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Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
21-24 July 2026
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We live in a polarised world. Political leaders and corporate actors across the globe are polarising communities and markets, eager to disintegrate them. This further accelerates authoritarian practices, imposed alignments, and polar oppositions that have gained momentum in many parts of various societies. As anthropologists, we have long emphasised entangled perspectives and revealed a world of interconnectedness, and through our research, we have sought to teach and enact relations of equality, participation, and collaboration.
EASA2026 is a fully hybrid conference: all plenaries, lectures, panels, roundtables, network meetings, and even some of the events/workshops will be streamed on Zoom. Delegates will be able to choose between online participation and face-to-face participation when they register for the conference. Proposals should be made with this hybridity in mind.
Call for panels closes 3 November 2025.
Adam Mickiewicz University
Adam Mickiewicz University is one of the largest and top academic institutions in Poland. The Insitute of Anthropology and Ethnology in Poznań was established in 1919 alongside the founding of the University. It is thus the oldest and one of the largest anthropological departments in the country, with twenty-five full-time faculty members. Read moreStudents and doctoral candidates are trained both in Polish and English, the latter within the CREOLE/Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes two-year MA programme in Anthropology. The Institute has received a national certificate of excellence in education in the field of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology.
Chaired by Prof. Michał Buchowski, the Institute ranks among the top anthropological centers in Central Europe. The faculty members actively participate in well-known international and national organisations. Besides conducting extensive research throughout Poland and Europe, the Institute has substantial experience in non-European studies. Its researchers, postgraduate, and graduate students have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, Australia, and Oceania.
The faculty members are particularly involved in the projects implemented by two important university research centres: the Centre for Migration Studies and the Centre for Energy and Environmental Challenges.
Poznań is the cradle of Polish statehood: it hosts the oldest Polish cathedral (from 968) and the tombs of Poland’s first rulers. The city was also the site of the key events in the newest history of Poland, including the successful Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919) and the ‘Poznań June 1956,’ the first workers’ protest against communist rule.
photo: Radosław Maciejewski
Poznań stretches along the Warta River, with green corridors running north–south and east–west, which creates a unique star-like urban layout. Green spaces cover nearly a third of the city, including two nature reserves, one of them being Morasko, home to one of the Adam Mickiewicz University campuses where the EASA conference will be hosted.
photo: Wojciech Mania
Poznań, a city of over half million people and with suburbs approaching a million, located in western Poland, lies at the crossroads of major European transport routes. Its strategic location fostered cultural diversity and made it a key meeting point in Central Europe.
photo: Piotr Gołębniak
Poznań is also a major academic hub in Poland with eight public and several private universities that educate over a hundred thousand students, including several thousand international ones.
Collegium Minus, Rectorate. Photo Władysław Gardasz
Poznań hosts vibrant cultural events, such as the Malta Festival (alternative theatre), Dancing Poznań (contemporary dance), Animator (animated films), Made in Chicago (jazz), and Ethno Port (world music). It is also home to The Eight Day Theatre, a politically engaged ensemble from the 1960s student movement, and Rozbrat, Poland’s oldest squat and a centre for independent culture. Poznań aims to be a comfortable, friendly, inclusive, and forward-thinking city powered by its creative residents.
Poznan goats. Photo: Jakub Pindych
First inspired by the mascots of our city of Poznań, two goats butting heads, Andrzej Wieteszka created an image that can no longer be reduced to those early inspirations, claims no one true meaning, and encourages the viewer to open their eyes and search for the flicker of ambiguities. A moth, a butterfly, a mask, a bird, two people, what else do you find in the image? One could say it de-polarises the once known image in order to host multiplicity and to invite individual readings – like, in different grades, a tarot card, or an inkblot in a Rorschach test. Read more >
Logo by Andrzej Wieteszka
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Agnieszka Pasieka
University of Montreal
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