(Re)inventing Trajectories
This track aims to explore the creative spaces and forms developed by anthropologists in order to navigate specific research or professional pathways. It welcomes submissions reflecting on individual biographies, as well as discussions surrounding the dilemmas, challenges, and opportunities involved in creatively producing and negotiating anthropological spaces within particular work and
professional fields.
We invite Workshops/Perspectives that explore, challenge, or expand upon the following tracks:
This track seeks to closely examine the tools—both material and immaterial—techniques, and methods that anthropologists combine in applied research and professional settings. In particular, methods, techniques, and objects (including virtual, artistic, and media-related ones) will be considered. This also involves the challenge of combining and adapting these tools, rooted in an ethnographic approach, with other disciplinary approaches and knowledge held by various professionals and researchers.
(Re)crafting Tools
(Re)framing Futures
This track encourages to take seriously the challenge of embracing creativity as a common good. It invites explorations of how creativity can serve as a transformative force in regenerating cultural, social, and ecological systems, moving beyond profit-driven models to foster sustainable and inclusive futures. It invites discussions on the role anthropologists play in creatively regenerating social and cultural processes within spaces constrained by productivity and efficiency-driven logics.
Perspectives
Pecha Kucha-style presentations up to 7 - 10 mins, followed by Q&A. Ideal for those creatively inclined, wanting to express their work in powerful and visually-compelling form.
We are inviting our partners, members and colleagues around the world to submit their ideas for agile presentations of their work and projects.
Perspectives offer a shorter but energetic form of sharing your projects where the form of presentation is open to your imagination: classic, but snap presentation? Compelling visual material? The choice is yours, we are, however, looking for original case studies that speak to the core theme of the conference
Workshops
Action and inspiration-focused workshops offering practical training, demonstrating the application of new frameworks and approaches, building skills and new capacities for both anthropologists and non-anthropologists alike. We invite workshop organizers - activists, scholars, and practitioners - who could enrich our programme with their practical, "hands-on" demonstration of their work in action.
Can your work experience be explored in a specialized workshop? Have you applied methods, tools or strategies that could help others practically in their work? Are you working on a project focused on creativity or one that involves collaborating with diverse stakeholders, professionals, disciplinary approaches, and work methods? Do you have knowledge or experiences that could encourage anthropologists to aspire to paths that see creativity as a common good? There are no imagination limits to this call, we want to hear and learn from you!
Maximum time you can utilize is 3 hours (max. 30 participants each).
We invite proposals for workshops or interactive presentations. Please submit the following:
Abstract (300 words max)
Short Biography (150 words max)
Keywords
How to submit?
Simply use these forms:
Deadline: April 30th 2025