Dear Colleagues,

Let me inform you about this international workshop on affect, the senses
and materiality that will be held at the University of Vienna on Feb 25-27
2015. Please, find the Call for Papers below and in attachment.

Kind regards,
Andrea
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デ・アントーニ アンドレア 立命館大学国際関係学部・研究科 准教授 文化人類学・宗教学
Andrea De Antoni (Ph.D.), Associate Professor, Cultural Anthropology,
Religious Studies
College/Graduate School of International Relations, RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY
Editor - Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Newsletter (
http://www.japananthropologyworkshop.org/)

Call for Papers
Enacting Modalities of Feeling: Anthropological Explorations into
Affective, Sensual and Material Connections

Workshop, University of Vienna, February 25-27 2015

This workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in emotions,
the senses and materiality. Its goal is to start devising a theoretical
approach that links affective, sensorial and motor modes of engagement with
various socio-material environments. In doing so, it takes up various
strands of research in anthropology and other disciplines that have
stimulated debates on the role of emotions, perceptions and material worlds
for human life.

One recent strand of these debates is formed by anthropological studies
that have resumed to consider emotions and affect as relevant topics for
investigation. Claiming centrality of these themes in anthropological
debates, such studies address new qualities of intimate relationships
fostered by communication and biomedical technologies, various forms of
affective labour emerging in processes of global migration and
(non-)capitalist services, and the politics and economies of affect in
relation to carework, political participation or globalized religious
socialities (e.g. Beatty 2013, Besnier 2009). Moreover, the so-called
“affective turn” in the Humanities and Social Sciences has shed light on
the intersubjective intensity and dynamics immanent to bodily matter and
matter in general. It has explored political, economic and ethical
appropriations of emotions, as well as the complex relations between power,
subjectivity, memory, the anticipation of the future, and emotions (e.g.
Adams/Murphy/Clarke 2009, Clough and Halley 2007, Navaro-Yashin 2012).

Another strand of research on the senses has started to elaborate new
approaches, stressing the centrality of the senses in the shaping of social
practice and culture (e.g. Geurts 2002, Howes 2004) and calling for a focus
on perception in processes of doing ethnography (e.g. Pink 2009).
Furthermore, Ingold’s work (2000, 2013) has pointed out the need to
highlight the creative processes in social practice and anthropology in the
making as engagements and correspondences with materials, artefacts,
objects and the environment, in which skills of perception and action
emerge alongside with ontologies.

Last but not least, anthropologists and other social and cultural
scientists have emphasized the important role matter plays in developing
sensorial skills and in bearing or affording specific affects (e.g. Ahmed
2010, Durham 2011, Navaro-Yashin 2012, Warnier 2001). In doing so, these
approaches have brought about surprising and promising insights into issues
of subjectivity, morality, politics and the making of culture more
generally.

Building on these frameworks, this workshop seeks to bring these debates
together and to explore the possibilities for new theoretical approaches
that, through an investigation of their correspondences grounded in the
body and perception, link different modalities of “feelings” (i.e. affects,
emotions and sensations) as intersubjective, creative and developing
skills, with the animacy and dynamism of materiality and the non-human.

It aims to address questions such as:

- What is the relationship between the development of particular
sensorial motor
skills on the one hand, and affect and emotions on the other? How are they
linked to particular socio-material environments?

- What is the role of particular sensorial or affective modalities in the
shaping of emotions? And what is their role in the creation and
reproduction of social practice?

- How do politics and economics shape the senses through the appropriation
of emotions, and vice versa? How does this become articulated and
institutionalized in particular social practices?

- How do artefacts, technologies or other material structures give rise to
certain “feelings” and how in turn do these “feelings” shape things?

- What is the role of emotions, sensation and the material in the emergence
of new social forms and subjectivities?

- What is the role of affects as linked to the material in generating
imaginaries of pasts, presents and futures?

- How do the senses, emotions and the material actually shape, create and
reproduce time through social practice?

We particularly welcome contributions that address questions such as the
above on the basis of empirical case studies. We are also interested in
contributions that explicitly use or experiment with innovative methods
and/or tackle methodological questions specific to the workshop theme.


Submission Process:

Abstracts should not exceed 250 words. Please submit your abstract by
the *6th of
December 2014* to [log in to unmask] A notification of
acceptance will be forwarded by the *19th of December 2014*. Following the
notification of acceptance, we will require you to send us a summary of
your contribution (up to 1500 words) by the *15th of February 2015*, so
that all the participants in the workshop can prepare in advance.


Time and Location

25-27 February 2015,

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

University of Vienna

Universitaetsstrasse 7

A–1010 Vienna, Austria


There are no fees required for participation in the Workshop. Refreshments
and lunches will be provided at no cost to participants.


Organizers and Contact:

Andrea De Antoni (Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan)

Bernhard Hadolt (University of Vienna)

Herta Nöbauer (University of Vienna)



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Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Vienna
Universitaetsstraße 7
A–1010 Vienna, Austria
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fax: +43-1-42 77 9495

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