From zob20@hermes.cam.ac.uk Fri Oct 08 09:37:36 2004 Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.134] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CFuwA-0006fT-OF for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:37:34 -0400 Received: from ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk(131.111.8.134) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id f8105e8a_192e_11d9_8eea_0002b3c8850b_1651; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:35:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.51]:59297) by ppsw-4.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.134]:25) with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CFuw1-0005Qg-DE (return-path ) for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:37:25 +0100 Received: from prayer by hermes-1.csi.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CFuT3-0001RM-Ei for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Fri, 08 Oct 2004 14:07:30 +0100 From: "Z.O. Biner" To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Date: 08 Oct 2004 14:07:29 +0100 X-Mailer: Prayer v1.0.11 X-Originating-IP: [131.111.105.48] Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:27:33 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L] None X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 13:37:38 -0000 could you please add my address to the mailing list? Zerrin Ozlem Biner From acjancius@ysu.edu Sat Oct 09 13:20:09 2004 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.9] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CGKt6-0002Yv-G2 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:20:08 -0400 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com(64.12.138.9) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 3e9eb872_1a17_11d9_814b_0002b3c8850b_12391; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-mtc08.proxy.aol.com (smtp-mtc08.proxy.aol.com [64.12.118.84]) by rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (v98.19) with ESMTP id RELAYIN7-841681db6286; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:19:50 -0400 Received: from toshibauser (ACC8A6E4.ipt.aol.com [172.200.166.228]) i99HJhOU015849 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:19:46 -0400 Message-ID: <022101c4ae24$2b001d60$e4a6c8ac@toshibauser> From: "Angela Jancius" To: Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:19:37 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_021C_01C4AE02.A02D56B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2739.300 X-Apparently-From: Sturmstories@aol.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 X-AOL-IP: 64.12.118.84 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:23:04 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L] FYI: URBANTH-L has moved to a new server X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:20:09 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_021C_01C4AE02.A02D56B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Colleagues, Yesterday the SUNTA mailing list, URBANTH-L, was moved onto a new server = at Youngstown State University. Ben Vegara and myself are taking over = as coordinators, as Rae Bridgman steps down after years of service = running the list. URBANTH-L is a moderated mailing list meant for committed and active = members of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global = Anthropology (SUNTA), as well as all those with an interest in the field = of urban anthropology. It can be used for subscribers to post = information about forthcoming meetings, conferences, announcements, = queries, calls for proposals, and other opportunities. The easiest way to handle the transfer to the new server has been to do = a mass subscription of current SUNTA members. Other subscribers will = be manually added over the next few days. The automated welcome message you've received gives information about = URBANTH-L's web-based subscription site = (http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l), and a password = that can be used to manage your subscription. SUNTA members who do not = wish to subscribe, or who would like to change their subscription to = "digest," may do so by following this link. If you have any = difficulties, please do not hesitate to email me at acjancius@ysu.edu = for assistance. As we become acquainted with the listserv's new = software, you may receive a few duplicate or subscription related = postings during the next few days. =20 We invite you to forward this message to other colleagues who may wish = to join URBANTH-L. Sincerely, Angela Jancius URBANTH-L Coordinator ------=_NextPart_000_021C_01C4AE02.A02D56B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Colleagues,
 
Yesterday the SUNTA mailing=20 list, URBANTH-L, was moved onto a new server at = Youngstown=20 State University.  Ben Vegara and myself are taking = over as=20 coordinators, as Rae Bridgman steps down after years = of=20 service running the list.
 
URBANTH-L is a moderated mailing=20 list meant for committed and active members of the Society for = Urban,=20 National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA), as well as all = those=20 with an interest in the field of urban anthropology. It can be used for=20 subscribers to post information about forthcoming meetings, conferences, = announcements, queries, calls for proposals, and other=20 opportunities.
 
The easiest way to handle the = transfer to the=20 new server has been to do a mass subscription of =20 current SUNTA members.  Other subscribers will be=20 manually added over the next few days.
 
The automated welcome message = you've=20 received gives information about URBANTH-L's web= -based subscription site (http://lists= .ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l), and a=20 password that can be used to manage your subscription. SUNTA = members=20 who do not wish to subscribe, or who would like to = change=20 their subscription to "digest," may do so by following this = link. If you=20 have any difficulties, please do not hesitate to email = me at acjancius@ysu.edu for = assistance. =20 As we become acquainted with the = listserv's=20 new software, you may receive a few duplicate or subscription = related=20 postings during the next few days.  
 
We invite you to forward this = message to=20 other colleagues who may wish to join URBANTH-L.
 
Sincerely,
Angela Jancius
URBANTH-L = Coordinator
------=_NextPart_000_021C_01C4AE02.A02D56B0-- From acjancius@ysu.edu Sat Oct 09 13:27:34 2004 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.9] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CGL0I-0002kx-4K for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:27:34 -0400 Received: from rly-ip05.mx.aol.com(64.12.138.9) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 4867d6a8_1a18_11d9_9373_0002b3c8850b_20139; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:25:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-mtc05.proxy.aol.com (smtp-mtc05.proxy.aol.com [64.12.118.19]) by rly-ip05.mx.aol.com (v98.19) with ESMTP id RELAYIN3-441681f6c2d8; Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:27:08 -0400 Received: from toshibauser (ACC8A6E4.ipt.aol.com [172.200.166.228]) i99HR3ul024014 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:27:06 -0400 Message-ID: <027901c4ae25$31464bd0$e4a6c8ac@toshibauser> From: "Angela Jancius" To: Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2004 13:26:56 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0276_01C4AE03.A62BA6B0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2739.300 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 X-Apparently-From: Sturmstories@aol.com X-AOL-IP: 64.12.118.19 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 13:30:02 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L] SUNTA column X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2004 17:27:34 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0276_01C4AE03.A62BA6B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear SUNTA Members, The deadline for submissions to the December SUNTA column which appears=20 monthly in the Anthropology News and the November AAA E-News is October=20 15th. I need to get your submissions by Tuesday, October 12th at the=20 latest. As always, I am looking for thought provoking pieces on a wide=20 range of issues of interest to SUNTA members as well as news and=20 announcements you would like to appear in the E-News. Elzbieta --=20 Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, Ph.D. Research Director Institute for the Study of International Migration Georgetown University 3307 M Street NW=20 Suite 302 Washington, DC 20007 Phone: 202-687-2193 Fax: 202-687-2541 e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu ------=_NextPart_000_0276_01C4AE03.A62BA6B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear SUNTA=20 Members,

The deadline for submissions to the December SUNTA = column which=20 appears
monthly in the Anthropology News and the November AAA E-News = is=20 October
15th.  I need to get your submissions by Tuesday, = October 12th=20 at the
latest.  As always, I am looking for thought provoking = pieces on=20 a wide
range of issues of interest to SUNTA members as well as news = and=20
announcements you would like to appear in the=20 E-News.

Elzbieta

--
Elzbieta M. Gozdziak, = Ph.D.
Research=20 Director
Institute for the Study of International = Migration
Georgetown=20 University
3307 M Street NW
Suite 302
Washington, DC = 20007
Phone:=20 202-687-2193
Fax: 202-687-2541
e-mail: emg27@georgetown.edu


