Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds

The list of accepted panels is visible here. It is being regularly updated as new panel proposals are reviewed and approved.

The Congress will continue to accept new panel proposals until June 1, 2012. This June 1 deadline is absolutely final and no further proposals will be accepted after that date.

The Congress is built around a series of thematic tracks, into which most panels will fit. The aim is to give a large event structure not to exclude panels that fall outside these themes. Click on Tracks and Panels for more details about themes.

The official congress language will be English and we cannot provide simultaneous translation facilities, but we will consider requests for panels to be in other languages where all interested participants will be able to follow proceedings and/or the organizers supply English translations.

All panels must have a minimum of four speakers to be included in the final programme, but may have more and extend through multiple sessions if required.

All proposals must be made via the online form, which requires contact details, names and emails of any co-convenors, a panel title, a short panel abstract (under 300 characters including spaces!), a long panel abstract (the more normal 250 words), and which track the panel fits into. The contact details taken include date of birth. Please note this is kept private and simply functions to identify you (like a password) when you login into our system later. You may include chairs or discussants, although these can be added subsequently using the login environment. Please use the convention of Firstname Lastname (Insitution). If these roles are to be taken by convenors, then please do not enter your own names there - as it's implicit that this will be the case where other names are not listed.

On submission of the proposal, the proposing convenor (but not the co-convenors) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login above) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; and if it is not, it means you need to re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere! The conference organisers will get back to you a few days after the submission with further information.

To propose a panel click here.

Please don't try to use this link to propose an individual paper.Go instead to the Paper Proposals section and follow the illustrated instructions given there.

Individuals who wish to give papers at the congress have three options:
a) A presenter may have been included in a panel proposal by the convenor(s). In such cases the panel convenor(s) will have sent a panel-specific URL to presenters in order that they propose their paper online. Contact your convenor if this is not the case.
b) Visitors to this website may browse the list of panels and submit a paper proposal to any open panels - this is indicated by the presence of a 'Propose a paper' link beneath the panel's abstract. Browse the list, find a panel which relates to your work and propose your paper directly. This is likely to be your best option if you have not already been asked to contribute to a panel by its convenor(s). The process is illustrated below.

c) If none of the listed panels seems to fit your work, you may propose a paper to a holding panel. These proposals will then be consider by the organisers and either allocated to existing panels or formed into new panels, along thematic lines wherever possible.

The deadline for proposals to existing panels is now July 13, 2012.
The deadline for proposals to the holding panel is now also July 13, 2012.
No new proposals will be accepted after these dates. Delegates should bear in mind the time that may be required to obtain visas as well as to secure funding. It would therefore be best to make your paper proposal as soon as possible and not wait until the last minute before the deadline.

All proposals must be made via the online form, which requires contact details, names and emails of any co-authors, a paper title, a short paper abstract (under 300 characters including spaces!), a long paper abstract (the more normal 250 words), and any special AV requirements. The contact details taken include date of birth. Please note this is kept private and simply functions to identify you (like a password) when you login into our system later.

On submission of the proposal, the proposing author (but not the co-authors) will receive an automated email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first check the login environment (click login above) to see if your proposal is there. If it is, it simply means your confirmation email got spammed/lost; and if it is not, it means you need to re-submit, as the process went wrong somewhere! The panel convenors have been asked to respond to your submissions reasonably promptly.

The organizing committee is working hard to secure funds to subsidize the participation of delegates from countries where there is little or no support for attending international conferences abroad available from institutions, governments or private foundations. The Wenner-Gren Foundation has already allocated funds for this purpose and we will pursue other avenues of sponsorship. But we stress that such support will be limited to delegates from regions of the world that would otherwise be under-represented at the Congress.

Conditions

We will require evidence that applicants for our funding have explored all possible ways of securing funding from other sources in deciding who should receive support from what will inevitably be a limited budget. Because we have responded to requests from many scholars around the world to extend the deadlines for panel proposals, and this has had a knock-on effects on paper proposal deadlines, it will be necessary to change the procedures for allocating the funding available to us and the date at which we will be able to announce the decisions. Applications will be accepted from August 1, 2013, and must be made on an official form that will be made available. The deadline for application will be the end of August, 2012, and we hope to be able to give all applicants a decision before the end of September, 2012. To ensure that available funding is distributed as widely as possible, applicants will need to be nominated by the convenor(s) of their panels, and only one application will be allowed per panel. In the case of delegates who submit paper proposals to the holding panel, the organisers will review the proposals and invite applications for funding.

Eligibility

Scholars from Canada, the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand will not be eligible for support from these funds. In the case of other countries and regions, grants will be allocated with regard to the amount of funding potentially available. The extent to which the applicant's country is represented in the Congress by scholars who have received funding from other sources will have to be taken into consideration, but we will consider each contribution on its own merits as far as possible, since we recognize that there are also inequalities in access to funding opportunities within some countries. Our aim is to try to ensure that there is no community of anthropologists working anywhere in the world that will feel completely excluded from this Congress by financial constraints on participation. But the current world economic situation does not make fundraising easy: we therefore emphasise the need for delegates to explore all possible alternative avenues of funding as soon as possible..