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SUMMARY:Revisiting Anthropology and History: Fieldwork\, Archive\, Temporality
DESCRIPTION:While the disciplines of anthropology and history have developed in a reciprocal relationship of rapprochements\, mutual borrowings and fierce annexations\, more recently\, explicit reflection on this relationship have become rare. Anthropologists engage with temporality\, the past\, and the archive without necessarily making recourse to historiography. Historians\, as they engage in reflections on globalizations – past and present – often ignore anthropology’s conceptual toolkit. However\, there are at least two areas in which a cross-disciplinary engagement is promising. For both anthropology and history\, an engagement with each other enlarges an understanding of temporality\, both with respect to frames of analysis and ways of narrating scholarship. Such an engagement also expands spaces of scholarly analysis that are defined by fieldwork and the archive\, i.e.\, employing archival methods for fieldwork as well as conceptualizing the archive as a field-site. \nThis workshop\, addressing graduate students in both anthropology and history\, aims to explore this constellation from two perspectives: 1. the workshop seeks to engage the participants in discussions on the role of history in anthropological approaches to social worlds. 2. participants analyze\, employing an anthropological view of historical research\, the timeliness and situatedness of their own research projects in the present. \nFurthermore\, the workshop will address\, amongst others\, the following questions: What role can fieldwork play in historical work? What might be the position of the archive in anthropological research? How can we think about change over time in anthropological research and how should we reflect on the presence of the present in historiographical work? \nProgram: Revisiting History and Anthropology
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/revisiting-anthropology-and-history-fieldwork-archive-temporality/
LOCATION:Geneva Graduate Institute\, Geneva\, Switzerland
ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Aid":MAILTO:till@quietaid.info
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SUMMARY:Post-Fieldwork Workshop
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URL:https://quietaid.info/event/post-fieldwork-workshop/
LOCATION:Istanbul\, Turkey
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Almaty:20240608T110000
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SUMMARY:From Paucity to Sanctity of Trust: Ethics of Cryptocurrency Use for Muslims in Central Asia
DESCRIPTION:by Gulzhan Begeyeva \nSince 2017\, Central Asia has witnessed a burgeoning interest in cryptocurrency\, propelled by the region’s emergence as a hub for crypto mining activities amid increasing restrictions in China. This\, coupled with some regional governments’ intent to capitalize on the market for decentralized finance\, has sparked notable public debates regarding the alignment of digital currencies with Islamic financial principles. As Central Asian Muslims question cryptocurrency’s permissibility and adal/haram nature\, local religious institutions and experts have emerged as arbiters to establish the reliability and trustworthiness of the crypto financial instruments within the regional context. As a matter of fact\, in 2019 and 2022 the muftiate of Kazakhstan has publicly proscribed the use of cryptocurrency for the country’s Muslims by issuing and reiterating a respective fatwa. Furthermore\, albeit as of February 2024 the mufti of Kyrgyzstan hasn’t provided any fatwa on this matter\, the country’s muftiate members actively advocate against the use of cryptocurrency among its public. \nUsing this case study of the public discussions around cryptocurrency in Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan and elsewhere in the region\, our ongoing interdisciplinary research project aims to explore the growing field of Islamic financial ethics in Central Asia. We intend to understand how local religious authorities navigate the nexus between the state imperatives\, local demand for Islamic financial expertise\, and the global production of Islamic knowledge. One key aspect of our study is examining the link between sacred and trust. In particular\, by focusing on how the governing bodies of Islam in Central Asia\, i.e. muftiates\, construe the phenomenon of cryptocurrency\, we theorise how sacredness/sanctity can function as a powerful mechanism that insures trust and\, as a result\, cooperation among rational actors. Among other things\, the present work illustrates what appears to be an altogether neglected aspect of the study of the concept of trust in current economic orthodoxy. Namely\, it argues that David Krep’s (1990) paradigm setting article on trust in economics\, which offers a solution for the problem of absence of trust arising from unforeseen contingencies occurring in transactions\, suffers from theoretical incompleteness. The latter concerns the element of sacredness/sanctity that remedies the absence of trust dilemma in Krep’s model. To demonstrate this dynamic\, the current study applies the thesis stemming from the economy of conventions – a French school thought that espouses interdisciplinary and institutionalist approach in economics.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/from-paucity-to-sanctity-of-trust-ethics-of-cryptocurrency-use-for-muslims-in-central-asia/
