Many of the (over 100) sessions and workshops at this forthcoming
conference at Bristol may be of interest to CHAT list members. The keynote
address is by Jean Comaroff.
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European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
9th Biennual Conference.
Hosted by the Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of
Bristol
18-21 September 2006.
Conference Theme: "Europe and the World"
Keynote Paper: Law and disorder in the postcolony: is Europe evolving
toward Africa? (Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago)
Full details: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/
The 9th biennial conference encourages us to consider the global
dimensions of particular ethnographic encounters. The wider
interconnections, the spread of ideas, the dynamic relationships and
processes which shape the everyday activity of social life; these lie
increasingly at the centre of our methodological and theoretical
preoccupations as anthropologists. Mediated by individual, institutional,
national developments of enormous complexity, this link between global
interchange and local creativity deserves our systematic attention and
analysis.
"Europe and the World", the specific title of our gathering, provides us
with an opportunity to reconsider these ideas close to home and far away:
Europe, inevitably, has set part of the epistemological background of our
everyday working lives, and, has both for good and for bad, had profound
wider influence. The rest of the world, the recipient and the partner in
this exchange, may watch, interact, protest, suffer and readapt. We invite
you to consider this from the point of view of your fieldwork, writing,
analytical perspective, and experience.
The ninth biennial conference location, in the historic maritime city of
Bristol, immediately gives precision to this theme in a number of ways:
the diffusion of ideas, the growth of mercantilism and international
trade, the relationship between diasporas and cultural change, and the
extremely complex social phenomenon of empire, invasion and occupation in
its widest sense are all quite crucial to the social history of the city
and the region, yet at the same time resonate throughout human societies
more widely in both modern and pre-modern periods.
From this plethora of possibilities, delegates are invited to consider
some of the following further specific areas, upon which there will be
invited workshops. Amongst these are
- Asylum Seekers and Undocumented Persons
- The Black Atlantic
- Diasporas and Migrant Labours
- Unification of Europe
- Museums and the Colonial Past
- Medical Anthropology, Europe and the World
- Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter Revisited
- Ambivalent Europeans
There will also be plenary sessions, on
- Markets and Cultures
- Colonial Legacies
- Diffusion, Religion and Secularism
- a round table on "Eastern Europe as a field of anthropological enquiry".
Links:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa06/
http://www.bris.ac.uk/archanth/
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