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Tuesday 13 June 2017, 9.30am-6pm
UCL Anthropology,Ìý14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW

Anthropology and Global Shifts

As many voices emerge to change and redefine the public sphere, and talk circulatesÌýof 'citizens of the world and nowhere', the global is becoming increasingly multiplyÌýsignified. New contemporary settings engage, redefine and extend spaces for debatesÌýand knowledges of people. Ideas of locality, 'placed' and 'placeness' identities,Ìýcultural ownership, ethical dilemmas and boundaries, amidst violence, and securityÌýfears, for instance, differentially surface and compete for public attention.ÌýAnthropologists and anthropological knowledge remain crucial to contribute andÌýintervene in these issues through ongoing and current research and the insights arisingÌýfrom these engagements.

The conference calls for papers which engage with a range of anthropological debatesÌýthat are relevant to understanding these global shifts and swings, and where the globalÌýitself may also be an object of analysis. The call further considers howÌýanthropological knowledge, as grounded understandings of the particular, offersÌýinsights on ways of being in the world which might rely, variously, on fixity and theÌýsmall scale as well as fluidity within larger scales of movement.

This conference invites post-fieldwork students, early career researchers andÌýestablished academics to consider anthropology and the global without limiting orÌýclosing the debate on locale and place. Issues of locality and 'ownership' of peopleÌýresurface in contemporary settings to set or extend limits and make political mileage,Ìýfor instance, in relation to Brexit-Trump led anxieties. Concurrent concerns thatÌý'legitimise' scrutiny of persons and unexceptional acts of violence also suggest newÌýand old ways of knowing people in and out of place.

Research papers and posters along with proposals for innovative formats are invited.ÌýThese may consider, though not exclusively, field research and debates which engageÌýwith or disengage from contemporary shifts in understanding the global.

Papers may consider:

• Social movements engaging with the current global situation
• Critiques and reflections on the 'global'
• Challenges and resurgence of locality, whether in or of the global
• Anthropological knowledge debates that question and provide newÌýunderstandings of locality and situatedness
• The ethical in a 'global world'
• Contemporary political changes, violence and the anthropological perspective
• Global panics and research
• Environmental challenges.

The Anthropology in London day conference is an annual event. The main purpose ofÌýthe conference is to enable post-fieldwork PhD students from across London toÌýpresent their fieldwork and for staff and students to discuss issues of pertinence to theÌýdiscipline. The conference is free to attend and supported by the main anthropologyÌýdepartments in the University of London at SOAS, LSE, UCL, Brunel, GoldsmithsÌýand UEL. The event is open to all anthropology staff and students within theÌýUniversity of London anthropology departments. Others wishing to participate can beÌýconsidered.

Submissions

Please send submissions of no more than 300 words to Stephanie Kitchen,Ìýsk111@soas.ac.uk by 6 March 2017. Please include your full name, email addressÌýand departmental and institutional affiliation. Presenters are also encouraged toÌýsubmit a suitable fieldwork photograph to be displayed electronically during theÌýconference.