EASA 2012 - 12th EASA Biennial Conference

Please browse the full list of workshops and decide where to propose your paper. All proposals must be made via the online form. Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters, and an abstract of 250 words. On submission of the proposal, the proposing author (but not any co-authors listed) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login on the left) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; and if it is not, it means you need to re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere!

Proposals will be marked as pending until the end of the Call for papers (28/11/2011). Convenors will then be asked to make their decisions over the papers proposed to their workshop by 9th December and to communicate those to the proposers, marking them up within the login environement (Cocoa). Papers which are neither accepted nor rejected, but marked for 'transfer', will then be considered by the Scientific Committee to see where else they might fit in the conference programme. There is no guarantee that such papers can be re-housed. We aim to resolve all transfers by 1st Feb 2012.

While we cannot prevent you from making multiple proposals, we would encourage colleagues to make just one. The 'transfer process' aims to ensure that good papers will have a chance to be presented even if the workshop to which they were initially proposed has no space..

The dreaded rules!

Delegates may only make one presentation, although they may also convene one plenary session, workshop, or roundtable; or be discussant in one plenary session, workshop, or roundtable.
All convenors and presenters must be members of EASA (during 2012), and have paid their subscription before the conference.
BUT TO PROPOSE A PAPER YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A MEMBER OF EASA, AND ANY DECISION TAKEN ABOUT YOUR PROPOSAL IS NOT INFLUENCED BY WHETHER OR NOT YOU CURRENTLY ARE A MEMBER. IF YOUR PAPER IS ACCEPTED YOU WILL NEED TO BECOME A MEMBER FOR 2012, VIA THE ONLINE APPLICATION FORM. PLEASE DO NOT APPLY UNTIL YOUR PAPER HAS BEEN ACCEPTED. ONCE YOU HAVE APPLIED WE WILL CONTACT YOUR REFEREES AND THEN CONFIRM YOUR MEMBERSHIP. THIS CAN TAKE SOME TIME, SO PLEASE BE PATIENT.

Other useful information for after you've proposed your paper

Paper authors can use the login link in the menu on the left to edit their proposals. Co-authors cannot be added/removed nor can papers be withdrawn through this environment - please email conference(at)easaonline.org to do this.

Pre-circulation of papers

EASA has no rule about this; however many convenors are keen to pre-circulate completed papers. To facilitate this and save on loads of email traffic, authors can upload PDFs of their papers within Cocoa, which will then show as a downloadable file beneath their abstract on the public workshop page on this site. It is your choice whether you instruct your presenters to make use of this.

Timing of presentations

Convenors are reasonably free to run their sessions as they like, but the EASA norm is to allot each presenter a maximum of 30 minutes (for presentation and questions/discussion). The key is to respect the fact that many presenters have travelled a long way in order to be able to contribute and clearly need time to set out their argument.

We are unable to represent specific intra-workshop timings in our programme. Delegates reading the conference book will have to work on the assumption that papers will be evenly distributed through the workshop. Clearly you may wish to amalgamate discussion time, but where possible please try to stick to this even distribution.

Communication between authors/convenors

Convenor/author email addresses are not shown on the workshop pages for anti-spam reasons. However there is an in-built secure email messaging system. If you cannot work that, please email conference(at)easaonline.org to obtain relevant email addresses.

Any queries with the above please email conference-AT-easaonline.org.

All Workshops

IW001 Grappling with uncertainties: ethnographies of the imagination

IW002 Standards and the quest for technocratic certainty

IW003 Uncertain life courses: growing older and chronic disquiet

IW004 Towards an anthropology of misunderstanding

IW005 Phénoménographies du doute

IW006 Anxiety at the top

IW007 Desire and the ethnography of economic and political change

IW008 Safe as houses? Turbulence, doubt and disquiet in contemporary domestic spheres

IW009 Coping with uncertainty in the South African economy

W001 Anthropology, history and memory in Sub-Saharan Africa (Africanist network)

W002 Ethnographies of hope

W003 Saying the unspeakable: the uses of voice in the narration of traumatic events

W004 Peddling wares in volatile times: confronting risk, enhancing luck

W005 Indigenous rights in a global context

W006 After the crisis: neoliberalism, postmodernism and the discipline of anthropology

W007 Biological foundations of social anthropology

W008 Certainties and uncertainties of the armed fighter

W009 Anthropology and development: an irrevocably awkward relationship?

