Please see below and circulate the Call for Papers for the 2017
Anthropology in London Day conference, taking place on Tuesday 13 June 2017
at UCL.

Best wishes,

Stephanie Kitchen
(on behalf of the convenors and planning committee)


*Anthropology in London Day 2017*



*Tuesday 13 June 2017, 9.30am-6pm*



UCL Anthropology Department

14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

Full details at: https://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/
anthropology-in-london-2017/





*Anthropology and Global Shifts*



As many voices emerge to change and redefine the public sphere, and talk
circulates of ‘citizens of the world and nowhere’, the global is becoming
increasingly multiply signified. New contemporary settings engage, redefine
and extend spaces for debates and knowledges of people. Ideas of locality,
‘placed’ and ‘placeness’ identities, cultural ownership, ethical dilemmas
and boundaries, amidst violence, and security fears, for instance,
differentially surface and compete for public attention. Anthropologists
and anthropological knowledge remain crucial to contribute and intervene in
these issues through ongoing and current research and the insights arising
from these engagements.



The conference calls for papers which engage with a range of
anthropological debates that are relevant to understanding these global
shifts and swings, and where the global itself may also be an object of
analysis. The call further considers how anthropological knowledge, as
grounded understandings of the particular, offers insights on ways of being
in the world which might rely, variously, on fixity and the small scale as
well as fluidity within larger scales of movement.



This conference invites post-fieldwork students, early career researchers
and established academics to consider anthropology and the global without
limiting or closing the debate on locale and place. Issues of locality and
‘ownership’ of people resurface in contemporary settings to set or extend
limits and make political mileage, for instance, in relation to
Brexit-Trump led anxieties. Concurrent concerns that ‘legitimise’ scrutiny
of persons and unexceptional acts of violence also suggest new and old ways
of knowing people in and out of place.



Research papers and posters along with proposals for innovative formats are
invited. These may consider, though not exclusively, field research and
debates which engage with or disengage from contemporary shifts in
understanding the global.



Papers may consider:

·      Social movements engaging with the current global situation

·      Critiques and reflections on the ‘global’

·      Challenges and resurgence of locality, whether in or of the global

·      Anthropological knowledge debates that question and provide new
understandings of locality and situatedness

·      The ethical in a ‘global world’

·      Contemporary political changes, violence and the anthropological
perspective

·      Global panics and research

·      Environmental challenges.



The Anthropology in London day conference is an annual event. The main
purpose of the conference is to enable post-fieldwork PhD students from
across London to present their fieldwork and for staff and students to
discuss issues of pertinence to the discipline. The conference is free to
attend and supported by the main anthropology departments in the University
of London at SOAS, LSE, UCL, Brunel, Goldsmiths and UEL. This year, the
lead organisers are UCL anthropology department and UEL, Anthropology and
Contemporary Worlds Research group. The event is open to all anthropology
staff and students within the University of London anthropology
departments. Others wishing to participate can be considered.



*Submissions*



Please send submissions of no more than 300 words to Stephanie Kitchen,
[log in to unmask] by *6 March 2017*. Please include your full name, email
address and departmental and institutional affiliation. Presenters are also
encouraged to submit a suitable fieldwork photograph to be displayed
electronically during the conference.



https://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/anthropology-in-london-2017/




-- 
Stephanie Kitchen

Managing Editor
International African Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG

www.internationalafricaninstitute.org
Twitter: @Africa_IAI


Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4435 <+44%2020%207898%204435> (o)
      +44(0)7966 045144 <+44%207966%20045144> (m)

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