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I. Please spread the word
Extended Deadline... 1/23/04

The Ends of Violence: Detonations of Vision
Visual Studies Graduate Conference, March 12 -13, 2004, University of
California, Irvine

Keynote Address by Beatrice Hanssen, Professor of German, University of
Georgia.

In a context of a global "War Against Terror," ethnic and tribal warfare,
and multiple "dirty wars" against political dissidents, the impoverished,
and racially and sexually marginalized, this conference aims to rethink
notions of violence by looking at how it structures and shapes everyday
life. Questioning the common belief that overt violence is symptomatic of
modernity in its many forms and locations, our goal is to excavate and make
visible the hidden violences of visuality and ideology that infiltrate and
shape the conditions of existence in a multitude of contexts.

Possible submissions include but are not limited to:
Violences of:
Discipline
Media/Medium
Margins/Borders
Performance
Spaces
The Body
The Senses
Language
The Nation/The State
Aesthetics
Theory
History

Submissions due January 23, 2004.

Please send a 200-word abstract and a brief biographical statement as a
word.doc attachment to: submissions@endsofviolence.org

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II.FP for SLS Paris: Islam & the West: Science, Art, Technology

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 27

Early Modern Islam and the West: Science, Art, Technology

SLS Paris 2004 (Society for Literature and Science). June 23-26, at
the Cité Universitaire.

Session(s) on the encounter (conflict, exchange, resistance,
appropriation) between medieval and early modern European/Christian
culture and the culture of Islam. Mathematics and technology,
painting and architecture, ornamental design, astronomy, cosmology,
epistemology.

Two-page abstract by January 27. Jim Swan, English Department, 306
Clemens Hall, SUNY/Buffalo. Buffalo, NY 14260. Email attachments are
welcome: jswan@buffalo.edu.

Additional enquiries about SLS Paris or proposals for papers on any
other topic should be addressed directly to slsparis04@aol.com 

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III. Call for Proposals:

Dear Colleagues,

We invite you to participate in the workshop we are organizing at 
the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists in Vienna, Austria, 8-12 September 2004. Our panel,
entitled " Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology," seeks to 
stimulate a critical interdisciplinary conversation on affinities and
dissonances between minority rights, culture, and the discipline and
practice of anthropology (the full abstract of the workshop is below). 
We are soliciting papers advancing theoretical interventions and
interrogating extant debates, as well as new ethnographic, and
preferably comparative, case studies.

Please send your proposals by email to both conveners. The deadline 
for submitting abstracts is February 15, 2004.

We are hoping to see you among us in Vienna....

Reetta Toivanen & Levent Soysal

Dr. Reetta Toivanen
Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Schiffbauerdamm 19
D- 10117 Berlin
Tel. +49-30-2093 3700
Fax +49-30-2093 3726
reetta.toivanen@abo.fi

Dr. Levent Soysal
Chair, Department of Radio, Television, and Cinema
Kadir Has University
Cibali Hisaralti Caddesi
34230 Fatih, Istanbul/Turkey
Tel: +90-212-533-6532 x638
Fax: +90-212-533-6515
Email: levsoy@khas.edu.tr (alternatively lsoysal@superonline.com)


Workshop Abstract: Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology

What is the place of social anthropology in the field of 
anti-discrimination law and minority rights? Such concepts as 
culture, tradition, ethnicity, nation or race are core concepts of
anthropological thinking and analysis. Simultaneously, they play 
an important role in international legislation on human rights, especially
when lawyers deal with minority right issues. Thus, jurisprudence 
may legally entitle peoples to their cultures or may deny them the
corresponding rights. As the concepts used in the courtrooms are never
of a neutral origin, social anthropologists are increasingly paying
attention to the problems related to "struggles over cultural rights".
How can anthropology help us to engage and rethink the powerful 
of frameworks of human rights and to take the concept of equality
seriously, as well as reconsidering its own core analytical constructs
in the process? Until 29 July 2003 all EU member states should have
adopted a new EU anti-discrimination directive ("race-directive") into
their national legislations. While most of the states certainly had
tried hard to meet the requirements in time, a great number of them
still failed. The arguments used by state representatives and
NGO-activists reveal a lot about European societies, as both old 
and new EU members make a rather tactical use of the transposition.
The workshop aims to take the "race-directive" and recent case law
produced by the European Court of Human Rights as an empirical basis
for conceptual and theoretical discussions. 

We encourage potential contributors to submit paper proposals (no longer
that 250 words), tackling with questions of minority rights, anti-racism,
and anti-discrimination and initiating an in-depth debate on the use 
of the above mentioned "core concepts" of anthropology and their possible
consequences as they relate to the field of human rights and its practice
today in the world and in particular in Europe. 

(Please note that the title of the workshop is misprinted as 
"Anti-discrimination and Culture" in the print version of EASA's 
Call for Proposals.)

