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New Cultures of Intimacy and Togetherness in Asia (Delhi)

Published on May 9, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Asia

New Delhi, India, May 9-10, 2008

This conference seeks to bring together scholars working across areas such as sociology, gender studies, film/media studies, anthropology, popular culture, and urban studies in order to explore emerging cultures of intimacy and friendship in contemporary non-Western contexts.

We are particularly interested in perspectives that relate the topic to the making of social selves at a time great economic and cultural change in many Asian societies. Socially, ‘non-Western’ has often been considered synonymous with traditional, conservative, static and illiberal, particularly in contexts of intimate/personal relationships that are expected to conform to certain values, norms and expectations of heritage.

However, following modernity at large and specific influxes of change like economic liberalization, globalization and the worldwide web, there is, increasingly, a perception (if not a belief) that social structures and networks have been affected, and “new” cultures of intimacy and togetherness are emergent (if not already established). There is a decided conviction that such new structures and networks are visible in day-to-day contexts at work, home and leisure, and that they reflect political, cultural, emotional and intellectual transitions and upheavals.

At this conference, we would like to explore this notion of emergent cultures of “new” intimacies and togetherness in the contemporary non-Western world, in as varied a social and cultural register as possible.

Inquiries and expressions of interest to: intimaciesconference (AT) yahoo.com

Brinda Bose, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi, India
Sanjay Srivastava, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

New Delhi, India, May 9-10, 2008

MAAH 2008 – 5th conference on Medical Anthropology At Home

Published on May 8, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Scandinavia

Medical anthropology, health care systems and the client society -investigating interactions of practice, power and science

Place of venue: Denmark, The Sandbjerg Estate – Aarhus University Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg (southern Denmark), http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php

Date: 8th of May to 11th of May 2008

Introduction:
We would like to point to medical anthropology*s growing engagement and cooperation with local medical institutions and medical research units as not only isolated approaches to research of health and illness, but as one leg of a triangle of interconnected social and scientific processes with certain consequences. The triangle consists of medical anthropology, the health care system and the client society. This triangle is made up by three powerful but also interdependent actors that influence each other and presumably exhibit a shift of balances compared with former years of medical anthropological research.

Invited key note speakers:

– Susan Reynolds Whyte, professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen University, Denmark

– Nikolas Rose, professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

– Annemiek Richters, professor, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands

– Giovanni Pizza, senior researcher, lecturer, Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio, University of Perugia, Italy.

– Cheryl Mattingly, professor, Department of Anthropology, USC College, USA

Price: Preliminary price per person for the whole conference (3 nights with full board): 400 EURO. The conference organizers will try to raise funds for the conference and the price might be reduced.

Any questions regarding the conference are welcome and should be sent to Mette Bech Risør, mbris (AT) as.aaa.dk, Research Clinic for Functional Disorders, Aarhus University Hospital or Bjarke Paarup, etnobpl (AT) hum.au.dk, Department of Ethnography and Anthropology, Aarhus University.

The organizers are preparing a homepage for the conference and all further information will be conveyed via this homepage.

Medical anthropology, health care systems and the client society -investigating interactions of practice, power and science

Place of venue: Denmark, The Sandbjerg Estate - Aarhus University Conference Centre, Sandbjergvej 102, 6400 Sønderborg (southern Denmark), http://www.sandbjerg.dk/en/index.php

Date: 8th of May to 11th of…

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (Chicago)

Published on April 25, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, Americas, antropologi.info calendar

University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, April 25- 27, 2008

This conference calls upon ethnography to widen our understanding of contemporary war, American power, and the structures and logics of security at domestic and international levels. We seek ethnographic understanding of global responses to recent deployments of the US military, and of US military actions in comparison to other forms of coercion, compellance, and intervention.

Reading US military theorists, we seek to understand the emerging interest in study of culture in the broad context of military responses to US military failures (and opportunities). We pursue the full implications of the connection now being sought by the US military between culture and insurgency and turn an anthropological lens on the nature of violence and order in the current era.

More information: http://anthroandwar.uchicago.edu/

University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, April 25- 27, 2008

Minority religions and new religious movements (London)

Published on April 16, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, antropologi.info calendar, Europe outside Scandinavia

London School of Economics, 16-19th April 2008

On 1st January 1988, Inform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements, http://www.inform.ac opened its doors to the public for the purpose of providing information that is as objective, reliable and up-to-date as possible about minority religions. Later that same year, CESNUR (the Center for Studies on New Religions, http://www.cesnur.org ) was established by a group of European and North American scholars with the similar aim of contributing to our knowledge and understanding of minority religions.

As part of their twentieth anniversary celebrations, these two organisations are jointly organising this conference in order to assess the changes that have taken place over the past two decades, survey the current situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups in an increasingly multi-cultural world.

Further details about the conference and how to register will be available on both the CESNUR http://www.cesnur.org and the Inform http://www.inform.ac websites.

London School of Economics, 16-19th April 2008

Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Telling the Story (Nassau, Bahamas)

Published on February 21, 2008 by lorenz Posted in * Conferences, *In English, Americas, antropologi.info calendar

The College of The Bahamas, February 21-23, 2008 at the Oakes Field Campus, Nassau

Topics:

* Language and Oppression
* Religion in Slavery: Agent Provocateur or Opiate?
* Slavery and Human Sensibility
* Power and Enslavement
* Kinship across the Diaspora
* Identity: Culture, Race and Gender
* Enslavement and Liberation: Pedagogy
* Liberation: Ideologies, Contexts and Dynamics
* Liberation: Simple Past or Present Continuous?

More information http://www.cob.edu.bs/News/AbolitionConference/

The College of The Bahamas, February 21-23, 2008 at the Oakes Field Campus, Nassau

Topics:

* Language and Oppression
* Religion in Slavery: Agent Provocateur or Opiate?
* Slavery and Human…