Anthropology in London Day 2019
https://www.soas.ac.uk/anthropology/events/anthropology-in-london-2019/
UCL Anthropology Department
*Date:* 18 June 2019*Time:* 9:30 AM
*Finishes:* 18 June 2019*Time:* 6:00 PM
*Venue:* UCL *Room:* 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW
*Type of Event:* Conference
*Turbulence*
New tensions form and old tensions re-emerge on the local and global level
in response to shifts in attitudes, politics, and perceptions in a moment
where seemingly solid categories and boundaries are being rethought,
reimagined, and reconfigured. As a discipline we are also in a process of
uncomfortable reappraisal, as attempts to confront the history of the
discipline and our teaching of it through processes of decolonising or
decentring Anthropology shake things up. How can we productively engage
with and navigate the turbulence these shifts, confrontations, and
slippages produce in the current moment?
We broadly conceptualise ‘turbulence’ as a time of uncertainty and
precarity that also offers great possibility. An exploration of turbulence
opens up discussions on a broad range of topics including (but not limited
to) migration and borders, the environment and climate change, resurgent
nationalisms, gender and sexuality, disciplinary methods and boundaries,
ethics and representation, the past and the future, and agency or lack of
agency. What can an examination of these issues in relation to turbulence
offer? What types of turbulence do we choose and purposefully activate,
what types do we passively consent to, and what types do we struggle
against? In what ways do our research methods need to change to respond
productively to turbulence? Can hope and possibility emerge out of the
uncertainty that turbulence generates?
We invite PhD students, early career researchers and established academics
to propose a paper presentation or alternative visual format. The
Anthropology in London day has historically been a friendly and safe space
for anthropologists to test out their ideas that are rooted in significant
fieldwork. This year we will be holding the Anthropology in London day on
17 June 2018 at UCL, Department of Anthropology. To participate, please
submit a short 200-word abstract, inclusive of three keywords, to Stephanie
Kitchen ([log in to unmask]) by 18 February 2019.
Your proposed presentation can include (but is not limited to) an
engagement with one of the following themes in relationship to turbulence:
- Anthropological methods
- Disciplinary boundaries
- Agency and possibility
- Powerlessness and empowerment
- Gender and sexuality
- Climate change
- Political uncertainties (e.g. Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro, resurgent
nationalisms etc)
- Conflict (e.g. war in Ukraine, Yemen, Syria etc)
- Refugee crisis
- Temporalities of past and present
- Categorisation and boundaries
- Precarity and control
- Micro and macro forms of consent
Anthropology in London Day is an annual event. The main purpose of the
conference is to enable post-fieldwork PhD students from across London to
present their fieldwork and for staff and students to discuss issues of
pertinence to the discipline. The conference is free to attend and
supported by the main anthropology departments in the University of London
at SOAS, LSE, UCL, Brunel, Goldsmiths and UEL. This year, the lead
organisers are Goldsmiths. The event is open to all anthropology staff and
students within the University of London anthropology departments. Others
wishing to participate can be considered.
--
Stephanie Kitchen
Managing Editor
International African Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H 0XG
www.internationalafricaninstitute.org
Twitter: @Africa_IAI
Tel: +44(0)20 7898 4435 (o)
+44(0)7966 045144 (m)
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