[AIW] CFP: Truth and Responsibility (AAA Annual Meeting), St. Louis, MO/USA, November 18-22, 2020

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Call for Papers

American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting
Truth and Responsibility
Cervantes Convention Center at America's Center, St. Louis, MO/USA

November 18 - 22, 2020

https://www.americananthro.org/annual_meeting

 

We are thrilled to announce the theme of the 2020 AAA Annual Meeting to be
held in St. Louis, MO: Truth and Responsibility.

 

"Truth and Responsibility" is a call to reimagine anthropology to meet the
demands of the present moment. The imperative to bear witness, take action,
and be held accountable to the truths we write and circulate invites us to
reflect on our responsibility in reckoning with disciplinary histories,
harms, and possibilities. To whom are we giving evidence and toward what
ends? For whom are we writing? To whom are we accountable, and in what ways?

 

Many consider anthropology to be a holistic social science dedicated to
cross-cultural understanding as a way to reduce bigotry and more fully
comprehend "what it means to be human." Others push against this readily
circulated origin story, arguing that "human" remains a highly contested,
political category-evident as the presumed set of rights and protections
associated with the "human" continue to be stripped away violently in the
communities in which some of us live and work. Which violent histories and
epistemologies must anthropologists take responsibility for in telling
truth(s) about the discipline's development? How do the dual histories of
settler colonialism and slavery continue to influence anthropological
thought and practices? In these political times, how can anthropologists
throughout the globe work to secure a capacious, progressive vision of the
human? How might movements for anti-racism, decoloniality, queer liberation,
and healing such as #BlackLivesMatter, #ProtectMaunaKea, and #MeToo push a
future anthropology out of the ashes of the anthropological past? Finally,
what are the limits and possibilities of the anthropological imagination? 

 

Across subfields, we find truths in patterns of human behavior, language,
evolution, and cultural worlds. Industry-positioned anthropologists do this
by extending the boundaries of the discipline not as an administrative
solution to job shortages but as a source of intervention and knowledge
production. Increasingly, anthropologists who make use of the scientific
method question how status and identity help to decide which facts come to
represent truth. How might quantitative researchers use our methods to
identify patterned truths, and what responsibility do we hold in challenging
conventional wisdom about these patterns? What responsibility do we have to
both our colleagues and larger publics, to push toward increased
transparency and ethical grounding in our data collection, analysis, and
presentation? 

 

Located in the vicinity of one of the largest and most influential ancient
Indigenous societies in North America and miles from the #FergusonUprising,
St. Louis is a useful site for anthropologists to reckon with
anthropological practices and their impact. What is the responsibility of
contemporary anthropology to repair relationships with communities who have
historically been the target of our discipline? As practitioners, students,
and professors increasingly resemble these communities, how can we create
new pedagogical, archeological, ethnographic, and mentoring practices? What
barriers-in anthropology generally and the American Anthropological
Association (AAA) specifically-exclude those whose truths are uncomfortable
or inconvenient? What might our discipline and organizations look like if we
were to honestly confront barriers that exclude marginalized and contingent
scholars?

 

Pedagogy is a key medium for the communication of anthropological truths.
Which (and whose) truths are foregrounded in our curricula? What are the
possibilities for a liberatory pedagogy in a precarious, "post-truth" era?
Conferences, museums, organizing spaces, and classrooms are sites where
pedagogy and various forms of communication can help us interrogate the
performativity of truth. How might anthropologists conceive of truth
performances? Might visual, aural, and choreographic performances during AAA
sessions offer anthropologists alternative genres for truth-telling and
truth-making that provoke discussions about responsibility?

 

In accordance with the urgency of the year's theme, the questions posed in
this call for papers do not have easy answers. The hope is that those who
submit proposals will take up these questions and engage in collective
thinking and imagining about the truths we hold, the truths we challenge,
and the responsibilities we bear in co-creating a free and more equitable
world. All panel proposals should have a statement about how the panel has
incorporated the goals of equity, diversity, and inclusion, and/or an
analysis of power.

 

General Call for Papers: https://www.americananthro.org/AM_CFP 

 

The submission portal will accept General Call for Papers submissions from
February 12, 2020 through April 8, 2020 at 3 pm Eastern.

 

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