Scientific Program
We are pleased to present you the program of VANDA 2024, click on the button to view the final timetable. Please find the schedule of the presentations as well as all paper abstracts as PDF in the respective workshop section below.
Regular Conference
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KEYNOTE: Extractivism from below – perspectives from a Southeast Asian resource frontier
Judith Bovensiepen (Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
In 2022, José Ramos-Horta, President of Timor-Leste and Nobel Peace Prize Winner went to Australia to negotiate a deal over the development of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas fields that lie in the sea separating both countries. When asked about how the project could be justified given its climate change impacts, Horta’s message was basically “stop lecturing us about making money from fossil fuels”. From the perspective of Timor-Leste, warnings about the climate change impact of developing oil and gas revealed a colonial and hypocritical attitude by Europeans who have been polluting the earth for centuries. This perspective poses a challenge to current environmental movements by highlighting a contradiction between the desire to transition away from fossil fuels and the movements’ decolonising agenda. To examine this tension in more detail, this talk will examine the global phenomenon of extractivism from two marginal perspectives. On the one hand, from the perspective of Timorese political leaders – the underdogs in negotiations over ownership of oil and gas deposits with the country’s more powerful neighbour Australia. The leaders’ resource nationalism has been shaped by experiences of violence and colonial occupation and is used to legitimise extractive activities in the present. On the other hand, from the perspectives of subsistence farmers affected by contemporary oil and gas developments, who actively integrate animist practices into extractive logics. Their cooperation with the national oil and gas industry interrogates prevailing representations of indigenous epistemologies as being at odds with modernist logics of extraction. By examining ‘extractivism from below’, this paper develops an approach that challenges dichotomous analytical approaches to extractivism and zooms in on ambiguous attitudes towards resource development to illuminate often overlooked aspects of global capitalism.
Monday, September 23, 2024 | 06:30pm | Main Ceremonial Hall, University Main Building (Openining Ceremony starts at 06:00pm)
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03. Anthropology, loneliness and food practices. Contemporary theories and ethnographies
Conveners: Lorenzo Mariano JUÁREZ, David Conde CABALLERO, Elena Freire PAZ
Contact: lorenmariano@unex.es
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 2
- Elena Freire Paz, David Conde Caballero & Lorenzo Mariano Juárez: Loneliness, food and ageing. Notes for an ethnography in Spain.
- Amanda Krzyworzeka: Loneliness of farmers as a side-effect of modernising the food-production industry in Poland
- Constantine S.L. Loum: FOOD AS A ‘COMPANION’ IN LONELINESS: A REVIEW OF FOOD CULTURE AMONG ACHOLI PEOPLE OF NORTHERN UGANDA.
- Cut Fatimatuzzahra: “I Don’t Want to Look Miserable”: Solo Dining Culture In the Eyes of Indonesian Young Adults (online)
- Tereza Kroužková: Elderhood, taste and loneliness: food as a mirror of social change
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 2
- Adrija Basu: Memory, Melancholia, Malady, and Meal: Tracing the impact of loneliness and food on motherhood in Jhumpa Lahiri’s works (online)
- Jinghan Ma: Binge Eating to Fill the Emptiness: Voices from Young Urban Women in Contemporary China (online)
- Diego Allen-perkins: Eating alone in old age: An ethnography of the food practices among older adults in La Vera, Spain (online)
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04. AI and “The House of One’s Dreams”
Conveners: Iraj Esmaeilpour GHOOCHANI, Don. KUNZE
Contact: iradjesmailpour@gmail.com
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 4
- Fatemeh Naji Meydani: The Labyrinth of mind: From Negation’s concentric nature to Hal’s odyssey
- Arash Madani and Sina Zeinal Zadeh: AI and the Designer of One's Dream
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 4
- Jodi La Coe, Berrin Terim: Anamorphic House
- Don Kunze: Cultures Talk: The (la-)Language of the Tiny House
- Iraj Esmaeilpour Ghoochani: Heart as the Tiny House
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05. Artefacts for the Dead: Interdisciplinary Explorations
Conveners: Mostafa ALSKAF, Isabella BOSSOLINO
Contact: mostafa.alskaf@ulb.be
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 4
- Rachel Phillips: Art(efacts) for the Dead: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Mycenaean Burials
- Giacomo Vizzino: Funerary deposits as a reflection of past societies: analysis of the burials of Alezio and Vaste in the IV-III centuries BC
- Lyubov Liski, Tamaz Phutkaradze: Semiotic aspect of funeral artifacts in Georgia grave complexes during the middle ages and their functioning in funeral rites
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 4
- Mordechai Zalkin: "Deus de monumento lapis": Epitaphs as a Source for Social Analysis
- Ismo Björn, Olga Davydova-Minguet: Finnish Cemetery in a Transnational Era
- Artem Ananev: Home and life in the "other world". The object code of the Mari funeral tradition
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 4
- Yuan Zhang: Death Artefacts in Shanxi: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Graves, Kinship, and Memory
- Rebecca Sabatini: Exposing mummies: the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo
- Michal Uhrin: Transformation of funeral rituals: Houses of mourning and their influence on the funeral process in rural Slovakia.
