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Handbook of Practicing Anthropology
Oman
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Handbook of Practicing Anthropology
Riall Nolan, Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University, has invited Gordon Bronitsky to submit a chapter on his work for the Handbook of Practicing Anthropology he is editing for Wiley/Blackwell. Wiley/Blackwell has a "Companion” series, with volumes on medical anthropology, linguistics, politics, biological anthropology, etc. This volume will be a 'Handbook' not a 'Companion,' since it is intended to be specifically for practitioners.
Oman
Gordon Bronitsky, President of Bronitsky and Associates spoke at the inaugural Royal Opera House Muscat - Aspen Creative Arts Summit held in November 28-30, 2011, at the Royal Opera House Muscat, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
The Royal Opera House Muscat – Aspen Creative Arts World Summit was a joint undertaking of Royal Opera House Muscat and the Aspen Institute Global Initiative on Culture and Society. It will be held in Muscat biennially, focusing on timely topics and actions. This year's Summit theme of “Arts in Motion” reflected shifting trends in the interpretation, presentation, and consumption of diverse artistic and cultural expressions in an interconnected world; the impact of social technologies; the status and mobility of professionals; the emergence of new cultural markets; and the contribution of the arts to socioeconomic development and social change.
We hope you followed along on our blog at http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/wordpress/ - it was an incredible experience!
Why Albuquerque?
A friend often asks me why I live here in Albuquerque. If you'd like to know why, check out http://www.bronitskyandassociates.com/wordpress/.
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Events
Crownpoint (New Mexico) Navajo Rug Auction
http://www.crownpointrugauction.com/
2012 Dates:
January 13
February 10
March 09
April 13
May 11
June 08
July 13
August 10
September 14
October 12
November 09
December 14
INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Filmfestival 2012
January 19-22, 2012
Treffpunkt
Rotebühlplatz (VHS Stuttgart).
www.nordamerika-filmfestival.com
Under the motto BETWEEN TRADITION AND MULTIMEDIA LIFE and under the patronage of UNICEF in Stuttgart, the American Indian Film Institute and Festival in San Francisco as well as the International Aboriginal Film Festival DreamSpeakers in Edmonton, Canada, INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Filmfestival (4) will take place in Stuttgart.
It is the first and only of its kind in Europe. After a great start in 2004 it is held every 2 years. INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Filmfestival is based on the cooperation of the Volkshochschule (Community College), the Linden-Museum (National Museum of Ethnology), the James Byrnes Institute– all located in Stuttgart – and the University of Konstanz. The overall artistic direction is provided by Gunter Lange – Media Arts Cultural Events.
The team is thrilled to welcome Radmilla Cody to the 2012 festival. The Arizona resident and former Miss Navajo is an outstanding individual who works as a singer, model, human rights activist and UNICEF representative. Already before the official start of the film festival Radmilla Cody will give a concert at the Wannersaal of the Linden-Museum in Stuttgart on Wednesday, January 18, at 7:30 pm.
Another highlight of the INDIANER INUIT film festival 2012 is the participation of Dennis Banks (Anishinabe), co-founder of the American Indian Movement (AIM). The filmmakers Lynn Salt and David Mueller made a stunning film portrait of Dennis Banks titled “A Good Day To Die”. It will have its Europe-Premiere at the INDIANER INUIT film festival 2012.
The official opening of the film festival with international guests will take place on Thursday, January 19, 2012 at 7:00 pm at Treffpunkt Rotebühlplatz (VHS Stuttgart). INDIANER INUIT: Das Nordamerika Filmfestival will open with the award winning film documentary Hearing Radmilla, by U.S. director Angela Webb, who has confirmed her participation in the festival.
Festivals
Gulgong Folk Festival
Gulgong, New South Wales, Australia
January 6-8, 2012
http://www.gulgongfolkfestival.com.au/
The Gulgong Folk Festival features a program of more than 100 folk musicians, dancers, poetry and literature sessions, guitar competition, and more.
Saptak Music Festival
Ahmedabad, India
January 1 - 13, 2012
http://www.saptak.org/
The festival of Indian classical music usually takes place on the first week of January in Ahmedabad every year. This festival was inaugurated by Pt. Ravi Shankar in 1980. The musical event is organised by a public charitable trust which runs the Saptak School of Music. This festival which spans the first 11 days of January, showcases the best talents and presents as many as a hundred plus musicians with sincere commitment to standards. Some of the innovative features of this festival have been instrument and dance ensembles, Tala Vadya Kacheri, Rajasthani and Punjabi folk music. Saptak also tries to keep alive the fading traditions of vocal music like Thumri and Dhrupad, and instruments like Sarangi and Pakhawaj by inviting the older generation of artists specializing in these fields. The students of Saptak also perform in the presence of renowned musicians, musicologists and a large appreciative audience.
