CFP: 2024 EAAA in Korea

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.

CFP: 2023 EAAA in Hong Kong

CALL FOR PAPERS

East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

“East Asian Anthropology in a Roiling World:

Pandemics, Politics, Potentials”

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

6-8 October 2023

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.  Its upcoming meeting will be in Hong Kong 6-8 October 2023. 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 fill out an EAAA panel proposal or EAAA individual paper proposal, which will require an abstract from you in English.  You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-4 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal, which is your paper alone.  Individual paper proposals we will subsequently organize into panels.  Submitted panels have a somewhat better chance of being accepted for the conference than individual papers. This conference will be in-person, but if a given panel would like to be on-line rather than in-person, this can be accepted; however, there will be limited links to the conference as a whole.  It is very much recommended that you attend in person.

Please submit your proposal on-line to the hyperlinks supplied above by 15 May 2023. The program committee will make its decisions by 30 May, and will then send out acceptance notices, registration forms, and lodging information to all participants.  If you have any queries, please write to eaaa.2023.hk@gmail.com.

The conference will be held on 6-7 October at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, followed on 8 October by a tour of interesting Hong Kong places.  Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. We will provide information about the nearby Hyatt hotel, Hong Kong’s famous Chungking Mansions, and other guesthouses; you will need to make your own bookings.  We will provide lunches and dinners and refreshments at the conference and on the tour.

We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong in October! 

2022 EAAA Call for Papers

Asia Re-Connecting? Crisis, Intimacy and Critique

 2022 East Asian Anthropological Association (EAAA) Annual Meeting

National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

October 15-17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the world since its spread in 2020, disconnecting families, societies, economies, as well as anthropologists from their fieldsites. East Asia, where this crisis first emerged, is also the region which has weathered the crisis most successfully, although not without controversy. In 2022, in the context of new border regimes, new forms of (distanced) intimacy, and precarious supply chains, people are finding new ways to (re)-connect with each other.  Anthropologists in East Asia and across the world find there is no simple “returning to normal” fieldwork, but search for new ways of making and sustaining connections. This Call for Papers invites anthropologists and related scholars to deliberate on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its ongoing impact and other emerging challenges that are crucial to our concern in East Asia.

How can anthropology illuminate the many ways people are seeking to reconnect and re-establish intimacies with others in a new context? More importantly, how might an “ethnographic sensibility” help us understand the different and sometimes contradictory ways people reconnect their worlds and establish new futures? A lingering and seemingly never-ending crisis not only challenges people’s lives and governance, it also generates a space for reflecting on humanistic concerns, and yearning either for pasts imagined to have been less precarious, or for imagined futures which might be realized. Defining the stakes of the crisis, rebuilding intimacies and making critiques look very differently depending on whether one is a laborer, investor, student, migrant, farmer, health worker, fisherman, activist, ritual specialist, politician, male, female, straight, queer, or transgendered (to only name a few).

We invite submissions from anthropologists from East Asia working in East Asia on a broad range of topics related to crisis, intimacy, and critique in reconnecting Asia. Recommended topics include the following:

1) Anthropocene in East Asia: The biopolitics of epidemics and medicine; climate change; human-animal and human-plant relations; landscapes; environmentalism; debates on sustainable development; the anthropology of food; food sovereignty and activism; the manufacturing of the senses; health and quality of life; alternative forms of life.

2) Social and Political Movements: Propaganda and political discourse; the struggles and strategies of indigenous peoples, recognition, social justice; migrant labor; anti-imperialism; populism; nationalism and patriotism; race and ethnicity; the politics of liberalism and illiberalism.

3) Intimacy, Hope and Anxiety: Affect; the end of intimacy; connectivity; political intimacy; spiritual belonging; religious revivalism; global health and education; community sustainability; psychological well-being; happiness and suffering; care and caring; burn out; communicability, stigma and xenophobia; active ageing; quality of life.

4) Digital Technology and Network Society: Digital ethnography, surveillance capitalism; net armies and “fake news”; technocracy and pandemic control; border and entry control; artificial intelligence; big data and censorship; incarceration; the metaverse and the future of social media; infrastructure; equality and inequality.

5) Global East Asia: Suspended globalization; regrouping; reopening; democracy; vaccine equity and hesitancy; socialism; capitalism; neoliberalism; disrupted supply chains; the inflation crisis; mobility and migration; cultural heritage and cultural revivalism; transnational movements for and against race, gender and LGBTQ+ equality.