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06. Anthropology of Creativity – East Asia through the Lens of Artistic and Everyday Creative Practices
Conveners: Klaus J. FRIESE, Anna-Maria STABENTHEINER
Contact: klausjfriese@hotmail.com
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 3
- Hans Thomsen: Creativity through Imitation: Aspects of Japanese Learning (online)
- TAKAHASHI Momoka: Hidden creativities of engraving and printing in Nishiki-e from pre-modern Japan (online)
- Antonella Gasdia: Shaping creativity through art and literature - The cases of Sin Saimdang, Han Kang and Suzy Lee (online)
- LIN Leiyi: The modern metamorphosis: from monkeys and capybaras to the logic of everyday creativity on Chinese social media
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 3
- Guilherme Figueiredo: Onisube: The Japanese Festival as a Poetic Act (online)
- Alberto Gerosa: Chicken Blood
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07. Hard to Digest. Ethnographic Research on Agrifood Systems in the Age of Polycrisis
Conveners: Paul SPERNEAC-WOLFER, Stefan VOICU
Contact: paul.s-wolfer@web.de
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 3
- Barbora Kyereko: Colonial Legacies and Trust Dynamics in Cocoa Production in Ghana: A Symmetrical Analysis of Agrifood Systems in the Global South
- Alexandra Leca: Labeling of olive oil in the productions of small farmers in Greece
- Ilze Mileiko: Forming food consumption habits in places of change: the case of Latvian rural youth amid the changing rural foodscape
- Markus Enk: Agroforestry Systems and participative floristic survey methods as technical objects among the Apurinã in the Caititu Indigenous Land, Brazilian Amazon
- Mariachiara Ficarelli: Wasted Energies: On the Life and Times of Clams and Methane in the Po River Delta.
