BRITISH
MUSEUM/SOAS 1st-3rd JUNE 2018
CALL FOR PANEL
PROPOSALS
We are very
pleased to announce the call for panel proposals for the fourth of the RAI’s recent major conferences. As before, it will be jointly organised by the RAI
and the BM’s Department for Africa, Oceania and the Americas, and held in the
Clore Centre of the British Museum. We are also very pleased to be joined by
the Department of Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
where a portion of the break-out rooms for the conference panels will be
located in the newly refurbished Paul Webley Wing of Senate House.
The RAI welcomes
panel proposals on any of the themes below. However, it would not wish to
restrict any potential suggestion, and proposals are welcome on any aspect of
the theme, whether theoretical or ethnographic. Proposals from any of the
sub-fields of anthropology (social anthropology, biological anthropology,
archaeology or linguistics) are welcome, as are those which draw across
disciplines. We would particularly welcome proposals from the museum world,
especially papers that reconsider the relationship between museums and
anthropology today and in the past.
Amongst the
possible areas which may be considered are:
·
Recent debates
in materiality, representation and relationality.
·
Performance
and aesthetics
·
Heritage,
transmission and identity
·
Art as
ethnographic resource
·
The anthropology
of creativity and art
·
The visual
perception of art and recent developments in understanding its biological basis
·
Art, craft,
technology and the reinvention of tradition in tourist art
·
The changing
relationship between archaeology, excavation, nationalism and identity.
·
Recent
developments in the anthropology of art, including ethnographic or anthropological
analysis of western and non-western art traditions, whether historical or
contemporary.
·
Art, materiality
and material culture
·
The anthropology
of art in the archaeological record, including prehistory.
·
The changing place
of art in specific geographic locations.
·
Commoditisation
of non-western art traditions in the west and the place of anthropology and
anthropologists within that process.
·
Curating and
curators, and the interface between museums and academic departments
historically and today.
·
Cultural
property, ownership and representation of ethnographic objects
·
Ethnographic
museums and their futures, including the consideration of indigenous museums.
·
Authenticity and
the politics of representation
·
Craftsmanship,
apprenticeship, and learning to become an artist.
·
The
consideration or reconsideration of the contribution of particular scholars in
the anthropology of art.
Proposals for
panels should be made by 30 June 2017 on the conference website, alongside an indication of the conference fees.
Informal enquiries
may be made to admin@therai.org.uk
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