Conference Dates: October 14-16, 2011
American University, Washington DC
Submission deadline: September 16, 2011 5PM Eastern Time
Contact: AUPublicAnthro@gmail.com
Website: http://american.edu/cas/anthropology/public
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
(Re)Defining Power: Paradigms of Praxis
The Eighth Annual Public Anthropology Conference
Join us for a conference that examines and uncovers various systems of
power. New paradigms of praxis must be about more than making power visible.
Our challenge in this conference, then, is to both locate and redefine
power. We invite academic and professional anthropologists, social
scientists, activists, public health professionals, filmmakers and educators
to join us in this inquiry into power. We welcome panels, papers, and skill
workshops drawing upon some of the following frameworks for challenging
power – critical race studies, interrogations of the nonprofit industrial
complex, anti-displacement, critical animal studies, environmental justice,
education reform and policy, disability studies, activism-based research,
and performance and queer studies – but we invite papers of all types and
from all social justice movements.
Unlike many academic events built around formal papers, this conference will
focus on bringing panelists and audience members together to discuss
concrete ways social scientists can support, strengthen, and contribute to
activist movements striving toward progressive political action. The
conference will include panel sessions (structured discussion of ideas),
skills workshops (presenters teaching concrete skills to audience members),
and a film festival.
Please submit abstracts (one-paragraph descriptions) of what you are
interested in presenting or a film you made and would like to show at the
conference. Panelists and skills workshop presenters will be selected by a
group of students and faculty to ensure the conference reflects a diverse
array of social movements, backgrounds, and experiences. The submission
deadline is September 16; participants will be notified of acceptance on a
rolling admissions basis.
Please register online at http://american.edu/cas/anthropology/public and
direct any questions to AUPublicAnthro@gmail.com.
