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The German Anthropological Association’s Biannual Conference – entitled Locations: Anthropology in the Academy, the Workplace and the Public Sphere – will be held in Mainz on 2-5 October 2013 (see http://www.dgv-net.de/home.html).
Below, please find a call for papers for a workshop on Transcending Borders: Teaching Anthropology and Teaching Anthropologically in Europe
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In recent years, a discussion has evolved on the teaching of anthropology in different national contexts. In this session, we wish to move beyond national framings in order to consider the potential of anthropology in the internationalisation of European higher education.
What does ‘internationalisation’ entail, and what role can anthropology play in supporting and examining that process? The workshop aims to think about the potential of anthropology in helping university’s transcend national boundaries. What are the prospects of our discipline for European education/education in Europe?
But we also aim to move beyond the institutional context by reflecting on the ways anthropology enables our students to transcend national borders, both figuratively and literally. This entails a close consideration of the status of anthropology in current university curricula, especially at the undergraduate level. What does teaching anthropology entail? What does it mean to teach anthropologically? How might anthropology, as both discipline and method of learning, ‘internationalise‘ students themselves?
Finally, whereas BA and MA programs have been successfully implemented in Germany, the quality of undergraduate education remains under scrutiny. Given its focus on critical thinking, cross-cultural comparison, and inter-cultural communication, might anthropology have something unique to offer in the development of international undergraduate colleges and degree programmes? Or, more boldly stated, could anthropology serve as a core-discipline for a reformed international bachelor education in Germany (and elsewhere)?
Proceedings: Please submit abstracts for short presentations of no more than 200 words in English to the organizers by 15 February 2013 to: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Martin Zillinger (University of Siegen, Germany)
John Friedman (University College Roosevelt Academy, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
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