LOCATION:Turan University\, Almaty\, Kazakhstan
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SUMMARY:Quiet Aid across the Balkans and Central Asia
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URL:https://quietaid.info/event/quiet-across-the-balkans-and-central-asia/
LOCATION:American University of Central Asia\, Bishkek\, Kyrgyzstan
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T120000
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CREATED:20240415T020659Z
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SUMMARY:Transforming Landscapes of Aid: How Gulf Business\, the War in Ukraine and Equestrian Sports Change Small-Town Kyrgyzstan
DESCRIPTION:by Till Mostowlansky  \nOver the last decade\, international development in Kyrgyzstan has undergone significant transformations. Despite the ongoing presence of diverse foreign organizations\, notable shifts have occurred with the emergence of new contributors to aid\, such as entities from the Gulf states\, alongside increased trade revenues from China. This talk centers on a small town in southern Kyrgyzstan\, delving into the concrete materialization of these influences within its social and political landscape. Drawing upon continuous ethnographic research conducted since 2022\, the talk explores the intersection of Islamic charity with the state\, the influence of excess on ideas of the good\, and how equestrian sports serve as a catalyst for redistribution. \n  \n 
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/transforming-landscapes-of-aid-how-gulf-business-the-war-in-ukraine-and-equestrian-sports-change-small-town-kyrgyzstan/
LOCATION:University of Pittsburgh\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T163000
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SUMMARY:Evicting the Living God: Trans-imperial Islam and the Soviet Union on the Eve of Partition
DESCRIPTION:by Till Mostowlansky \nThe establishment of Soviet rule in the southern parts of Central Asia bordering the British Empire has largely been researched through the lens of geopolitical competition. Virtually nothing is known about how the region’s Muslim populations experienced this period of revolution and war leading up to the 1947 partition of India. Using Persian\, Russian and Urdu sources\, this talk explores the Muslim networks that linked Central Asia with South Asia at the time. It further discusses how the study of these trans-imperial connections contributes to a nuanced understanding of attempts at re-engagement\, as well as persistent disconnection\, in the present.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/evicting-the-living-god-trans-imperial-islam-and-the-soviet-union-on-the-eve-of-partition/
LOCATION:Cornell University\, Ithaca\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure’s Long Shadow: From Central Asia to Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:by Till Mostowlansky \nInfrastructures can be conceptualized as networks that link up the built environment\, people and technology. They might include energy\, transport or communication\, whilst also relating to natural resources\, human bodies and other species. These networks often remain invisible when they function as planned yet suddenly appear in the public imagination when they fail\, get destroyed or become subject to spectacular political projects. Over the past decade\, infrastructure has also resurfaced as an issue of public interest in sites as diverse as the United States\, China and Ukraine\, often involving pressing concerns around security\, economic stability and basic needs. However\, with this focus on the present and future\, the longer histories of infrastructure are often neglected. As a result\, core features of infrastructure\, such as the materialization of mundane violence\, political control as well as socio-economic transformation remain less understood. Drawing on social science literature on infrastructure and fifteen years of research in Central Asia\, this talk discusses concepts that might prove useful to study cases from Ukraine in the long view.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/infrastructures-long-shadow-from-central-asia-to-ukraine/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Cambridge\, MA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240125T090000
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SUMMARY:Humanitarianism from Below:‬ Alter-Politics and Struggles for the Universa‬‭l‬ ‭
