Dear Colleagues,
As it is far too cold to do anything else, we encourage you to curl up
in your armchairs, wearing all your sweaters, armed with a cuppa (don't
spill on the keyboard!) and come up with ASA2018 panel proposals!
The ASA <https://www.theasa.org/index.shtml> invites scholars from all
areas of anthropology, archaeology, museum studies, geography and other
neighbouring disciplines to propose panels to the 2018 conference
*'Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology'
*that will be held in *Oxford, 18-21 September 2018. *The likely
registration fees and preliminary information on accommodation are shown
here <https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/registration.shtml>.
One of the major debates within anthropology is the question of how to
bridge approaches primarily concerned with the social, and those
primarily focused on the material, the physical, or the biological. Much
recent anthropology, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, seeks
to overcome artificial conceptual divisions, either by proposing new
(often hybrid) ontologies or simply by pursuing problems that challenge
conventional boundaries. *ASA18 aims to address this key question
directly: if sociality, matter, and the imagination are reconsidered
from multiple perspectives across the discipline, how might we renew and
re-create anthropology?* What kinds of theoretical, methodological, and
ethical concerns are raised by this potential re-creation? Working with
a very broad definition of ‘the material’—potentially including
linguistic, biological, genetic, neurological, environmental, and
evolutionary factors—the conference aims to advance debates on sociality
and matter, the imagination and creativity, and therefore on what it is
to be human in a rapidly changing world. Contributions to the conference
will be organized according to the following four sub-themes: 1)
Language and imagination, 2) Creative Bodies, 3) Environmental
Imaginations, 4) Transformation and Time.
The conference also aims to provide a forum for enhanced
interdisciplinarity between anthropology and its neighbouring
disciplines and sub-fields (read more about this effort here
<https://www.theasa.org/about/ukan/index.shtml>).
Please read more about the conference theme
<https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/>, the keynotes and plenaries
<https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/plenaries.shtml>, the Call for
Panels rules and instructions
<https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/cfpan.shtml>, and then propose
a panel!
The Call for Panels will close at 23:59 GMT on *Monday, 26th February*.
*Please share this call with your colleagues and in relevant lists!*
If you have any questions concerning the call, please email
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Yours,
ASA18 conference administration
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