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, by editing its academic journal Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, its Newsletter and the two publication series. The Association further encourages and supports thematic networks.
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EASA NEWS
17th EASA Biennial Conference
EASA2022: Transformation, Hope and the
Commons
School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast
26-29 July, 2022
EASA is a signatory to an Associação Brasileira de Antropolgia (ABA) note regarding the deaths of Bruno Araújo Pereira and Dom Philips that has been sent to Brazilian officials.
ABA's farewell note .
Second fundraising webinar on Ukraine
Trypillia megasites: teachings and memory of Ukrainian heritage at a moment of danger. 6 July 15:00 (CEST). Read full information and register.
EASA expresses deep concerns over the recent government decisions in Greece that constitute an attack on the autonomy of universities and higher education...
...in that country, notably through the permanent deployment of special police at public universities, and the preparation of a Bill on Higher Education that aims to abolish the democratic election of University authorities by the academic community.
We express our solidarity with our colleagues in Greece. We join their call for the immediate withdrawal of these dangerous new measures, and we stand with them as they assert the critical importance of an autonomous and public academic life as one of the preconditions of a democratic society. Please sign the petition to oppose the plan.
EASA Integrity Committee Statement on Sexual Harassment and bullying
The IC has written a statement on sexual harassment and bullying within higher education. Read the full statement.
EASA Consultancy: Sexual harassment and bullying in European Higher Education
The EASA Integrity Committee wishes to commission a short piece of consultancy to understand how complaints about sexual harassment and bullying are handled across European university systems. Read about the consultancy and how to apply.
EASA mourns the loss of Mantas
Kvedaravičius
It is with deep sorrow and shock that we have learned about the murder of Mantas Kvedaravičius,
award-winning filmmaker, anthropologist, archaeologist and a member of EASA. Read his obituary.
Useful links of support resources for Ukrainians
The Executive Boards of SIEF and EASA have cooperated to disseminate information on support, scholarships
and jobs offered to Ukrainian scholars at risk. View this list of opportunities, advice and resources received from various parts of
Europe. If you have new/additional information please contact us via the email cited there.
Anti-Precarity and Anti-Casualisation Research
As we struggle as academics working in increasingly difficult situations, we invite you to participate in an
anti-precarity research project that builds on the recent research by EASA and
PrecAnthro. Read more about
the project and complete the short questionnaire.
Russian anthropologists against the war (EN/FR)
Read about a petition raised by a group of Russian ethnographers and anthropologists, protesting against the
war in Ukraine. Read in full, and in FR.
EASA and Scholars at Risk Statements on the Russian war against Ukraine
The Executive Committee of the European Association Social Anthropologists (EASA) condemns the Russian
government’s illegal and unprovoked military invasion of Ukraine: an imperialist war that is leading to
immeasurable suffering and losses for the Ukrainian people, whose dignity, well-being, and independence we
wholeheartedly support.
As the Ukraine war has worsened in all sorts of shocking ways, the
Executive feel that our statement needs to be unequivocal in order to avoid ambiguity of any kind. A group
of EASA members contacted us to say that there were some ambiguities in our initial statement and therefore
we have amended it.
Read the revised statement.
As a member of Scholars at Risk, EASA is also supportive of their statement.
EASA Members vote overwhelmingly to make Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale Open
Access
The EASA Executive is delighted to report that more than 90% of members voting in
the referendum on whether the association’s journal, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, should
become fully open access voted "Yes."
Read the EASA & PrecAnthro survey report "The anthropological career in Europe"
The survey was a collaboration between EASA and members of the PrecAnthro Collective, who have worked
together and mobilised since 2016 to raise awareness about the challenges of developing an academic career
in anthropology. The themes explored in the survey reflect existing academic research on changes to the
academic profession and the casualisation of labour in Europe and beyond. Read a summary of the EASA & PrecAnthro survey report
or view
the full report
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NETWORK NEWS
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New networks
Anthropology of Fascisms
(ANTHROFA)
The network serves as a platform for exchange, communication, and mutual support amongst anthropologists
of fascisms, the far right, and respective counter-movements. Network activities will contribute to the
production of knowledge on actors, movements, practices, ideologies and subjectivities, as well as
reflect on methodology, theory and ethics. Read more
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Multimodal Ethnography Network
(MULTIMODAL)
The network embraces an understanding of multimodality and multimedia that is simultaneously old/new,
analogue/digital, low tech/high tech, in person/at a distance. The network aims to create spaces for
playful experimentation with these dichotomies and tensions during plenaries at the bi-annual EASA
conference, annual meetings and member-organised events, and through publications in the associated
journal entanglements: experiments in multimodal ethnography.
Read more >>
Anthropology of Crime and
Criminalisation (ANTHROCRIME)
The EASA Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation network (AnthroCrime) aims to place the study of
crime, criminalisation and decriminalisation at the heart of critical anthropological inquiry. Current
socio-political transformations, such as shifting geopolitical configurations, rising neo-nationalist
tendencies, and (cyber)technological developments, push crime to the centre of public debate and to the
heart of governmental power. Read more >>
Contemporary 'Spiritual' Practices
(CSP)
Our hope is to establish a cross-disciplinary network and offer regular occasions for exploring within a
comparative approach the transversal dynamics as well as the differences within the operative logics of
these spiritual practices. A wide variety of spiritual practices overlap and typically belong to various
realms between therapy, science, wellbeing, and politics: from New Age to Neopaganism, from
ecospirituality to neo-traditionalist movements among numerous categories, this network is open to
‘spiritual’ practices regardless of their cultural contexts. Read
more >>
