The Anthropology Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) is pleased to announce the 2011 graduate student conference “Explorations in Practice” which will be held on Friday March 18 and Saturday March 19, 2001.
Museum studies, history, geography, the arts, as well as archaeology, linguistic, visual, and socio-cultural anthropology embody wide ranges of techniques and strategies to explore the human experience. Their multiple perspectives and trajectories converge on the concept of practice. Discussions of practice can range from research methods to its use as a framework for conceptualizing human behaviour. How do we understand this range of experience between practice in research and the everyday practice of living? What strategies might we use? What are the implications of such a distinction? This conference provides the opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students in these and other disciplines to explore ideas of practice as it applies to their research.
We invite you to submit paper and poster abstracts and visual works by Friday February 11, 2011 toanthconfubc@gmail.com. Please limit abstract to 150 words and 3-4 keywords.
For submission of visual works (two-dimensional) please include the materials and dimensions of your work, installation requirements, and an abstracted artist statement up to 150 words and 3-4 keywords. A short biography and link to samples of your work or your website would also be appreciated. Selected works will be exhibited in the Anthropology building as a project for enriching conference spaces as platforms promoting creativity in the visualization of practice.
Suggested ideas for papers and posters include, but are certainly not limited to:
Updates, the program, keynote speakers and the poster pdf will be posted on the conference website:http://anthgradconf.alyanne.net/index.html
Please circulate widely to interested parties and direct any questions to anthconfubc@gmail.com