<= /HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0276_01C4AE03.A62BA6B0-- From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 11 17:33:55 2004 Received: from mail01.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.201] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CH7nn-0007F6-Pg for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:55 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail01.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CH7nm-0001dj-LQ for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:55 -0400 Message-ID: <416AFC41.9080203@ysu.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:53 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scan-Signature: ed60145828d31cee91fd9e73956b8e11 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:09:57 -0400 Subject: CFP: Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:33:56 -0000 HERITAGE, ENVIRONMENT & TOURISM Meetings of the Society for Applied Anthropology La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, New Mexico April 5-10, 2005 The Santa Fe meetings provide an excellent locale for exploring the closely related themes of Heritage, Environment & Tourism. Heritage has become a major focal point for national, regional and local development initiatives. As heritage is seen to have both external and internal value, how can we participate in such areas as heritage development and resource management while still defending the rights of communities to control how their heritages are represented? In a similar manner, the environment is increasingly being viewed as a kind of “natural heritage,” implying a strong association between environmental conservation and human associations with the environment. In keeping with the Society’s interdisciplinary roots, the Program Committee invites the participation of a wide variety of professionals, including anthropologists, archaeologists, geographers, sociologists, folklorists, public historians, tourism researchers and practitioners, natural scientists, museum professionals, and others. Symposia and individual papers are also invited and actively encouraged in all other areas of applied endeavor, such as health and medicine, agriculture and rural development, education, migration and resettlement, business and corporate issues, language, urban and regional development, community-based and participatory models for practice, applied research methods and planning approaches, and diversity and human rights initiatives. Abstract Submittal Instructions All abstracts must be received by October 15, 2004. Type and save your abstract on your computer. The abstract must be no more than 100 words. Then, copy and paste your abstract in the online form. You must register before submitting an abstract. After registration, you will be automatically directed to the abstract form. The conference will be held at the LaFonda hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico from April 5th to April 10th, 2005. For more information, visit the web address listed below. registration: http://sfaa.net Dr. Erve Chambers Department of Anthropology University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 (301) 405-1425 Email: echambers@anth.umd.edu From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 11 17:38:33 2004 Received: from mail03.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.203] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CH7sH-0007Jy-MZ for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:38:33 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail03.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CH7sG-0001Qa-Hu for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:38:33 -0400 Message-ID: <416AFD57.7090507@ysu.edu> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:38:31 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scan-Signature: 88c3f92638ee0a81e50d7cd53cb72e52 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:10:07 -0400 Subject: ANN: Art and the Fragmentation of Urban Space X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:38:34 -0000 Art and the Fragmentation of Urban Space: Gated Communities, Global Links, and Non-Places Location: University of San Diego Date: November 5, 2004 The globalization of the world’s economy and culture is coupled with radical fragmentation of urban spaces. Most urban centers, since the 1980’s, have been built in an historical and geographical vacuum, detached from the social, political, and functional contexts of traditional cities. New urban developments are hermetically sealed from their actual locality, and yet connected to a vast network of “non-places,” conspicuous in the uncanny repetition of identical malls, theme parks and airports across the world. The conference “Art and the Fragmentation of Urban Space” at the University of San Diego will explore the manifold dimensions through which contemporary art and design relate to the reality of urban landscapes. The conference will be an invaluable opportunity to bring renowned artists, architects, art historians and cultural anthropologists across the world together with scholars, artists and community leaders. Speakers: * Dennis Adams, Cooper Union * M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University * Benjamin Buchloh, Columbia University * Teddy Cruz, Estudio Teddy Cruz, San Diego * Kajri Jain, University of Melbourne * Mark Jarzombek, MIT * Roderick Sauls, University of Cape Town * Belgin Turan, Middle East Technical University * Sally Yard, University of San Diego Conference co-chairs: S.M. Can Bilsel and db smith. Participation is free and open to the public. Juliana Maxim University of San Diego, Department of Art 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, Califonia 92110 Phone: (619) 260 7987 Fax: (619) 260 6875 Email: maxim@mit.edu From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 11 21:22:48 2004 Received: from rly-ip04.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.8] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CHBNI-0006DB-NG for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:48 -0400 Received: from rly-ip04.mx.aol.com(64.12.138.8) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 0a55bebc_1bed_11d9_8556_0002b3c8850b_10062; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:21:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-mtc06.proxy.aol.com (smtp-mtc06.proxy.aol.com [64.12.118.83]) by rly-ip04.mx.aol.com (v98.19) with ESMTP id RELAYIN6-7416b31d836; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:32 -0400 Received: from toshibauser (AC91D965.ipt.aol.com [172.145.217.101]) i9C1MHZU031331 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:22:18 -0400 Message-ID: <007201c4aff9$e3db3cd0$65d991ac@toshibauser> From: "Angela Jancius" To: Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 21:16:47 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2739.300 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.43 X-Apparently-From: Sturmstories@aol.com X-AOL-IP: 64.12.118.83 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:41:43 -0400 Subject: Inquiry Regarding SUNTA Poster Session X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 01:22:49 -0000 Hello, I'm going to be participating in the SUNTA poster session (2-3pm) at the AAA's on November 18th. This is the first time I have participated. Is there anything I need to do beforehand, to coordinate with SUNTA? Thanks for your help! Kelly Neiman kelly_neiman@yahoo.com From acjancius@ysu.edu Wed Oct 13 11:31:16 2004 Received: from mail01.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.201] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CHl5w-000402-4a for URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:31:16 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail01.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CHl5u-0005bF-TE for URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:31:15 -0400 Message-ID: <416D4A42.4090403@ysu.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 11:31:14 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: URBANTH-L@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scan-Signature: 31cbe2a983d11528433ba03f49fb6099 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:27:41 -0400 Subject: The Wenner-Gren Foundation: Individual Research Grants foranthropological projects X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:31:16 -0000 http://www.wennergren.org/programsirg.html#fieldwork The Wenner-Gren Foundation pursues its two major goals-advancing basic research in anthropology and building an international community of anthropologists-through several funding programs. Follow the links on the left for more information about programs and application guidelines. Individual Research Grants Description: Grants for amounts up to $25,000 are available for basic research in all branches of anthropology. Grants are made to seed innovative approaches and ideas, to cover specific expenses or phases of a project, and/or to encourage aid from other funding agencies. The foundation particularly invites projects employing comparative perspectives or integrating two or more subfields of anthropology. A small number of awards is available for projects designed to develop resources for anthropological research and scholarly exchange. The foundation, under its Individual Research Grants Program, offers: Dissertation Fieldwork Grants Post-Ph.D. Grants Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships. Budgetary Guidelines: Grants cover research expenses directly related and essential to the project (i.e., travel, living expenses during fieldwork, equipment, supplies, research assistance, and other relevant expenditures). Aid is not provided for salary and/or fringe benefits of applicant, tuition, non-project personnel, travel to meetings, institutional overhead, or institutional support. Low priority is given to dissertation writeup or other support for writing (except under the Hunt Fellowship), publication assistance, and film- or video-making (unless inherent to the research project). Expenses incurred prior to the effective date of an award will not be covered; budgets should reflect foundation deadlines. Application information: A formal application must be submitted. Those interested in receiving an application can contact the foundation to have the appropriate forms mailed to them, or (if they know their eligibility) individuals can download the forms directly from this website. Please note that our application forms have been revised; forms dated prior to year 2000 cannot be accepted. Deadlines: There are two deadlines each year, May 1st and November 1st. For applications submitted by the May 1st deadline, funding will be available the following January 1st. Under the November 1st deadline, funding will be available the following July 1st. Applicants should meet the most appropriate deadline for their research plans. Decisions for each application cycle will be announced six to eight monthes after the deadline date. Only one application may be submitted during any twelve-month period. Dissertation Fieldwork Grants are awarded to individuals to aid doctoral dissertation or thesis research. Applicants must be enrolled for a doctoral degree. Application must be made jointly with a thesis advisor or other scholar who will undertake responsibility for supervising the project. Awards are contigent upon the applicant's successful completion of all requirements for the degree other than the dissertation/thesis. Applications may be submitted before such requirements have been met; however, should an award be approved, the foundation will at that time request evidence of that the applicant is "all-but-dissertation/ advanced-to-candidacy". Qualified students of all nationalities are eligible. Post-Ph.D. Grants are awarded to individual scholars holding the doctorate or equivalent qualification in anthropology or a related discipline. Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality or institutional affiliation. Application for Post-Ph.D. Grants may be made by the scholar either as an individual or on behalf of an organization. Ph.D. candidates seeking postdoctoral support should file a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant application and indicate that support is being requested for postdoctoral research; if an award is approved it will be made after the Ph.D. is in hand. A limited number of Richard Carley Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowships, nonrenewable awards with a maximum of $40,000, is available to scholars within ten years of receipt of the Ph.D., to aid the writeup of research results for publication. Qualified scholars are eligible without regard to nationality or institutional affiliation. Applicants must hold the Ph.D. at the time of application. From acjancius@ysu.edu Wed Oct 13 14:49:23 2004 Received: from mail02.