Call for Papers | “Cultures of Combat: Qualitative Studies of Martial Arts, Fighting Systems and Combat Sports” | 7th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Bergamo, Italy, June 6–9, 2018. Call ends January 15, 2018

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Since 2006, the Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference in Bergamo has become an increasingly recognised and established scientific meeting for social researchers. The Conference is organised bi-annually, and has grown positively both in terms of numbers (with the 2016 edition gathering almost 300 scholars) and in terms of its international impact (with nearly half the participants coming from outside Italy).

The 2018 Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference aims to build on the rich intellectual discussion developed during the previous editions. Researchers from across a variety of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, political sciences, arts & humanities, education, social work, geography, cultural studies, science and technology studies, and gender studies are able to present their research, discuss findings, theory and methodology in a lively and friendly environment.

The core mission of the conference is to:

  • foster scholarly exchange and facilitate research collaborations among senior and junior scholars based in different universities and research centres in Europe and further afield;
  • support the dissemination of fresh, original research;
  • encourage PhD students at different stages of their research to share and present preliminary findings and fieldwork experience;
  • welcome graduate and undergraduate students as members of the audience and active participants in conference discussions.

The conference embraces and endorses a broad, ambitious view of ethnographic research. Ethnography is understood as an inquiry into the processes, implications, and meanings of social life and culture in groups, organizations, and institutions across diverse social spaces and settings. Accordingly, contributions can be based on a variety of methods, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, focus groups, video-based field studies, auto-ethnography, visual ethnography, discourse studies, and other forms of inquiry inspired and informed by an ethnographic sensibility. The Conference welcomes empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and methodologically sound proposals that contribute to the substantive knowledge of the social world and contemporary emerging phenomena.

The 7th edition features keynote talks and thematic sessions (see the full list below) addressing current key issues such as migration in its various aspect and the neoliberal turn in academic life and higher education. The format is based on 3-hour sessions with 5 to 6 paper presentations per session, leaving as much room as possible for debate and discussion.

Convenors: David Brown (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK), George Jennings (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK) & Lorenzo Pedrini (University of Milano-Bicocca).

Read a detailed Call for Papers!

“This is not a conference, it’s a feast!”, said a participant during the 6th edition. Join us in celebrating the ethnographic passion!

Visit the conference homepage for information on submissions, registration and more!

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