[Discussion] CONF./CFP- Anthropology of Global Productions, Stanford Univ., April 2006, Stanford, CA

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From: Natalia Roudakova <roudakov@stanford.edu>

CONF./CFP- Anthropology of Global Productions, Stanford Univ., April 2006

Call for Papers:

Second Annual Stanford Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social
Anthropology

The Anthropology of Global Productions
Friday, April 7, and Saturday, April 8, 2006
Stanford University
Stanford, California
USA

Deadline for abstracts: 100-150 words abstracts, no later than 5:00 p.m.,
January 1, 2006

Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/anthroCASA/globalproductions/

The Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in Cultural and Social
Anthropology aims to bring together students and professors from the San 
Francisco Bay Area and beyond in the interests of interdisciplinary research,
with particular regard to anthropology, geography, and cultural studies.

Rhetorics and regimes of 'the globe' claim a logic and coherence that are at
once evaluative and prescriptive of a universal reality. From invocations of the
'end of history' to incantations of post-socialism, democratization and
neoliberalism, the language of 'the global' imagines the world as a seamless
whole. Implied in this coherent universe are integrated political economic
regimes in which individuated, rational subjects make up harmonized national and
transnational populations. In examining these claims, social scientists often
reify their coherence and reach; our criticisms of global projects make
counter-claims that can reinforce the very orderliness we attempt to contest. 
Within the discourses of world-making projects and the knowledge production they
inspire are disorderly and contested relations of power, subjectivity, violence,
affect, civil society, governmentality, and beauty.

The Anthropology of Global Productions will explore such discourses of
world-ordering. If anthropology often seeks to disaggregate and disable these
discourses, we aim to understand both the content and the effects of these
disaggregations. We wish to raise theoretical and methodological questions about
our own contributions as knowledge producers. How do we investigate the
patchwork quilt of lived realities in a way that engages those making global
generalizations? How do we strengthen the knowledge of grounded practices in a
way that speaks effectively to and in debates about the globe? What claims and
interventions can we make through ethnographic research?

We are seeking the most compelling papers from a variety of disciplines that
engage a broad range of topics.  Relevant topics include (but are not limited
to) political economy, neoliberalism, governmentality, race, class, gender,
diaspora studies, nationalism, religion, violence, human rights, NGOs,
environmentalism, labor and commodity production, science and technology
studies, popular culture, mass media, performance, literature, art, affect,
identity and the formation of subjectivities.

Panel presentations will be 15 minutes long and papers should be no more than 7
pages in length. During the conference proceedings, panels will give way to a
range of workshops, which provide an intimate environment for graduate students
and faculty discussants to exchange ideas on conference themes. The conference
will also include two keynote addresses, delivered by James Ferguson and Anna
Tsing.

Guidelines for Submissions:

Paper proposals should incorporate one or more of the themes of the conference,
listed above. A proposal for a paper should consist of a 100-150 word abstract. 
Paper proposals must also include the paper title, the name of the presenter,
daytime and evening phone numbers, email address, mailing address and
institutional affiliation of the presenter.

Electronic Submissions:

Please send submissions and inquiries by email to:

graduate-conference@stanford.edu

Please include your abstract either in the body of the text or as an email
attachment (in Word DOC or RTF format).

Non-Electronic Submissions:

If you are unable to email your proposal, you may send a hard copy or
PC-compatible floppy disk containing the document to:

Submissions, Graduate Student Conference
The Anthropology of Global Productions
Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology
Stanford University
Building 110, Main Quad
Stanford, CA 94305

Presenters will be notified of the conference committee's decision via email
by February 5, 2006. There will be no conference registration fee.




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