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.202] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CHoBf-0001vx-47 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:49:23 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail02.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CHoBd-00049E-Tn for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:49:22 -0400 Message-ID: <416D78B1.7050507@ysu.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:49:21 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scan-Signature: fcc1eaac01ddc596cf69b3e57976f92c X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:52:19 -0400 Subject: CFP: 3rd InASEA Conference, "Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe" X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 18:49:24 -0000 3rd InASEA Conference "Urban Life and Culture in Southeast Europe", Belgrade, May 20-22, 2005 Venue: School of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Date: May 20-22, 2005 Organisor: International Association for Southeast European Anthropology Themes: * Urbanization as a historical process in Southeast Europe: from nation-building to post-socialism * City vs. village: ideological aspects of urbanization in the Balkans * Migration to the city and adaptation to urban life * Urban-rural ties * Representations of the city in science, literature and art * Exploring the city: methodologies and techniques * Time in urban life * Urban space and place: constructions, uses, divisions, behaviours, memories and identifications * Family, kinship and gender relations in the city * Urban ethnicity and religion * Social exclusions and inclusions in urban society * Urban class, culture and identity * Pop culture, subculture and corporate culture * Commodities and consumption in the city * Feelings, risks and security in cities * Anthropologists and the future of cities in Southeast Europe Ulf Brunnbauer Institute for East European Studies FU Berlin Garystr. 55, D14195 Berlin Germany Phone: (++4930)838-52028 Email: ulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de Visit the website at http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/inasea/conference3.html From bvergara@sfsu.edu Wed Oct 13 16:10:13 2004 Received: from cluster1.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.213] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CHpRt-0004cw-Ly for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:10:13 -0400 Received: from cluster1.sfsu.edu(130.212.10.213) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id bb0661e6_1d53_11d9_82c5_0002b3c8850b_22467; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from horde.sfsu.edu (horde.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.203]) by cluster1.sfsu.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i9DKA2rT025672 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:10:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from apache@localhost) by horde.sfsu.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id i9DKA11s024994 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:10:01 -0700 Received: from adsl-69-110-8-184.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net (adsl-69-110-8-184.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [69.110.8.184]) by webmail.sfsu.edu (IMP) with HTTP for ; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:10:01 -0700 Message-ID: <1097698201.416d8b99dfe43@webmail.sfsu.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 13:10:01 -0700 From: bvergara@sfsu.edu To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: SFSU Webmail 3.2.1 X-Originating-IP: 69.110.8.184 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:15:07 -0400 Subject: welcome and introduction X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:10:14 -0000 Dear colleagues, Welcome to URBANTH-L. Angela Jancius, the list administrator, has just finished successfully transferring the mailing list onto the Youngstown State University servers, and so all 1400-odd subscribers should now be on board. (We are taking the list over from Rae Bridgman, who is stepping down after administering the list tirelessly for years -- since its inception, I believe.) Let me reproduce part of a post that Angela posted earlier for the recently-added members, although there are important additions here and there: URBANTH-L is a moderated mailing list meant for committed and active members of the Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA), as well as all those with an interest in the field of urban anthropology. It can be used for subscribers to post information about forthcoming meetings, conferences, announcements, queries, calls for proposals, and other opportunities. People who want to post to the list should send their messages to the following e-mail address: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu The automated welcome message you subscribers should've received gives information about URBANTH-L's web-based subscription site (http://lists.ysu.edu/mailman/listinfo.cgi/urbanth-l), and a password that can be used to manage your subscription. SUNTA members who do not wish to subscribe, or who would like to change their subscription to "digest," may do so by following the link above. If you have any difficulties, please do not hesitate to email Angela at acjancius@ysu.edu or me at bvergara@sfsu.edu for assistance. As we become acquainted with the listserv's new software, you may receive a few duplicate or subscription related postings during the next few days. Please bear with us while we iron things out. Let me introduce the listserve coordinator first: Angela Jancius is Assistant Professor at Youngstown State University with fieldwork specializations in postsocialist Europe and the United States, and an interest in the politics of deindustrialization. Her dissertation research focused on the politics of unemployment in Leipzig. She is currently affiliated with the Department of Sociology/Anthropology and the Center for Working-Class Studies. My name is Benito Vergara, the associate list coordinator, and I am an assistant professor in Asian American Studies and Anthropology at San Francisco State University. My dissertation was on transnationalism and the media in the Filipino immigrant community in Daly City, California. I also have earlier research interests in photography and colonialism in the Philippines during the American colonial period. Again, please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any problems. Sincerely, Benito Vergara From acjancius@ysu.edu Sat Oct 16 17:10:20 2004 Received: from mail02.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.202] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CIvoi-00004Q-8j for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:10:20 -0400 Received: from apache by mail02.cc.ysu.edu with local (Exim 4.43) id 1CIvoi-0002uI-08 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:10:20 -0400 Received: from ACAB53F8.ipt.aol.com (ACAB53F8.ipt.aol.com [172.171.83.248]) by webmail.ysu.edu (IMP) with HTTP for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:10:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1097961019.41718e3be048d@webmail.ysu.edu> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:10:19 -0400 From: Angela Jancius To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.2 X-Originating-IP: 172.171.83.248 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:13:39 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 21:10:20 -0000 http://www.ssrc.org/programs/idrf/ International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships The International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship (IDRF) program provides support for social scientists and humanists conducting dissertation field research in all areas and regions of the world. Up to fifty fellowships will be awarded in the year 2005. The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies. Funds are provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The IDRF awards enable doctoral candidates of proven achievement and outstanding potential to use their knowledge of distinctive cultures, societies, languages, economies, polities, and histories, in combination with their disciplinary training, to address issues that transcend their disciplines or area specializations. The program supports scholarship that treats place and setting in relation to broader phenomena as well as in particular historical and cultural contexts. Standard fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months in the field, plus travel expenses. They will rarely exceed $20,000. In some cases, the candidate may propose fewer than nine months of overseas fieldwork, but no award will be given for fewer than six months. The fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2005 and December 2006. International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships Eligibility The program is open to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences - regardless of citizenship - enrolled in doctoral programs in the United States. The program invites proposals for field research on all areas or regions of the world, as well as for research that is comparative, cross-regional and cross-cultural. Proposals that identify the U.S. as a case for comparative inquiry are welcome; however, proposals that require no substantial research outside the United States are not eligible. Proposals requesting support for a second year of field research will be funded only under exceptional circumstances. Proposals may cover all periods in history, but must address topics that have relevance to contemporary issues and debates. Applicants must complete all Ph.D. requirements except fieldwork and dissertation by the time the fellowship begins or by December 2005, whichever comes first. Standard fellowships will provide support for nine to twelve months in the field, plus travel expenses. They will rarely exceed $20,000. In some cases, the candidate may propose fewer than nine months of overseas fieldwork, but no award will be given for fewer than six months. The fellowship must be held for a single continuous period within the eighteen months between July 2005 and December 2006. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 18 14:06:51 2004 Received: from mail04.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.204] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CJbuF-000390-35 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:06:51 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail04.