It is again time for an update on ALL the academic fun forthcoming in our fabulous field of anthropology (and beyond)! Thus below your guide to Open Calls for Papers & Articles – as well as a tips for events that we would love to attend – if only we had a gazillion bodies & lifetimes. Remember also that we continually welcome reflections on these events and more!
Call for Papers for the workshop:
Ordinary Extraordinary: The Anthropology of Risk, Limits and Exposure
6-7 November 2014, Department of Anthropology, University College London, United Kingdom
Deadline for abstracts: 8 June
In societies around the world, people are exposed to larger processes that thrust their lives – typically regulated by various social structures as well as personal plans and expectations – in often unpredictable, unexpected and unprecedented directions (for example, as a result of natural or human-made disasters or market fluctuations). This workshop aims to bring together diverse ethnographic and theoretical accounts that explore this generative force of risk, exposure to the uncontrollable and actions at the limits of individual control.
Conference:
12 – 13 June 2014, Friends House, London, UK
War is a crucible of sensory experience and its lived affects radically transform ways of being in the world. It is prosecuted, lived and reproduced through a panoply of sensory apprehensions, practices and ‘sensate regimes of war’ (Butler 2012) – from the tightly choreographed rhythms of patrol to the hallucinatory suspicions of night vision; from the ominous mosquito buzz of drones to the invasive scrape of force-feeding tubes; from the remediation of visceral helmetcam footage to the anxious tremors of the IED detector; from the desperate urgencies of triage to the precarious intimacies of care; from the playful grasp of children’s war-toys to the feel of cold sweat on a veteran’s skin. Recognising the recent growth of ground-breaking work on the senses across the humanities and social sciences, Sensing War aims to bring together researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to foster creative dialogue and critical exploration of the multiple and shifting relationships between war and sensation. See detailed program.
General Call for Papers:
Emotion Review: Focus on Anthropology
Emotion Review publishes articles on theory, literature reviews, ongoing debates about conceptual issues, and programmatic research agendas pertaining to emotion, broadly defined. The editors are eager to receive submissions on the anthropology of emotion in any of these areas. We would also like to increase the dialogue between anthropologists and those in other disciplines through commentaries and letters to the editor.
Conference: Governing Academic Life
25-26 June 2014, London School of Economics and British Library
June 25, 2014 is the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Michel Foucault. Governing Academic Life marks this anniversary by providing an occasion for academics to reflect on our present situation through our reflections on Foucault’s legacy. The focus of the conference, therefore, will be on the form of governmentality that now constitutes our identities and regulates our practices as researchers and teachers. See full programme here.
Call for Papers:
Prospective contributors to a special issue of the journal Techniques & culture entitled Fixing the World: Excess, Leftover and Innovation
Abstracts due: 30 June 2014
Remainders and the way they are dealt with are a productive social sciences heuristic. Or so we argue in this special issue, published in partnership with Marseille’s ‘Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée‘ (MuCEM), where an exhibition on waste is being prepared for 2016. Incorporating the subject of waste but casting a much wider net, this special issue will gather together contributions, from multiple disciplines and fieldsites, around the topic of ‘remainders,’ conceived of not only as ‘obverse of production’ but also in their crucial semiotic and symbolic dimensions.
Call for Papers: Submissions: send paper proposal (max. 400 words) by 15 July 2014
When the law regulates, it also marginalises. Indigenous people, the GLBTI community, women, children, the homeless and others are all victimised by the force of this regulation. For many people belonging to these communities, the law has left them with a sense of abandonment – the law does not recognise the realities that they live out on a day to day basis. In so doing, sites of contest are opened up in which marginalised bodies attempt to challenge law makers and law enforcers. This special issue for the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law invites high quality contributions from scholars of all disciplines that undertake rhetorical, hermeneutic, sociolinguistic, discourse, aesthetic or semiotic analyses of the law and marginalised and/or disadvantaged groups.
Call for Papers:
Special issue for the Islamophobia Studies Journal: Gender, Sexuality and Racism
Abstracts due: 10 October 2014
This special issue of the ISJ on Islamophobia, Gender, Sexuality and Racism, to be co-edited by Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi (San Francisco State University) and Paola Bacchetta (University of California at Berkeley), will draw upon insights of existing scattered earlier and current scholarship. The special issue of ISJ aims to radically deepen and extend our analytics for today. While the relatively few prior related works tend to be site-specific, we will bring together a body of innovative international scholarship on Islamophobia in which gender, sexuality, race and other relations of power are central. Our intent is to de-center the habitual U.S.-centric starting point of 9/11/2001 without glossing over its impact on lives and the ways in which it has altered scholarship on Islam and Muslims. Rather, this special issue of ISJ seeks to open up the discussion on Islamophobia to other temporalities, problematics and political geographies including but not limited to Africa; Asia; Central and South America and the Caribbean; Eastern and Western Europe; North, Central and South America; and the Pacific.
Call for Papers:
Global Halal: An International Conference on Muslims and the Cultural Politics of the Permissible
February 19-21, 2015, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
Deadline for abstracts: 1 November 2015
Global Halal is an international conference organized by the Muslim Studies Program at Michigan State University in partnership with the UK-based Muslim, Trust and Cultural Dialogue Program. The conference topic addresses a range of cultural, economic and political concerns associated with the principle of halal, especially in relation to contemporary food, banking, and lifestyle. Often associated with Muslim dietary practices, the concept of halal applies to that which is permissible to Muslims and serves as one of the key ethical concepts in Islamic theological doctrines. Yet as with any religious principle, concepts like halal and its antithesis haram, are subject to interpretation and variation, especially in the contemporary global era.
Reel to Real: Sound at the Pitt Rivers Museum
Reel to Real is the archival sound project at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Collections Fund. From the songs of children’s games in playgrounds across Europe to Bayaka women’s songs that enter people’s dreams in the rainforests of the Central African Republic, this website offers an introduction to the several thousand hours of archival sounds held by the Museum. It also includes information about the field recordists, their related collections, and a host of other resources such as films and the work of contemporary sound artists associated with the project.
Thanks once again to Hilja Aunela for her fantastic work with this list! Our list from April 2014 can be found here.
