Borders
When: Nov 14-18
Where: San Francisco
The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA’s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting. The AAA meeting theme this year is “Borders,” so AFA particularly welcomes panels that take up “borders” from a feminist anthropological perspective.
For more information, visit the AFA website.
Sustainable creativity in healthcare
When: May 16-18
Where: Lyric Theatre Belfast
The aim of the conference is to explore, celebrate, share and gain in-depth knowledge of international working models of best arts in health practice and research development. Exploration of the Arts Care model of engagement will provide delegates with insight into how an arts organisation can successfully develop authentic creative communities within healthcare environments.
For more information, click here.
2012 UBC Anthropology Graduate Conference:
Culture and Change: Towards a Dynamic Anthropology
When: March 2-3
Deadline for submission: Jan 31
The Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, is pleased to announce the 2012 graduate student conference.
Anthropologists recognize that cultures are dynamic and changing. Recent global events, such as the uprising in Egypt and the Occupy Movement, have pushed these notions of social dynamism to the forefront of public consciousness. How do global forces combine with local dynamics to shape the futures of communities around the world? Scholars from the traditional fields of anthropology, as well as geography, political science, law, and other disciplines are engaging with this question in new ways.
We cordially invite graduate and undergraduate scholars across disciplines including but not limited to sociocultural, linguistic, and museum anthropology, archaeology, sociology, geography, history, and political science, to join us for an exploration of these themes. Please submit paper and poster abstracts by January 31st, 2012, to anthconfubc@gmail.com. Abstracts are limited to 150 words. Please include 3 or 4 keywords below the body of the abstract.
The 2012 Anthropology Methods Mall is online. This site has info about five, NSF-supported opportunities for methods training in cultural anthropology:
1. SCRM (Short Courses on Research Methods. For those with the Ph.D.)
2. SIRD (Summer Institute on Research Design. For graduate students)
3. SFTM (Summer Field Training in Methods program in Bolivia. For graduate students)
4. SIMA (Smithsonian Institution Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology. For graduate students)
5. WRMA (Conference Workshops on Research Methods in Anthropology. For all anthropologists)
Anthropology in the World Conference
When: June 8-10
Deadline: January 16
The Royal Anthropological Institute is pleased to announce that a conference ‘Anthropology in the World’ will take place at the British Museum, Clore Centre, in conjunction with the BM Centre for Anthropology. The aim of this conference is to explore the manifold ways in which anthropology in its widest sense has been influential outside academia. It is aimed therefore at having a widespread appeal to the general public and to those anthropologists who are working in careers outside the university. We hope too that it will be of interest to academic anthropologists who are interested in the way that their subject is diffused and used in wider society, and to those students who are interested in applying their anthropological skills outside the academic arena.
For more information, click here.
Burma: Political Reforms and the Impacts on Humanitarian Efforts
When: Friday, January 13 | 12 noon
Where: FHI 360, 8th Floor Board Room
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC
Lynn Yoshikawa, Advocate, Refugees International
Lynn Yoshikawa has just returned from a Refugees International trip to Burma to talk to aid workers and displaced people about the ongoing conflicts and human rights abuses, which have forced millions from their homes. As the US and Burma continue to develop their relationship, Refugees International advises that strong US and UN engagement will be key to transforming Burma’s damaged political system into one that ensures the rights of all its citizens.
Customary Justice and Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies
When: Thurs, Jan 12 | 9:30am-11:00am
Where: United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
2301 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Citizens of fragile and conflict-affected states confront threats to their security and livelihoods on a daily basis. Nearly 1.6 billion people are forced to live in the midst of violence perpetuated by a diverse array of actors – from political extremists to transnational criminal syndicates. Too often these most vulnerable and marginalized are left without a voice in their personal and political future and are denied adequate forums for addressing their grievances.
The United States Institute of Peace leads the way in developing innovative thinking about rule of law in fragile and conflict-affected countries. USIP’s most recent publication – Customary Justice and Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies – moves the field toward empirically-based solutions to justice reform issues, by expanding the justice landscape to look at the evolving role that non-state actors play in resolving conflicts in communities and providing forums for locally relevant outlets of justice.
For more information on speakers and how to RSVP, click here.
When: Monday, Dec 12th | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Where: The National Committee
71 W. 23 Street Suite 1901
New York, NY 10010 US
The National Committee will hold a program with Dr. Tashi Rabgey, co-director of the University of Virginia Tibet Center. Drawing on her rich experience working on the Tibetan Plateau, Dr. Rabgey will discuss her views of recent developments in the region and her work on language protection issues during an off-the-record discussion.
To register, please RSVP to events@ncuscr.org by 5:00 p.m. on Friday, December 9.
Dr. Rabgey is the founding director of the Tibet Sustainable Governance Program (TSGP), which seeks to advance scholarship, research and new perspectives on the challenges of governance and sustainability of communities on the Tibetan Plateau. TSGP has developed a unique research exchange with the Chinese State Council on bilingualism and language policy in Tibetan education, entrepreneurship and economic development. Other TSGP projects include the Tibetan Social Business and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Tibetan Education to Employment Initiative. TSGP is a joint initiative of the UVa Tibet Center and Machik, a D.C.-based nonprofit Dr. Rabgey co-founded with her sister Losang Rabgey that works to develop opportunities for education, capacity-building and innovation on the Tibetan plateau.
Life and Death: A Conversation
When: May 10-13, 2012
Where: Providence Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI
Deadline for submissions: January 15, 2012
At the 2012 Society for Cultural Anthropology Conference we encourage discussion about matters of life and death, as perceived through anthropological and ethnographic inquiry. We explicitly call for conversations in the spirit of exchange and engagement rather than isolated analysis, and encourage participants to experiment with format and topic, cross boundaries and seek unexpected connections.
Our conference invites papers, films, photo essays, and multimedia installations that track, propose, or otherwise reveal and interrogate issues related to existence, nonexistence and relatedness in a manner that invites conversation. We are as interested in topics ‘traditional’ to anthropology (rites of passage or remembrance for example) as we are in thematic newcomers and related topics — such as biopolitics — that now fill the disciplinary horizon. Multi-disciplinary presentations and contributions by non-anthropologists are likewise welcome.
Virtual Humanity: The Anthropology of Online Worlds
When: Wednesday, November 9, 2011 | 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Where: The New York Academy of Sciences
7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor
New York, NY 10007-2157
Online games offer immersive, three-dimensional worlds populated by thousands of characters who form intense relationships, functional economies, complex societies, and rich cultures. Often these virtual connections not only mimic real-world interactions but sometimes even supplant them. But just how far can virtual worlds take us?
For this third installment of our fall series, Science & the City is bringing together an anthropologist and an online game designer to discuss how our humanity shapes, and is shaped by, our virtual experiences.
Join Thomas M. Malaby of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and Lee T. Guzofski of G2G Enterprises for this timely discussion about the ways in which natural reality blends and blurs with the virtual reality of online games.
A reception will follow.
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