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CJbu9-0003Ob-Ub for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:06:50 -0400 Message-ID: <41740635.3060707@ysu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:06:45 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scan-Signature: e8f0863ed99263bbab7a4373afb99a0f X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:09:14 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]CFP: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore, Dubrovnik (Croatia 2005) X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:06:52 -0000 CFP: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore, Dubrovnik, Croatia 2005 This is the 1st CALL FOR PAPERS of Journeys of Expression IV: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore, jointly organised by the Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change at Hallam University, UK and the Ivo Pilar Institute, Croatia. JOE will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia on 17-20 march 2005. In the tradition of the Journeys of Expression conference series, this fourth event will again bring together international academics to discuss the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and festivals, this time focusing on aspects of folklore and carnival. The conference will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 17 to 20 March 2005 and will be hosted by the Croatian Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences. The themes to be discussed are inspired by the conclusions of our 2004 conference, which focused on "tourism and festivals as transnational practice", and was held in Innsbruck, Austria, with our partners at the Institute of European Ethnology and Folklore. Conference Aims Journeys of Expression IV aims to discuss different dimensions of festivity, carnival and celebration and their relation with various forms of tourism and touristic participation in festivals. In this sense, there is a focus on festival tourism as a transnational practice whose systemic character allows us to rethink the role of touristic strangers in the symbolic and economic exchange and consumption processes of contemporary society. Integral to this we will also focus upon the extent to which custom, tradition, legend and myth are expressed through festivals and are communicated to, and experienced, by tourists. The conference will bring together an international audience drawn from ethnology and folkloric studies, history, sociology, anthropology, cultural geography and tourism studies. Themes of Interest Key themes of interest to the conference include: * Festival Tourism as Transnational Connectivity, Exchange and Consumption; * Hospitality, Appropriation and Manipulation of Festival Tourists; * Festival Tourism, Folklore and Agency; * Music, Feast, Firework, Orgy and Dance - Inversion, Transgression, Fusion; * Nation / Region Building in a Transnational Society - Changing Forms, Boundaries and Meanings of Festival Folklore; * Cultural Performance, Ethnicity and the Politics of the Aesthetic; * Myth, Legend and Superstition in Festival Tourism; * Management Dilemmas related to Cross-Cultural Festival Audiences * Urban Myths and Legends in Contemporary Festival Spaces; * Tales that Travel - Buying and Selling Narratives of Tradition; * 'Non-Festivals' - Global Mobilities, Internationalisation and Uni-formisation of Festival Spaces and Practices. Please send your abstract of no more than 300 words with full address details as an electronic file to Dr. David Picard (d.picard@shu.ac.uk ) as soon as possible but by January 14th 2005 at the latest. David Picard Ph.D. (Anthrop., Univ. La Réunion, France, 2001) Centre for Tourism & Cultural Change Sheffield Hallam University Howard Street - Owen Building Sheffield S1 1WB United Kingdom Phone +44 (0) 114 225 3973 Fax +44 (0) 114 225 3343 Email d.picard@shu.ac.uk Website www.tourism-culture.com Journeys of Expressions IV: Tourism, Carnival and Folklore, the fourth edition of the CTCC's Tourism and Festivals conference series will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia in March 2005. Further details and a CFP will soon be available at our website www.tourism-culture.com. From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 18 14:21:18 2004 Received: from mail03.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.203] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CJc8E-0003hJ-6e for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:21:18 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail03.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CJc8C-00049i-GM for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:21:17 -0400 Message-ID: <4174099B.8060900@ysu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:21:15 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Scan-Signature: 724ef2424c0ccf36005e4911e2a1a22e X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:27:01 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L] CFP: Landscape, Environment and Human Agency in the City Since 1700 X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 18:21:18 -0000 Submission Deadline: 2004-12-17 LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT AND HUMAN AGENCY IN THE CITY SINCE 1700 Distinct historical, literary, artistic, philosophical and spiritual traditions have developed in the UK dedicated to ‘the mental landscape’. This concerns the human interpretation of the environment, its representation in landscape, symbolism, and its exploration in the creative and performing arts. There is also an emerging body of research concerned with the history of the material environment itself, from air and water to gas and electricity. Research on landscape and the urban environment are long established in urban history, historical geography, and archaeology, and interest is presently expanding across the full range of the arts and social sciences. Archival materials and artefacts are unique in their quality and scale, and a developing interest in environmental history is bringing innovative perspectives to the study of urban and landscape history. Focussed around the themes of ‘landscape, environment and human agency in towns and cities since 1700’ the conference organisers invite papers that offer new perspectives, approaches, sources or methods. The papers might address one or more of the following questions. * What is the history of urban landscape and how might it be rewritten? * What is the history of the material infrastructure of urban life and of the technologies that have made the modern urban landscape? * How have changes in the urban environment interacted with changes in sensory perception (aural, visual, etc.)? * How might we understand the relationship between urban place and human identity over time? * How has the ‘nature’ been transformed and incorporated in urban settings, and how might the old ‘nature’/’culture’ divide be rethought in the light of this? * What do we know historically of people’s lived relationship to their environment and the particular attachments that are forged between people and place? * How has the urban landscape been imagined as utopia and dystopia and what might this tells about specific desires and fears? Paper proposals should be a single A4 page and sent to either Bob Morris or Simon Gunn by 17 DECEMBER 2004 at the following addresses: Professor R J Morris School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh 50 George Square Edinburgh EH8 9JY E-mail: rjmorris@ed.ac.uk Dr Simon Gunn Cultural Studies Faculty of Arts and Society Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds LS1 3HE E-mail: s.gunn@leedsmet.ac.uk From acjancius@ysu.edu Mon Oct 18 15:26:21 2004 Received: from mail04.cc.ysu.edu ([150.134.10.204] ident=exim) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CJd9B-0005gU-7t for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:26:21 -0400 Received: from wcs45.db2.ysu.edu ([150.134.92.45]) by mail04.cc.ysu.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CJd9A-0006kg-1n for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:26:21 -0400 Message-ID: <417418DB.1000205@ysu.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:26:19 -0400 From: Angela Jancius User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scan-Signature: 63cfd97ad87955e8a839c34d38156769 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:27:01 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]Ukrainian Ethnologist Seeks Host Institution for Fulbright X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:26:21 -0000 [EDITOR's NOTE: The below query was sent to SUNTA's secretary, Elzbieta Gozdziak, from a Ukrainian scholar who is developing an urban anthropology program and is seeking institutional affiliation for a quickly approaching Fulbright application deadline. -AJ] ****** I am writing to you because I am aware that you have expertise in the field of urban anthropology, an area of study that is of particular interest to me. My name is Viktor Pylypenko and I am an Associate Professor of Ethnology in the History Department of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University in Ukraine. My current research lies in the field of urban anthropology. I am studying contemporary urban culture in Ukrainian cities, as they relate to developments in other Eastern and Western European countries. I have been conducting research in this area for the past year, and have ascertained that my work would greatly benefit from exposure to the scholarship and methodologies of American colleagues. For this reason, I am applying for the Advanced Research Fulbright Scholar Program, for the opportunity to conduct research at a leading university library and to become acquainted with urban anthropologists in the United States. For the 2005-06 academic year the application deadline is at the end of October 2004. In addition to my own research interests, my objective for the fellowship year is to develop a course in urban anthropology for my department at Kyiv University. The goal is not only to introduce a new field of study within Kyiv University's History Department, but also to expose students to Western scholarship in this field. To date, Kyiv University has not offered a course on this subject. Urban anthropology was not a part of the Soviet curriculum, and there are no qualified lecturers or researchers in the field. Furthermore, since urban anthropology was not an active field of research, libraries have only limited holdings. The course I am developing will focus on both the theory and practice of urban anthropology. It will introduce students to methodologies employed by urban anthropologists, and to the logistics of conducting research in an urban setting. An important aspect of the course will also be to give relevance in our curriculum to contemporary urban issues. One of the criterion of the Fulbright Scholars Program is to have affiliation with a U.S. university. As far as I understand such an affiliation would give me the opportunity to use the library facilities of your institution, to sit in on lectures, and to interact with colleagues. I would very much appreciate if you could extend such an affiliation to me for the 2005-2006 academic year. I would be glad to send you any additional information or documentation that you may require to make your decision. I would appreciate your timely response. Sincerely, Viktor Pylypenko Assistant Professor of Ethnology Department of History Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University From raea@yorku.ca Wed Oct 20 11:55:07 2004 Received: from sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca ([130.63.236.85] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKIZ4-0006Wx-VN for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:39:50 -0400 Received: from sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca(130.63.236.85) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 10545d24_22ae_11d9_9fe6_0002b3c8850b_19981; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:39:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (raea@localhost) by sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9KFcQGf006957 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:38:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca: raea owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:38:26 -0400 (EDT) From: Rae Bridgman X-X-Sender: raea@sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:13:57 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]Canadian Conference on Homelessness: Call for Papers (fwd) X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:55:08 -0000 Call for Papers Canadian Conference on Homelessness: Stories, Research, Solutions York University May 17-20, 2005 [ http://www.homelessconference.ca ]www.homelessconference.ca Deadline for Submissions: Dec.10, 2004 The first Canadian Conference on Homelessness is a national, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary forum for sharing and collaboration in order to explore the links between research and action, and to continue to move towards effective long-term solutions in homelessness issues. The conference will provide a foundation for future research and action on homelessness along with the capacity to develop effective solutions across Canada over the long-term. We are looking for papers and presentations from researchers, service providers, people involved in policy, and people who have experienced homelessness. We invite the submission of proposals for papers, panels, poster presentations, workshops, storytelling, film and video screenings, and other forms of presentation on these or other topics. Submissions on all topics relating to homelessness in Canada are welcome, including: ! Demographic characteristics ! Pathways in and out of homelessness ! Regional differences ! Models of service provision ! Homeless youth ! Discrimination and social exclusion ! Barriers to accessing service ! Health (physical, mental, HIV/AIDS, disabilities, determinants of health) ! Housing (shelter patterns, hostels and shelters, affordable housing, etc.) ! Substance use (addictions, treatment, harm reduction) ! Gender issues ! Aboriginal Peoples ! Systemic change versus system improvements ! Education, employment and income ! Immigration and diversity ! Justice (crime, justice system, victimization, prison) ! Sexual minorities ! Federal, provincial and municipal policies regarding homelessness HOW TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT: Please include the following: title, abstract of no more than 200 words, five key words, name, e-mail address and mailing address. Submissions can be sent by email ([ mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca ]mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca[ mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca ]cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca), by using a web form ([ http://www.homelessconference.ca ]www.homelessconference.ca), or by mail, to: Canadian Conference on Homelessness c/o Faculty Of Education 8th Floor Ross Building York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Demande de communications / et d=92expos=E9s Conf=E9rence canadienne sur L=92ITIN=C9RANCE: Faits v=E9cus, recherches et solutions York University du 17 au 20 mai 2005 [ http://www.homelessconference.ca ]www.homelessconference.ca Date limite des soumissions: le 10 decembre 04 La premiPre Conf=E9rence canadienne sur l=92itin=E9rance est un forum pancanadien intersectoriel et interdisciplinaire d=92=E9change et de collaboration qui vise B =E9tudier les liens entre la recherche et l=92acti= on et B parvenir B des solutions B long terme aux problPmes li=E9s B l=92itin=E9rance. 