Student Anthropologist call for book reviews and papers

Student Anthropologist, the AAA peer-reviewed journal of the National Association of Student Anthropologists, is soliciting book reviews and polished articles for publication in the 2016 annual issue.

Aim and scope of journal: We aim to provide students with an opportunity to present their research and voice their perspectives through our annual publication, Student Anthropologist. We seek a plurality of voices from all subfields in each issue. Student Anthropologist welcomes submissions which explore how anthropological skills, ideas, and ethnography can have an impact on contemporary social issues. Student Anthropologist is also committed to guiding students through the peer review and revision process to craft excellent articles.

The book review deadline is March 11th and the article deadline is March 1st.

Please email Jessica Chandras, the book review editor, with book review submissions and suggestions or questions about book reviews at jessu1006@gwu.edu. and the managing editor for questions about submissions and article submissions at studentanthropologist@gmail.com.

Examples of papers and book reviews can be found online in previous issues here: https://studentanthropologist.wordpress.com/current-issue/ and the calls for papers and book reviews can also be found here: https://studentanthropologist.wordpress.com/

Call for Papers: AnthroPlus

Call for Papers:

The AnthroPlus student conference is a free, one-day event organized by anthropology graduate students at the University of Maryland, College Park. This year's theme is "Building Community Engagement and Social Equity in a Changing World." We encourage presentations relating to the theme, but all submissions are welcome.

The conference is open to both graduate and undergraduate students who would like to present on any aspect of anthropology or related disciplines. We welcome student research from an internship, thesis, dissertation, class project, or other assignment. Submissions from students of other universities and from departments outside of Anthropology are welcome.

This year's AnthroPlus Conference will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park on March 5, 2016. Abstracts are due online by February 19, 2016. Please visit our website for more information about the conference, to submit an abstract, or to register.

We hope to see you there!

Sep 15 Deadline for Abstracts: Tourism and Heritage Student Award

Call for Abstracts: SfAA Tourism and Heritage Student Paper Competition

Student papers should entail original research on the themes of “tourism” and/or “heritage” broadly defined, including topics such as heritage, archaeology and tourism, ecotourism, and cultural resource management. Top papers will be selected for inclusion in an organized paper session at the 2016 Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) Annual Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia, and an award of $500 will be presented to the best paper in the session. Winning papers will also be considered for publication in the journal Practicing Anthropology. Eligible students must be enrolled in a graduate or undergraduate degree program at the time they submit their paper. Submissions must be original work of publishable quality. The work may be undertaken alone or in collaboration with others, but for papers with one or more co-authors, an enrolled student must be the paper’s first author.

The competition involves a two-step process. Step one involves the solicitation and selection of expanded paper abstracts (of 500 words or less; saved as a Word document) for the organized session. Abstracts must be submitted by SEPTEMBER 15, 2015 to the SfAA Office (info@sfaa.net). Students selected for participation in the session will then submit full papers for judging by the December 15, 2015 deadline. The winning paper will receive a cash award of $500 and will be honored at the 2016 SfAA Meetings in Vancouver. Email the SfAA Office (info@sfaa.net) or Melissa Stevens (melissa.stevens7@gmail.com) for more information.

Call for Proposals - "Challenging the Exclusive Past"

Call for Proposals - "Challenging the Exclusive Past"
NCPH and Society for History in the Federal Government Joint Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland, March 16-19, 2016

The Call for Proposals is open through July 15 at http://ncph.org/cms/conferences/2016-annual-meeting/

WHY SHOULD YOU SUBMIT A PROPOSAL?

March 16-19, 2016, the National Council on Public History and Society for History in the Federal Government will meet jointly in Baltimore, Maryland, and we need YOUR ideas to make this meeting a success! Public history work is built on the work of others (YOU!) so this conference needs YOUR presentations, papers, projects and ideas so we can share our knowledge and advance the field.

NEED AN IDEA?

Formal preservation and interpretation of the past began as a movement to celebrate great men and elite spaces. Slowly, and with difficulty, this is becoming a more democratic and inclusive effort. We believe that public historians have an important role to play in the ongoing work to expand national, state, local, and global narratives. What are the most effective and engaging means for expanding interpretive practices and professional spaces in order to promote full inclusion of previously marginalized peoples and places? To what extent have new, more democratic and engaged public history practices changed museum collections and exhibits, preservation practice, law, and public commemoration? And what happens when formerly disenfranchised publics assert their right to tell their own histories? These questions get at the very meanings of public history and citizenship. As 2016 will mark the centennial of the National Park Service and fifty years of the National Historic Preservation Act, in Baltimore we invite public historians to explore the promise, the successes, and the challenges of developing a more inclusive public history landscape in the twenty-first century.