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the ongoing emergence of humanitarianism from below as central to the transformation of humanitarian landscapes around the world. It aims to research the space between international Western-led humanitarianism and the diverse practices of welfare\, support and solidarity that make up humanitarianism from below. The workshop thereby analyses a politically salient and increasingly visible scale of humanitarianism that both mirrors and challenges the logics of international humanitarianism. Actors involved in such humanitarianism from below often reside in ambivalent settings that are subject to multiple constellations of power and they evade pre-defined containers such as “Western” and “Global South/North.” The workshop establishes an analytical optic onto such movements\, institutions and ad-hoc initiatives as part of comparable forms of “alter-politics” (Hage 2015) that are not simply defined by opposition against dominant forms (“anti”)\, but rather offer different notions and critiques of humanity (“alter”) in a time of global transformation. Critically interrogating the notion of humanitarianism as “an ethos\, a cluster of sentiments\, a set of laws\, a moral imperative to intervene\, and a form of government” (Ticktin 2014: 274) the workshop addresses the urgent need to better understand actors that are outside but not necessarily disconnected from the established spectrum of international humanitarianism. To this end\, this workshop brings into conversation anthropological approaches to humanitarianism with concepts from political anthropology exploring solidarity\, alter-politics and universalism. Download the workshop program here: Humanitarianism from Below \n 
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/humanitarianism-from-below-alter-politics-and-struggles-for-the-universal/
LOCATION:Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna\, Austria
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ORGANIZER;CN="Quiet Aid":MAILTO:till@quietaid.info
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230630
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SUMMARY:Service – Duty – Care
DESCRIPTION:Service – Duty – Care: \nTheorizing Civic Engagement from Asia to Europe and beyond\n  \nResearch on civic engagement – from humanitarianism to charity – points to the complex interplay of sentiments\, emotions and convictions that motivate people to act. These range from ethics rooted in religious frameworks\, to commitment to kin and surrounding social networks\, to NGO-driven humanitarian discourse\, to moments of national awakening\, as powerfully illustrated by the example of volunteering in the war in Ukraine. In this regard\, the concept of care has been extensively discussed in diverse bodies of literature across the humanities and social sciences. Meanwhile\, the concepts of service and duty have received little attention\, despite the prominent role that they play in articulating different forms of “doing good.” In this workshop\, participants will collaboratively theorize service and duty in relation to care. They will thereby investigate how a focus on service and duty might illuminate new aspects of care and how the rich literature on care can help to theorize service and duty from anthropological and historical perspectives. \nThe workshop is conceived as a collaboration between the Geneva Graduate Institute (Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Department of Asian and North African Studies and the Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections). It will thereby link two cities with prominent histories of civic engagement: Venice with its longstanding confraternities and circulations of wealth\, and Geneva as a global centre for international organizations and NGOs. To this end\, the workshop seeks to harness relevant expertise prevalent in Venice and Geneva whilst also providing the participating scholars with an environment conducive to collaborative work. \n\nConvenors\nTill Mostowlansky (research professor in anthropology and sociology\, Geneva Graduate Institute)\, Giuseppe Bolotta (assistant professor\, Southeast Asian studies\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) \n\nDownload the program here \n  \n*The workshop is financed through the Swiss National Science Foundation funded Eccellenza project “Quiet Aid: Service and Salvation in the Balkans-to-Bengal-Complex” (grant number PCEFP1_203319)\, based at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/service-duty-care/
LOCATION:Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, Venice\, Italy
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230617
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230618
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Value Chains: Re-enactment of Service\, Kinship Care and Capital in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:by Gulzhan Begeyeva \nPresentation delivered at the workshop “Imagining the Future: Aspirations for Change and the Ruins of Progress”\, Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology (CUSO) \nThis CUSO workshop is an invitation to critically interrogate ideas\, aspirations and ruins of progress. The idea of progress\, and its associates modernization and development\, may seem hopelessly outdated. However\, assumptions and aspirations of improvement are with us everywhere (Tsing 2015: 20) – they are part of our daily life\, inscribed in technological fixes that seek to tackle various social and ecological issues\, and determine future imaginations. The ideology of progress also continues to prevail across economic\, political as well as scientific institutions (Brightman and Lewis 2017: 2). Innovation\, as a means to achieve progress\, has become the buzzword of our time and is