This is a reminder that the application for this event ends this Tuesday, September 17.
With best regards
Klavs Sedlenieks
Event: State and Kinship. Baltic Anthropology Graduate School (BAGS) event
Time: October 17-18, 2019
Application deadline: September 17, 2019
Venue: Riga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia
Wherever you do your anthropological fieldwork, it is hardly possible to avoid the impact of the state on either your research (e.g., through various regulations and requirements) or the lives of your research participants. As for kinship, for quite some time anthropologists tended to shy away from the once prominent kinship studies. The last decades, however, have witnessed the return of the interest in kinship: first through the study of reproductive technologies, and, more recently, through the realisation that kinship is central to the public life of complex societies, their economics and politics. If we as anthropologists do not pay attention to kinship, we may miss a lot of what is going on in the societies we study.
This BAGS event is intended to stimulate PhD students to think about their research projects through the lens of the state, kinship, or perhaps both the state in direct combination with kinship. For instance, how do state institutions shape your research or the lives of the people with whom you work? What role does the state have or intends to have in determining the environment in which the social life unfolds? What assumptions about relatedness do your research participants share?
The BAGS framework brings together PhD students and scholars primarily from the BAGS universities in the Baltics: Riga Stradiņš University, Tallinn University, University of Latvia, University of Tartu, and Vytautas Magnus University. However, it is also open to PhD students from other institutions andother colleagues who are interested in the topic or the region. The aim of the event is to provide space for much needed networking and exposure to cutting-edge scholarship, as well as to provide stage for the PhD students andearly career colleagues to train their conferencing-muscle.
We are delighted to have two prominent scholars of the state and kinship join us: Dr. Tatjana Thelen (University of Vienna) and Dr. Thomas Zitelmann (Free University of Berlin). Each of the event days will begin with their keynote lectures. On both days PhD students will have an opportunity to present their work and give feedback to each other. The second day will have parallel workshops on various various PhD study and research-related problems. We will conclude the event with a roundtable on the role of anthropologists in changing the world (or the state), that is, on engaged and activist anthropology.
This BAGS event will also provide an insight into two research projects that are currently carried out in Latvia: 1) Strengthening families, communities andrelationships: anthropological perspectives on violence, carried out by anthropologists at the University of Latvia; and 2) State performance andbiosocial relatedness (Relate.lv), conducted by the Riga Stradiņš University anthropology team.
The BAGS collective also recognises the power of informal social interactions, so each day will also have plenty of this kind of activity.
Participation is free of charge. Some expenses will be covered for the PhD students and staff of the BAGS universities (Riga Stradiņš University, Tallinn University, University of Latvia, University of Tartu, and Vytautas Magnus University). More details will be sent to the applicants directly.
Please register for the event here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfwSg-7hKmtKGEltLvEJU0QhiyJjZ07E6RBUnw0KWlQgW6X1w/viewform>.
Registration will be open until September 17, 2019.
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