Upcoming Events
Coffee Meet-and-Greet
w/Amy Radetsky, US Department of State Diplomat-in-Residence for N. Florida (bio attached)
Date: Monday, October 10th, 2016; Time: 1:30-3:00pm; Place: UF International Center Large Conference Room (located in the Hub)
Each year, the U.S. Department of State assigns experienced Foreign Service Officers to the position of Diplomat in Residence (DIR) at certain colleges and universities throughout the United States. DIRs share information with students about career opportunities with the US Department of State including the Foreign Service, student internships, positions, and funding opportunities. This support may include class talks, coffee hours, career seminars and more. Amy Radetsky, the new DIR for North Florida serving the University of Florida community. Make connections for future engagement with students in your college, department or academic unit. For questions, please contact Cindy Tarter at ctarter@ufic.ufl.edu.
Stepping Up Initiative (CSPAN)
An event co-sponsored with the Bob Graham Center regarding mental illness and the criminal justice system.
I wanted to make you are aware of a program we are hosing on Oct. 10 at the Bob Graham Center with Judge Steven Leifman and Leon Evans. The program will be held in the Pugh Hall Ocora and will focus on “Stepping Up” which is a national initiative aimed at reducing the number of people with mental illness that are in jail. We have recently learned that CSPAN will be here to film for later broadcast. We are hoping to generate a respectable audience for this program given the important subject matter and national media presence. I thought your organization may have interest and that you may have avenues by which to help us spread the word. A blurb is below and you can learn more about the initiative here: https://stepuptogether.org/. Thanks in advance for your consideration.
Judge Steven Leifman and Leon Evans will speak on Monday, Oct. 10, at 6 p.m. in the Pugh Hall Ocora. They will discuss the cutting-edge community programs that have been developed as part of the Stepping Up Initiative—a national initiative aimed at reducing the number of people with mental illness that are in jail. The Honorable Judge Steve Leifman of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, is the recipient of William H. Rehnquist Award for Judicial Excellence. He received the award for his groundbreaking work helping people with mental illnesses. Mr. Leon Evans, the chief executive officer of the Center for Health Care Services in Bexar County, Texas, developed an
award-winning jail diversion program and has become a national leader in improving mental health care through multi-stakeholder collaboration. The event is free and open to the public. Parking is available. It will also be streamed live at http://www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu/. To learn more about the Stepping Up Initiative visit https://stepuptogether.org/. The event is co-sponsored by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Bob Graham Center for Public Service.
2017 Society for Psychological Anthropology’s Biennial Meetings
We are pleased to announce that registration and abstract submission is now open for the 2017 Society for Psychological Anthropology’s Biennial Meetings in New Orleans!
We welcome papers, posters, and visual and multimedia presentations on any topic in psychological anthropology broadly conceived, including topics in cultural psychiatry, social and cultural determinants of psychopathology, and psychosocial treatments. All details on the conference and links to registration can be found on the conference website. Generous travel funding is available for early career, non-U.S. scholars working outside of the U.S. to participate in the conference through the SPA’s International Early Career Scholar Travel Grant program. We look forward to seeing you all in New Orleans in March 2017!
Additional Items of Interest
University of Montreal Job Posting
The Département d’anthropologie, Université de Montréal, invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in evolutionary biological anthropology, with a preferred research focus on the behavioral ecology of human or non-human primates, or on adaptation and phenotypic plasticity.
Responsibilities: The appointed candidate will be expected to teach at all three levels of the curriculum, supervise graduate students, engage in ongoing research and publication, and contribute to the academic life and reputation of the University.
Requirements:
• Ph.D. in anthropology or in a related discipline. Applications from ABDs will be considered as long as the doctoral degree is obtained by the starting date.
• Excellent dossier of relevant publications.
• University level teaching ability.
• Proficiency in French [N.B., this does not mean that you have to speak French at the time of hiring. Linguistic
Policy: The Université de Montréal is a Québec University with an international reputation. French is the language of instruction. To renew its teaching faculty, the University is intensively recruiting the world’s best specialists. In accordance with the institution’s language policy, the Université de Montréal provides support for newly-recruited faculty to attain proficiency in French.
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Starting Date : On or after June 1st, 2017.
Constitution of application
• The application must include the following documents:
– a cover letter
– a curriculum vitæ
– copies of recent publications and research
• Three letters of recommendation are also to be sent directly to the department chair by the referees.
