Fw: H-ASIA: CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories

> H-ASIA
> March 29, 2011
>
> CFP AAA Panel: Oppositional Histories
> ******************************************************************
> From Ian Wilson <iawilson@syr.edu>
>
> I would like to submit the following call for this up-coming year's AAA.
>
> Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past
>
> Seeking Paper Proposals for American Anthropological Association (AAA)
> Meeting.
>
> Conference to be held from November 16-20, 2011 in Montreal, Canada.
>
> E-Mail Initial Proposal Abstract by April 8th to iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu
> Panel to be submitted by April 15th.
>
> Oppositional Histories: Contentious Uses of and Engagements with the Past
>
> The past is an important resource in the continual transformation and
> re-creation of all types of communities. Social actors variously use and
> engage this resource through diverse types of practices, including writing
> formal historiography, holding public commemorations, performing and
> creating works of art, and engaging in more informal modes of storytelling
> and discussion. Often within a single social field or overlapping social
> fields, a number of actors, either individuals or organizations, are
> engaged in multiple projects, sometimes concerted and sometimes
> contradictory, of creating and re-creating social groups, demarcating
> boundaries between groups, and rethinking broader structures of relations
> between social groups that involve drawing upon and/or reworking
> conceptions of the past.
>
> In this call for papers for a panel for this year's meeting of the
> American Anthropological Association (AAA), I am hoping to hear from
> scholars who have conducted ethnographically grounded considerations of
> how one or more sets of actors engage with and/or use knowledge and
> conceptions of the past in order to establish or unsettle, affirm or
> question, or otherwise rethink particular community formations and their
> place within the present. Orientation within this broad problematic may
> shift and develop as a result of submitted abstracts.
>
> Thank you,
> Ian Wilson iawilson@maxwell.syr.edu
> PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology
> Syracuse University
> Syracuse, New York
>
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