Dear Colleagues,
The Current Ethnography and Social Theory Workshop is pleased to announce its Call for Papers for the 2024-25 academic year. Please send us your proposals by September 25th.
The workshop invites submissions from Graduate Students and Teaching Fellows using ethnographic methods. Current Ethnography and Social Theory is an intellectual forum that invites substantive and continuous conversation between students in anthropology and those located in other disciplines historically concerned with social, economic, and cultural analysis. We offer students opportunities to theorize common concerns and share ongoing work with peers. Workshop papers may be drafts of dissertation chapters, MA theses, journal articles, book chapters, and other long-form works.
Possible topics that would be at home in the workshop range from:
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Production of Knowledge and Value Systems
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The History and Future of Colonialism and Imperialism
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Capitalism and Labor, including Racial Capitalism
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Religion and Belief Systems
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Contemporary Political Formations
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Gender, Sexuality, and Queer Theory
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Affect and Emotion
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Resistance and Revolution
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Ecology and Climate Change
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Inter-Species Relations
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Health and Medicine
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Anthropology of the Future and Temporality
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Finance and Economization
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Law and Personhood
Interested presenters should email Ashima Mittal (mittala@uchicago.edu) and Matthew Rossi (matthewrossi@uchicago.edu) with the subject line [CEST Presentation Proposal] and the following details:
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Paper title
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An abstract, 250 words or less
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Type of paper (thesis, article, dissertation chapter, etc.)
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The quarters you are able to present in order of preference (Due to limited space, we ask that you list all quarters in which you are able to present.)
We request that proposals for the Fall Quarter be received no later than Wednesday, September 25th, and will continue to accept submissions for Winter and Spring on a rolling basis until December 14th. The workshop takes place every alternate Tuesday from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm in Haskell Hall. We will inform you of the finalized schedule and room by September 30th.
Submitted papers should be 6,000–8,000 words in length. We ask that accepted presenters submit their papers at least one week in advance of the workshop date so that it can be pre-circulated to the discussant and attendees. If you have a preference for your discussant, please let us know in advance alongside your submission. Otherwise, the coordinators will find a discussant relevant to your paper. We hope to build a close-knit workshop community where researchers can come together and think critically about ethnography in the world today.
All best,
Ashima and Matt