EASA Webinars

Watch the recording of the second webinar of the EASA Women in Leadership Development series. With Drs. Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Roberta Raffaetà, Elżbieta Drążkiewicz, Ana Ivasiuc and Sultan Doughan.

EASA was delighted to host Sertaç Sehlikoglu (Editor, Contemporary Islam) and Leonardo Schiocchet (Editor, Social Anthropology) as speakers during the EASA Publication Workshop organized on 10 December 2025 by the EASA Mentorship Team. The meeting was chaired by Sultan Doughan (Goldsmiths, University of London). The speakers offered practical insights into the publication process—how to select…

Watch the recording of the first webinar of the “EASA Women in Leadership Development Series: Building Inclusive Academic Allyships” – with Sertaç Sehlikoglu (UCL) and Roberta Raffaetà (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

24 October 2025, 11 am – 1 pm CET

This webinar combines research-centred work on mental health in the social sciences, together with a more praxis-oriented discussion on union engagement and institutional practices that tackle mental health struggles in academia. The figures on mental health in academia are harrowing, and unfortunately in line with what many of us have experienced. In the life sciences,…

This webinar, organised by the EASA working group on human rights and academic freedom, aims to provide EASA members with current and research-based information on the state of academic freedom and the right to education across Israeli and Palestinian universities. At the EASA2024 conference, a group of members presented a motion concerning collaborations with Israeli…

The former Executive Committee commissioned Heather McKnight to research anti-precarity initiatives in Europe in order to see what has worked, where, and why, and take stock of existing initiatives to plan our next steps. We were talking about the findings of the report, as well as about other initiatives, and discussing how EASA can strengthen…

To mark World Mental Health Day 2023, EASA held a webinar together with the Researcher Mental Health Observatory (ReMO) to raise awareness on mental health in academia. . ReMO is a EU-funded initiative that is building a network that advocates for healthy and sustainable working conditions in academia. In this webinar, two members of ReMO,…

What do the ERC schemes have to offer to scholars in Social Anthropology? How to get started with an application? How to increase your chances to get funding? What are the main hitches to avoid?. This webinar informed anthropologists about the changes brought to the 2024 programme, in particular those regarding anthropology, and to offer…

This fundraising webinar collected funds for the Ukrainian organization Zminy (who fund logistics, assistance to medical institutions and the armed forces, and humanitarian aid). Funds were directed to providing medical and protective aid. This fundraising webinar also supported the Aid for Ukrainian Archeologists from Armed Forces, Territorial Defense and the National Guard initiative launched by…

This fundraising webinar collected €1715 for Scholars at Risk (matched and thus raised to €3430 from EASA reserves) for their work with scholars escaping war and authoritarian regimes.The 2022 invasion of Ukraine prompted the largest humanitarian crisis in Europe’s recent history. With this panel we want to use anthropological knowledge to shed some light on…

The European Union funds extensive academic research with the potential to inform humane and effective border policies. Yet evidence-based immigration policy is undermined by the EU’s increasingly repressive border regime. How do we make sense of this contradiction? And what are the transformations that are needed to address it? Read more To address these questions,…

Following the opening up of research articles via open access mandates (including Plan S), several research funders including the European Commission are moving ahead with a transition to Open Science. However, while there is increasing agreement of the need to improve the transparency, reproducibility and robustness of research, current academic evaluation systems still place undue…

In this third EASA Autumn webinar, we explore the contested meanings and forms of value associated with Open Access publishing, as well as its implications for the discipline of anthropology. Tracing its roots back to scholar-led online initiatives in the 1990s, Open Access has since become both a political movement to democratise scholarly knowledge and…

New European policies on Open Science pose important questions to the discipline about the management of anthropological materials collected during field research. The aim of this webinar is to explore what ‘open’ would mean for access to past and present anthropological data – written, visual, audio or audio-visual. It will also address the scientific, ethical,…