Finnish Anthropology Conference 2010 – Helsinki 11-12th May
Ideas of Value: Inquiries in Anthropology
Call for sessions and papers:
The annual Finnish Anthropology Conference, hosted by the Finnish Anthropological Society, is being held in Helsinki in May 2010 and proposals for sessions and individual papers are now being invited. The principal theme of the conference – Ideas of Value – introduces a notion which been employed in anthropology and related disciplines to illuminate economic, ethical, linguistic, aesthetic, and political aspects of the human experience. The multiple meanings and uses of the value concept connect it to a wide variety of research topics: money and currencies, art and material culture, social movements and political values, ethics and religion, language and speech - just to mention a few examples. Exploration of the concept, therefore, is an important conference goal.
However, in order to embrace everyone interested in making contact with fellow researchers in the Nordic/Baltic region, we also encourage papers and sessions on any inquiry of value to anthropology and the human sciences more broadly.
Abstracts of session content and individual papers (approximately 250 words) are invited: the deadline for session proposal is 31st Jan. 2010; for individual papers – 7th Feb. Please submit these as word file attachments to marie-louise.karttunen@helsinki.fi
A second call for papers will be made when sessions are finalized in early March and will be posted on the Society’s web page: http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/home/
Proposed sessions to date:
Connecting theories of value
Visual art meets anthropology
Remembering and the present
Contemporary kinship and contemporary theories of kinship
Land rights and political ecology
The material body
Ethnicity and group formation
Confirmed Key Note Speakers:
Keith Hart (Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Goldsmiths & University of London)
Jukka Siikala (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Helsinki)
Martin Holbraad (University College London)
To assist with running costs, a conference fee of 50€ is payable by non-members of the Finnish Anthropological Society; alternatively, yearly membership of the Society is 35€ and includes delivery of the quarterly publication: “Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society” (a possible publication venue for conference papers). Details of membership requirements are available on the Society’s web pages.
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