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We cordially invite submissions to our panel, Suspending Movement, at the CASCA/IUAES Conference in Ottawa, Canada, 2-7 May 2017, under the theme: mo[u]vement: moving bodies. Submission deadline: 19 December 2016 Link for submission: http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5365 Panel Title: Suspending movement: moments of presence and absence in inter-species encounters Short Abstract: Our interest is in postures of stillness that humans adopt in avoiding 'the social' in inter-species encounters. To what extent, we ask, might staying immobile, intent on remaining undetected, be as telling, or more telling of human life and potential than are moments of social immersion? Long Abstract: One does not step in the same river twice'. Heraclitus' aphorism, connoting a world in relentless flux and constant motion, has become inspiring again in an anthropology eager to move away from former 'western' traditions allegedly privileging disembodied contemplation severed from the movement that is life. And yet, before stepping into the river, one may pause, stand, hold still for one's portrait before venturing into the turbulent waters, perhaps to capture what is there—or before deciding not to, deterred by some presence that is better avoided. In this panel, we wish to pause at such moments of bodily suspense, governed by human frameworks of knowledge, experience, and anticipation. Ethnographically, we focus on postures of stillness that humans adopt in avoiding 'the social' in inter-species encounters, and we wish to explore these for their analytic potential in thinking through human practice and cognition. To what extent might staying immobile, intent on remaining undetec ted, be as telling, or more telling of human life and life worlds than are moments of social immersion? To what extent may freezing in one's tracks be revealing of inter-species behavioural fraternity, given that both human and non-human animals strategically interrupt motion? To what extent, we wonder, are such moments of stillness predicated on a sense of detachment from the world, rather than immersion in it—or is this an anthropocentric notion, and does that matter? Stillness, we suggest, may be full of absence in its commitment to not relate. Petra Tjitske Kalshoven, University of Manchester Olivier Larocque, McGill University Dr Petra Tjitske Kalshoven Lecturer in Anthropology Department of Social Anthropology University of Manchester Arthur Lewis Building 2.047 M13 9PL Manchester, United Kingdom Author of Crafting ‘the Indian’: Knowledge, Desire, and Play in Indianist Reenactment. 2012. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. ************************************************************* * 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. * * ***************************************************************