The APAD (the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development) conference will be held from 20-23 January 2010 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Central questions that conference participants could address are: What are the prospects for engaging anthropology in major challenges of poverty, inequality, corruption, social fragmentation, violence and ethnic tensions? How and when should anthropologists be actively involved in development efforts, and political jumbles? What are the responsibilities of anthropology in studying social change? How can anthropology engage in public debate and development policy?
The conference will be organised around the following axes:
- Anthropology and the ethics of engagement: Development, politics and cultural exchange
- Setting the agenda in engaged research: Anthropology on public services, media, democratisation, decentralisation, and gender
- Grassroots participation and personal engagement: Anthropologists straddling between the public and the private
- Narratives of development: Integrating anthropology and history
- Anthropological methods in development: Ethnography, participation and the promotion of social change
- Anthropological data and development agencies: Combining research and development work
- Public anthropology: Engaging anthropology in public debate, policy and politics
More information http://sociolingo.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/cfp-apad-conference-ouagadougou-2010/