15th EASA Biennial Conference

Staying, Moving, Settling

Stockholm University

14-17 August, 2018

Theme: Staying, Moving, Settling

Recent times, for much of humanity but not least in Europe, have been marked by dramatic mobility. It has taken many forms: refugee streams and labour migration, but also pilgrimage, tourism, and the transnational leisure migration of retirees. It is continuously in the news. The varied forms of mobility have also drawn wide imagination for example in literary fiction, and in the movies.

Mobility has also long been a topic in anthropological research. In view of the range and importance of its current forms, mobility is a suitable main theme of the 2018 conference of EASA. We suggest that the conference should not focus narrowly on the forms of spatial movement, but should reflect the variety of its backgrounds, forms and contexts, and longer-term implications. This is mirrored in the conference title.

In many human communities, staying is obviously still the normal way of life, ‘business as usual.’ But often, it is now a matter of choice – remaining, when others are leaving. What are the consequences of staying, perhaps involving changing circumstances of life, loss in personal networks, deteriorating infrastructures, growing vulnerability, 

perhaps dependence on those who leave (e.g. through remittances)?

The actual acts and processes of moving are multifaceted. They may involve crises, or routines. People may move as individuals or in groups. There may be stations along the way. There may be important factors of infrastructure: airports, small ships, people smugglers, official gatekeepers, host volunteers. Some people reach their intended destinations, others do not. And these acts and processes of moving may draw little or extensive public attention.

And then beyond arrival, there is the drawn-out process of settling – among people who themselves have stayed and are more or less ‘natives,’ and among other newcomers. Relationships to those who may have remained behind need to be reconstructed, in new diaspora networks, and there are all those adaptations which are covered by the term ‘integration’ – in jobs, neighbourhoods, schools and other forms of education, health, care and other welfare institutions, the law. The processes of settling involve not only those who made the move themselves, but often one or more later generations as well.

Staying, Moving, Settling is the theme of the 15th EASA biennial conference which will be hosted by Stockholm University, in the picturesque Swedish capital situated between the Baltic Sea and Lake Mälaren. Join us for four days of panels, labs, plenary discussions and more from August 14 to 17, 2018.

The call for panels is now closed. 300 proposals were received. The decisions of the Scientific Committee will be communicated on 26th February. The call for papers and the call for laboratories, will then open. Until then please read the conference theme.

Key dates

Call for Panels: 1 December 2017 to 31 January 2018

Call for Papers: 27 February to 9 April

Call for Labs: 27 February to 9 April

Call for Films: 5 February to 5 May

Keynote

Shahram Khosravi is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University and the author of the books: Young and Defiant in Tehran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2008);

The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, Palgrave (2010);

Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, University of Pennsylvania Press (2017), and After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, Palgrave (2017, edited volume). He has been an active writer in the Swedish press and has also written fiction.

Convenors

Helena Wulff (Stockholm University), Lotta Björklund Larsen (Linköping University)

The 18th IUAES World Congress - Brazil will take place at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) between July 16th to 20th, 2018. In a little more than 3 months with the registrations open we can already celebrate the fact that we have been able to reach researchers from all the continents in 60 countries.

According to the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) tradition, a panel allows anthropologists from different countries to meet  around a thematic proposal made by at least two researchers from  two different countries.

Anthropologists that wish to propose abstracts to open panels must be registered at the event and have their memberships up to date with Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) or the IUAES. The IUAES membership can be done at the moment of the registration. The first call for ABA memberships this year is until March 3rd, 2018. You check this link for more information: this link.

If you have any questions about the registration process access our video tutorial:

There are 200 Open Panels distributed in the 38 thematic axes, you can find them all here

It will be a great encounter!

Rules for abstract submission to Open Panels

General Norms:

1. The participants interested in presenting their work at an Open Panel must check the list of thematic axes and verify wich panels interest them the most in the first place. (http://www.inscricoes.iuaes2018.org/modalidadetrabalho/public2/openpanel ). In order to have access to the description of each panel, the participants must click one of the thematic axis first, then they will have access to the list of panels linked to that axis.

2. Participants are able to submit their abstract to two different panels. In case  their first option does not accept the submission, there is the possibility to evaluated by the second panel selected.

3. Researchers of different academic degrees will be able to present work proposals to Open panels. (undergraduate, graduate, researchers and professors.

4. Brazilian undergraduate students that wish to present their works must be ABA members associated in the category “aspiring member” and, preferably to submit their work in co-authorship with their advisor.

5. The coordinators of the open panels are held responsible for the selection of the most suitable work proposals to their panel.

6. We remind you that the “lingua franca” of the congress is english and that there will not be simultaneous translation during the panels, and even in panels which will accept the other official languages of the congress (portuguese, spanish, french) a slide presentation or text written in english  is necessary, in order to assure the effective communication among all the involved participants.

About the Abstract Submission  

7. The submission of abstracts must be done directly through the participant’s area on the website and filled in English.

Panel chosen to be the second submission option

·         Title of the abstract with at most 200 characters including spaces

·         Abstract with at most 1500 characters

·         Keywords: 4 at most

·         Presentation Language

·         Inform the registration number of the co-author

Responsibilities of the abstract proponents

8. Correctly inform their personal data and the dat of the abstract on the congress website.

9. To register and make the payments of the fees in due time

10. Be attentive to the release of the approved panels

11. Prepare a text or slide presentation in english, no matter the language selected to the oral presentation, in order to make the presentation accessible to all participants.

Selecting the abstracts

1.  The selection of abstracts is a responsibility of the coordinators of each panel. The coordinators will have until march 12th, 2018 to select the abstracts in theri participant area.  

The selection process is a two-stepped procedure:

1.1. The abstracts will be initially evaluated by their first option panels

1.2 In case they are not accepted by the panel coordinators, they will be then sent to the second option selected.

1.3. Only the abstracts that are not approved in the first step of the selection will be sent to the second evaluation process. There is no possibility of a work proposal being presented in more than one panel.

2. Each session of a panel will have 4  paper presentations at most, and will happen  within one hour and a half.

3. To be implemented a panel must have at least 3 accepted works, making up a session.

4.Our programme foresees up to 12 parallel panel sessions (visit our programme http://www.pt.iuaes2018.org/programacao) therefore, the congress can accommodate 48 abstracts per panel, at most.

5. The Congress Organization might reduce the maximum number of abstracts a panel can accept according to the available physical space for the holding the panels.

External Schedule

January 8th, 2018  - Beginning of the abstract submission period to Open Panels

February 28th, 2018 - Conclusion of the abstract submission period to Open Panels

March 15th, 2018 - Approval notice for works in Open Panels

May 15th to June 15th, 2018 - Period to send the complete accepted works to the Congress secretariat for online publication.

From <http://www.iuaes2018.org/>