Eilat Festival of Oriental Dance
Eilat, Israel
January 18 - 21, 2012
http://www.eilatfestival.com/?pageId=273
The Eilat Festival of Oriental Dance puts a spotlight on bellydancing, the Israeli style of which marries Arab movements to modern cabaret flairs. Many other dance forms are showcased in the performances and lessons, including Sufi, tribal, and modern styles.
ENTEPOLA: Encounter of Latin American Popular Theater
(ENTEPOLA: Encuentro de Teatro Popular Latinoamericano)
Santiago, Chile
January 19 - 28, 2012
http://entepola-chile.blogspot.com/
This encounter of Latin American popular theater is organized by the theater company La Carreta, and gathers more than 30 foreign companies from Argentina, Brazil and Spain, and 15 companies from Chile.
Frostbite Music Festival
Whitehorse, YT
Canada
February 17 - 19, 2012
http://www.frostbitefest.ca
When Whitehorse hosts Canada's coolest winter music festival each February, it's your chance to dance up a storm beneath the magical Northern Lights. A favorite with locals for over two decades, Frostbite spotlights an intriguing medley of Yukon, Canadian and world artists representing a wide range of styles - from folk to jazz, rock to country, bluegrass to blues. The festival runs for two days and three nights and features concerts, dances, workshops, a jazz bar and an acoustic stage.
Funding
Kresge Foundation Invites Preliminary Applications for
Arts and Community Building and Artists' Skills and Resources Grant
Opportunities
The Kresge
Foundation's Arts and Culture Program seeks to foster the power
of arts and culture to recharge and rebuild communities of all sizes
in the United States.
As part of this effort, the program is accepting preliminary grant applications from nonprofit organizations for its Community Building and Artists' Skills and Resources focus areas.
The Arts and Community Building focus area is intended to help develop a systematic way to support arts and culture as a tool for revitalizing communities. To achieve this goal, the program will invest in exemplary efforts and identify and share best practices within the field. At the national level, the foundation wishes to fund exemplary organizations dedicated to integrating arts and community-building activities and identifying new methods as models for the field; commission and publish research on efforts to integrate cultural organizations and artists into community-building efforts; elevate the visibility of arts and community building, and disseminate best practices through meetings, publications, and other means as appropriate. The foundation is accepting preliminary applications from grantseekers for national-level projects.
The Artists' Skills and Resources focus area is based in the belief that community transformation would be more widespread if more communities embraced artists as important contributors to the identity, vitality, and cohesion of the places where they live. The program seeks to boost artists' skills and resources by supporting leading practitioners as well as efforts to increase the number of live-and-work spaces for artists.
Preliminary applications for both funding areas will be accepted and reviewed on an ongoing basis through February 1, 2012. (After that date, the grant opportunity may be modified.) The preliminary application contains a data-entry component and several attachments, including a narrative. Applicants with promising requests will be asked to complete the second part of the application process.
Visit the Kresge Foundation web site for complete program information and the preliminary application form.
National Geographic All Roads Film Project Offers Seed
Grants for Indigenous Filmmakers
Deadline: Quarterly
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=198900056
The All Roads Film Project will award grants of up to $10,000 to film projects by and about indigenous and underrepresented minority-culture filmmakers from all reaches of the globe.
National Museum of the American Indian Invites Applications for
Indigenous Contemporary Arts Program
Deadline: Various
http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/rfp_item.jhtml?id=230900007
Awards of up to $15,000 will be given to Native American and Native Hawaiian artists working to increase the knowledge and appreciation of contemporary Native American arts through publication, performance, and personal artistic development.
Conferences
18th Inuit Studies Conference
“Arctic/Inuit/Connections: Learning from the Top of the World”
October 24-28, 2012
Washington, DC
https://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/ISC18/forms/registrationForm.cfm
2012 19th Navajo Studies Conference
March 14-17, 2012
Navajo Studies Conference Board, in collaboration with IAIA, will
host the"19th Navajo Studies Conference" from March 14 - 17, 2012.
