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    CASCA 2008
    http://www.casca2008.anthropologica.ca/
    Carle ton University
    1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
    http://www2.carleton.ca/campus/directions.php

    This year at the annual meeting of the Canadian Anthropology Society in
    one of the panels Peter Balakian's autobiographical work Black Dog of Fate
    will be discussed. Here is the information on the panel.-

    Saturday May 10, 2008
    9 AM to 10:30 AM
    III. A. 9. Historical Perspectives on Animals in Literature
    Organizer(s) / Organisation: Sima Aprahamian and Karin Doerr . Concordia
    University
    Grown out of our discussion after last year's CASCA Symposium on Fear,
    where we discussed J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and spoke of Adorno's focus on
    animals in the context of his discussion on art after Auschwitz, our panel
    will examine different authors and their approaches to the animal
    domain. From an interdisciplinary perspective we wish to demonstrate how
    they have used non-human characters in their works and
    what these representations signify in the larger context of history,
    culture, and aesthetics.


    Chair: Karin Doerr
    Room: Tory Building 234

    Balakian's Black Dog of Fate
    Sima Aprahamian . Concordia University

    Bear Experience: The Power of Ursus Major in Cree Thought
    Diane George . Carleton University

    The Significance of Mice in Kafka's Last Story
    Karin Doerr . Concordia University

    TWO EVENTS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
    Free interpretation services in French and English are available for the two
    plenary talks

    1) Keynote Address: .Ethnography in an Era of Permanent War.
    Friday May 9, 4:30-6:00 p.m.
    Room: Minto Case 2000 (Bell Theatre)

    by Professor Catherine Lutz, Department of Anthropology and Watson
    Institute of International Affairs, Brown University

    Catherine Lutz is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Watson
    Institute for International Studies at Brown University. She is the author of
    The Bases of Empire: The Struggle against US Military Outposts (ed.) (Pluto
    Press, forthcoming, 2008); Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public
    Interests and Private Politics (with D. Holland et al., New York University
    Press, 2007); Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century
    (Beacon, 2001), Reading National Geographic (with J. Collins, Chicago, 1993);
    and Unnatural Emotion (Chicago, 1988). Lutz is past president of the American
    Ethnological Society, recipient of the Leeds Prize, the Victor Turner Prize for
    Ethnographic Writing, the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Prize for the
    Critical Study of North America, and the Stirling Award, and recipient of
    research grants from the National Science Foundation, NIMH, Compton Foundation,
    and National Endowment for the Humanities. She has conducted some of her
    research in conjunction with activist organizations, including a domestic
    violence shelter, Cultural Survival, and the American Friends Service
    Committee.


    2) Plenary Panel: .The Promise and Perils of an Engaged Anthropology.
    Saturday, May 10, 2:00 . 4:30 p.m.
    Room: Minto Case 2000 (Bell Theatre)

    (Re)Writing (with) Monster Mothers: Learning Narrative Theory from Women
    Convicted of Killing Their Children
    Charles Briggs . University of California, Berkeley

    Heightened engagement and transformation in the field: Reflections on the
    .practical. side of ethnographic practices among the Dene Tha
    Jean-Guy A. Goulet . Saint Paul University

    L'engagement, une question pistmologique
    Francine Saillant . Laval University

    Walking the Talk : The Skillful Means to Collaborative Inquiry and Social
    Engagement
    Jacques Chevalier and Daniel Buckles . Carleton University

    Defusing Hostility: Reflections on Raising Contentious Issues in Conservative
    Settings
    Catherine Kingfisher . University of Lethbridge
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