Conference: Doing Histories, Imagining Futures: First International Conference of the Histories of Anthropologies, 04.-07.12.2023, virtual space

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Web); Università di Pisa (Web)

Time: 04.-07.12.2023
Venue: virtual space – via Pisa

As the first event of this kind, the „First International Conference of the Histories of Anthropologies“ will allow historians of anthropologies from around the world to meet with one another (in the virtual space), share their personal and disciplinary experiences, and enhance their ability to address current debates in anthropology. The conference is supported by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).

Program (Web)

This keynote and presentations in the following panels will also deal with the category of gender (among other topics):

  • Keynote: Solimar Otero (Indiana Univ., Bloomington): Embedded and Engaged: Framing Ethnographic Futures in Inhabited Pasts (Web)
  • Panel 4: History’s Lessons: Uses of the History of Anthropology (f.e. Elsie Mégret: Ages, genders and figures: anthropometric tools in developmental medicine during the early 20th century) (Web)
  • Panel 6: Approaching the present through anthropology’s past (Web)
  • Panel 7: Regional Anthropologies, Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Web)
  • Panel 8: Missing Others. Eluded Encounters and Hidden Contributions within the History of Anthropology (Web)
  • Panel 9: Challenging Narratives and Frameworks of Knowledge in Histories of Anthropology (Web)

Source: Collections.seminar Newsletter