Medusa Conference: Truth-Making

March 18-20, 2025

The theme of this year’s conference is Truth-Making. This theme reflects upon the perceptional role of anthropology as an authority in parsing and understanding the hidden realities of biological, sociocultural, and historical life. As well, this theme reflects upon the contemporary disorientating notion of truth-making as a tool for power and control.

Our committee gratefully receives all submissions including but not limited to works addressing the following themes:

• Developing Truths; Truth-Making; Partial Truths

• Truth Politics

• Scientific Realities and Social Realities

• Materiality and Artefacts; Evidencing

• Speculative Sciences

• Colonial, Neocolonial, and Decolonial realities

• Policing and Authority

• The ‘Post-Truth’ era

• Interpreting Human Origins

• Truth as Myth; Myth as Truth

• Spoken and Unspoken Truths

• What is Truth?

The conference is scheduled to take place over three days between March 18th and 20th.  The conference will be held in a hybrid format.

The AGSU Medusa Planning Committee is now accepting paper submissions for symposium-style presentations as well as roundtable and discussion panels.

For individual papers, please submit your abstract via the submission form by Friday, February 21, 2025. For roundtable and discussion panel submissions, please submit a proposal. For led panel submissions, please submit a proposal and the abstracts for each paper on the panel (Maximum 4 papers).