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Les soumissions peuvent Ltre envoy=E9es par courriel B l=92adresse ([ mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca ]mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca[ mailto:cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca ]cch.abstracts@edu.yorku.ca), ou en remplissant un formulaire en ligne ([ http://www.homelessconference.ca ]www.homelessconference.ca), ou par la poste: Conf=E9rence canadienne sur L=92ITIN=C9RANCE c/o Faculty Of Education 8th Floor Ross Building York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Dr. Stephen Gaetz Faculty of Education York University N837D Ross Building York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 (416) 736-2100 x20050 From raea@yorku.ca Wed Oct 20 11:56:35 2004 Received: from sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca ([130.63.236.85] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKIfk-0006ca-H8 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:46:44 -0400 Received: from sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca(130.63.236.85) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 089cee1a_22af_11d9_9ffe_0002b3c8850b_11240; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (raea@localhost) by sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i9KFZcKd006914 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:35:38 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca: raea owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:35:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Rae Bridgman X-X-Sender: raea@sunlight.ccs.yorku.ca To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:13:57 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L] FYI - Call for papers on Feminism, Transnationality and the Nation (fwd) X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 15:56:36 -0000 Call for Papers: Feminism, Transnationality and the Nation Women and Environments International Magazine: Fall 2005 Globalization is often talked about as a new and overwhelming phenomenon that threatens the power and relevance of nation-states. More recently some feminist and postcolonial scholars have begun to challenge two main assumptions within this dominant globalization discourse. First they argue that globalization is not a new phenomenon, and that contemporary forms of globalization, including complex relationships of power and inequality, have roots going back well over five hundred years. They also contend that nation-states and ideas about the nation, far from becoming irrelevant, remain central features within the current global order, and thus must be understood and analyzed accordingly. Some suggest that the term =91transnationality=92, may be more appropriate than =91globalization=92 f= or allowing us to explore the continued importance of the nation within this era of globalization. It may also allow us to critically analyze both the continuities and the fissures between contemporary and past forms of globalization, and to trace the lines between them. Feminist analysis is especially important in revealing the gendered nature of these processes. We are seeking submissions, including articles (500-2000 words), creative writing pieces, photography, cartoons and other forms of artwork, that grapple with questions about the nation and nation-states within a transnational world, and which take as a starting point the central role that gender, race, class, sexuality and ability play in the understanding of nations, and the =91global=92 or =91transnational=92. Questions to consider: =95 How are nation-states and ideas about the nation significant today? =95 How is transnationality gendered, racialized, and classed? =95 How do diaspora and migration affect nation-state affinities? =95 Do transnational connections prod= uce exciting opportunities for feminist collaboration, or do they reproduce colonial and imperial inequalities? =95 How does tourism disrupt or reproduce national boundaries? How is tourism gendered? =95 What role does an ever-increasingly global neoliberal economic agenda play in the production of national identities? What role do women play in challenging and/or sustaining this agenda? =95 What are the ongoing relationships between transnationalism and imperialism? =95 How are nations (re)produced, and for whom? Possible ways to approach the theme: =95 Tourism/ecotourism =95 Multiculturalism (state driven and popular) =95 Sports, leisure and recreation =95 Diaspor= a and home =95 Human rights/women=92s rights/queer rights =95 Immigration a= nd citizenship =95 Environmentalism =95 Technologies (information, bio warfare, bio engineering, Foucauldian, etc) =95 Indigenous perspectives All submissions must be in plain, readable language and should not exceed 2500 words. Articles should adhere with the guidelines listed on the WE website. Please submit abstracts by December 1st, 2004. Final pieces must be submitted by February 1st, 2005. Please email abstracts or any questions to we.mag@utoronto.ca. In the subj= ect line of all correspondence please write TRANSNATIONALITY FALL 2005. For further information on submitting photography, art, cartoons or other visual works, please contact the above email address. Contributors will receive 3 copies of the Fall 2005 issue, as well as an 1= 8 month subscription. Women & Environments International Magazine is a unique Canadian journal which examines women's multiple relations to their environments - natural, built and social - from feminist perspectives. Since 1976 it has provided a forum for academic research and theory, professional practice and community experience. For more information on Women and Environments International Magazine, please visit http://www.weimag.com/. For general enquiries contact: Women & Environments International Magazine, IWSGS, New College, U. of Toronto, 40 Willcocks St., Toronto, Ont. Canada M5S 1C6, ph: (416) 978-5259; fax: (416) 946-5561; email: we.mag@utoronto.ca; *************************Please circulate widely.************************* Ann Braithwaite, Ph.D. President/Pr=E9sidente, CWSA/ACEF Associate Professor, Coordinator Women's Studies University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Ave. Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3 902-628-4312 abraithwaite@upei.ca www.upei.ca/~womenstu Ann Braithwaite, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Coordinator Women's Studies Program University of Prince Edward Island 550 University Ave. Charlottetown, PE C1A 4P3 902-628-4312 abraithwaite@upei.ca http://www.upei.ca/~womenstu From rrotenbe@depaul.edu Wed Oct 20 14:12:22 2004 Received: from smtp.depaul.edu ([140.192.20.73] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKKwg-000333-6C for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:12:22 -0400 Received: from smtp2.is.depaul.edu(140.192.20.73) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 86cd71c4_22c3_11d9_9e25_0002b3c8850b_30475; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu (gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu [140.192.14.25]) by smtp2.is.depaul.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2BAD771CB for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:07:34 -0500 (CDT) Received: from GWIA1MTA-MTA by gwia-loop-1.srv.depaul.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:13:46 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.2 Beta Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 13:13:30 -0500 From: "Robert Rotenberg" To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=__Part2F0F15DA.0__=" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:13:57 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]SF Meetings Memo X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 18:12:22 -0000 This is a MIME message. If you are reading this text, you may want to consider changing to a mail reader or gateway that understands how to properly handle MIME multipart messages. --=__Part2F0F15DA.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I have recently found out that not all membners of SUNTA would have received this email from AAA regarding the SF meetings. If you have not registered yet, you would not receive. I am forwarding it through Urbanth-l to fix that situation. You must "vote" on the terms outlined in the memo before tomorrow at 8:00 AM if you want your voice heard. Also, here is another link for those who want another perspective on the situation. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/19/EDGAB9B1851.DTL Bob Rotenberg President SUNTA --=__Part2F0F15DA.0__= Content-Type: message/rfc822 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:31:47 -0500 From: "members@aaanet.org" To: ,"AAA Annual Meeting" Subject: AAA Annual Meeting and SF Hilton Hotel Labor Dispute Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=__Part0A2A33C3.1__=" --=__Part0A2A33C3.1__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline October 19, 2004 MEMORANDUM To: 2004 Annual Meeting Registrants From: Liz Brumfiel, President Bill Davis, Executive Director Subject: San Francisco Hilton Hotel Labor Dispute This is to make you aware of a labor dispute involving the San Francisco Hilton Hotel and its organized employees, and to seek your advice on behalf of the AAA Executive Board relative to our scheduled 2004 Annual Meeting. The AAA Executive Board is conducting an on-line survey to obtain your opinion relative to the decision before it. To participate, please read the following memo carefully prior to completing the survey. Because of the urgency of the issue, please send your reply by Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 8:00 am Eastern Daylight Time. We recognize this is an extremely complex issue, and appreciate your reading the memo carefully prior to replying. SF Hilton Hotel Labor Dispute The San Francisco Hilton Hotel and thirteen other hotels in San Francisco are currently in a labor contract standoff with Local 2 of UNITE/HERE, the union representing cooks, dishwashers, bellmen, servers, room cleaners and switchboard operators. Union members struck the hotels several weeks ago and subsequently have been locked out. There are currently picket lines at the entrances to the Hilton, and there is every likelihood that contract negotiations between the union and the multi-employer group representing the 14 hotels will not be settled by the time of AAA's Annual Meeting. Understanding the discomfort that many members may have crossing picket lines, AAA's Officers and staff have been working steadily over the past two weeks to determine what possibilities might exist to move the meeting out of the Hilton, and the likely consequences of doing so. On Monday, October 18, AAA's Executive Board held a teleconference meeting, during which Board members decided to solicit the views of potential meeting attendees concerning our