ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment
19-22 June 2014, The Surgeons’ Hall, Nicolson Street, Edinburgh
2014 will be the occasion of the ASA’s decennial conference. All anthropologists are invited to the city of Edinburgh for four days of plenaries, panels, ethnographic films, dancing and other fringe events.
The Call for panels is open and closes on 27th October.
Theme
The theme for the conference, Anthropology and Enlightenment, takes its inspiration from the tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment, born in an era when intellectual life in Scotland was at its most cosmopolitan and outward-facing. This was a time of intellectual optimism and experimentation, of polymaths and autodidacts who were not afraid to address the widest and most fundamental questions of what it is to be human. Above all, the Scottish Enlightenment was a milieu rather than a school, a world of public argument in coffee-houses – and indeed in drinking establishments – rather than a canonical set of texts. Through our choice of theme we aim to rekindle the spirit that gave birth to the discipline of anthropology, yet in a manner and an idiom appropriate to the contemporary era, by combining historical reflection with an exploration of anthropology’s relations with other disciplines, including philosophy, political economy, theology, history, architecture, medicine, law, agriculture and even sociology. Six invited panels are the basis of the programme and will address current interdisciplinary themes, each of which could potentially be aligned with, and identified by, a key work from the Scottish Enlightenment.
They are:
1. Time, Earth and Cosmos
2. Health and Wealth
3. Natural Religion
4. Human / Nature
5. Beauty, Order, Harmony and Design
6. Moral Sentiments
Read more about these strands and proceed from there to the Call for Panels, which is now open.
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Key dates
Call for panels: 16th September to 27th October 2013
Call for papers: 15th November 2013 to 5th January 2014
Registration opens: 20th February 2014
Download the key dates from our calendar page to your calendar programme now so as not to miss the deadlines as they arise.
Hosts
The 2014 decennial conference of the ASA will be hosted by the STAR consortium. Founded in 2006, STAR (Scottish Training in Anthropological Research) brings together anthropologists from the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews.
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