Day 1 - Friday, October 3rd 2025

• 9:30 – 10:00 Opening remarks: Welcome by institutional representatives and organizers.

  • Roberto Balzani (director of DISCI - UniBO, local host) and Roberta Bonetti (DISCI - UniBO - SIAA)

  • Ira Vannini (director of EDU - UniBO) and Federica Tarabusi (EDU - UniBO -SIAA)

  • Valentina Moro (director of DIPSUM - UniVR) and Stefania Poltrandolfo (DIPSUM - UniVR- SIAA)

  • Anna Bagatella (Anthropology Students Organising Committee representative)

  • Simon Provoost & Olivia Schneider (Applied Anthropology Network)

• 10:30 – 11:15 Robin Nagle: Advocacy and Gratitude: Expanding Anthropology’s Field + Q&A (15min)

• 11:15 – 11:45 Coffe Break

• 11:45 – 12:30 Massimo Tommasoli Creativity and bureaucratic culture in an international organization An anthropological perspective + Q&A (15min)

• 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break (not provided)

• 14:00 – 14:45 Elena Bougleux: Why this far ? Isolation and constraints in an Antarctic research station + Q&A (15min)

• 14:45 – 15:30 Fabio Malfatti: Making Knowledge Work: Creativity and Ethnographic Practice between Territories and Institutions + Q&A (15min)

• 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

• 16:00 - 16:15 Dan Podjed: WWNA Book 2nd Edition presentation

• 16:15 – 17:15 Journals Roundtable

View the abstracts of the key notes here: Keynotes

Roundtable

Between two Anthropology journals:

• Anthropology in Action - Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice

  • https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aia/aia-overview.xml

  • Pardis Shafafi & Samira Marty

• Antropologia Pubblica

  • https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia-pubblica/index

  • SIAA

Day 2 - Saturday, October 4th 2025

• 8:45-9:00 Arrival

• 9:00-12:00 Workshops Round 1

• 12:00-13:00 Lunch break

• 13:00-15:15 Perspectives

  • 13:00-14:00 Perspectives 1

  • 14:00-14:15 Break

  • 14:15-15:15 Perspectives 2

• 15:15-15:45 Break

• 15:45-18:45 Workshops Round 2

• 19:00-19:15 Closing Remarks

Workshops I: 9:00-12:00

Abstracts, speaker bios, duration, info for participants: WWNA 2025 - Workshop Details (Responses)

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1. Alessandra Gribaldo: Recrafting home movies: ethnographic engagements on images and historical sources” → no reply to form

2. Ana Maria Oprea: Writing the Field Otherwise: Remix, Reframe, Reimagine → no reply to form

3. Anita Benko & Alina Arefyeva: Ideating with and without Generative AI: An Ethnographic Experiment

4. Elinor Lifshitz: Signs in Action: A Design-Led Approach to Global Brand Work

5. Ivan Severi: Anthropology, proximity and outreach

6. Filippo Talami or Joana Couto da Silva?: How to Address Sensitive Topics in User Research? Artefacts to Mediate Participant-Researcher Interaction

7. Maria Benciolini and Flavio Lorenzoni: From Fieldnotes to Flipcharts: Anthropology Meets Facilitation

8. Paolo Carera: Storytelling Maps: Participatory Practices for Applied Anthropology

9. Rocio Santarcieri: Design Research: A Practical Workshop on UX Research and Anthropology

10. Tiffany Tivasuradej: Pitching Projects to Corporates

Workshops II: 15:30-18:30

Abstracts, speaker bios, duration, info for participants: WWNA 2025 - Workshop Details (Responses)

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1. Laila Mufidah & Chi-Chu (Sharo) Liang: Migratory Space: A Practice of Speculating Home

2. Federica Manfredi: Experimenting with vulvas. A participatory workshop to creatively address the cultural void surrounding vulvar health

3. Jennifer Morana: Classrooms as Fieldsites: An Anthrospective Approach

4. Lisa Maria Zellner, Secil Ugur Yavuz, Lara Giordana, Alvise Mattozzi, Elisabeth Tauber, Micol Rispoli: Dialoguing Species: Crafting Shared Worlds

