and writes up and distributes the minutes of committee meetings and the AGM. The secretary may also provide the RAI with appropriate items of ASA News for inclusion in Anthropology Today. The chair, secretary, and treasurer deal with matters arising between meetings of the ASA committee, including ASA/RAI support to postgraduate students. If you are interested in this post, please send your CV, with a covering letter explaining your suitability, to [log in to unmask] by 1 July. You can also send any queries about the post to the same address.
Would you like to be the association's policy liaison officer? The officer’s role is to develop and maintain relationships between the ASA and policy makers/funding organisations, to promote the interests of the association. This will entail seeking direct involvement with these bodies (for example on expert advisory panels), developing positive lines of communication with their senior staff, and ensuring that they are well-informed about the ethical and practical issues involved in conducting research in social anthropology, as well as its contributions to society and to the academy. If you are interested, please email [log in to unmask] by 1 September.
Proposed working group to prepare a roundtable at the next ASA conference in Durham, on working as an anthropologist within multidisciplinary research teams
The need to reflect collectively on the potentials of anthropological knowledge within interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary research teams has never been greater. Anthropologists are increasingly carrying out their research within teams that integrate a range of social sciences, and, more and more frequently, a range of biophysical sciences as well. Moreover, their research is expected to have ‘impact'. Anthropology has a unique contribution to make to holistic and solution-oriented studies of human environmental relations, but we need to have a more clearly identified set of core concepts, theoretical frameworks and research methodologies. This will help us to highlight the usefulness of anthropological knowledge, and provide a common platform for anthropologists working within inter- or multi-disciplinary teams.
- Are you working at the edge of anthropology and do you have first-hand experience of another discipline, in the social sciences, humanities or biophysical sciences?
- Are you researching aspects of society/environment linkages? Or are you contributing to the field of science and technology studies?
- Are you interested in helping with an ASA 2016 roundtable on anthropology and multidisciplinary research?
If the answer is yes to any of these questions, please e-mail [log in to unmask]
Nominations for Marsh Award for Anthropology in the World
The Royal Anthropological Institute has launched a new annual award, the first of which was presented to Gillian Tett in 2014. The award recognises an outstanding individual based outside academia, who has shown how to apply anthropology or anthropological ideas to the better understanding of the world's problems. RAI fellows can now make nominations for the 2015 award. Please send nominations - a name and a paragraph outlining their suitability - to [log in to unmask] by 15 May.
WCAA NEWS
The call for papers is now open for AAS2015, 1-4 December, Melbourne, "Moral Horizons": the annual conference of the Australian Anthropological Society. The keynotes are Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Joel Robbins and Akhil Gupta. www.nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2015/
RAI2016, 27-29 May 2016, London, "Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change": the call for panels is open, and closes on 30 June.
https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016
SIEF2015, 21-25 June, Zagreb: registration is still open.
www.siefhome.org/sief2015
OTHER NEWS
University of East London - Excellence PhD Studentships
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AKY162/20-excellence-phd-studentships-2015-16/
University of East London (UEL) invites applications from highly qualified and motivated students, for twenty Excellence PhD Studentships starting in September 2015. The Excellence PhD Studentships are the premier postgraduate merit studentship at UEL and provide full tuition fees, a generous stipend and access to a research training grant. The deadline for applications is 24 May 2015.
New lectureship in social anthropology in sociology subject area, School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, UK
We are seeking to recruit a social anthropologist to join the established research and teaching presence of social anthropology within our Sociology Unit. Areas of specialism are open, but we are looking for someone with outstanding research potential in an area of social anthropology that will contribute to one or more of our research clusters or our research centre (Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences) and to our core UG curriculum. Our recently revised research clusters are identities, embodiments and selves; imagining pasts and futures; and power, inequalities and citizenship, reflecting current staff interests and expertise. Details of the post can be found here: http://bit.ly/1EftXwG
Informal enquiries can be made to Head of Sociology, Professor Janice McLaughlin, [log in to unmask], telephone: 0191 208 7511. Closing date: 3 June 2015.
Beyond Perception 15, Aberdeen, 1-4 September 2015
This multidisciplinary international symposium will address Tim Ingold’s work over the past 15 years, since the publication of his book The Perception of the Environment in 2000. The symposium will commence with a dialogue between Professor Ingold and two renowned academics. Five plenary sessions will follow, with renowned or upcoming invited scholars from a variety of disciplines. Registration is now open. For more information see: www.abdn.ac.uk/beyond-perception, and for queries contact: [log in to unmask] In this framework we would like to advertise a call for abstracts for a multidisciplinary session to be held in the afternoon of the final day of the conference (4 September). This session, led by postgraduate students at the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, is intended as an opportunity for participants, in particular postgraduate students and early career academics, to present and discuss their work. It proposes an overarching theme that embraces every aspect arising from Ingold’s work, and aims to bring together different and critical reflections on the major themes of the symposium. We welcome contributions in the usual academic format (short presentations of 10 minutes) and less conventional (interactive, visual, performative, auditory, sensory) ways of exploring the themes. Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be sent to [log in to unmask] by 15 May, 2015.
The Anthropology of Hands Conference at the University of Kent, Canterbury, 24-26 June 2015
This interdisciplinary conference will explore the hands of humans and non-human primates from primarily a biological and social anthropological perspective, but will also bring together insights from biology, psychology, music, art and more. More information can be found at: www.kent.ac.uk/sac/events/hands.html
Registration is now open, and closes on 1 June. Attendance will be capped due to space limitations, so please register as soon as possible. Accommodation can be booked on the University of Kent campus during the registration process.
CHAM2015, 15-18 July, Lisbon, "Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges": registration remains open for the second international conference of the Portuguese Centre for Global History (CHAM).
www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015
The call for panels is now open for ECSAS2016, which takes place 27-30 July 2016, at University of Warsaw (Poland).
Visit the conference website to learn more, and propose your panels by 1 June:
www.easas.eu/european-conferences-south-asian-studies
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