Just a reminder that the ACYIG ORGANIZATION MEETING AND BOOK FAIR/SOCIAL HOUR will be held on Saturday, November 23rd between 7 and 9:30 pm in Williford A at the Chicago Hilton. The two events will take place back-to-back. Free snacks and drinks are provided. A donation of $5 is appreciated! You may wish to grab an early dinner beforehand.We will appreciate your input on some questions of importance to the future of the interest group.
In addition, please don’t forget to attend the TWO ACYIG-ORGANIZED PANELS at the conference this year. They are:
2) RESEARCHER-PRACTITIONER COLLABORATIONS in PROJECTS CONCERNING CHILDREN AND YOUTH
Finally, to learn more about the approximately thirty childhood- and youth-related panels at the upcoming AAA Meeting (the most ever!), please take a look at the scheduling list now posted at the ACYIG website: http://www.aaanet.org/
2014 ACYIG Conference Will be Held in Charleston, South Carolina, February 12th-15th
The ACYIG Board cordially invites ACYIG members to join scholars from the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group (ACYIG) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), the Division of International Psychology (Division 52) of the American Psychological Association (APA), and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research (SCCR) at next year’s Fifth Annual Meeting of ACYIG.
The conference will be held from February 12 to February 15, 2014 at the historic Francis Marion Hotel in Charleston, SC. Some may remember that ACYIG held its joint meetings with SCCR in Charleston in 2011—it was an extremely popular conference, and we look forward to returning to this wonderful venue.
Submitting Abstracts:
Anyone who would like to have work considered for inclusion within an ACYIG poster session, paper session, symposium, panel discussion, or conversation hour at the conference may submit an abstract of the work (200 words maximum) by Monday, December 2, 2013. Please note that if you wish to submit any abstracts for consideration by the SCCR, the deadline is earlier—November 11, 2013.
A link to descriptions of the five possible presentation formats as well as submission forms are available at the SCCR 2014 conference page: http://www.sccr.org/sccr2014/
Registration Information:
Conference registration rates are:
Members: $130 by 13 January 2014, $140 after 13 January 2014
Non-members: $140 by 13 January 2014, $150 after 13 January 2014
Retirees: $80 by 13 January 2014, $85 after 13 January 2014
Students: $50 by 13 January 2014, $60 after 13 January 2014
Banquet (all are invited): $55
The conference hotel, which is conveniently located within walking distance of boutiques, eateries, and historic landmarks, has a block of rooms for conference attendees at the rate of $154/night that you may access online via:
https://reservations.
You should not need a login code but may use “SCCR” without quotation marks if necessary. You may also call (843) 722-0600 or (877) 756-2121 and mention “SCCR” if you prefer.
Please feel free to share information about the 2014 conference with interested others and to contact Elisa Sobo (esobo@mail.sdsu.edu) or Rachael Stryker (rachael.stryker@csueastbay.
We look forward to seeing many of you in Charleston!
Applications are invited from potential applicants with an interest in the topic: ‘Families’ sense of place and place attachment’ commencing in 2014.
Supervisors: Dr Christina Ergler & Associate Professor Claire Freeman (Department of Geography, University of Otago, New Zealand)
We are seeking a student willing to embark on a PhD and interested in working on a mixed-methods project on ‘Place attachment and social connection in urbanising societies’. Whilst place attachment is an area that is of established interest to geographers the role of children in forging place attachment for families is less well understood (Weller & Bruegel, 2009, Gordon, 2012). The project seeks to critically explore broad questions around factors contributing to and hindering place attachment. In particular, the project is interested in how family members from different New Zealand communities develop or negotiate the complexity of place attachment through their social and physical mobilities (see also Freeman, 2010). In doing so, the research contributes to debates in geography, environmental psychology and planning with reference to multiplicities of place attachment.
Students with first class Honours or Master degrees and backgrounds in human geography, planning, child studies or sociology are encouraged to contact us. Knowledge of or interest in developing skills in a geographic information system as well as excellent oral and written communication skills are a requirement for this project.
The project is contingent on the applicant applying for and securing a University of Otago PhD Scholarship (international or domestic), satisfying University of Otago Ph.D. entry requirements and meeting New Zealand study visa requirements, if appropriate.
If you would like to discuss the project further please contact Christina Ergler via e-mail Christina.ergler@geography.
Information on the Otago University Geography Department and the supervisors for this project is available on http://www.geography.otago.ac.
www.ntnu.edu/studies/mpchild <http://www.ntnu.edu/studies/
www.ntnu.edu/studies/mpchild/
General Call for Papers
Anthropology & Education Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal, housed at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. It draws on anthropological theories and methods to examine educational processes in and out of schools, in US and international contexts. Articles rely primarily on ethnographic research to address immediate problems of practice as well as broad theoretical questions surrounding issues that impact research and practice in the field. We value diverse ways of knowing and weaving together theory, research, practice, and social justice to directly address issues and institutions that impact teaching and learning in the educational experiences of children, families, and communities within and beyond the classroom setting. We also see the journal as a key site for providing connection, support and feedback to emerging scholars in the field. Finally, to all of this we must reaffirm the journal’s long tradition of supporting anti-oppressive, socially equitable, and racially, socially and gender-just education.
The journal publishes two different types of scholarly work, manuscripts and reflections. (1) Manuscripts should be no more than 35 pages in length. (2) Reflections from/on the Field should be approximately 15-20 pages in length. Both should be formatted as Word documents and blinded for anonymous peer review.
We are eager to receive your manuscript submissions.
For more information visit us at:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.
You may also contact the Editors-in-Chief, Dr. Laura Alicia Valdiviezo and Dr. Sally Campbell Galman at aeq@educ.umass.edu
Dear ACYIG Members,
At the end of this year, three of our respected colleagues — Jill Korbin, David Rosen, and Tom Weisner — will be finishing their terms on the ACYIG Board. This was a planned rotation, and I would like to publicly thank them all for helping make ACYIG the organization it is today. From liaising with the AAA to conference organizing, to representing the Anthropology of Children and Youth both within and outside the field, we could not have asked for better colleagues to start and grow ACYIG. Many thanks to Jill, David, and Tom!
I am also very happy to announce that the ACYIG Board has appointed Dr. Heather Rae-Espinoza (CSU Long Beach) to one of these three open positions. We look forward to working with her in the coming year.
However, this still leaves two open Board positions to be filled! In the past, ACYIG has conducted open Board appointments whenever possible. Board appointments are considered to be two-year positions on our six-person Board and typically require attendance at the annual meeting of the AAA and the annual ACYIG joint conference during one’s tenure. ACYIG Board member duties include: maintaining official interest group status with AAA; optimizing professional opportunities for members available via AAA; overseeing and growing professional presence within and outside AAA; and organizing the annual ACYIG joint conference.
If you would like to be considered for one of the two open positions on the ACYIG Board, please email one to two paragraphs to Dr. Rachael Stryker at rachael.stryker@csueastbay.edu by Sunday, December 15, 2013 stating why you would like to become a Board member and what you feel you can bring to ACYIG. Please be sure to include your name, title, affiliation (academic or otherwise) and email/phone number so that we can respond to you. The ACYIG Board will make decisions by January 15, 2014, and notify you soon after. Your duties as an ACYIG Board Member begin on February 1, 2014, and your appointment will be confirmed at the ACYIG business meeting in Charleston, SC later that month when you are formally introduced to the membership.
If you have any questions about ACYIG Board member duties or this open Board appointment process, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am happy to answer them.
Sincerely,
Rachael Stryker
Convener, ACYIG