Program
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Friday, October 23
Saturday, October 24
Sunday, October 25
9:00
Registration
Morning
Keynotes
Afternoon
Keynotes
Morning
Workshops I
Afternoon
Workshops II
Morning
Network meeting
Day 1 will set out exciting key notes on bold and engaging topics based on the strands of this year’s theme.
Day 2 will see a day of WWNA staples, action and inspiration-focused Workshops and snappy, energetic Perspectives presentations.
Day 3 will consist of the customary, relaxed appraisal of the AAN
Day 1: Keynote Speakers
Emma Eleonorsasdotter
is a Swedish fil. Dr. of Ethnology, holding a position as a lecturer and researcher in Cultural Analysis at Åbo Akademi in Finland. She is also a journalist and social activist, specifically focusing on human values and intersectional anti-racism. Her current research is focused on two connected projects, both concerned with the connection between space and political hope: “Taking Place – On occupying places to create space for hope” and “Then and There: Hope, imaginaries and liveable lives across queer Nordic contexts 1948-2020.”
The driving force behind both projects is to develop knowledge about hope as a future-oriented practice, through methodologies that examine how hope has mobilised people and enabled things to happen over time. Underpinning this work is a broader ambition to develop an account of how hope for a better world has been and is made tangible through practice.
Ali Ali
is a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki. His research focuses on relations and acts of kinship, care, and survival, mainly in alliances and mobilizations that are cross-border and queer. His previous research focused on the change of affect, consciousness, and affinity that exiles (people seeking refuge and community in foreign places) experience along their journeys toward home and safety. In his current research, he traces how political sensibilities, convictions, and affiliations take shape in personal and urban encounters.
Antonio Molina Fernández
is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social, Work, and Differential Psychology and a member of the Social and Cultural Determinants of Health research group at the Complutense University of Madrid. With 25 years of professional experience in clinical and social intervention, Dr. Molina Fernández specializes in addictions, mental health, and social psychology. His academic work is defined by an interdisciplinary approach, bridging psychology with Social and Cultural Anthropology, notably through his ongoing collaboration with the Master of Applied Anthropology at the University of Salamanca. Throughout his career, he has directed significant international research projects in collaboration with entities such as the UNODC and the European Union. His extensive publication record focuses on addiction recovery, gender perspectives, and psychosocial interventions. Dr. Molina Fernández remains committed to addressing complex societal challenges through evidence-based, culturally informed practices that integrate global public health perspectives.
José Antonio Martín Herrero
is Professor of Psychology and Applied Anthropology at the University of Salamanca. He directs the M.A. in Applied Anthropology at the same institution. His most important research revolves around medical anthropology (addictions), psychological anthropology, ethnography, and applied anthropology (tourism and development). Dr. Martin Herrero has numerous publications (8 books and more than 30 articles on the psychological field in its various facets), including the most recent Anthropological and Psychological Bases of Addictions (Bases Antropológicas y Psicológicas de las Adicciones, 2021) and Couples Therapy (Terapia de Pareja, 2024).
Mirko Pasquini
Ph.D, is an Assistant Professor in Medical Anthropology at the School of Global Studies at the University of Gothenburg and an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Medical Humanities at Uppsala University. His research interests combine medical anthropology, global and public Health governance, with a focus on triage, emergency medicine, medical ethics, and decision-making. These are explored through hospital ethnography and primary care in Italy and Sweden. Mirko's research ranges from the social dynamics of attention in triage to trust, mistrust, and violence in care interactions. Mirko worked across different healthcare systems in Europe. He is currently engaged in international projects on mistrust and violence against healthcare staff, collaborating with regional healthcare authorities in Sweden and Italy to bring research insights into community-centered primary care. Mirko is also teaching the application of social sciences in medicine to foster health equity and social justice in Sweden, Italy, and Denmark.
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
A Methodology of Hope: Tracing How Future Imaginaries Were Put into Practice
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Feeling Borders and Patriarchy: Lived Pedagogics of how Power and Violence Materialize and Come into Question
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Wars, Substances and Addictions: Perspectives and Solutions from Social Anthropology to a Global Problem
TITLE OF PRESENTATION:
The Negotiation of Urgency: Economies of Attention in an Italian Emergency Room
