Network news

The University of Milano-Bicocca
Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DICAN)

There are presently 24 EASA Networks. Some are extremely active and provide their membership with a lively scientific environment organizing workshops, panels at international conferences, coordinating publications, and using internet to convene e-seminars and debates. In all likelihood Network activity will expand in the future and will require developing a new governance structure. Some issues were raised by conveners at the EASA collective meeting of Networks, for example, the need to keep track of membership, the convenience of developing formal procedures for electing conveners, the procedural argument for identifying the network official panel at the EASA meetings, etc. These are important questions that will need to be addressed by the future Executive Committee.

Call for funding events
The call opens on September 15th 2014 and proposals are due by October 31st 2014. Decisions by the Executive Committee will be made by December 1st 2014. The activities funded have to be completed before December 31st 2015. All networks need to have submitted the annual report of their activities to be eligible for funding. www.easaonline.org/networks/funding.shtml

Recent news from the networks

Anthropology of gender and sexuality (NAGS)
The coordinators are: Anna Fedele, CRIA-Lisbon University Institut, ; Kim Knibbe, Groningen University

Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DICAN)
The coordinators are: Susann Ullberg, CRISMART-Swedish National Defence College, Sweden; Kristoffer Albris, ; Seumas Bates,

European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA)
The coordinators: Elisabeth Engebretsen, ; Paul Boyce,

Medical Anthropology Network
The medical anthropology network had an election process to change its board. The final results of the election are: Pino Schirripa (Italy), Chair (1st term) 26 votes
Susanne Adahl (Finland), Co-Vice Chair (1st term) 26 votes
Piet van Eeuwijk (Switzerland), Co-Vice Chair (1st term) 22 votes
Gabriele Alex (Germany) Representative for Teaching (2nd term) 26 votes
Rene Gerrets (The Netherlands), Representative for Intersection and Cross-Disciplinarity (1st term) 27 votes
Claire Beaudevin (France), Liaison officer (1st term) 27 votes
Elizabeth Hsu (UK), Representative for publication of book and thematic issues (1st term) 22 votes
Anita Hardon (The Netherlands), Representative for international relation and outlook on future activities (1st term) 25 votes
Viola Hoerbst (Germany), Representative for medical anthropology and its social applications (1st term) 26 votes
Tanja Ahlin (Slovenia/The Netherlands), IT officer (2nd term) 27 votes

Medical Anthropology Young Scholars Network (MAYS)
A new board of the MAYS was elected at the same time. The new representatives are Natashe Lemos Dekker (The Netherlands) Representative for MAYS (1st term) and Judith Schuehle (Germany) Representative for MAYS (1st term). We wish the new board members a good job.

Anthropology of Law and Rights
Heike Drotbohm has stepped down as coordinator of this network and Gerhard Anders, was nominated as the new network's coordinator during the Tallinn EASA meetings.

Anthopology of mobility (Anthromob)
After the EASA 2014 conference in Tallinn, Jamie Coates stepped down as a convenor and the new convenor group for ANTHROMOB were decided as: Roger Norum, Lauren Wagner and Valerio Simoni. We have a wider 'committee' of organisers, including Jamie Coates, who will be assisting with various organisational activities, but the convenors should be the first point of contact for the network.

Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia
Publication acmejournal.org
1. The third issue of our journal is out now. Special Issue: The Anthropology of Dreams and Dreaming Among Muslim Communities, Volume 2, Issue 1, Summer 2014 (July-August)
2. The forth issue of our journal will be out by January 2015, Rituals and Local Traditions of Funerary Practices in Islam, Volume 2, Issue 2, Winter 2014 (December-January)
Film and Media Programme
1. The First Ethnographic Film and Media Programme of the EASA Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia was held in Tallinn this year during EASA 2014. The film programme will be circulated and presented in Iran (Cinema Real Iranian Nov. 2014), Austria (Institute for Social Anthropology | Austrian Academy of Sciences ) and Brazil (The Middle East Studies Center, Rio).
2. The Second Ethnographic Film and Media Programme will be held in Iran in 2015 during 8th Cinema Real Iranian.

Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology
PACSA was present at EASA2014 with 4 panels that covered issues such as Security, Soldiers, Justice, Violence and Intimacy. We also had a fruitful network meeting in which it was decided that the next PACSA meeting in 2015 will be held in Frankfurt! We will publish more details on this event soon.

Launching new anthro-blog on Peace and Conflict
We are furthermore glad to announce a new partnership between Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology (PACSA) and the anthropology-driven online magazine Transformations - A New Voice on Culture, Politics, and Change. As a first step, we will soon launch an anthropology-based blog on "Peace&Conflict" on Transformations. It will provide a platform for researchers from within the wider field of peace and conflict studies to share their stories from the field, to intervene through commentary and analyses in current debates, or to share voices of informants directly; and all that in an accessible and ceative way, also including photographs or multimedia content.

Transformations created four distinct writing genres as a way to bridge anthropology's uniqueness with the requirements of a wider online readership. Among them, The Voice, The Picture, The Fieldnote and The Analysis.

We kindly invite you to submit your ideas and pitches for blog-posts on topics and experiences related to Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology. Either via email to contact or via the form on the site: transformations-blog.com/become-author/get-in-touch-with-us/
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On Twitter: twitter.com/TheFieldnote