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2010 August November December
2011 April

AUGUST 2010

Crisis and Imagination
11th EASA Biennial Conference, National University of Ireland–Maynooth

August 24-27, 2010

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NOVEMBER 2010

AAA Annual Meeting

November 17-21, 2010

New Orleans, LA

Generations of Change: Understanding Post Socialism and Transition Processes from a Generational Perspective
CFP PhD Conference
November 25-27, 2010.

The Bielefeld Graduate School in History and Sociology (BGHS) announces a call for papers for the transdisciplinary PhD conference
Deadline for submission: August 15th 2010

CFP: http://wwwhomes.uni-bielefeld.de/bghs/dokumente/cfp_generations_of_change.pdf

Read more about BGHS: http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/(en)/bghs/

LAND REFORMS AND MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES IN AFRICAN AND LATIN AMERICA CONFERENCE
Lleida, SPAIN 25-26-27 November 2010

TOP PANELS TO DATE: 29 January 2010
MAXIMUM COMMUNICATIONS ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION DATE: 19 March 2010

Extention Presentation Panel Proposal
Panel presentation deadline: February 12, 2010
To send your panel by mail (in a word document) to infocra(AT)ccdr.cat

Information
Centre de Cooperació per al Desenvolupament Rural - Universitat de Lleida
www.congresreformasagrarias.org
infocra(AT)ccdr.cat
0034 973003537

DECEMBER 2010

Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
3rd Conference of the Research Group

Integration and Conflict along the Upper Guinea Coast
THE UPPER GUINEA COAST IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE

9 – 11 December 2010

Organisers: Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl
Venue: MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS

Whereas in our previous conferences we concentrated mainly on the comparative exploration of processes of integration and conflict within the region of the Upper Guinea Coast (Halle, 2006) and on the region’s role in the “Making of the Atlantic” (Lisbon, 2008), the upcoming conference shall focus on the region’s connectedness with all societies – irrespective of regional concerns – which are linked with it as the result of the expansion of colonialism and the Atlantic slave trade, processes which are, of course, interconnected in manifold ways. Luso-creole identity, for example, constituted an early “travelling model” that spread across continents and the understanding of which would benefit from comparative research not restricting itself to criteria of mainly regional concern, but including societies, which are interconnected with the Upper Guinea Coast through historical and contemporary processes of interaction – involving people and ideas as well as social practices and ideological models. Thus, we aim to investigate the external encounters and exchanges the societies of the Upper Guinea Coast were and are part of and which have shaped their social configuration and have generated – and continue to generate – specific (new) identities and alliances. By paying particular regard to the transnational dimension, we aim to deepen our understanding of the involvement of the Upper Guinea Coast in contemporary processes of regional and global interaction and exchange. The presence of Upper Guinea Coast alumni in different diasporas and the latter’s interactions with their “home” societies and the role of creole identities and “Eurafrican” groups (Brooks 2003) in interethnic relations, in the construction of transethnic identifications, in processes of ethnic and religious differentiation and postcolonial nation-building will be just two of the important issues we want to discuss.

We welcome papers dealing with any matter related to the conference’s theme. Please send an abstract of your proposed paper (200-300 words) to Jacqueline Knörr (email: knoerr(AT)eth.mpg.de ) before 1 June 2010. Invitations to present at the conference will be sent early July 2010, and after reviewing all proposals. Travel expenses will be refunded for all speakers who are expected to hand in their paper for publication within three months after the end of the conference. In addition to those invited to present a paper we will be able to welcome some additional participants upon request, who may attend the conference on their own account.

APRIL 2011

10th SIEF INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
PEOPLE MAKE PLACES
Ways of Feeling the World

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa

April 17-21, 2011

CALL FOR PANELS

The ways in which people construct their views, opinions, values and practices are constantly being re-negotiated and re-interpreted in various creative forms. The 10th SIEF International congress intends to elucidate and develop perspectives on this topic by focusing on the making of places, and invites colleagues and other scholars to present new perspectives on how people's lives, memories, emotions and values interact with places and localities. The conference will be structured around three themes: Shaping Lives; Creativity and Emotions; and Ecology and Ethics. In each of the themes, case studies as well as inquiries into theory are welcome.  The conference aims to encourage in particular boundary-crossing explorations of ontological, epistemological and ethical issues that arise from a greater emphasis on a sensitive and even sensuous approach to knowledge and understanding.

The question of how people make the places they inhabit remains wide open. We invite proposals that deal with the role of cultural practices in the creation of locality: how a space turns into a particular place; how people relate to, construct, and are constructed by, the places they live in; and what the practices are that shape those places. Other questions to be posed include: What new approaches for the study of the emotional links between people and the places they inhabit are being developed? What theoretical tools can be used by ethnologists to understand a sense of belonging? What is the role of expressive culture linked to daily life in the shaping of the places? How do we combine ecological and ethical issues with ethnographic data, especially in cases where there seems to be a clash between what people do with their places and general ecological and ethic concerns.

The variety of places that could be explored in this process include, among many others: work and home places, places for vacation, places for the dead, places to pray, places to create, places to destroy and to be destroyed, places to memorialize, places to arrive and to leave, as well as places that disappear and reappear, inside places, and non-places. Notions of multi-belonging, shared places, and generational differences all show how making places is a process that is not univocal, and people make places as much as places make people. New ways of making places – through the virtual space and internet - should also be taken into consideration.

Each day of the conference, a specific theme will be introduced by two invited keynote speakers, leading international scholars, and discussed further in a series of panel sessions, some of which will run in parallel. Workshops, intended to open to practice-based research, and poster sessions, will also take place. We invite colleagues to participate and propose panels directed at the general theme and the three daily sub themes.

Call for panels: the call for panels and workshops is now open at www.siefhome.org/sief2011 and will run to 15 February 2010.  The call for papers will follow in May 2010.