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Dear All,
For those with an interest in ethnographic praxis and applications of anthropology, there is still time to submit to present at the EPIC conference. Deadlines have been extended slightly. Details are below. Please feel free to circvulate this to other lists.
Adam
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Subject: EPIC Submission Deadlines / Reminder to submit
A quick reminder to the list that submissions deadlines for EPIC 2012 are fast approaching and we're looking forward to receiving your submissions for the conferences, which is to be held at Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) in Savannah, Georgia, from October 14-17, 2012.
Deadline dates are as follows:
Papers: 13th April
Workshops: 20th April
Artifacts: 27th April
Pecha Kucha: 4th May
Doctoral Colloquium: 4th May
Submission summary
All submissions to be made via https://precisionconference.com/~epic/ and more information about the call can be found at http://epiconference.com/2012/submissions
Renewal: A Theme and a Frame
After three years of economic recession, a year of political ferment and the rise of the global Occupy movement, it is hard not to conclude that renewal is currently part of the zeitgeist. This opens up questions for the EPIC community: What’s our role in renewal and how and why might we renew ourselves?
Societies, cities, communities, economies, organizations, businesses and disciplines all renew themselves and are renewed. Renewal can be instinctive, natural and incremental and it can also be deliberate and designed—a purposeful activity. But is renewal something always to be welcomed and embraced? Are EPIC practitioners agents of renewal or do we have a role to play challenging such agendas? How do we situate ourselves and respond when calls for renewal are made in—and outside of the organizations in which we work?
Renewal sits at the heart of the opportunities and challenges that confront the EPIC community, our clients and the micro and macro contexts in which our work is situated. For the 2012 meeting we want the EPIC community to critically consider our practices and theories in this context.
We welcome contributions—original, high quality and engaging papers, workshops, artifacts and pecha kucha presentations—that explore how our work is central to, or even absent from conversations and activities of renewal. Contributions exploring new areas of activity and intervention by the community would be especially welcome.
The following is an initial set of suggestions for how renewal, as a theme or frame, might be used:
Back to the Future: Renewal implies change as well as stasis, revitalization and the restoration of things past. How does our work confront the challenge of straddling the past and future and how do we help actors negotiate these timeframes?
Environments: What contributes to successful renewal and what helps create environments that support innovation or change. What leads renewal to succeed or fail?
Policy: What role has, or could, ethnographic practice carve out for itself in areas of policy relating to renewal?
Partnership: What relationships and relations support or disrupt renewal, including relationships that stretch or challenge normative disciplinary boundaries?
Outcomes: What good examples of renewal that were framed or accelerated by ethnographic practice exist and what can we learn about how to improve the ability of our work relative to outcomes?
Domains: What domains are EPIC practitioners obviously present in, or absent from, and what might we add to an agenda of renewal. What form should our involvement in renewal be?
Disciplinarity: Why and how does disciplinary renewal take place and what are the implications for our community and its practice? What elements of our practice are in need of renewal?
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Simon Roberts
John Payne
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