Please fill in the online Submission Form (preferred); or download the submission form, fill in it, and send it back to taipeimeeting@gmail.com. The deadline for submission is May 31, 2022.

Individual Papers:

Online submission or download form

Proposed Panel:

Online submission or download form

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student), which includes receptions and meals during the conference (October 15-16). Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We are reserving rooms at two guesthouses/hotels and participants can choose the types of room and register with the hotels at their convenience. The availability of reserved rooms will be first come, first served. Participants can also arrange their own lodging. Further information on conference registration, lodging, and the optional post-conference tour will be delivered in two months after the submission deadline.

Due to the lingering uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, we list a 4-step application procedure and dates below for your attention:

Step 1: Submit Individual Paper or Proposed Panel by May 31, 2022.

Step 2: Receive Acceptance Notification and related information by July 31, 2022.

Step 3: Submit Post-conference Tour Form by August 31, 2022.

Step 4: Pay registration fee in order to keep presentation in the conference program by September 15, 2022.

We look forward to your submission for joining the 2022 EAAA in Taipei this October!

2021 EAAA Call for Papers

2021 EAAA Call for Papers

East Asian Anthropology in the Era of Uncertainties

Online Meeting, November 27-28, 2021

Convened by
East Asian Anthropological Association
Department of Anthropology and
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Shandong University, Jinan, P.R.C.

The newly emerging, post-pandemic world order makes its impact felt through various accelerating changes and social crises, which could hardly be anticipated by experts in thinking and acting upon the flow of events. A key implication of this bio-political state of emergency, which is of crucial relevance for anthropology at present, may be identified as a reversal of institutional patterns of sociality, as well as of traditional notions associated with community and collective responsibility.
Moreover, this transition into new social formations involves a shift towards the individualization of social responsibility in contexts familiar to the anthropology of East Asian societies. Alongside these social formations, an equally prominent tendency involves the expansion of preexisting kinds of structural inequality and class or gender based divisions.
Within this unsettling context of social relations, the various rifts and contestations widely emerging in the era of unprecedented uncertainties are presenting numerous challenges for East Asian anthropology. Furthermore, these transitions may be reflected upon as a new ethnographic ground for analyzing configurations of politics, economy, and social organization on both regional and global scales.
We invite ethnographically informed contributions by specialists in the anthropology of East Asia, as well as by anthropologists and social scientists whose expertise and interests intersect the above themes and explore connections between East Asia and other ethnographic areas. Potential proposals, drawing on East Asian specializations and/or on various trans-regional connections, may also engage any of the following topics:

1) Lives in isolation and austerity; ethnographies of silence, ‘a-social’ coexistence and estrangement, family disunity, domestic violence; aging and solitary living; community building, kinship, and new formations of sociality.

2) Gender, reproductive labor, women’s work and solidarity; masculinities and work; precariousness and post-pandemic economies; new patterns of labor, flexible economy, and transaction platforms; social security and welfare; office-work and the future of East Asian cities.

3) Consumption and markets; food governance, regimes of urban and rural hygiene; environmentalism, natural disasters and biological hazards in the Asia and Pacific Region; eco-management, sustainable development, climate change, the Anthropocene.

4) Borders, trans-border relations, and border-crossings; changing patterns of mobility in North and East Asia; migration, multiculturalism, and tourism.

5) Societies, ecology, epidemics; ontologies and multi-species ethnography; bioethics, diagnostic technologies, and medical care; medicines and native healing epistemologies; biosocial perspectives on covid-2019; ethnographies of contagion, vulnerability, social distancing, media and cell phone communication.

6) Urban landscapes in Asia; neo-traditionalism, religious movements and revitalization, ethnic legitimacies and ethnic identity.

7) Public anthropology, expert knowledge; social conscience, public opinion, socio-political discourse and the relevance of anthropology in the post-pandemic world.

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Please fill in both the registration form and individual or panel submission form (online or by download) by using the following links and send them to eaaa.jinan.2021@outlook.com by June 30, 2021.

Registration Form:

Online submission or download form

Individual Paper:

Online submission or download form

Panel Proposal:

Online submission or download form

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Procedure of registration and important dates*

1. Registration for the Conference by 30 June
2. Submissions of individual paper or panel proposals by 30 June
3. Receiving decisions and related notices by 31 August
4. Finalization of conference program by 15 October

* The links for the participation in the conference will be provided only for those who have registered. The conference being held online, however, there will be no registration fees.

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We look forward to your submissions and to your participation in the 2021 EAAA conference in Jinan, China, this November!

