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Dear Anthropologists,
We cordially invite you to the fourth Annual Conference of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" to be held at Heidelberg University, Germany, October 10th - 12th, 2012. It has been organised in cooperation with the Collaborative Research Centre "Material Text Cultures" at Heidelberg University.
Entitled "Things that connect - pathways of materiality and practice" this year's meeting focuses on the study of materiality and the power it exercises in cultural processes. The expanding field of material culture studies has infused a new dynamism into a range of disciplines from archaeology and epigraphy to anthropology, histories of consumption, quotidian life, technology, curatorial and museum studies, aesthetics and art history.
The conference features two keynote lectures: by Neil MacGregor, the Director of the British Museum in London and author of "A History of the World in 100 Objects", and Ian Hodder (Stanford), who will speak about the interrelationship of humans and things. The conference will consist of four plenary panels in the morning on "The Obstinacy of Things", "Multiple Materialities: Local, National, Global", "Material Text Cultures on the Move", and "Materializing Messages: Metamorphoses and Placement of Texts in Early China". The afternoon segment will feature a number of smaller, parallel panels designed to present the best results of the wide-ranging research carried out during the past years by scholars in the congenial cross-regional and transdisciplinary setting of the Cluster "Asia and Europe". A plenary round-table discussion will conclude the conference.
For further information on the conference, please visit our website at http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/annual-conference-2012.
Please let us know if you will attend the conference by sending an email to [log in to unmask] by August 31, 2012.
We kindly ask you to forward this information to your colleagues and potential participants and thank you for your support.
With best wishes
Elena Welscher, Research Area Coordinator
Alexander Haentzschel, Press Officer
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