28.1851, Calls: Anthro Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Italy

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Subject: 28.1851, Calls: Anthro Ling, Ling & Lit, Philosophy of Lang, Psycholing/Italy

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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 11:28:10
From: Stefano Montes [montes.stefano at tiscalinet.it]
Subject: Anthropologies of the United States of America. Views from near and from afar

Full Title: Anthropologies of the United States of America. Views from near and from afar 

Date: 15-Jun-2017 - 16-Jun-2017
Location: Palermo, Italy 
Contact Person: Stefano Montes
Meeting Email: montes.stefano at tiscalinet.it
Web Site: http://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/beniculturalistudiculturali/Call-for-papers-Anthropologies-of-the-United-States-of-America.-Views-from-near-an 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Philosophy of Language; Psycholinguistics 

Call Deadline: 20-May-2017 

Meeting Description:

Anthropologies of the United States of America. Views from near and from afar

International Conference
University of Palermo, June 15 – 16, 2017

This conference is an interdisciplinary research project intended for scholars
from various fields. The aim is to discuss a historically, anthropologically
and politically central country: the United States. Is it possible to see the
United States as a country to be examined from multiple points of view – both
from near and from afar – with particular interest in the current
“anthropological” culture, while also paying attention to history and making
predictions about the future? Specialists and enthusiasts from various
backgrounds are invited to respond from specific perspectives, in order to
compare and contrast different interpretations of the “American galaxy”. To
this end, both studies of a theoretical nature and case studies are
encouraged. The view from near and from afar, obviously a reference to
Lévi-Strauss, alludes to a modus operandi anthropologically based on comparing
and contrasting different perspectives. Anthropologists are directly concerned
here, because it was in the United States that the much-discussed
anthropological Postmodernism recently emerged, and because it was also in the
United States that the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, based on studies of Native
Americans, was conceived. The reference to “anthropologies” should therefore
be viewed literally (anthropologists specializing in the United States in
largely ethnographic terms) and with a culturally wider meaning (linguists,
comparatists, geographers, semiologists, historians, etc., who observe
American culture from their respective epistemological perspectives). The
reference to the interdisciplinary nature of the conference, aside from being
a theoretical inclination shared by the organizers, is a happy necessity for
those who study a multicultural country like the United States, with its
difficult past of coexistence between colonizers and natives, as well as
between the different cultures of which it is composed today. 

We offer the following suggestions as possible topics of discussion, from a
comparative perspective or otherwise:

Native and non-native cultures
Ancient/recent migratory phenomena 
Conformism/individualism
Multiculturalism and identity
Religious radicalization and New Age movements
Processes of globalization and local agency
American anthropology/other anthropologies
American literature/other literatures
The linguistic relativity hypothesis today
Everyday cultures
Tradition and modernity
Processes of homogenization and diversification of knowledge
Spaces of imagination
Places and non-places
Ecologies of landscape
Wilderness
Languages of power and knowledge
Current political situation
Politics of inclusion/exclusion
Oral histories
Etc.

Keynote speaker: 
Vincent Crapanzano, City University of New York

Scientific board:

Stefano Montes, Matteo Meschiari, Daniele Monticelli, Vincent Crapanzano

Administrative organization:

Dipartimento Culture e Società
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Viale delle Scienze, 90128, Palermo, Italia

Call for papers

Anthropologies of the United States of America. Views from near and from afar
International Conference
University of Palermo, June 15 – 16, 2017

For information and to submit proposals: 

Stefano Montes (montes.stefano at tiscalinet.it)
Matteo Meschiari (matmeschiari at gmail.com)

Practical information:

Deadline for submitting proposals: 20 May 2017
Proposal summary and title: 250-300 words
Duration of presentations: 20 minutes
Conference languages: Italian, French and English
Conference participation is free of charge

Travel costs, accommodation expenses and meals are covered by participants or
their institutions

Proceedings of the conference will be published

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