Guideline for submitting panel proposals
Panel proposal must have information about the panel title, the name(s) of person(s) who would be responsible as the coordinator and a description about the panel (max. 350 words). Panel coordinator(s) will be responsible to select papers to be presented in the panel, a chair and/or a discussant. Each panel session has 90-minute time allocation with 3-4 presentation. An individual may serve as an coordinator, a discussant, or a chair in a number of panels.
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Deadline for panel submission : February 28, 2022
The following are some proposed topics for panels and papers in this symposium, although the range of panels and papers is not limited to these topics:
- Covid-19 pandemic and responses, for example:
- Covid 19: social, political and cultural responses
- Pandemic and the rising socio-economic, racial, and gender inequalities
- Pandemic and mental health issues
- Communicating the risks
- “Modern” vs “traditional” medical treatments
- Covid-19 and Indigenous communities: questioning the pandemic’s impact
- Risk and responses, for example:
- Faith and spirituality in the time of crisis
- Communicating risk in the context of health and warming climate
- Fake news and post-truth politics: The effect and the challenge in communicating risk
- Anthropology, disaster and responses, for example:
- Community-based disaster response
- Social inequalities and responses to disaster
- Local knowledge vs. scientific knowledge: debates in disaster and its responses
- Measures to enhance or to hinder participation of local populaces in recovery efforts
- Environmental issues, for example:
- Coastal communities in the context of climate change
- Climate change and agrarian politics
- Climate change’s impact upon the uses of traditional environmental knowledge
- Anthropogenic climate change and local responses
- Environmental movements and state policies
- How climate change worsens gender inequality
- Social institutions, for example:
- Precariousness of life and the importance of systems of care and support
- Anthropological analysis on institutions in the context of crisis
- Critical analysis of the PentaHelix concept and policy: Does it really work? Is it transferable to regions outside the European Union?
- Art and performances at the time of crisis
- New norms of economic oppression
- Social effects of new living arrangements such as extended temporary housing
- Methodology:
- Reflecting on “doing fieldwork” in the time of the crisis
- Virtual field work when face-to-face participant observation is precluded
- Dilemmas of research and active intervention in disaster contexts
- Humanitarian, governance issues, and gender perspectives, for example:
- Migration and transnational mobility
- Adaptability and coping responses
- Anthropology, humanitarian aids and politics of exceptionalism
- Interrogating asylum from containment to care
- Gender perspectives on humanitarian responses and governance