Questions to consider:

· How are successful collaborations between public historians and under-represented communities built?

· How do new practices including digital history open up narratives and collaborations for public historians that challenge the exclusive past?

· How do government historians and agencies work with communities, such as Indigenous nations, that share traumatic histories with the government?

· How do historians establish the trust necessary to work with and within communities of which they are not members? Conversely, how do historian who are community “insiders” experience and navigate the issue of trust?

· How do we reach public historians practicing outside of established institutions and build a more diverse guild?

· To what extent have government historians influenced public policy makers? And should they?

· What are the risks of using traditional great men and great event narratives when highlighting the histories of under-represented groups? Do we ignore or obscure important counter narratives when we follow this course?

· What role can historic preservation play in revitalizing communities?

· How can public historians contribute to the preservation of previously marginalized places?

· How and should activism and public history meet? Can such intersections lead to more inclusive histories?

· How do public historians weave together local, national, and global narratives to create meaningful histories for all communities?

WHAT IS THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE LOOKING FOR?

We welcome submissions from all areas of the field, including teaching, museums, archives, heritage management, tourism, consulting, litigation-based research, and public service. Proposals may address any area of public history, but we especially welcome submissions which relate to our theme. Sessions are 1.5 hours; significant time for audience discussion should be included in every session. We urge participants to dispense with the reading of papers, and encourage a wide variety of forms of conversation and session format options, including, but not limited to:

· Experiential

· PechaKucha

· Point/Counterpoint

· Roundtable

· Structured Conversation

· Traditional Three-person-plus-chair/commentator Panel

· Working Groups (2 hours)

· Workshops (half or full day).

NCPH and SHFG encourage collaborative sessions between members of NCPH and SHFG. See the NCPH website at www.ncph.org for details about submitting your proposal and be sure to peruse past programs for ideas about new session/event formats.

HOW DO I SUBMIT MY PROPOSAL?

For the 2nd time, NCPH is offering an optional, Early Topic Proposal deadline. This is for people who are interested in presenting on a certain topic, but are looking for ideas to more fully develop their proposal or are looking for collaborators/co-panelists. Fill out the topic-only proposal form online by June 1, 2015.

Topics received by that date will be distributed to NCPH/SHFG members via email, and posted to the Public History Commons for feedback and offers of collaboration. Respondents can contact the original submitter directly with their ideas or offers, and the submitter may choose to select additional participants, refine the proposal, and complete a full proposal form online by the July 15 deadline.

Final Proposal Deadline: Submit your fully formed session, working group, individual paper, or workshop proposal online by July 15, 2015.

All presenters and other participants are expected to register for the annual meeting. If you have questions, please contact the program committee co-chairs or the NCPH Interim Executive Director.

NCPH Interim Executive Director
Stephanie Rowe
rowes@iupui.edu

Call for Papers

THE DISESTABLISHMENTARIAN: 

A journal of contemporary sociocultural inquiry and experiment

Call for Papers

Deadline: May 31, 2015

The Disestablishmentarian, an interdisciplinary graduate student journal associated with Concordia University’s department of Sociology and Anthropology, is actively seeking submissions of original work for its first annual edition.

We welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines addressing social and cultural issues. Ideally, research submitted will exemplify our mission by extending beyond limited disciplinary parameters to gain a more comprehensive understanding of complex challenges we face in contemporary society. Projects that include a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches are welcome

We will not accept papers which have been published or are currently being considered for publication elsewhere.

We encourage graduate students (MA and PhD) to submit their papers to: journal.sagsa@gmail.com by midnight on May 31, 2015.


Submission Guidelines:

• 20-25 pages double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, 1” margins

• Referencing using APA citation

• Not previously published

• Original piece of work

• An abstract of 200-250 words

• Name of author and institutional affiliation

Call for Abstracts: Anthro+ Student Conference

The Practicing Anthropologist Student Association (PASA) presents the 6th Annual Student Conference AnthroPlus on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the Stamp Student Union. 

Join a conversation on diversifying the field of anthropology. Explore innovative knowledge production and presentation as we attempt to expand the horizons of anthropological method, theory, study, and practice within and outside of academia. 

Submissions of paper and poster abstracts about original research, ideas and projects are now welcome. Submission is not restricted to students of anthropology -- all students doing relevant work in the social sciences and humanities are welcome to submit! 

Please submit abstracts by March 1, 2015 through the Anthro+ website. 

