2023 - joint with the AAA, November 15-19 , Toronto
AAA/CASCA2023
November 15-19, Toronto, ON, CANADA
AAA/CASCA2023 Theme and Abstract
Transitions may be the most constant feature of everyday life. With endless uncertainties that are exacerbated by political turmoil, pandemic unpredictability, and climate crisis, our quotidian experiences are steeped in mutability. Transitions present us with both challenges and opportunities, not only in our everyday lives but also in our work as anthropologists. We hope that transitions may be something that we can approach with a sense of experimentation, imagination, and play, rather than a growing state of exhaustion and dread. As we navigate these transitions, we continue to think about how anthropology can rise to face our current condition, or ways it may fall short.
Within the word transition, emphasizing the prefix trans opens up avenues of thought that celebrate the in-betweenness of our state of being. Rather than focusing on the pressures to move on to the next thing (to be post-COVID, post-racial, post-colonial, as it may), tarrying in transition helps us to appreciate the difficult path toward restoring proper relationships. Many of us long for Indigenous self-determination, and authentic practices of inclusion and justice across lines of race, class, gender, sexuality and ability. Attaining these forms of life ultimately depends on careful attention to the transitions involved as we bridge past and future. Transitions may be understood as forms of liminality: highly structured, ritualized, and signaled. They may also represent the unknown– a move from stable ground to less certain topographies, new vernaculars, and unfamiliar grammars.
As we gather for CASCA/AAA 2023, we invite our colleagues and collaborators to think with us about transitions and in-betweenness, and to explore our anthropological curiosity in relation to many other iterations of ‘trans-ness.’ This includes but is not limited to transnationalism, trans identities, transitivity, transdisciplinarity, translanguaging, transparency, transhumanism, transluminescence, translation, transliteration, transcendence, transfusion, and transmutation. By dwelling in the process of transition, understanding it as a project of connection and mobility, our Toronto meeting will bring us together to linger in the contingencies of transition, and to understand transition as a professional, scholarly, and everyday condition which we must embrace.
Registration/Submission
Members of CASCA and the AAA are eligible to participate in the conference based on their respective membership. You may participate in the meetings based on CASCA membership or AAA membership or both.
CASCA membership registration form link
General Call For Participation
The General Call for Participation is Now Open.
*The deadline for Proposals to be started in the Portal is Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – 11:59 PM Eastern Time
*The deadline for Participation Proposals to be submitted in the Portal is Wednesday, March 29, 2023 – 11:59 PM Eastern Time
General Call for Participation Submission Guide
Student Travel Grant
Deadline May 1, 2023, more information here:
https://cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/student-travel-grant
Advertise your session
Organizers who wish to advertise their session and find presenters through the CASCA website Conference Classifieds are invited to contact cascanews@cas-sca.ca.
CASCA events - more information to come:
Chair Breakfast
Women's Network event
Weaver-Tremblay
CASCA AGM
Conference Resources
CFHSS code of conduct
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CASCA's Sexual Harassment Policy
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and the AAA Annual Meeting Harassment Prevention page
https://annualmeeting.americananthro.org/general-info/harassment-prevention/
AAA Accessibility Information Page
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