New AN CFP: Codifying Anthro Ethics

Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic series on anthropological ethics at a key moment during the AAA Code of Ethics revision. We ask our members to pause and consider what this process should entail. What are your thoughts about the notion of codifying ethics? Have you encountered ethically complex situations where guidance would have been helpful? How have available guidelines and advice met or failed to meet your needs?

View the full call for proposals and submission guidelines on our website

Proposal submission deadline: May 25, 2009.
Early submissions are encouraged.

CFP Deadline Extended to Jan 28 -- Submit Your Proposal Today!

The deadline for proposals for the upcoming AN issue on veterans of military conflicts has been extended to January 28. Early submissions are encouraged. For details about this call for proposals, see our website.

New AN CFP: Military Veterans

Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic issue on veterans of military conflicts. We welcome proposals from all areas of anthropology; by anthropologists who study, work with or teach veterans; and by anthropologists who are veterans themselves, in the US or internationally. This topic includes not only veterans as traditionally conceived, but also other participants in situations of conflict, such as child soldiers, military contractors, peacekeepers and aid workers.

The below areas of research are meant to inspire and we welcome additional topics related to this general theme:

* Education and the new GI bill
* Post-trauma recovery
* Medical and psychological healthcare
* Substance use and abuse
* Gender and sexuality
* Family relationships
* (Un)employment
* Homelessness
* Suicide and thoughts of violence
* Commemoration and memorial sites
* Public engagement, activism and service
* Use of veterans in political discourse
* Public perceptions of veterans
* Veteran groups and social networks
* Veteran identities over time

We encourage proposals for In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes articles, photo essays, infographics, interviews and more. To participate, email a 300-word proposal and 50-100-word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick@aaanet.org). Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a caption and credit. Selected authors will be asked to submit final articles of 1000-1400 words for commentaries and 300-1000 words for other article types.

Proposal submission deadline: January 21, 2009

Proposal Deadline Approaching: Visual Ethics and Multisensory Anthro

The proposal submission deadline for the Anthropology News series on (1) “Visual Ethics” and (2) “Multisensory Anthropology across Media” is approaching. If you are interested in contributing an In Focus commentary, Teaching Strategies piece, Field Notes article, photo essay, news story or interview on these topics, be sure to submit your proposal by Monday, December 15.

To participate, email a 300-word proposal and 50-100-word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a caption and credit. Selected authors will be asked to submit final articles of 1000-1400 words for commentaries and 300-1000 words for other article types. Please spread the word about this opportunity among your colleagues and students. For additional info and guidelines, see our website.

Call for Proposals: Deadline Extended

Anthropology News is pleased to extend the proposal deadline for our upcoming series on Multisensory Anthropology across Media and Visual Ethics. The new proposal deadline is Dec 15, 2008. For more information see the below call for proposals or our website.

See you all at the AAA Annual Meeting.

New AN CFP: Ethnography across Media

Proposal submission deadline: December 1, 2008.

Anthropology News seeks contributions for two series that explore how ethnographic work is produced through diverse media. The below prompts are meant to inspire and we welcome additional topics related to these general themes.

Multisensory Anthropology across Media
More than just ways of thinking and being, cultures are also fields of sensation, experience and sentiment. Indeed fieldwork remains the sine qua non of ethnographic understanding precisely in so far as both cultural transmission and cultural understanding depend on experiential engagement. Recognizing this, many contemporary anthropologists seek to explore the variety of media—including video, music, photography, digital ethnography and creative writing—through which such multisensory experiences and knowledges can be communicated. Drawing from diverse modes of creative expression, from traditional forms of ethnographic writing to work that makes use of performance or new technologies, submissions should focus on how media can be harnessed to ethnographically convey different kinds of information.

Visual Ethics
As access to digital media increases, discussions of “visual ethics”—ethical considerations regarding the collection and dissemination of visual data—become ever-more incumbent on anthropologists using this data. This conversation is framed by the varying, sometimes conflicting needs and interests of those who produce and consume visual data, including research communities and anthropologists across all subfields. This series seeks to explore the following issue: (1) negotiating representational authority; (2) control in the circulation of images; (3) displaying images in different contexts, including textbooks, conferences and film festivals; (4) relations with and responsibilities toward research subjects and communities; (5) balancing rights to privacy and knowledge circulation; and (6) the collection and dissemination of visual materials within the context of globally expanding use of and access to digital media.

