EASA midterm conference CFP -- deadline extended

Dear all,

Please note that the deadline for EASA's Europeanist network's midterm
conference has been extended to this Friday, 25 January. Those interested
in presenting should send abstracts of 400 words maximum to
ef.easa.conference@gmail.com by that date. Abstracts may be written in
either English or French.

Yours faithfully,

Samuel Shapiro

CFP ?The Nomadism of Social Anthropologists?

Midterm Conference of the Europeanist Network of the European Association
of Social Anthropologists (EASA) ? jointly held with the Border Crossings
Network

26-27th April 2013, Bucharest, Romania



While anthropologists of the past decades have devoted increasing
attention
both to questions of reflexivity and to people ?on the move? such as
migrants, relatively little attention has focused on the geographical and
cultural movement of social anthropologists themselves, especially since
the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Even if there is growing interest in
non-hegemonic anthropologies by scholars who have often lived in several
countries (esp. Daveluy and Dorias 2010; Ribeiro and Escobar 2006) and
recent work on ?the ethnographic self as resource? (Collins and Gallinat
2010) argues that anthropologists? personal experiences provide
potentially
insightful ethnographic data that can enrich their scientific analysis, the
consequences of past and present anthropologists? nomadism on their own
research ? including their training, career and grant opportunities ? have
not been thoroughly analysed. It is common knowledge that today, in Europe
and beyond, being ?on the move? has increasingly become a part of many
anthropologists? lives. Possibilities for academic nomadism exist in the
student years through the EU Erasmus programme and joint PhDs
(?cotutelles?), and continue into professional academic life due to the
scarcity of academic positions, hyper-specialisation, the exigencies of
funding and the constraints of funding criteria (see for example the EU?s
Marie Curie programs) or to simple anthropological curiosity. While not
being restricted to anthropologists, this mobile mode of life has
particular consequences for the scientific work of anthropologists, from
how they perceive relationships in the field to the ways in which they
envisage their writing, from the need to develop coping strategies faced
to
continually changing research groups to the difficult adaptation to a new
foreign audience. Questions of fundamental and applied research as well as
of neutrality, engagement and militantism are but some issues on which
anthropologists? personal trajectories weigh heavily.



This conference seeks original theoretical and personal reflections about
how academic nomadism through different countries, cultures and continents
affects the practices, day-to-day experiences and theoretical approaches
of
social anthropologists (that include but are not limited to the domain of
their training, teaching and research). We invite contributors to consider
some of the questions below:



? What motivates future anthropologists to seek training in one country
instead of another?

? How does exposure to anthropology as practiced in several countries
influence their research: the topics that anthropologists study, the
theoretical approaches they privilege and the language(s) and audience(s)
they publish in and for?

? How do larger historical and political issues (e.g. post-socialism,
former British and French colonial presence, American empire, regional
traditions such as in Latin America) play into the larger world in which
anthropologists live and research, and influence their theoretical
approaches?

? What kinds of moral and ethical issues are involved when the
researcher is based in several countries, or has to negotiate different
ethical standards between the country of one?s host institution and that
of
one?s fieldwork, while having been socialised in yet another ethical mode?

? How does the researcher negotiate his or her figure of rootlessness in
?stable? field environments?



As the professional anthropologist as an academic and intellectual migrant
is not a completely new character, analyses of historical material on 20th
century
anthropologists is welcome.



Please send 400-word abstracts in English or French by 25 January 2013 to
ef.easa.conference@gmail.com. The conference will be held jointly with
the
Border Crossings Network?s Regional Conference (
http://www.border-crossings.eu) in Bucharest on 26-27 April 2013.



Lorena Anton, University of Bordeaux (France)

Monica Heintz, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France)

Samuel Shapiro, University of Auckland (New Zealand)
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Dear all,

Please note that the deadline for EASA's Europeanist network's midterm
conference has been extended to this Friday, 25 January. Those
interested in presenting should send abstracts of 400 words maximum to
ef.easa.conference@gmail.com by that date. Abstracts may be written in
either English or French.

Yours faithfully,

Samuel Shapiro

CFP ?The Nomadism of Social Anthropologists?

Midterm Conference of the Europeanist Network of the European
Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) ? jointly held with the
Border Crossings Network

26-27th April 2013, Bucharest, Romania



While anthropologists of the past decades have devoted increasing
attention both to questions of reflexivity and to people ?on the move?
such as migrants, relatively little attention has focused on the
geographical and cultural movement of social anthropologists
themselves, especially since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Even
if there is growing interest in non-hegemonic anthropologies by
scholars who have often lived in several countries (esp. Daveluy and
Dorias 2010; Ribeiro and Escobar 2006) and recent work on ?the
ethnographic self as resource? (Collins and Gallinat 2010) argues that
anthropologists? personal experiences provide potentially insightful
ethnographic data that can enrich their scientific analysis, the
consequences of past and present anthropologists? nomadism on their own
research ? including their training, career and grant
opportunities ? have not been thoroughly analysed. It is common
knowledge that today, in Europe and beyond, being ?on the move? has
increasingly become a part of many anthropologists? lives.
Possibilities for academic nomadism exist in the student years through
the EU Erasmus programme and joint PhDs (?cotutelles?), and continue
into professional academic life due to the scarcity of academic
positions, hyper-specialisation, the exigencies of funding and the
constraints of funding criteria (see for example the EU?s Marie Curie
programs) or to simple anthropological curiosity. While not being
restricted to anthropologists, this mobile mode of life has particular
consequences for the scientific work of anthropologists, from how they
perceive relationships in the field to the ways in which they envisage
their writing, from the need to develop coping strategies faced to
continually changing research groups to the difficult adaptation to a
new foreign audience. Questions of fundamental and applied research as
well as of neutrality, engagement and militantism are but some issues on
which anthropologists? personal trajectories weigh heavily.



This conference seeks original theoretical and personal reflections
about how academic nomadism through different countries, cultures and
continents affects the practices, day-to-day experiences and
theoretical approaches of social anthropologists (that include but are
not limited to the domain of their training, teaching and research). We
invite contributors to consider some of the questions below:



? What motivates future anthropologists to seek training in one
country instead of another?

? How does exposure to anthropology as practiced in several
countries influence their research: the topics that anthropologists
study, the theoretical approaches they privilege and the language(s) and
audience(s) they publish in and for?

? How do larger historical and political issues (e.g.
post-socialism, former British and French colonial presence, American
empire, regional traditions such as in Latin America) play into the
larger world in which anthropologists live and research, and influence
their theoretical approaches?

? What kinds of moral and ethical issues are involved when the
researcher is based in several countries, or has to negotiate
different ethical standards between the country of one?s host
institution and that of one?s fieldwork, while having been socialised in
yet another ethical mode?

? How does the researcher negotiate his or her figure of
rootlessness in ?stable? field environments?



As the professional anthropologist as an academic and intellectual
migrant is not a completely new character, analyses of historical
material on 20th century anthropologists is welcome.



Please send 400-word abstracts in English or French by 25 January 2013
to ef.easa.conference@gmail.com. The conference will be held jointly
with the Border Crossings Network?s Regional Conference
(http://www.border-crossings.eu) in Bucharest on 26-27 April 2013.



Lorena Anton, University of Bordeaux (France)

Monica Heintz, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense (France)

Samuel Shapiro, University of Auckland (New Zealand)