[Commlist] CFP and visual projects - 3rd Political Imagination Laboratory (06.-07.12.2019, Perugia)

3rd POLITICAL IMAGINATION LABORATORY



What Can and Can't Be Said: Fieldwork as Witnessing?
06-07 December 2019, University of Perugia, Italy

Call for papers and visual projects


DEADLINE: 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

 For those who engage with questions of social justice in their 
fieldwork and/or qualitative research, questions related to the identity 
and the role of the researcher remain inescapable. Recently, the figure 
of the witness has been presented as one of the possible solutions to 
the dilemmas of knowledge, power and ontology in ethnographic and 
qualitative fieldwork. Compared to other possible identities - such as 
“expert” or “reporter” - the witness preserves independence and entails 
authority. The witness aims to be a truthful observer, while being 
conscious about its own limits of knowledge, its own positioning and its 
own responsibilities.

 The third Political Imagination Laboratory invites those who carry out 
fieldwork related to questions of social justice and/or activism 
(anthropologists, filmmakers, social scientists) to focus on 
methodological and ontological aspects of their research: What can be 
understood? What not? What can be said? What not? When should we 
intervene? In how far do we have an obligation to our interlocutors and 
other actors in as well as outside the field? How do we situate 
ourselves with regard to moral positions (between cultural relativism 
and universalism)? How does the relation with our field partners and 
possible resulting emotional entanglements (e.g., the negotiation of 
empathy vs. sympathy) influence our way of representing them and of 
acting in the field?
Presentations can be based on a wide range of research related to 
questions of social justice and activism broadly defined, buteach 
contribution should highlight and discuss one or more aspects of 
methodological and/or ontological challenges, based on first-hand 
fieldwork experiences as witness.

We invite both papers and visual projects(completed documentaries or 
projects in progress).
PAPER PRESENTATIONS: Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) for a 
paper of about 20 minutes before the deadline 
to:(info /at/ peasantproject.org). The abstract should also include your 
academic affiliation and role.

VISUAL PROJECTS: Please submit your (audio-)visual project (completed 
documentaries or works in progress) with a short description (max. 300 
words) before the deadline. In order to stimulate debate, videos of ca. 
30 minutes will be preferred; for longer completed documentaries, a 
short version accompanied by a presentation would be more adequate. 
Please upload your video to a cloud drive with the link 
to:(info /at/ peasantproject.org) (or send a DVD by surface mail to: Political 
Imagination Laboratory, Antropologia-Dipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze 
Sociali, Umane e della Fomazione(FISSUF), Piazza Morlachi 30, 06123 
Perugia, Italy).

Notification of accepted presentations: 30th September 2019.

Our Political Imagination Laboratory alternates paper presentations with 
film screenings, roundtable discussions, and work-in-progress visual 
expositions. They emphasis the participatory and horizontal spirit of 
workshops, providing an open space for academic debate, personal 
interactions and socializing as interconnected elements. This 2-day 
workshop will take place at theDipartimento di Filosofia, Scienze 
Sociali, Umane e della Formazione (FISSUF), University of Perugia, 
Italy. It is organized by the research network “Peasant Activism 
Project”, in cooperation with the network “Anthropology and Social 
Movements” of the European Association of Social Movements (EASA) and 
the Centre for Documentary Research at Queen’s University Belfast. Most 
meals will be covered, but you need to arrange transportation and 
accommodation by yourself.
Further Information:

“Peasant Activism Project”:www.peasantproject.org; (info /at/ peasantproject.org)





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