[Air-L] Deadline Extension for World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024 - Your Opportunity to Reimagine Anthropological Knowledge!

[Ricardo A. Fagoaga H.]

Exciting news from the World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024
Organizing Committee! The deadline for submitting Panel Proposals has been
extended to January 31, 2024.


Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Join us in Johannesburg, South
Africa, from November 11th to 15th, 2024, for a transformative exploration
of anthropological knowledge under the theme: "Reimagining Anthropological
Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power."


We invite you to contribute your insights to this groundbreaking event
organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of
Johannesburg.


Key Themes for Panel Proposals:

- Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines

- Politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological, and
paleo-anthropological knowledge

- Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge-making

- Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork

- Legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories

- Truth and/or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation

- Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning

- Tensions between local and academic knowledge production

- Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial
perspectives

- Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative


Submit your panel proposal by January 31, 2024:
https://bit.ly/WAUcongressPANELS


Additional Key Dates:

- Evaluation of Panels: February 22, 2024

- Announcement of Accepted Panels: March 1, 2024

- Call for Papers (abstract submission): March 8 - April 30, 2024


Don't miss the opportunity to:

- Engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with leading scholars and emerging
voices

- Share your research and insights on the future of anthropological
knowledge

- Network with colleagues from around the world

- Experience the vibrancy of Johannesburg and South Africa


Join us in reimagining anthropological knowledge at the WAU Congress 2024!
We look forward to welcoming you to Mzansi/South Africa!


Sincerely,


Organizing Committee

The World Anthropological Union Congress 2024


P.S. Extend your stay and attend the Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA)
annual conference from November 6-8, 2024: https://bit.ly/ASnA2024



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*Ricardo A. Fagoaga Hernández*
Antropólogo e Historiador
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*Academic Digital Impact Consultant* for the World Council of
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*WAU*).

*Associate Editor *of the *History of Anthropology Review* (*HAR
<https://histanthro.org>*).