European Association of Social Anthropologists 13th Biennial Conference in TU
From July 31 - August 3, 2014 European Association of Social Anthropologists’ (EASA) 13th EASA Biennial Conference Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution - innovation and continuity in an interconnected world will take place at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. The organizers expect more than 1000 participants.
From July 31 - August 3, 2014 European Association of Social Anthropologists’ (EASA) 13th EASA Biennial Conference Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution - innovation and continuity in an interconnected world will take place at the Estonian Institute of Humanities, Tallinn University. The organizers expect more than 1000 participants.
EASA 2014 is an invitation to explore new collaborative practices and data sets at various levels and in multiple directions. It is also an invitation to explore concepts of collaboration as a way out of certain theoretical and methodological deadlocks in which many anthropologists have found themselves in past decades: the iron cage of structural functionalism has been pried open, for example, by intentional and collaborating social actors, and some of the bottomless deconstructions of postmodernism have been overcome by attention to the collective and collaborative making of meaning. We also invite colleagues to think about collaboration as not just a technical affair, but as an intimate process. Approaching collaboration as relations of intimacy opens up conceptual spaces to explore the basic terms of our contemporary world, including social and political change, community, kinship, social networks, activism and digital media.
One thematic direction for this conference includes attention to the technologies of, and for, intimate collaboration, such as those proliferating on the Internet.
Additional information about the conference: http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/index.shtml
