[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Mutuality and Memory: Encounters in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Cities (26-30 August in Ljubljana, Slovenia)

[Onur Inal]

10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists (EASA), 26 to 30 August in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Panel Organizers:

Julie Scott (j.scott at londonmet.ac.uk), London Metropolitan University, U.K. 
Nefissa Naguib (nefissa.naguib at sosantr.uib.no/nefissanaguib at gmail.com),
University of Bergen, Norway.

This panel is about the changing patterns of mutuality cities of the
Mediterranean and Middle East, as they are reconfigured through shifting
populations and the material practices of co-existence, and filtered through
memories of forms of mutuality and the sharing of experience in the past. We
will be concerned with the 'stories from below' of past and present
encounters between groups and individuals across barriers of various types
that have inspired the maps people use, created or 
transformed educational or health practices and provision, stimulated new
economic relationships, or produced new forms of creative partnerships.

We invite papers which include anthropology with other disciplines through
the inclusion of the role of oral history and heritage practices in
commemorating diversity and mutuality. Participants are asked to examine
case studies of the daily interaction of diverse presences, how these
encounters are gendered, and the role of nostalgia in the way these are
thought of, talked about, and become embedded in private and public
discourse. The workshop ultimately aims to develop a fuller picture of ideas
about mutuality, its contribution to the making and encountering between
Middle Eastern and Mediterranean society, and to discussions about the
future.

Papers must be proposed directly through the link
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=232. In case of any
problems please use the webpage www.easa2008.eu.

Call for papers closes March 31, 2008.
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Nefissa Naguib
University of Bergen, Norway
<Nefissa.Naguib at sosantr.uib.no>