[Linganth] Call for Lekgotla + Films + Book Launches - WAU Congress 2024 - Johannesburg, South Africa

[Ricardo A. Fagoaga H.]

Call for Lekgotla + Films + Book Launches - WAU Congress 2024 -
Johannesburg, South Africa


Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power

World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024

Johannesburg, South Africa

11th-15th November 2024


Submit a Lekgotla, Films, or Book Launches proposal:


Call for Lekgotla

Deadline: May 13, 2024

Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressLekgotla


Call for Films

Deadline: May 13, 2024

Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressFilm


Call for Book Launches

Deadline: May 13, 2024

Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressBooks


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 Anthropology Southern
Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg, 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 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) is an inclusive, cooperative forum
that invigorates transnational anthropologies. WAU is the interface that
unites the missions of the IUAES and the 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
*°°°°°°°*
*Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández*
Antropólogo e Historiador
*ORCID* <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5642-457X> | *Google Scholar*
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=-FgY5JQAAAAJ> |  *Linkedin*
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfagoaga/> | *Bluesky*
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<https://twitter.com/rfagoaga>*

*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>*).
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