Network news

After the meeting we organized in Milan with networks’ convenors, the EASA executive committee updated the networks rules (numbers of members, active or inactive status, internal governance, annual report…) and the procedure for funding. So, in the autumn 2016, we reopened the possibility to create EASA networks and we approved five new networks:

The call for applications for financial support for EASA network activities opened in November. It allowed EASA to finance twelve events that will be organized by networks in 2017, in some cases joint events.

Anthropology of Food

In February 2017 we have launched a new EASA Network focusing on the Anthropology of Food. The network provides a platform for sharing practical information, experience and foster discussions about research related to food. The network attempts to become the main European network for academics and practitioners who study food in its many aspects, and connect food anthropologists with policymakers, organizations, observatories, and researchers from other disciplines at the European and global level. Since its launch, in due course of two months the network has gathered more than 250 members from across Europe and beyond. We invite you to join and share the information about the network: http://www.easaonline.org/networks/food/index.shtml

History of Anthropology Network HOAN

Following the 14th biennial EASA conference held in Milan, the History of Anthropology Network (HOAN) was re-established as a EASA network in December 2016. HOAN is looking for new members and correspondents. Thus far, the interest is great and as of February 2017 the Network has 102 members, including 11 correspondents. For a mission statement, see here http://easaonline.org/networks/hoan/. The network plans one or more sessions during the 15th biennial EASA conference in Stockholm. Any EASA member interested in the history of anthropology and ethnology is invited to send a message to one of the two network convenors. HOAN is also setting up a circle of correspondents across Europe to report about events and publications in their national traditions or academic environments. Anyone interested can write to: Aleksandar Bošković (University of Belgrade/Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade) aleksandarbos(AT)gmail.com; Han F. Vermeulen (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale) vermeulen(AT)eth.mpg.de.

Energy Anthropology Network EAN

The Energy Anthropology Network EAN was founded in summer 2016 with the purpose of bringing together anthropologists concerned with energy research, to coordinate and consolidate debates about energies, and to support new anthropological approaches to energy questions.
As the theme of energy emerges increasingly strongly in anthropological research, an organised approach to comparative and collaborative research is timely, as anthropologists bring critical insight based on ethnographic research. EASA EAN will be a forum for such creative and collaborative discussions. The network aims:

Information about the network can be found on the EASA webpage https://www.easaonline.org/networks/ean/index.shtml and on the EAN blog https://ean.hypotheses.org

The network has been officially launched at the Energy Impacts conference in Bergen (Norway) in February 2017 involving network organisers and founder members of the network: Simone Abram, Jamie Cross, Ståle Knudsen, Tristan Loloum, Nathalie Ortar, Felix Ringel and Tanja Winther. The next planned activities are a congress in spring 2018 that will take place in Lyon and the organization of panels at the next EASA conference in Stockholm.

Anthropology of Confinement Network

The EASA “Anthropology of Confinement Network” is opening a call for papers to explore different conceptual frames that are relevant to the study of confinement at a workshop to be held on 20-21 July 2017 in Bern, Switzerland. For further information see http://prisonresearch.ch/news/

PACSA and Anthropology of Security organize:

The Making of Peace, Conflict and Security. Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion, 6th Bi-annual meeting, 28-30 August 2017, Amsterdam.
More info here: http://www.pacsa-web.eu/pasca-meeting-2017-amsterdam/

European Network for Queer Anthropology

ENQA is organizing its second workshop which will take place at Central European University in Budapest on the 8th and 9th of September 2017. The theme for the workshop is The pasts, presents, and futures of queer mobilities: transnational movements of ideas, concepts, and people and invites entries that empirically investigate the complex relations between queerness and mobility as they emerge in the shifting contexts of modern Europe and their analysis by scholars of queer anthropology. Details of the call can be found here: http://www.easaonline.org/networks/enqa/events.shtml

ENQA started an initiative to promote young scholars of European queer anthropology and will thus announce the ENQA Young Scholar Award at the next EASA meeting in Stockholm next year in cooperation with EASA’s journal Social Anthropology. The winner of the award will be selected among submitted papers which are reviewed by an award committee consisting of 3 ENQA board members (Heather Tucker, Michael Connors Jackman, Hadley Zaun Renkin), 2 external reviewers (Agnieszka Koscianska from University of Warsaw and Mark Graham from Stockholm Univeristy), as well as 1 editor from Social Anthropology (Patrick Laviolette). The winning submission will be considered for publication in Social Anthropology following the journal’s usual review process. The deadline for submissions is the 1st of December 2017.

