The Organizing Committee of the World Anthropological Union Congress (WAU) 2024 is excited to share that the deadline for submissions has been extended until May 27th! This extension reflects our commitment to inclusivity, aiming to welcome a wide array of contributions from scholars, researchers, and practitioners across the globe. We are confident that this extended deadline will provide ample opportunity for all interested parties to refine and submit their work, ensuring that the congress truly embodies a rich tapestry of perspectives and insights. For further details on the congress theme, "Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power," and specific calls for papers, round tables, workshops, Lekgotla, films, and book launches, please refer to the links provided below. Notably, our congress is designed to be hybrid, allowing for both online and face-to-face participation simultaneously, ensuring accessibility for all. We eagerly anticipate your continued engagement and participation as we work together to make this congress an unforgettable success! Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024 Johannesburg, South Africa 11th-15th November 2024 General Information: https://bit.ly/WAUcongress2024 Call for Papers Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressCfP *All panels hybrid* Call for Round Tables Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressRoundtables * All round tables hybrid* Call for Workshops Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressWorkshops Call for Lekgotla Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressLekgotla Call for Films Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressFilm Call for Book Launches Info: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressBooks Please note that all panels and round tables are hybrid, allowing participants to join both online and in person simultaneously. The fees for the WAU Congress 2024 are available on the congress website: https://bit.ly/WAUcongressFEES To participate in the congress it is required to pay for an International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) membership + the registration fee. Unfortunately, we regret to inform you that financial aid or scholarships are not available for the WAU Congress 2024. While we understand the importance of accessibility and inclusivity, we are unable to provide financial assistance at this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and encourage you to explore alternative funding options if needed. Your understanding and support are greatly appreciated as we work towards hosting a successful and enriching congress experience for all participants. --- Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) warmly invites you to join us in Mzansi/South Africa for the inaugural World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress from November 11 to 15, 2024. Organized by ASnA, this groundbreaking event promises a rich exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme: Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power Anthropology, as with other disciplines in the arts and social sciences, has engaged over decades with multiple paradigmatic shifts and critiques of the ways in which anthropological knowledge is gathered, organised, presented and theorised. From the 1960s onwards, anthropological knowledge has engaged with, and seen concomitant shifts in practice as a result of [post - ] theoretical movements: Post-structuralism; Post-modernism; Post-colonialism; Post-socialism; Post-humanism; Post- post-colonialism -> decolonial shift; Post-truth. Recent shifts in some spaces have also critiqued even the notion of ‘post-’, such as the decolonial movement, for example, which argues that post-colonialism does not take critique far enough, and that social theory should strive instead for decolonial approaches. All of these critiques share a core concern with recognising the constructedness of knowledge, and the power relations that underlie what we know and how we know it. Anthropology has a slightly different perspective to many other social science disciplines in that the discipline itself is premised on a recognition of the inherent value of plural knowledge forms, through cultural relativism and an historic and contemporary disciplinary stance against ethnocentrism. Against this set of concerns, we propose a WAU Congress that engages with anthropological knowledge making in its various forms, recognising theoretical, geographical, socio-political contextual and ontological differences in how anthropological knowledge is made, transmitted and distributed in varied spaces. We seek papers, round tables, workshops, lekgotla, films, and book launches that speak, but are not limited to: • Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines; • The politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological and paleo- anthropological knowledge; • Ideas and ideals of ethnographic and ethnological practice; • Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge making; • Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork; • The legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories; • Ideas of truth and/ or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation; • Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning; • Tensions between local knowledge production and academic knowledge production; • Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives; • Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative; • Decoloniality and criticality: overlaps, tensions, and differences; • The politics of disseminating knowledges; • Manifestations of hegemony in knowledge production, and their dangers; • The knowledges which one can’t quite see, hear, touch, feel, smell; • Survival, revival and flourishing in a “post”- catastrophic world; • Changing ethics, methods and techniques in ethnographic research; • (Re)production of hegemony and hierarchy in anthropological research; • Pleasure, joy and fun in anthropological research; • Anthropology out of the “Ivory towers”; • “Studying up” and anthropology of institutions/elites etc; • Creativity and the art in/of/as research. Information/ Questions: info [@] waucongress.org --- The World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024 is organized by Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA). The World Anthropological Union (WAU) is an inclusive, cooperative forum that invigorates transnational anthropologies. WAU is the interface that unites the missions of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) and the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA), galvanizing person-to-person international dialogues and stimulating cooperative exchange among anthropological associations. As a member of the ISC and the CIPSH, WAU represents the ethical and scientific values of the field as the discipline's primary international organization. Information: https://waunet.org *°°°°°°°* *Ricardo A. 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