Register for the conference here

Deadline for registration is April 12.

Conference fees

SANT members, PhD holders: 350 SEK
SANT members, PhD and MA students/degree: 350 SEK
Non-members, PhD holders: 550 SEK
Non-members, PhD and MA students/degree: 450 SEK

Dinner cost: 325 SEK
@ Ethiostar

SANT membership fees

PhD holders: 200 SEK
PhD and MA students/degree: 100 SEK

Membership

SANT is a membership based association. Most members pay their membership at the time of the annual conference. However, we do have participants who are not eligible to be members. Please examine the membership guidelines and choose your payment category accordingly.

Members of SANT are those who:
a)      Have a licentiate or PhD degree or of equivalent competence in Cultural/Social Anthropology.
b)      Have been accepted to a PhD program in Cultural/Social Anthropology.
c)      Have been accepted to a Master program or course or have completed a Master degree in Cultural/Social Anthropology.
d)      Are active as Anthropologists in Sweden and have the competence or equivalence of one of categories a-c (and through the formal approval of the SANT Board).

Financial support for PhD and Master students

Thanks to a generous grant from The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG), SANT will be able to financially support PhD and Master students’ attendance at the annual conference in Stockholm 2023, provided that the students present a paper and/or organize a panel.

SSAG finansiering av deltagande på SANT för master och PhD (109 Kb)

What does care take? Saving and sequestering in an age of mass extinction

Liana Chua, with the GLO and POKOK project teams, University of Cambridge 

This talk engages with the conference theme by asking what care takes, in different senses of the term. What does it take to care about and for (non)human others at a time of sustained environmental crisis? What does it mean to be a care-taker? And what do programmes and practices of care take – as in demand, claim, or extract? I explore these questions by drawing on my colleagues’ and my recent multi-sited research on the global nexus of orangutan conservation – a sprawling multispecies field teeming with concerns over who/what cares for orangutans, and how. Taking a critical relational view of how multiple forms and registers of cross-species care play out across this field, I foreground the continued importance of careful(l) ethnographic engagement in nuancing and ‘unsettling’ (Murphy 2015) hierarchies of care in both conservation and academia. 

Disobedient Buildings: Welfare, Wellbeing, and Care in European Tower Blocks
 
Inge Daniels, University of Oxford

Disobedient Buildings research project

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London and the increase in other tower block disasters around the world, the Disobedient Buildings project explores how the residents of aging tower blocks in three different European welfare states (the UK, Romania and Norway) conceptualise, engage with and challenge macro-level issues such as welfare, health and care on the ground. My presentation will juxtapose the care that goes into maintaining decaying buildings and the efforts residents put into caring for themselves and a range of other human and non-human entities. COVID-19 had an unprecedented impact on domestic life, and the project, based on visual ethnography carried out between 2020 and 2022, offers a real opportunity to reimagine not only what home (and care) is but also how it could be improved to make it a safe and comfortable place for all in the future.

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