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08. Transition in Health
Conveners: Eva-Maria KNOLL, Malgorzata RAJTAR
Contact: eva-maria.knoll@oeaw.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 5
- Karine Aasgaard Jansen: Transition in menstrual health: From hygiene to human right
- Kristine Krause: Care transitions, housing positionalities and anticipation work
- Christina Dam Jacobsen: Halfway Home – An anthropological study of a discharge unit in the Danish Regional Psychiatry
- Laila Rajani: Psychiatry in a time of flux: notes from an outpatient psychiatry clinic in Tharparkar, Pakistan
- Julia Demirdizen: "It's more about living than dying" - Volunteers' perspectives on childhood, death and care in Berlin
- Eva-Maria Knoll: Stuck in the pediatric ward: Shortcomings in thalassaemia transition in the Maldives
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 5
- Malgorzata Rajtar: “First survivors”: Uncertainty, anticipation, and transition in rare metabolic disorders
- Virginie Córdoba-Wolff: A socio-anthropological approach of the passage towards becoming gluten-sensitive
- Katinka Weber: Reflections on the Potential of a Community-Based Arts Intervention in Mali to TransformFood Hygiene and Child Nutrition Practices
- Jasmina Polovic: From Disordered Worlds to Disordered Minds: Mental Health Epidemic in Postsocialist Slovenia
- Kriss Fearon: Women with Turner syndrome (TS): pushing back against the stigma of medically-managed transitions
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09. More-than-text, less-than-? Reflections on Multimodality in Mobility and Migration Studies
Conveners: Paul SPERNEAC-WOLFER, Piotr GOLDSTEIN
Contact: paul.s-wolfer@web.de
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 3
- Laura Lamas Abraira: Mapping the other(ed) city: Migrant domestic workers’ crafted cartographies of Hong Kong
- Alberto Gerosa Volontè: Dea, Migrants Built this City
- Iepke Rijcken: Blueprint for the Future: Insights from Multimodal Collaborative Research with Migrants and Cross-border Workers
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10. Everyday Activism and Citizenship from Below: Responses to EU Border and Migration Regimes
Conveners: Monika PALMBERGER, Elissa HELMS
Contact: monika.palmberger@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 1
- Sarian Jarosz: ‘I don't care if it's legal’ State hostility and criminalization of border solidarity infrastructures at the Polish borders after 2021
- Ignacio Fradejas-García: Resistance and Contestation to Immobilization Regimes in the EU: The Case of the Canary Islands Migratory Route (online)
- Charlotte Naab: Emergent Solidarities - the Anti-/Politics of Migrant Support in Gran Canaria
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 1
- Beatriz de Figueiredo: "Tutto per Tutti” — Building Migrant Solidarity in the Neapolitan Commons (online)
- Asja Hrvatin: Autonomous Social Work as Tool for Dismantling Fortress Europe
- Piotr Goldstein: Everyday Migrant Activism Meets Activism Across the Life Course: Insights from 10+ years of research with (everyday) migrant activists (online)
- Cyrille Cartier, Romana Pozniak: Radicalizing with care in an art cooperative: (in)visible care and care labor as political acts (online)
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11. Communities, Digitalisation and its Challenges: Perspectives from South Asian countries
Conveners: Pratisha BORBORAH, Jyoti DAS
Contact: pratisha.borborah@cottonuniversity.ac.in
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 2
- Ali Reza Hussaini: Tweets for Islamic Emirates
- Dev Krishnan Anil: Social Solidarity and Civic Engagement through Social Media: A Study of Kudumbashree Community WhatsApp Groups in Kerala, India
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12. Stories, Sounds and Sentiments - Exploring ‚Relational Aesthetics‘ of Social Worlds
Conveners: Martin BÜDEL, Daniel JÁKLI
Contact: buedelma@uni-mainz.de
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 3
- Milena Pugina: Performative Nature of human-animal interaction within the urban space (online)
- Sophia Danielle Luongo: Fluid Boundaries: Regional Imaginaries of the Danube River
- Otar Chanturidze: Aesthetics of Alterity. Human-animal interaction in nomadic reindeer herders of the Arctic region
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 3
- Shona Desilva: Harmonising Heritage: An Analysis of the Goan Mando as a Relational Performing Art (online)
- Elena Kuznetsova: Reconstruction of Architecture and (re)creation of social spaces: case of the Russian North’s wooden churches
