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ACYIG Updates

Seeking new title suggestions for ACYIG Newsletter

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In response to member feedback, we are enlisting suggestions for a new name for the ACYIG Newsletter. We are looking for a unique name that would be followed by the tagline, “A publication of the Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group.” Our intent is to professionalize the publication with a title that better reflects the peer-reviewed nature and high caliber of our authors’ work. We hope that the new name will embody the spirit and future direction of ACYIG, be indicative of our membership’s common goals, and provide name-recognition. We encourage submissions that are descriptive, memorable, and intuitive.

If your suggestion is selected, we will award you a $100 gift certificate to a local or online bookstore of your choice. Please submit your entry at https://acyig.americananthro.org/newsletter/survey-name-acyigs-newsletter/ by March 6th. The new title will be announced at the 2015 ACYIG Annual Meeting on March 12-15, and implemented in our October 2015 issue.

ACYIG Updates, Calls for Papers: Conferences

Submissions Open – ACYIG Invited Session Proposals for Nov. 2015 AAA Meeting

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Dear ACYIG members,
The deadline for submitting proposals for the 114th AAA Annual Meeting is coming soon. The meetings will be held Nov. 18-22, in Denver, CO.

This year, ACYIG may INVITE one session. This session will receive the “Invited by ACYIG” tagline in the AAA program.

We are now soliciting proposed sessions for ACYIG invited status.

For consideration, please submit your session proposal to both EJ Sobo and Aviva Sinervo (esobo@mail.sdsu.edu, asinervo@ucsc.edu) by Wednesday, April 1, 2015.
Session proposals must include the following information:
  • Session title
  • Name, affiliation, and email of Session Organizer
  • Session abstract (no more than 500 words)
  • Names, affiliations, emails, and paper titles for all session members
  • Name(s) and affiliation(s) of discussant(s), if applicable

Decisions will be made by Wednesday, April 8th.

The AAA’s call for papers follows: 

“Familiar/Strange – Casting common sense in new light by making the familiar seem strange and the strange seem familiar is a venerable strategy used across anthropology’s subfields. It can denaturalize taken-for-granted frames and expand the horizons of students and public alike. But useful as this process of estrangement and familiarization can be, it can lapse into exoticism through “us/them” comparisons that veil historical and contemporary relations of power and powerlessness within and across societies, begging the question of the normative templates (of the “West,” of “whiteness”) that lurk behind. As an orienting theme for the 2015 Denver meeting of the AAA, we invite proposals for Executive Program Committee sponsorship (sessions, forums, special events, installations or media submissions) that press us to grapple with how and why this strategy proves both productive and obstructive, considering what it simultaneously opens up and ‘nails down.’ We particularly seek proposals that bring together and foster dialogue among subfields as we scrutinize the multiple uses and effects of this durable anthropological ‘way of knowing.'”

ACYIG Updates, Events

REMINDER: Time to register for the 2015 ACYIG Conference/Reduced hotel rates end after Feb. 2nd

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We are really pleased with the groundswell of interest in the 2015 ACYIG Conference to be held March 12-15 at California State University, Long Beach! With over 60 presenters on topics as varied as child/youth architectures of play to the value of using child- and youth-centered ethnography to train teachers, the conference is shaping up to be one of our very best. Conference organizers are hard at work; Please look for an email posting the Preliminary Program for the conference around February 15th.

In the meantime, this is a reminder to please book your room(s) soon at the designated conference hotel, the Ayres Seal Beach Hotel. block of rooms has been held for our participants for the special price of $139 per night until February 2nd. To receive this reduced rate, call (562) 596-8330 and mention the conference code ACYIG before then.

Staying at the Ayres Seal Beach hotel is advantageous, because a free shuttle bus will leave this hotel each morning and head back to the hotel in the evening, providing you with transportation to our conference location on the California State University campus (about an 8 or 9 minute shuttle ride away).

And registering for the 2015 conference is also a snap at: https://acyig2015.eventbrite.com! 

Thank you for registering for the Conference soon; the sooner folks register, the sooner we know how many will attend, and the better we can ensure space, food, and programming for all.

We look forward to seeing you soon,

Rachael Stryker
Convener, ACYIG

 

ACYIG Updates

CALL FOR SELF-NOMINATIONS for ACYIG BOARD POSITION OF STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

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Dear ACYIG Members,

This is a reminder that the deadline to self-nominate for the ACYIG Board position of Student Representative is this Thursday, January 15th. Details about the position are re-posted below:

This position is titled, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE. Whoever serves in this position is charged with liaising with ACYIG graduate and undergraduate student members to communicate ideas, policies, and concerns from students between members and the ACYIG Advisory Board.

ACYIG has conducted open Board appointments whenever possible. The ACYIG Advisory Board is now officially making a call for self-nominations for this position.

Graduate students and undergraduate students currently enrolled in an accredited academic program are eligible to apply. MAs or Ph.D.s who have graduated from an accredited program within one year of the submission deadline for nominations (so, anytime during 2014) are also eligible to apply.

Board appointments are considered to be two-year positions and are encouraged to attend the annual meeting of the AAA and the ACYIG joint conferences during one’s tenure.

All ACYIG Board member duties also include: maintaining official interest group status within AAA; optimizing professional opportunities for members available via AAA; overseeing and growing professional presence within and outside AAA; and organizing the ACYIG conference.

If you would like to be considered for the position of Student Representative on the ACYIG Board, please email one to two paragraphs to Dr. Rachael Stryker at rachael.stryker@csueastbay.edu by Thursday, January 15, 2015 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 its decision by Sunday, February 1, 2015, and notify you soon after.

Your duties as an ACYIG Board Member begin on Sunday, February 15, 2015, and your appointment will be confirmed at the ACYIG Business meeting in Long Beach, CA in March, 2015, 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 very happy to answer them.

Sincerely,

Rachael Stryker
Convener, ACYIG

ACYIG Updates

Call for Self Nominations: ACYIG Board Position of Student Representative

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Dear ACYIG Members,

At the ACYIG Organizational Meeting in DC last week, it was announced that the ACYIG Advisory Board recently voted by acclamation to add a seventh member position to the Board.

This position is titled, STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE. Whoever serves in this position is charged with liaising with ACYIG graduate and undergraduate student members to communicate ideas, policies, and concerns from students between members and the ACYIG Advisory Board.  Continue reading Call for Self Nominations: ACYIG Board Position of Student Representative →