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In connection to this year's EASA Biennial Conference theme, the EarlyCareer Scholars Plenary looks forward to capturing "collaboration,intimacy and revolution" both in form and content.We wish to invite early career scholars to take part in this eventthat, revolutionizing the tradition of previous Young Scholars Forums,will be organized as a wide-angle snapshot of what young scholars arereally up to, showcasing emerging anthropological talent, themes andideas. We hope that the Young Scholars Forum will properly become avenue for pulsating what anthropology is up to today.To this effect, we are organizing a session where 12 young scholarswill be invited to present their work. The presentations, however,will be constrained in time and form. Speakers will be asked toprepare a 5-minutepresentation where they must introduce their work in exactly 15 slidesand 20 seconds each slide. 15 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 5 minutes.A moderated discussion will follow the presentations.**Who can apply?**Early career scholars willing to explore the possibilities opened-upby this new format, and who want to expose their engaging research andideas in a panorama of other equally promising peers.The presentations should not be hurried-up "text-plus-images"summaries of people's work but rather should be critical and creativevisual analyses, which may employ for example animation,data-visualisations, video,montage, etc. Of course a text-only presentation may also work,although you¹ll likely to be raising the stakes of the challenge!**How to submit your proposal**If you are an early career scholar and find our challenge of interest,we would love to hear from you. Please submit a 250-word abstractdescribing your area of work by February 27 following the instructionsoutlined at the conference webpage:http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3210Having sent us your expression of interest, you should start workingon a 5-minute video presentation (15 slides, 20 seconds each slide) ofthe work you intend to present at the conference.You must send this video-piece to us by May 1. EASA will set-up aYouTube channel for you to upload your videos. Instructions will beposted in due course at the conference's webpage.In the event that we receive more than 12 submissions, the convenerswill organize a selection process that shall abide by the followingcriteria:(i) Videos that stick rigorously to the format (5 minutes, 15 slides,20s per slide);(ii) Videos that make a creative use of the format for conceptual /ethnographic exploration (that is, not simply adding a narrative tothe slides);(iii) Videos that address the conference's theme explicitly.All the video-presentations received, regardless of whether they areselected or not for presentation at the Plenary, will be madeavailable at EASA's webpage.**Still confused with the format?**Google up examples of presentations like Pecha Kucha, Lightning Talk,Ignite or TED.If you have any further questions, please feel free to email the EarlyCareer Scholars Plenary convenors at:alberto.corsin-jimenez[at]cchs.csic.esKlavs.Sedlenieks[at]rsu.lv