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CALL FOR PAPERS Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY Atlanta, Georgia -- April 22-25, 2004 The American Ethnological Society, founded in 1842, is the oldest professional organization for anthropologists in the United States. With a membership of nearly 4,000, it remains the leading forum in the Western Hemisphere for advancing the knowledge base of anthropology and promoting innovation through critical discussions of theories, methods, and research practices. Crisis a: the turning point for better or worse; b: an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs whose outcome will make a decisive difference for better or worse; c: the period when forced liquidation occurs. In the U.S. people are currently expressing a heightened sense of crisis. The anxiety is sometimes reflected in the view that irrational external forces have turned against ordered political, economic, cultural and moral landscapes. What are the multiple readings of crisis and its outcomes in the many settings, societies, sites, media and genres through and in which Anthropologists write, teach, engage in fieldwork, take stances in public discourses and represent the worlds of the anthropologized subjects, identities, routines, rites and orders which come under our investigatory frameworks? What does an ethnological framework offer in the way of conceptualizations, definitions, descriptions and analyses of crisis and its experiences, expressions and manifestations? The 2004 meeting of the American Ethnological Society welcomes abstracts for individual papers, panels, media presentations focused on the theme of crisis. Domains include: Politics. Language. Culture. Race. Academic Disciplines. Activism. Social Movements. Money and Markets. Problems of Categorization. Body, Mind, Spirit. Media. Regulatory Systems. Intervention. Gender. Transformation. Trauma. Environments. Emotion. Human Rights. Belief. Ways to consider crisis and its relevance for ethnology could include: o Crisis and Hierarchy: For e.g. how do moments of crisis throw light on existing social and cultural hierarchies; how does it create new ones o Who is vulnerable to who is protected from crisis o Crisis, Security and Conflict o Histories of Crisis to include issues of memory; genealogy; time o Crisis as natural, as invented, as cultural, as moral, as technological o War and Militarism o Conflicts over Land and Natural Resources o Health and Environmental Crisis o Crisis of Boundaries o Crisis in knowledge production within Anthropology and across Anthropology and other fields o Crisis in the field o Crisis in representation and in being represented o Predicting and Responding to Crisis o Crisis Talk/Rhetoric; For e.g. How is language part of constituting and experiencing crisis; o The audience for Crisis o Facing Crisis Deadline for Submissions is January 15th. 2004. We invite the submission of proposals for panels, roundtables, poster sessions, film and video screenings. Individual papers will be considered. In order to achieve a lively discussion across Anthropological perspectives on this important topic, we also encourage panels co-sponsored by other AAA sections. Please include the following: title, abstract of no more than 100 words, name, e-mail address and mailing address. Submissions can be emailed directly to Gertrude Fraser at [log in to unmask] Fred Myers Professor and Chair Department of Anthropology New York University [log in to unmask] 25 Waverly Place New York, NY 10003 USA 212-998-8555 Fax: 212-995-4014