Here is the call for papers for the ASA conference that we are
organising at Bristol next April. Panel proposals are warmly welcomed
- and hopefully a lot of potential in the Hist/Contemp Arch field.
Any queries or ideas do get in touch!
Mark
Mark Horton
CALL FOR PANEL PROPOSALS
Anthropological and Archaeological Imaginations: past, present and
future
University of Bristol, 6th-9th April 2009.
The Association of Social Anthropologists 09 conference will take
place at
the University of Bristol, 6th-9th April. The aim of this conference
is to
stimulate a major reconsideration of the complex links which obtain
between social anthropology and archaeology. Though social anthropology
has had an uneasy relationship with archaeology we believe that the
transformations that both disciplines have experienced in recent decades
mean that it is time to overcome this reticence, indeed that there are
many reasons; intellectual, epistemological, methodological and
practical, to do so. All submissions are welcome, whether from the
theoretical or ethnographic point of view. Considerations which take
into
account the experience of four-field anthropology from an international
perspective are also very welcome.
We would expect panel proposals to be submitted by 1st December, please.
Amongst the special events already decided is the key-note address
(Monday
6th April), which will be delivered by Prof. Michael Herzfeld. Invited
speakers with regard to the first plenary that follows include Prof.
Chris
Hann, Prof. Tim Ingold, and Prof. Rosemary Joyce. On Day 2, Prof. Ian
Hodder will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University, preceded
by a special lecture: "Archaeology and Anthropology: the state of
the field". Further events include the ASA Raymond Firth Lecture
(Prof. Guha-Thakurta), and the RAI Presidential Address (Prof. Roy
Ellen).
The call for panels may be accessed here
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/. We do not wish to be
prescriptive, but the sort of thing that may be of interest would be the
exploration of the contrasts and complementarities between the two
disciplines historically and today; the study of ruins or the
ethnographic
exploration of multiple interactions with the past; diffusion and the
transformation of culture; contrasting uses and ways of interpreting
material culture within the two disciplines, and so on. More details on
these themes may be found here
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/theme.htm.
Queries may be addressed to conference(a)easa.org.
Looking forward to welcoming you at Bristol in April!
On behalf of the ASA09 conference committee
Dr Fiona Bowie
Prof. Mark Horton
Dr Joshua Pollard
Dr David Shankland (Chair)
Dr Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
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