Call for Abstracts: Knotty Encounters - March 3, 2012

[Jill Arkles]

On 2012-01-18, at 11:24 AM, Mary Jean Hande wrote:

> FYI Deadline has been extended to January 20, 2012.
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> Please distribute widely....
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>
> Mary Jean Hande
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> SAGA Conference Chair
> mary...@yorku.ca
> annualsaga...@gmail.com
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> _______________
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> York University’s Social Anthropology Graduate Association (SAGA)
> is proud to present:
>
> KNOTTY ENCOUNTERS: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
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>
> What complicates your area of research? That is, how do you understand
> complexities within your own work, both in terms of critical theory as well as
> practical study? Further, how do you articulate these issues to other
> disciplines and audiences? Recent currents in anthropology have drawn on
> notions of networks, knots, assemblages and encounters in order to consider the
> inclusions and exclusions enacted in our research. This has compelled us to
> engage with concepts of entanglement to explore how people, communities, ideas
> or practices are implicated in joint processes of becoming, mobilization,
> movement or conflict. For this conference, we encourage participants to look at
> how these complexities situate or problematize their own examinations; and to
> ask, what might this knottiness reveal for the discipline of anthropology and
> beyond?
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> The Social Anthropology Graduate Association (SAGA)’s third annual student
> conference aims to provide a forum for these sorts of questions.
>
> Possible topics for presentations may include, but are certainly not
> limited to:
> collaborations, knots, encounters, networks, intersections and assemblages in
> the realms of
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> ~ theory ~ gender, sexuality, the body
> ~ fieldwork ~ science and technology
> ~ space and place ~ globalization and political economy
> ~ science and technology ~ political/ideological conflicts
> ~ travel and tourism ~ de/post colonialism, international aid
> ~ art and popular culture ~ communication and mass media
>
> As a graduate student, we invite you to participate in this interdisciplinary
> conference at York University in Toronto, Canada, on Saturday March 3, 2012.
>
> Our keynote address will be given by Petra Rethmann from McMaster University.
>
> To propose a paper, please submit a cover page with your name, institutional
> affiliation, contact information (mailing address, phone number and email), and
> abstract (maximum of 250 words) or non-traditional submission (past examples
> include: films, movement workshops, and original role playing games).
> Presentations will be limited to 15 minutes. Please note that a conference fee
> of $20 will apply to participants.
>
> Submission deadline for abstracts is January 20, 2012. Please send submissions
> and all other inquiries to annualsaga...@gmail.com. Successful
> submissions may be assembled for publication.
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> <SAGA - Extended Call for Abstracts[final].doc>