[AIW] CFP: Doing/Undoing (CASCA Conference), Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, ON/Canada, May 30-June 2, 2020

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Call for Papers

Annual Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Société Canadienne
d’Anthropologie (CASCA)

Doing/Undoing

Department of Anthropology, Western University, London, ON/Canada

May 30-June 2, 2020

https://anthropology.uwo.ca/casca2020/index.html

 

Join us May 30-June 2, 2020 at Western University for the annual conference
of the Canadian Anthropology Society/Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie.
Meeting in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social
Sciences will offer many opportunities for interdisciplinary conversations,
access to professional development activities, reconciliation programming,
and a wide range of academic and cultural events.

 

CASCA 2020: "Doing/Undoing"

We live in dark times.  Populations around the world must now confront the
ravages of a planetary climate crisis, a resurgence of global fascism, and
the austere violence of neoliberalism.  It is all too easy to feel stuck in
a crsis that never ends.  Yet, time and again, anthropology has shown, with
its fine-tuned ethnographic sensibility and its care and commmitment to life
as it is really lived, that people rarely give up and are never as powerless
as those in power would have them believe.  Anthropology's method and
approach can help us think of the present as an ongoing process, from which
we, and those with whom we work, critically reflect not only on the present
but also on the past and on possible futures.  What, then, can we say is
really happening now, in these dark times?  How are people struggling to
live amidst the danger and damage of escalating caststrophes?  How are they
working to rebuild and repair their social, political and economic systems?
How are they rethinking the past, reimaging the future, and remaking the
world in the present?  And what light can anthropology bring to these
questions?

 

The 2020 CASCA conference invites us all to reflect on doing and undoing in
many registers.  The pair of terms we have chosen as the theme brings to
mind questions of the past (how we might undo past wrongs) and the future
(how our actions work to bring about certain futures).  Yet we would like to
encourage proposals that are also firmly situated in the ongoing present.
In short, we ask anthropologists to reflect more on how the present moment
might be understood as a time and place of action (or inaction), as the site
of many doings and undoings.  For it is ultimately in the now that we all
dwell, even as we work to do something different, to make something happen,
or to undo powerful systems of oppression and injustice.  How might we make
the present, as a site of practice and praxis, available to us
ethnographically?

 

Dual Keynote

We will have a Keynote event featuring two speakers, who together will help
us think about how we might undo settler colonialism and anti-black racism.
Our speakers will be Ashanté Reese  (University of Marlyand, Baltimore
County) and Zoe Todd (Carleton University).

 

Plenary Session

We will have a Plenary session addressing the theme of "Doing and Undoing
Anthropology in Dark Times."  The Penary speakers will be: Adia Benton
(Northwestern University), Dawn Martin-Hill (McMaster University), Deborah
Thomas (University of Pennsylvania) and Bianca Willaims (City University of
New York).

 

Proposal Submission

Proposals should be submitted through the CASCA submission page, available
as of December 15. The deadline to submit proposals is February 1, 2020. 

https://anthropology.uwo.ca/casca2020/en/Proposal%20Submission.html 

 

Registration Process

https://anthropology.uwo.ca/casca2020/en/Registration%20Process.html

 

Contact Info:

Karli Whitmore 

www.cas-sca.ca

membership at anthropologica.ca <mailto:membership at anthropologica.ca>  

 

Contact Email: casca2020 at uwo.ca <mailto:casca2020 at uwo.ca>  

 

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