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Appologies for crossposting! Call for participation: Experimental and Sensory Methods in Critical Affective Research International Society for Ethnology and Folklore bi-annual congress, March 23-26 2017, Göttingen. Convenors *- Judith Albrecht (Frei University Berlin) [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* *- Omar Kasmani (Affective Societies, Frei University Berlin) [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* *- Anton Nikolotov (Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies)* *[log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>* *- Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University Berlin)* [log in to unmask] The aim of the workshop is to highlight the analytical apertures that experimental and sensory methods, or rather concepts, tactics and strategies have to offer to ethnographic research and, specifically, to the study of affect. Following the core interests of this conference, we are interested to explore how affective scholarship (visual, auditory or synaesthetic) can be enriched by experimental meditation of sensorial encounters, affects, belongings as well as the experience of difference and sameness in fieldwork. At least since the early 2000s voices in socio-cultural anthropology have identified and called for important shifts in the modes of ethnographic practice making it a much more collective and collaborative endeavour of public criticism, interventions and future orientated speculations (Estalella and Sanchez-Criado 2017; Ingold 2014; Holmes and Marcus 2008 a,b Marcus 2013;). If much of the discourse of the 1980s and 1990s focused on the politics of representation and critiques of positivism in academic texts, the current, emerging post-Writing-Culture moment is much more concerned with the encounters, relations and epistemologies in fieldwork that complicate the boundaries between the researcher and the researched. Such emerging research practices push disciplinary limits and question epistemological foundations of knowledge production. Starting from here, we wish to critically examine the relations between different experimental research methods, tactics, and strategies as well as the research ecologies they produce, considering also the impact of various media and digitization. The workshop further inquires how experiential and sensory-focused research can contribute or hinder forms of ethico-political engagements with the subjects in the field and allow or limit novel forms of affective relations and representations. Deadline: November 7th. To submit a proposal to the panel please follow the link: http://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2017/panels.php5?PanelID=4986 References: Estalella, A., and Sánchez Criado, (forthcoming) T. Book | Experimental Collaborations. http://xcol.org/xcol-book/, 2016. Holmes, D.R., and Marcus, G.E. (2007). Cultures of Expertise and the Management of Globalization: Toward the Re-Functioning of Ethnography. In Global Assemblages, A. Ong, and S.J. Collier, eds. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd), pp. 235–252. Holmes, D.R., and Marcus, G.E. (2010). Collaboration Today and the Re-Imagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter. Collaborative Anthropologies *1*, 81–101. Ingold, T. (2014). That’s enough about ethnography! HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *4*, 383–395. ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * 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. * * ***************************************************************