The Finnish Anthropological Society invites individual paper proposals for its biennial conference. The proposals should comprise abstracts of 250–300 words and be submitted directly to the panel convenors. Please include your university affiliation and contact information when submitting the proposal.


Deadline for paper proposals: April 1st, 2019. Acceptance notifications will be sent by April 15th, 2019.

For more information about the conference, see our website:

  *   On Time: Anthropology Conference 2019<http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2019/>

On Time: The Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society
Helsinki, August 29–30, 2019


Time is a classic topic in anthropology: it has been viewed as a natural, linguistic, religious, economic and generational phenomenon, among other things. But it is hard to recall when time would have been as widely researched as it is right now. The theme of the 2019 conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society was chosen largely to find out “why time now?” Is it because we have become increasingly aware of the plurality of temporal regimes in our lives, for example, or because of our increased sensitivity to these due to the increased movement of ever more people? And is this why the plural “temporalities” is now often favoured over the singular “time”?


Ultimately, it must be anthropology’s versatility that makes it particularly well suited for grasping and narrating time as a combination of politics, space, materiality, language, scale, valuation, prediction, and growth – again just to name but a few themes. But what has anthropology learnt from the study of time? Has the current “temporal turn” gone far enough for us to take stock of its accomplishments?


The 2019 Finnish Anthropological Society conference “On Time” investigates these themes in 20 panels.


The Finnish Anthropological Society Conference is organised in co-operation with the discipline of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Literature Society. The keynote speaker of the conference is Ghassan Hage, and the 2019 Edvard Westermarck memorial lecture will be given by Laura Bear on the eve of the conference (August 28). General inquiries regarding the conference can be addressed to: timeFAS2019[a]gmail.com



Dr. Mari Korpela
senior lecturer/yliopistonlehtori
Adjunct professor/ dosentti (sosiaali- ja kulttuuriantropologia)
President of the Finnish Anthropological Society/ Suomen Antropologisen seuran puheenjohtaja
Faculty of Social Sciences
Linna room 5058
33014 Tampere University
Finland
tel. + 358 50 318 6131
e-mail: [log in to unmask]

http://people.uta.fi/~mari.korpela/

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