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CALL FOR PAPERS - ASA09 Conference in Bristol, 6th-9th April 2009

"Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future"


Dear Colleagues,

Please forward this to those who might be interested.

We are pleased to announce that the call for papers for the ASA09 
Conference is now open. The conference will be held at Bristol University, UK, 
from the 6th to the 9th of April 2009.

Amongst the special events are:
- key-note address by Prof. Michael Herzfeld
- invited speakers in the first plenary include Prof. Chris Hann, Prof. Tim 
Ingold, and Prof. Rosemary Joyce
- Prof. Ian Hodder will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University, 
preceded by a special lecture
- the ASA Raymond Firth Lecture by Prof. Guha-Thakurta, Calcutta
- the RAI Presidential Address by Prof. Roy Ellen


Details about the individual panels and the submission of proposals can be
found on the ASA website following the link


http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa09/index.htm



Please note that the ASA welcomes input from Visual Anthropologists including 
visual submissions.
Panels include a broad range of subjects, such as:


- P01 Thinking, acting, and knowing through religious 'things': artefacts in the 
making of cosmology
- P02 Imagineering the past: The (mis)uses of anthropology and archaeology 
in tourism
- P03 From archaeology of knowledge to archaeologies of the future: 
archaeology as metaphor
- P04 The material culture of dance
- P05 The archaeology of family and kinship
- P06 Appropriating authenticity: anthropological and archaeological enquiries 
on a shared theme
- P07 Re-visiting Victorian anthropology? Imagining the past through a unifying 
science
- P08 Civilisation: a reintroduction
- P09 Historical ecologies of tropical landscapes: new engagements between 
anthropologists and archaeologists
- P11 Engaging anthropology and archaeology: theory, practice and publics
- P12 Something borrowed, something new? Practices and politics of imitation
- P13 Encounters with the past: the emotive materiality and affective 
presence of human remains
- P14 Exploring the dangers and virtues of ancient things
- P15 Humans and other animals
- P16 Genes and culture, past and present
- P17 Postcolonialism and archaeological practice: precedents, problems 
and 'post-postcolonialism'
- P18 Monumentalizing the past, archaeologies of the future
- P19 Ruins: perception, reception & reality
- P20 Anthropology, archaeology and human origins: returning to 'big questions'
- P21 Kinship in Europe's past and present - ethnography, archaeology and 
perspectives in between
- P22 Remembering and re-envisioning the past
- P23 Diffusion: a reappraisal of the concept
- P24 If anthropologists had digs
- P25 What can archaeological data tell us about anthropological realities?
- P26 Interdisciplinary interfaces: third dialogical spaces where archaeology 
and anthropology meet
- P27 Seascape: anthropological and archaeological approaches to the human 
habitation of the sea
- P28 Cultural negotiation: the dialogue between rituals and globalisation
- P29 Sacred architecture: archaeological and anthropological perspectives
- P30 Space, place, architecture: a major meeting point between social 
anthropology and archaeology?
- P31 The archaeology and anthropology of the imaginative and imagined self
- P32 Imagining past and present landscapes
- P33 Heritage and art between state ideology and grassroots activism
- P34 The Ambiguous Objects of Hospitality: Material Ethics, Houses and 
Dangerous Guests
- P35 Inner Landscapes: Ethnographies of Interior Dialogue, Mood and 
Imagination
- P36 Anthropology and self-representation
- P37 Healing wounds, working together: archaeologists and social 
anthropologists in the study of traumatic events of the past
- P38 Discovering Pacific pasts in the present
- P39 Science as a Bridge between Archaeology and Anthropology
- P40 Professionalisation and institutionalisation
- P41 When is contemporary archaeology anthropology?
- P42 Encounters with the local: or the production of archaeological knowledge


The deadline for abstracts is the 6th of February 2009.


Kind regards,


Emily Pierini
ASA09 Committee Member


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Emily Pierini
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Bristol University
43 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1UU
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