5. Giovanna Santanera, Valentina Sbocchia, Giacomo Pozzi, Leone Michelini : A Toolkit for Public Anthropology in the City: Tactics, Practices and Creative Visions for Crafting Anthropological Urban Events

6. Regev Nathansohn: The Multimodal Anthropological Videography (MAV)

7. Rosalie Post: Speculative Design & Future Storytelling for Anthropologists

8. Soheila Shourbaji & Natalie Wood: Currencies for the Commons: A Case for Inflation as Ethnographic Lens

9. Vera de Groot: The Anthropologist as a Creative Connector Across Differences

Perspectives: 13:00-15:00

1. Francesco Vettori: Beyond Contractual Constraints: How Anthropology Reframes Evaluation Practices

2. Joseph Markman: Digital Intimacy in a Post-Artificial World

3. Anna Malpas: Towards an Anthropology of Sitting

4. Sisse Malene Frydendal Grøn: Co-designing Change with Danish Fishers in a Precarious Work Environment

5. Flavia Cangia: Rescue Routes: Entangled Trajectories Between Anthropology, Canine Worlds, and Mobilities

6. Jayesha M. Koushik: Storytelling for Impact → asked about sponsoring, unsure if can attend

7. Elena Tagliani: Studying popular theatre from the spectator’s perspective. When taking part in a performance becomes a form of democratic participation and co-production of political meaning. The Greek saga of Karagkiozis as a case study

8. Michela Buonvino, Letizia Bindi, Jacopo Trivisonno: Co-Exhibiting the Social Life of Things: Cultural Work for Territorial Regeneration in the Apennines

9. Miria Gambardella: Where Do We Draw the Line? Militant Anthropology and the Ethics of Creative Practices

10. Flavio Lorenzoni: Work in progress. Professional Antropology POV

11. Matthew Lariviere: Ageing futures: How creativity can help to explore alterities for our later lives

12. Roberto Lazzaroni Community of Desire: Creativity and Regeneration for Museum Futures in Crisis

13. Elettra Bresolin: Artificial Imaginaries: Generative AI, Creative Exploration and the Reconfiguration of Paradigms

14. Emilia Rosselli Del Turco: Sharing space with creative work

15. Daria De Grazia, Mattia Pagano, Alessandra Broccolini: Shifting the Gaze: The Workshop Encounter as a Mode of Shared Re-Signification of Urban Spaces

16. Daniele Panzeri: Anthropology and adaptive management

17. Caterina Borelli: The Personal is Political—and Collective: Perspectives from the Maternal Turn

18. Anna Bagatella: Doing antro-archaeology in front of a beer: knowledge making and community building in creative informal spaces of conviviality

Day 3 - Sunday, October 5th 2025

10:00-11:00 Network Meeting (location tbd)
12:00-13:00 Lunch (individual)
13:00-15:00 BLUE Project - Sensory Ethnography Walking Tour

Network Meeting

Wrap up the conference by joining us for the annual AAN Network Meeting! This is your opportunity to directly connect with the network, explore current and upcoming initiatives, and discover ways to actively contribute to our collective mission, whether you’re looking to contribute actively or simply explore what we do. This session welcomes current members, partners, and anyone curious about joining our community.

Location tba!

Sensory Ethnography Walk

WATER, Walk with Me!

The Blue Sensory Walk invites participants to experience Bologna through their senses while walking from a dense urban street, through the green space of 11 September 2001 Park (Parco 11 Settembre 2001), to the blue space of the Ancient River Port (Antico Porto e Dogana Daziaria). Along the way, we will observe and discuss how concrete, stone, vegetation, human presence, and water shape our perceptions and emotions, and influence our everyday habits and practices. Guided by anthropologists and geographers, the walk focuses on three key dimensions: (1) relaxation and restoration (of the individual), (2) recreation and instoration (of the individual), and (3) mitigation of environmental pressures. Participants will reflect on how “blue spaces” (rivers, lakes, seas, ponds...) foster well-being and reconnection with the self, with others, and with the living city.

Facilitated by Katarina Polajnar Horvat and Dan Podjed

The workshop is a result of the BLUE project (J6-60099), financially supported by the Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency.