2018 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology
Cosponsored by the Society for Visual Anthropology

Thursday 19th April- Saturday 21st April 2018
An online event: tune in from wherever you are or come together to invent and collaborate

“Displacements are in the air: episodes of profound political upheaval, intensified crises of migration and expulsion, the disturbing spectre of climatic and environmental instability, countless virtual shadows cast over the here and now by ubiquitous media technologies. What does it mean to live and strive in the face of such movements? What social and historical coordinates are at stake with these challenges? And what kind of understanding can anthropology contribute to the displacements of this time—given, especially, that our most essential techniques like ethnography are themselves predicated on the heuristic value of displacement, on what can be gleaned from the experience of unfamiliar circumstances?”

For the first time, in 2018, the SCA Biennial Meeting will take place as a virtual conference. All staff and students are welcome to apply! For more information please visit this link, deadline for proposals is Monday 16th October 2017. Proposals should be sent to displacements@culanth.org with a title and 200-word description of proposed presentations, panels, collaborations, and local events, or any other queries.