The conference will be held on the campus of IAIA in Santa Fe, NM.
http://www.navajostudies.org/
Publications
The Unlikely Story of an American Deeply Connected with
Africa
[East Lansing, MI] - Charles Cantalupo's new book Joining Africa
is now available from Michigan State University Press and is
available for sale through their website
www.msupress.msu.edu and
at fine bookstores.
This eye-opening personal history tells the story of an American college professor's twenty-year engagement with a thriving Africa rarely encountered by Western visitors, including an extraordinary connection to poets across the continent. At once adventurous, spiritual, political, dreamlike, and humorous, Joining Africa is a unique documentary of a journey through the continent, including an intense five-year encounter with economically struggling but culturally fertile Eritrea. The Africa presented here is neither a postcolonial study nor an exotic tourist destination. It is rich with the voices of its people, whose languages, Cantalupo argues, have greater potential to effect change than any NGO or high-profile celebrity. In vibrant prose, Cantalupo's book extends a stirring invitation to reevaluate how we engage - both individually and collectively - with this remarkable part of the world.
About the Author:
Charles Cantalupo is Distinguished Professor of English,
Comparative Literature, and African Studies at Penn State
University, Schuylkill.
For more information about Joining Africa or author Charles Cantalupo please contact:
Julie Reaume, Marketing Manager
Michigan State University Press
Phone: (517) 884-6920
Email:
Calls for Submissions and Papers
Fake Identities? Impostors, ConMen, Wannabes in North American
Culture. A Symposium
Call for Papers
April 26 - 27 2012, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena
Deadline: February 1, 2012
http://www2.uni-jena.de/fsu/anglistik/bereiche/literatur-und-kulturwissenschaft/amerikanistik/
Impostors, ConMen, and Ethnic Impersonators pretend to be someone they are not. They thrive on a fabricated identity that other people take at face value and break pacts of authenticity and sincerity that are culturally defined. Impostures, confidence games and the like therefore reflect cultural strategies of identity work, self-fashioning, and recognition. In addition, they render the parameters of a Western, modern idea of identity.
Our inquiry is situated between the force fields of American cultural studies, narratology, and biographical/figural interest. We would like to focus on North American specimens and the cultural implications related to fakery, 'frautobiography' (Egan), and imposture, which become obvious both in the making of these new identities per se and in cultural products and rewritings of these fake lives: Confidence man Frank Abagnale transgressed boundaries of class and profession by evoking trustworthiness; his life was fictionalized in the Hollywood bio pic Catch me if You Can (2002). Fake performances of Otherness also include Whites 'going native' like Grey Owl or Iron Eyes Cody, racial passing like journalist John Howard Griffin's, who darkened his skin and travelled as black man, or the fabricated gender identity of Dorothy/Billy Tipton's, who posed as a male jazz musician and was fictionalized in Jackie Kay's novel Trumpet (1998). Hence, examples of imposture may encompass 'real life' cases, their representation in fiction (novels, films, or other), as well as invented impostors and imagined fakery, all addressing the particulars of the Western 'authenticity pact' across genres and ages.
Contributions may address, but of course are not limited to, the following questions:
- How do fakes work?
- Which culturally specific pacts are broken in imposture?
- How is cultural value attributed to authenticity and sincerity in North America?
- How do the 'real' self and the fabricated, 'impostor self' interact?
- Why do people believe their self-fashioning to be authentic and what makes a person authentic in the eyes of others?
- Which rhetoric strategies are employed in the production and reception of imposture?
Please send your abstract and proposals by Feb 1st, 2012, to both:
Prof. Dr. Caroline Rosenthal
Dr. Stefanie Schäfer
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik Ernst Abbe Platz 8, 07743
Jena
Alianait Arts Festival
Iqaluit, Nunavut
Canada
The organizers of the Alianait Arts Festival announce:
- The theme of Alianait 2012
- Applications for Alianait 2012 performers now available
Alianait Arts Festival organizers are happy to announce the theme for the 2012 Festival is “Arctic Connections” and will bring together performing artists from across Nunavut, the circumpolar regions and the world.
Artists can apply now through our website at: www.alianait.ca
Apply by these deadlines:
- January 6th, 2012 for Southern performers; and
- February 10th, 2012 for Northern performers (Nunavut, NWT, Yukon, Nunavik, Nunatsiavut and Greenland)
A selection committee will make their recommendations to the Executive Director and successful applicants will be contacted by telephone on or before February 24th, 2012.
U.S. Department of State's American Music Abroad Initiative Now Accepting Applications
Using music as a means to engage audiences worldwide, the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced today that the American Music Abroad program is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 season. Musicians interested in applying for this international exchange program, which consists of month-long, multi-country tours for approximately 10 ensembles from a variety of American musical genres, may apply at www.americanvoices.org/ama.
