芝加哥大学北京中心：2012年夏季人类学研究生会议
2012-06-03 来源：阿拉胖泪的日记
论文征稿
议题：境/界：对当代性的人类学讨论
时间：2012年8月24日至25日
地点：芝加哥大学北京中心
北京市海淀区中关村大街甲59号
文化大厦20层
组织者：马志莹、刘雪婷、Kiho Kim、陈晨、Victoria Nguyen、书样、花苗
征稿对象：凡对于民族志研究有兴趣的研究生均可申请。我们欢迎来自各个专业领域的研究生参加本次会议。本次会议的组织者是美国芝加哥大学人类学系的一群博士研究生。围绕中国人类学的核心议题，本次会议旨在激起广阔范围的学术对话。我们欢迎基于城市、农村以及民族田野研究的论文的摘要，论文的主题包括如下领域：
日常生活中身体化的时间性
空间性/治理，如城市规划、乡村发展
关于中国农村的文化想象
社会科学与政治经济话语中的“中国模式”(“中国”和“中国模式”作为认识对象、话语、与分析范畴)
价值与知识的制度(regimes)，特别是在各个科学生产领域之中
关于期望、欲望以及焦虑的民族志文化研究
后附本次会议的内容摘要。我们希望您的作品能够有重点地与会议的主题进行深入的学术对话。
请提交您拟参会论文的中文和英文摘要(250字/词)，并附上个人简历或一页的个人介绍(请注明您的研究兴趣和领域)。申请截止日期：2012年6月 22日。我们会在2012年7月13日之前通知您相关决定。入选的参会者将在会议做15至20分钟的论文简述(presentation)。论文的全文将在一 周之前发送给参会的同组组员。您可选用中文或者英文陈述您的研究。所有摘要必须同时使用中文和英文提交。会议可为参会者提供午餐。其他费用(住宿与交通)，因为经费限制，我们暂时无法提供报销。
如有疑问请发信至：
anthrojingjie@gmail.com. 申请材料也请以e-mail及附件形式发至以上邮箱。
境/界：对当代性的人类学讨论
人类学跨越迥异的地理空间。人类学家在迥异的日程下，‘支起帐篷’完成田野工作，之后回到象牙塔中端坐以完成民族志写作。我们对研究和题目的理解，是否有可能基于一种共享的对时间的理解来阐明?在研究人员与研究对象、大学和研究机构全球扩散的背景下，不同的人类学家还是“同时代”的吗?
我们不再能假设从“西方”到一度被视为相对于“全球中心”位于“边缘”的田野地点，是人类学方法的单方向传播;乔纳斯∙费边将一些人类学作品中存在的这种思考方式称为“对同代性的否认”(Fabian, 1983)。这种认识，把从东方到西方的过程视为由少数语言和有限专家群体将“生”的田野材料加工为“熟”的观点或知识的单向传递，而后殖民研究的作品已经深刻介入、中断、甚至颠覆了以上认识。既然对历史的进化论式认识已经不再是人类学理解事实的基础，这些空间与时间的距离也在渐渐合拢。当代人类学认为， 我们许多领域内非中心的地点，恰恰是正在构造资本主义现代性新兴形式的主要所在。换言之，或许‘西方’或‘全球北方’正在追赶‘非西方’或‘全球南方’ (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2011)。
基于这些看法，此会议接受全球非中心性(global ex-centricity)，但不再认为东方、南方、西方、北方、中心等地缘政治基要空间，也不假设它们之间必然不协调。譬如，有关中国的大量现代主义人类学社会学作品，都预设现代城市中的时间线性进步而单调，乡村时间循环而诗性(Steinmuller, 2011)。而当我们愈发认识到分立的边界和轨迹最多也只能作为理想类型存在，社会科学家该如何理论化“当下”?如果人类学家致力于理解和民族国家相比既更“当地化”又更“全球化”的地点，我们如何能对研究当代中国或其他当代境地作出贡献?
