Dear All,
Please kindly forward to me some names of social/cultural or medical
anthropologists based in Tanzania who can conduct a short research on
vaccines.
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Thank you!
Juliet
On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 20:28 tiniusjo <[log in to unmask] wrote:
> Shadows of the Present: Generative Ambivalences Across Art, Heritage, and
> Materiality
> ASA19: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges
> 3-6 September 2019, University of East Anglia (Norwich)
>
> This panel proposes to examine utopia and temporalities through that which
> is left in the dark: the ruined, the overlooked, the uncanonical. What is
> the generative potential of the dystopian, peripheral - those sites,
> practices, and ideas left in the shadows of the present?
>
> Responses to global challenges, social change, and utopian visions seldom
> focus on the shadowy, unseen, or dystopian. We value and aspire to
> trajectories of progress, clarity, and (decolonial) struggles against
> oppression and for recognition. But what about the ambivalence of light and
> the potential of the opaque? This panel highlights anthropological
> perspectives on unassuming visionaries, micro-utopias, and phantom agencies
> across the fields of art, heritage, and material culture. Drawing on
> ethnographic field-research, we wish to juxtapose different considerations
> of lesser-known, peripheral, or unlikely visionary potential for crafting
> responses to global challenges. We are interested in the ambivalent
> potentials and dynamics between light and shadow in the context of art,
> heritage, and materiality. What happens when counter-hegemonic perspectives
> become normative; when the uncanonical is suddenly in the spotlight? How
> are sites, stories, and ideals about heritage and materiality pulled back
> into the shadow and made to appear illegitimate? Being in the light implies
> confrontation with visibility, normativity, and intelligibility - and thus
> not necessarily the most suitable conditions for visionary perspectives on
> sociality and futurity. We thus want to consider the diverse potentials and
> ambivalences that lie in the blurry indeterminacy of the shadow:
> possibilities arising from marginalised and dark materialities in urban
> regeneration; revisionist nostalgias feeding into old/new exclusionary
> political dystopias; or artistic practices revelling in dark pasts and
> dystopian presents. For this panel, we invite proposals exploring the idea
> of shadows of the present in relation to ethnographic research on art,
> heritage, and materiality.
>
> Convenors: Jonas Tinius and Alice von Bieberstein (CARMAH, Institute of
> European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
> Discussant: Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH, Institute of European Ethnology,
> Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
>
> Propose a paper until midnight 8 April via this link:
> https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2019/p/8026 <
> https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2019/p/8026>
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