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Dear AnthroMobbers,

We are excited to share the call for papers for this year's AnthroMob Netwo= rk Workshop on the theme of "Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodime= nt and Emotions." The workshop will take place on the 11-12 September 2025 = at Leiden University (Netherlands), and is organised in collaboration with = the LDE Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity. The call for pape= rs below (and attached as a PDF) can also be found on a website created for workshop, to which we will soon add m= ore information about the program and logistics. Please feel free to share = this call with anyone who may be interested and to reach out to us with any= questions. We hope to see many of you in Leiden next September!

Warmly, Elise, Sonja & Mirjam

EASA AnthroMob Network Workshop 2025

Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodiment and Emotions 11-12 September, 2025 LDE Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity / Leiden University, T= he Netherlands

Call for Papers As culturally contingent social constructs, embodied emotions are mutually = constitutive of lived experience, forms of sociality, and intersubjective m= eaning-making, not to mention the ethnographic endeavour itself. In the stu= dy of (im)mobilities, recent anthropological research interrogates the feel= ings stirred by movement across multiple modes, scales, and temporalities, = as well as by stasis: in stillness, stuckedness, and waiting. Questions of = agency, freedom, rights, equity, and justice are evoked as bodies move thro= ugh space, are prevented from doing so, or are re-moved, as exemplified by = the drawing of fraught distinctions between =93voluntary=94 versus =93force= d=94 movement. Taken together, affective and embodied experiences are being= increasingly recognised as central to social, political, economic, and mor= al domains of life. Emotions are intertwined with (im)mobility, not least because they produce = what are termed affective publics. Feelings of closeness or distance, belon= ging or exclusion, comradery or alienation are generated as bodies are read= and emotional styles are prescribed through patriarchal and racialised reg= isters. Careful attention to such dynamics as well as to the manifold ways = in which we are implicated in them is therefore not only part of our mandat= e as researchers, but is also our responsibility as human beings living thr= ough a global polycrisis. As the horrors in the Mediterranean, Palestine, S= udan, and beyond unfold and reach us on our many screens, and as climate br= eakdown continues at an alarming pace, we must refuse the role of the disem= bodied, distanced spectator. What are we, as anthropologists, equipped to o= ffer publics as we also feel our ways through such a moment? How might we r= e-envision our collective task now, as those involved in the (re)constructi= on, (re)presentation, and (re)circulation of deeply emotional stories of su= ffering and loss, on the one hand, and solidarity and hope, on the other? This international workshop on 11-12 September 2025, organised by the EASA = AnthroMob network in collaborat= ion with the LDE Centre for Governance of Migration and Diversity will brin= g participants together at Leiden University to explore how bodies, embodim= ent, and emotions can productively relate to the study of (im)mobilities. W= e warmly invite submissions for both in-person and online participation add= ressing these themes through oral presentations as well as multimodal and i= nteractive formats. We welcome scholars working on these topics within or b= eyond mobility and migration studies, particularly those who are situated w= ithin anthropology and/or engage in ethnographic research. Submissions from= PhD researchers and early career scholars are encouraged. Limited funding = is available to support travel costs and will be made available to research= ers without institutional funding on a case by case basis, prioritising sch= olars based in the Global South/Majority World. Submission process

1. Please send a description (maximum 250 words) of your proposed contri= bution to anthromob@outlook.com by 28 Februar= y, 2025. Please indicate in your email whether you would like to present in= person or online and whether you plan to request funding from AnthroMob to= help cover your travel costs.
2. We will send you an email to confirm that we have received your submi= ssion.
3. We will let you know by 14 March, 2025 if your submission has been ac= cepted.

Feel free to contact the workshop convenors with any questions that you may= have about the event or submission process: Elise Hjalmarson (elisehjalmarson@gmail.com) Sonja Faaren Ruud (sonjafaaren.ruud@kuleuven.be) Mirjam Twigt (m.a.twigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

Team ANTHROMOB

Sonja Faaren Ruud (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Elise Hjalmarson (Geneva Graduate Institute) =96 Co-convenors =96

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