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IV. CALL FOR PAPERS: EXTENDED DEADLINE

Proposals are still be invited for presentations at

Cooking Culture: Food and Consumption in the Nineteenth Century
Thursday-Friday 29-30 July 2004
Institute of English Studies
Senate House, London

"Dining is the privilege of civilization," quipped best-selling cookbook writer Isabella Beeton in her famous and much reprinted tome The Book of Household Management. What, however, did dining mean to
the Victorians? What was the importance of food production, consumption, and distribution to nineteenth-century literature, culture and society? What does the study of Victorian foodways tell us about Britain's sense of self and its place in the world? How does it elucidate Victorian understandings of the domestic and the foreign, of subsistence and luxury, and of gender relations? How did the growth of the cookbook genre, the birth of celebrity chefs such
as Alexis Soyer, and the incorporation of the produce of empire into the British diet affect Victorian culture? How can studies of Victorian food and dining contribute to recent critical interest in questions of affect, feelings, and taste?

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore all aspects of nineteenth-century food culture. We invite participation from literary scholars, historians, anthropologists, art historians, and others, as well as people studying food practices among communities
outside of Britain (the Americas, the Continent, Asia, etc.) during this period. We are particularly interested in papers that touch on issues of empire and ethnicity or those that deal with Britain's
engagement with cuisines across the globe.

Possible topics include but are not limited to:

Ireland and Irish Food
Imperial consumption
Foreign Foods and Exotica
Food taboos
Servants, Class and Food
Growing Food
Restaurants
Food advertising
Food safety and sanitation
Commerce and shipping
Eating in literature
Cookery books
Feeding Children
Vegetarianism
Dieting
Kitchens
Foreign food
Restaurants, Taverns, and Inns
Gluttony
Cannibalism

Please send 1-page proposals, a short CV, and any audiovisual requests by
23 January 2004 to the organizers Suzanne Daly
(sdaly@english.umass.edu) and Ross Forman (rf19@soas.ac.uk).


-- Ross G. Forman AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures at UCL 
and SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies Russell Square London 
WC1H 0XG http://www.soas.ac.uk/literatures /> 020 7898 4268 Ross G. 
Forman, PhD AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures Room 389 SOAS 
Thornhaugh Street London WC1H 0XG 020 7898 4268

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V. Baris Kültürü için Insan Güvenligi

Uluslararasi Baris Eğitimi Enstitüsü - IIPE 2004
Sabanci Üniversitesi, Istanbul
1-7 Agustos 2004

2004 yili Uluslararasi Baris Egitimi Enstitüsü (IIPE), Sabanci 
Üniversitesi ve Columbia Üniversitesi Baris Egitimi Merkezi isbirligiyle 
gerçeklestirilecektir. 1982 yilindan bu yana dünyanin farkli yerlerinde 
düzenlenen IIPE, baris egitimi ve baris kültürünün gelistirilmesi ile 
ilgilenen, bu alanlarda çalismalar yapan herkese açiktir. Bir hafta 
süren program çerçevesinde katilimcilar, çok kültürlü ve isbirligine 
dayali bir ortamda, paneller, atölye çalismalari, degerlendirme gruplari 
ve geziler araciligiyla çalismalarini birbirleriyle paylasacak, bölgesel 
ve küresel isbirligi olasiliklarini arastiracaklardir.

2004 yilinda IIPE "insan güvenligi" kavrami üzerinde yogunlasacaktir. 
Orta Dogu, Kafkaslar ve Balkanlar'a baktigimizda, insan güvenligi 
alanindaki eksikliklerin bir çok çatismanin hem nedeni hem de sonucu 
oldugunu görüyoruz. Bu yilki Enstitü, militarizasyon, devlet ve devlet 
disi aktörler tarafindan islenen insan haklari ihlalleri, kadinlarin 
yasadiklari her türlü ayrimcilik ve baski, siddet ve önyargi üreten 
çatisma kültürleri gibi temalar çerçevesinde insan güvenligi kavramini 
bu bölge (ve baska bölgeler) için ne ifade ettiği ve nasil 
gelistirilebilecegi üzerinde duracaktir. Bu baglamda, baris egitimi 
yöntem ve uygulamalarinin bu alanda saglayabilecegi katki öncelikle ele 
alinacak konular arasindadir.

Önemli not: Enstitü boyunca dünyanin çesitli ülkelerinden gelen 
katilimcilar tüm zamanlarini birlikte geçireceklerinden Ingilizce ortak 
dil olacaktir. Böylesi yogun bir etkilesim ortaminda çeviri yoluyla 
iliski kurmak mümkün degildir. Dolayisiyla, katilimcilarin rahat 
iletisim kurabilecek seviyede Ingilizce bilmeleri gerekmektedir. Bu 
zorunlulugu anlayisla karsilayacaginizi umariz.


Kayit Bilgileri

Enstitü 1-7 Agustos 2004 tarihinde Sabanci Üniversitesi Tuzla Kampüsünde 
gerçeklestirilecektir.

Kayit ücreti $450'dir. Kayit ücretine oda, yemek, sehir-içi ulasim 
masraflari dahildir. Istanbul'dan katilacaklarin Sabanci Üniversitesi 
kampüsünde kalmayacaklarini bildirmeleri halinde kayit ücretinde
gerekli indirim yapilacaktir.

Kayitlar baslamistir. Yer kisitli oldugundan mümkün olan en kisa zamanda 
basvurmanizi öneririz.

Basvuru sonuçlari 15 Mart 2004'ten sonra duyurulacaktir.

Oldukça sinirli miktarda (kismi) burs imkani bulunmaktadir.

Sorulariniz için:

TDP, Sabanci Universitesi
Orhanli, Tuzla
81474 Istanbul
iipe@sabanciuniv.edu