We are proud to showcase the richness of what our networks have been doing over the past and coming few months! Many thanks to those who shared their news with us.
New network
The Anthropology Across Ruralities (ACRU) Network was created in 2025 with the goal of re-launching and renewing an epistemological, theoretical, practical and institutional discussion on the ‘rural’ object. To sign up to the mailing list or contact the convenors to join the network, please use the links on the network’s page.
Network events
The Muslim Worlds Network held its biennial symposium, Transcendence in the Small Gestures of Life: Attention and Care for Nature and Humans in Religious Traditions, which took place on 2 and 3 October 2025 on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice. The conference was organized jointly with the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities (Fondazione Giorgio Cini) and the Centro di Ricerche Etnografiche e di Antropologia applicata “Francesca Cappelletto”(CREAa) of the Department of Human Sciences of the University of Verona.
The Age and Generations Network‘s 2025 workshop took place in Bratislava on 11 and 12 September. On 9 September 2025, the EASA Age and Generations Network (AGENET), the IUAES Commission on Aging and the Life Course, and the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology (SAS) hosted a one-day online event titled ParticipAge! Exploring Participatory Approaches in Ageing Studies – EASA. The event provided a good foundation for the subsequent in person workshop of ParticipAge! in Bratislava on 11–12 September 2025. Here, 20 researchers and practitioners from across Europe, engaged for two days in interactive workshops.
The Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network held the workshop Global Racial Capitalism and the Politics of Refusal on 13 and 14 June 2025 at Sabancı University, Istanbul. The programme can be found here.
The 4th Colleex (Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation) workshop Styles of Experimentation. Unsettling the Anthropological Syllabus will take place this 16-19 October in Berlin at the Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. While submissions are closed, the network is happy to report that nearly 50 participants will join in Berlin, transforming what we imagined as a small workshop into a 3-day gathering for sharing and engaging with experimental work in anthropology. (Image: Rubén D’Hers, Terminaciones Nerviosas, 2024 (Acrylic on canvas 167 x 117 cm. Unplugged refrigerator, piano strings, stones, bird feather, electrical bow, transducer, amplifier & computer controlled dc motors). Exhibition view, Villa Romana, Florence. )
Anthropology and Social Movements (ANTHROSOC) & Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality(NAGS) organised the workshop LGBTIQ+ Feminist Resistance and Empowerment Against Conservative Ideologies on March 10th and 11th, 2025 at the Complutense University of Madrid (partly hybrid), in cooperation the Centre for Transforming Sexuality and Gender, University of Brighton, and the Anthropology, Diversity and Integration Group, Complutense University of Madrid.
In June 2025, the Anthropology of Peace, Conflict, and Security (APeCS network organised the two-day conference Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity at the University of Edinburgh. The conference included nine panels and a keynote lecture by Tobias Kelly on ‘Human Right, Torture and Impunity’, as well as a screening and panel discussion of the film ‘The Rose of Ioannina’ by Na’ama Landau, Livnat Konopny-Decleve and Adi Liraz. The APeCS network conference is held every two years, alternating with the EASA biennial conference. Supported by EASA and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science, the 2025 conference attracted around 80 participants from across the world. You can find out more about the APeCS network and its events here.
The 2025 Anthropology & the Arts (ANTART) Workshop took place 5-7 September in Paris under the title The Potential of Art: Art for an Anthropology of the 21st century. With it now being 30 years since the publication of Marcus and Myers’ The Traffic in Culture, we wondered how we can understand the relationship between anthropology and art today. Where are we going? What are the challenges we face and what are the possible avenues ahead? This network meeting brought together ANTART past and present conveners teams to collaboratively explore and reflect on the role of art in 21st-century anthropology. The members also chose a new all-female convening team taking over at the next EASA conference! The ANTART network is also publishing a special issue in the journal Ateliers d’anthropologie n°56 (Forthcoming December, 2025) entitled Re-worlding relations: Anthropology and artistic practices. Edited by Giuliana Borea Francesca Cozzolino, and Alex Ungprateeb Flynn it includes contributions by Minke Nouwens, Laure Carbonnel, Gaëlle Simon , Aurélie Journée-Duez , Géraldine Le Roux, Barbara Glowczewski. More info at Ateliers d’anthropologie .
European Network of Psychological Anthropology (ENPA held this year’s ENPA conference, Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives. The conference was organized with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Psychology at the University of Münster and took place 11-13 June 2025.
Creative Anthropology Network (CAN) shared their thoughts on celebrating a year of activity here. You can see what they have been up to and how they reflect on it there. Here, we want to highlight perhaps their most ambitious initiative, from July 2025: Theatre from the Field, a four-day residential workshop in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Fourteen anthropologists worked intensively with Affect Theatre founders Cristiana Giordano and Greg Pierotti, training in object theatre, Theatre of the Oppressed, contact improvisation, and visual storytelling. Two short films here and here capture some glimpses of the workshop — a gesture, a half-finished sentence, a body in motion — as you will see they hint at the intensity of what was made together.
Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH) and the Future Anthropologies Network (FAN) jointly organised their 2025 workshop Past Tense, Future Imperfect: Temporalities as Mobilising Force, which took place in Bonn and hybrid, with funding from EASA/Global Heritage Lab. Around 25 participants took part in two parallel hybrid workshops, plenary sessions, and an exhibition tour. Moreover, in September 2025, NAoHH organised the panel Tracing Histories and Futures through Waterscapes, in collaboration with TRACTS Symposium on Water: Traces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis. The next ‘In Conversation’ event, An Ethnography of Restitution, will take place on 7 October.
In 2024/25 The History of Anthropology Network (HOAN) had two online meetings (HOAN-Ms), with keynote speakers from Poland (Michał Buchowski) and from the Czech Republic (Nikola Balaš). Between 11 and 13 September, 2025, HOAN co-organised the workshop Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy as our HOAN-EASA off-conference year activity. It took place in Berlin and on-line. See also the July 2025 Newsletter