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Conference: A Cosmopolitan Anthropology?

Published on September 15, 2009 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Great Britain and Ireland

15.9.-16.9.09 University of St Andrews (Scotland)

The purpose of this conference is to assess the place of cosmopolitanism within anthropology, both as an analytical concept and as a political and moral programme. Cosmopolitanism has long been a part of philosophical and political debate, but in recent years recognition of its possible applicability has spread: cosmopolitanism has entered debates on globalisation, transnationalism, diaspora and multiculturalism. Anthropology’s specialism as a study of social relations in global perspective makes it an appropriate venue for an examination of notions of the ‘cosmopolitan’ and their relevance.

The 2006 ASA conference (Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth) took cosmopolitanism as its central theme, as did the 2007 CASCA conference (Canadian Anthropology Society). A number of edited volumes have recently been published (Vertovec and Cohen 2000, Robinson 2007, Werbner 2008), and new research centres opened. Are these significant developments? Does ‘cosmopolitanism’ offer something original, distinct from conceptualisations of ‘multiculturalism’, ‘globalism’, ‘diaspora’, ‘transnationalism’, ‘hybridity’, ‘pluralism’, ‘ecumenism’ or ‘civil society’?

‘Cosmopolitanism’ provides an umbrella for an array of conceptual, methodological and empirical insights which do not necessarily sit comfortably together: can these distinct perspectives be explored in dialogue without the creation of entrenched intellectual camps? The conference to be held in St. Andrews in September 2009 will take stock and deliver a verdict in the form of a collected volume of papers.

The intuition of the conference organizers is that cosmopolitanism does indeed usefully identify a new anthropological agenda. One does not intend a master-trope or panacea, but the concept is workable for claiming a particular history of inscribing the human, and a future project (Hannerz 2006; Rapport 2007a, 2007b). More than this, cosmopolitanism offers a significant perspective on matters of social policy: on integration in modern society, on the bearers of human rights, on the balance between community memberships and tradition on the one hand and the capability of individuals to be singular authors of their own ongoing identities.

More information: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~centrecs/conferences.html

15.9.-16.9.09 University of St Andrews (Scotland)

Open Anthropology Corporative Calender

Published on August 19, 2009 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, antropologi.info calendar

Transnational Anthropologies: Convergences and Divergences (Vancouver) in Globalized Disciplinary Networks

Published on May 13, 2009 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, Americas, antropologi.info calendar

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA May 13-16 2009

In an era when anthropology is increasingly attentive to transnational connections, globalized geographies, and diasporic identities, the discipline itself is subject to new and challenging forms of deterritorialization and re-territorialization.

Anthropology has long been constituted by tensions between the gravitational force of its various national traditions and the pull toward an international intellectual cosmopolitanism. Yet the increasing presence of scholars from the world “periphery” in metropolitan universities, the rise to international prominence of subaltern academic centers, the deterritorialized concerns and priorities of funding institutions, and the growing transnational links between researchers, research institutions, and research subjects (among other factors) are further complicating the spatiality of anthropological practice.

These shifts, in turn, are transforming the way anthropologists examine the production of power relations, inequalities, and identities in local and global arenas.

The 2009 CASCA-AES conference to be held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver calls anthropologists and scholars from across the social sciences and the humanities to offer a fresh look at the increasingly transnational nature of knowledge production, at the resilience of regionalized academic hierarchies, as well as at the different ways in which the latter are being reconstituted and subverted. Additionally, the conference welcomes submissions related to the internationalization of social practices, power relations, and subjectivities and to any other theme associated with ongoing anthropological questions.

More information: http://aesonline.org/node/589

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA May 13-16 2009

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Årskonferansen til Norsk antropologisk forening

Published on May 8, 2009 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, antropologi.info calendar, Scandinavia

Norsk antropologisk forenings årskonferanse 2009 “Maktens metamorfoser” avholdes ved Grand Hotel Terminus i Bergen 8.-10. mai 2009, og arrangeres av Institutt for sosialantropologi v/ UiB, i samarbeid med Sveriges Antropologförbund, Bergen Museum og Christian Michelsen Institute.

http://naf2009.uib.no/?o=0&e=142&mid=163

Norsk antropologisk forenings årskonferanse 2009 "Maktens metamorfoser" avholdes ved Grand Hotel Terminus i Bergen 8.-10. mai 2009, og arrangeres av Institutt for sosialantropologi v/ UiB, i samarbeid med Sveriges Antropologförbund, Bergen Museum og Christian Michelsen Institute.

http://naf2009.uib.no/?o=0&e=142&mid=163

Exploring Domestic Spaces in the Circumpolar North (Tromsø)

Published on October 2, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Scandinavia

Tromsø museum, 2-4 October 2008

This two day seminar will explore the way that indigenous people create homes and homelands for themselves in the circumpolar North.

The seminar will consist of a set of public lectures by specialists on the cosmology and archaeology of circumpolar dwellings as well as the historical dynamics of households. There will be equal time in the programme for craftspeople to display modern and traditional dwellings and to speak about their meaning.

More information: http://www.sami.uit.no/boreas/conference.html

Tromsø museum, 2-4 October 2008

This two day seminar will explore the way that indigenous people create homes and homelands for themselves in the circumpolar North.

The seminar will consist of a set of public lectures by specialists on the cosmology and…