Conference Programme - (Invited) Workshops / Networkmeetings /Poster Presentations

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Poster Presentations

• Convenors: Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek, University of Vienna / Maria Six-Hohenbalken, University of Vienna
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Workshops,Networkmeetings

1. AFRICANIST NETWORK
   Convenors: Dmitriy M. Bondarenko, Russian State University for the Humanities / Cecilia Pennacini, Università di Torino/ Peter Skalník, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic
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2. Anthropological Perspectives on Social Memory
   Convenors: Helena Jerman, University of Helsinki / Sharon Macdonald, University of Sheffield / Petri Hautaniemi, University of Helsinki
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3. Anthropological Relevance of Popular Culture
   Convenors: Jochen Bonz, University of Bremen / Rajko Mursic, University of Ljubljana / Martin Boiko, University of Latvia
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4. The Anthropology of Decadence and the Abject
   Convenors: Jojada Verrips, University of Amsterdam
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5. The Anthropology of Genetic Science
   Convenors:Angela Procoli, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale
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6. Anthropology of pleasure
   Convenors: Editha Platte, University of Frankfurt / Shahnaz Nadjmabadi, University of Frankfurt / Susanne Schröter, University of Frankfurt
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7. An Anthropology of the Transformers of Waste
   Convenors: Lucy Norris, University College London/ JS Marcoux, HEC Montréal
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8. Applied Visual Anthropology
   Convenors: Sarah Pink, Loughborough University
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9. At the Heart of (Every?) Society? Reintegrating Legal Anthropology into Social Anthropology
   Convenors: Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale/ Werner Zips, University of Vienna
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10. The Benefits of 'Culture'
    Convenor: Christoph Brumann, University of Cologne
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11. Between Beer and Bureaucracy: The Anthropology of Clubs and Voluntary Associations
    Convenors: Anna-Kathrin Warner, Universität Bremen / Cordula Weissköppel, Universität Bremen
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12. Between Identity and Alterity: Engaging in Shared Experiences of Everyday Life???
    Convenors: Dona Lee Davis, University of South Dakota, Vermillion / Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, University of Trondheim
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13. Charisma, Politics and Ideology in the Birth and Transformations of National Anthropologies
    Convenors: Moshe Shokeid, Tel-Aviv University / João Leal, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
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14. Cinema and the Mythical
    Convenors: Birgit Meyer, University of Amsterdam/ Ulrike Davis-Sulikowski, University of Vienna
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15. Compassion and Empathy (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Susana de Matos Viegas, University of Coimbra, University of Lisbon / Édouard Conte, Collegium Budapest/CNRS, Berlin
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16. Confronting Human Rights Violations
    Convenors: Marie-Bénédicte Dembour, University of Sussex/ Eva Kalny, University of Vienna
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17. The Creolization of Identity and Personhood
    Convenors: Ernst Halbmayer, University of Vienna / Peter Schweitzer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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18. Disjunctures and Intimacies: New Perspectives in Gift Theory
    Convenors: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, University of Cambridge / Olga Sosnina, Kremlin Museum
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19. Displaying the Other: The Masking of Identity
    Convenors: Christian F. Feest, Museum für Völkerkunde, Wien / Sylvia S. Kasprycki, Museum der Weltkulturen, Frankfurt/Main
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20. Doing violence to place: political transformation and the re-making of home
    Convenors: Stef Jansen, University of Hull / Staffan Löfving, Stockholm University
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21. Ear to Ear, Nose to Nose, Skin to Skin: The Senses in Comparative Ethnographic Practice
    Convenors:Regina Bendix, Georg-August-University Göttingen / Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz
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22. Embracing Home: Options and Constraints in Relationships of Belonging
    Convenors: Katharina Schramm, Freie Universität Berlin / Hansjörg Dilger, Freie Universität Berlin
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23. Encounters of the post-socialist kind: The movement of goods and identities within and beyond the former socialist world
    Convenors: Lale Yalçn-Heckmann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale / Hülya Demirdirek, (from July 1) University of Victoria, British Columbia
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24. Environmental and Ecological Issues in Cities: An Anthropological Approach
    Convenors: Eveline Dürr, Auckland University of Technology / Rivke Jaffe, Leiden University
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25. Environmental Protection: Socio-Cultural and Political-Economic Dimensions
    Convenors: James G. Carrier, Oxford Brookes University, University of Indiana / Ir. F.W. van Helden, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, The Hague
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26. Ethnographic Practice in the Present (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: George E. Marcus, Rice University / Helena Wulff, Stockholm University
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27. Ethnographies of Historicity
    Convenors: Eric Hirsch, Brunel University / Charles Stewart, University College London
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28. Ethnography – the costs of success? (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Marit Melhuus, University of Oslo / Jon P Mitchell, University of Sussex
