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ASA NEWS ASA2016 - a date for your diary The 2016 conference, Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology, will take place in Durham from 4 to 7 July next year. Read the theme on the website www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/ . The call for panels has now opened. WCAA NEWS EASA2016, 20-23 July, Milan: the call for panels has now opened: http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfpan.shtml ABA2016 The website of the 30th Brazilian Association of Anthropology's Biennial Meeting is now online: http://www.30rba.abant.org.br/site/capa ABA's 2016 Biannual Meeting will take place in João Pessoa City, from 3rd-6th August. An English version of the site will go up shortly. RAI2016, 27-29 May 2016, London, "Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change": the call for papers opened on 28 August 2015 and closes on 8 January 2016. https://therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016 CASCA/SANA 2016 will be held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, May 11-15,2016, with the theme: "Solidarities" For information and updates please visit the CASCA2016 website at: www.cascasana2016.com Polish Ethnological Society The Society has posted a Position Statement on xenophobia and intolerance in Poland. http://www.ptl.info.pl/EN/?page_id=104 JRAI editor position The RAI is seeking to appoint an Honorary Editor for the JRAI, following on from the successful tenure of Dr Matei Candea. Applicants may be from any branch of anthropology. Further details may be found here. http://www.therai.org.uk/publications/anthropology-today/vacancylink/royal-anthropological-institute-2Deadline: 11th January OTHER NEWS Anthropology Matters - latest issue out now This Anthropology Matters issue (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2015) includes pieces that were presented at the 2nd RAI Postgraduate Conference, held on 13 September 2012 at the University of Kent. Anthropology Matters Special Issue, Vol. 16, No. 1: 2nd RAI Postgraduate Conference, edited by Brian Campbell, Maria Paz-Peirano, Carin Tunaker, and Caroline Bennet http://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/issue/view/55/showToc Conflict and Reproductive Health in Urban Chiapas: Disappearing the Partera Empírica, by Jenna Murray de López The Spirit of the Plant: Exotic Ethnopharmacopeia Among Healers in Accra, Ghana, by Bryn Trevelyan James Exploring Meaningfully and Creatively the Tensions Arising out of Collaborations: An Anthropological Perspective, by Rachel Scicluna Anthropology Matters is an online, open access journal. Articles can be freely downloaded, circulated and printed. Please visit the Anthropology Matters newly re-designed website to learn more about the journal and read this and other issues: http://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters Camel Trust Grant - Small Grant for Post-doctoral Research in Anthropology The Trustees of the Camel Trust invite applications for a grant of up to a maximum of £3,000 to support outstanding post-doctoral research in the field of social anthropology during the course of the calendar year 2016. Their intention is to support research by a young post-doctoral scholar and to help him or her to prepare for an academic career in anthropology and make a significant contribution to the discipline. This could be through a short period of post-doctoral field research, the completion of an original academic publication, or the completion and submission of a grant application (or any combination of these). Eligibility: Applicants must be have been formally awarded a PhD in Anthropology from a UK university, and the degree must have been conferred after 1st January, 2012. The terms of the Trust require that the successful candidate should be formally or informally affiliated to a UK university, and a short letter agreeing to such an affiliation must be forwarded to the Trustees before the award is finally confirmed. This might be from a prospective ‘mentor’, a former supervisor or a Head of Department. There are no restrictions on nationality. Applications are invited from scholars in temporary employment or without any formal employment, but not from those who already hold a permanent faculty position. Research on any thematic area and geographic region will be considered. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2015 and the proposed research may be done at any stage between 1st January 2016 and 31st December 2016. Applications should consist of a one page cover letter, a short CV, a one page outline of the proposed research activity, a one page budget, and an article/chapterlength sample of writing. In addition, the names of two referees should be provided who may be contacted by the Trustees. For more information or to submit your application please email: [log in to unmask] UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW TWO-DAY WORKSHOP Call for Papers: Two-day Workshop “Language Learning and Ethnographic Fieldwork” (University of Glasgow, Scotland, 11-12 April 2016) . Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 November 2015. Full call available here. http://researching-multilingually-at-borders.com/?p=1207 ESRC EARLY CAREER SURVEY The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are keen to understand the experiences and issues faced by early-career social scientists. https://acss.org.uk/news/esrc-early-career-survey/ ISSC GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the WZB Berlin Social Science Center are now seeking applications for their joint WZB-ISSC Global Fellowship Program. The fellowship enables an outstanding early career scientist (postdoctoral researcher with no more than 5 years’ work experience after their PhD or scientists without a PhD but with an equivalent level of research experience and output) from a developing country to spend four to six months in 2016 at the WZB to conduct research. Deadline 30 October. https://acss.org.uk/news/wzb-issc-global-fellowship-program/ One for the diary - Have We Become Too Ethical? – Managing Vulnerability in human subject research, 9 November 2015, University of Sussex, Falmer, nr Brighton. Organised by: Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner ([log in to unmask]), Department of Anthropology in Sussex and Bob Simpson ([log in to unmask]), Department of Anthropology, Durham. For administrative information: Linda Allan ([log in to unmask]) Registration and Programme now announced. http://www.centreforbionetworking.org/news-and-events/interntional-symposium-have-we-become-too-ethical-managing-vulnerability-in-human-subject-research/ Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series @ ILAS The Latin American Anthropology Seminar Series is organised jointly by LSE, Goldsmiths, and the Institute of Latin American Studies and is held on Thursdays from 17:30 to 19:30. This term’s sessions can be found on the LSE website. http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/events/seminars.aspx#DynamicJumpMenuManager_1_Anchor_2 Two fully funded 5-year PhD fellowships in the field of anthropology of tourism at the University of Lausanne Candidates should hold a Masters degree (or equivalent) in the social sciences (anthropology, ethnology, human geography) or in other disciplines relevant to the candidate's proposal and have an interest in anthropological theory and ethnographic work on a tourism-related topic. Proficiency in either French or English is required; working knowledge of the other language would be an advantage. A good working level of French should be acquired within 2 years following the appointment. Deadline for applications is 31st October 2015. More information on the application process can be found here. https://applicationsinter.unil.ch/inter/noauth/php/Po/pooffres.php?poid=3682&langage=8 It is strongly recommended to discuss the suggested research proposals with the supervisor, Prof David Picard ([log in to unmask]) 'Future of the Rural World? Asia & Africa' conference 30th October, Woburn Conference Centre, SOAS A day of discussion and networking with others interested in the possible futures of the rural world. More information can be found here. http://www.soas.ac.uk/south-asia-institute/events/future-of-the-rural-world/30oct2015-future-of-the-rural-world-africa--asia.html Call for papers for the panel 'Anthropological perspectives on the Alpine region - Local interpretations of current climate issues and the relationship between land, people and water' Panel convenors Almut Schneider and Elisabeth Tauber welcome paper proposals for the above panel at the Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change Conference 27 to 29 May 2016, British Museum, London - https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016 For more details and information on submitting a proposal see: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3823 If you have any relevant items you wish to include in this newsletter, please email them to [log in to unmask] by the 26th of the month for inclusion in the following month's mailing. 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