#EVENTS from misconception to transformation
Let’s conclude this Allegra week with another one of our monthly events’ post! No thematic focus this time but a few opportunities to further explore the topics of…
Tag: conference
ICPA 2016: 18th International Conference on Political Anthropology
My heart skips a beat, more than once. Finally, a conference in the one place I wanted to return to since my happy childhood years – a place…
Coming to #SCA2016: Infrastructures of Collaboration
I am excited to announce with my co-organizer, Amy Robbins, that our panel for the biennial meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology has been accepted and is…
EVENTS! #HumanRights
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we have discussed also earlier,…
Panel: “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” @ EASA 2016 Conference Milan
The EASA Media Anthropology Network’s panel “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Milan (20-23 July, 2016) …
Utopian Appetites
Received from one of our alert readers: The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy: Utopian Appetites Call for Papers The 21st Symposium of Australian Gastronomy will be celebrated in…
The Manuscript Cookbook Conference
We recently received the following announcement of an upcoming conference at New York University that may be of interest to our readers. The Manuscript Cookbook Conference, will be…
Visual/Media/Digital Anthropology at 14th EASA Conference
Here is a list of panels at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biennial Conference entitled “Anthropological legacies and human futures” (Milan, 20-23 July 2016, #EASA2016)…
Crime, crises and a competition: #EVENTS in a mad world!
You know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because times are dark (to…
Ethnographic presents and futures of ‘health’—a summary of the Ethnographies and Health workshop by Emma Garnett
In this report we offer an overview of a two-day workshop entitled Ethnographies and Health that was held in October at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical…
CFP: All the Beauty of the World. The Western Market for non-European Artefacts (18th-20th century)
The Institute for Art History / Center for Art Market Studies at Technical University Berlin, together with the CNRS and LabexTransfer Paris, have announced their international symposium: All the Bea…
Call for Papers: Arctic Workshop of Tartu University “Gatekeepers”
Arctic Workshop of Tartu University: Gatekeepers 3rd-4th of June 2016 Estonian hospitality in a Russian restaurant at a previous Arctic Workshop in Tartu (photo by Laura Siragusa) It…
CfP: “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns”
The EASA Media Anthropology Network is organizing a panel entitled “Media anthropology’s legacies and concerns” at the 14th European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) conf…
REDUX: Responsibility and Scholarship in the Current Political Moment – Graduate Conference | 25-26 September 2015
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political issues with a new…
A Semi-Real Anthropologist’s Adventures in Denver: An #AAA2015 Report
Already getting that blue feeling—that everyone knows what they’re doing and is on a level I’ve never been at and (it feels) never will be. Thoughts of this…
December list of #EVENTS: The Turn to Public Anthropology?
In a recent article published in the Huffington’s Post, anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse claims that the #AAA2015 in Denver was marked by a ‘turn to public anthropology’, i.e a…
26. Thoughts on the symposium “Internet in Southeast Asia: Power and Society”
This is the twenty-sixth post in the freedom technologists series See also the Directory of freedom technologists This past 3-4 December 2015 I was at the Bandar Sunway…
Allegra TV: Tsing and Descola in videos! #CFAS
Allie’s conference week has been packed full of interesting reads from the Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. Tired of reading already? We conclude the week with…
The second Helsinki Knots Symposium: 23 October 2015
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic condit…
Anthropology as the study of composite worlds – an interview with Philippe Descola
An academic interview is just a snapshot but it can offer a vivid account of a life’s work. The following is an edited version of an interview with…
Report on the 2015 Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society
This week, Allegra makes a five-day trip to the northern capital of Finland, Helsinki! Our fantastic local allies have put together a comprehensive string of posts about the…
#Events: the Wacky, the Bizarre… and the Hairy!
>INSERT BLURB – BLA-BLA-BLAHBLA-BLAH< Fine, this was no editorial omission although the thought is fun, right! Rather it was a carefully deliberated opening intended to capture the cull…
Making #AAA2015 Manageable: The Teaching Culture Top 30
It’s that time of year again, when anthropologists start gathering on Twitter, finish writing their papers, and pack their scarves for the annual AAA pilgrimage. (Given the extended…
Conference review: MAGic 2015 Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice by Josien de Klerk
“Global Health is like a containership. The multiple actors —international and local NGOs, humanitarian organisations, scientists, activists, politicians — operate the tugboats, attempting to nu…