2020 EAAA Call For Papers

Precarious Asia: Crisis, Critique and Yearning

2020 EAAA Call For Papers

East Asian Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

November 28-29, 2020

 

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrecked human lives and imposed an overwhelming sense of precarity on the world in its wake in 2020. East Asia, where this crisis first emerged, is a region whose anthropologists are urged now more than ever to contemplate its present and future.This Call for Papers invites anthropologists and related scholars to deliberate on the impact of the 2020 pandemic and other emerging challenges that are crucial to our concern in East Asia.

A sense of precarity reigns across the region, involving but not limited to recurrent epidemics, the fate of aging societies, the current and future status of political orders, the invention and use of technology in governance, emerging forms of culture and identity, economic uncertainties, national disputes, the effects of the human and non-human relationship, and the climate crisis. Taken together, a palpable anxiety about the future infuses the region.

How can anthropology illuminate the many ways a sense of precarity influences our time? More importantly, how might an “ethnographic sensibility” help us understand the different and sometimes contradicting ways people conceptualize their worlds and futures? A sense of impending (or even present) crisis not only challenges people’s lives and governance, it also generates a space for humanistic reflection, intellectual critique, and yearning; yearning either for pasts imagined to have been less precarious, or for imagined futures which might be realized. Defining what is or is not considered a “crisis,” and the kinds of critique and yearning they entail, look very differently depending on whether one is a laborer, investor, student, migrant, farmer, health worker, fisherman, activist, ritual specialist, politician, male, female, straight, queer, or transgendered (to only name a few).

We invite submissions from anthropologists from East Asia working in East Asia on a broad range of topics related to crisis, critique, and yearning in precarious Asia. Topics might include the following:

1) Anthropocene in East Asia: How people are experiencing and engaging with the effects of biopolitics of epidemics and medicine; climate change in their communities; human-animal and human-plant relations; the anthropology of food; food sovereignty movements; the anthropology of the senses.

2) Social and Political Movements: Government propaganda; struggles of indigenous people for sovereignty, recognition, and social justice; migrant labor; anti-imperialism; transnational movements for and against gender and LGBTQ+ equality; the practice of politics in illiberal spaces.

3) Hope and Anxiety: Populism; new religions; religious revivalism; cultural and language revivalism; education; community sustainability; psychological well-being; health and quality of life; Active Ageing.

4) Technological Change and Society: Surveillance capitalism; net armies and rumor; artificial intelligence; big data and censorship; incarceration; social media; quality of life; equality and inequality.

5) Global East Asia: Democracy; socialism; capitalism; aid diplomacy; migration; the end of globalization; cultural production; cultural heritage; race, ethnicity, and gender.

Please fill in the online Submission Form (preferred); or download the submission form, fill in it, and send it back to taipeimeeting@gmail.com . The deadline for submission is June 30, 2020.

Individual Papers:

Online submission or download form

Proposed Panel:

Online submission or download form

The registration fee is US$50 (non-student) or US$20 (student), and includes receptions and meals during the conference (November 28-29) and the post-conference tour (November 30). Participants need to pay for their own travel and lodging. We are happy to help participants stay at the Academia Sinica Guesthouse (ASG) depending on availability. Participants may also arrange their own lodging. The registration and ASG lodging information will be delivered within two months after the submission deadline.

Due to the lingering uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, we list a 4-step application procedure and dates below for your attention:

Step 1: Submit Individual Paper or Proposed Panel by June 30, 2020.

Step 2: Receive Acceptance Notification and related information by August 31, 2020.

Step 3: Submit ASG Lodging Form and Post-conference Tour Form by September 15, 2020.

Step 4: Pay registration fee in order to keep presentation in the conference program by October 15, 2020.

We look forward to your submission for joining the 2020 EAAA in Taipei this November!

2019 EAAA Call for Papers

2019 EAAA Call for Papers

East Asian Anthropological Association
Annual Meeting 2019

Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea
28-29 September 2019

The East Asian Anthropological Association is a scholarly association of scholars and students primarily based in East Asia and engaged in anthropological work on Asia. It has had its conferences in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the past years. In 2019, the annual meeting will take place in Jeonju, South Korea on 28-29 September.
Jeonju is a historic city and a major tourist attraction in the southwestern region of South Korea. The Chonbuk National University, a popular venue to many international conferences including an international anthropological conference, is an ideal place for the annual meeting of EAAA.

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 will become a member automatically by attending this conference.

