“Exploring conceptual and epistemological approaches to spaces of confinement”University of Bern, Switzerland 20th/21th July 2017
Confinement is today exercised in a diversity of contexts and institutions. Penal institutions, immigration detention centres, asylums, retirement homes, psychiatric institutions, personal homes for individuals under house arrest, electronic monitoring (and associated curfew) are but a few examples of the variety of shapes that confinement may take.
The first workshop of the EASA “Anthropology of Confinement Network” aims to provide space for a thorough conceptual and epistemological discussion of confinement and to foster in-depth discussion of the different conceptual frames that are relevant to the study of confinement. Additionally, a keynote speech will be provided by Manuela Cunha, senior research fellow at Centre for Research in Anthropology (Universidade do Minho, CRIA-UMinho, Portugal).
We are particularly interested in papers focusing on:
– Institutional power, penal policies and practices
– Materiality and architecture of institutions and contexts of confinement
– Experiences and everyday practices of confinement
If you are interested in our panel proposal, please send an abstract of approx. 200-250 words to irene.marti@krim.unibe.ch until 20 April 2017. Feel free to contact us for further information.
Convenors:
Ueli Hostettler | Institute for Penal Law and Criminology, University of Bern, Switzerland | ueli.hostettler@krim.unibe.ch
Irene Marti | Institute for Penal Law and Criminology, University of Bern, Switzerland | irene.marti@krim.unibe.ch
We expect that we will be able to reimburse travel expenses for participants who present their research and to provide free lodging for two nights at Bern. Further details will follow as soon as possible.
