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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** dear anthropology matters, can you forward this email to your list members please. best wishes, kathleen ----- Dear Colleagues, I ask your assistance in circulating the following CFP, for the Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, "Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things," University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 13th-16th Sept 2011. Panel Title: Imagining disabilities in multiple agents Short Abstract: Disabled people are often imagined as incomplete entities, lacking in bodies, capacities or sociality. In the construction of disability various techniques and intervention technologies are generated to "complete" or "assist" with what are considered 'impairments'. Long abstract: Bodies are considered whole, but the disabled body is often imagined as incomplete or lacking. Nonhuman agents (such as medical interventions, artificial limbs, animals and robots) are called upon to act therapeutically as completion tools. To do this, the disabled bodies and other kinds of socialities are reimagined in new ways. Yet what is often lacking in the scholarship is the how tools and techniques are as much inspired by themes in disabilities as they are created to alleviate perceived problems. Disabilities and impairments inspire the creation of technologies, directly (as in tools to assist), but also indirectly, in the ways that analogies are often made between persons with disabilities and impairments and machines, robots and animals. This session will address these themes by exploring a range of what are considered 'impairments' across different human groups and the multiple agents (organic and inorganic and human and nonhuman) drawn upon to therapeutically assist them, but also how disabilities and impairments inspire new ways of thinking about machines, robots and animals. We would like to invite papers that address these themes and welcome interdisciplinary perspectives for paper proposals. The CFP deadline is 29 April 2011. Details on abstract submission and conference participation are available at the ASA website: http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa11/index.shtml. Cross-disciplinary submissions are entirely welcomed! For further information on the session, please contact me directly at [log in to unmask] Best Wishes, Kathleen Richardson -- Dr Kathleen Richardson British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Anthropology University College London 14 Taviton St London WC1H OBW External: 0207 679 8651 Internal: 28651 OR External: 0207 679 21038 Internal: 21038 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/k_richardson/index ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************