WWNA 2026 Program
Day 1 - Friday, October 23rd 2026
8:30 – 9:00 Registration + coffee
Welcome from AAN Network, Anja Pogladič and Carla Guerrón Montero
Welcome from WWNA Salamanca Team, Raquel García Plaza, José Antonio Martín Herrero, Francisco Abati and Aitana Camarzana Fuertes
Words by the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology, Dr. Juan José García Meilán
9:00 – 9:30 Opening remarks
9:30 – 10:15 Emma Eleonorsasdotter, A Methodology of Hope: Tracing How Future Imaginaries Were Put into Practice
10:15 – 11:00 Ali Ali, Feeling Borders and Patriarchy: Lived Pedagogics of how Power and Violence Materialize and Come into Question
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:15 Antonio Molina Fernández and José Antonio Martín Herrero, Wars Substances and Addictions: Perspectives and Solutions from Social Anthropology to a Global Problem
12:15 - 13:00 Mirko Pasquini, The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an
Italian Emergency Room
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch [not provided]
15:00 – 16:00 Panel with speakers moderated by Raquel García Plaza
16:30 – 16:45 Book launch Why Anthropology Needs the Global South, by Carla Guerrón
Montero and Dan Podjed
16:45 – 17:00 Announcements
17:30 Visit to the City Hall of Salamanca
8:30 – 9:00 Check-in + coffee
9:00 – 12:00 Workshops I
Juan Eduardo Eguiguren, Independent Researcher, Applied Anthropology and Diplomacy: Expanding Anthropological Practice [Aula 2]
Katarina Polajnar Horvat, ZRC SAZU, Blue Walk Salamanca [Aula 3]
Basant Asker, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, How to Study What the State Doesn’t Want Studied: A Practical Methodological Workshop [Aula 11]
Shahana Siddiqui, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Stitching Meaning: Feminist Textures and Weaving as Resistance [Aula 12]
Lamiae Zeriouh, Applied Anthropology Network, Stories that Endure: Digital Storytelling as an Anthropological Practice in Times of Emergency [Aula 13]
Organización Juvenil de Antropología (OJA), Inhabiting the Body: Bodily Awareness as a Form of Care [Aula 14]
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch [not provided]
13:30 – 15:30 Perspectives [Moderated by Liliana Rafoth and Lily Hearn]
Aula 12:
Asia Baldini, Cooperativa CAT-Italy, Harm Reduction as an Abolitionist Practice
Javier Castells, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Structural Inequality and Healthcare Access: The Precarious Latin American Community in Zaragoza’s Health System
Mariam Agha, University College London, Making Film Under Permanent Emergency: Egyptian Filmmakers in Exile
Damiano Gallinaro, ANPIA (Associazione Nazionale Professionale Italiana d'Antropologia), Kharkiv, The City of the Three Rs: Resistance, Resilience, and Reconstruction
Aitana Camarzana Fuertes, Universidad de Salamanca, Exploring COVID-19 Pandemic Narratives in Spain through Lévi-Straussian Structuralism and Language Philosophy
Eduardo Barona, Yelcho Foundation, Emergency and Disaster in a More-than-Human World
Julia Argentina Rodríguez Pastor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Decolonizing Psychology: Why I Needed Anthropology
Alexandra Maria Novalio Soares Albergara, ISCTE-IUL, Is Sustainability Made or Lived? Environmental Thought and Action in an Overheating World
Aula 13:
Anja Pogladič, Institute for Innovation and Development, University of Ljubljana, The Quiet Emergency, Reimagining Work, Purpose and Belonging After Automation
Theodora Lefkaditou, University of Oslo, After the Emergency: Returning as an Act of Care
Francesco Vettori, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Milan), An Emergency by Design? Grassroots Food Recovery and the Paradox of Circular Economy
Alessandra Innocenti, Independent Scholar, Data Extractivism: AI and Community Monitoring in Peru
Kevin Patrick Molloy, Tallinn University, The Violence of Categories: What Anthropology Taught International Relations at Europe’s Eastern Border
Ferdinando Zito, SOSI Observatoire des Héritages du CEP/University of Turin, The Never-Ending Emergency in Hao’s Nuclear Paradise: A History of the Inexorable Decline of French Polynesia’s Radioactive Dump
Neveen Aboueldahab, Ib Haldun University, From Liminality to Place Belonging: Narrative of Home and Belonging
Martin Jakub, Edennium, Culture as Civilization Resilience Infrastructure: Edenism Reframed
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 18:45 Workshops II
Sara Martínez Belendez, Independent Researcher, Analog Photography: Ethnographic Methods in Times of Emergency [Aula 2]
Alessandro Mastrangelo, Arca di Noe/Asanai, Masks and Ghosts: Performative Poetry Workshop on Intimate Dimensions of Forced Migration [Aula 3]
Augusto Manuel Gomes Ferreira, Ambigrama/APA, Fieldwork Under Pressure: A Rapid Ethnographic Sprint for Times of Emergency [Aula 11]
Camilla Jane Stanhardt, Job, Activity, and Competence Center (JAC), Everyone Can Contribute: Working with Wicked Problems through Inclusive Practice at JAC, a public organization in Denmark supporting people with diverse needs [Aula 12]
Eugen Pesca, BlackBrick.Academy, From Training to Survival: How Organizations Actually Learn in Crisis [Aula 13]
Eduardo Barona Collado, Yelcho Foundation, Designing Multispecies Emergency Plans: Rethinking Preparedness and Self-Protection in More-than-Human Societies [Aula 14]
Day 2 - Saturday, October 24th 2026
[Facultad de Psicología]
10:00 – 11:00 Network meeting [Location TBD]
Day 3 - Sunday, October 25th 2026