W010 Cultures of cheating: measure, counting and the illusion of taking control of the social order

W011 Questioning 'quietness': teaching anthropology as cultural critique (workshop of the EASA TAN network)

W012 Contemporary hybrids in visual anthropology

W013 Under pressure: gender ironies and performances in contexts of extreme uncertainty

W014 Ancestry in the age of genomics: identity, uncertainty and potentiality

W015 Living uncertainty: navigating gray-zones of unreliable realities in the Middle East

W016 Space, place and religious rituals in the context of migration

W017 Thinking with Latour

W018 Confronting uncertainty: imagination in art and material culture

W019 Dealing with uncertainty: gambling in Europe

W020 Uncertainty and reflexivity: the legacy of Victor Turner

W021 Transgender experience: how societies manage the uncertainty of gender

W022 Dealing with uncertainty: religious and/vs. biomedical responses to illness, health, and healing

W023 Shadows and lights on global biodiversity : taxonomy's revival

W024 The anthropology of fear: what can social fears teach us about today's societies?

W025 Uncertain memories, disquieting politics, fluid identities

W026 International organizations: global norms in practice

W027 Deadringers or antipodes? Practices, forms and ways of insurgency and counterinsurgency

W028 Managing the uncertainty of human reproduction

W029 Violence and resilience in South-Eastern Europe

W030 Home, lands and homelands in post-apartheid South Africa

W031 Memory, trauma and methodological disquiet: when the past is too present

W032 La transformation des sociétés balkaniques: certitudes changeantes et incertitudes constantes ?

W033 Care in times of crises: between welfare-state and interpersonal relationships

W034 "(Un)certain spaces": disquiet and the city.

W035 Anthropology of peace/Anthropology for peace

W036 Vernacular cosmopolitanisms in an age of anxiety

W037 Serial disquiet: criminal entertainment in times of global and private uncertainties

W038 Materiality and poverty

W039 Producing the ordinary in the face of crisis

W040 The popular culture of illegality: informal sovereignty and the politics of aesthetics

W041 Regulating uncertainty: anthropological approaches to spaces of uncertainty in and of law

W042 Uncertain beginnings: rethinking infanticide and end of life decision-making in infants

W043 Parenting: kinship, expertise and anxiety

W044 Coping with risks in Africa: migration as a strategy to secure livelihoods

W045 How to survive transitional chaos: new post-socialist solidarities

W046 Le comique en anthropologie

W047 Caribbean anxieties: religion, sexuality, nationalism

W048 Liminality, performances and belonging in migration / Liminalités, événements et appartenances en migration

W049 Sonic beings? The ontologies of musical agency

W050 Uncertain futures: the cultural dynamics of energy transition

W051 Reshaping the conditions of anthropological practice: problems and possibilities

W052 Threats on biodiversity: species extinction and sentinel technologies

W053 Shifting ontologies and contingent agencies

W054 Agency and factionalism in conflict and crisis in Africa

W055 Slogans: neoliberal formulas in times of uncertainty and change

W056 On the borders of corporations

W057 "The Other" and the de-fetishization of the state

W058 Economies of anxiety: economic uncertainty in everyday practice

W059 Political ruptures and political subjectivities: how do young generations make sense of their world in a context of uncertainty?

W060 Of doubt and proof: ritual and legal practices of judgment

W061 Uncertainties in rights discourse: addressing health inequalities and development agendas

W062 Uncertainties in the crisis of multiculturalism

W063 Trickster anthropology: theorizing ontological ambiguity, transgression and transformation

W064 Islam is the solution? Uncertainty, disquiet and the everyday lives of Muslims

W065 Occult economies in Asia: malevolent magic and supernatural aggressions

W066 Ethnographies en situation de risque / Ethnographies at risk

W067 The developmental turn in Dalit activism: disquieting caste and capitalism in contemporary India

W068 Multi-religious rituals: performativity, ambivalence and the need to cope with uncertainty