Deadline : Application and letters of recommendation must be sent to the chair of the Département d’anthropologie by November 4th, 2016 at the following address:
M. Guy Lanoue, directeur
Département d’anthropologie
Faculté des arts et des sciences
Université de Montréal
C. P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
Montréal (QC) H3C 3J7
Application and letters of recommendation may also be sent to the following e-mail: suzane.girard@umontreal.ca. However, the signed originals are required and must be sent by post. For more information about the Department, please consult its Web site at: www.anthropo.umontreal.ca.
Job Posting: UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE – DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Assistant Professor (Tenure Track)
The Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware (https://www.anthropology.udel.edu/), invites applications for a tenure-track position in social or cultural anthropology at the assistant professor rank. The department applies holistic approaches to understand, analyze, and address the challenges and opportunities facing 21st-century global citizens. We seek social and cultural anthropologists who model an engaged approach to collaborative interdisciplinary research and teaching activities. Our academic aims are to help students, scholars, and society realize the importance of diverse human experiences over time and across space, and to promote social global justice.
Preferred applicants will have a) a demonstrated record of scholarship—ongoing fieldwork program, research, publications, and grant activity, b) expertise in social-cultural qualitative anthropological method(s) and or quantitative data analysis, c) research centered on contemporary issues of conflict, violence, and/or migration, including topics such as gender, ethnicity, and violence; warfare and the ethics of war; violence and identity; migration and conflict. The start date for the positions is September 1, 2017, and a Ph.D. in anthropology or its equivalent is required by the start of the appointment.
The Department of Anthropology offers undergraduate students a comparative, multicultural and cross-cultural, broad-based perspective on the human condition past and present, with majors in Anthropology and Anthropology Education. The Department has strong connections with several academic units at UD, including the Departments of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Political Science and International Relations, Women and Gender’s Studies, Communication, Geography, the School of Public Policy and Administration, and the College of Health Sciences.
Applicants must apply online (http://www.udel.edu/udjobs) using the Interfolio® system. Candidates should upload a cover letter clearly outlining their research expertise and teaching philosophy, a current curriculum vitae, up to two article preprints or reprints of scholarship, and three letters of reference. Consideration of applications will begin October 15, 2016, and continue until the position is filled. Submit inquiries, but not application materials, to Professor Carla Guerrón Montero (cguerron@udel.edu), Search Committee Chair.
Founded in 1743, the University of Delaware (www.udel.edu) combines tradition and innovation, offering students a rich heritage along with the latest in instructional and research technology. Located in Newark, Delaware, within 2 hours of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., the University is one of the oldest land-grant institutions in the nation. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching classifies UD as a research university with very high research activity. With external funding exceeding $200 million, the University ranks among the top 100 universities in federal R&D support for science and engineering and has nationally recognized research. The Department is located within the College of Arts & Sciences. With 23 academic departments, 27 interdisciplinary programs and centers, and more than 10,000 students, the College is the largest college on campus (www.cas.udel.edu). UD is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages applications from minority group members and women.
A New Type of Academic Conference
The environmental cost of flying to and from academic conferences is staggering. When we recently calculated the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus, we discovered that roughly a third of our GHG emissions come from air travel to conferences, talks, and meetings. Putting these GHG emissions into human terms, this is equal to the total annual carbon footprint of a city of 27,500 people living in India. And UCSB is just one of nearly 5000 colleges and universities in the U.S. alone.
This issue can also be approached personally. When Peter Kalmus, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, did the math for a recent article in Grist, he found that two-thirds of his personal GHG emissions annually came from air travel to and from conferences and meetings.
At UCSB we have been experimenting with a new type of nearly-carbon neutral (NCN) conference that takes place online (the talks are prerecorded; the Q&A sessions interactive) and which has GHG emissions that are less than 1% of its traditional fly-in counterpart. Because we use open source software, such a conference can be staged for nearly zero cost. An individual familiar with WordPress installations should be able to have a conference space (website) prepared in less than a day.
My reason for writing is that we have created a White Paper / Practical Guide that both explains the rationale behind this NCN conference approach and also details how to coordinate such an event: http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=14080. If you are planning a conference in 2016-17, we urge you to consider this approach. Please note that this is not in any way a commercial venture. We are just a group of faculty interested in doing what we can to help mitigate our profession’s worrisome impact on climate change by freely sharing our experience.
Note that this conference model differs significantly from a typical webinar, as it does not use Skype, Zoom.us, WebEx, GoToMeeting, or any such real-time teleconferencing solution. In a nutshell, here is how it works:
1) Speakers record their own talks. This can be A) a video of them speaking, generally filmed with a webcam or smartphone, B) a screen recording of a presentation, such as a PowerPoint, or C) a hybrid of the two, with speaker and presentation alternately or simultaneously onscreen. Because they are prerecorded, talks are closed captioned for greater accessibility.
