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<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Exciting news from the World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024 Organizing Committee! The deadline for submitting Panel Proposals has been extended to January 31, 2024.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Join us in Johannesburg, South Africa, from November 11th to 15th, 2024, for a transformative exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme: "Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power."</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">We invite you to contribute your insights to this groundbreaking event organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg.</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Key Themes for Panel Proposals:</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological, and paleo-anthropological knowledge</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge-making</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Truth and/or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Tensions between local and academic knowledge production</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Submit your panel proposal by January 31, 2024: <a href="https://bit.ly/WAUcongressPANELS">https://bit.ly/WAUcongressPANELS</a></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Additional Key Dates:</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Evaluation of Panels: February 22, 2024</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Announcement of Accepted Panels: March 1, 2024</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Call for Papers (abstract submission): March 8 - April 30, 2024</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Don't miss the opportunity to:</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with leading scholars and emerging voices</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Share your research and insights on the future of anthropological knowledge</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Network with colleagues from around the world</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">- Experience the vibrancy of Johannesburg and South Africa</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Join us in reimagining anthropological knowledge at the WAU Congress 2024! We look forward to welcoming you to Mzansi/South Africa!</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Sincerely,</p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">Organizing Committee</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica">The World Anthropological Union Congress 2024<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font:14px Helvetica;min-height:17px"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">
</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">P.S. Extend your stay and attend the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) annual conference from November 6-8, 2024: <a href="https://bit.ly/ASnA2024">https://bit.ly/ASnA2024</a></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b>°°°°°°°</b></div><b>Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández</b><div><div dir="ltr"></div></div><div>Antropólogo e Historiador</div><div><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5642-457X" target="_blank"><b><font color="#990000">ORCID</font></b></a> | <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-FgY5JQAAAAJ" target="_blank"><b><font color="#990000">Google Scholar</font></b></a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfagoaga/" target="_blank"><b><font color="#990000">Linkedin</font></b></a> | <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/fagoaga.bsky.social" target="_blank"><b><font color="#990000">Bluesky</font></b></a> |<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> <b><a href="https://twitter.com/rfagoaga" target="_blank"><font color="#990000">Twitter</font></a></b></span></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>Academic Digital Impact Consultant</b> for <span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><font color="#4b4a4a">the World Council of Anthropological Associations (</font><b><font color="#990000">WCAA</font></b><font color="#4b4a4a">) and the World Anthropological Union (</font><b><font color="#990000">WAU</font></b><font color="#4b4a4a">). </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><font color="#4b4a4a"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><font color="#4b4a4a"><b>Associate Editor </b>of the <i>History of Anthropology Review</i> (</font><b><a href="https://histanthro.org" target="_blank"><font color="#990000">HAR</font></a></b><font color="#4b4a4a">).</font></span></div></div></div></div></div>