Please fill out an EAAA panel or individual paper proposal forms by clicking on-line links below. You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-4 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal. Individual paper proposals once accepted will be organized into panels by the organizing committee. Panels that cross-national boundaries rather than only dealing with one society are preferred, but we realize that such panels may not always be possible.

We have recently decided to call for poster presentations in order to encourage the participation of graduate students and scholars who would feel more comfortable making a poster presentation instead of a formal paper presentation. We hope that the poster session will provide an opportunity for informal, interactive presentations and discussions. Due to the time and space constraints, the number of poster presentations will be limited. All poster presenters must register for the conference. Presenters must be present to answer questions during this session. The detail instruction on how to prepare the poster will be notified to the applicants whose proposals are accepted.

If you cannot access the online forms, please complete the attached panel or paper proposal form and send it to eaaa2019korea@gmail.com by 30 April 2019. The program committee will make its decisions by 15 June 2019, and will then send out acceptance notices, conference registration forms, and payment and accommodation reservation instructions to all participants.

For on-line submission:

Individual paper proposal:

https://goo.gl/WuZpRb

Panel proposal:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xJtC3DLqdtwf6Jk9EqVUH-GFChtWKioHv4dP6pHPSQA/edit?usp=sharing

Poster proposal:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1duX2UrWfADt6AljnajB9OdZLvKIX2WnD5yjmHfg9o1A/edit?usp=sharing

The conference will be held on 28-29 September at the Chonbuk National University (CBNU), followed on 30 September by a tour of the historic city of Jeonju. Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. The organizing committee will arrange lodging at a CBNU guesthouse (for which there are limited spaces and the fees for single and double rooms will be determined soon). You may choose to stay at local hotels through online booking sites. A list of recommended local hotels near CBNU will be provided later on. We will provide lunches and the welcome dinner and refreshments at the conference.

We look forward to seeing you in Jeonju in September!

 

 

 

2018 EAAA Call For Papers

2018 EAAA Call For Papers

 East Asian Anthropological Association

Annual Meeting

Switzerland Research Center, Guizhou Normal University
27–29 October 2018

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. It has had its conferences in China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong in recent years. Its upcoming meeting will be in Guizhou, China on October 27-29, 2018. 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 will become a member automatically by attending this conference.

Please fill out an EAAA Panel proposal or EAAA Individual Paper proposal, which will require an abstract from you in English. You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-6 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal, which is your paper alone. Individual paper proposals will be subsequently organized into panels. Submitted panels have a somewhat better chance of being accepted for the conference than individual papers. Panels that cross national boundaries rather than only dealing with one society are preferred.

If you cannot access the online forms, you can download the word file of the forms (panel proposal / individual proposal) and send it to eaaa.guizhou.2018@outlook.com by 1 June 2018. The program committee will make its decisions by 15 June, and will then send out acceptance notices, conference registration forms, and payment instructions to all participants.

The conference will be held on 27- 28 October at Guizhou Normal University, followed by a tour of interesting places in Guizhou on 29 October. Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay their own lodging. We will arrange lodging at hotels around campus. We will provide lunches and dinners and refreshments at the conference. For more details, please visit eaaa.swissgznu.com

We look forward to seeing you in Guizhou in October!

2017 EAAA Call For Papers

 East Asian Anthropological Association

Annual Meeting

The Chinese University of Hong Kong
14-16 October 2017

 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. It has its conferences in China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan in recent years. Its upcoming meeting will be in Hong Kong 14-16 October 2017. 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 fill out a EAAA panel proposal or EAAA individual paper proposal, which will require an abstract from you in English. (We regret making English the conference’s language, but because of the prohibitive expense of hiring simultaneous translators, this is necessary.) You can submit either a panel proposal, which should have 3-6 participants speaking on a common topic, or an individual paper proposal, which is your paper alone. Individual paper proposals we will subsequently organize into panels. Submitted panels have a somewhat better chance of being accepted for the conference than individual papers. Panels that cross national boundaries rather than only dealing with one society are preferred, but we realize that such panels may not always be possible.

If you cannot access the online forms, please complete the attached panel or paper proposal form and send it to eaaa.hk.2017@gmail.com by 1 May 2017. The program committee will make its decisions by 15 May, and will then send out acceptance notices, conference registration forms, and payment instructions to all participants.

The conference will be held on 14-15 October at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, followed on 16 October by a tour of interesting Hong Kong places.  Registration will be US$100, and participants will pay for their own lodging. We will arrange lodging at a CUHK guesthouse (for which there are limited spaces), or at the Hyatt hotel; you will have the chance to choose which of these you would prefer. We will provide lunches and dinners and refreshments at the conference. For more details, please visit http://arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/EAAAconf/index.html.

