Dear Colleague,
This is to draw your attention to the panel Anthropology as a Vocation and Occupation which is being convened at the EASA 2014 Biennial Conference in Tallin. This panel is designed to bring together early career anthropologists in order to stimulate an exchange on career prospects and concerns of this professional group from an international perspective specific to European anthropology, and to identify EASA's potential support role in this process.
Please note that we welcome contributions for full-length presentations as well as short 5-10 minute interventions. Although it is billed as a panel, it is not subject to the ordinary rules restricting the number of contributions that members may make to the conference. It is intended to be a professionalization event and not a forum for the presentation of academic work. Consequently participants may take part in this panel while also presenting their research in another panel or laboratory. Please see below for the full abstract.
Anthropology as a Vocation and Occupation (Full Abstract)
This panel is designed to bring together early career anthropologists who seek to build their professional lives around the skills and knowledge they have developed in the course of their formal training in sociocultural anthropology. Our purpose is threefold. 1. On behalf of EASA, we seek to understand how our members who fall in the early career category view their current career prospects; 2. Drawing on current debates on the future of research and higher education under conditions of austerity, digitalization and casualization of academic labor, we seek to stimulate an exchange that would examine those international concerns from a perspective specific to European anthropology; 3. We hope to learn whether EASA itself has a role to play assisting early career anthropologists as they navigate both the available and the yet-to-be-created (or discovered) opportunities for anthropologists in Europe today.
Our definition of "early career" is expansive and it includes advanced PhD students, new PhDs and scholars with a few years of postdoctoral experience. We are also interested in hearing from anthropologists who completed Masters degrees and are pondering their next steps. For this panel we welcome contributions in the form of traditional 15-20 minute presentations, as well as shorter 5-10 minutes reflection pieces. Depending on interest and the submissions we receive, we will configure the session as a roundtable or a panels, with an emphasis on maximizing participation and discussion.
Please email one or both conveners if you have any questions or ideas for the event. Otherwise please proceed directly to the submissions system athttp://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3051
The deadline is February 27, 2014.
Karolina Follis, [log in to unmask]
Hana Cervinkova, [log in to unmask]
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