Events of ENQA


FUTURE EVENTS

Queer in Anthropology - Lunch meet-up

European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA) online meeting on the occasion of World Anthropology Day.


20 February 2025 12:30 - 14:00 CET (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Wien)

Zoom link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66350803556?pwd=paIHewTTSXtf3BIbFTnlNgHKTNimpg.1

Meeting-ID: 663 5080 3556
Kenncode: 131112


What´s happening?

“Queer in Anthropology” is an online meet-up organised by ENQA, the European Network of Queer Anthropology. On 20 February, which is World Anthropology Day, we want to come together to hang out, discuss, share experiences, and conspire in a world in turmoil. The digital meet-up session will have a central part where people can informally share their research and find possible collaborators, allies or readers. Everyone is welcome, even if they are not network members (yet)! There will be two rooms for open conversation, each dealing with a current topic of concern for queer anthropologists and anthropologists working on queerness.

Room 1: Fieldwork and queer/trans positions

This room is a space for discussing queerness and fieldwork. While we acknowledge that there are also researchers working on and with queer issues who do not consider themselves as part of the vast queer spectrum, this space is particularly dedicated to queer researchers. This is in order to create a safer space of mutuality and share experiences. Questions that may be raised are, for example, the following: How do we position ourselves in the field and to interlocutors as queer researchers? What intersectional alliances are possible between queer researchers and queer interlocutors? Where are there divisions and how have people addressed these productively? How do we identify, write and represent in contexts that persecute queer identities? How can we form alliances with other queer people in such spaces?

Room 2: Institutions and queer (im)possibilities

The current political situation of increased funding cuts for research, limits to free speech and a general turn to the right across Europe affects anthropologists and their funding at universities, research institutes, etc. Marginalized perspectives and researchers at the margins (often combining several intersectional traits) are even more affected when budgets are reduced and less positions available. At the same time institutions do not support structurally queer academics in applications, fundings etc. - quite the contrary. In this room we want to open a space for exchange on the challenges of queer (im)possibilities in the institutions. The room is open to all members of the network and interested parties.

 

PAST EVENTS

Network Meeting

24 July 2024, Barcellona
The meeting took place at the EASA2024 Conference, Facultat de Geografia i Història 310.

ENQA Workshop 2021: Futures beyond Crises, 16 & 17 Sept 2021

Politics of Crisis

Chair: Ellis Kokko (University of Edinburgh)

Re-thinking crisis and disaster through affect and embodiment

Chair: Lars Aaberg (SOAS)

Keynote address: Omar Kasmani (Freie Universität Berlin)

Crises, refusals and insurgencies

Chair: Tunay Altay (Berlin)

Alternative frameworks for crisis and care

Chair: Lars Aaberg (SOAS)

Town Hall meeting: mentoring

Social Event

ENQA's third workshop: Writing difference, Writing differently in September 2019, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)/Germany

ENQA panels at EASA2018, Stockholm

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)
7th-8th of September, 2017 – Central European University, Budapest
Conference home page: https://enqa2017.wordpress.com/

Panel: Connection and contestation in queer anthropology (P140) EASA conference Milan 2016
URL: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2016#4289
Convenors: Shaka McGlotten (Purchase College-SUNY) and Margot Weiss (Wesleyan University)

This panel explored the future(s) of queer anthropology by attending to connections and contestations between anthropological and other ways of knowing, and between the concepts that ground our fields: queer, gender, sexuality, desire.:

Panel: Public and private redrawn: geosocial sex and the offline (P135) EASA conference Milan 2016
URL: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2016#4322
Convenors: Matthew McGuire (Cambridge) Michael Connors Jackman (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

ENQA board members participated in the annual meeting of the AAA in Minneapolis in November 2016.

Workshop: Queer Devices
On September 11-13 ENQA held its first workshop at the Central European University, Budapest. It gathered twenty scholars and scholar-activists from different countries, in different stages of their careers, to discuss their work, research collaborations, publishing initiatives, and network. The workshop organized two open panels at CEU on queer anthropology and the current refugee crisis in Europe, with specific focus on the Hungarian and southeast European perspectives.

Panel: Whatever is Happening to the Critical Study of Gender and Sexual Diversity in Anthropology (P058) EASA Conference Tallinn 2014.
URL: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2014#3028

The panel was well attended and spurred a roundtable debate among key participants/presenters. This was recorded and later transcribed into an essay format, as it will be published in an issue of Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, edited and with an introduction by Mark Graham (Stockholm University).

Panel: Same-sex Sexualities and Ethnic Minorities in Europe (P080). EASA Conference Tallinn 2014.
URL: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2014#3065

Co-sponsored with the Gender and Sexuality Network, this panel, too, generated much interest and thus assisted in building the profile of ENQA and the critical study of gender and sexuality in European Anthropology.

Business meeting at the EASA conference in Tallinn, 2014.

ENQA organized its first business meeting at the EASA conference, with about twenty-five attendees. We discussed plans for publishing, meetings, network building, organization, and support work more generally. We are working to follow up on these conversations in the year ahead, with particular focus on building support networks, furthering our digital communication platforms, and organizing events.