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ASA Conference 2005, Aberdeen
- Creativity and cultural improvisation
Call for papers
Title: Creativity and cultural improvisation
A number of approaches have been developed in recent years that challenge the association at the heart of modern thought between creativity and individual talent and expression, and that highlight its social, performative and political dimensions. The conference will review these approaches across a range of fields in which they have been influential, in studies - for example - of visual and material culture, art and architecture, storytelling and memory, technology and skilled practice, learning and apprenticeship, ritual and secular performance, personhood and embodiment, perception and cognition, and authority and resistance. Papers are invited that consider issues of creativity and improvisation in any of these fields. They will be grouped into four panels, each of which will be the subject of a separate, whole-day session. These panels are:
* Creativity, <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/panels/panel_01.htm> visual perception and material culture
* The creativity <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/panels/panel_02.htm> of social, political and religious life
* Creativity and <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/panels/panel_03.htm> temporality
* The creativity <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/panels/panel_04.htm> of anthropological scholarship
For more detailed information see the Theme <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/theme.htm> and Panel <http://www.theasa.org/asa05/panels.htm> pages.
Submission of abstracts
Abstracts of approx. 300 words to be submitted by 30th November 2004 to the convenor of the panel you wish to participate in.
Please browse the panel pages to see where your paper would best fit and then email your abstract as a virus-scanned attachment, containing your name, affiliation and email address. The process will be simplified if you download and use this provided <http://www.theasa.org/downloads/ASA_Short_Abstract_template.doc> template (right click to download). Thanks.
Submission of papers
We will not be posting completed papers on the site, nor providing hard-copy distribution. If you wish to obtain a full paper please email the author of the abstract you are interested in, and request one directly. Email addresses will be shown on the panel pages.
Contributors are of course at liberty to bring hard copies of their own papers for distribution at the conference
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