WAC 2023 Brochure

KISS WORLD ANTHROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 15th-19th Jan 2023 Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India In Association with Theme Anthropology in Public Sphere: Global Peace and Development First Announcement Inviting Expression of Interest wac.kiss.ac.in WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 Contents 04 PROLOGUE 06 UNLOCKING THE CONGRESS 07 CONGRESS THEME AND THE CONCEPT NOTE 08 THEMATIC DOMAINS AND SUB DOMAINS OF THE WAC 2023 09 EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (EOI) FOR PARTICIPATION IN WAC 2023 2 10 ORGANISERS 12 COLLABORATORS 14 BHUBANESWAR – CAPITAL CITY OF ODISHA 15 IMPORTANT DATES 3 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 PROLOGUE The World Anthropology Congress 2023 (WAC 2023) is being organized in India by the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS), Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, as per the mandate of the IUAES General Assembly during the World Congress held at Florianópolis, Brazil in 2018. It is being held in India 45 years after the first one held at Delhi in 1978 under the Presidentship of Prof. L. P Vidyarthi. The WAC 2023 is jointly organized with the United Indian Anthropology Forum (UIAF) and its institutional associates of different Indian anthropological organisations, in collaboration with the Departments of Anthropology of Utkal University, Sambalpur University, and the University of Delhi, and will be held at KISS, from 15 to 19 January 2023. • The Department of Anthropology of the University of Delhi will hold a three-day Official Pre-Congress between 11 and 13 January, 2023 • The Department of Anthropology of the Utkal University will hold a two-day Official Post-Congress on 20 and 21 January, 2023 • The Department of Anthropology of the Sambalpur University will hold a two-day Official Post-Congress on 23 and 24, 2023 Over 5000 delegates from across the world are expected to participate in this mega academic event Woman from Bonda Tribe and deliberate on the anthropological perspectives and 4 understanding of contemporary concerns and issues that pose unprecedented challenges to human security and well-being. The event will unravel and showcase the united strength and academic accomplishments of anthropologists against the backdrop of rich Indian heritage before global academia. Participation in the Congress will transcend involvement in academic deliberations to embrace a wide range of engagements making the mega event a unique experience for every participant. Every delegate of the WAC 2023 can be assured of exceptional hospitality at KISS in accordance with the Indian philosophy of ‘Atithi Devo Bhava’ meaning ‘Guest is considered equivalent to God’. The basic objectives of the 2023 World Anthropology Congress (WAC 2023) are: 1. To bring anthropologically oriented and trained national and international scholars upon a single platform to deliberate contemporarily significant issues. Anthropologists across academic and applied, traditional and emerging sub-fields of anthropology, including social, cultural, biological, archaeological and linguistic as well as ecological, demographic, medical, museological, and digital domains, all of which stand complementing an integrated perspective to promote dialogue and debate. 2. To examine contemporary challenges, altering perspectives and emerging new-normals in the context of contesting realities, conflicting situations, and ecological hardships arising from human misplaced interventions and developmental orientations. 3. To infuse the spirit of the Anthropological vision into the basic ethical framework, reinvent the relevance of anthropology in the public sphere, and prepare a vision statement for achieving global peace and sustainable development amidst these rapidly changing times. 5 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 Unlocking the Congress • Plenary Sessions • Plenary Debates • Commissioned Panels and Panel • Digital Galleria Discussions • Exhibitions and Demos • Round Table Deliberations • The extravaganza of Tribal, Folk and • Meet Nobel Laureates/Eminent • Documentaries Classical Music and Dance Programmes Anthropologists • • Ethnographic Film Screenings and • Multi-Circuit Guided Tours (such as Presentations and Pitches and Poster Museums, Archaeological Sites, Beaches, Sessions and Heritage Habitats in villages, towns Collaborative Projects and cities) 6 Congress Theme and the Concept Note “Anthropology in Public Sphere: Global Peace and Development” This theme was chosen in the context of global dysfunctionalities, and charting newer trajectories of developments in recent times, with the world peace and global development. circumventing numerous natural disasters and issues of Significant events of the present era demonstrate climate change adding to increased social inequalities, that Anthropology has established a new grip in the ethnic violence, religious militancy, and civil strife, public sphere – enabling the most novel forms of with peace and tranquility evading human experience. communication to reach beyond academic circles and Today, as humanity is gripped under the effect of the distribute its knowledge widely and freely. Considering COVID pandemic, and everyday life has become the