ENQA’s new facebook page can be seen and liked here: https://www.facebook.com/EuropeanNetworkforQueerAnthropology/?view_public_for=481253442262329

Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network

From July 17-19, 2017, the Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network will meet for an intermediary workshop in Berlin. The meeting will be opened by a public panel discussion on Race and Ethnicity: Anthropological Responses to Contemporary Challenges. During the two-day workshop with thirty participants, we will have six sessions dealing with race/racism in anthropology, race and ethnicity in (postcolonial) cities; science and technology studies approaches to the study of race and racism; postcolonial Europe; Labour, race, and migration; postcolonial ethnicities, race, caste and indigeneity. This meeting is the first work meeting of the network after the network was formally established at the EASA conference in Milan.

Network of Ethnographic Theory [NET]

The EASA Network of Ethnographic Theory [NET] is in the process of organising a workshop on the theme of Insincerity, Fake and the Anthropology of Humbuggery

This workshop aims to study the relevance of manifestations of “fakes” and humbuggery in a comparative perspective. As semiotic manifestations of the larger notion of fake, insincerity and humbuggery (or "bullshit") cover a wide terrain, including forgery, plagiarism counterfeiting, make believe, frauds, parody. Fake and insincerity inhabits our everyday digital culture and forces us to revisit our own notions of trust and sociality. Fake news elect presidents whose utterances are labeled nonsense and contradictory. Hoaxes and frauds inhabit academia yet plagiarism highlights the delicate boundaries between theft of knowledge or its imitation and parody to forcefully generate novel views.

The workshop will take place on September 8-12, 2017. Participants thus far include: Webb Keane (Michigan), Angelique Haugerud (Rutgers), Alexei Yurchak (Princeton), Sasha Newell (NC State), Harri Englund (Cambridge), Rena Lederman (Princeton), John Jackson (Pennsylvania), Susan Blum (Notre Dame), Niloofar Haeri (Johns Hopkins), Andrew Shryock (Michigan) and David Henig (Kent).
NET also has a blog at https://networkofethnographictheory.wordpress.com

Visual Anthropology (VANEASA)

VANEASA has published two issues of AnthroVision and is preparing another one. All three issues have special topics and guest editors. Roger Canals (University of Barcelona), guest editor of issue 3.2 with the title Dilemmes actuels de l'ethnographe à la caméra, presents articles written by young scholars who confront, often for the first time, the theoretical and methodological challenges of Visual Anthropology. See: https://anthrovision.revues.org/1571
The guest editors of issue 4.1, Estelle Castro-Koshy( James Cook University, Australia) and Géraldine Le Roux (Université de Bretagne Occidentale and James Cook University), compiled issue 4.1 Visual Creativity and Narrative Research in and on Oceania. Through the analysis of how different visual, textual, and performative materials are constructed and circulate, this issue aims to reflect and prolong the dialogues established by its contributors across the disciplines, beyond academia, and between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. It includes contributions from scholars – some of whom are also filmmakers, artists, poets, educators, and curators – who are Indigenous or have worked with Indigenous people for at least a decade (in some cases several decades), and who have produced visual materials as a result of these collaborations. This issue interrogates and provides examples of how to incorporate new decolonising, emancipating or empowering knowledge and approaches into academic, visual, and cultural productions. It also examines the challenge tackled by most authors to engage new audiences and create bridges between societies while respecting Indigenous protocols and codes of ethics. (Introduction issue 4.1) https://anthrovision.revues.org/2004

The second issue of 2016 (4.2) is being online by the end of April. The guest editor Michaela Schäuble (University of Bern) assembled several papers under the title Mining Imagination: Ethnographic Approaches Beyond the Written Word.

The AnthroVision editorial board invites visual anthropologists, media anthropologists, and anthropologists working in the wider field of the audio-visual-media field to submit papers or to propose special issues to AnthroVision.

Future Anthropologies Network (FAN-EASA)

In the last three meetings, the Future Anthropologies Network (FAN-EASA) has been developing a particular engagement with the local urban community and academic milieu in the cities where we meet for our seminars. The workshops and sessions are at different venues in the streets and public spaces where we try to intervene in the digital material environment. This year we will be gathering in Manchester on 2nd and 3rd of July and we will hold workshops, presentations, and interventions. 

Workshop: Ethnographic Experimentation - Fieldwork Devices and Companions, 13th–15th July 2017, Lisbon. Calls for contributions have been closed, we thank everyone for their interest and look forward to an exciting event.

Applied Anthropology Network

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28-29 October 2017, Durham, UK
Energy is an indispensable part of our domestic and working lives. We thus need to develop smart and sustainable energy systems that are environmentally responsible and people-friendly. The fifth edition of the annual symposium Why the World Needs Anthropologists explores how energy professionals and anthropologists can cooperate in designing and deploying energy innovations that alter the world for the better. Be inspired by top speakers. Improve your skills during thematic workshops. Visit exhibition stands at the Energy Hotspot and meet new people. Subscribe now: www.applied-anthropology.com
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