FW: SAE Roundtable Luncheon registration

[Jillian Cavanaugh]

Hi All, 

please see below for information on the SAE roundtables at the upcoming
meetings in Montreal. They are always a good opportunity for interesting
discussion, and our own Susan Gal will be leading one!

Jillian

Jillian R. Cavanaugh
Associate Professor
Program Chair, Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2011
Member at Large, Society for Linguistic Anthropology 2009-2011
Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, Brooklyn College CUNY
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
(718)951-5000 ex. 3803
Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu



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From: Roland Moore <rolandmo at pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:53 PM
Subject: SAE Roundtable Luncheon registration
To: H-SAE at h-net.msu.edu


Please spread the following
From: Marysia Galbraith mgalbrai at GMAIL.COM

Please spread the following message that the SAE Roundtable Luncheon
registration is posted on the AAA Meetings website, under "workshops."

I look forward to seeing you in Montreal,
Marysia

You can now register for the SAE Roundtable Luncheon on the AAA Meetings
website. Tickets are $45, or just $15 for students. It's a great opportunity
to discuss topics of central importance in the discipline with other
scholars, to contribute observations, and to ask questions, all while eating
a catered meal together. The SAE Roundtable Luncheon will be held at the AAA
meetings in Montreal on Saturday, November 19 from 12:15-2 PM.

If you are already registered for the meeting you should use this guide
http://dev.aaanet.org/wiki/sites/default/files/tutorial/workshop-tutorial.sw
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To register for the meeting and the roundtables
https://avectra.aaanet.org/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=AAAWeb&WebKey=ced2aab5
-ccd7-4f28-bd95-01edee542f5e


Once you sign in, go to the "workshops" link, and look for "5-0535 RT". Each
roundtable is listed separately (keep going down the list because they are
not all grouped together). Make sure you sign up right away because there
are only 8 seats at each table.


Table abstracts are posted below:


Society for the Anthropology of Europe Roundtables



Immigrants, Citizenship and Belonging

Moderator: Caroline B. Brettell (Southern Methodist University)



The theme of the 2011 meeting, ³Traces, Tidemarks, and Legacies² draws
attention to how distinctions are maintained or challenged. Ideas about
citizenship and belonging, particularly as these are applied to immigrant
newcomers, are fundamental to constructions of distinction and difference
and are hotly debated and negotiated in any number of immigrant receiving
societies. This round table discussion will explore the multiple meanings of
citizenship and belonging. It will address the ways in which ³immigrant
others² are ³framed² as well as how immigrants themselves construct their
own sense of belonging and their own ideas of social and cultural
citizenship. Participants will be encouraged to share their own research and
thinking on these critical issues.



Harvesting the Nation: The Place of Gardens in Contemporary Europe

Moderator: Melissa L. Caldwell (UC Santa Cruz)



Gardens have a long history across Europe, from aesthetically planned
pleasure parks to unruly professions of wilderness, from wartime allotments
to spaces of luxury food provision and recreation, and from plots rewarded
by the state to productive citizens to informal patches appropriated from
public spaces by immigrants in their new homes. In this roundtable we will
explore the variety of gardens and garden practices that exist across Europe
and consider their place in cultivating and nurturing vibrant forms of civic
engagement and ethics of personal and national health. We will consider how
gardens maintain and disrupt distinctions between urban and rural, leisure
and work, pleasure and pain. What kinds of issues become manifest through
practices that engage the earth, soil, and plants? What kinds of people and
citizens are cultivated through gardening practices? How have gardens shaped
the cultural and political landscape of Europe? How might we think of
gardens beyond their immediate connections to food and rethink of them as
spaces of political engagement in the New Europe?





Talking back: Discourses of Opposition to ³Europe² in East and West

Moderator: Susan Gal (University of Chicago)



On issues of minority languages, regional autonomy, policies on environment,
gender, sexuality, and on the rights of organized workers, Europeans -- in
different ways -- have increasingly turned from supporting the futures
offered by the European Union to rejecting those and even fighting against
them, often from rightist perspectives. Particularly interesting are the
responses of eastern and southern regions of the continent in the current
economic crisis, as well as the defensive moves of the core states. This
roundtable aims to compare the forms of opposition (how are they framed
discursively, how ritualized or mobilized), the politics and alliances of
opposition (left, right, or newly imagined positions), and the "traces" or
links they construct with each other (e.g. across east/west divides,
gender/family values, or religious/linguistic) and with historical movements
in other times and places.