American Music Abroad ensembles will be selected on the basis of artistic quality and commitment to educational and cultural engagement. To represent the full spectrum of the American musical landscape, musical ensembles from across the United States that specialize in Hip Hop, Rock & Roll, Jazz, Country, and other American roots music including but not limited to Native American, Latin, Afro-Caribbean, Blues, Bluegrass, Cajun, Gospel and Zydeco are invited to apply for this international exchange program.
The deadline for applicants is January 16, 2012 at 5:00 p.m. PST.
For more information about American Music Abroad and other international cultural exchanges, please visit www.exchanges.state.gov.
High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology
Spring 2012 Annual Conference
April 18-22, 2012
Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
Colorado
Call for Papers
Artistic Expression and Community Connections
Joint Conference with Northern Colorado Intertribal Powwow
Association
In its broadest form, artistic expression is central to community development, health and wellbeing, economic opportunity, and cultural revitalization. Applied Anthropologists are both audience and artist in crafting collaborative research, program implementation, and ethnography. This conference will explore the work of practitioners and academics in honoring the role of artists and artistic expression in diverse communities of concern. The conference theme includes literary, performing, and visual arts, as well as practical arts of collaboration and communication. Among the areas of artistic expression to be considered are: individual and community health through the arts; artistic expression for environmental sustainability; arts as an engine for community and economic development; methodologies of artistic expression, including photo voice, Illustrator, and new accessible visual technologies; entrepreneurship, micro credit and arts; education and the arts; and artistic expression for cultural self-determination.
This conference is being hosted jointly with the Northern Colorado Intertribal Powwow Association (NCIPA). Their annual powwow will take place April 21-22 in Moby Gym at CSU. An invited panel of native dancers and artists from the NCIPA powwow will be part of the HPSfAA Conference Schedule. Conference registration includes free admission to the NCIPA Powwow.
The Keynote Speaker will be Lori Pourier, Executive Director of First Peoples Fund from Rapid City, South Dakota. First Peoples Fund provides technical assistance and business training to native artists, to expand the economic returns from their artistic expressions and to integrate community healing and growth into the work of native artists. Lori Pourier will discuss serving native artists through entrepreneurship, collaborative partnerships, and community.
If you or your community, students, agencies, coalitions, organizations, teams, or colleagues have a story to tell, idea to explore, paper to present, poster to exhibit, research to expand our knowledge or experiences to share, please join us! We encourage you to submit your abstracts and panels
Please visit https://hpsfaa.wufoo.com/forms/paper-submission/ to fill out the form for a paper, panel, or open forum topic, including an abstract of no more than 250 words.
You may also download the form by clicking here and send it to Kathleen Sherman by mail: (Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1787) or email .
All submissions are due no later than Monday, January 30, 2012.
In order to submit a paper topic you must register for the conference. Registration is now open. Please visit http://www.hpsfaa.org/Events?eventId=396999&EventViewMode=EventDetails to register.
Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management
Call for papers
The Asia-Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management is an online, open access, fully peer reviewed academic journal which has been published since 2003. The journal publishes articles that address arts and cultural management and cultural policy issues with an emphasis on research relevant to the Asia-Pacific region. Specific topics covered by the journal include cultural policy, arts funding and law, leadership, management marketing and organisational studies with specific relevance to the arts and cultural sector in the region. From 2012 onwards the journal will hosted by the Arts and Cultural Management Program at the University of Melbourne.
We aim to publish two volumes annually: one an open edition and the other with a specific theme. In 2012 that theme is the management of arts and cultural collaborative projects across countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Deadline for consideration of papers:
Open edition
Deadline: 31st March 2012.
Themed edition, Collaborative arts and cultural projects in the Asia
Pacific region.
Deadline: 31st July 2012
The journal will also include news and policy developments from around the Asia-Pacific region. We are looking to identify key contacts in the region to provide news and policy updates, so please get in touch if you would like to contribute to this section.