- Eva Fekonja: Aesthetics of Authenticity: Insights from three Slovenian singing choirs
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14. Digital Ethnography in Post-Pandemic Times: Reflections, Implications, and Innovations
Conveners: Suzana JOVICIC, Philipp BUDKA, Monika PALMBERGER
Contact: suzana.jovicic@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 1
- Maria Schlechter: The digital ethnographer as translator between social worlds
- Gabriella Shriner: Crafting Community: An Exploration of Fiber Artists’ Identities and Craft-Based Practices in Tucson, Arizona, USA, On-site
- Gavin Xun Zhou: WeChat trade-off, On-site
- Francesco Bachis: An Ethnographer Out of Place: Reflections on Time and Space in a TikTok Ethnography, On-site
- Adriana Moreno: Profane Knowledge and Remediations in Digital Ethnography: The Via Regia to Empirical Knowledge about Vitality, Online
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 1
- Carmen Pereyra, Yolanda López García: Postdigital Practices and Migration: Challenges and Approaches in Studying Facebook Online Communities of Latin American Migrant Women in Germany, On-site
- Deanna Holroyd: The Digital Flaneur: Moving towards a feminist ethnographic practice for studying cross-platform social media trends, Online
- Tushnim Gangopadhyay: How the Pandemic Changed Gaming: An Autoethnographic Case Study of an Indian Gamer, Online
- Luise Erbentraut: Ethical Navigations in the Digital Research Sphere with Generative AI: Queer Image Practices of the Nude and the Challenges of Becoming Visible, On-site
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16. Ecologies of Conflict: Exploring the Nexus of Violence, Environment, and [More than] Human Relations
Conveners: Annika SCHMEDING, Dat NGUYEN
Contact: annika.schmeding36@gmail.com
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 3
- Shamshad Bashir: Memories, Testimonies: The Imprints of ‘Living Violence’ in Kashmir
- Miss Daud: Cultural Genocide: An Examination of its Exclusion from the Genocide Convention and its Implications for Indigenous Communities and Environment
- Annika Schmeding: The Place that wasn’t empty: Environmental War legacies in Afghanistan
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 3
- Martin Thalhammer: Tite Conflicts in and over Forests: Towards a Multi-species Political Ecology of Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Upper Austria and Beyond
- Paul Christensen: Sandscapes and Slow Violence: Social and Environmental Implications of Sand Mining in the Mekong Region of Cambodia
- Dat Nguyen: On the Land of the War Dead: Human Remains Recovery, Aquaculture, and Spirituality in Contemporary Vietnam
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17. Tracing Legal Artifacts in Contexts of Violence
Conveners: Talia KATZ, Anna WHERRY
Contact: tkatz1@jhu.edu
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 5 | Room 4
- Talia Katz: On The Disappointments of the Human: Psychodrama and the Eichmann Trial
- Anna Wherry: Documents in the Grip of Doubt: Household, Madness, and the Real after Demobilization in Colombia
- Marina Vieira: Race and Objects on Trial: From Persecution to Cultural Heritage
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18. Digital narratives: Exploring digital dimensions of shared experiences and collective memory
Conveners: Daniele KARASZ, Sladana ADAMOVIC
Contact: daniele.karasz@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 3
- Julia Verbeek: Preserving Tibet - digital technologies as a means of sharing life and keeping memories alive along generations
- Evgenija Filova: Permissible Truths: Who can talk about racism in Germany and how?
- Stephanie Shakay Tierney: From Digital Narrative to Activist Action: Memorialising Scotland’s Witchcraft Trials through Digital Technologies
- Irene Marti Gil: Intangible Collectors and Digital Museums: Where Technoculture, Mass-consumerism, and Post-materialism Coalesce.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 3
- Sladana Adamovic/Irena Klissenbauer/Klaudija Bilic-Selmanovic: The Museum of Survivors: Bridging Communities through Digital Storytelling
- Ergün Özgür: Madımak Hotel’ - A Museum of Shame: A Counter - commemorative space by the Alevi Community
- Maria Schlechter: The temporal dimension of digital app-based memory work of teenagers
- Oksana Kravchenko: The impact educational digital technologies have on preserving, disseminating, and interpreting collective memory and shared experiences of students