The Future of Post-Communist Nostalgia

Moderator: Maya Nadkarni (Swarthmore College)



Over the past two decades, nostalgia for the socialist past has become
widespread as not only a cultural phenomenon, but also a conceptual category
through which many scholars seek to understand disparate responses to
postsocialist transformations in history, memory, and collective
identification more generally. Such studies have illuminated Kathleen
Stewart¹s well-known argument that nostalgia is a ³cultural practice and not
a given content² by demonstrating how across the former Soviet bloc, the
apparent similarity of nostalgic forms (the fond recollection of
socialist-era icons, styles, material goods, and cultural production) has
only highlighted the diversity of memories, socialities, and political
concerns that nostalgia animates in different contexts: from longing for
Russia¹s imperial past to East German pride in local products against
Western regimes of consumption, and from explicitly political visions that
seek to restore the material security of socialism to the dehistoricization
of nostalgia itself in the commodification of ³retro² style.


Inspired by this year¹s theme on traces, tidemarks, and legacies, this
roundtable will ask what has changed and what has remained the same for
nostalgia as both an object and a category of analysis more than twenty
years after the end of state socialism in Europe. With attention to the
similarities and discontinuities across and within specific national and
cultural contexts, we invite participants to discuss their research in light
of the following questions: What are the objects, forms, and practices of
post-communist nostalgia today? Who are the subjects and communities that
participate in nostalgia, and what kinds of cultural work does their
nostalgia enable? How do nostalgic yearnings intersect with national
historical politics and the transnational production of cosmopolitan
cultures of memory -- as well as shifting social, political, and economic
conditions that have recently ranged from the experience of the global
financial crisis to the ambivalences of EU membership? Finally, given the
passing of generations and the increasingly divergent trajectories of the
former Soviet bloc states, is post-communist nostalgia losing its relevance
as both a cultural phenomenon and an analytical frame? Indeed, would the
waning of nostalgia offer proof that the communist past has been put to
rest, or simply suggest that the memory of past era no longer facilitates
the critical or utopic imaginings that nostalgia once mobilized?



The SAE and the Future of European Studies

Moderator: Deborah Reed-Danahay (SUNY at Buffalo)



This roundtable, moderated by the current President of SAE, is intended to
renew dialogue about anthropological approaches to Europe. As we begin to
take stock of Europeanist anthropology at the 25th anniversary of SAE, this
conversation will begin to generate some lasting and fruitful new exchanges
among members of SAE.  Examples of broad questions we might discuss include:
How do current trends in Europe affect ethnographic methods and assumptions
about research? What are the unique contributions of anthropology today to
understandings of Europe, and how can we best communicate with our
colleagues in the humanities and social sciences, as well as policy makers?
What role can and should SAE play in facilitating research related to
Europe? It is hoped that both senior and more junior colleagues will
participate in this discussion.



Doing the Ethnography of Europe in a Cyber Age
Moderator: Sharon R. Roseman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

The technological, social and cultural changes associated with new media
such as electronic mail, social networking sites, gaming and other forms of
computer-mediated communication pose new challenges and opportunities for
ethnographers. This roundtable will explore the methodological,
epistemological, and ethical issues that arise from the engagement with such
media as part of fieldwork. These issues must be considered in light of the
traces, tidemarks, and legacies of longstanding fieldwork practices. For
example, we will consider new media methods in light of the important
cautions and possibilities raised by recent works such as John Borneman and
Abedellah Hammoudi¹s 2009 collection Being There: The Fieldwork Encounter
and the Making of Truth. If we are doing research with individuals for whom
the Internet is a key technology for social interaction and
self-representation, how do we develop a sense of their multi-faceted
subjectivities and the broader political economic contexts in which such
mediation is situated? How do new media methods work with collaborative
ethnographies of topics such as political activism, media production, or
science and technology studies? New media may also be a key tool when
undertaking the kind of multi-sited projects which involve tracing movements
and relationships through space and time, as when studying migration or
tourism, or simply studies of everyday communication among friends, kin, and
coworkers who may live in proximity to each other. Finally, we will discuss
the potential value of creating virtual archives and weblogs as part of
ongoing fieldwork or a post-fieldwork analytical or dissemination phase of
research projects.


--
Marysia Galbraith
Associate Professor
New College and Anthropology
University of Alabama



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