options. AAA Contract with SF Hilton Hotel The SF Hilton is the only hotel property in San Francisco able to accommodate under a single roof, our meeting both in sleeping rooms and in function space. AAA has had a signed a contract for the 2004 Annual Meeting with the San Francisco Hilton since October 29, 1996. The contract provides that, absent a failure on the part of Hilton to provide the services specified, AAA does not have the right to cancel its meeting in the Hilton without facing exposure to potential damages in excess of $1.2 million plus legal fees. Our contract with the SF Hilton provides that, to the extent that the hotel is unable to operate, meet its obligations and perform the services it is contracted to perform, we have cause to sever our contract without suffering a financial penalty. The hotel's management indicates that they have brought employees in from other properties and the hotel is operating as normal. Union representatives say that the hotel is not. Since the job action began, conferences and events have continued to be held in the Hilton. To determine the situation, we contacted representatives of other organizations that have conducted meetings in the Hilton since the beginning of the labor dispute to get their assessment of the Hilton's performance. Based on their reports, it appears that the Hilton has provided adequate services to those organizations. Thus, AAA cannot cancel its meeting in the Hilton without facing potential damages in excess of $1.2 million plus legal fees. Alternative Locations for the 2004 Annual Meeting Despite these contract provisions, we have been exploring other potential options for relocating the 2004 Annual Meeting to another property (outside San Francisco) or rescheduling it to another time period. Unfortunately, the requirements for AAA's Annual Meeting (sleeping rooms, meeting rooms, exhibit, job placement and registration service space, general session space) make it an unusually difficult meeting to site. In order to secure adequate space sufficient to accommodate our meeting, we schedule and contract for that space between 5 and 8 years in advance of the meeting. With only a month before the meeting is scheduled to begin, finding any optional space to move the meeting has been even more difficult. Several potential alternatives have been explored. These included moving our function space from the Hilton to other locations in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the Moscone Convention Center is tied up with an auto show and can't accommodate us. No other hotel property can be found which would accommodate all our meeting room needs. We explored other city venues for the 2004 Annual Meeting, including Orlando, Atlanta, Chicago, Oakland, Philadelphia and San Jose. While we felt we should consider all possibilities, moving the Annual Meeting to another city or to totally different dates appears to be a completely impractical alternative at this late date because many meeting registrants have already bought airline tickets, would incur a financial loss in rebooking their tickets and likely would nota be able to change their schedule of obligations on such short notice. The only possible alternative location within driving distance of the San Francisco airport for the meeting is San Jose, CA. For those of you who don't know the geography, San Jose is about 45 miles south of the San Francisco airport. A combination of eight hotels within 3 miles of the San Jose Convention Center could accommodate as many as 1,770 sleeping rooms each night of our meeting. (We currently have a hold on 1,850 hotel rooms in San Francisco.) A combination of the San Jose Convention Center, Civic Auditorium and Parkside Hall (both adjacent to the Convention Center) and all available meeting rooms at the Hilton Hotel and Crown Plaza hotel (a block from the Convention Center) could probably accommodate our need for function space for the scholarly program, general sessions, exhibit space, placement service and business meetings. However, renting this space would cost AAA approximately $100,000. A final option would be to cancel the 2004 Annual Meeting completely. Major Considerations: If picket lines are still up at the San Francisco Hilton during our meeting, there are really no good options for AAA. It appears likely that we will have reduced attendance whether we conduct it in the SF Hilton or move it to San Jose. If we have it at the Hilton, and there are picket lines around the hotel, some potential attendees (numbers uncertain) may cancel their attendance. If we move the meeting to San Jose at this late date, others may cancel. At least five major considerations are likely to be involved in an Executive Board decision on whether to hold the meeting at the Hilton as scheduled, cancel the meeting or attempt to change its location to San Jose. 1. Logistical Considerations After a year of planning, changing our meeting location with only four weeks before the meeting starts will be a mammoth logistical undertaking. There will be 450 sessions, 250 special events plus the exhibits program and placement service to relocate, and once relocated, they will end up in at least 5 different locations. Sleeping rooms for over 4,500 people will have to be secured, and it is likely that they would be in a minimum of 8 different hotels in San Jose. Since two of those hotels are three miles from the San Jose Convention Center, shuttle bus transportation would have to be secured. Since the meeting program is already at the printer, an addendum with newly assigned rooms will have to be prepared. It is likely that every registered attendee (4,579 people have registered thus far) will have to be contacted directly and walked through the process of alternative arrangements. On site in San Jose, it is likely there will be glitches and lots of confusion; attendees will undoubtedly find it difficult to navigate the meeting; some events will probably not occur; some individuals will not be able to get to sessions they expected to attend; and things will certainly not go as smoothly as attendees have come to expect from AAA. 2. Financial Risk Another major consideration in moving our 2004 Annual Meeting is of course the financial cost to AAA. According to a report from ConferenceDirect, the firm that AAA contracts with to advise on site location and hotel contract negotiation, the San Francisco Hilton will claim damages of $1,125,975 if we cancel the contract with them. While that amount may be mitigated by certain terms of the contract and Hilton's ability to resell some of its rooms, the potential damages owed to Hilton would be very substantial. Breaking other contracts with overflow hotels in San Francisco, according to ConferenceDirect's calculations is likely to cost AAA an additional $66,379. Renting function room space in San Jose is estimated at $100,000. Assuming the cost of Shuttle Bus service in San Jose will be borne by the San Jose hotels and Convention and Visitors Bureau, and that our costs can be held at about current budget levels, the potential financial loss to AAA as a consequence of a move to San Jose is calculated by ConferenceDirect is approximately $1.3 million not including legal fees. 3. Ethical and Economic Implications Were we to move the meeting out of a hotel that is being struck by its employees, many of our members would consider AAA to be on the right side of an issue that is probably quite dear to their hearts. Over the course of the past two weeks, we've engaged in several discussions with representatives of UNITE/HERE in an attempt to identify ways that our members and/or the Association could support the strike effort. The union's position is that the only thing they want us to do is to cancel our meeting in the SF Hilton. The media and public relations benefit to the union in our canceling the meeting is perceived as being very significant. Cancellation of our meeting at the Hilton would cause only limited economic loss to the hotel for two reasons. First, under the terms of our contract, AAA does not pay a fee for the use of function rooms. The meeting space in the hotel is provided to AAA free of charge in order to get our sleeping room and food and beverage business. Thus moving our meeting does not deny the hotel any income for the rental of function room space. Second, if we cancel our meeting at the SF Hilton, under the terms of our contract, the Hotel will make a claim against AAA for recovery of anticipated income from sleeping room and food and beverage business which is lost as a consequence of our canceling the meeting. To the extent that the Hilton succeeds in recovering from AAA any or all of the $1,125,975 in estimated losses it incurs as a result of the contract cancellation, the hotel will not suffer that loss. The loss would accrue to the AAA which would be forced to compensate the Hilton for its lost income. 4. An Additional Consideration: The "Attrition" Clause An additional, very important point should be made. There is no "attrition" clause in our contract-which means that, as long as AAA does not cancel its contract, it would not be liable if the Hilton didn't fill the rooms that we have blocked off and if the Hilton did not receive its anticipated food, beverage and other income. Under the terms of our contract with the SF Hilton, individual members could exercise their own personal choices on whether to maintain or cancel their sleeping room reservations at the Hilton and to use or refrain from using the hotel's restaurant and cocktail lounge facilities without exposing the Association to financial damages or loss, so long as AAA does NOT cancel the location of its meeting. 5. Demonstrating Support for Striking Hotel Employees We have attempted to identify ways in which, were we to keep our meeting in the San Francisco Hilton, our members and/or the Association could provide help in support of the strike effort. The union's position is that the only thing they want to see us do is to cancel our meeting in the SF Hilton. They have been unwilling to discuss any other possible actions that AAA or our members might take to be of assistance or show support to the striking/locked out employee's efforts. Clearly, the media and public relations benefit to the union in our canceling the meeting is perceived as being so great that it is politically unwise for them to discuss other possible assistance the AAA might provide. A number of suggestions have been put forth by AAA's Executive Board and members, however, of ways that individual members and the Association as a whole might demonstrate support for striking hotel employees short of canceling or moving our meeting from the SF Hilton Hotel. These include: 1. Sending a letter to the hotel requesting they settle the strike before we arrive and letting the hotel know that we support striking/locked out employees. 2. Sending a letter to the president of UNITE/HERE to let him know that we have a contract with the Hilton and have arranged a schedule with several thousands of people that we cannot now change, but which expresses support for the workers on strike and requests permission for AAA members and visitors to cross the picket line. 3. Inviting the union to address our annual business meeting to explain their situation. 4. Providing a table for the union in our conference registration area for the distribution of information on their situation. 5. Inviting the union to our receptions to explain the situation and to collect funds to support the workers. 6. Conducting the organized session on the anthropology of unions (organized by Paul Durrenberger) to meet on the sidewalk across the street from the hotel or on the picket line rather than cross it and offer the union an opportunity for some supportive press coverage. 7. Securing a parade permit from the City of San Francisco and organizing a parade from the hotel to Union Square and a demonstration in Union Square. 8. Conducting a teach-in at the hotel or in an adjacent location which members of AAA would be asked to participate in and /or attend. 9. Organizing and conducting an effort to collect financial contributions from AAA members to support union members. Express Your Opinion The AAA Executive Board is conducting an on-line survey to obtain your opinion relative to the decision before them. 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X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:32:51 -0000 
Human Rights in a Globalizing Era?/Les droits humains dans une
époque de mondialisation?  

