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Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology

Description: This conference will bring together researchers who share an interest in sensory modes of approaching the past and will cross boundaries between chronological periods, geographical regions, and material specializations. Potential themes to be covered at the conference include the presentation of new results of sensory archaeological projects; multisensory and synesthetic aspects of the production and consumption of material culture; the recognition of sensory hierarchies in past societies; embodied practices, including memory; and the dissemination of sensuous pasts in the present. Early career scholars are encouraged to apply. Papers presented at the conference are eligible for inclusion in a peer-reviewed volume, ...

Keywords: archaeology, humanities, anthropology, classics

Aspirations and Poverty - An Interdisciplinary Workshop

Description: The University of Warwick Economics Department, with support from the ESRC and DFID, is organizing an Interdisciplinary Workshop on “Aspirations and Poverty” to be held at the University of Warwick (Scarman House) on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th, December 2009 Although some presentations will be made by invited Keynote Speakers, we wish to invite the submission of all papers relevant to the topic of “Aspirations and Poverty”. Contributed papers may be in draft version. We expect a good mix of theoretical and applied work. Scholars from disciplines other than economics – e.g. psychology, philosophy, sociology and anthropology – are especially ...

Keywords: psychology, economics, sociology, anthropology

International Conference Contextualizing Magic

Description: International conference on “Contextualizing Magic”. Rome, November 2009. The Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, together with the Soprintendenza Speciale per i beni archeologici di Roma (Ministero per i beni e Attività culturali), is organizing an international conference on ancient magic under the title “Contextualizing Magic”, to be held in Rome at the Palazzo Massimo alle Terme on 9-11th November 2009. The recent finds in the Fountain of Anna Perenna at Rome and in the joint temple of Isis and Mater Magna in Mainz have produced important new information about magic rituals and their relation to religion in the Ancient ...

Keywords: history, religion, archaeology, anthropology

Purlieu: A Philosophical Journal

Description: Purlieu's Premier Issue is coming early in the Fall of 2010. We are now accepting papers for the first edition, open to all students. Abstracts (300-700 Words) must be submitted electronically no later than June 7, 2010. First Volume to be Published September 7, 2010 with an interview about the state of the contemporary university with Dr. Gretchen Bataille. www.purlieujournal.com Purlieu is a student publication, both print and electronic, committed to highlighting undergraduate and graduate work in all areas of Philosophy and philosophical perspectives from, but not limited to: Political Science, Ecology, Literature, Education, Communication Studies, Linguistics, Sociology, Anthropology, Gender ...

Keywords: philosophy, sociology, anthropology, political science

AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Volume 6, 2010

Description: AlterNative is announcing a general call for papers to be published in Volume 6, 2010. AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal. It aims to present Indigenous worldviews from native Indigenous perspectives. It is dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of native Indigenous knowledge that uniquely belongs to cultural, traditional, tribal and aboriginal peoples as well as first nations, from around the world. Submissions responding to this general call for papers should relate to one or more of themes of the journal: • Origins • Place • Peoples • Community • Culture • Traditional and ...

Keywords: anthropology, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies

Rutgers Journal of Bioethics: Spring Issue

Description: Paper Submission Bioethics Society Mission Statement: As members of the Bioethics Society of Rutgers University, we hope to raise general awareness of issues in bioethics within the Rutgers community by method of discussion and publication. Although the beliefs and opinions regarding bioethical issues of this group are not unanimous, we are united by our ardent belief that the student population at Rutgers should be made aware of the implications of biological research, medicine, and other topics of bioethical controversy. Journal Purpose: In order to bring to light these issues, we are now accepting any papers that fall under the vast ...

Keywords: history, medicine, bioethics, anthropology

Open Call for the Collection of Papers in Honor of Valtazar Bogišić

Description: Open Call for the Collection of Papers – F E S T S C H R I F T – In Honor of Valtazar Bogišić (1834-1908) A Cofounder of Legal Sociology and Legal Ethnology Research Dear colleagues, In honor of Valtazar Bogisic, a jurist, ethnologist and a historian and follower of the Savigny historical school of law, The Institute of Comparative Law from Belgrade shall issue a Festschrift which will include studies on law, anthropology, philology-folkloristics as well as the sociology of the family. The Festschrift will be international in character. So far around 40 papers have been announced from ...

Keywords: law, anthropology, sociology of law, folkloristics

Sociologie Romaneasca (Romanian Sociology)

Description: "Rural area in Eastern Europe, between reconstruction and dissolution". Special issue of the journal Sociologie Românească (Romanian Sociology) Place of publication: Bucharest, Romania Type of publication: print and online Publication date: July 2012 Published by/ edited by: Romanian Sociological Association, in collaboration with European Institute Romania Topics: Large parts of Eastern European population lives in rural areas, which have an obvious developmental deficit compared to the cities. The sociological and anthropological literature on this issue is far from providing a consistent view of rural specificity and its possible developments. May the return to small peasant property be interpreted in the ...

Keywords: rural, sociology, eastern europe, anthropology