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29. The Ethnography of Borderlands
    Convenors:Michael Barrett and Beppe Karlsson, Uppsala University
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30. Exploring Regimes of Discipline: Ethnographic and Analytical Inquiries
    Convenors:Noel Dyck, Simon Fraser University / Discussant: Vered Amit, Concordia University
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31. Facing Art: New Ethnographic Approaches to Art Worlds
    Convenors: Barbara Keifenheim, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder / Barbara Wolbert, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder
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32. Facing Distance and Proximity: Migration, Translocalities and the Nation-State (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Sabine Strasser, University of Vienna / Krystyna Romaniszyn, Jagiellonian University
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33. Facing Distress. Distance and Proximity in Times of Illness
    Convenors:Els van Dongen, University of Amsterdam / Armin Prinz, Medical University, Vienna
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34. Facing the former enemy: memories of war and war crimes
    Convenors:Francesca Cappelletto, University of Verona / Anne Friederike Müller, King’s College London
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35. Facing the other: ethnography and ethics of alterity
    Convenors:Lorenzo I. Bordonaro, ISCTE, Lisbon / Elsa Lechner, ICS, Lisbon
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36. Facing War – and After
    Convenors: Helle Rydstrom, Lund University and Linkoping University / Eyal Ben-Ari, Hebrew University
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37. Further explorations in the ‘Learning Fields’ (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors:Iain R. Edgar, Durham University / László Kürti, University of Miskolc, Hungary
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38. Healing and sacral communication in the context of cosmologies of suffering in societies in transition
    Convenors: Imre Lázár, Semmelweis University, Budapest / Agita Luse, Department of Sociology, University of Bristol
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39. Hegemony – Regulation – Governmentality – Governance. What’s in a term?
    Convenors: Susana Narotzky, Universitat de Barcelona / Davide Peró, University of Oxford
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40. Identity and Alterity from the Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspective
    Convenors: Chris S. Knight, University of East London / Martin Kanovsky, Comenius University, Bratislava
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41. Impacts of Resistance: New Ethnographic Approaches to Indigenous Movements
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42. Kinship, Distance and Proximity in the Anthropology of Europe
    Convenors: Monica Bonaccorso and Paola Filippucc, University of Cambridge, UK
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43. Learning and History (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Charles Stafford, London School of Economics / Christina Toren, Brunel University
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44. Living in Border Zones (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Glenn Bowman, University of Kent / Lawrence J. Taylor, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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45. Marriage and Migration: Heterogamy and Homogamy in a Changing World
    Convenors: Reginald Byron, University of Wales Swansea / Barbara Waldis, Université de Neuchâtel
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46. Meaning in Motion: Advancing the Anthropology of Dance
    Convenors: Jonathan Skinner, The Queen's University Belfast/ Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University of Oxford
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47. The meaning of work in shifting global contexts: Contracts in time and space
    Convenors: Carla Dahl-Jørgensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) / Nigel Rapport, University of St. Andrews
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48. Media and the Global(Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Dorle Dracklé, University of Bremen / Ulf Hannerz, Stockholm University
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49. Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology
    Convenors: Reetta Toivanen, Humboldt University, Berlin / Levent Soysal, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
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50. Mobile Localities and Knowledge
    Convenors: Narmala Halstead, Cardiff University / Marianne Elisabeth Lien, University of Oslo
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51. The Modern State as a Cultural Model
    Convenors: Ronald Stade, Malmö University
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52. Music and Dance as Intercultural "Face-to-Face"Communication
    Convenors: Lidia Guzy, Free University Berlin / Jean-Marc de Grave, CNRS, Villejuif
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53. Muslim Cultural Politics in Europe and the Middle East. Continuities and Disjunctures
    Convenors: Ruba Salih, University of Bologna (Invited Workshop) / Annelies Moors, University of Amsterdam
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54. New Dimensions
    Convenors: Anna Streissler, University of Vienna / Nicolas Argenti, Brunel University
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55. Nutrition for the Body, Food for the Mind
    Convenors: Gabriele Weichart, University of Heidelberg / Peter van Eeuwijk, University of Basel
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56. ‘Other’ anthropologies
    Convenors: Aleksandar Boskovic, Rhodes University / Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo
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57. Paradoxes of Social Remoteness and Immediacy: The Prison as a Site of Anthropological Inquiry
    Convenors: Ueli Hostettler, University of Bern / Manuela Ivone Pereira da Cunha, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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58. Patient embodiment: Cold Distance & Emotional Proximity in Medical Practice
    Convenors: Christina Lammer, Vienna Film Academy / Rosie Read, University of Manchester
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59. Philosophy and Anthropology: Border-Crossings and Transformations?
