Instead, the Workshop is concerned with ethnographic and philosophical questions embedded in the relation between self/subject making and worldliness (how do people fashion their self in relation to what kind of world? what types of assumptions does the self make about the world he or she inhabits?). As much as possible, these questions will be grounded in the "archives" of the present (splintered forms of urbanism; how people move, the spaces within which they move; the tragic link observed all over Africa between the structures of societies and the dynamic of war, disease and poverty; consumption and lifestyles; sex, risk and death; the lived experience of the healing rituals in charismatic religions; the relationships between sonorities and the human person; visual images - photography, painting, cinema and other forms of writing, architecture - the body and experiences of corporeal limits and extensions; desires and fantasies, new technologies; understandings of what constitutes well-being).

A limited number of places are available. Those willing to submit papers for the Workshop should email a one page abstract to the address below no later than May 31, 2002. Those whose abstracts will be selected will be informed about the logistics of the Workshop during the first week of June 2002.

Please find a more detailed call for papers on our website. This symposium is organised by WISER, The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research in collaboration with The International Network on Globalization (Yale University, USA) & The History of Memory Chair (Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada).