Events

There are many other events taking place, beside the workshops and plenaries.

All week

Complimentary admission to Musée Quai Branly

MQB are not only partners in organising this conference,but also home to a wonderful museum. Located on the banks of the Seine at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the Musée du quai Branly gives the greatest importance to the Arts and Civilizations of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, a blend of many cultural, religious and historical influences. A place of scientific and artistic dialogue, a crossroads of exchanges between the public, researchers, students and contemporary creators, exhibitions, shows, conferences, workshops and projections are the high points of the life of the museum all around the year.

During your stay in Paris, the Museum will be offering free admission to delegates during the week of the conference. So try to make time in your travel plans to avail of this opportunity. To see more visit their website.

 

Tuesday 10th July

Keynote lecture by Prof. Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge

Fear, apprehension and urban space
 The lecture will outline some theories of anxiety in contemporary urban spaces from anthropology, architecture and other disciplines. It will suggest that long-term inhabitants have different experiences of the city from recent rural migrants. Whereas for the former memories and histories of events frame apprehensions of what might happen in particular places, for incomers there is a more immediate contemporaneous and 'horizontal' scanning of potential dangers. Using ethnography from the shanty town surrounding Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) it will be shown that moving to the city involves shifting the perception of omens to new arrays of worrying signs glimpsed anywhere in the streets. The lecture will attempt to relate these different registers of anxiety both to existing cityscapes and the to the emergence of new global and somehow uncanny forms of 'private space'.