For any questions, comments, or concerns, please email the Anthro+ inquiry email (anthropologyconferenceumd@gmail.com) or submit an inquiry on the website.

Call for Papers: Conference on Applying Anthropology

CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITATION

For whom is anthropology applied and to what ends?

From drug use, to abortion, the environment, disability, religious passion, etc., anthropologists have written both about these matters, and for various kinds of changes in policy.  Many anthropologists are directly working in the institutions researchers also examine, from veterans’ hospitals, to rural development NGOs, family welfare agencies attempting to “indigenize,” among many others. 

Join us at Teachers College, Columbia University for a small, conversation rich conference on the uses of anthropology. We are meeting of February 26, 2015 to discuss the history, current state, and possible futures surrounding various efforts to put to work anthropology on burning issues of the contemporary world, in the United States and around the world. Jean Lave will be the key-note speaker.

We welcome the submission of abstracts for 15-20 minute paper presentations on any of the above topics. Please submit abstracts and any questions to Daniel Souleles and Michael Scroggins at anthroevents@tc.columbia.edu by January 30th, 2015. 

2014 Chacmool Conference Call for Abstracts

University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada November 7-10, 2014
Call for Presentation Abstracts—Deadline is March 21, 2014

The 2014 Chacmool conference theme “Breaking Barriers” will address cutting edge research in the advancement of archaeological theory, the use of new technologies, and new approaches to indigenous archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. A diverse group of international scholars, professionals and students are invited to present research that is shaping new directions for our discipline and that will engage archaeologists, ethnoarchaeologists, anthropologists, and indigenous peoples in understanding and conserving the material past that continues to affect our present world. Some archaeologists lament the fragmentation of archaeological theory in the past decade. Researchers are asked to address new approaches to break down the barriers of theoretical fragmentation and to re-open dialogue and debate. New technologies open new possibilities for research. Featured in the conference is three-dimensional imaging, a technology that has opened up new methods to conserve archaeological heritage and a new means to engage the public in virtual archaeological sites made available on the worldwide web. Indigenous archaeology and community archaeology are of fundamental importance to the broader relevancy of archaeology in the contemporary world. Critical to this project is the scholarly, social and spiritual engagement of indigenous peoples in the interpretation, critical evaluation and research prioritization of these pasts.

Abstracts of approximately 150 words may be submitted online on our website: 

arky.ucalgary.ca/chacmool2014/ following the Abstract Submission form, 
or sent via email to: 2014chacmool@gmail.com

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any further questions. 

Call for papers on energy and economy: Society for Economic Anthropology and Society for American Archaeology 2014 Meetings

CALL FOR PAPERS

Anthropologists have a long, if uneven, history of engagement with studies of energy and economy – from the use of wind in ancient exchange and the effects of domestication on production, to the contemporary dependence on the consumption of fossil fuels. While Leslie White most explicitly incorporated energy in his mid-century macroevolutionary model, the discipline’s engagements with energy and economy include a wide variety of approaches ranging from cultural ecology and systems-based approaches to political ecology and ecofeminism. Despite these diverse engagements, economistic understandings of the relationship between energy and economy continue to dominate the intellectual and policy landscape.  Anthropological insights, however, make it clear that actual human engagements with energy almost never follow a simple logic of economic efficiency. What can the historical, material and ethnographic records tell us about the empirical relationships between the environment, economy, culture, and energy use? Better analysis of these mutually influencing relationships enriches scholarship and has critical policy relevance – particularly given the urgent need for a transition to less carbon-intensive energy sources.

Human societies have always relied on continued resource inputs, yet explicit consideration of energy is often neglected in social scientific work. Perhaps this is due to energy’s invisibility – its doxic, taken-for-granted flow as mysterious to most people as its effects are profound and ubiquitous. Uneven social, political economic, and environmental impacts simultaneously accompany these flows in a global circuitry of energy and trade that is as cultural as it is physical, bringing different, intersecting forms of power into perspective.

Energy flows, then, are at the very foundations of economic provision and therefore provide a compelling lens through which to examine the economic affairs of any society.

We are especially keen on stimulating interdisciplinary engagement with the meeting theme. SEA 2014 is thus planned in conjunction with the SAA meetings in Austin, Texas and we strongly encourage submissions from archaeologists, and other anthropologists, as well as economists, historians and other scholars of the human condition. Texas will provide a particularly relevant backdrop for SEA 2014 given the state’s notable energy resources and significant influence on US and global energy policy. Austin is an especially pleasant setting, with delightful spring weather and a vibrant music scene.

