Tag Archives | circulation

CFP: “Threads of Circulation”

By Aaron Glass on January 13, 2014 in Conferences and other events

Ohio State University, Department of History of Art

Columbus, OH, April 11 – 12, 2014

Proposals due: January 17, 2014 (extended deadline)

This conference seeks papers that address and examine the shifting  trajectories and connected histories of individual objects and  ideologies across time and space. Over the last decade, there has been  increased interest in network culture in ancient cultures, the early  modern world, and postmodern globalization. This conference will focus  on the ways in which material culture – singular artworks, objects, and  technologies – reveals what Sanjay Subrahmanyam proposes as “the at  times fragile threads that connect the globe.” In paying particular  attention to perhaps paradoxical heterogeneity and following the “fragile threads” of memory, history, and culture, this conference  confronts and questions historical and cultural transmission across  time and space.…

The Unbearable Lightness of Things

By Heather Horst on October 23, 2013 in Notes from the Field

By Marta Vilar Rosales

Centre for Research in Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, UNL, Portugal

The project “Atlantic Crossings: materiality, contemporary movements and policies of belonging” is a quest to follow the objects in particular, and “things” in general. From surveys in Lisbon, Oporto, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro to ethnographies of transnational families spanning these contexts, the project will unpack the lived experiences of Brazilians and Portuguese circulating between their respective home countries. The goal is to understand the difference materiality makes in dynamics of international mobility. Instead of asking “what’s in a name”, we ask “what about what’s in a suitcase?” And, for that matter, what’s in the packages sent from home? What will be bought with remittances money?…

Becoming Exotic

By Aaron Glass on July 12, 2013 in Conference and Event Reports

Notes on the Workshop “Objects from Abroad: The Life of Exotic Goods in France and the United States”

by Noémie Étienne (Wissenschaftliche Assistentin, Univ. of Zurich)

Fig. 1. Eugène Boban’s importation and exchanges network, between 1870 and 1890. © Manuel Charpy.

The interdisciplinary conference “Objects from Abroad: The Life of Exotic Goods in France and the United States”, held at the Centre for International Research in the Humanities, New York University, in April 2013, addressed the question of the lives of exotic objects in the United States and France between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Within this context, the focus was on Western use, display and function of objects coming from “abroad”: in other words, on the consumption of material culture according to the expression used by Ann Bermingham.…

CFP: Australian Anthropological Society Conference 2013

By Heather Horst on June 11, 2013 in Announcements and Listings, Conferences and other events

Australian Anthropological Society Annual Conference 2013

Theme: The Human in the World, the World in the Human

Australian National University
6-8 November 2013

The theme of this conference embraces anthropology’s enduring commitments to grappling with the human condition in the widest terms. Yet it also directs attention to the ways in which the interrelated concepts, ‘human’ and ‘world’, receive critical disciplinary attention in the present. While anthropologists have always been interested in how particular environmental, social or political worlds shape and are shaped by human existence, the theme attends to the urgency that such questions take at a time when the limits and potentialities of what ‘human’ and ‘world’ mean are subject to searching re-examination. Climate change, developments in bio-technology, securitization and supply-chain capitalism, and processes of forced and voluntary migration are among an array of issues that challenge and stimulate the conceptual and ethnographic work of anthropologists in the present.…

CFP: IU/OSU Student Conference: Publics and Networks: Discourse, Circulation, and Power

By Aaron Glass on December 28, 2012 in Conferences and other events

March 1 – 2, 2013; Indiana University, Bloomington

The 6th annual collaborative conference between The Ohio State University Folklore Student Association and the Folklore & Ethnomusicology Student Associations at Indiana University aims to create a space for graduate and undergraduate students to share their research in folklore, ethnomusicology, cultural studies, material culture, performance studies, and related disciplines connected to the study of academic and vernacular interpretations of everyday life.

In “Publics and Counterpublics” (2002), literary critic and social theorist Michael Warner describes a public as “a space of discourse organized by nothing other than discourse itself” (50). Publics therefore are “only realized through active uptake” (60) as individuals, communities, and institutions generate, sustain, and transform discourse through various expressive forms (material, textual, kinesthetic, etc.).…

CFP: Objects From Abroad in 18th-20th Centuries (New York, 25 Apr 13)

By Aaron Glass on December 10, 2012 in Conferences and other events

Objects From Abroad. The Life of Exotic Goods in France and the United States (18th-20th Centuries)

25th April 2012

CNRS NYU Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Transitions UMI 3199, 4 Washington Square North, New York, New York, 10003,

Deadline for abstracts : Dec 31, 2012

The development of material studies and consumption studies, of
anthropology of the material world and the material culture of art
history shows growing interest for the material dimension of pictures
and goods. This perspective calls attention to the physical and social
life of things. In this sense, our conference looks to analyse the
production of goods and their transformation, in connection with their
various uses and contexts. A historiography focusing on the
construction of international spaces and exchanges through the
movements of things, goods, merchandises and artworks is currently on
its way.…

Navigation

Tag Archives | circulation