CALL FOR SHORT RESEARCH REPORTS ON THE “COKE COMPLEX”
From: Mike and Kim Fortun, Editors, Cultural Anthropology
culanth@rpi.edu
Date: May 10, 2006
As part of a continuing effort to draw out the near-term political relevance of scholarly work, we are seeking short (approximately 6,000 words) reports on various aspects of what we have come to think of as the “Coke Complex” – the multiplicity of examples, practices, organizational forms and political economic dynamics that enable and index the Coca Cola Company and the so-called “New Economy” in which Coca Cola now operates. We hope to receive papers that address a variety of scales and dimensions of the Coke Complex. Papers focused on communities where Coca Cola Company operates production facilities will be welcomed, for example, as will papers focused on corporate information strategies, on branding and consumption practices, and on relationships between companies like Coca Cola, national governments and international organizations. We encourage authors to think broadly and creatively about how their research bears on the Coke Complex, and are happy to discuss possible angles. All submissions will be peer reviewed, on a schedule that will allow timely publication.
          This call follows a recent decision by the Society for Cultural Anthropology to endorse boycott actions against Coca Cola Company based on the growing anthropological record of problems in communities where the Coca Cola Company operates and with operations of Coca Cola Company globally.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE COCA-COLA ISSUE PLEASE SEE THIS PAGE

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CALL FOR PAPERS for a NEW JOURNAL
Gender and Language
Edited by
Bonnie McElhinny, University of Toronto, Canada and
Sara Mills, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Date: May 12, 2006
This new journal Gender and Language aims to publish cutting edge research. We are interested in publishing articles on any aspect of the subject of language and gender. We welcome research employing a range of linguistic approaches (e.g. conversation analysis, discourse and text analysis, ethnography of communication, pragmatics, variationist sociolinguistics, interactional sociolinguistics, stylistics) and from a variety of disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, women and gender studies, education, philosophy, psychology, folklore, sociology, communication studies, queer studies, literary and cultural studies, as it aims to foster interdisciplinary discussion and dialogue among these disciplines.
           Gender and Language is the new journal of the International Gender and Language Association (IGALA). The journal will be published in May and November, and the inaugural issue will appear in 2006. For more information about IGALA, or to join the Association, visit the IGALA website: www.stanford.edu/group/igala
Submissions
Send contributions of up to 10000 words by email to the editors:
Bonnie McElhinny, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G3, Canada. Email: bonnie.mcelhinny@utoronto.ca or to
Sara Mills, Dept. of English, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield S10 2BP, UK. Email: s.l.mills@shu.ac.uk

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AES at AAA 2006 - Call for Invited Session Proposals: AES Councilors Lesley Gill and Carla Freeman are reviewing proposals for AES invited sessions at AAA 2006 (Nov. 15-19, San Jose, California). Please submit a session abstract and all proposed paper abstracts (or address any inquiries about invited sessions) to Lesley Gill by email at lesleygill@optonline.net   
                                     DEADLINE for submissions is March 1, 2006.
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Call for Papers/Conference Announcement (SANA):

"Anthropology in an Uncertain Age"

2006 Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of North America
April 20-22, 2006
Newman Conference Center
Baruch College
New York, NY

Deadline for Paper and Panel Submission: February 15, 2006

Keynote Speaker: Catherine Lutz, Brown University

The Society for the Anthropology of North America invites participants to discuss the state of anthropology in a period of uncertainty and change at our 2006 conference.

Please visit the SANA website for information on paper and panel submissions, the CFP in its entirety, etc:
http://sananet.org/2006conf/papers.html

 

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