We welcome anthropologically informed and theoretically relevant papers and posters that address (but are certainly not limited to) the following questions: 

Economic Theory: concepts, method, professional practice, interdisciplinary

What fundamental reorientations of theory and method are needed to widen appreciation of humanity’s past, present and future dependence on energy flows? What theories and methodologies are most useful for understanding shifts between energy regimes? What are the most promising ethnographic frontiers for understanding the transition away from the fossil fuel era? How can a long-term perspective incorporating non-industrial societies bolster how we envision energy flows and human-environmental relations?  How might we best think about vulnerability, sustainability and resilience? Should economic anthropologists resume measuring food, fuel and labor in terms related to advances in environmental economics or human ecology? How might renewed attention to energy reunite or reconfigure four-field anthropology?

Production: environmental interfaces, labor, work, social structuring

How can we best categorize diversity in the cultural and material production of energy – from energy used to fuel human labor and the fire used to smelt iron, to the biological, nuclear and solar technologies now being explored? How have prehistoric and more contemporary social groups resisted particular energy regimes even when technological or labor capacities may have allowed them?  What role has energy played in the development and reorganization of societies? How have historical and contemporary energy regimes shaped and been shaped by social and political relations?  What are the physical, social, cultural, political and economic ramifications of extracting, processing and using carbon-intensive fuels and growing renewable electricity?

Exchange: energy, social circuitry, markets, commodification

How has energy affected the ways market and non-market exchange shapes social connection and dislocation? How do we best account for the energy embodied in goods and services exchanged? How are gender, age, kinship, class and other dimensions of social organization related to energy? What are the possibilities for incorporating externalities in market-based efforts to speed energy transitions? What are the impacts when we commodify resources necessary for life? How is money related to energy flow?

Consumption: style, status, decision making

How are habitus, consumption styles, status desires, and imaginaries related to the flow of energy involved in people’s ongoing construction of meaning and identity? How can energy and other resource demand from a growing middle class in BRIC and other countries be understood and accommodated? How might we interpret flat to declining energy use in the OECD/developed countries? What can economic anthropologists contribute to understanding peoples’ use of renewable energy technologies, distributed energy, smart grids, private electricity generation, etc.?

Economic & Energy Transitions: governance, finance, movements and the future

What precedents in the archaeological and historical record could help us understand the economic and social implications of slow vs. sudden shocks in energy supply? What is the minimum net energy surplus needed for societal functioning, and how useful is net energy analysis in our fields? What roles do debt and finance, including bubbles, play in the creation and reproduction of existing and potential energy regimes? How are modes of political and economic governance related to control over past, present and future energies? What is expertise, and how do experts affect the forecasting of possible energy futures? How are war and militaries part of past and future energy transitions? How have/can social movements shape(d) energy cultures?

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM [Available in early 2014]

PAPER AND POSTER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

NOTICE:  Re cutting and pasting your abstract.  The system accepts abstracts up to 500 words, but if you tried to log in before 12 November 2013, you may still find a red “250 word limit” alert when you try to advance to the next page.  To get around this, either use another browser to register, or go into your existing browser, find the “clear cache” setting somewhere under “Tools” or “Settings”, and start over.  We apologize for this extra step.

Abstracts of proposed papers and posters should be no more than 500 words, and should be submitted here, after completing the conference pre-registration here. Abstracts are due no later than DECEMBER 15, 2013. 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS The SEA “happy hour” poster session is an inclusive and well-attended event at each annual conference. Papers not accepted for oral presentation are automatically eligible for inclusion in the poster session. Scholars whose work may not fit the central theme of the meeting are encouraged to submit a poster. The SEA always welcomes posters on any topic in economic anthropology.  

MEETING FORMAT The SEA meetings provide a rare opportunity for a focused and coherent program of presentation, with time for critical discussion in a convivial intellectual setting. Papers are selected for a program that allows 15-20 minutes for presentation and 15-20 minutes for discussion in plenary sessions over two days. Papers and posters from the SEA annual will be considered for publication in a special issue of the society’s journal: Economic Anthropology. Submitting a paper for the plenary sessions represents a commitment that you wish to be considered for inclusion in the journal. We encourage archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, economists, and other scholars concerned with the meeting theme to submit abstracts.

SEA 2014 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION, FEES

Before submitting your abstract go to the AAA website and pre-register for the conference.  Registration is $100 for members, $125 for nonmembers and $70 for students. Please note that refunds can be issued up to one month in advance of the meetings in the case that your abstract is not accepted.