W069 Uncertainty and disquiet in the Mediterranean region

W070 Work and consumption: insurmountable links in uncertain times

W071 Coping with uncertainty: comparative perspectives on marriage and intimate citizenship in Asia

W072 Masculinities in times of uncertainty and change

W073 Displacement and uncertainty

W074 Property rights in Islamic contexts /Le droit de la propriété dans les mondes musulmans

W075 The visual in times of uncertainty: experience lived/experience recorded

W076 Anxious sovereignties

W077 Legal pluralism and the uncertainties of responsibility

W078 Urban renewal, uncertainty and exclusion

W079 Ethical foods after the global recession: navigating anxiety, morality and austerity

W080 Theorising media and social change

W081 Linguistic and semiotic anthropology: contributions to the twenty-first century

W082 Wealth transfers outside of market economy: a safeguard against risks?

W083 Interaction sociale, jeux d'échelles analytiques et théorie anthropologique / Social interaction, shifting scales of analysis and anthropological theory

W084 Public health: chances and challenges for anthropology

W085 Mourning, intimacy and the special character of the conjugal relationship

W086 Deportation, justice and anxiety

W087 Dealing with doubts, putting to test: the importance of uncertainty in vernacular religion

W088 Sound environments: forms, perception, and meanings

W089 Peur bleue, angoisses vertes : inquiétudes et incertitudes autour des objets naturels/ Blue funk, green anguishes: disquiet and incertainty about natural objects

W090 Interest and affect: anthropological perspectives on economy and intimacy

W091 Talking through uncertainty: linguistic and multimodal analysis of uncertain speech situations

W092 Anthropological writing in a time of uncertainty: career, control and creativity

W093 Gendered contestation: ethnographic perspectives on power and uncertainty

W094 Culture anxieties and global regimes: the politics of UNESCO in anthropological perspective

W095 Waiting for Godot & Co: modes and moods of the uneventful

W096 Here today, gone tomorrow: the study of transient social formations

W097 Mastering the environment?

W098 Who's responsible?

W099 How to tame, play or skirt environmental uncertainties?

W100 Strategies of resistance? The role of alternative urban and virtual markets in neoliberal economies

W101 Epistemologies of uncertainty - locating (im)possibility, paradox, and doubt in mystical traditions

W102 The anthropology of security

W103 Children and youth exploring uncertain realities

W104 Matters of concern: negotiating un/certainties in health-related sciences, policies and experiences

W105 Signifying blood: illness, technologies, and interpretations

W106 Destabilising 'Nature' and the 'Anthropos'

W107 Uncomfortable bedfellows? Exploring the contradictory nature of the ecotourism/extraction nexus

W108 At risk in Europe: irregular migrants facing and circumventing uncertainty

W109 Quelles perspectives pour une anthropologie des émotions? Les approches pragmatiques dans l'analyse des mobilisations en contexte d'incertitude

W110 Confident museums of uncertain pasts

W111 Affect and knowledge: inquiry, breakdown, disquiet

W112 What happens when we stop believing in/believing that?

W113 Disquiet eaters: uncertain materialities of scientific evidence

W114 The anthropology of "emerging donors" and the uncertainty of developmental futures

W115 Ethnographies of the artistic event: managing uncertainty as a method

W116 The making of "dangerous places": disentangling fear, violence and urban space

W117 Challenging religiosity in an uncertain Europe: the role of 'New Spirituality'

W118 The role of education in transnational youth migration

W119 La ritualisation des procédures de résolution des conflits comme traitement de l'incertitude

W120 Economy and ritual

W121 Inspiring alter-politics: anthropology and critical political thinking

W122 Hesitation and uncertainty in bodily practice

W123 (Hi)Stories of people who move around: mobility at the margins of the state

W124 Politics of disasters

W125 The science of sex in a space of uncertainty: naturalizing and modernizing Europe's east, past and present

W126 Anxious visions and uncertain images

W127 Political and epistemic uses of local knowledge in the face of environmental global change

W128 Dealing with dirt and disorder: practices of cleaning and hygiene as coping strategies in times of uncertainty

W129 Reducing complexity: transformation of capital cities

W130 The domestication of uncertainty: new rituals and technologies for facing catastrophe

W131 Reflexivity, uncertainty and criticism: the power of new visuality