Call for Papers, Extended deadline

The Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor presents a conference:

Human Rights in a Globalizing Era?

August 4-6, 2005
University of Windsor
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Alison Brysk, Political Science Department, University of California, Irvine, USA.

Dr. Tony Evans, Department of Politics, Southampton University, UK.

Dr. Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and
Ecology, INDIA.

Please send abstracts (150-200 words max) to socjust@uwindsor.ca (please
include institutional affiliation and contact information).
To submit on line, visit our website: http://www.uwindsor.ca/socialjustice
Deadline: November 15, 2004.

The worldwide expansion of new social and economic relations, new patterns
of migration, and the spread of North American consumer culture have had
radically destabilizing effects on the life-conditions of peoples and
populations around the world. The conference will consider the diverse
ways in which issues of democracy, practices of citizenship, and social
security articulate with human rights in this globalizing era. It will
bring together internationally known scholars, researchers, and activists
whose work addresses the foundations, history, politics, or limitations of
human rights and whose participation will assist in redressing the
intractable dilemmas associated with the processes of globalization.

Le Centre d'Études en Justice Sociale de l'Université de Windsor 
organise une conférence: 

Les droits humains dans une époque de mondialisation? 

Du 4 au 6 août, 2005 
L' Université de Windsor 
Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Conférencier(e)s invité(e)s: 

Dr. Alison Brysk, Département de science politique, Université de Californie,
Irvine, États-Unis 

Dr. Tony Evans, Département de science politique,  Université de Southampton,
Angleterre 

Dr. Vandana Shiva, Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology,
Inde. 

Prière d'envoyer vos propositions (150 à 200 mots) à: socjust@uwindsor.ca 

Date limite: le 15 novembre 2004.

L'expansion mondiale des nouvelles relations sociales et économiques, les nouveaux modèles de la
migration, et la diffusion de la culture de consommation nord-américaine ont eu des effets déstabilisant sur les conditions de
vie des peuples autour du monde. La conférence va prendre en considération les diverses façons dans lesquels les thèmes de la
démocratie, les pratiques de la citoyenneté, et la sécurité sociale s'expriment envers les droits humains dans cette période de
mondialisation. La conférence rassemblera des savants, des chercheurs, et des activistes chez qui le travail adresse les bases, l'histoire, la politique, ou les limitations des droits humains et dont la participation aidera à réparer les dilemmes insurmontables liés au
processus de la mondialisation.
From robrien@temple.edu Thu Oct 21 14:21:26 2004 Received: from po-smtp1.temple.edu ([155.247.166.195] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKhZ0-00066o-MA for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:21:26 -0400 Received: from po-smtp1.temple.edu(155.247.166.195) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id faf8a044_238d_11d9_8e09_0002b3c8850b_8925; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:21:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from po-a.temple.edu (po-a.temple.edu [155.247.166.191]) by po-smtp1.temple.edu (MOS 3.5.4-GR) with ESMTP id CHV67044; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:21:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 66.92.231.240 by po-a.temple.edu (MOS 3.5.4-GR) with HTTPS/1.1; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:21:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:21:18 -0400 From: "Robert T. O'Brien" To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailer: Mirapoint Webmail Direct 3.5.4-GR MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <298c988c.92df111d.81bb300@po-a.temple.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Status: score=0/50, host=po-smtp1.temple.edu X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:31:24 -0400 Subject: [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:21:29 -0000 Dear Colleagues: I'm writing to ask what people know about AAA and the SF UNITE HERE strike (now a lockout). I've seen many letters to the AAA Exec Board and to section groups calling to move the conference. The SCA has called on the Exec Board to move it. SAW is formulating a response now. Anyone else know what's going on within the AAA? Best, Rob O'Brien ******************************************** Robert T. O'Brien Ph.D. Candidate Department of Anthropology Temple University robrien@temple.edu 215-803-5181 "We're changing the world,...freedom is the Almighty's gift to every man and woman in this world. And as the greatest power on the face of the Earth, we have an obligation to help the spread of freedom." GWB on why God loves an imperialist "...a really diverse crowd here tonight. The haves, and the have-mores. Some people call you elite. I call you my base." GWB at the Al Smith fundraiser, October 19, 2000 ******************************************** From Idasusser@aol.com Thu Oct 21 14:36:37 2004 Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com ([64.12.137.2] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKhnh-0006mG-1n for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:36:37 -0400 Received: from imo-m21.mx.aol.com(64.12.137.2) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 19b5e36e_2390_11d9_93fd_0002b3c8850b_27150; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:36:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Idasusser@aol.com by imo-m21.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id n.55.647da94d (25508); Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:36:25 -0400 (EDT) From: Idasusser@aol.com Message-ID: <55.647da94d.2ea95ba9@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:36:25 EDT Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike To: robrien@temple.edu, urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1098383785" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5110 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:39:03 -0400 X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:36:38 -0000 -------------------------------1098383785 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Dear Rob and urban anth, The AES program site is attempting to keep links open with union info and the AAA, so far a number of units have come out with statements but the AAA itself has not made a statement yet. all the best, Ida -------------------------------1098383785 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear Rob and urban anth,
The AES program site is attempting to keep links open with union info a= nd the AAA, so far a number of units have come out with statements but the A= AA itself has not made a statement yet.
all the best,
Ida
-------------------------------1098383785-- From edseljoe@earthlink.net Thu Oct 21 14:51:39 2004 Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.228] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKi2F-0007WO-LF for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:51:39 -0400 Received: from mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net(207.217.120.228) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 335c319a_2392_11d9_8807_0002b3c8850b_4791; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:51:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from user-12hclc4.cable.mindspring.com ([69.22.85.132] helo=DG518711) by mynah.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKi27-0007K6-Q1 for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 11:51:32 -0700 From: "E.J." To: Subject: RE: [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:51:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0015_01C4B77D.71FC9470" X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcS3nUiocaDugKHpT9Cy3DgYwLQFBwAAS2sA In-Reply-To: <55.647da94d.2ea95ba9@aol.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-ELNK-Trace: 76e3505b8d4af2221aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79298ed969870a405a3374b750876ea0c2350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 69.22.85.132 Message-Id: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:38:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: edseljoe@earthlink.net List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:51:41 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C4B77D.71FC9470 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I was not going to go to the AAA meetings this year but for what it's worth. I'm a union organizer at the University of South Florida and I feel very strongly that any group that purports to be concerned with human beings should not cross that picket line. If the strike doesn't get resolved prior to the start of the AAA conference, you could hold the meetings in the streets outside the hotel, or in a nearby city. As long as money is being given to management, there will be no incentive for them to restore the non-scab workers to their rightful jobs. Plus, the threat of cancellation might have a beneficial effect on the negotiation process. EJ Ford _____ From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Idasusser@aol.com Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 2:36 PM To: robrien@temple.edu; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu Subject: Re: [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike Dear Rob and urban anth, The AES program site is attempting to keep links open with union info and the AAA, so far a number of units have come out with statements but the AAA itself has not made a statement yet. all the best, Ida ------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C4B77D.71FC9470 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

I was not going to go to the AAA = meetings this year but for what it’s = worth…

 

I’m a union organizer at the = University of = South Florida and I feel very = strongly that any group that purports to be concerned with human beings should = not cross that picket line.  If the = strike doesn’t get resolved prior to the start of the AAA conference, you = could hold the meetings in the streets outside the hotel, or in a nearby = city.  As long as money is being given = to management, there will be no incentive for them to restore the non-scab = workers to their rightful jobs.

 

Plus, the threat of cancellation = might have a beneficial effect on the negotiation process.  