VENUE & REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS Texas is an especially relevant venue for an energy-themed conference as it continues to play a major role in US energy provisioning and policy. Austin provides a particularly pleasant setting within Texas due to its delightful spring weather, proximity to the University of Texas, and a vibrant music scene.

The 2014 meetings will be held at the Hilton Garden Inn Austin, 500 N Interstate 35, Austin, Texas, 78701. This location is a short two blocks from the Convention Center and the concurrent annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The hotel is also within walking distance of many area attractions, music venues and restaurants.  For additional information about tourist attractions, entertainment and dining in Austin, please visit: http://www.austintexas.org/visit/.

ACCOMODATIONS SEA has reserved a block of rooms at the Hilton Garden Inn at a discount rate.  Rooms are $179/night for single or double occupancy.  This room rate is very competitive given the location and quality of the hotel. One of the concessions that the hotel provided with the guestroom rate, is our full breakfast buffet with cook-to-order omelets and waffles each morning, offered on the 18th floor of the hotel with a wonderful panoramic view of the Austin skyline and surrounding hill country.

For reservations click here. 

TRAVEL There are several options for transfers to and from Austin’s Bergstrom Airport, including rental cars, a SuperShuttle, city buses and of course taxis. The least expensive option from the airport is by city bus. The city of Austin’s Capital Metro provides the “100 Airport Flyer”, an express bus from the airport to downtown. The bus picks up on the lower level of the airport near baggage claim. Tickets are purchased on the bus, and airport staff should be available to direct you. There is a stop at 4^th and Trinity and again 6th and Trinity that service the Hilton Garden Inn. One way tickets are $1 one-way from the airport to any of these stops, and 24-hour passes are $2.Visit www.capmetro.org/airport/ for more information, or call 512-474-1200.

PROGRAM CHAIRS: CONTACT INFORMATION

Thomas Love Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology Linfield College McMinnville, Oregon  97128 tlove@linfield.edu 503-883-2504 fax:  503-883-2635

Cindy Isenhour Department of Anthropology University of Maine Orono, ME 04469 cynthia.isenhour@maine.edu 303.807.6515


For more information about the Society for Economic Anthropology, vist http://econanthro.org.

Extended Call for Papers on the Anthropology of Food: NEAA Bulletin

Call for Papers - Extended Deadline to December 1, 2013

The Anthropology of Food

The field of anthropology perhaps more than any other academic discipline knows very well that what you eat tells us a lot about who you are.  Eating is one of the few fundamental things we all have to do.  Culture and biology work together to shape our identity through our food by moderating what, when, and where we eat.  For this issue of the NEAA Bulletin we are looking for a diverse set of submissions that span the biocultural dimensions of food and the human experience across time and space.  Broad topical areas for inclusion in this volume are meant to encompass the five fields of holistic anthropological inquiry.  A sample of themes includes: methodological and theoretical approaches to investigating the anthropology of food and foodways (e.g., through the lens of ethnic identity, gender, kinship, religion, language, political and economic systems, and/or social structures); the biocultural evolution of the human diet (e.g., drawing from the fields of primatology, paleoanthropology, archaeology, and/or molecular biology); the political-economy of food systems and food policy (e.g., globalization and consolidation of world food production and consumption, agricultural subsidies, food waste, climate change, biotechnology, farm labor, fair trade, food rights, food justice and/or food sovereignty); and world food problems (e.g., food insecurity, hunger, malnutrition, obesity and/or health disparities).  In addition to traditional article formats we welcome other innovative mediums for exploring the anthropology of food. 

If you are interested in submitting an article for inclusion in the Anthropology of Food issue of the NEAA Bulletin please submit a 200 word abstract/proposal to Barrett P. Brenton, Guest-Editor, brentonb@stjohns.eduby December 1, 2013.  We are expecting a tight publication schedule so that accepted submissions will be included in the Spring 2014 issue. 

The NEAA Bulletin is a peer-reviewed series published regularly by the Northeastern Anthropological Association. The Bulletin is designed to promote and disseminate original high quality anthropological scholarship. The series is intended for professional anthropologists and students. The NEAA Bulletin publishes research covering the traditional four fields of anthropology as well as applied work.

Call for Papers: Anthropology News

Anthropology News is calling for papers on teaching tools. Suggested topics for submission include:

• Incorporating technologies into teaching
• Online education tips
• Tips for becoming a successful educator
• Tools for balancing teaching with other responsibilities, such as work at nonprofits, university service, or scholarship

The deadline for proposals is December 5.

For further details and guidelines for submissions, visit AN Seeks Proposals for Series on Teaching Tools, or www.anthropology-news.org.