For guidelines see our website.

Deadline Approaching: Reproductive Politics CFP

Do you work in the area of reproductive politics? AN is seeking contributions for an issue on this theme to be published in February 2009. Proposal submission deadline: October 23, 2008. Potential topics in include, but are not limited to:

Reproductive Technologies: assisted conception (eg, IVF), cryopreservation, surrogacy, gamete donation, obstetric sonography, prenatal testing, contraception, abortion

Public Health and Policy: family planning and contraception, sex education and teen sexuality, insurance and medical liability, midwife certification and regulation, ACOG and AMA policies, maternal and infant mortality, social determinants of maternal-child health

Making People, Making Families: from fetus to child, concepts of parenthood, foster care, adoption, LGBT parents, single parents

Perinatal Care: health providers (eg, doctors, midwives, doulas), birth models (eg, homebirth, hospital birth, midwifery care), post-partum adjustment, infant nutrition, maternity/paternity leave

To participate, email a 300-word proposal and 50-100-word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick at dwinnick@aaanet.org. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a caption and credit. Selected authors will be asked to submit final articles of 1000-1400 words for commentaries and 300-1000 words for other article types. For the full CFP, see our website.

Incarceration CFP Deadline Extended to Monday 9/29, 9:00am EST

In response to extension requests, proposals for the Anthropology News issue on incarceration will now be accepted through Monday, Sept 29, 9:00 am EST. For information on this opportunity, see the September 19 post below or the online call for proposals.

Call for Proposals: Reproductive Politics (Due Oct 23)

Do you work in the area of reproductive politics? AN is seeking contributions for an issue on this theme to be published in February 2009. Potential topics for commentaries, photo essays, field notes and teaching strategies articles include, but are not limited to:

Reproductive Technologies: assisted conception (eg, IVF), cryopreservation, surrogacy, gamete donation, obstetric sonography, prenatal testing, contraception, abortion

Public Health and Policy: family planning and contraception, sex education and teen sexuality, insurance and medical liability, midwife certification and regulation, ACOG and AMA policies, maternal and infant mortality, social determinants of maternal-child health

Making People, Making Families: from fetus to child, concepts of parenthood, foster care, adoption, LGBT parents, single parents

Perinatal Care: health providers (eg, doctors, midwives, doulas), birth models (eg, homebirth, hospital birth, midwifery care), post-partum adjustment, infant nutrition, maternity/paternity leave

To participate, email a 300-word proposal and 50-100-word author bio to editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick@aaanet.org). Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a caption and credit. Selected authors will be asked to submit final articles of 1000-1400 words for commentaries and 300-1000 words for other article types. Proposal submission deadline: October 23, 2008

Deadline Sept 25: Incarceration CFP

Anthropology News welcomes proposals for our January 2009 issue on incarceration. All proposals related to this theme will be considered for our In Focus Commentary, Field Notes and other sections. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

* Prison industries
* Prison overcrowding
* Reentry/reintegration
* Torture and interrogation
* Extradition/rendition
* Immigrant detention
* Political imprisonment
* Psychiatric confinement
* Prison power structures and social networks
* Expressions and limits of state authority

We are particularly interested in receiving Teaching Strategies proposals from anthropologists with experience teaching in prison environments.

To participate, email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick@aaanet.org) by September 25. Selected authors will be invited to submit articles of 1000-1400 words (for commentaries) or 400-1000 words (for other content). See our website for details.

Call for Proposals: Incarceration (Sept 25 Deadline)

Anthropology News welcomes proposals for our upcoming (January 2009) thematic issue on incarceration. All proposals related to this theme will be considered for our In Focus Commentary, Field Notes and other sections. Potential topics include, among others:

• Prison industries
• Prison overcrowding
• Reentry/reintegration
• Torture and interrogation
• Extradition/rendition
• Immigrant detention
• Political imprisonment
• Psychiatric confinement
• Prison power structures and social networks
• Expressions and limits of state authority

We are also particularly interested in receiving Teaching Strategies proposals from anthropologists with experience teaching in prison environments.

