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Hello All,

I would appreciate some interesting suggestions for A level students (17/18 yrs old) for mini-fieldwork in their own surroundings.

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International Seminar:

Gender and Legal Pluralism in Latin-America 10-12 May 2010.

 

Key-note speakers

Shannon Speed ( USA)

Victoria Chenaut ( CIESAS GOLFO- MEXICO )

Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Oslo)

John-Andrew McNeish (Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen)

 

This three day international seminar aims to shed light aims to shed light on theoretical discussions within gender and legal pluralism in Latin-America .In situations of cultural diversity, or complex legal pluralism, the norms, restrictions and social sanctions can result in differences in the protection of rights of women or men. In this international conference the discrimination of indigenous women in the political process in Latin- America will be analyzed in a comparative perspective.

It will be a preparation for a workshop over the same topic held at Latin-American Network for Legal Anthropology ( RELAJU)  in Lima Peru the 2- 6 august 2010 consult website http://www.relaju.org/congreso/index.php. Chaired by Lars Leer and Magalis Berget  with participants from North America, Latin America, Europe  and Norway. A CD-Rom and a peer-reviewed book publication will be published in the aftermath of the international conference.
Scholars and Ph.D students from different disciplines with a common interest gender, legal pluralism and indigenous rights are invited to participate. The seminar is also open for the public and representatives from NGOs.

 

Deadline for registration for participants with or without paper 26th March 2010.

 

Deadline for the call for papers 30th-March 2010.

 

A website with further details and registration information will be released 18 th March 2010. Consult www.hifm.no

 

The subject for the conference:

In situations of cultural diversity and complex legal pluralism, norms, restrictions and social sanctions can result in differences in the protection of rights of women and men respectively. This conference is dedicated to a comparative analysis of the discrimination of indigenous women in political processes in Latin America..

 Paralell Sessions

 

1) The Rights of Women in Contexts of Legal Pluralism.

2) Communitarian Justice and Gender in Cross-Cultural Contexts

3) Gender violence and Human Rights. The Strategies of Indigenous Women of Using

International Law to Achieve Justice and Gender Equality.

4) The Spaces of Negotiation, Agency and Redress in the Legal System.

5) The Appropriation and Use of Transglobal Feminist Discourses by Indigenous women in Latin-America.

6) Gender equality, Poverty reduction and Complex Legal Pluralism.

 

 Tentative Programme

Day 1: Monday 10th May

 

9.00- 10.00 Registration

10.00-10.15 Introduction

 10.00-11.45 Opening Keynote Speaker.

.”Remapping Gender and Justice, and Rights in the Indigenous Americas”, Shannon Speed- Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin..

11.45-12.45 Lunch

12.45-13.45  Keynotes speech  “An Accumulated Rage: Gender Justice and Gendered Violence in Bolivia's Moment of Transformation”, John Andrew Mcneish, Senior Researcher at Chr.Michelsens Institute (CMI) and leader of the Norwegian Research Council Financed project "Poverty Reduction and Gender Justice in Contexts of Complex Legal Pluralism

14:30-16:30 Parallell  Sessions  (1 and 2)

19.00   Dinner

 

Day 2: Tuesday 11th May

 

9.00-10.00- Opening Key note Speaker- Gender and Complex Legal Pluralism in China, Susanne Brandtstadter, Associate Professor,University of Oslo   

10. 00- 10.15 Coffee break

10.15-11.15 Key Note Speech “Legal Anthropology and Gender in Mexico”, Victoria Chenaut, Senior Researcher, CIESAS Golfo.-Xalapa, Veracruz 10.15-11.15 

11.15-12.15 Lunch

12.15.-14.15 Parallell Sessions (3 and 4) 

14. 15- 14.30 Coffee break

14.30-15.30 Panel Discussion

19.00  Dinner

   

Day 3 : Wednesday 12th May

 

9.00-10.00 Opening Key note  Janne Eriksen –Galdu ( Resource Center for Indigenous Rights)

10.00-10.15 Coffee Break  

10.15-11.15 . Speaker,Center for Gender Studies, University Of Tromsø

11.15-12.00 Lunch 

12.15.14.15.  Parallell Sessions (5 and 6)

14.15-   15.15  Panel Discussion 

15.15-16.00 Closing of Conference

 

 

General Call for papers

To propose a paper, please send a 250 word abstract in Spanish and English including title and full contact details to Lars.Leer@hifm.no, Hildebrando.Palacios@geog.uib.no, John.Mcneish@cmi..no or magalis.berget@hifm.no.
This call for papers will initially be open until 30th of March 2010, but late abstracts may be considered.  All abstracts will be peer-reviewed by the academic committee.

