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<div><span style="font-family: Garamond, Georgia, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The University of Pittsburgh will host the 2024 American Ethnological Society/Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Spring Meeting. I would love to see
some panels on language. Feel free to contact me (svl11@pitt.edu) if you have any questions/ideas. The CFP deadline has been extended to February 5th.</span></div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>2024 Theme: Repair</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the face of compounding harms—mass extinctions, settler-colonial dispossession, gentrification, displacement—what does it mean to repair the historic
legacies of damage and harm? What does it demand of individuals, communities, or states? How might studies of possibility or hope be enhanced through an attention to actually existing practices of repair? How can the tools of anthropology be used to amplify
the demands coming from historically disadvantaged communities? Such questions call for anthropology to link the radical imagination to present struggles. At the same time, as scholarship on abolition, revolution, and refusal highlight, it is also important
to document unfixable situations, times in which repair does more harm than good, or instances in which people find it more ethical to abandon or refuse.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The 2024 AES spring conference invites scholars to grapple with the complexities and possibilities of repair in the contexts of the people and sites
with and in which they work. How does (or doesn’t) repair take shape in communities or for your interlocutors? What kinds of solidarities and futures does repair potentiate? What do discourses of “repair” close down? Who decides what constitutes repair, who
has access to it, and who does the work? Is repair enough? What does it look like to stand in solidarity? What does anthropology need to be doing today in this moment of ecological/political/fiscal crisis? How can anthropology take the lead from interlocutors
moving into spaces that are uncomfortable or that might take great risk? Possible intersections include: care (and care in trouble), placemaking after dispossession, healing and harm, engagement and refusal, resistance and complicity, hope and loss, systemic
violence. We particularly invite conversations that cross-cut subfields and interests in the areas of: Anthropocene studies & more-than-human worlds; embodiment and health; (dis)ability and crip theory; political economy of urban space and containment; justice
& abolition; Black futures; Indigenous cosmopolitics; labor and other solidarities.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The conference will be located at the University of Pittsburgh, the ancestral lands of many Indigenous peoples, including the Seneca Nation. As recently
as 1960, one-third of the Seneca’s ancestral lands were taken by the U.S. government to create the
<a href="https://www.alleghenyfront.org/the-complicated-history-of-the-kinzua-dam-and-how-it-changed-life-for-the-seneca-people/#:~:text=Nestled%20securely%20between%20the%20rolling,long%20and%20120%20feet%20deep." target="_blank" id="OWA027497b4-560d-3753-f8e9-554c97681c5c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.alleghenyfront.org/the-complicated-history-of-the-kinzua-dam-and-how-it-changed-life-for-the-seneca-people/#:~:text=Nestled%20securely%20between%20the%20rolling,long%20and%20120%20feet%20deep.. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
Kinzua Dam</a> northeast of the city. We thus gather under the shadow of dispossession and acknowledge the
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presence and ongoing contributions of Indigenous people to the Pittsburgh region</a>. Amid widespread deindustrialization and abandonment, a decaying steel-coal complex continues to pollute while a frenzy of “fracking” draws petrochemical megaprojects to the
region. Once termed <a href="https://blog.historian4hire.net/2019/07/12/quotable-pittsburgh-visitors/" target="_blank" id="OWA27f056d8-165c-739b-8a9d-1c278e4b1978" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://blog.historian4hire.net/2019/07/12/quotable-pittsburgh-visitors/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
“hell with the lid off,”</a> Pittsburgh’s <a href="https://www.225.pitt.edu/story/eds-meds-thrive-former-steel-city" target="_blank" id="OWA4ceab6dc-af38-c7ee-26ec-f7dc66154143" class="x_OWAAutoLink" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
touted “Eds & Meds” revitalization</a> has harmed many communities, especially Black, Brown and working poor people, who continue to experience
<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/where-it-hits-gentrification-hits-hard-study" target="_blank" id="OWA44f28d69-7e7c-c260-3bb1-bbd39d74a82c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-05/where-it-hits-gentrification-hits-hard-study. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
displacement through gentrification</a> and <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/the-cumulative-toxic-assault-on-braddock-pennsylvania" target="_blank" id="OWA7d933784-5c8b-1079-d0ea-39227c06bf04" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-01/the-cumulative-toxic-assault-on-braddock-pennsylvania. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
respiratory illnesses</a> disproportionately. Taking repair as our cue, however, this conference is also situated in a key site of
<a href="https://battleofhomestead.org/pittsburghs-labor-history-sites-an-interactive-map/" target="_blank" id="OWA7394979c-183e-4af7-739f-a8671175899c" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://battleofhomestead.org/pittsburghs-labor-history-sites-an-interactive-map/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
early</a> and <a href="https://www.pittfaculty.org/" target="_blank" id="OWA0fae3cc3-c955-1e0b-9075-a007847c0945" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.pittfaculty.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
contemporary labor movements</a>, <a href="https://www.publicsource.org/not-good-enough-for-whom-pittsburgh-is-a-place-worth-fighting-for/" target="_blank" id="OWA17cae053-9aa2-82fe-1210-fe09434d9008" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.publicsource.org/not-good-enough-for-whom-pittsburgh-is-a-place-worth-fighting-for/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
environmental justice activism</a>, <a href="https://www.alleghenyfront.org/soul/" target="_blank" id="OWA03d1380c-c966-732c-488a-8773c3431587" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.alleghenyfront.org/soul/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="12" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
community gardening</a> to resist <a href="https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2018/11/a-fresh-divide-inside-pittsburghs-food-deserts/" target="_blank" id="OWA45a908f3-c99c-6284-fb12-5c129f98ea70" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://www.100daysinappalachia.com/2018/11/a-fresh-divide-inside-pittsburghs-food-deserts/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="13" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
food deserts</a>, and <a href="https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/" target="_blank" id="OWAfe695574-d749-561f-5e57-0312ccde757e" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://centerforcoalfieldjustice.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="14" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
other practices of reparative solidarity</a>. In gathering in Pittsburgh, then, we hope to bring together scholars and activists to think about repair in the face of layered harms.</span></p>
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