CALL FOR PAPERS
East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
“Local Knowledge and Localizing Future”
November 8-9, 2024
Gyeongju Hwabaek International Convention Center
Gyeongju, South Korea
The East Asian Anthropological Association is a scholarly association of teachers and students of anthropology based in East Asia and engaged in anthropological work on East Asia. This year’s meeting will be in Gyeongju, South Korea on 8-9 November 2024 with the post-conference tour on 10 November. The meeting will be jointly organized by the Korean Society of Cultural Anthropology with the theme of “Local Knowledge and Localizing Future.”
We’ve been making futures for a long time. We’ve planned national economies, predicted the weather, made contracts, and aspired to a better world in social movements. And now, more than ever, the future matters and creates anxiety. The Anthropocene, climate change, uncertain economic prospects, and crises in democratic processes have undermined confidence in the ability to improve lives along a set path in a set timeframe, and the near future – the manageable range of rational planning – has receded in favor of apocalypse, annihilation, and uncertainty.
This conference aims to examine how local knowledge can help us conceptualize the local and re-envision its future. How does the past influence our relationship to the future? What do our imaginings of the future tell us about the social issues and concerns we face today? How do politics, ethics, and emotions combine to make certain futures matter or not matter? If the near future has been planned, implemented, and evaluated from a central perspective, the future society of today will need to be more local. How can local societies and local communities shape the future when global connections and center-local relationships still have a strong influence?
We hope that you will propose a panel or an individual paper for this conference. You do not need to be a member of EAAA at present in order to submit a panel or paper; you become a member automatically by attending this conference.
Please submit your proposal on-line to the hyperlinks supplied above by 15 May 2024.
Google form link
– Individual presentation (Revised form)
https://forms.gle/8GucLG1HHjrKHanp7
– Panel (Session)
https://forms.gle/ymzGmBjgZHviY7iH9
- For those who cannot excess the Google form link, please fill out the registration form and return to koanth2024@hotmail.com
*** For those of you who have already signed up for individual presentations, we have a favor to ask.
We found that an email address field was missing in the English questionnaire for the personal presentation application. Please send your name and email address to koanth2024@hotmail.com.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
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