The aim of the conference is to prepare an arena for dialogue and for an exchange of ideas on gender, indigenous rights and legal pluralism. We invite researchers and doctoral candidates to take part in the discussions and to present papers.

Proceedings
Fully revised papers accepted at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings (ISBN-referred electronic format with international distribution). We are also exploring opportunities to publish an edited book and special issues of peer reviewed academic journals based on a selection of papers (developed into full articles). More info on this shall be available shortly after the event.

 

 

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“Perception, Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media”

Key Words: sensory ethnography, media production, anthropology of the senses, aesthetics, practice, circulation, affect

 

Session Abstract:

This panel is organized by graduate students at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab in conjunction with the launch of a new academic journal of sensory ethnography. Selected projects/papers will have the opportunity to be published in the first edition of the Journal of Sensory Ethnography (working title).

 

Through this panel we aim to recognize and problematize the relationship between theoretical abstraction and material concreteness, to reimagine the relationship between sensing, knowing, and thinking, and to reexamine the implications of this for ethnographic media. "Sensory ethnography" holds promises of engaged scholarship that explores the evocative and representative, the affective and effective, the feeling and the meaning of salient features of everyday life.

 

Today the potential for innumerable combinations of media promises innovative modes of producing, transmitting, circulating and generating ethnographic material. This panel seeks to discuss these various modes and mediums vis-à-vis its relevance to improving our understanding of culturally mediated apprehension of sensoria. Submitted abstracts may include but are not limited to paper presentations, video, audio recording, and multimedia projects with a goal to elaborate the capacity of these modes for critical engagement with the emerging scholarship of sensory ethnography. Panel abstracts can explore (but are not limited to) such themes as: image production and circulation, senses and religion, senses and the city, memory, place-making, affect and publics, senses of home, sound/soundscapes, senses and the built environment, senses and gender, media and perception, ethnographic methodologies/ethics/research and sensory engagement.

 

Please submit abstracts, no later than March 26th, to:

Julia Yezbick: yezbick@fas.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department

Harvard University

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Julia Yezbick replied to Norman Schräpel's discussion 'Link your work!' in the group Visual Anthropology

“Perception, Production and Circulation: Sensory Ethnography through Media”

Key Words: sensory ethnography, media production, anthropology of the senses, aesthetics, practice, circulation, affect

 

Session Abstract:

This panel is organized by graduate students at Harvard University’s Sensory Ethnography Lab in conjunction with the launch of a new academic journal of sensory ethnography. Selected projects/papers will have the opportunity to be published in the first edition of the Journal of Sensory Ethnography (working title).

 

Through this panel we aim to recognize and problematize the relationship between theoretical abstraction and material concreteness, to reimagine the relationship between sensing, knowing, and thinking, and to reexamine the implications of this for ethnographic media. "Sensory ethnography" holds promises of engaged scholarship that explores the evocative and representative, the affective and effective, the feeling and the meaning of salient features of everyday life.

 

Today the potential for innumerable combinations of media promises innovative modes of producing, transmitting, circulating and generating ethnographic material. This panel seeks to discuss these various modes and mediums vis-à-vis its relevance to improving our understanding of culturally mediated apprehension of sensoria. Submitted abstracts may include but are not limited to paper presentations, video, audio recording, and multimedia projects with a goal to elaborate the capacity of these modes for critical engagement with the emerging scholarship of sensory ethnography. Panel abstracts can explore (but are not limited to) such themes as: image production and circulation, senses and religion, senses and the city, memory, place-making, affect and publics, senses of home, sound/soundscapes, senses and the built environment, senses and gender, media and perception, ethnographic methodologies/ethics/research and sensory engagement.

 

Please submit abstracts, no later than March 26th, to:

Julia Yezbick: yezbick@fas.harvard.edu

PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department

Harvard University