The 17th World Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Manchester, UK, August 5 - 10, 2013

Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds

The 2013 World Congress of the IUAES is seeking papers from scholars around the world relevant to all the sub-fields of anthropology and the interests of all anthropologists world-wide. The Congress, aiming to set a strong agenda for the future development of world anthropology, will feature both plenary sessions and multiple simultaneous panels, grouped into broad thematic tracks:

Being Human; Life and Death; Producing the Earth; Survival and Extinction; The World of the Mind and the Mind in the World; and Movement, Mobility, and Migration.

Each is further divided conveniently into topics which would cover your respective research areas. They include Human origins: myth or reality? ; Rethinking biological and cultural evolution; Language and human development; The meaning and value of old age; Death and the regeneration of life; Vitality and health; Anthropologies of capitalism and the social economy; Feeding and nutrition; The political economy and ecology of development and urban and rural sustainability; Racism, Genocide and Ethnic cleansing; Violence and compassion in social life; The transmission of culture? Remembering pasts; imagining futures; Paths, roads and frontiers; Nomads and territories; Migrants and migrations.

There may also be ad hoc workshops and discussion sessions around particular themes, which could include topics such as ethics, methodology, academic publishing and communicating with broader audiences, as well as business meetings. There will be a comprehensive program of visual anthropology, involving both film screenings and photographic exhibitions and academic panels. Special museum exhibitions will be organized to coincide with the congress (the Manchester Museum. There will also be academic sessions on museology and the anthropological study of museums.

Our intention is to provide space for the expression of all forms of anthropology, academic and applied, and the entire range of questions posed by a subject that explores the fundamental question of what it means to be human. But we do not simply want to celebrate diversity: we also want to show how the different sub-fields of anthropology, social, cultural, biological, ecological, demographic, linguistic, archaeological and historical, complement each other and justify Eric Wolf's claim that anthropology as a whole is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities. So this congress will also have a focus on dialogue across lines of academic specialization.

For further information and to submit a proposal for a panel or paper, please visit the congress website at

http://www.iuaes2013.org.  Email: conference@iuaes.org