Dear Colleagues,
Please find enclosed:
- a call for submissions for our newsletter from our newsletter editors Yao Man, Clara Cirdan and Manning Zhang, (deadline January 15th 2024).
- the call for papers for the European Sociological Association’s Conference in Porto/ Portugal August 27 to 30th (deadline January 15th).
- a postdoctoral opportunity at UCLA on “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses”
- publications by members.
My best wishes to all
Monika
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Call for Contributions:
The editors of the Culture Section Newsletter invite you to submit content for inclusion in our upcoming winter issue. Please send us your book, article, job, conference, and other general announcements. The deadline to submit announcements for the Winter Newsletter is Jan 15, 2024. Please email your contributions to asaculturenews@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you!
Conference CFP
The ESA has a research network in the sociology of art and one in the sociology of culture. This year’s call includes, among other sessions a session on and inspired by Howard Becker
16th ESA Conference “Tension, Trust, and Transformation” CFP is now OPEN
The European Sociological Association (ESA) is pleased to announce the CFP opening for the 16th ESA Conference, scheduled to take place in the city of Porto, Portugal, from August 27th to 30th, 2024.
The conference, themed “Tension, Trust, and Transformation,” promises to be a dynamic and engaging moment for sociologists and scholars from around the world.
https://www.europeansociology.org/conference/2024/article/6f0bd7e4-4802-4c10-8ba8-6cfab0939319
To ensure your participation, don’t miss the abstract submission deadline on January 15th, 2024. Abstracts must be submitted through the conference platform at www.conftool.com/esa2024
Publication by members
“Dorothy Smith’s Legacy of Social Theorizing”: A special symposium in Sociological Theory 41(4). With essays by:
- Freeden Blume Oeur (Guest Editor), Introduction. [Link]
- Paige L. Sweet, “The Particular and the Provincial: Thinking with Dorothy Smith’s Phenomenology.” [Link]
- Rebecca W. B. Lund, “Retrieving Materialism: The Continued Relevance of Dorothy Smith.” [Link]
- Marjorie DeVault, “Dorothy Smith’s Sociology for People: Theory for Discovery.” [Link]
Blume Oeur, Freeden. 2023. “The Art of Listening: Notes on Feminist Book Reviewing.” Contemporary Sociology 52(6):495-500. [Link]
Postdoctoral Fellowship
CMRS Center for Early Global Studies / L&S Humanities / UCLA
Position title: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses
Salary range: $64,480 – $77,327
Review timeline: January 15, 2024 until filled
APPLICATION WINDOW
Open date: December 1, 2023
Next review date: Monday, Jan 15, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date: Thursday, Feb 1, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Applications will continue to be accepted until this date, but those received after the review date will only be considered if the position has not yet been filled.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies and UCLA American Indian Studies Center are pleased to announce a postdoctoral fellow position that is part of the “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses” project funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project will initiate a substantive collaboration between UCLA and California Native and Indigenous communities, with the goal of creating disciplinary pathways and improving institutional climate to counter the lack of Native epistemes in academic disciplines and improve conditions for recruitment and retention of Indigenous faculty in the university.
One essential component of the project goals for institutional change is the epistemic and disciplinary rearticulation of museum and curatorial approaches and practice, including comparative historical-legal research on the processes and effects of racialization through collecting. Accordingly, one postdoctoral fellow will be housed within the UCLA Fowler Museum. The Fellow’s activities will concern the broader epistemic work of the grant, through interdisciplinary and comparative research focusing on the interaction of long histories and new theorizations with institutional practices, with the focus on the Native and Indigenous communities in the Pacific Rim. The Fellow will have access to the museum’s extensive collection, among whose many strengths are arts of the Northwest Coast and Oceania. Utilizing in-house archives, decades of university and community research on objects, and long-standing connections with international museums and arts agencies specializing in these arts, the Fowler staff will serve as an indispensable resource for the Fellow’s research.
The Fellow will be part of the larger cohort of postdoctoral fellows (3-5 fellows) and a key participant of a collaborative cohort composed of Native American, Pacific Islander and/or other Indigenous community scholars-in-residence, members and representatives of Indigenous communities, faculty and staff, graduate and undergraduate students. This cohort will explore comparative historical, legal, ethical and racial aspects of access to cultural heritage, ownership, and the articulations of heritage through quarterly research workshops. In addition to participating in the co-learning aimed at working simultaneously with histories of academic concepts and disciplines and Indigenous knowledges, the Fellow will serve as a liaison between the museum and academic/research units and will interface with the Native and Pacific Islander and other Indigenous communities with whom the grant will collaborate.
The postdoctoral fellow will be appointed for two academic years (2024-2025 and 2025-2026), with the start date of July 1, 2024. The Fellow will work under the direct supervision of the grant PI and be housed at the Fowler Museum.
Minimum requirements: Ph.D. in a related field in hand by time of appointment; a research agenda that aligns with the “Race in the Global Past through Native Lenses” project themes and premodern and comparative focus; and the ability to work with collaborative cohorts and California Native and Indigenous communities. Fellows are expected to be in residence for the duration of the fellowship period, and to maintain active research and publication programs.
Department: http://cmrs.ucla.edu
Apply link: https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09065
Help contact: kburgess@ucla.edu
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