September 7-10, 2017 in Capri Island, Italy.
Convenors: Giovanni da Col (SOAS) and Theodoros Kyriakides (Open University UK)
The EASA Network of Ethnographic Theory (NCAT) has completed a workshop entitled Fakery, Insincerity, and the the Anthropology of Humbuggery. The workshop took place on September 7-10, 2017 in Capri Island, Italy. The workshop was convened by Giovanni da Col (SOAS) and Theodoros Kyriakides (Open University UK), and included the participation of Susan D. Blum (Notre Dame), Harri Englund (Cambridge), Niloofar Haeri (Johns Hopkins), Michael Herzfeld (Harvard), Angelique Haugerud (Rutgers), John L. Jackson (Upenn), Michael Lambek (Toronto), Rena Lederman (Princeton), Sasha Newell (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Sherry Ortner (UCLA), Andrew Shryock (Michigan), Carlos Londoño Sulkin (U of Regina), Madeleine Reeves (Manchester), Angela Reyes (Hunter College, CUNY) and Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley).
The workshop explored and situated notions of deceit, fakery, lying, humbuggery as essential parts of sociality, intensified by contemporary social and political processes. A publication, stemming from the papers presented at the workshop, is being prepared for early 2018.