<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Hi all,</font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I am looking for additional panelists for the 2018 AAA Meetings in San Jose. Please <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">share as you see fit, and </span>let me know if you are interested! </font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">AAA 2018 CFP</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="">Session Title:<b style=""> Dignity and Conviviality<span style="font-weight:400"></span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:16px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;background:white"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Organizer: Maisa Taha (Montclair State University)<br></font></font></p><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;color:rgb(34,34,34)">     This session focuses on popular and anthropological imaginings of conviviality to address dignity and dignity-claiming as central to the fraught art of “getting along” across lines of difference. In philosophy, dignity exists as a categorical imperative (Kant 1996) or emerges implicitly in utopically reformed socioeconomic relations (Illich 2009). Meanwhile, anthropological treatments of conviviality have emphasized aesthetic practices as symbolic of willing cultural intimacy, melding differences into shared repertoires of expression and creating counterweights to social fracturing or inequality (Erickson 2011; Overing and Passes 2000). In the midst of the largest global displacement of people since World War II, burgeoning grassroots political movements (in the U.S. alone: BLM, #metoo, #NeverAgain), and myriad efforts by state and non-state actors to manage demographic and political changes, what can we learn about contemporary personhood by attending to dignity claims and threats (Hicks 2013)?</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;color:rgb(34,34,34)">     </span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="text-indent:0.5in;color:rgb(34,34,34)">   My objective is to bring interdisciplinary and geographic breadth to bear on dignity as an under-examined, but ideologically and experientially rich, feature of convivial debates. I hope to illuminate how dignity-claiming tactics among disadvantaged—as well as privileged—actors resist or reframe contextually hegemonic notions of conviviality. To these ends, ethnographic case studies relevant to the following questions are most welcome: What does dignity look and sound like, empirically? How do dignity-claiming repertoires intersect with performances of identity, subjectivity, or citizenship? How do aesthetic practices related to conviviality subsume or elevate dignity threats and claims? And how might dignity claims signal morally adaptive strategies when rights and recognitions are foreclosed? In building toward an anthropological theory of dignity, we will interrogate common usages and scholarly assumptions around this idea, using convivial practices and projects as generative frameworks for understanding the structural, phenomenological, and discursive dimensions of human resilience in the face of competition over space, status, and resources.</span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;color:black"><font size="2" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I'm especially interested in having this panel bridge linguistic and sociocultural anthropology and would be eager to include work that addresses any of the following: </font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- formal and informal efforts to "get along" across recognized lines of difference and establish criteria for involvement (e.g., political movements, artistic interventions)</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- historic and contemporary anthropological approaches to human equality and difference</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- popular and/or authoritative discourses that appropriate/echo dignity-claiming strategies of nondominant actors</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">- dislocating or disorienting situations that juxtapose the ideal of "getting along" with the imperative of "getting by" (e.g., transnational migrant/refugee experiences, aging/chronic disease)  </font></div></span></font></div><br></font></div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> indicate interest and topic immediately to </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="mailto:taham@montclair.edu">taham@montclair.edu</a>. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Full (250-word) abstracts will be due </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">by <b>Friday, </b></span><b style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">March 30</b><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">. </span><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="" size="1"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Erickson, B. (2011). Utopian virtues: Muslim neighbors, ritual sociality, and the politics of convivència. </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">American Ethnologist,38</span></i><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(51,51,51)">(1), 114-131. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01296.x</span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Hicks, D. (2013). </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Dignity: Its essential role in resolving conflict</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.</span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Illich, I. (2009). </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">Tools for conviviality</span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. London: Marion Boyars.</span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:black"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kant, I. (1996). </span><i style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The metaphysics of morals<span> </span></span></i><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">(M. J. Gregor, Trans.). Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.</span></font></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:black"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Overing, J., & Passes, A. (Eds.). (2000). </span><i style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">The anthropology of love and anger: The aesthetics of conviviality in Native Amazonia</span></i><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">. New York: Routledge.</span></font></div></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Maisa C. Taha, PhD</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Assistant Professor</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Department of Anthropology<br></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Montclair State University</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Dickson Hall 128</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">(973) 655-7933</font></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-2764" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-2764</a></font></div></div></div></font></div><div><br></div><div><div style="color:black;text-indent:0px"><br></div>





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