American Anthropological Association

Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic issue on the future/s of anthropology. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word biosketch to editor Dinah Winnick (dwinnick [at] aaanet.org) by August 15. Selected authors will be asked to submit commentaries of 1000-1400 words or shorter pieces for other article types.

This topic responds to the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting theme “The End/s of Anthropology,” prompting conversations on contemporary challenges facing the discipline and innovative visions of new directions, goals, audiences, theoretical orientations and methodologies. Proposed articles may address a variety of issues related to this theme, including (but not limited to):

• What does our increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement mean for the future of anthropology?
• How will the diffusion of anthropological theory and practice into other disciplines impact anthropology education and how we identify as anthropologists?
• How will we experience the relation between academic and practicing anthropology, and anthropology as a four-field discipline, in future years?
• How will US-based anthropologists’ increasing awareness of and engagement with vibrant scholarly communities outside the US impact the discipline?
• How are anthropology’s relationships to various publics and disciplines changing?
• What kinds of publics might we seek to address or produce with our work, and how do we push the field’s epistemological and presentational conventions to effectively do so?
• How must we rethink notions of space and time in relation to new anthropological subjects and audiences, including migrant, diasporic, transnational and digital communities?
• How do we conceptualize the proliferation of mass mediated intimacies, and what can this tell us about new forms of engagement?

Article proposal submission deadline: August 15, 2009

www.aaanet.org/issues/anthronews/CFP-Futures-of-Anthro.cfm