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19. Building Tomorrow: Exploring Infrastructures and Futurities
Conveners: Philipp BUDKA, Giuseppe AMATULLI, Ria-Maria ADAMS
Contact: philipp.budka@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 2 & 3 | Room 1
- Giuseppe Amatulli: Defining modernity through infrastructures: when the narrative is used to shape a specific vision of the future
- Philipp Budka: Notes on the Transformation of a Railway in Northern Manitoba, Canada
- Manggala Ismanto: Navigating the future of Nusantara: Negotiation around Infrastructure(s) Development in Indonesia’s New Capital City
- Yakov Lurie: The Margins of Development: roadside trade and uncertain futures in contemporary Russia
- Olga Povoroznyuk, Peter Schweitzer, Alexandra Meyer: Reconfiguring Infrastructures, Revisioning Futures: The InfraNorth Scenario Workshops in Kirkenes
- Katrin Schmid: Building Forever: How Mining Infrastructure Moulds Nunavut Futures
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22. Arctic Sustainability Revisited: Mixing Methods to Study Communities in Transition
Conveners: Olga POVOROZNYUK, Mia LANDAUER
Contact: olga.povoroznyuk@univie.ac.at
Panel Discussion
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 1
- Peter Schweitzer
- Henri Wallén
- Ria Adams
- Tanja Joona
- Sophia Elixhauser
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23. Museums, Ethnographic Collections and Indígenous People: Repatriation, Problems and Perspectives
Conveners: Renato ATHIAS, Anna BOTTESI
Contact: renato.athias@ufpe.br
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 4
- Sonja Ruud: Collective writing as an everyday act of resistance and a social practice among people with migration backgrounds living in Brussels
- Karolina Sikora: Cultural heritage as a human right - Theory and Practice
- Martha Cerny, Natscha Cerny Ehtesham: Insights into Decolonizing and Indigenizing Efforts at Museum Cerny.contemporary circumpolar art
- Anna Bottesi, Metre Jesiel Santos do Santos: Should the Puratig that was stolen be given back? Critical notes on the restitution of a cursed object.
- Domingos Barreto, Renato Athias: Themes and Perspectives on the Virtual Museum of Indigenous Peoples of Rio Negro
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24. The Epistemic Erasure of Palestine in Austrian Academia
Conveners: Klaudia WIESER, Adriana QUBAIOVA
Contact: wieser_k@icloud.com
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 5 | Room 3
- Amira Mittermaier: The Story of a Derailed Hire
- Hanna Al Taher: Space Invaders and the Expulsion of the Revolutionary Subject: Freedom, Liberation, and Notions Liberal Freedom
- Kevin Potter: Palestinian Absence and the Specter of Capital
- Anat Kraslavsky: Epistemic Erasure of Palestine in German-Speaking Academia: A decolonial Queer-Feminist Perspective on spatial and scientific philosemitism
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25. History of an Opening and Handling of a Closure: Possible Ways of Social Anthropological Research on Russia Today
Conveners: Stefan KRIST, Elena DAVYDOVA, Olga POVOROZNYUK, Peter SCHWEITZER
Contact: stefan.krist@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 1
- Peter Schweitzer: Who Can Get to the “Field” and Back Again? Toward a Political History of Field Access in Siberian Anthropology
- Olga Povoroznyuk: Revisiting Post-Soviet Anthropological Research in the Russian North
- Jeremy Morris: New forms of international triangulation in anthropology about the Russian field
- Mikhail Popov: Present-day anthropological research on the Chulym area: problems, prospects, practices
- Victor Trofimov: Double-edged Sword of Censorship: Reflections on Attempting Fieldwork in Russia
- Elena Davydova: Collaboration amid Contradictions: Reflections on Doing Social Anthropological Research on Both Sides of the New Border
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27. Education and language as socio-cultural capital in contexts of migration
Conveners: Magdalena SUERBAUM, Asli Ikizoglu ERENSU
Contact: magdalena.suerbaum@uni-bielefeld.de
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 4
- Akshita Rawat: Locating the Role of Language as Capital in Schools in Delhi, India
- Asli Ikizoglu Erensu: Linking language-learning to social capital: lessons from the schooling of Syrian children in Turkey
- Viktoria Adler: The visible difference: accent. An ethnographic study on belonging of a relatively privileged Colombian migrant woman living in Melbourne, Australia.
