DAY 1: Tuesday, 1 June
PANELS 1: 13:30-15:30
| HOME: WELL-BEING AND BECOMING Chair: Eva Melstrom | 1) Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa. Sleep and rest: an anthropological view of rest manners in the hyperactive Bucharest 2) Tania Perera and Asha L. Abeyasekera. Everyday routines and “world annihilating” doubts: urban middle-class women in Sri Lanka make meaning of their lives during COVID-19 lockdown 3) Avihu Shoshana. The home-self as a result of out-of-home placement 4) Eva Melstrom. Reckoning with returning home: negotiating the nature of the “best-good” |
| LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESSES IN CONTEXT OF DIVERSITY AND INEQUALITY Chairs: Paula Shabel & Mariana García Palacios | 1) Xue Han. Embodiments of Marxism ideology education with Chinese characteristics on Tibetan teenagers’ moral development 2) Carolina Di Próspero. “You have to allow yourself to look wide”. Practices and meanings of learning in a context of criminal imprisonment in a jail in Buenos Aires, Argentina 3) Mariana García Palacios & Paula Shabel. Against dualisms. Emotions in ethnographic research on knowledge 4) Carolina Remorini & Esteban Rowensztein. Childhood development as a cultural model: intersections between anthropology and pediatrics |
| TECHNOLOGY, BODY & SENSES Chairs: Suzana Jovicic & Thomas Stodulka | 1) Molly Hurley. Listening to the recordings of interviews 2) Judith Albrecht. Sensory experiences and film 3) Suzana Jovicic. The affective triad: smartphone in the ethnographic encounter 4) Gabriella Calchi Novati. “Abyssal self” – psychoanalytical reflections on the age of digital biopolitics |
DAY 2: Wednesday, 2 June
PANELS 2: 13:00-15:00
| FEEDING AND THE FORMATION OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN CHILDHOOD Chairs: Leberecht Funk & Gabriel Scheidecker Discussant: Nandita Chaudhary | 1) Aglaia Chatjouli. Feeding the body – feeding the soul in women circles in contemporary Athens 2) Francesca Mezzenzana. Feeding and being fed: child care and food consumption among the Runa of the Ecuadorian Amazon 3) Bambi L. Chapin. Being fed by hand: cultural models of relationships in children’s everyday experiences in rural Sri Lanka 4) Leberecht Funk. Feeding as an attachment system among the Tao (Taiwan) |
| THE PRODUCTION OF SOCIAL NORMS: DISCIPLINE STRATEGIES, AGENCY AND ASYMMETRIES IN CHILDREN’S EDUCATION Chairs: Chantal Medaets & Mitra Asfari | 1) Michelle Lokot. Understanding the practice of corporal punishment 2) Mitra Asfari. Mendicant children’s agency implemented within lineage hierarchy: reconstruction or destruction of social norms? 3) Viviane Caldeira Ramos. Brazilian parents: between nonviolent discipline and corporal punishment 4) Chantal Medaets. The “fools,” the “savages” and us: conceptions of parenting at lower Tapajós |
| MENTAL HEALTH AND THERAPEUTIC ENCOUNTERS Chairs: Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa & Andrew Hodges | 1) Kateryna Maltseva. Culture, socioeconomic disadvantage and causal pathways to mental health disparities 2) Mayssa Rekhis. In-between: body-psychotherapies, a beyond-transcultural therapy 3) Maha Natoor. Notq arrives at the clinic: How Druze therapists deal with the phenomenon of remembering and talking about previous incarnation among the Druze in Israel 4) Miguel Alcalde. “That is the therapy”: an anthropological analysis of attention through the lens of hagiotherapy in Croatia 5) Tom Regel. On the search for meaning in the therapeutic encounter: applying psychological anthropology to a deconstructive psychotherapy |
PANELS 3: 15:30-17:30
| SENSING AND KNOWING: RELATIONAL MODES OF ENGAGEMENT Chair: Tamara Turner | 1) Pooja Venkatesh. Embodied expertise as anubhava 2) Tamara Turner. Non-Western Notions of music, mind, and the body: Challenging the scaffolding metaphor of an embodied mind. 3) Sibel A. Güngör. Agenda of the other: alternate encounters of theories and practices 4) Emily Pierini. Embodied knowing: healing through mediumistic trance in Brazil |
| COGNITION, MIND & BODY Chairs: Katja Pettinen & Eero Saukkonen | 1) Dominika Czarnecka. The good and bad pain. An anthropological approach to understanding pain in female fitness culture 2) Katja Pettinen. The grammar of somatic learning 3) Barbara Götsch. Mentalizing and culture – a culture of mentalizing 4) Ward Keeler. Revisiting shame and stagefright 5) Eero Saukkonen. Imagining profound intellectual disability – navigating uncertainty as a carer (and as a researcher) |
| COVID-19 Open Mic Session Chairs: Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa & Mona Behnke | Open Mic Session: Everyone welcome |
DAY 3: Thursday, 3 June
PANELS 4: 10:00-12:00
