European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) Events

Future events

ENPA Biennial Conference 2025

10 June 2025 Schloss, University of Münster, Germany

We are delighted to announce the 3rd ENPA Biennial Conference, Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

This year’s theme explores the emerging intersections of psychological anthropologies and anthropological psychologies, fostering dialogue on the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration. We seek contributions from anthropologists, psychologists, and scholars from related disciplines who wish to present their research, share reflections, and imagine future collaborations at the crossroads of these fields.

Conference focus:
We aim to catalyze innovations in interdisciplinary engagements, particularly regarding: Methodological, theoretical, and conceptual reflections / Challenges to universalizing theories and interventions in the face of power asymmetries and critical epistemologies / Decolonizing and diversifying research methods, infrastructures, and curricula / Retrospective, current, and forward-looking perspectives on interdisciplinary work in academic and non-academic contexts.

Through this conference, we seek to create constructive dialogues that propose new frameworks for research, practice, and application in areas such as policy-making, therapy, healing, education, care, and resistance.

Call for Contributions:
We warmly welcome submissions for panels, papers, roundtables, and labs that engage with these themes. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary and experimental formats, including cross-media, film-based research, and public-facing projects. Formats can be either fully online or fully in-house but cannot combine both within the same session.

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025.
Please send your submissions to:

For detailed guidelines and updates, please see our website.

Past events

Network Meetings

26 July 2024, Barcellona
The meeting took place at the EASA2024 Conference.

5 September 2024, Online

Mind Embedded and Embodied – Futures of Psychological Anthropology. The first Biennial Conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
2-4 June, 2020 | University of Helsinki
Read more here

Network Launch

The network (ENPA) was founded by Dr James Davies, Dr Keir Martin and Dr Thomas Stodulka in January 2018, and the official launch took place on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 9.00 – 10.45 am, in Room 26, as part of the EASA2018 biennial conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden.

The ENPA inaugural meeting included a roundtable discussing seminal themes, challenges, and debates confronting psychological anthropology in Europe today.

As psychological anthropology concerns evermore drift and travel eastwards, from the American Global North to sites of burgeoning interest in Europe and the Global South, we will explore what such developments will yield in terms of new theoretical, methodological and analytical insights. We aim to explore questions such as:

  • What will a European psychological anthropology distinctly offer given its roots in a more socially inclined anthropological enterprise?
  • To what extent must European psychological anthropology be primarily a critical enterprise - namely, a domain of analysis politically committed to interrogating the theoretical and practical outcomes of the international spread of psych-narratives from the global North?
  • To what extent must such an endeavour provide an interdisciplinary arena for critical exchange with the medical, psychiatric and neurosciences?
  • What is the role of ethnography and fieldwork in European psychological anthropology?

Invited guests: James Davies (University of Roehampton, UK), Jill Korbin (Case Western Reserve University, US; President of the SPA-AAA); Victoria Kumala Sakti (MPI for Ethnic & Religious Diversity, D); Edward T. Lowe (SOKA University, US; editor-in-chief Ethos); Robert Lemelson (UCLA, US); Anita von Poser (FU Berlin, D); Antonius C.M.G. Robben (Utrecht University, NL)

All those interested in participating in the network are warmly invited to join the ENPA mailing list (see below) for information about future events and activities.

The ENPA network convenors and administrative team

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