society for the anthropology of europe

 

Call for sessions, papers and invited sessions at the 2010 aaa meetings in new orleans


sponsored panels at the 2009 aaa meetings


SAE INVITED SESSIONS


THURSDAY DECEMBER 3

[co-sponsored with the Committee on Minority Issues in Anthropology]

Old and New Minorities in Europe

Kathryn Kozaitis, Organizer

12/3/2009 1:45 PM-3:30 PM, Grand Ballroom Salon K


One Community Among The Others Of Post-Dayton Bosnia: The Jews Of Sarajevo—

      Fran Markowitz

The Roma Of Europe: A Minority That Does Not Fit—Michael Stewart

Memorial Sites and the New Politics of Identity among Muslim Albanians in the Republic of 

     Macedonia—Vaso Neofotistos

Good Minorities, Bad Minorities: Secularism and the Berber Diaspora in Europe—Paul Silverstein

Breaking the Visible Barrier: Invisibility, Belonging and the Long March to Humanity—Donald Carter

The Threat and Promise of Albanians in Greece—Kathryn Kozaitis

Discussion—Michael Herzfeld



FRIDAY DECEMBER 4

[co-sponsored with the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Studies]

The End/s Of Area Studies: Latin Americans In Europe

Jessaca Leinaweaver, Organizer

12/4/2009 1:45 PM-3:30 PM, Grand Balloom Salon IV



Fata Morgana: Latin Americans in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland –Fina Carpena-Mendez

From Caretakers to Breadwinners (and back again): Transnational Ties among Peruvians in 

     Spain—Karsten Paerregaard

Taking decisions and moving adolescents in Ecuadorian Transnational Migration—Gladis Aguirre Vidal

Is Adoption Migration? Adopted Latin Americans in Spain—Jessaca Leinaweaver

Aquí Estamos on the Blue Coast: An Ontology of Belonging for Latin Americans –Timothy Smith

Discussion—Caroline Brettell



SATURDAY DECEMBER 5

[co-sponsored as a Presidential Session]

Lévi-Strauss, Europe, And The Ends Of Anthropology

Deborah Reed-Danahay and Katherine Donahue, Co-Organizers


Morphodynamics and Agency: From Post-Structuralism to Neo-Structuralism—Albert Doja

Levi-Strauss Is (Still) Good to Think—Jill Dubisch

Lévi-Strauss and Europeanist Research—Marc Abeles

Lévi-Strauss’ Influences on Bourdieu and Bourdieu’s Response to Lévi-Strauss: 

     Habitus, Structures, and Fields—Deborah Reed-Danahay

The Human in Dissolution: Lévi-Strauss and Foucault—James Faubion

Discussion—Joelle Bahloul


More SAE panels consider these themes...


  1. The end/s of the anthropology of Europe:

  2. *How have transformations such as the creation of the European Union and the influx of "non-European" migrants into the EU challenged and politicized conceptions of Europe as place and identity, and how are anthropologists contributing to a useful knowledge of these processes?

  3. *How are these approaches and findings instructive for the anthropology of neoliberalism, state-building, globalization, and transnationalism more broadly?


The end/s of ethnography (as we knew it):

  1. *How have demographic shifts and communications technologies altered the practice of anthropology within and across European places?

  2. *How have such shifts prompted anthropologists working in Europe to innovate in terms of the ways in which they represent their "subjects"?

  3. *Furthermore, how has Europeanist ethnography responded to a situation in which many of its subjects hold multiple national/ethnic/racial allegiances or move across continents in search of work or safety, and in which the "field" may be accessed not only by plane or train but also email or skype? 

  4. *How do our interlocutors’ daily use of such technologies instruct us as to how concepts such as the "West" or "globalization" ought to be newly interrogated and newly represented?


The end/s of anthropology in the "margins"?

  1. *What possibilities do we envision for anthropological research on Western Imperium in the 21st century - whether we study "up" to figures of authority and power or "down" to the more marginalized groups geographically located within or alongside EU borders? 

  2. *How do European actors, events, and policies impact communities beyond its traditional boundaries, and how can such influence best be illuminated ethnographically?

  3. *What are the empirical, epistemological, and ethical commitments that inform these research choices?