 

EJ = Ford

 

From: urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces@lists.ysu.edu] = On Behalf Of Idasusser@aol.com
Sent: Thursday, October = 21, 2004 2:36 PM
To: robrien@temple.edu; urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu
Subject: Re: = [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike

 

Dear Rob and urban anth,

The AES program site is attempting to keep links open = with union info and the AAA, so far a number of units have come out with = statements but the AAA itself has not made a statement = yet.

all the best,

Ida

------=_NextPart_000_0015_01C4B77D.71FC9470-- From Idasusser@aol.com Thu Oct 21 15:12:19 2004 Received: from imo-m16.mx.aol.com ([64.12.138.206] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKiMF-0000Hd-AR for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:12:19 -0400 Received: from imo-m16.mx.aol.com(64.12.138.206) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id 1572959a_2395_11d9_8b73_0002b3c8850b_26025; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Idasusser@aol.com by imo-m16.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v37_r3.8.) id q.1d4.2d6e4fb5 (25508) for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:12:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Idasusser@aol.com Message-ID: <1d4.2d6e4fb5.2ea96406@aol.com> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:12:06 EDT Subject: [URBANTH-L]AES website and AAAmeetings info To: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1098385926" X-Mailer: 9.0 for Windows sub 5110 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:38:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:12:20 -0000 -------------------------------1098385926 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For ongoing information on the union demands and negotiations as well > as interactive discussion with all members of the AAA please go to the > AES website AT HTTP://WWW.AESONLINE.ORG -------------------------------1098385926 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
For ongoing information on the union demands and negotiations as well <= BR>> as interactive discussion with all members of the AAA please go to t= he
> AES website AT HTTP://WWW.AESONLINE.ORG
-------------------------------1098385926-- From smaack@earthlink.net Thu Oct 21 15:53:06 2004 Received: from starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.227] helo=ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu) by unix1.cc.ysu.edu with smtp (Exim 4.20) id 1CKizi-0001dj-BC for urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 15:53:06 -0400 Received: from starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net(207.217.120.227) by ysuwebshield01.ysu.edu via csmap id c95857c0_239a_11d9_8b1d_0002b3c8850b_13058; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:52:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ca-vannys-bluewave1d-b-214.vnnyca.adelphia.net ([67.22.73.214] helo=D9M99M01) by starling.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CKizb-0002Ro-U3; Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:53:00 -0700 From: "Stephen Maack" To: "Robert T. O'Brien" , Subject: RE: [URBANTH-L]AAA and the strike Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:55:08 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <298c988c.92df111d.81bb300@po-a.temple.edu> X-ELNK-Trace: 996486f8e06fc49494f5150ab1c16ac08f4233f47979de264f5a8e3b4636dbd0f9edb1e1a7e2ed68350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 67.22.73.214 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:22:29 -0400 X-BeenThere: urbanth-l@lists.ysu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: smaack@earthlink.net List-Id: discussion list for the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:53:07 -0000 Rob and SUNTA colleagues, AAA Exec Board is meeting this morning (Thursday) to consider the results of their survey and how to proceed (or not) in relation to the AAA 2004 conference and the labor/management dispute at the SF Hilton. AAA Exec Board only started to ask AAA "members" for their opinions on what to do about Tuesday, and at first only asked registrants for their opinions leading to completion of the Exec Board survey. I hadn't registered yet, am a NAPA Board member, and a 30 year plus member of AAA so was just a bit upset over the Exec Board ONLY contacting registrants on a matter of importance to all AAA (especially given cost implications). So I am responsible for working with the Section leaders that I personally know to get all NAPA, SUNTA, and (indirectly -- through a SCAAN colleague) Society for Latin American Anthropology members of AAA, as well as SCAAN members informed of the survey and provided background as I could yesterday. Since the AAA Executive Board is meeting now there may be further information forthcoming soon about their decisions? Other Sections than SAW and SUNTA are starting to consider or have already taken their own stances (I'm on the NAPA Board and we are trying to decide if we will have a conference call on the matter tomorrow). NAPA Board members were sent this today from the Society for Medical Anthropology, that came to the following stance after a reportedly lively discussion: "The view of the Executive Board of the Society for Medical Anthropology is that for financial reasons the AAA should not cancel its contract with the Hilton. Also for this reason, and due of the logistical problems involved, the Board does not support the transfer of the meetings to San Jose. Many members are reluctant to cross a picket line, and many will not. Consequently, we are in the process of making off-site arrangements for various Society meetings and functions. We encourage other sections to consider doing the same thing. We further encourage members who are so interested and motivated to view this as an opportunity to engage in creative and productive public action. Our sentiment was captured well by Board member Vincanne Adams: 'My suggestion to [the Board is], as others have suggested, that we honor the strike while using the hotel in various ways: by helping to carry placards, making publicity over their cause, maybe devoting a public session for them to air their views within the conference, asking ethnographers to document their efforts, and such. One might view this as a postmodern predicament in which old revolutionary tactics of simple worker protest are not the most effective, and in which using the media and our strengths as a discipline to help the cause in innovative and media saavy, as well as anti-intuitive, ways might be more productive of a useful and supportive outcome. However, one might read this suggestion, following Jameson, as an unmappable mystification (and cooptation) of late capitalism. It may be that the strike will be resolved by that date anyway, but I think it would be a huge loss to cancel the meeting.' " While I respect all the different opinions expressed, and the SMA stance, I personally disagree with it. Although it would be very messy, might not be feasible, and could be divisive of AAA, I personally floated by the NAPA Board a sequence of AAA actions that could let individual sections and session organizers move their conference activities to San Jose, and let those who wanted to continue at SF Hilton do their thing there. In other words, I say that we should vote with our feet as sections and individuals -- and we might as well coordinate this jointly through AAA to get better price deals. A lot of people (including me) will not cross picket lines -- and no way is the union going to go in to the hotel they are picketing to be present at an AAA meeting "public session"!! If AAA 2004 is only held at the SF Hilton, I will not be there for any meetings inside that hotel, if the lockout or a strike is still in place -- and that is despite my NAPA Board responsibilities. The potential cost to AAA of cancelling is $1.3 million, but various factors -- including litigation potential (from either side), negotiated settlements, Hilton renting rooms to others, Hilton loss of potential AAA conference business later, Hilton bad press, etc., could bring the actual cost to AAA of cancelling much lower than that. Lawyers are for working through such problems. Even $1.3 million, while it sounds like a lot, would be an exposure of about $118 for each of the roughly 11,000 AAA members -- which could be covered in several ways, including four of five years of membership fee increases, donation requests, etc. To put the amount in perspective, ONE night in a single at the SF Hilton costs $159 (plus taxes and fees), at AAA 2004 conference rates. So we are talking less than one hotel night exposure per AAA member. There are additional implications for people who might have non-refundable airfare or airfare/hotel arrangements set up -- but the actual individual exposure there may be less than many people seem to assume, since for about $100 or less one can often reschedule even non-refundable flights, and it is often possible to cancel hotel rooms up to 24 or 48 hours ahead of time at little or not cost. So I actually think the financial implications, while real and they need to be considered, are a bit of a red herring, and that the financial exposure could be handled by most individual anthropologists and by the Association if it chose to take a principled stance supporting the union (or opposing the whole situation) and cancelled. For background on the lockout itself (previously a strike) here are a set of links that I compiled yesterday from various sources (I haven't looked for October 20 or 21 SF Chronicle articles yet): October 19 SF Chronicle article on relation of African-Americans and immigrant workers to this labor dispute: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/10/19 /EDGAB9B1851.DTL earlier SF Chronicle article from last Friday (n.b., I live in LA that went through a long grocery workers strike last year and has had its own hotel workers picketing -- I have no inside info but my gut so no quick resolution of this labor/management dispute -- also see link to article above from October 19) SAN FRANCISCO Hotel talks resume -- sides soften stances - George Raine, Chronicle Staff Writer Friday, October 15, 2004 Negotiations resumed Thursday evening in the bitter San Francisco hotel workers' labor dispute, with employers promising to sweeten an earlier proposal on wages, benefits and health care and the union proposing that locked-out employees return to work with a pledge not to strike. Details of the hotels' proposal were not made public, pending their discussion in negotiations at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. However, the union, Local 2 of Unite Here, said just prior to the bargaining session that it would agree to a 90-day cooling off period (until Jan. 15) and not strike if the hotel operators would agree not to lock out workers during the period. The hotel managers did not respond immediately Thursday to Local 2 President Mike Casey's proposal, but a spokesman, Cornell Fowler, was skeptical. "The quickest way to end this is to get in there and negotiate, and that is what we are looking forward to doing,'' he said before the session, which was joined by a federal mediator. Referring to 4,000 locked-out union hotel workers in San Francisco, Casey said: "This fight is about our livelihoods. Our top demand and our continued insistence is we be reinstated.'' On Sept. 29, Local 2 walked out on strike at four of 14 hotels in the bargaining group. The union said it would be a two-week strike, ending last Wednesday. The four hotels are the Argent Hotel, Crowne Plaza, Hilton San Francisco and Intercontinental Mark Hopkins. In response, on Oct. 1, the hotel owners locked out union workers at the remaining 10 hotels in the group, known as the San Francisco Multi-Employer Group. These are the Fairmont, Four Seasons, Grand Hyatt, Holiday Inn Civic Center, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Fisherman's Wharf, Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf, Palace, Hyatt Regency, Omni and Westin St. Francis. On Wednesday, the 1,400 workers ended their strike, but their employers at the first four hotels then locked them out just as the other 10 hotels had done to their 2,600 workers. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is opposed to the lockout and this week asked the two disparate sides to agree to a cooling-off period, during which the workers would return to work while a contract is negotiated. The union was willing to return under those terms, but the hotels attached a condition: They wanted the union to remove from the negotiating table its desire to have a contract that either expires or can be reopened in 2006. The union refused, and the notion of the cooling-off period appeared dead, until revived by Casey on Thursday. In the original employers' proposal on health care, workers woul