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Dear all, The Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future conference will be held 4 to 7 June 2020 at the British Museum, Clore Centre, SOAS, Senate House and Royal Geographical Society. The call for papers closes on 8 January 2020. We are inviting submissions for our Panel U02: Urban liquefaction: Rethinking the relationship between land and sea. Conveners: Cristián Simonetti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Michel Lussault (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon) All proposals must be made via the online form, accessible at https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8285 (click on the blue button marked ‘Propose paper’) Short abstract: Cities have been conceived as ideally confined to the fixities of the land, defined against the fluxes of the sea. This panel inquires into the tensions between solidity and fluidity that mark the relationship between land and sea, to speculate on alternative futures for the built environment. Long abstract: From classical times until today, cities have been conceived in the western imagination as ideally confined to the fixities of the land, a space defined in opposition to the fluxes of the sea. Whereas solid land afforded a durable platform for the establishment of property and citizenship, the fluid sea allowed markets - isolated within the secure boundaries of cities - to be connected across the globe though navigation. Concurrent tensions between solidity and fluidity, permanence and impermanence, substance and change, remain at the core of the western intellectual tradition, often dividing what is natural from what is social in life. Sea level rise poses unprecedented threats to this oppositional relationship, forcing us to reconsider the tension between solidity and fluidity in the design of the built environment. Nearly 10 per cent of all major cities are likely to be impacted by sea level rise in coming decades, compromising the necessary infrastructure on which urban life depends. Yet in reality, urban landscapes have been continually in flux, which becomes dramatically visible to urban dwellers mostly in catastrophic events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, alluvions, sinkholes and, above all, soil liquefaction. This panel invites anthropologists and geographers, as well as scholars and practitioners from other related fields interested in urban life in the Anthropocene, to open up an inquiry into these categorical tensions to speculate on alternative futures for the built environment. Proposals should consist of a paper title, a very short abstract of <300 characters and a longer abstract of 250 words. On submission of the proposal, the proposing author (but not any co-authors listed) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login on the left on the conference website) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means that confirmation got spammed or lost; and if it is not, it means you need re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere. Feel free to get in touch with us if you have any questions or want to discuss ideas. With best regards, Cris, Tim and Michel -- Cristián Simonetti Programa de Antropología Pontificia Universidad Católica Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 Macul, Santiago 7820436 Chile antropologia.uc.cl New book: Sentient Conceptualisations. Feeling for Time in the Sciences of the Past. Abingdon: Routledge [link here] ************************************************************* * 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 ***************************************************************