Announcements

Meet the new NEOS Editor – Véronique Gilbert

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Véronique Gilbert – NEOS Editor

Véronique Gilbert is currently completing her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (UK). Her dissertation, Mokk Pooj: Gender, Interpretive Labour and Sexual Imaginary in Senegal’s Art/Work of Seduction, examines the evolving gender relationships exposed by and contested through the Senegalese art of seduction, mokk pooj. It explores how imagining and responding to men’s needs and desires allows women to negotiate power and exert agency in a Muslim, patriarchal, polygamous context. Continue reading Meet the new NEOS Editor – Véronique Gilbert →

Announcements

NEOS OCTOBER 2016 ISSUE NOW AVAILABLE!

The October 2016 issue of Neos is now available for your reading pleasure at http://acyig.americananthro.org/neos/current-issue/.

Some highlights:

  • How Old Am I? A Methodological Solution (Samantha L. Grace (U of Arizona)
  • Raising Spirit and Decolonizing Methods (Kristine Alexander (U of Lethbridge), Amy Mack (U of Lethbridge), Jan Newberry (U of Lethbridge), Erin Spring (U of Lethbridge))
  • Childhood and Infantilized Pets (Melis Sulos (CUNY))
  • Positioning Anthropology at the Intersection of Pediatric Injury and Motor Vehicle Collision: A Need for Interdisciplinary Action (Nazia Hussain (Children’s Medical Center Dallas))
  • Photos from the Field: “Shake your shoulders with us”  (Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg (Carleton College))
  • NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENTS

    Let us know what you think! Share your reactions in a Letter to the Editor at ACYIG.Editor@gmail.com.

Job Postings

Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology – Sonoma State

The Anthropology Department at Sonoma State University is very pleased to announce that it is hiring an Assistant Professor in Cultural Anthropology, with a starting date of mid-August, 2017.  The geographical area or subfield is wide open, but we’re really looking for someone interested in applied research, and developing research opportunities for students.  The closing date for this position is November 16.

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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CfP – Childhoods in Motion: Children, Youth, Migration, and Education Conference

Childhoods in Motion: Children, Youth, Migration, and Education Conference

March 3-5, 2017 | UCLA, Los Angeles, California

Co-Sponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration AAA Anthropology of Children and Youth Interest Group, Council on Anthropology and Education

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Announcements, Publications

The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies at the AAA (2016)

Publish your book on children, childhood, adolescence and/or youth with the Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies!

The Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies is dedicated to increasing our understanding of children and childhoods throughout the world, reflecting a perspective that highlights cultural dimensions of the human experience. The series, now edited by Jill E. Korbin and EJ Sobo, seeks proposals for books that will make important contributions to the study of children and childhoods, adolescence, and youth.
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Calls for Papers: Conferences

CfP – Evil Children: Children and Evil, Portugal 2017

We invite people from all disciplines, professions and vocations to come together in dialogue, to provide a space and a level of legitimacy for a subject, or subjects that is traditionally seen as unimaginable, a socially taboo and even associated with pathology, by providing a forum for ideas and arguments that might otherwise not receive adequate attention and discussion. The ultimate goal is in a sense to expose the current topic to the light of day for examination of the intellectual, the emotional and the personal. Continue reading CfP – Evil Children: Children and Evil, Portugal 2017 →

Announcements, Events

Prominent childhood scholars to present at SCCR 2017

AYCIG members are invited to the 2017 Society for Cross Cultural Research Conference in New Orleans, LA.  The keynotes will cover topics as diverse as the socialization of infants around the world, sex, evolution, and the end of male supremacy, and cultural styles of leadership. We have invited several prominent scholars, Mel Konner, Carolyn Pope-Edwards, Gilda Morelli, Joseph Trimble, and Lisa Molix. Continue reading Prominent childhood scholars to present at SCCR 2017 →