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*With apologies for cross-posting!* *4S 2019 New Orleans - September 4-7, 2019 * Please consider submitting a paper for Open Panel 31: *Dancing The Anthropocene - Envisioning Rituals, Bodies, Environments and Political Situatedness Through the Lens of Dance* Dancing is a ubiquitous form and a powerful expression for thinking about bodies, energy, ecology and temporalities. At the same time dance is performed at different scales and intensities while also affected by experiences, improvisations and evocations. Dancing, as performative mode, draws our attention to two issues of ongoing importance to STS: (1) movements, fluidities and meanings and (2) relationality and materiality. Dance may thus be simultaneously literal and metaphorical, structured and spontaneous, producing situations that may lure knowing but render it beyond words. In this way it generates pathways to think through, but also possibilities to rethink/regenerate social life more generally. Here, dancing becomes an interesting focal point for exploring the Anthropocene. This panel considers dancing as both a lens and a site for understanding social life and naturecultures. We invite papers and/or performances that attempt to disrupt entrenched ideas about human and/or multispecies relations, using dance and dancing to envision alternative worldviews and reframe key problems. We ask: how can STS scholars explore dancing as epistemic practice in the Anthropocene, both in its own terms and in conversation with more conventional academic ways of knowing? Possible topics are: - Dance in relation to memory, ritual, bodies, health, care and/or healing. - Dance in environmental perspective: relationality, materiality and senses of place. - Dance and temporalities. - Dance in/as political protests, resistance, negotiations. - Dance and migration. - Dancing as knowing-knowing as dancing. - Dancing as collaboration-collaboration as dancing. - Multispecies, human-nonhuman dancing. - Frictions and/or stillness/stasis/interruptions in dancing. We are looking forward to your proposals! *Dr Gloria Baigorrotegui, Instituto de Estudios Avanzados – Usach* *Dr Annika Capelán, Independent researcher/Deakin University * *Dr Flavio D’Abramo, MPIWG Berlin* *Deadline: February 1, 2019* Submissions: https://www.4s2019.org/accepted-open-panels/ ************************************************************* * 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: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * 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 click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************