- Magdalena Suerbaum: Promoting literacy in Classical Arabic in displacement: Syrian parents’ investment in children’s language acquisition in Turkey
- Ildikó Zakariás: Central and Eastern European Teachers in German Language Training for Migrants in Austria (online)
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28. Going digital and ‘the politics of visual representation’- questions, pitfalls, promises
Conveners: Maria SIX-HOHENBALKEN
Contact: maria.six-hohenbalken@oeaw.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 4
- Maria Six-Hohenbalken: „Politics of Representation”
- Jana Reimer: Enhancing Digital Data of Ethnographic Collections: Identifying and Handling Sensitive Contexts under the Requirements of Digital Accessibility
- Jamie Dau, Leslie Zimmermann: Developing an Integrated Strategy for Digital Transformation and Provenance Research: A Case Study from the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 4
- Khanna Omarkhali, Vedat Demirbas: Some Challenges of Digitalisation and Archiving of Kurdish Oral Audio Collections
- Eszter Hars: Pottery in the Werner Finke Collection
- Marina Stoilova: Moving Images: Archival and medial representations of Kurdish weddings in the past and present
- Discussion
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29. Anthropology and climate change: The potentials and pitfalls of Anthropocene engagements
Conveners: Alexandra MEYER, Susanna GARTLER
Contact: alexandra.meyer@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 1
- Fasco Chengula: Knowing weather, strengthening livelihoods: the role of Indigenous knowledge weather forecasting in fishing communities in coastal Tanzania
- Adelia Rachman: Indonesia’s Nickel Downstreaming Eco-Dystopia
- Norbert Witt: Tawich is where I Belong – Marine Conservation and Battling Climate Change in our Homeland beside Weeneebeg and Washaybeyoh
- Frida Teller: Tracing the Anthropocene in the Central German Lignite Mining District - About Absence and Creation in the Anthropocene
- Sabine Schelch: Indigenous tribes' and communities' responses to climate change: In situ adaptation strategies of Native Americans in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 1
- Annalee Sekulic: Multispecies Care of Olea europaea in the time of European Union Accession: the case of Lun Olive Gardens, Croatia
- Padma Rigzin: Seeing the snow leopard in digital spaces and in Ladakh in the Anthropocene
- Zdenka Sokolickova: Anthropology, Anthropocene and Antarctica: A trip to Antarctica as living in denial, or rite of passage?
- Andrian Vlakhov: Talking about Climate Change When Nobody Believes in It: Ethnographic Experiences from Russian Arctic
- Aastha Tyagi: 'I cannot be 'objective', the planet needs us now!': Emotions as a site of solidarity building among climate scientists
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30. "Which way we ought to go from here?" Reflections on current trends in Russian anthropology
Convener: Dmitri FUNK
Contact: d_funk@iea.ras.ru
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 1
- Dmitri Funk: Organizational and thematic changes in the work of IEA RAS in 2022-2024 (reflections of the former director)
- Valentina Tanaylova: Field transformation and the sovereignty of the researcher
- Mariia Mochalova: When everything changes, it's hard to find a point to see what has altered and how: Russian Young Researcher, 2020s
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32. Informal economy and migrant workforce in cities: Assessing Risk, Insecurity and Vulnerability among the urban poor in Post-Pandemic world
Conveners: Jyoti DAS, Pratisha BORBORAH
Contact: jyoti.das@cottonuniversity.ac.in
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 2
- Hui Wen: Market as Community: Exploring Senior Engagement in China’s Informal Health Economies
- Ioana Popescu: “They came to work”. The production of vulnerability and irregularity within the Romanian migration infrastructure
- Julio Armando Morales-Fonseca: Being Poor in Cartagena de India’s (Colombia). Qualitative Perspectives on a Social Issue
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 2
- Malvya Chintakindi: Pursuing the “Good Life”: Intersections of Caste, Class, and Gender in Urban Slums of India
- Sanghita Datta: Unseen Journeys: Mapping the Marginalized in Darjeeling’s Informal Workforce
- Rachma Lutfiny Putri: Multi-layered Precariousness of Waste-picker Women in South Jakarta
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34. Back in the closet? Doing ethnographic fieldwork as a queer person
Additional Information: To ensure a safer space, we invite people interested in attending as an audience to email the panel's organizers with a short note of interest (queer.ethnographers@gmail.com) to pre-register by the latest on the 24th of September. Recording and pictures are not allowed during the panel.
