The Call for Papers Process

You can propose a paper by clicking the "Add" button beside the panel title. You can view the panel abstracts here before proposing your paper.

Paper proposals must consist of:

• a paper title
• the name/s and email address/es of the author and co-authors
• a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
• a long abstract of fewer than 250 words

The call for Labs process

The ASA2021 Laboratories programme will provide spaces and opportunities for participants to explore the conference themes in sessions that differ from panels. With more flexible, experimental and collaborative formats, Laboratories will aim at opening up new methodological, ethical and epistemological possibilities for anthropological theory and practice.

ASA2021 asks participants to consider the following key questions: Should anthropology be held responsible for the knowledge it produces? Why and on what terms? Is it necessarily correct to expect that anthropologists have responsibilities? And if so, who defines what they are? Is irresponsibility necessarily problematic? What responsibilities might anthropology or anthropologists demand of others? And has anthropology reached its limits of its “responsible image” (as both translator and provider of qualitative analysis) in light of current indigenous critiques of ethnography?

Alongside the conference panels, the Laboratories programme aims to engage with, trouble, challenge and critique these questions so as to stimulate debate around the conference sub-themes: extinction; who speaks and for whom?; evidence; health, and wellbeing; morality and legality; irresponsibility and failure.

Laboratories will be designed as interactive, reflexive and/or experimental sessions that prioritise dialogue and the exploration of questions rather than the presentation of research results. Interdisciplinary Labs are particularly welcomed.

You can propose a lab by clicking the "Add" button beside "Laboratories" in the list.

Lab proposals should consist of:

• a lab title
• the name/s and email address/es of the Lab convenors
• a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
• a long abstract of fewer than 250 words

The long abstract should outline the Lab's requirements eg technical and material requirements. Please indicate the maximum number of participants for your Lab to run effectively, and also what participants will need (if anything) during the Lab activity.

Lab programme convenor: Dr Emily Stevenson (University of St Andrews), Selection Committee: Melissa Demian, Christos Lynteris, Stavroula Pipyrou Emily Stevenson

The call for Films process

ASA2021 invites the submission of ethnographic films to be screened at the conference, which the organising committee will consider based on the number of screening slots available and the fit between films proposed and either the overall conference theme of Responsibility, or one of the sub-themes shown above.

Proposed films must be recent, that is, they have been produced after 1 January 2018. Films that are works in progress are welcome; those proposed with a plan for active audience engagement in feedback on the film will be prioritised. Films not in English must be subtitled in English.

You can propose a film by clicking the "Add" button beside "Films" in the list.

Film proposals should consist of:

• a film title
• a short abstract for the film and its subject matter of fewer than 300 characters
• a long abstract of fewer than 250 words including the format in which the film will be brought to the conference, the length of the film, and any plans for post-screening discussion
• for works in progress, brief details of how audience feedback is to be solicited

Rules

All proposals must be made via the online form, not by email.

On submission of the proposal, the proposing author (but not the co-authors) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. Co-authors cannot be added/removed nor can papers be withdrawn by the proposers themselves - for that, please email asa2021@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Proposals will be marked as ‘submitted’ until Panel Convenors' and Selection Committee decisions are publicised on 29th May 2020. On that date proposals will be marked as accepted/rejected and the Convenors or Selection Committee will inform you of the decision.

Please note that an individual cannot present more than one paper at the ASA conference. One can of course make several proposals, but we would urge authors not to do that, as so much time gets lost in the subsequent chasing for withdrawals.

Panel convenors and paper presenters need not be members of the association. However, the ASA welcomes new members (see membership page). Members of the association and of WCAA sister-associations can register for the conference at a discounted fee.