2) Talks are viewed on the conference website. Once they are made available on the conference website, the streaming talks can be viewed at any time. Talks are organized into panels (i.e. individual webpages) that generally have three speakers each and a shared Q&A session – just like a traditional conference.
3) Participants contribute to an online Q&A session. During the time that the conference is open, which is generally two or three weeks, participants can take part in the Q&A sessions for the panels, which are similar to online forums, by posing and responding to written questions and comments. Because comments can be made at any time in any time zone, scholars from across the globe can equally take part in the conference.
For an example of this approach, please visit the website from our May 2016 NCN conference on “Climate Change: Views from the Humanities,” which provides a full archive of the event, including all talk videos and Q&A sessions: http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=12687.
To see this model in action (and to take part in the Q&A sessions, if you like), visit the website for our next NCN conference, “The World in 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures,” which will take place from October 24 to November 14, 2016: http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=14895. Keynote speakers include Bill McKibben, Patrick Bond, Erik Assadourian, and Margaret Klein Salamon. A truly international event, we have over 50 speakers from six continents.
Although originally conceived of as a way to help mitigate climate change, this NCN conference model has additional advantages:
1) Because of the high cost of airfare, scholars from many developing countries have long been summarily excluded from international conferences. Without the requirement of travel, scholars can participate from nearly anywhere on the globe, especially as asynchronous talks and Q&A sessions, privileging no one locale, eliminate the challenge presented by world time zones – thereby facilitating truly global, interactive conferences.
2) This conference approach is generally more accessible than its traditional counterparts, as A) eliminating travel sidesteps many hurdles to physical accessibility, B) prerecorded talks can be closed captioned for hard-of-hearing individuals, and, C) with respect to the blind and visually impaired, the conference website can be optimized to work with audio screen readers and talks can also be made available as audio podcasts.
3) Similar to open-access journals, the lasting archive created by the conference (both recorded talks and written Q&A discussion) gives nearly anyone anywhere with relatively affordable technology instant and lasting access to all the cutting-edge material introduced at the event. In contrast, traditional conferences are often closed-door affairs open to only a privileged few.
4) The text-based Q&A sessions, which were open for the three-week duration of the May 2016 UCSB conference, on average generated three times more discussion than takes place at its traditional counterpart. One of the sessions generated ten times more discussion, making clear that, while different from a traditional conference, personal interaction was not only possible, but in certain respects superior.
5) Because the cost of such a conference is considerably less than its traditional counterparts, a range of groups and institutions that could not ordinarily stage an event of this sort are now able to do so. This includes universities in the developing world previously lacking the significant financial resources required to coordinate international conferences.
6) Conference talks can be closed captioned in more than one language. Although this was not done for the May 2016 conference, future UCSB events are being planned with talks by speakers in their native languages that will be closed captioned in English. In addition, we plan to have all talks captioned in Spanish as well as English.
For more details, do check out our White Paper / Practical Guide: http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=14080. If you have any questions, please feel free to send them directly to me at the below email address.
With many thanks for considering this NCN conference approach!
Ken Hiltner, Professor, English and Environmental Studies, Director, Environmental Humanities Initiative,
3431 South Hall Administrative Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3170
hiltner@english.ucsb.edu, ehc.english.ucsb.edu, kenhiltner.com
TRAC Call for papers
We are pleased to announce 27th annual Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference TRAC to be held at Durham University Durham, UK 28 to 31 March 2017
TRAC Durham, organized by Durham University Departments of Archaeology and Classics, will be a multidisciplinary symposium of theoretical innovation in Roman scholarship. Located to the south of Hadrian’s Wall in Durham City, conference goers will be surrounded by a nuanced and lively Roman
landscape, which this conference aims to engage with and celebrate – 2017 marks the 30th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall as a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The TRAC 2017 Call for Papers is now open and will close on 18 November. We invite all submissions that critically engage with aspects of current theory and practice in Roman archaeology and scholarship, especially those that consider the impact of heritage and also the public. Please see the full list of TRAC sessions on our website, www.trac.org.uk. Paper submissions for TRAC sessions should include the speaker’s name, title, institution, and an abstract of no more than 300 words. Please indicate which session you wish to contribute to. If the session is oversubscribed, submitted papers will also be considered for the general session. Those wishing to present a poster should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words on their proposed topic, content and aims. Submissions should be sent by email to the Durham 2017 Organizing Committee at trac.2017@durham.ac.uk We are also pleased to feature a number of TRAC workshops. For more details regarding contributions, please see www.trac.org.uk. Deadline for the submission of papers, posters and workshop contributions 18 November 2016. More details regarding TRAC Durham can be found at www.trac.org.uk