Please email submissions to:
Dr Kate MacNeill
Senior Lecturer in Arts Management
Chair Graduate Studies Committee
School of Culture and Communication
+61 3 8344 8753
International University Festival for Cultural Heritage and Folk
Arts
Agadir, Morocco, 25–28 April 2012
Call for Proposals
University Ibn Zohr, in Agadir, Morocco, will organize the 2nd edition of The International University Festival for Cultural Heritage and Folk Arts, from 25–28 April 2012, aiming to bring together youth and student groups worldwide, to contribute to the promotion of the values of tolerance and peace among youth. The Festival will include seminars relevant to the objectives of the festival (cultural diversity in the era of globalization, youth and tolerance, cultural tourism and mutual comprehension, youth and human rights), audio-visual presentations on universal cultural heritage, and artistic presentations (folk music, folk dance, traditional costumes, beliefs, festivities, traditions).
The deadline of proposal submissions is 28 February 2012.
Contact: Abdelwahed Oumlil
Festival Director
Fourth Annual Meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies
Association (NAISA)
Call for Papers
The Mohegan Sun Convention Center
1 Mohegan Sun Boulevard
Uncasville, Connecticut 06382
June 3-6, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON
Dartmouth College * Harvard University
University of Massachusetts Amherst * Yale University
The NAISA Council invites scholars working in Native American and Indigenous Studies to submit proposals for individual papers, panel sessions, or roundtables. All persons working in Native American and Indigenous Studies are invited and encouraged to apply. Proposals are welcome from faculty and students in colleges, universities, and tribal colleges; from community-based scholars and elders; and from professionals working in the field.
To access the templates for individual papers, panels, and roundtables, visit http://www.regonline.com/NAISA2012callforpapers
News
Everyone Speaks Text Message
Tina Rosenberg
New York Times December 9, 2011
Text messaging in Indigenous languages, using N'Ko as an example.
Creative New Zealand's New Community Arts Policy
Nā tēnā rau, nā tēnā rau, tipu ora ai te rākau.
Each leaf contributes to the wellbeing of the tree.
Creative New Zealand has developed a new community arts policy which will result in more funding and resources being made available to help communities participate in the arts, including a $360,000 boost to the Creative Communities Scheme.
Strengthening Support for Indigenous Culture (Australia)
The Australian Government has strengthened support for Indigenous
culture by streamlining the funding process and launching a new
Indigenous Repatriation Policy, Arts Minister Simon Crean announced.
Wampanoag--A Language Comes Home
Dayaw 2011: A Grand Celebration of Indigenous Cultures in the Philippines 10.13.2011
A grand celebration and gathering of indigenous Filipino cultures recently concluded in Tagum City, Davao del Norte, where about 40 indigenous groups and clusters performed and discussed issues, exhibits were mounted, traditional games and dishes were showcased and vernacular architecture was displayed.
Al Owais, and the Ministers of Culture from the Gulf Cooperation Council Met in Abu Dhabi
His Excellency Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais, Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development, chaired Thursday, October 6, Their Highnesses and Excellencies the ministers of culture in the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab Gulf States in the framework of their 17nth meeting, in the Yas hotel in the capital Abu Dhabi.
China's Cultural Industry Predicted To Become a Pillar of the Economy by 2016: Minister
BEIJING, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's Minister of Culture Cai Wu expects value-added output of the cultural industry to account for 5 percent of the country's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2016.
New Deputy Minister to Take Culture 'Out of the Greenhouse'
The Jakarta Post
Indonesia's cultural heritage may be eventually lost in the mists of time as the newly inaugurated deputy education and culture minister for cultural affairs, Wiendu Nuryanti, intends to focus on its economic aspects to benefit citizens. “Culture must not be static or rigid. It shouldn't be kept in a greenhouse to be looked at. We must conserve culture yet at the same time create innovations so that it will benefit people economically and socially,” she told The Jakarta Post.
Canada Council Rolls Out Canada's First Inuktitut App: Agency Hopes
New App Will Encourage More Inuit to Apply for Grants
Sara Roger
Nunatsiaq Online
The Canada Council for the Arts has launched what is believed to be the country's first Inuktitut-language app for iPads, iPhones, iPod touches and Google Android devices by creating a tool the agency hopes will help attract more Inuit artists to its grant programs.
Sites of Interest
For more information please contact: .
New Mexico Music
Commission
The New Mexico Music Commission was established as a way to foster
the music culture in New Mexico and promote it to the rest of the
world. The commission web site is a place where, as a music industry
professional, can list your band or music related business for free.
The web site has been widely used as a resource for individuals and
companies looking for artists, producers, engineers, sound designers
and others.
There is also a wealth of information on the site about upcoming events, workshops, performances and opportunities for music industry professionals.
The service is free to anyone.
Ainu Association of Hokkaido
(The Ainu are the Indigenous people of Japan)
Ainu Music--Oki and Ainu Dub Band
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