ON TIME: THE BIENNIAL CONFERENCE OF THE FINNISH ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY
29.–30.8.2019, Helsinki, Finland
Call for panels
Anthropologists have studied time for over a century; what makes it so topical right now? Looking into the terminology we use, recent research often replaces “time” with “temporalities”. This puts an emphasis on multiple rhythms, times that are particular to a place, or alternate trajectories. Such plural experiences of the passage of time can be exemplified by instances where “here” is cast as lagging behind in contrast to “there”, of “being stuck” while others accelerate, or being subjected to the boredom of surplus time while others find time scarce. Experiences of time being out of joint are at times even described as temporal rupture experienced in the immobility of a refugee camp, or during the long waithood preceding adulthood.
Paying attention to the emplacement or displacement of time can also highlight the material aspects of temporal experience: connections, infrastructures, or complete timescapes. These incorporate physical geography, administrative orders, and the economy, each with their different temporal cycles, assumptions, perspectives and teleologies. Ultimately, anthropological ideas about time combine economy, politics, space and materiality with a wide scope of topics such as language, scale, valuation, generations, or growth. This versatility is what makes anthropology particularly well suited for grasping and narrating time. But, might anthropology as a discipline also have something to learn from the study of time?
Time may be found in speech, symbol, nature, history, genealogy, theology, work, discipline, measurement, efficiency, and so on: every research question has its temporal dimension, and every research methodology its temporal issues. The 2019 conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, therefore, invites panels that explore time in diverse ethnographic and theoretical settings. Panels may draw upon, but are not limited to, issues such as the interplay of imaginaries and practices of time and space, the co-existence of multiple temporalities, and anthropology’s own ability to grasp and narrate time. In particular, we welcome panels that provoke theoretical questioning of the oftentimes taken-for-granted temporal frames employed in anthropological scholarship, including fieldwork. In addition, we welcome panels that use time and related phenomena as a frame of analysis for other topics.
The Conference keynote will be delivered by Ghassan Hage, the Future Generation Professor of Anthropology at the University of Melbourne. The Conference will open with the annual Westermarck Memorial Lecture delivered by Laura Bear, Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Proposal for panels should be submitted by January 31st 2019 to: [log in to unmask]
Panel proposals should include the following information:
• name of the panel
• name(s) and contact address(es) of the panel organiser(s)
• panel abstract (max. 250 words)
Call for papers will be circulated in February 2019, when the accepted panels will be announced.
Further inquiries about the conference: [log in to unmask]
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