The 2026 edition of the European Anthropology Days (EAD) is here! This is a series of events endorsed by the EASA and organized annually throughout February and March to increase the visibility of and solidarity across the anthropology in Europe.
These are gloomy days for anthropology and for communities worldwide. Across and beyond Europe, anthropologists work in conditions shaped by deepening inequalities, hardening polarisation, environmental distress, and rapid technological change, frequently intertwined and not always in ways that are easy to name. From Stockholm to Rome, Olomouc to Turin and Milan, anthros have been engaging these conditions through close attention to everyday life: to movements and blockages, to food and its infrastructures, to emerging digital forms of knowledge, and to the practices through which people try to make sense of living together in unsettled times.
The European Anthropology Days 2026 bring these tensions into public view through a number of country-based events, locally grounded but never merely local. The EAD 2026 programme unfolds across lectures, roundtables, workshops, exhibitions and community encounters – across Sweden, the Czech Republic, Italy, Poland and Norway – in universities, cultural spaces, city venues and digital spaces. Across these events, anthropology emerges through engagements with food as both material culture and planetary process; through sustained attention to mobility, residence and confinement; through critical discussions on artificial intelligence, knowledge, truth and the human; and through creative ethnographic practices that foreground recipes and commensality as ways of knowing.
Together, these events take seriously the fractures of the present while insisting on anthropology’s capacity to engage across difference by cultivating curiosity and shared attention – hardly an easy solution but a necessary gesture towards more sustainable future.
European Anthropology Days 2026
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