By Frances Rothstein, AES Secretary

• The program from the 2007 AES/CASCA Toronto Meetings can be downloaded here. (.pdf)

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From all accounts the AES/CASCA Conference in Toronto, May 9 - 12 was very successful. The Conference was well attended with over seven hundred people registering and the sessions were quite stimulating. The lovely weather, convenient and comfortable setting at the University of Toronto, and the generous welcome from the Canadians of CASCA contributed to a very relaxed atmosphere that provided an excellent context for meeting and talking with old and new friends. Thanks to Councilor and AES Conference Organizer Matti Bunzl’s efforts to provide many student travel grants and Graduate Student Representative Becca Prahl’s organization of a number of events of interest to students, student participation was unusually strong. Becca organized a number of useful workshops on IRBs, funding, and publishing as well as an AES/CASCA student party.  read more »

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2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize Announcement
Submission deadline for papers is April 15, 2007

The AES is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize for best graduate student essay presented at the 2007 AES spring meeting.

The prize, which began in about 1970 and was discontinued in the 1980s, was commemorated by a silver medallion made by a Hopi silversmith. The design of this medallion utilizes a spider symbol common to Hopi pottery design. It appears on this website as the AES logo.

The prize is given every other year for the best graduate student paper delivered at the spring meeting. The Elsie Clews Parsons Prize was most recently awarded in Spring 2005 to Marc David (UNC, Chapel Hill).

Graduate students interested in applying for the 2007 Elsie Clews Parsons Prize should mail three copies of the complete paper to be preented at AES/CASCA in Toronto to:

Fran Rothstein, AES Board Secretary
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice,
Towson University, Towson, MD 21252-0001

Papers must be received by April 15, 2007.

Papers should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, previously unpublished, and should conform to American Ethnologist style guidelines.  read more »

Inquiries may be sent to Fran Rothstein at FRothstein@towson.edu (but please do not send papers electronically.

AES 2007 Book and Paper Prizes Announcement:
Sharon Stevens First Book Prize
AES Senior Book Prize
Elsie Clews Parson Prize (for Student Paper Read at Spring AES Meetings)

PLEASE CIRCULATE this announcement to authors, publishers, students, and colleagues. Please note May 15 deadline for submission for each book prize and the April 15 deadline for submitting papers for the ECP prize.

Every other year, the American Ethnological Association awards two prizes for books that speak to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy. Ethnographies and critical works in contemporary theory -- single-authored or multi-authored but not edited collections, published in 2005-2007 -- are eligible. One prize is for a work by a senior scholar. The second, the Sharon Stephens Prize, is awarded for a first book. Nominations require a letter from a scholar (who is not a representative of a press) describing the appropriateness of the book for the relevant AES Book Prize, and three copies of the book -- sent directly to each member of the relevant prize committee by May 15, 2007. For more information, please contact the relevant committee chair.

For details about submitting and nominating books, click here to read more...  read more »

All abstracts should be 150 words in length.

You do NOT need to be a registered member of THIS site (AESonline.org) to register or submit papers or panels. Please follow THIS LINK:

More details are in the article below this.  read more »

REGISTRATION DEADLINE APPROACHING FEB. 15!

Call for Submissions and Registration Information:

Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms

AES/CASCA Joint Conference
May 8-12 , 2007
Toronto, Canada

The American Ethnological Association (AES) and the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) invite the submission of papers, sessions, symposia, roundtables, and workshops for the upcoming joint conference on the theme of “Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms.” The conference will be hosted by the University of Toronto.

Read the rest of this article for more information about the conference theme, registration, and other relevant issues (including information about the Elsie Clews Parsons Prize, the AES award for best graduate student paper). The final deadline for conference registration and submissions is February 15, 2007.  read more »

To go directly to the registration site for the AES/CASCA conference and to submit a proposal for a paper or a session, click here: Meeting Registration and Paper/Session Submission

A limited number of competitive travel grants are available to student members of AES presenting at our spring conference (AES/CASCA, Toronto). To apply, please email your paper abstract and contact information to Matti Bunzl at bunzl@uiuc.edu by Februrary 15th, 2007.

9-12 May 2007

Details on submission procedures coming soon!

Also see the CASCA website and the U. Toronto conference website (still not online as of 10/4/06).

The “indigenous” and the “cosmopolitan” seem to exist as oppositional formations in the imaginary field demarcated by the local and the global. While the former seems rooted, timeless, and traditional; the latter appears mobile, contemporary, and (post)modern. As recent work by anthropologists has shown, both of these characterizations are quite deceptive. “Indigeneity” is a deeply current issue, which, over the past decade, has relentlessly forced itself onto social, political and academic agendas across the planet. While the question of who is and who is not “indigenous” was never innocent, it is becoming increasingly crucial in today's global and globalising world... read more »

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