To participate in this thematic issue, email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick by September 25. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a photo caption and credit. Selected authors will be invited to submit articles of 1000-1400 words (for commentaries) or 400-1000 words (for other content). See our website for details.

Proposal Deadline Approaching: Housing Issue

The proposal submission deadline for the Anthropology News thematic issue on housing (Dec 2008) is approaching. Please submit your brief article proposal by Monday, August 25.

All topics related to housing will be considered, and potential topics include:

• Mortgage lending
• Homelessness
• Community (re)development
• Historic preservation
• Housing policy
• Sense of place, rootedness, locality
• Public/private distinctions
• Planned and gated communities
• Vernacular architecture and aesthetics
• Community organization, leadership and regulation
• Archaeology of residential sites
  

To participate in this thematic issue, email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a photo caption and credit. See our website for details.

AN Call for Proposals: Housing

AN is seeking contributions for a thematic issue on housing to be published in Dec 2008. Potential topics include:

• Mortgage lending
• Homelessness
• Community (re)development
• Historic preservation
• Housing policy
• Sense of place, rootedness, locality
• Public/private distinctions
• Planned and gated communities
• Vernacular architecture and aesthetics
• Community organization, leadership and regulation
• Archaeology of residential sites

Proposals in other areas related to housing are also welcome, as are proposals for various sections of the paper including In Focus commentaries, Teaching Strategies, Field Notes and photo essays. To participate in this thematic issue, email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to Anthropology News editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a photo caption and credit. More more info see our website.

Proposal submission deadline: August 25, 2008

US Election Series: Proposal Deadline Extended

Anthropology News has extended the proposal submission deadline for our upcoming issue on the US presidential election. The new deadline is July 28, 2008. Potential issues that articles can address include:

• policy positions
• campaign rhetoric
• polling and public opinion data analysis
• traditional and new media election coverage
• the role of race and gender in the primary and general elections
• comparisons with previous US or international elections

Reflections on the challenges and opportunities awaiting the incoming president are also welcome. Additionally, AN will consider proposal topics addressing the election and voting more broadly, including voter rights and (dis)enfranchisement, voter fraud, the Electoral College, partisanship and the present relationship between the legislature, executive and judiciary.

To participate in this thematic issue, email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to AN editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a photo caption and credit. For additional details see our website.

Food Security Proposal Deadline Extended

The proposal deadline for the food security issue of Anthropology News has been extended to June 23, 2008. We welcome proposals for commentaries addressing current disaster and climate-change related food crises throughout the world, and responses to those crises. Additionally, we welcome articles that address a wide variety of other issues, including food safety and regulation; the relation between food security, economic security, disease and nutrition; the stability, loss and transformation of food traditions; agribusiness and food production; genetic engineering; and biofuels.

To participate in this thematic issue email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to Anthropology News Associate Managing Editor Dinah Winnick. For additional information and guidelines see our website.

Food Security Proposals Due June 19

AN is seeking contributions for a thematic issue on food security to be published in October 2008. As the concept of food security is multifaceted, articles can address a wide variety of issues, including food safety and regulation; the stability, loss and transformation of food traditions; food shortages and international aid; agribusiness and food production; genetic engineering; biofuels and many other topics.

In Focus commentaries will be grouped into series based on the foci of proposals received. Additional proposals on this topic are encouraged for articles in other sections of AN―including Teaching Strategies and Field Notes―and for general news features. We welcome proposals in non-traditional formats such as photo essays, infographics, op-ed cartoons, interviews and multi-authored discussions. Contributors interested in proposing article series or contributing cover photos should also contact the AN Editorial Office.

Guidelines
To participate in this thematic issue email a 300 word proposal and 50-100 word author bio to editor Dinah Winnick. Proposals for photo essays should also include five high resolution photographs, each with a photo caption and credit. Early submissions are encouraged.
Proposal submission deadline: June 19, 2008