The Call for Panels and Roundtables is open for the AAS2022 conference until 6 May.

The Australian Anthropology Society's 2022 conference invites panels and papers that respond to the notion of 'Life Support'. This theme draws our attention to the principles, processes, activities, and ideologies of humans and non-humans who variously foster, care for, legitimise, frustrate, and explicitly reject particular forms of life. 'Life support' is ambivalent. It evokes the discipline's focus on mutually-constituted lived experience, and the ethical drive of many disciplinary practitioners to work in support, advocacy, and activism, as well as the status of the discipline as one in search of a thriving future. Through this theme we invite panels, papers, events, provocations and performances that explore the strengths, gaps and frailties of anthropology as a practice, a discipline, a legacy, a strategy, a tool, a trope, and as a life.

To propose a panel or a roundtable, please visit the Call page: https://aasconf.org/2022/cfpan

The conference will be held on the lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin nations, at the Waurn Ponds (Geelong) campus of Deakin University, 23-26 November. The final day of events migrate the AAS conference and the AAS Distinguished Lecture to Melbourne city to deliberately coincide with the opening of the Council of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHASS) Congress (27 Nov–2 Dec).

If you have any questions, please email admin@aasconf.org