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 3
- Anonymous: Being a Mehmaan: Navigating trans-ness during ethnographic fieldwork in South Asia (online)
- Anonymous: Abstract not published (on-site)
- Anonymous: Abstract not published (online)
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 3
- Anonymous: Navigating Hostility: The Experiences of a Queer Ethnographer Amidst TERFs and Trans Allies in Scotland (on site)
- Anonymous: Chameleon Ethnography: Fugitive Research under Surveillance (online)
- Anonymous: White Lies or Illegal Truth? A Self-Presentation and Group Integration Workshop (on-site)
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35. Dialogue and participation: a multivocal representation of women
Conveners: Veronika LAJOS, Blanka BARABÁS, Isabela BOTEZATU, Noémi FAZAKAS
Contact: veronika.lajos@uni-miskolc.hu
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 2
- Marina Quine: Women in Artisanal Fishing in Peru: Roles, Importance, and Inequality
- Sára Szabó: Links between the image of "good mother" and the local position of early childhood professionals
- Eline De Jong: Beyond barriers: reflections on working with two women's groups in a social housing cooperative
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 2
- Open Session
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42. Decolonising and sharing ethnographic materials
Conveners: Igor EBERHARD, Wolfgang KRAUS, Birgit KRAMREITHER
Contact: igor.eberhard@univie.ac.at
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 5
- Franziska Weinert: Decolonial Approaches for Archiving Ethnographic Materials in the Context of the Ethnographisches Datenarchiv (EDA)
- Matthias Ziegner: Small collection, large issues: Reflections on decolonization efforts in ethnographic collection management
- Emily Bischof, Johanna Braendle: Decolonize the Library
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 5
- Moritz Strickert/Julia Zenker: Decolonising in practice: On catalogues, vocabularies and collaboration
- Johana Wyss, Franz Graf: Borderlands of Memory: Data Management in a Transnational Research Context – Memory and Populism from Below (MEMPOP)
Open Sessions
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43. Open Session I
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 1 | Room 5
- Aslan Gasimov: Application of New Methods in the Study of Gobustan Petroglyphs
- Bernie Taylor: Animistic Roots of Prehistoric Art
- Thomas Benesch: Examing social movement oriented citizenship. A case study of occupy Wall Street and its nexus with global citizenship education
- Günes Koc: Global inequalities, (Im)Mobilities and Migration Societies: Post-Migrant Perspectives
- Madeline Donald: Riparian ReAnimation: an ecological community puppetry endeavor
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44. Open Session II
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 2 | Room 5
- Chi-Pui Cheung: Artificial Islands and Bridges: Reflections on Spatial Equity and Sustainable Development in Zhangzhou, China
- Safa Daud: Decolonizing Academia and Legal Frameworks: Exposing Epistemicide and Marginalization of Palestinian Perspectives in European Discourse
- Mu-Jeong Kho: Can the Crisis truly act as a Trigger for Self-Organising a New Resilient System of Intercultural Education?
- Alima Tursunkulova: "Reviving Roots: Exploring the Siberian Shamanic Revivalism and Its Role in (Re)constructing Cultural Identity among Indigenous Communities"
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45. Open Session III
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 5
- Eswarappa Kasi, Ananya Acherjee: State of Online Education amid Post-Pandemic Digital Era: An Empirical Study on Santal Tribe of Eastern India
- Sophia Kelsch: Virtual Tatreez Communities: Stitching Memories, Identity and Care (online)
- Monica Machado: Digital Anthropology and Youth Culture in Favela Areas: Social Media in Cantagalo, Pavão and Pavãozinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil." (online)
- Norbert Witt: In the Context of interviewing survivors of Canadian Residential Schools, can you avoid Re-Traumatizing them?
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46. Open Session IV
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 2
- Natalia Filar: When the cause transitions to the result. A case study of alcoholism treatment in Poland.