vital role that the anthropological community can increasingly uncertain, achieving universal health, and play in lending a powerful voice to non-hegemonic and ensuring sustainable livelihood and human security marginalized cultural perspectives on a sustainable has become the greatest concerns of the day. It can approach to Global Peace and Development, the only be logical to think that the COVID 19 pandemic WAC 2023 intends to analyze and interrogate the is a wake-up call to the destructive anthropogenic existing hierarchies and marginalities, particularly interventions and lopsided development priorities that regarding their existence in times of contemporary have contributed to ecological imbalance and the crises. The Congress also seeks to understand the subsequent disorders that are engulfing human lives. role of anthropological perspectives and methodology Humanity must awaken to these multiple challenges in bridging global disparities and inequalities so that, caused by self-imposed peril, and save itself from this together, while we build a more sustainable, peaceful, predicament, by redefining its development priorities, and inclusive road to development, while simultaneously reinventing its engagements with people, dismantling celebrating the power of anthropology to foster a more the cross-cultural, trans-national marginalities and compassionate and peaceful world. 7 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 Thematic Domains Anthropology, as a scientific discipline, must be the specific areas under each, to contextually locate continuously engaged to discern and dissect the them and to subject them to further discussion, to gain functioning of an ever-changing society and the anthropological insights as guidelines for continuous challenging conditions of human existence vis-à-vis engagement with human society for the present and the the changing eco-system of which we are part. The future. thematic tracks provide adequate space to identify The Thematic Domains encompass the major areas of anthropological thought as listed below: 1. Official Pre-Congress Venue: Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Approaches, Methods, and Methodologies (AMM) 2. Basic fields, Concepts, and Theories (BCT) Theme: Anthropology of Uncertain Times: Rising 3. Bio-constitution, Genomics, and Forensics (BGF) Dates: January 11 - 13, 2023 4. Communities, Peoples and Cultures (CPC) 5. Demography, Cultural Institutions, and Realms (DCR) 6. Deviance, Disputes, and Resolutions (DDR) Official Post-Congress 1 7. Diaspora, Multiculturalism, and Identities (DMI) Venue: Department of Anthropology, Utkal University 8. Ecology, Adaptation, and Evolution (EAE) Theme: Traditional Knowledge System, 9. Equity, Human rights and Social Justice (EHS) 10. Food security, Growth, and Nutrition (FGN) 11. Health, Happiness, and Well-being (HHW) 12. Historicity, Museum, and Artefacts (HMA) 13. Indigeneity, Cultural rights, and Heritages (ICH) Official Post-Congress 2 14. Media, Digitalism and Artificial Intelligence (MDA) Venue: Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur 15. Performing arts, Sports, and Tourism (PST) 16. Participation, Development, and Human Security (PDH) 17. Post-modernism, Globalism and Corporatism (PGC) 18. Open Thematic Domain (OTD) Vulnerabilities and Existential Challenges Ethnomedicine and Healing Practices of Indigenous Communities Dates: January 20 - 21, 2023 University Theme: Social Sustainability: Culture, Gender and Migration Dates: January 23 - 24, 2023 Note: There will be Associated Pre and Post Congresses, that would be organized by Institutional Associates of the UIAF and by different Departments of Anthropology of different Universities, in different regions across India, during the months of January and February 2023, the details of which would be announced later The Open Thematic Domain includes areas of anthropological engagement that have not been realized within the listed Thematic Domains. 8 Expression of Interest (EOI) for Participation in WAC 2023 Convention Center at KIIT University An Expression of Interest is invited from national and international scholars for participation in the WAC 2023. Participation will entail submissions of papers/posters/organising of panels/ screenings of documentaries or films as well as the contribution of books for exhibition, besides several other avenues deemed fit. You may also express your interest if you would like to be an international volunteer and highlight the domain and nature of volunteering. Such interest may be expressed on or before 31 July 2021 by clicking the link wac.kiss.ac.in, as it would attract special concession in the registration fee for the Congress. Please visit https://conference.mha.gov.in/FAQ.aspx to know more about obtaining NOC/ Clearance from MHA for Organizing International Events/Conferences 9 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 Organisers of WAC 2023 Aerial View of KISS Kalinga Institute of Social The KISS has been elevated to the status of the Sciences (KISS) is the organiser Deemed to be University under the leadership of and venue of the WAC 2023. Dr. Achyuta Samanta, becoming a holistic model for It is a residential institution for empowerment of tribal children. With the state-of-the- indigenous children, wherein art infrastructure and world-class facilities, KISS enjoys 30,000 students are given free support from the anthropology fraternity in India and education, accommodation, medical care, vocational, abroad, besides the patronage of the Government of athletic, and artistic training. Over 30,000 youth are now India and support of the Government of Odisha. KISS empowered alumni. KISS is home to children from 62 different tribal groups within the region, of which 13 are (For further details: kiss.ac.in) Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs). 