[Air-L] WAU Congress 2024 Deadline Extended until May 27, 2024

[Ricardo A. Fagoaga H.]

The Organizing Committee of the World Anthropological Union Congress (WAU)
2024 is excited to share that the deadline for submissions has been
extended until May 27th! This extension reflects our commitment to
inclusivity, aiming to welcome a wide array of contributions from scholars,
researchers, and practitioners across the globe. We are confident that this
extended deadline will provide ample opportunity for all interested parties
to refine and submit their work, ensuring that the congress truly embodies
a rich tapestry of perspectives and insights. For further details on the
congress theme, "Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives,
Practices, and Power," and specific calls for papers, round tables,
workshops, Lekgotla, films, and book launches, please refer to the links
provided below. Notably, our congress is designed to be hybrid, allowing
for both online and face-to-face participation simultaneously, ensuring
accessibility for all. We eagerly anticipate your continued engagement and
participation as we work together to make this congress an unforgettable
success!

Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power
World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024
Johannesburg, South Africa
11th-15th November 2024

General Information: https://bit.ly/WAUcongress2024

Call for Papers
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressCfP
*All panels hybrid*

Call for Round Tables
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressRoundtables
* All round tables hybrid*

Call for Workshops
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressWorkshops

Call for Lekgotla
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressLekgotla

Call for Films
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressFilm

Call for Book Launches
Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressBooks

Please note that all panels and round tables are hybrid, allowing
participants to join both online and in person simultaneously.

The fees for the WAU Congress 2024 are available on the congress website:
https://bit.ly/WAUcongressFEES

To participate in the congress it is required to pay for an International
Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) membership + the
registration fee.

Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that financial aid or scholarships
are not available for the WAU Congress 2024. While we understand the
importance of accessibility and inclusivity, we are unable to provide
financial assistance at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this
may cause and encourage you to explore alternative funding options if
needed. Your understanding and support are greatly appreciated as we work
towards hosting a successful and enriching congress experience for all
participants.

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Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) warmly invites you to join us in
Mzansi/South Africa for the inaugural World Anthropological Union (WAU)
Congress from November 11 to 15, 2024. Organized by ASnA, this
groundbreaking event promises a rich exploration of anthropological
knowledge under the theme:

Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power

Anthropology, as with other disciplines in the arts and social sciences,
has engaged over decades with multiple paradigmatic shifts and critiques of
the ways in which anthropological knowledge is gathered, organised,
presented and theorised.  From the 1960s onwards, anthropological knowledge
has engaged with, and seen concomitant shifts in practice as a result of
[post - ] theoretical movements:

Post-structuralism;
Post-modernism;
Post-colonialism;
Post-socialism;
Post-humanism;
Post- post-colonialism -> decolonial shift;
Post-truth.

Recent shifts in some spaces have also critiqued even the notion of
‘post-’, such as the decolonial movement, for example, which argues that
post-colonialism does not take critique far enough, and that social theory
should strive instead for decolonial approaches.
All of these critiques share a core concern with recognising the
constructedness of knowledge, and the power relations that underlie what we
know and how we know it. Anthropology has a slightly different perspective
to many other social science disciplines in that the discipline itself is
premised on a recognition of the inherent value of plural knowledge forms,
through cultural relativism and an historic and contemporary disciplinary
stance against ethnocentrism.
Against this set of concerns, we propose a WAU Congress that engages with
anthropological knowledge making in its various forms, recognising
theoretical, geographical, socio-political contextual and ontological
differences in how anthropological knowledge is made, transmitted and
distributed in varied spaces.

We seek papers, round tables, workshops, lekgotla, films, and book launches
that speak, but are not limited to:
• Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines;
• The politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological and
paleo- anthropological knowledge;
• Ideas and ideals of ethnographic and ethnological practice;
• Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge making;
• Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork;
• The legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories;
• Ideas of truth and/ or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation;
• Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning;
• Tensions between local knowledge production and academic knowledge
production;
• Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial
perspectives;
• Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative;
• Decoloniality and criticality: overlaps, tensions, and differences;
• The politics of disseminating knowledges;
• Manifestations of hegemony in knowledge production, and their dangers;
• The knowledges which one can’t quite see, hear, touch, feel, smell;
• Survival, revival and flourishing in a “post”- catastrophic world;
• Changing ethics, methods and techniques in ethnographic research;
• (Re)production of hegemony and hierarchy in anthropological research;
• Pleasure, joy and fun in anthropological research;
• Anthropology out of the “Ivory towers”;
• “Studying up” and anthropology of institutions/elites etc;
• Creativity and the art in/of/as research.

Information/ Questions: info [@] waucongress.org

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The World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024 is organized by
Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA). The World Anthropological Union (WAU)
is an inclusive, cooperative forum that invigorates transnational
anthropologies. WAU is the interface that unites the missions of the
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
and the World Council of Anthropological Associations  (WCAA), galvanizing
person-to-person international dialogues and stimulating cooperative
exchange among anthropological associations. As a member of the ISC and the
CIPSH, WAU represents the ethical and scientific values of the field as the
discipline's primary international organization. Information:
https://waunet.org

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*Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández*
Antropólogo e Historiador
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*Academic Digital Impact Consultant* for the International Union of
Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (*IUAES*), the World Council of
Anthropological Associations (*WCAA*), and the World Anthropological Union (
*WAU*).

*Associate Editor *of the *History of Anthropology Review* (*HAR
<https://histanthro.org>*).