Dear all, It is with great pleasure that I invite you to the upcoming conferenceEthics, Politics, Ontologies which will take place from January 14 – 16th, 2016in Amsterdam. Conference theme:Ethics, politics, and ontologies are central concerns within anthropology and other social and human studies, and yet for the most part have not been addressed as an intertwined assemblage that goes a long way toward delimiting our everyday ways of being-in-the-world-together. Those who have addressed politics at times take account of what normally gets glossed as ethics, but have, for the most part, limited this to ethics in a Foucauldian sense; those who have addressed ontologies have generally avoided considerations of moralities and ethics, and when they have addressed politics generally do so in ways that are difficult to discern from what could be called cultural politics; and, for the most part, the anthropology of moralities and ethics has avoided analytic concern for either politics or ontologies all together. This conference seeks to bridge these gaps by addressing this intertwining with an anthropological sensitivity to the everyday ways in which this intertwining is continually underway. Is it possible, for example, to consider the place of ethics in the political that goes beyond a Foucauldian ethics of cultivation or, for example, a model of hegemonic neoliberal morality or rights-based ethics? How might recent anthropological research on moralities and ethics help address this question? How, in turn, might a concern for the political complicate anthropological studies of moralities and ethics, most of which has focused on either intersubjective interactions or cultural conceptions with little or no sensitivity to the place of the political in these? Could analyses of dominant ontologies help us with these questions, and provide an as of yet unworn path out of familiar and, perhaps, no longer very salient analytical, political, and everyday assumptions? Indeed, to what extent might experiments with ontologies open new possibilities for becoming politically, morally, and existentially otherwise? These and similar questions will inform this conference as it brings together those within anthropology who have already begun such questioning of existential import. Ultimately, the aim of the conference is to address the increasingly recognized need in the social sciences and humanities to provide new analytic approaches and conceptions not only for understanding the worlds we intellectually engage, but perhaps more importantly to address what Simon Critchley has called the motivational deficit in politics today. As is increasingly recognized, critique and analysis is not enough, and in response some have called for intellectuals to once again creatively articulate alternative possibilities for thinking, acting, and being. The hope of this conference is that the recognition of the intertwining of ethics, politics, and ontologies may provide an opening from which this creative articulation can begin. Participants:
- Elizabeth Povinelli – Columbia University
- Joel Robbins – Cambridge University
- Jason Throop – University of California, Los Angeles
- Miriam Ticktin – The New School
- Martin Holbraad – University College London
- Henrik Vigh – University of Copenhagen
- Ghassan Hage – University of Melbourne
- Kabir Tambar – Stanford University
- Webb Keane – University of Michigan
- Patrick Neveling – Utrecht University
- Catherine Fennel – Columbia University
- Joseph Hankins – University of California, San Diego
- Jarrett Zigon – University of Amsterdam
- Cheryl Mattingly – University of Southern California
Location:Lloyd Hotel, meeting space: ‘The Office’(Het Kantoor)Oostelijke Handelskade 34, 1019 BN, Amsterdam WV Amsterdam. Registration:Registration for the conference is required. Tickets can be purchased via the following website:https://www.aanmelder.nl/conference-ethics-politics-ontologies. Website:For more practical information please visit the conference website:www.aissr.uva.nl/ethics-politics-ontologies.If you have any other questions, please contact Sabine de Graaf ([log in to unmask]). Looking forward to seeing you there! Kind Regards, Jarrett ZigonAssociate ProfessorDepartment of Anthropology and SociologyUniversity of Amsterdamwww.jarrettzigon.com
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