10 Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), is a sister institute of KISS founded in 1992-93. It is one of the leading universities in India renowned for the quality of teaching and research. It has grown to become one of the premier educational hubs in India. (For further details: kiit.ac.in) Aerial View of KIIT United Indian Anthropology Forum (UIAF) is a registered organization providing a unique platform for the Anthropology fraternity, engaged in teaching, research, and applied areas, across different specializations. It encourages a healthy exchange of views and ideas, consolidation of knowledge, exposure to new horizons of research and training, and above all, to become engaged with a missionary zeal and commitment to revitalizing Anthropological endeavor. (For further details: www.anthropologyindiaforum.org) Source: anthropologyindiaforum.org 11 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 In Collaboration with The Department of Anthropology was established in 1958, under the stewardship of Professor A. Aiyappan. The Department witnessed a new phase of its growth with Professor L. K. Mahapatra as its Professor and Head in 1967. From its inception, the Department began teaching Social Anthropology and Physical Anthropology as the two major specializations. The department offers M.A/ M.Sc, M.Phil, and Ph.D. programs, having Socio-cultural, Biological, Prehistoric archaeology, and Development Anthropology as specializations. The Department has been recognized as the Center of advanced studies under the UGC DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UTKAL UNIVERSITY Special Assistance Programme. (For further details: http://www.utkaluniversity.nic.in/departments/ anthropology/) The department was initially established as a joint Department of Anthropology and Sociology in the year 1976 and was bifurcated into two separate discipline departments in the year 1991. Besides, the teaching program in M.A/M.Sc. in Anthropology, the Department of Anthropology also houses M.Phil and Ph.D. programs. The department offers specialization in social/cultural anthropology and physical/ biological anthropology. The thrust area of the Department is tribal DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, SAMBALPUR UNIVERSITY studies, social exclusion/inclusion besides children and childhood. The Department is renowned for its teaching, research, and extension work. (For further details: https://www.suniv.ac.in/department-details. php?url=anthropology) 12 The Department of Anthropology at the University of Delhi was founded in 1947 with the sole aim of undertaking holistic research and teaching in different aspects of human life and living. The first batch of students admitted a year later, produced some of the finest anthropologists of international repute, who also contributed significantly to the administrative and corporate life of the University of Delhi. It was also instrumental in the spread of anthropology to other parts of the country. With the concerted efforts of the twenty- DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF DELHI five scholars who constitute the teaching faculty, the department will continue to scale new heights. (For further details: http://anthro.du.ac.in/) Dongria Kondha Couple 13 WORLD ANTROPOLOGY CONGRESS 2023 Bhubaneswar – Capital City of Odisha Mukteshwara Temple Bhubaneswar The culturally rich capital of Odisha Bhubaneswar was established in 1948 but its history can be traced to the 3rd century BCE and even earlier. It is a confluence of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious ideologies. Its heritage boasts of some of the finest Kalingan temple architectural and infrastructural splendor, besides the lush verdant canopy of its forests. It is the anthropologists’ paradise visually, culturally, and academically. Bhubaneswar - Birds Eye View 14 Important dates • Expression of Interest: Upto July 2021 • Early Bird Registration: Start on 1 December 2021 • Call for Panels: 1 January 2022 • Registration begins: 1 February 2022 • Closing for Panels: 31 May 2022 • Closing Date for Papers: 30 June 2022 Walkway to KIIT University 15 WAC.KISS.AC.IN Contact Details KISS - Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha 751024 For WAC 2023 For Pre-Congress: Dr. Manoj K Behera KISS Deemed to be University Prof. Saraswati, K.N. Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi Email ID: [email protected] Professor S. Gregory Member Secretary, UIAF Email ID: [email protected] Mobile: +91 7205318446 For Post Congress Dr. Daitary Sahoo Head, Department of Anthropology, Utkal University Email ID: [email protected] Dr Ratnawali Head, Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University Email ID: [email protected]