- Anita Prša: Self-help through helping others. Developing (spiritual) human capital in palliative care volunteering.
- Natalia Ryzhova: Self-medication in the transition into a different public health system: does trust matter?
- Hannah Williams: Vaccine Hesitancy During Pregnancy: Case Study on Gender, American Ethics and Idealism
- Andreea Iulia Somesan: Transitions in approaching the medical refusal of the patient. Ethical perspectives from Romania.
- Anna Altukhova, Anna Klepikova & Maria Pirogovskaya: Greedy institutions and improvisation between meshes: Two case studies of Eastern Siberian alternative medicine
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47. Open Session V
Presentations:
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 2
- Isaac Gagne: Workshop on Publishing in Japanese Studies Journals
- Klaudia Żubryk: Between netnography and entography: a study of cosplay groups in Poland
- Anastasia Mazurina: The transformation of "places of memory" in the context of political change: the case of the Last Address Memorial's project.
- Greta Rauleac: Indie Music and the Generation Moods of Young Italians
- Hubert Wierciński: Drawing embodied pictures: rock climbing and mountaineering as the art of movement
- Maria Rosa Iovino, Marina Gutierrez De Angelis: A Pilot Study on the Potential of Prehistoric Rock Art in Karst Limestone Environments in Southeastern Sicily
Young Scholar's Forum
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36. Re-Search?! Critical reflections on the co-creation of knowledge in participatory research projects
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 2
- Veronika Lajos, Blanka Barabás, Noémi Fazakas and Csanád Bodó: The co-creation of knowledge: designing and playing The Forbidden Csángó Island tabletop game
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 5 | Room 2
- Mirjam Walther: Towards a Pluriverse of Knowledges:Double Translation in Arts-Based Action Research as Decolonial Tool
- Tina Walther: Voices in Dis/Harmony: Assessing the co-creative element in a research project on natural resource conflicts in rural Chad and Cameroon (online)
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38. Suicide, exploitation, and pleasure in the cultural uses of self-inflicted bodily harm. Ethnographies and contemporary theories.
Presentations:
Thursday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 4
- Diego Allen-perkins: Fitness influencers and risky body narratives: Discourses on the death of @villanofitness
- Fernando Barcia Sánchez: The Other in the Flesh: The Invention of the Human Body in Amerindian Cultures
- Jesús Castaño Trevín: HEROES COMMIT SUICIDE?
- Andy Eric Castillo Patton: Is suicide a weapon? Rethinking the political meanings of self-inflicted deaths
- Johanna Doppelbauer: Gender and Sexuality in a Queer Kink Community in Vienna: Queering Practices through Community
- Luis López-Lago: Bodily Harm and Age in Rural Narratives of Suicide: Ethnographic Contributions
Thursday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 4
- Extension of Slot 3 communications and discussion
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39. Images as Evidence (of what)? The Body at the Intersection of Science and Art
Presentations:
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 3 | Room 2
- Benjamin Ji: Reimagining Bodies through Qi: The Entanglement of Painting and Alternative Healing in the Late Twentieth Century China
- Barbara Graf: Images of Lived Experience as Medium of Mediation and Coping with Illness
Monday, September 23, 2024 | Slot 4 | Room 2
- Moyuree Mukherjee: Exploring New Frontiers: How Virtual Reality is Transforming Genetic Research
- Sophie Wagner: Making visible and being seen: images of chronic living
- Helen Vaaks: SORGERÄUME - a work on the invisible
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40. (De-/Post-)Coloniality in Anthropology
Presentations:
Tuesday, September 24, 2024 | Slot 5 | Room 1
- Elisabeth Steiner, Julia Bernegger: In Search of a Decolonial Anthropological Practice
- Vincent Kretschmer Calderón: Indigenous Universities as Public Anthropology: Decolonial practices of academic knowledge production
- Hans Magnus Gielge: Challenging the Progress Narrative: An Analysis of Negotiations of Anti-/Racism by Student Unions at German-Speaking Anthropology Departments in Europe
- Julia Verbeek: Decolonial research methodology in field research with Tibetan refugees