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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Art – Science – Anthropology: What can ethnographers of science do with visual artists? (convenors: Wenzel Geissler, Arnd Schneider, Gro Ween) Norwegian Association of Anthropology (NAF), Annual Conference, Bergen, 2- 4 May, 2014. In recent years, affinities between, on the one hand science and art, and on the other science and anthropology have expanded continuously, the latter giving shape to the large area of anthropology now overlapping with ‘STS’, and the former producing the burgeoning professional-scholarly domain of ‘public engagement’ with science. At the same time, anthropologists and visual artists have discovered affinities, drawing upon one another’s methodologies, theories and subjects. We think that the triangular entanglements of art, science and anthropology can be pushed further, and that the three-way traffic between them can address some of the potential pitfalls of twinning science with one or the other. As STS scholars have pointed out, ‘public engagement’ between art and science tends to take science as the given entity, addressed by art as a radically other way of engaging the material; the possibility of science being art, or of exploring mutual affinities between scientific and artistic, aesthetic and affective labour has little space in such art-serving-science. On the other hand, one observes some social and cultural anthropologists, aiming to reclaim scientific territory – more or less on the terms of the natural sciences – and to contribute to the large scientific debates of our time, from chaos theory to climate change. Some of these approaches remain ignorant of science itself, taking a purposely distanced view, while others aim to insert another voice into scientific debate. This panel invites papers that discuss how the mutual engagement between art, science and anthropology can broaden insights into the anthropology of science. Anthropologists often see art as subjective and unruly – not as a way of knowledge production, and artists might construct anthropology as a ‘science’ – not as a creative endeavour. Yet lessons learned from ethnographers ‘doubling’ as artists (and vice versa) help to transcend taken-for-granted disciplinary separations, and prise open science and anthropology as art, and art as experimental and ethnographic inquiry. Please send your paper abstract by 7 February to: Wenzel Geissler, SAI, University of Oslo: [log in to unmask] Arnd Schneider, SAI, University of Oslo: [log in to unmask] Gro Ween, Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, [log in to unmask] Arnd Schneider Professor of Social Anthropology Department of Social Anthropology University of Oslo P.O. Box 1091 Blindern 0317 Oslo NORWAY [log in to unmask] Tel. 0047-22-857625 FAX 0047-22-854502 personal homepage http://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/arnds/index.html ************************************************************* * 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 * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************