EASA KONFERANSE I AUGUST!
Hvert annet aar arrangerer EASA (European Association for Social Anthropology) konferanse. I 2002 blir det i Koebenhavn. Deadline for Papers er 15. Februar.
Jeg deltok paa sist konferanse i Krakow i 2000 som eneste hovedfagsstudent. Jeg angret paa at jeg ikke presenterte eget paper. Jeg traff mange veldig interessante kontakter for mitt feltarbeid og oppfordrer hovedfagsstudenter til aa dra dit. Dersom du presenterer et paper faar du ganske sikkert dekket hele oppholdet gjennom stipendiat fra Young Scholars et-eller-annet. Gaa til http://easa.uni-miskolc.hu/7thbiennpage.htm
Nedenfor finner en call for papers mail:
Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to participate in the workshop we are organizing to take
place at the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists (EASA) in Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-17 August, 2002. Our
panel, entitled "East, West, and the Limits of Civilization," aims to
stimulate a critical interdisciplinary conversation on the civilizational
discourses, as crystallized in the ever-popular terms of engagement "East"
and "West" (the full abstract of the panel is below). We are soliciting
papers advancing theoretical interventions and interrogating extant
debates, as well as new ethnographic, and preferably comparative, case
studies.
Please send one-page abstracts and/or draft-papers by email to both
conveners. The deadline for submitting abstracts is February 14, 2002.
We are hoping to see you among us in Copenhagen.....
Ayse Caglar & Levent Soysal
Ayse Çaglar
Jean Monet Fellow
The Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies
Convento
European University Institute
Via dei Roccettini 9 Convento
50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, Italy
Email: Ayse.Caglar@IUE.it
Tel: +39 055 4685 778
Fax:+39 055 4685 770
Levent Soysal
Visiting Research Fellow
Program for Advanced Studies German and European Studies
Freie Universität Berlin
Garystr. 45,
14195 Berlin, Germany
Email: levsoy@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Tel: +49 30 8385 6671
Fax:+49 30 8385 6672
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PANEL ABSTRACT:
East, West, and the Limits of Civilization
More than three decades after Said's Orientalism, and after voluminous
debates and printed word, our scholarly and public discussions are replete
with taken-for-granted references to East, West, and their civilizations.
Said himself is compelled to comment in a recent article written in the
aftermath of September 11 that "edifying labels" like Islam (read the East)
and the West continue "mislead and confuse the mind" and the "basic
paradigm of West versus the rest ... persist[s], often insidiously and
implicitly." Where do the East end and the West begin? Where do we locate
Easternness and Westernness? Who claims and has the right to Eastern and
Western civilizations? These questions are not new to anthropology but
require revisiting. As anthropologists, we are once again confronted to
explain and
construe the discursive persistence and potency of East and West as
analytical, as well as popular, categories. This panel seeks to critically
engage and expose the cultural affects and confines of the civilizational
discourse. To this end, we intend to bring together theoretical
interventions and ethnographic accounts. We encourage contributors to
reconsider the rich anthropological record on the subject and respond to
the existing theory in reporting field data. Topical emphasis on migration,
(transnational) movements and production of culture, city- and media-scapes
will be a point of preference.