SANT 2023

The annual conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association will be held at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm from 27-29 April.


SANT

Sveriges Antropologförbund

Register for the conference here

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 pdf, 109.6 kB. (109 Kb)

Panels and Roundtables

For panel and paper abstracts follow the links below.

Panel 1: Ethnography at the intersection between infrastructures and environments

Panel 2: Care, kinship, and borders

Panel 3: We don’t care about concepts! (And the people who care for them)

Panel 4: Caring for ocean creatures

Panel 5: Ambivalent care: Power, risk and violence in care engagements

Panel 6: Vocabularies of care

Panel 7: Uneven meanings of care in an authoritarian context

Panel 8: Caring masculinities: emergent ways of understanding and performing manhood

Panel 9: Politics, ontology and the occult: concepts of power in Sub-Saharan Africa past and present

Panel 11: Disobedient Buildings

Round Table 1: Caring for anthropology - in society, businesses and organizations

Round Table 2: Caring environments: Biodiversity in ordinary places

Round Table 3: Care for and by Anthropology Students: Recipients, Observers, and Givers of Care

Program

Key

HS: Hjalmar Stolpesalen Auditorium (Ground floor)

VR: Verkstaden (Ground floor)

IT: Studio Ida Trotzig (1st floor)

RT: Round Table

Day 1 - Thursday 27 April

 PlenaryHSITVR
12:00-13:00Registration, Welcome and Lunch   
13:00-14:00Keynote: Inge Daniels   
Break    
14.15-15.15Museum Round Table    
BreakCoffee   
15:45-17:15 Panel 6           Panel 3
Break    
17:30-18:45SANT Annual Meeting   
18:45-20:00Mingle at Etnografiska   

Day 2 - Friday 28 April

 PlenaryHSITVR
09:00-11:00 Film ScreeningsPanel 1Panel 7
BreakCoffee   
11:30-13:00 Panel 5Panel 6Panel 2
13:00-14:00Lunch   
14:00-15:00Keynote: Liana Chua   
BreakCoffee   
15:15-16:30 RT 2RT 1RT 3
End of day    
18:30-Late

Conference dinner at

Restaurant Ethiostar

   

Day 3 - Saturday 29 April

 PlenaryHSITVR
09:45-11:45 Panel 11Panel 1Panel 4
BreakCoffee   
12:00-13:30 Panel 8Panel 9Panel 2

Keynotes

We are thrilled to confirm and announce two outstanding keynote speakers, Liana Chua and Inge Daniels.

Liana Chua

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. 

Inge Daniels

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.

 

Location and Registration

Address:

The Museum of Ethnography, Djurgårdsbrunnsvägen 34, 115 27 Stockholm.

Google Maps

 

Conference theme

This conference is an invitation to critically engage with care. In recent decades, care has emerged as a major theme in anthropology and across the humanities and social sciences, touching on issues such as gendered emotional labor and migrant domestic work, the reformulation of social relations in the context of neoliberal reform, expansive modes of kinship, the reconceptualization of the clinic, and engagements with the planet and other species in the context of climate change. Care is fundamentally relational and characterized by work, affect, and ethics. It includes everything we do to sustain not only bodies and selves, but also environments and the broader world as we shape a “complex, life-sustaining web”.

See some of this rich literature below.

This year’s conference will be held in collaboration with and be hosted by the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. Taking Care is the title of a collaborative “experimental exhibition” opening at the museum in the spring of 2023. It centers on the reevaluation and returning of museum objects belonging to the Seediq, a recognized indigenous group in Taiwan. Like anthropology, ethnographic museums are working to reorient themselves in the face of the ethical challenges of global and planetary change. We invite participants to think creatively about ways to integrate the museum into our own work as reflected in panel and paper proposals. Please look through the museum’s website about its work and ongoing exhibitions for inspiration.

 

Anthropology of Care

Boris, E. & Parreñas, R.S. (2010) Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care. Stanford University Press.
Borneman, J. (1997) Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Marriage, Kinship, Gender and Sexuality, International Social Science Journal. 49 (154): 573-584.
Chao, S., Bolender, K. & Kirksey, E. (2022) The Promise of Multispecies Justice. Duke University Press.
Fisher, J.C. & Tronto, B.F. (1990) Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring. In Circles of Care edited by E. Abel & M. Nelson. SUNY Press: 36-54.
Han, C. (2012) Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile. University of California Press.
Hochschild (1983) The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling. University of California Press.
Johnson, M. & Lindquist, J. (2020) Care and Control in Asian Migrations, Ethnos, 85(2): 195-207.
Münster, U., van Dooren, T., Schroer, S. & Reinert, H. (2021) Multispecies Care in the Sixth Extinction. Theorizing the Contemporary, Fieldsights, January 26.  
Muehlebach, A. (2012) The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy. University of Chicago Press.
 Mol, A., Moser, I. & Pols, J (2008) Care in Practice: On Tinkering in Clinics, Homes and Farms. Columbia University Press.
Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017) Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. University of Minnesota Press.

 

2023 Hosts

2023sant@gmail.com

Last updated: 2025-10-23

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