跨越语言边界和学术共同体分界的人类学交流致力于追求朝向知识的共同体的社会性，而不是推进主权化的知识主体。在这次会议中，我们的目标是探索如何能在展开人类学知识制造的同时，思考和批评人类学知识制造的世界性轨迹。我们期望与中国研究生一同占据转瞬即逝却持久前卫的当代性的边界空间。
我们期待讨论的主题相当广阔，以下是几个例子：
日常生活中身体化的时间性
空间性/治理，如城市规划、乡村发展
关于中国农村的文化想象
社会科学与政治经济话语中的“中国模式”(“中国”和“中国模式”作为认识对象、话语、与分析范畴)
价值与知识的制度(regimes)，特别是在各个科学生产领域之中
关于期望、欲望以及焦虑的民族志文化研究
Call For Papers
The University of Chicago Center in Beijing, Summer 2012 Anthropology Graduate Student Conference:
Space-time: Toward an Anthropology of Contemporaneity
Time:
August 24-25, 2012
Location:
The University of Chicago Center in Beijing
20th floor Culture Plaza
No. 59A Zhong Guan Cun Street
Haidian District Beijing 100872
People’s Republic of China
Topic:
Space-time: Toward an Anthropology of Contemporaneity
Organizers:
Zhiying Ma, Xueting Liu, Kiho Kim, Chen Chen, Victoria Nguyen, Jay Schutte, Miao Jenny Hua
For whom:
This conference is open to graduate students across all disciplines sharing ethnographic concerns. The conference organizers are a group of graduate students from the University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. We hope to open up a bilingual forum for the discussion of diverse range of Chinese anthropological concerns. We welcome abstracts addressing thematic issues including the following, informed by any combination of ethnic, urban, and rural field sites:
- Embodied temporalities in everyday life
- Spatialities/Governmentalities - city planning, rural development
- Ethnographic imaginaries of the Chinese rural
- “China Model” in political-economy/social sciences - as epistemic object, discourse and analytical category
- Regimes of value and knowledge, especially in the sciences
- Aspirations, desires, anxieties
The conference abstract is appended, and we highly encourage you take it into dialogue.
Please submit two abstracts in, English and Chinese, 250 words each. A CV or a one-page personal introduction, including research interests, should be submitted along with the abstracts. APPLICATIONS ARE DUE: June 22, 2012. Decisions will be made before July 13, 2012. Selected applicants will be expected to give a 15-20 minute presentation. The paper on which it is based will be circulated amongst panelists a week before the conference. The paper and presentation can be in either Chinese or English. Only the abstract needs to be submitted in both languages. The conference will provide lunch, but presenters should expect to take care of expenses for lodging and transportation.
Please send all inquiries and submissions to:
anthrojingjie@gmail.com
Conference Abstract:
Anthropology traverses vastly disparate geographies. Anthropologists "pitch their tents" to do fieldwork, and sit in “ivory towers” to write ethnographies, on disparate schedules. Can we make sense of our projects and our topics within a shared understanding of time? Are anthropologists “contemporaries” within the global diffusion of researchers and research subjects, universities and research centers?
We can no longer assume the unidirectional diffusion of anthropological methods from “the West” to field sites once seen as “peripheral” to “global centers;” such a familiar trajectory entrenched a “denial of coevalness” in some anthropology (Fabian, 1983). Postcolonial scholarship has done much to interrupt and even invert any such one-way passage from East to West, a process in which “raw” field data were once thought to become “cooked” ideas or knowledge only in a few languages and among a few expert groups. Now that an evolutionary concept of history has ceased to hold as the foundation upon which anthropology can ground its facts, these distances in space and time are closing. Contemporary anthropology suggests that the ex-centric sites of our many fields have become the principal places where capitalist modernity’s emergent formations are being configured. In other words, perhaps “the West” or global North is playing catch-up to the non-West or global South (Comaroff & Comaroff, 2011).
Building on these ideas, this conference accepts global ex-centricity, but presumes no necessary dissonance between East, West, North, South and Center as cardinal, geopolitical spaces. Much modernist anthropology/sociology of China, for instance, has separated the progressive and rationalized time of the modern city from the cyclical and poetic time of the countryside (Steinmuller, 2011). As we increasingly realize boundaries and trajectories of “culture” to be ideal types at best, how should anthropologists theorize the present? What can anthropologists contribute to studies of contemporary China, or other contemporary worlds, as we seek significance in places both more local and more global than the nation-state?
Anthropological exchange across the frontiers of languages and scholarly communities seeks to achieve a sociality of knowledgeable bodies rather than advance sovereign bodies of knowledge. In this conference we explore the ways in which the world-wide trajectory of anthropological knowledge-making can be considered and critiqued in its unfolding. We seek to occupy the boundary space of contemporaneity, at once evanescent and vanguard, together with Chinese graduate student researchers.
In this workshop, we welcome papers that address a broad range of topics included but not limited to the following:
- Embodied temporalities in everyday life
- Spatialities/Governmentalities - city planning, rural development
- Ethnographic imaginaries of the Chinese rural
- “China Model” in political-economy/social sciences - as epistemic object, discourse and analytical category
- Regimes of value and knowledge, especially in the sciences
- Aspirations, desires, anxieties