| CREATING SAFER SPACES: NAVIGATING THE IMPACTS OF SEXUALIZED VIOLENCE IN ACADEMIC SETTINGS Chairs: Laura Thurmann & Julia Nina Baumann | 1) Katja Girr. Academic mother-/sisterhood and an international researcher’s community combatting sexualized violence in higher education 2) Corey McAuliffe. The hidden labor of staying safe by women in global public health fieldwork 3) Erin Pritchard. Female researcher safety: the difficulties of recruiting participants at conventions for people with dwarfism 4) Hannah Bartels. Students for students – tackling (experiences of) sexualized violence during fieldwork in a self-organized student group |
| ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO SEARCHES FOR MEANING ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE Chair: John Loewenthal | 1) Gordon Mathews. Meanings of life and fear of death Aacross the lifecourse in Japan and the United States 2) John Loewenthal. Why do what with one’s time or life? Graduate deliberations about where to find meaning, and whether it should be through work 3) Resto Cruz. How cousin Patrick didn’t become a seaman: refusal and the difficulties of kinship and social mobility 4) Lin Sun. The “happiness impasse”: exploring the ambivalent pursuit of marital happiness in contemporary Urban China 5) Cynthia Sear. “You Make Your Own Luck”: Positive thinking, Luck and Meaning Making amongst the serial entrants of promotional competitions in Australia and the United Kingdom |
| THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN CULTURE AND COGNITION Chair: Victor de Munck | 1) Victor de Munck. A new view of cultural models through a case study of courtship practices 2) Seo-hong Kim, Gyuseog Han – Maum. Korean construction of mind 3) Oleksandr Kuchynskyi. Combining the social theory of Bourdieu and the school of cultural models in language behaviour studies |
PANELS 5: 13:00-15:00
| STUDENT PANEL Chair: Siiri Sintonen Discussants: Naomi Leite & Thomas Stodulka | 1) Siiri Sintonen. Personality homophily in female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) 2) Frauke Dornberg. Humour and hate – emotional reactions to antimuslim memes on the platform 9gag.com 3) Mariam Lekveishvili. Touch narratives in isolation 4) Yang Yang. Yearning for “the good life”, suffering precarity: the struggles and the life philosophy of a professional artist in austerity UK 5) Sami Huttunen. Resonating meaning in the unexpected encounters: how religion and the concept of yuanfen shape meaning-making in life |
| MARGINALIZED PERSPECTIVES ON MENTAL HEALTH AND SUFFERING Chairs: Matyas Muller & Mayssa Rekhis | 1) Victoria K. Sakti. Ageing in displacement and memories of violence in rural Indonesia 2) Hanne Apers. Experiences and attitudes of (mental) healthcare providers with patients who have a culturally different explanatory model on (mental) health 3) Matyas Muller. Recovered, empowered, or proud? Kinds of people with mental illness in the Czech Mental Health Care Reform 4) Ievgeniia-Galyna Lukash. Applied research in recreational drug use in Kyiv, Ukraine |
| COHERENCE AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE Chairs: William Matthews & Ivan Deschenaux | 1) Liana E. Chase. Mental illness, therapy, and the real: reflections from post-earthquake Nepal 2) William Matthews, Ivan Deschenaux. Homo anthropologicus: the anthropological model of a coherent mind and its problems. 3) Mohaddeseh Ziyachi, Nematallah Fazeli. The contradictory schemas of motherhood |
PANELS 6: 15:30-17:30
PREDATORY PSYCHOLOGIES EAST AND WEST Chair: Deborah Tooker | 1) Felicity Aulino. Believe It And/Or Not 2) Deborah Tooker. The multiple valences of western psychology among the Akha of Northern Thailand 3) Dessa Bergen-Cico. Mindfulness in the Mekong 4) Julia Cassaniti. What does a “full” mind look like, anyway? Global trajectories of mentality and mental health from Southeast Asia 5) Jie Yang. Confucianism, counseling and moral psychology in China |
| DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN’S UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL ROLES AND NORMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE Chair: Anni Kajanus | 1) Fabrice Clément. The forgotten role of emotions in the transmission of cultural values 2) Anni Kajanus. Children’s cooperation in two Chinese communities 3) Jan David Hauck. Co-operation and responsibility in Aché children’s peer group Interaction 4) Maija-Eliina Sequeira. Follow the Leader: a study of children’s understanding and construction of social hierarchies in Finland |
| NEOLIBERALISM AND MENTAL HEALTH Chairs: Keir James Cecil Martin & James Davies Discussant: James Davies | 1) Ragnhild Bjørnsen: The globally mobile person: neoliberal narratives of privilege, or empathy embodied? 2) Nadia Augustyniak. Somehow we can help: negotiating social and economic inequality within the counselling process in Sri Lanka’s central province 3) Kathrin Bauer. She’s an earthquake – and the joy of my life: ADHD and everyday life of Colombian families 4) Sean Dowdy. Psychotherapeutic deixis and the end of history, or why neoliberal agency thrives in the “here-and-now” |