Conferences
Ways of Dwelling: Crisis - Craft - Creativity", 13th SIEF congress that will be held in Göttingen, Germany, 26-30 March 2017
The Call for Posters and Papers, and the Call for Audiovisual media contributions are now open.
The accepted panels of SIEF2017 have been divided into thematic streams: Archives; Bodies, Affects, Senses, Emotions; Food; Gender and sexuality; Heritage; Home; Migration; Narrative; Religion; Rural; Urban; Work. These streams are complemented by a “Sui generis” stream that includes panels that address the conference theme from thematic angles unique to the panel.
Please read the instructions, browse the panel abstracts and then submit your paper proposal (note that you can only make one proposal!) from the panel page (the link for submitting papers is at the bottom of each panel page).
The congress theme is ideally suited for the visual dimensions of posters which the organisers plan to showcase prominently, including a 'people's choice' award for the best poster and for the most creative poster. Please submit a poster proposal via this link.
There will be opportunity to show and discuss movies and interactive audiovisual formats in a cinema-like atmosphere. A further format welcomed are media experiments: there will be a room designated for open engagement with audiovisual research and its emerging knowledge formats such as installations, photos or digital arrangements not suitable for cinematic screening with space for discussion in a studio-atmosphere. Please read further about the Call for AV contributions here.
The Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and International Union of Ethnological and Anthropological Sciences (IUAES) will be holding a joint conference in Ottawa, Canada, May 2 - 7, 2017.
The theme for this conference is Movement/Mouvement.
Movement - as diverse knowledges, practices and problematizations - has once again become a focal point of public discussion and scholarly intervention. As such, 'ancient' ontologies that focused more on movement than on stasis and of which sight has been lost through the colonial encounter, are now reappearing as particularly meaningful, and transformative of the discipline. A longstanding concern of anthropologists, movement has most prominently been discussed through the rubric of mobility, and its attendant terminologies of flows and scapes, flexibilities and foreclosures, disjunctures and “frictions.” The notion of movement resonates in studies of political, ecological, religious and economic life as well as of kinship, gender and embodiment. In so doing it highlights the promiscuous nature of the analytical space opened by the processes of life forms, things and ideas enmeshing through relationships in space and time.
Read more on the conference theme and location here.
The CASCA/IUAES2017 call for panel proposals is open; the deadline for panel proposals is October 26th.
The Call for Papers will be open November 7 - December 19, 2016.
Please direct CASCA/IUAES2017 inquiries to cascaiuaes2017(at)nomadit.co.uk
