European Association of Social Anthropologists

The European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) is a professional association open to all social anthropologists either qualified in, or else working in, Europe.

The Association seeks to advance anthropology in Europe by organizing biennial conferences.

EASA's academic journal, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale appears four times a year and is available free of charge to all paid-up members.

EASA is a sister association of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) and a member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA).

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EASA NEWS

EASA AGM and Seminar: On Politics and Precarities in Academia: Anthropological Perspectives
This will be held at the Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern from November 16-17, 2017.
Read the Call for contributions and full details here.

Letter to members from EASA President and Vice-President
Read more here.

EASA newsletter 69, June 2017 is now out
Read more here.

EASA2018, Stockholm, 14-17th August 2018
Next year's EASA biennial conference will be hosted by the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Stockholm, from 14-17th August 2018.

EASA supports Polish colleagues
EASA has written a statement of support (PDF) standing alongside their colleagues in the Polish Ethnological Society who are speaking up against growing discrimination in society. They are organising action and their manifesto can be seen here (PDF). The WCAA, of which both EASA and PES are members, has also written a statement in support (PDF).

EASA bookseries
The series has a new editor: Aleksandar Boskovic (University of Belgrade and Institute of Social Sciences)
Call for submissions for edited collections and monographs. More details >>

NETWORK NEWS

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Events

NETWORK EVENTS

15-16 June 2017: 8th MAYS Annual Meeting. Medical Anthropology beyond Academic Borders. In collaboration with Students of Medical Anthropology (SoMA). Edinburgh, UK.

5-7 July 2017: BODIES IN TRANSITION - POWER KNOWLEDGE AND MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Biennial Conference and Network Meeting by the Medical Anthropology Network 2017, Lisbon, Portugal.

13-15 July 2017 Ethnographic Experimentation Fieldwork Devices and Companions First Workshop of #Colleex Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation , Jardim Botânico Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

20-21 July 2017 Mining Temporalities. Ideas, experiences and politics of time in extractive industries – 1st Workshop of the Anthropology of Mining Network Utrecht University, campus De Uithof, The Netherlands. For more info contact: anthropologymining@gmail.com

28-30 of August: EASA network PACSA and EASA network Anthropology of Security The Making of Peace, Conflict and Security: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion, University of Amsterdam

7-8 September 2017 The pasts, presents, and futures of queer mobilities: transnational movements of ideas, concepts, and people 2nd Workshop of the European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA) – Central European University, Budapest. Cfp open until 31 May 2017.

14-16 September 2017 Anthropologies of Media and Mobility: Theorizing movement and circulations across entangled fields An International Workshop organized by the Anthropology and Mobility Network and the Media Anthropology Network (EASA) in collaboration with Locating Media (Siegen) and a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School (Cologne) University of Cologne, Germany. Monday 3 April, 2017.

19-21 September 2017: EASA network LAWNET event Anticipating Law: The Prognostics of Fear and Hope. Bern, Switzerland.

27-28 October 2017: EASA network Anthropology of Economy event Workshop: Deservingness - power, morality and inequality in contemporary Europe and beyond. Vienna, Austria.

28-29 October 2017 Why the World Needs Anthropologists: Powering the Planet. Hosted by EASA Applied Anthropology Network. Durham, UK

2-4 November 2017 Wind of Change: Politics, Economy, Ethnicity in the Mediterranean. 2017 MedNet workshop University of Lisbon, Portugal

21-24 February, 2018 The Fourth Middle East and Central Eurasia Ethnographic Film and Media Program (AMCE) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists at the First International Biennial Conference and Graduate Workshop on The Persianate World and Central Eurasia at the Oklahoma State University, USA

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