What’s new in languages, music, sociology, anthropology, and women’s & gender studies…from your librarian
June 29, 2009 at 7:35 am · Filed under Languages, Music, Sociology/Anthropology
Back from hiatus, after traveling for 2 weeks through Europe, including visiting my old stomping grounds in Albania, where Dr. Lori Amy has been teaching and researching on a Fulbright and kindly hosted us in her Tirana home. If you’re interested in pics from the 3 countries, and detailed notes on Albania from my wife’s perspective as a first-time visitor (here, here, & here), just visit my Facebook page. (Also keep an eye on the news on Albania’s election results from yesterday, available in any major news sources online.)
Also, the Savannah Music Festival has posted streams online for your listening pleasure, from Schubert to Gershwin with a dose of boogie woogie.
June 4, 2009 at 10:12 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
Some of you will be interested in the announcement below…
Dear Friends of the National Congregations Study:
Per your request for updates about the NCS website, I wanted to let you
know that our new report of NCS findings, “American Congregations at the
Beginning of the 21st Century,” has just been posted to the site. You
can find it here
http://www.soc.duke.edu/natcong/Docs/NCSII_report_final.pdf .
Sincerely,
Mark Chaves
Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity, Duke University
Director, National Congregations Study
May 27, 2009 at 9:39 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
A new report from Public Religion Research shows that support by clergy of same-sex marriage increased dramatically “when clergy were provided with an assurance that no church or congregation would be required to perform same-sex marriage services against its beliefs.” Of course, churches, congregations, or clergy are not required to perform any marriage in the US, so the new findings more accurately measure the landscape.
May 27, 2009 at 8:40 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
Antropologi.info has a rundown on recent news of open-access anthropology journals, and about the scandal of Elsevier publishing journals that purported to be peer-reviewed but were in fact manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry.
May 18, 2009 at 8:24 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
The following announcement is being circulated:
CALL FOR ACADEMIC PAPERS
Invitation:
Scholars are invited to submit papers for the 2010 Zora Neale Hurston
Festival of the Arts and
Humanities (January 23 - 31). The festival theme is “Reflection on the Life
and Legacy of Zora Neale
Hurston 50 Years After Her Death.”
The legacy of Zora Neale Hurston is a phenomenon that has undergone a
remarkable
development and expansion in recent decades, embracing, among others, topics
in ethnic identity, social
interactions, feminist theory, and cultural continuity. Hurston’s unique
insights into folklore,
performance, and creative expression have invited new interpretation and
inspired emulation, while the
corpus of her own work has grown as a result of research and discovery. The
committee will welcome
papers exploring the dynamic dimensions of the Hurston legacy from
theoretical and/or historical
perspectives and will be especially attentive to appropriate consideration
of past, present, and emerging
scholarly content.
In a tradition of excellence, scholars are encouraged to engage the
literature and discourse of
their respective fields at the same that they present their findings during
the public forum in a form that
is accessible to academics in other disciplines and is also intellectually
stimulating for an intelligent
general audience.
Submission Instructions:
Submit a 150-word abstract along with an 500-word summary of your paper that
of your paper that indicates the
thesis or central question, which you plan to explore, as well as an idea of
the theoretical framework
within which your findings will be considered.
Deadline:
Abstract and summary are due June 1, 2009.
If your work is accepted for the festival, a copy of
the full paper must be submitted by November1, 2009.
Email your submission to:
Deidre Crumbley @: deidre_crumbley&ncsu.edu
AND
N. Y. Nathiri @: apec@cfl.rr.com
Then Mail Hard Copy to:
Hurston Papers 2010
Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (P.E.C.)
227 East Kennedy Boulevard
Eatonville, Florida 32751
May 8, 2009 at 7:36 pm · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
Psst…join the club. Pass it on.
May 1, 2009 at 11:06 am · Filed under Sociology/Anthropology
I bet you didn’t even know today was a holiday. In honor of it, here’s my recent open access publication, and here’s our new open access repository (EagleSpace) at Georgia Southern (get the scoop here).
April 30, 2009 at 3:41 pm · Filed under Music, Sociology/Anthropology
Here are a couple of blogs that might be of interest to you– one on music and sustainability, and one on ethnographic fieldwork on techno & house music in Detroit.
April 23, 2009 at 7:10 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Our own GSU-NOW, presenting & representing at Rhodes. Check it out. (Thanks, Lori!)
April 21, 2009 at 5:11 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
“Climate change is forcing coastal archaeologists to expedite their digs, the Associated Press reported earlier this month. Sea levels are expected to rise 39 inches by 2100, compared to seven inches in the past century, as a result of global warming.” Full story here, from the American Anthropological Association.
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