often presented as a driver of change and panacea for a myriad of problems that we face in our current era. Anthropologists are well positioned to challenge these beliefs in progress and innovation by being able to trace empirically the multiple understandings and processes involved in the un/making of these ideologies ‘at work’. Anthropological studies have long pointed out the contradictions\, uses and abuses\, and afterlives of ideas of progress\, triggering processes of overheating (Eriksen 2017)\, environmental destruction and increasing inequalities as well as prompting imaginations of a better future and new forms of life. We invite PhD students from anthropology to reflect on how assumptions\, expectations\, enactments and afterlives of (technological) progress figure in their ethnographic research projects. The main focus of the workshop is to understand the processes that shape inequitable prevailing ideologies of progress at different research sites. By also focusing on power asymmetries\, postcolonial and heteronormatively constructed narratives and images about technology\, innovation and improvement\, the workshop aims to demystify (onto-)normative concepts of progress and unveil the multiplicity of perspectives and the sociocultural constructions of knowledge and technology (cf. Knox 2020). By establishing a comparative base\, doctoral students will be invited not only to share their initial findings\, but also to collaboratively elaborate and analyze the prevailing ideologies of progress that thwart their globally distributed research projects. Questions we might ask are: How is (the ideology of) progress made and unmade in our contemporary world? How can we understand this persistent ‘will to improve’ (Li 2007)? What kinds futures are imagined? How are innovation and technology presented\, promoted and implemented as solutions for problems as diverse as climate change\, infertility\, food security\, sustainable energy\, or poverty? What unforeseen outcomes and (dis)connections are created in the process? Who is benefitting? Who and what is overlooked? What sorts of new moral selves and economies are being put into practice? How do ideas\, practices and outcomes of progress shape global interconnections\, as well as the interconnections between humans and nonhumans? And what are the afterlives of progress? This workshop will be of interest for PhD students conducting research in a broad range of fields. This includes but is not limited to: technology and digitalization\, development and inequality\, climate change and political ecology\, labour arrangements and new forms of work\, medical and reproductive technologies\, infrastructure and human-nonhuman relations.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/humanitarian-value-chains-re-enactment-of-service-kinship-care-and-capital-in-kazakhstan/
LOCATION:Monte Verita\, Ascona\, Switzerland
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230430
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SUMMARY:Seeking Well-Being by Being-With: Care\, Sociality\, and Divine Closeness among Sufis in the Serbian Sandžak
DESCRIPTION:by Pol Llopart i Olivella  \nThis paper investigates how Sufi disciples\, particularly in the Serbian Sandžak\, cultivate social relationships to mediate their proximity with God\, and in doing so pursue spiritual and physical healing. Recent studies on the revival of contemporary Sufism in the post-Yugoslav space (Henig 2014) and Albania (Bria 2018) have focused on the disciplinary and spiritual companionship between masters (šejhovi) and disciples (derviši) as ways of “shaping” lives (Aždajić 2020) and “caring for the self” (Kostadinova 2018). While much attention has been devoted to relationships of discipleship as forms to treat the self afflicted by the separation of humans and God. Here\, I propose to transcend the sociality of Sufi lodges (tekija)\, and in turn\, look into forms of caring and “ethics of being- with” (Al-Mohammad 2011). In particular\, I suggest looking at how Sufi disciples establish and maintain relationships with dead\, ill\, and poor people to mediate their closeness to God. These relationships entail visiting and supplicating at the graves of “good” dead individuals\, an exchange of supplications with ill people\, and serving and giving alms to the poor. Practices considered “good” and “doing good” if performed with a sensitive attitude and normative Islamic orientation. These practices and complex relations speak to repairing and harmonizing relationships between the self and others\, motivated by and invariably entrenched with divine economies of blessing and care.\nThe presentation aims to critically engage with conceptualizations of care and well-being intertwined with emergent forms of religious sociality by looking within and beyond its circles. Exploring the synergies and tensions that arise from such understandings and practices with wider societies which Sufi disciples inhabit.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/seeking-well-being-by-being-with-care-sociality-and-divine-closeness-among-sufis-in-the-serbian-sandzak/
LOCATION:University of Zadar\, Zadar\, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
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