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2012 April March May June July

March 2012

Africanists Network - inter conference workshop
Fieldwork in Africa today: New Options & challenges venue:
Max- Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, main seminar room
30 & 31 March 2012, 14 :00 to 17:00, 10:00 to 16:00

The aim of the workshop is to invite outstanding junior scholars (EASA members) engaged in current research projects in the Anthropology of African societies, primarily to discuss issues of research methods, strategies of fieldwork and reflexivity, related to ongoing research projects.

The workshop may include

  • Presentations by participants (main methodical choices & constraints of individual research projects)
  • an overview of recent methodological innovations /news approaches in the Anthropology of Africa
  • debates on flexibility and adaptability based on case studies
  • quasi experimental and participatory methods – prospects and their limits
  • discussion on ways of teaching and improving methodological learning processes - slides and short films

Call for contributions by 30th September 2011 to tilograetz(AT)yahoo.de. Download this PDF for more info .

The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) 72nd Annual Meeting
Bays, Boundaries, and Borders.
Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012

The Society for Applied Anthropology is pleased to announce our 72nd Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD, March 27-31, 2012. For meeting information visit www.sfaa.net/sfaa2012.html

CALL FOR PAPERS: October 15, 2011

April 2012

ASA12
Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
3rd-6th April 2012, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Call for papers open, closing 7th December

See the 45+ panels http://www.theasa.org/asa12

May 2012

2nd LINEE International Conference, Dubrovnik, May 4-6, 2012
Multilingualism in the public sphere
Institute for Anthropological Research, Zagreb (INANTRO)

Session topics

  1. Multilingual practices in public places and linguistic landscape
  2. Multilingualism in institutional settings
  3. Multilingualism in economy
  4. Historical perspectives of multilingualism
  5. General session

Call for papers: 1 December, 2011.

More info on the conference website: http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference2012.html

June 2012

Conference Emotions and Capitalism
Berlin, 27 – 30 June, 2012

Is there a nexus between emotions and capitalism? In a first step, the conference will analyze the hitherto produced meta-narratives of capitalism and the assumptions they produced regarding the relationship between emotions and capitalism. The following three sections will be concerned with the interdependencies of emotional and capitalist practices in three central loci – the market, the work place and the field of consumption. The last section on subjectification and habitus asks about the modes and contents of becoming an emotional being in capitalism.

We invite researchers (PhD level or advanced) to a productive exchange among the disciplines of history, sociology, ethnology, economics, culture and literature studies as well as all others who want contribute on the matter.

The conference is organised by Sabine Donauer and Anne Schmidt in cooperation with Christoph Conrad (University of Geneva) and will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin from 27 to 30 June 2012. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered by the Max Planck Institute for Human Development.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 15 July 2011 to emocap@mpib-berlin.mpg.de

July 2012

Cultural Heritage Management and Indigenous Cultures
July 2012, in Florence, Italy

The University of Queensland will be in Florence, Italy in 2012 teaching a course in cultural heritage management for Indigenous cultures. Students and professionals are welcome to attend.

The world is changing rapidly, and the adverse impacts of change are being felt disproportionately by Indigenous cultures. How should heritage practitioners respond to the challenges to Indigenous cultural heritage presented by large-scale mining and other significant development activities? What mechanisms exist for the identification, assessment and management of Indigenous cultural heritage values? Precisely what are the heritage values that require conservation? And, perhaps most importantly, what is the role of Indigenous peoples themselves in the conservation of their own heritage?

This course will explore the fundamental concepts underpinning cultural heritage management within the context of Indigenous cultures, taking a strongly practical approach, exposing participants to the statutory frameworks and heritage challenges of Australia and the Pacific, North and South America, and South Africa. This will be an intensive, exciting and thoroughly rewarding workshop series of direct application to students of archaeology, anthropology and cultural resource management, in addition to heritage practitioners of all backgrounds. Heritage students and professionals interested in working in developing countries will find the course of particular interest.

For more information see site or contact Andrew Sneddon at a.sneddon@uq.edu.au