European Association of Social Anthropologists

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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

See events listed in the sidebar.

Call for film review
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) welcomes films and film reviews for its special issue on Migration and Refuges. Should you like to contribute, please contact the film reviews editor: Dr Michael Abecassis: michael.abecassis(at)modern-langs.ox.ac.uk. For general inquiries and instructions, please visit: acmejournal.org

Why anthropology matters
Anthropology provides knowledge and skills which can be essential for understanding and dealing with the human condition in the early 21st century.
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Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

Volume 25, Issue 2 Edited by Sarah Green and Patrick Laviolette

Events

NETWORK EVENTS

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.

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

8 - 10 December 2017 Second meeting of the Political Imagination Laboratory: Visualizing and Investigating the Imagination of Contemporary Activism by The Peasant Activism Project, in cooperation with the Anthropology and Social Movements network. University of Perugia, Italy.

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. Oklahoma State University, USA

OTHER EVENTS

11-15 December 2017 Shifting States AAS/ASA/ASAANZ Joint conference Adelaide, Australia

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