CASCA 2008
Carle ton University
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6
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