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CRC position in Race, Inequalities and Global Change, UBC

02/06/2012 Job No comments

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The Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia invites appli­ca­tions for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change that will be located in the Department of Educational Studies. The Canadian Research Chairs Program (http://​www​.chairs​.gc​.ca) has been estab­lished by the Canadian Federal Government with the pur­pose of attract­ing out­stand­ing researchers to the Canadian uni­ver­sity sys­tem. The suc­cess­ful can­di­date will be expected to have a strong record of schol­ar­ship and a com­mit­ment to research lead­er­ship. Candidates for Tier 2 Chairs are described by the Canadian Research Chairs Program as ‘excep­tional emerg­ing researchers, acknowl­edged by their peers as hav­ing the poten­tial to lead in their field’. This is a full-time tenure track posi­tion at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.

We are seek­ing can­di­dates who can con­tribute to mul­ti­ple pro­gram­matic areas and who come with a broadly crit­i­cal ori­en­ta­tion. Specifically, can­di­dates should be able to con­tribute to con­tem­po­rary debates on the new social, polit­i­cal, cul­tural and eco­nomic con­fig­u­ra­tions of racial inequal­ity and the cul­tural and eco­nomic pol­i­tics of racism in the con­text of glob­al­iza­tion. We encour­age appli­ca­tions from schol­ars rep­re­sent­ing a wide range of ide­o­log­i­cal, the­o­ret­i­cal, method­olog­i­cal, and inter­dis­ci­pli­nary approaches, whose exper­tise spans the fol­low­ing areas:

  1. The study of racial inequal­i­ties and for­ma­tions as insep­a­ra­ble from other social for­ma­tions (e.g. class, gen­der, dis/ability, age, and sexuality);
  2. Cultural stud­ies of edu­ca­tional poli­cies, prac­tices and/or pedagogies;
  3. Critical pol­icy stud­ies illu­mi­nat­ing the cul­tural and ide­o­log­i­cal strug­gle in which edu­ca­tion is located.

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CFP: Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives

01/02/2012 FYI No comments

As always, I don’t know any­thing beyond the CFP below, so please con­tact the orga­niz­ers for more infor­ma­tion.

Call for papers
Conference on ‘Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia: East-West Perspectives’
12 – 14 September 2012, Munich

We wel­come papers for a con­fer­ence on Constructions of Race and Racism in East Asia, which will be held at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich, Germany from September 12 to 14, 2012.

This con­fer­ence fol­lows an ear­lier book project enti­tled “Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western Constructions and Eastern Reactions” (Brill, 2012). In that project, about half of the par­tic­i­pants sur­veyed and exam­ined the roots of racial con­struc­tions of East Asians (prin­ci­pally, Chinese, Japanese and Koreans) in the West and their man­i­fes­ta­tions dur­ing the last 150 years, whereas the other half focused upon the char­ac­ter­is­tics of local racial con­struc­tions and indige­nous racism in mod­ern East Asia, with par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to the man­i­fes­ta­tions of racial thought and racism as the result of the eth­nic encounter dur­ing Japanese colonialism.

During the com­ing con­fer­ence, we would like to exam­ine the fol­low­ing top­ics in the con­text of East Asia:

  • Sources of mod­ern racism – the inter­play between indige­nous and for­eign perspectives
  • The link between nation­al­ism and racism
  • Racial the­o­ries in a transna­tional perspective
  • The impact of racial thought on mutual images
  • Gender and racial thought

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CFP: Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism

10/28/2011 FYI No comments

Call for Papers
Two day con­fer­ence at Birkbeck, University of London
May 29th – 30th, 2012

This con­fer­ence, which is part of an ongo­ing Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, will bring together aca­d­e­mics, church lead­ers, prac­ti­tion­ers and com­mu­nity activists to explore the role that churches play in the con­struc­tion of iden­ti­ties in soci­eties where issues of race and racism are played out in the pub­lic sphere. We are par­tic­u­larly inter­ested in explor­ing the role and place of black churches in tran­si­tional polit­i­cal, reli­gious and cul­tural con­texts. We wel­come con­cep­tual, prac­ti­cal and the­o­ret­i­cal papers, indi­vid­ual case stud­ies and com­par­a­tive work explor­ing the role that churches play or could play in assist­ing social, polit­i­cal and cul­tural trans­for­ma­tion in mul­ti­cul­tural con­texts.
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CFP: California roundtable on philosophy and race

10/24/2011 FYI No comments

This CFP wins my praise not only for the inter­est­ing topic but also for the detailed sub­mis­sion guide­line which includes file nam­ing and email sub­ject require­ments. It’s bril­liant, and I’m going to copy this some day.

Call for Papers

Theme: California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race
Type: 9th Annual Meeting
Institution: Hunter College, City University of New York
Location: New York, NY (USA)
Date: 5. – 6.10.2012
Deadline: 24.2.2012
http://​www​.caround​table​.webs​.com

The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race announces a call for papers for its sev­enth annual round­table. This round­table brings together philoso­phers of race, and those work­ing in related fields in a small and con­ge­nial set­ting to share their work and to help fur­ther this sub-discipline of phi­los­o­phy. Philosophical papers are invited on any issue regard­ing race, eth­nic­ity, or racism, and includ­ing those that take up race in the con­text of another topic, such as fem­i­nism, polit­i­cal phi­los­o­phy, ethics, jus­tice, cul­ture, iden­tity, biol­ogy, phe­nom­e­nol­ogy, exis­ten­tial­ism, psy­cho­analy­sis, meta­physics, or epis­te­mol­ogy. Read more

Gender, race and environment, York University, Toronto

09/01/2011 FYI No comments

GENDER, RACE AND ENVIRONMENT

Applications are invited for a tenure-track posi­tion, at the Assistant Professor level, in Gender, Race and Environment. Candidates must hold a PhD in a rel­e­vant field by the time of appoint­ment. We seek can­di­dates who work at the inter­sec­tions of gen­der, race, class and envi­ron­ment, such as: crit­i­cal gen­der and race the­ory; gen­der and transna­tion­al­ism; social mar­gin­al­iza­tion and processes of racial­iza­tion and gender/sex oppres­sion; the rela­tions among racial­iza­tion, gen­der, and polit­i­cal ecol­ogy; and gen­der and anti-racist activism/politics, espe­cially as these are artic­u­lated with issues of envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice and sov­er­eignty. Also wel­come are appli­cants whose work focuses on issues of colo­nial­ism, glob­al­iza­tion, and indige­nous race/gender jus­tice or on the Global South (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean). Candidates should have demon­strated exper­tise in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary schol­ar­ship. Applied expe­ri­ence address­ing gen­der, race and envi­ron­ment issues at local/community lev­els is an asset.

Candidates must have teach­ing expe­ri­ence and be able to con­tribute to teach­ing, advis­ing and research at both the under­grad­u­ate and grad­u­ate lev­els, includ­ing super­vi­sion of doc­toral research. The suc­cess­ful appli­cant must demon­strate excel­lence or promise of excel­lence in schol­arly research, teach­ing and ser­vice. The abil­ity to con­tribute to one or more of the Faculty’s cer­tifi­cate or diploma pro­grams is an asset.

A let­ter of appli­ca­tion with an up-to-date cur­ricu­lum vitae, a state­ment of research and teach­ing inter­ests, and the names and full con­tact infor­ma­tion for three aca­d­e­mic ref­er­ences should be sent, by November 30, 2011 , to: Gender, Race and Environment Search Committee, 126 HNES. Tel: 416.736.5252. Fax: 416.736.5679. E-mail: feshires@​yorku.​ca

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