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SAE Roundtables at the AAA meetings in San Jose
ÁÄ: The Society for the Anthropology of Europe will hold a luncheon from 12pm to 2pm on Saturday at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center. Each discussion leader will be at a separate table with up to 7 participants. The cost for tickets will be $30; $10 for students. Use the advance registration form on the AAA website [ http://www.aaanet.org/mtgs/2006/reg.htm ]to buy a ticket. Indicate your table selection in order of preference in the spaces provided on the form. Reservations are filled on a first come, first serve basis. Ticket cancellations are non-refundable. Tickets will be mailed two weeks before the meeting. Organizer: Sascha Goluboff (Washington and Lee University). The topics to be discussed and hosts for each roundtable are: Table 1 - CULTURAL POLICY IN THE NEW EUROPE Moderator: Jennifer Cash (University of Pittsburgh) Europe has not been bypassed by the increase in international attention to cultural protection and preservation. Rather, “cultural policy” holds an important place in the toolkit of “Europeanization” programs and processes, even in countries not acceding to the European Union. Cultural policy is also one of the means through which individual countries are negotiating their national identities and agendas within the new Europe. The discussion at this roundtable will focus on the tensions between European and national agendas related to “culture,” and the role of anthropology in this emerging form of identity politics. Individuals interested in the organization and financing of arts and culture, heritage protection and preservation, tourism, media, and minority rights are encouraged to participate. Table 2 - SPEAKING BACK TO ANTHROPOLOGY: HOW TO PITCH YOUR PROJECT BEYOND A EUROPEANIST AUDIENCE Moderator: Jessica Greenberg (University of Chicago) As anthropologists, conversations beyond our areas of regional expertise often draw into focus the theoretical and political stakes of our projects, and reveal how our particular cases give new insight into global transformations in social, political and economic life. This roundtable begins from the premise that areas of investigation such as the state, citizenship, religion, social movements, multiculturalism, race, ethnicity in Europe are critical to anthropology more generally. However, for graduate students, it is often frustrating to develop conceptual frameworks that do justice to the specificity of our field-sites while articulating the relevance of our projects to a broader audience. This roundtable will be an opportunity for younger anthropologists working in European contexts to do just that. We will begin by asking what is an anthropology in and of Europe and by thinking about the larger social and political transformations in Europe that help us bridge traditional divides of east/west and EU/non-EU. How do the way political and social changes play out in Europe give us insight into areas of central theoretical concern for anthropology? Throughout the roundtable each participant will have an opportunity to present his or her work briefly. Then the group will brainstorm about how to ‘pitch’ projects to a larger audience. In exploring the conceptual relevance of our work, we will also discuss how we can make an anthropology in and of Europe speak to the discipline. Table 3 - SEXUALITIES AND POSTSOCIALIST TRANSFORMATIONS Moderator: Hadley Z. Renkin (University of Michigan) The fifteen years since the collapse of socialism have seen the emergence of a sophisticated anthropological literature on the various “transitions.” A critical aspect of these transformations has been the relationship of these countries and their cultural changes to “Europe” – increasingly defined by the European Union. Surprisingly, sexuality and sexual politics have been largely neglected by this literature, with sexual-political movements typically viewed as indicators of either success or failure to conform to “European” values of tolerance, democracy, and civil society. Yet such issues are particularly relevant now. Lesbians and gays in postsocialist countries are challenging current cultural-political reconfigurations, and there have been homophobic responses to Pride Marches in Poland and Latvia that have not gone unnoticed by the EU. In all these activities, and in their everyday lives, lesbians and gays struggle for inclusion while balancing public and private, and national and transnational, identities, perspectives, and influences. Sexuality and sexual politics are therefore fascinating sites for exploring issues central to postsocialism: shifting subjectivities, the ambiguities of civil society, and the meanings of belonging. This workshop will interrogate current understandings of postsocialism through the lens of sexuality. We will ask: What can the changing sexual subjectivities – normative as well as alternative – of postsocialist societies tell us about their transformations? What can theories of sexuality, and work on sexuality elsewhere in Europe, contribute to our understandings of postsocialism? How can sexual politics reveal unconsidered aspects of emerging relations between old and new EU member-states? Table 4 - EURASIA AND ENVIRONMENT Moderator: Katherine Metzo (UNC-Charlotte) This roundtable centers on the intersection of two related themes: threats to “traditional” lifestyle and transboundary environmental crises. I use “traditional” rather than “indigenous” to acknowledge the historical movements of different peoples across Eurasia and the presence of blended subsistence and economic systems that combine elements of indigenous practices with those of more recent arrivals. Questions we will consider include the local implications of global climate change for livelihood strategies, the impact of foreign demand for natural resources whose extraction results in permanent changes to landscapes and lifestyles, the promotion of sustainable development projects and local perceptions about land use and the creation of new conservation areas. Table 5 - Not Available this year. Table 6 - FAITHS OF OUR FATHERS: RELIGIONS AND MODERNITIES IN THE “NEW” EUROPE Moderator: Liam D. Murphy (California State University, Sacramento) Contemporary social critics and philosophers have long since alerted anthropologists to the dangers of viewing the emergence of “modernity” in Europe and elsewhere as a simple rupture with archaic, “pre-modern” modes of worldview and political-economic practice. Instead, we are advised by such diverse theorists as Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu and Anthony Giddens to consider the hybrid and inherently variable nature of the modern world as it emerges in differing socio-cultural and historical contexts. Fuelled by globalizing processes of knowledge dispersal, partial, ongoing transformations in regional culture across the “new” Europe – itself an inchoate project of modern rationality and its discontents – have had special relevance for the anthropological investigation of religion. Viewed by some as a discarded artifact of an atavistic pre-modernity, religious faith and practice are nostalgically viewed by others as the traces of a lost golden age of dogmatic certainty and moral clarity. The problematic character of European religion in relation to modernity is complicated by its ideological intersection with ethnonationalism (for instance, in Northern Ireland, Poland, and the former Yugoslavia), its status as a marker of Otherness within EU member states (attested to by the widespread rioting by disenfranchised Muslim youth in France), and – most disturbingly – its implication as a justification for insurgent and terrorist campaigns (the effects of which have been most recently witnessed in London and Madrid, but which for years have afflicted citizens of Belfast and the Basque region, among others). Less dramatically, but of no less consequence for European subjects, the emergence of various evangelical, charismatic, and “new age” movements signals a re-working of religion to meet the intellectual and emotional needs of Europeans “disenchanted” with what Giddens has referred to as the “consequences of modernity.” In this round-table, we will discuss the implications of such hybrid forms of knowledge and practice for the future of both religion and modernity in the twenty-first century European Union. Table 7 - EXCLUSIONARY PROJECTS IN THE NEW EUROPE: DISCUSSING THE IMPACT OF ANTI-SEMITISM AND ISLAMOPHOBIA ON EUROPEAN SOCIETY Moderator: Matti Bunzl (UIUC) This roundtable will discuss current trajectories and possible outcomes of exclusionary projects in the new Europe. Taking Bunzl’s article “Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Some Thoughts on the New Europe” (American Ethnologist 32:4, 2005) as a starting point, we will talk about the problematics of categorizing contemporary discrimination against Muslims within the European Union project, the differences between “old” and “new” Anti-Semitism, the dialects between hostile and positive images of Jews and Israel among political elites, and the role of Christianity in creating contemporary European society. We will also discuss the appropriateness of using American categorizes such as race, the war on terror, and fundamentalism to understand these cultural and political transformations.
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