CASCA-AES Conference Archive

Congratulations to Organizers and Participants for another excellent conference!

Welcome

This conference, jointly organized by the Canadian Anthropology Society and the American Ethnological Society, aims to stimulate debate and encourage collaboration across the boundaries of geography, discipline and membership.

The theme "Indigeneities and Cosmopolitanisms" points to tensions animating contemporary anthropology and challenges us to think creatively about the politics of recognition, inclusion and exclusion, rights to scarce resources, sovereignty and citizenship, and conflict and violence.

The conference program will include presentations of papers in sessions and through organized symposia, as well as roundtables and workshops . We especially encourage sessions that bring together colleagues from different disciplines, institutions and society memberships, and that include both faculty and graduate students.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions or need any additional information. We'd be delighted to hear from you.

We look forward to receiving your proposals and to welcoming you to the conference.

University of Toronto, Department of Anthropology

General Information

Conference Fees

All participants must have registered their membership with either CASCA or AES and paid for conference registration fee prior to submitting abstracts. Paper and Session proposals will not be accepted until all required conference and membership registration fees have been paid.

Submissions

We invite anyone interested in offering a paper or organizing a panel session, roundtable or workshops to submit their proposal to the programme committee by using the submission forms contained in this website. You may propose a series of panels as a symposium.

NEW: The deadline for submissions has been extended. The new deadline is March 1st.

All proposals for papers, sessions, symposia, roundtables and workshops must be submitted by using the submission forms contained in this website.

Cancellation Policy: If your proposal is not accepted and/or you wish to cancel your participation you may apply for a refund of the conference registration fees. Requests may be sent by email up to and including March 15, 2007. A $30 processing fee will be deducted. There will be no refunds for withdrawals after March 15th, 2007.

You are also welcome to participate in one of the symposia that have already been organized within the conference:

FEAR   This symposium, organized by faculty and graduate students at the University of Toronto, examines fear as an organizing principle of social life, as a consistent object of ethnographic inquiry, and as a phenomenon with urgent political stakes in local and global arena. Understanding what it is that people fear, and how their fear is manifested, offers powerful insights on cosmologies, epistemologies, and social relations. This symposium is open to anyone who would like to participate. We invite anyone interested in organizing a panel or offering a paper on this topic to to include the title "FEAR" in the appropriate box on the volunteered paper or the organized session submission form when you make your submission.

If you are a participant in one of the sessions for Margaret Lock being organized by Naomi Adelson and Pamela Wakewich please include the title "Margaret Lock" in the appropriate box on the organized session submission form when you make your submission. These sessions are being organized by invitation.

If you are a participant in one of the session for the Richard Lee: The Retirement Sessions please include the title "Richard Lee" in the appropriate box on the organized session submission form when you make your submission. These sessions are being organized by invitation.

Confirmation Letters

All members who submit proposals for papers, sessions, workshops, roundtables and symposia for the conference will be emailed letters of acceptance or rejection between March 1st and 15th. If you are a session, workshop or roundtable participant and have not heard about your proposal by March 15th, contact your session, workshop or roundtable organizer. If you submitted an individually volunteered paper and have not heard by March 15th, email us right away. Please check the final conference programme (which will be posted on the conference website) for possible scheduling changes.

Payment and Submission Deadlines

* Please note: In order to be included in the conference program you must have completed CASCA membership or AES membership and conference registration and payment on or before 15 February 2007. Unfortunately, we are unable to programme any proposals before payment has been completed and we will be unable to accept late submissions.