We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong in October!

Call for Papers International Journal of Business Anthropology

The International Journal of Business Anthropology (IJBA), is a double-blinded peer reviewed journal focusing upon business anthropology supported by the College of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, the Faculty of Social Science, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, the Institute of Business Anthropology, Shantou University, which was originally published by the North American Business Press (NABP) and is currently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing starting from Vol. 6 (1) biannually in June and December every year.

The journal seeks articles by anthropologically-oriented scholars and practitioners. Regionally- focused contributions are welcome, especially when their findings can be generalized. We encourage the dialogues between the findings or theories generated from the field of business anthropology and the theories of general anthropology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, general business anthropology theories and methods, management, marketing, consumer behavior, product design and development, knowledge management and competitive intelligence, human resources management, international business, etc.

 

The objectives of IJBA are:

• Generate an exchange of ideas between scholars, practitioners and industry specialists in the field of applied and business anthropology
• Encourage bridge-building between the practitioner and the academic world
• Provide a vehicle of communication for anthropologists working within the practitioner world
• Provide a forum for work concerned with qualitative business analysis inspired by anthropological theory and methods

 

Call for Papers

We are always looking for good manuscripts! We encourage practitioners, students, community members, and faculty from all disciplines to submit articles. The Editors and one or more anonymous peer reviewers will review the manuscript prior to its acceptance for publication. In addition to research and academic articles, we feature case studies, commentaries and reviews. Please send manuscripts, news notes and correspondence to: Dr. Gang Chen, Executive Editor, via e-mail at jamesgchen1963@yahoo.com, or jamesgchen@qq.com.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

 

The journal invites paper of 4000-12000 words, including text, notes, references and appendices. All papers will be fully peer reviewed. All manuscripts should include a brief abstract (150 words maximum) and follow the Chicago Manual of Style, available at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html.  Please also note the following:

 

1. Files should be supplied in Word format. In the case of photographs/figures/tables that need to be placed in a separate section please include these in a separate file, ensuring that images are labelled with captions that are consistently positioned and formatted (see more details below). All in-text material must be included in the main files of the manuscript.
2. All authors for the paper should be clearly listed, with affiliations, in the order in which they should be published.
3. Use double quotation marks for all cases (including single words)except for quotes within quotes.
4. Authors are asked to read the Copyright and Permissions Guidance on the Cambridge Scholars Publishing website at http://www.cambridgescholars.com/t/AuthorFormsGuidelines to ensure that all material from another source is correctly referenced, and permission to republish sought where necessary.

EAAA 2016 Registration and Paper/Session Proposal Submission Site Now Open!

Dear Colleague

The online registration and paper/session proposal submission are now
available on the following site:
http://www.knt.co.jp/ec/2016/EAAA/index.html

Hotel booking and post-conference tour reservation are also available on the
above site.  You are strongly advised to book your accommodation as soon as
possible for October is one of the busiest tourist seasons in Hokkaido.

And we now call for individual papers and organized sessions for the
Sapporo meeting.

The deadline for submitting paper/session proposals is June 24.

And the extension of deadline is July 31.

The conference theme is: Culture, For or Against?: Thirty Years after
“Writing Culture”

The concept of culture, once the hallmark of modern anthropology, has been
questioned, critiqued, defended, and debated by anthropologists for three
decades since the publication of Writing Culture and Anthropology as
Culture Critique in 1986. Yet the notion of culture as a way of life is
alive and well in both political as well as everyday discourses throughout
the world. For example, governments in East Asia enthusiastically and
competitively apply to UNESCO for recognition of their traditions as
“intangible cultural heritage.” Increasing number of East Asian people
travel within the region and around the world to experience “different
cultures.” What should we do about this disparity between academic
anthropology and the world outside the academia? Is the anthropological
concept of culture still relevant? Or, is the concept obsolete? We invite
anthropologists in East Asia to address the relevance or irrelevance of the
concept of culture in the 21st century.

Theoretical as well as ethnographic papers and sessions related to the
conference theme are welcome. Those related to other themes and topics are
also welcome. We look forward to diverse papers and sessions representing
entire East Asian anthropology.

For further information please contact: Ichiro Numazaki
eaaa2016sapporo@gmail.com (or numazaki16@m.tohoku.ac.jp if you have trouble using Gmail)
The Organizing Committee for 2016 EAAA Meeting
Ichiro Numazaki, Tohoku University
Takami Kuwayama, Hokkaido University