[ecrea] Call for Papers and Panels: ethnography with a twist

Call for Papers and Panels: ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST

12–14 February 2019, Jyväskylä, Finland

Contemporary political, environmental, and social challenges and crises, 
rapidly changing media and societies, development of media technology, 
and encountering of people and cultures produce new environments of 
research and a need to rethink innovative research methods.

The ETHNOGRAPHY WITH A TWIST conference will bring together researchers 
from diverse disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, 
including media and communication studies. We welcome papers and panels 
that explore ethnographic research from a wide range of perspectives 
that reflect the variety of backgrounds and/or address personal and 
affective experiences of the researchers. The conference will provide an 
interdisciplinary arena for lively discussion and exchanges in an 
inspiring environment that allows ethnographic research to be approached 
without the weight of tradition and encourages thinking outside the box 
and the usual comfort zones in our respective fields.

•How does ethnographic research create substantive knowledge of current 
processes, phenomena, implications, and meanings of social life and 
culture across diverse rapidly changing, technological, natural, and/or 
everyday settings?

•How can new roles and relations of researchers and their ‘fields’ in 
ethnographic research be perceived?

•What kinds of new twists are emerging and could be explored in 
ethnographic research?

We invite empirical, theoretical, methodological, and experimental 
contributions, based for example on (but not limited to) in-depth 
interviews, participant observation, collaborative research, 
auto-ethnography, art-based field studies, audio-visual methods, 
virtual/cyber/netnography, multi-sited research, dance/somatic 
ethnography, sensual ethnography, post-human approaches, and other forms 
of experimental inquiry.

Media ethnography and ethnographic research exploring media audiences, 
political communication studies via ethnographic approaches and 
ethnographic methods in relation to the use of different media 
technologies are very welcome.

If you are interested in presenting a paper or a poster, or proposing a 
full panel (including 3–4 papers), or an experimental ethnographic 
session/workshop, please submit an abstract of 250 words, including 4–6 
keywords, the title, the author(s)’ name(s), affiliations, and contacts 
by 31 AUGUST 2018 to the conference organizers’ at email address: 
(ethnotwist /at/ jyu.fi). Please see more instructions about abstract 
submission at https://www.jyu.fi/ethnotwist.

Notification of acceptance of papers and panels will be sent by 10 
OCTOBER 2018. For more information on the program, keynotes, travel, and 
other practical issues, please visit the conference web site.

Organizers: The EUROHERIT, CroBoArts, and Intersecting Mobilities 
research projects, the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies, the 
Department of History and Ethnology, and the CRISES research profiling 
area at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

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