    Convenors: Terry Evens, University of North Carolina / Don Handelman, The Hebrew University / Ananta Kumar Giri, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India
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60. Pouvoir critique et critique du pouvoir des anthropologues / Critical power and critique of the power of anthropologists
    Convenors: Quentin Gausset, University of Copenhagen / Robert Gibb, University of Glasgow
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61. Private Monuments in the Public Domain
    Convenors: Irene Stengs, Meertens Institute, Amsterdam / Maruska Svasek, Queen’s University Belfast
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62. Privileged Movement and Travel: Developing New Ethnographic and Conceptual Approaches
    Convenors:Vered Amit, Concordia University
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63. Processes of change in European kinship: Past and Present
    Convenors: Agnès Fine, EHESS, Toulouse / Adam Kuper, Brunel University / Franklin Tjon Sie Fat, University of Leiden
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64. Proximity and Asymmetry in Border Encounters
    Convenors: Jutta Lauth Bacas, University of Fribourg/Switzerland and Academy of Athens, Research Centre for Greek Society / William Kavanagh, San Pablo-CEU University, Madrid and Comillas University, Madrid
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65. Public images: anthropology and the display, circulation, and consumption of images (Invited Workshop)
    Convenors: Marcus Banks, University of Oxford / Nuno Porto, University of Coimbra
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66. Reconfiguring ‘Uncertainty’: Ontological Insecurity, Partial Knowledge and Reasoning in a Changing World
    Convenors: Bernhard Hadolt, University of Vienna / Andrea Stöckl, Goldsmiths College, University of London
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67. (Re) negotiating Gender and Generation in Transnational Families
    Convenors: Andrea Lauser, University of Marburg/ Susanne Schwalgin, University of Münster
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68. Sacralising Urban Space
    Convenors: Nicholas Harney, University of Western Australia / Karsten Pærregaard, University of Copenhagen / Pnina Werbner, Keele University
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69. Skilled visions: between apprenticeship and standards
    Convenors: Cristina Grasseni, University of Bergamo
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70. Social capital, migration and transnational families
    Convenors: Venetia Evergeti, London South Bank University / Elisabetta Zontini, London South Bank University
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71. The State of the State in Europe
    Convenors: Jaro Stacul, University of Surrey / Gregory Feldman, University of British Columbia
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72. States of Transformation: Modes of Political Subjectivity under change
    Convenors: Yael Navaro-Yashin, University of Cambridge / Olga Demetriou, Oxford University
    
    
73. Towards an Anthropology of Conflict Resolution
    Convenors: Martina I. Steiner, University of Vienna
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74. Transgressive Sex, Transforming Bodies
    Convenors: Hastings Donnan, Queen’s University / Fiona Magowan, Queen’s University
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75. Travelling Religions- circuits of gendered moralities
    Convenors: Gertrud Hüwelmeier, Freie Universität Berlin / Steven Vertovec, University of Oxford
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76. Women at the beginning of anthropological project (fieldworkers and collectors)
    Convenors: Grasyna Kubica, Jagiellonian University, Krakow / Ulla Vuorela, Helsinki University
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