ASA2016, Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology
4-7 July, 2016, University of Durham
The call for panels closes 27th of this month, and the convenors and scientific committee invite you to read the theme, discuss it with colleagues, and then make a proposal.
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/theme.shtml
The conference will provide a space in which to consider the past impact and future directions of anthropological knowledge. In the shadow of debates on the Anthropocene, the event invites critical reflection on temporality and chronicity as contexts for social action and as organising principles of human narrative. The conference will be structured around five distinct sub-themes. These will consider the temporalities at work in 1) politics and economics; 2) development, energy and the natural world; 3) health and well-being; 4) cultural evolution and 5) the different modalities and experiences of fieldwork.
Confirmed keynote speakers include: Alex Alvergne, Laura Bear, Dominic Boyer, Cymene Howe, Michael Jackson, Annemarie Mol, William Sax and Charles Stewart.
Propose a panel soon!
http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa16/cfpan.shtml
WCAA NEWS
EASA2016, 20-23 July, Milan: the call for panels is now open until 25th November:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfpan.shtml
Wenner-Gren President
The Wenner Gren Foundation http://www.wennergren.org/ for Anthropological Research seeks a distinguished and passionate professional leader as its next President. Wenner-Gren's next President should have a deep knowledge of anthropology, understand the rigor required for excellent scholarship, and grasp the scholarly and customary differences among its sub-disciplines. A compelling vision of the relevance of the discipline, a proven ability to translate vision into reality, and a demonstrated record of effective management will also be necessary in the next leader.
More here:
http://www.wennergren.org/about/wenner-gren-search-new-president
OTHER NEWS
Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT), 2015 Debate
Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political
Debaters
The motion will be proposed by Laura Bear, LSE http://www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology/people/bear.aspx and Abdou Malique Simone http://www.abdoumaliqsimone.com/ Max Planck Institute and Goldsmiths College. It will be opposed by Laura Rival Oxford and Sian Lazar Cambridge, https://sianlazar.wordpress.com/
Date & time - Saturday 28th November 2015. 2pm - 6pm.
GDAT, http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/subjects/social-anthropology/our-research/group-debates-in-anthropological-theory/, is free to attend and everyone is warmly welcomed. We will go for drinks and dinner after the debate - do join us
Venue - Alexander Theatre, Samuel Alexander Building, University of Manchester.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/
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Celebrating LSE’s 120th Anniversary in the Department of Anthropology
The Department of Anthropology at the LSE is participating in the School’s 120th anniversary celebrations by holding a day of talks and discussion about the Department’s history from the 1920s to the 1950s on Friday, 11 December 2015.
The event is free and open to all, but pre-registration is required and will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis. Extensive rebuilding works at LSE are restricting the availability of large public rooms, so that it may be necessary to limit the number of participants at the event.
The full programme and link for registration can be found here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-lses-120th-anniversary-a-workshop-on-the-history-of-the-anthropology-department-tickets-19404095171
Academy of Social Sciences - one day conference
Impact and Implications: The Future of Research Excellence and the Social Sciences
This one day conference will feature presentations and a panel discussion from a range of experts on the impacts of REF and what it will mean for the future of the social sciences.
Date: Thursday 14th January
Location: 33 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AG
Full programme and link to registration here:
https://www.acss.org.uk/news/impact-and-implications-the-future-of-research-excellence-and-the-social-sciences/
Anthropology in Action latest issue
The latest issue of Anthropology in Action has been published by Berghahn Journals. This issue features articles focusing on issues related to the Research Excellence Framework results in 2014, the impact agenda, and debates surrounding open access.
http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/aia/
Current Issue: Volume 22 Issue 2
Special Issue on Anthropology and the Impact Agenda
A proposal for a future of open access anthropology
You may be aware that the American Anthropological Association (AAA)has recently announced that it will soon issue a Request for Proposals(RFP) to invite potential publishers to bid for the business of managing the association’s publishing program. The new contract will begin on January 1, 2018 and will likely run for the next ten years.
At this critical juncture the question is asked: Will AAA publications spend yet another decade locked within a publisher website where only research libraries can afford to purchase them? Or can scholarly work join the growing body of research that is publicly available and accessible as a public good?
A few colleagues have put together a concrete, practical, and financially sustainable way that the AAA can make its publishing program open-access: a cooperative model of scholarly publishing.
You can read more about the proposal here:
HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory:
http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau/article/view/hau5.2.002/2069
Cultural Anthropology:
http://culanth.org/fieldsights/743-why-an-open-access-publishing-cooperative-can-work-a-proposal-for-the-aaa-s-journal-portfolio
Savage Minds:
http://savageminds.org/2015/10/21/what-a-cooperative-proposal-means-for-the-aaa/
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