2025 SCA Biennial Restorative Relations: An Unconference
2025-05-08 09:00 - 2025-05-11 17:00 (America/New_York) | Stony Point Retreat Center, 17 Cricketown Rd, Stony Point, NY, 10980, United States
A central ethos of the 2025 SCA Biennial, Restorative Relations is renewing our relationships with ourselves, our academic lives, and one another. The biennial will take place from May 8th to 11th at the Stony Point retreat center in upstate New York, where meals will be included for all participants, and accommodations will be provided for those who choose to stay in residential accommodations on-site. Space is limited at the conference venue and priority will be given to those who make arrangements for double-occupancy accommodation. Please reach out to colleagues and friends and make a plan to attend the conference together.
As part of the registration process, SCA has made it possible to secure for your room for the meeting at the same time you register for the conference. Attendees are encouraged to select the Double Room during the registration process. For those who need help finding roommates, this Wufoo form has been set up to help. Once you have matched with someone, please email SCA via board@culanth.org and let them know who you are rooming with, so the list of prospective roommates can be updated accordingly. If you already have a specific roommate in mind, you can indicate this on the Wufoo form.

The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Biennial Conference
2025-05-29 09:00 - 2025-05-31 17:00 | University of Chicago, University of Chicago: Hyde Park, Chicago, IL, 60637, United States
What does it mean to imagine today?
The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites participants to explore the many ways that imagination critically shapes, reproduces, and transforms social worlds across times, spaces, and scales through discursive and non-discursive processes and practices.
Starting with the idea of imagination as movement toward a thing, state of affairs, and/or set of ideas that does not (yet) exist, we prompt participants to ask: Who imagines? What gets imagined? Toward what ends and with what effects? How do particular imaginaries resist or engage practices and technologies of mediation? What happens when imagination is not just linked to, but is also untethered from temporal terms and logics? What is the relationship between imagination and forms of individual and collective action, including narrative, claims-making, and other rhetorical modes? How can we understand the myriad instantiations of imagination, creation, and critique—from innovation, construction, or invention to destruction, violence, or the reinforcement of the status quo?

2025 Society for Economic Anthropology 45th Annual Meeting: Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies
2025-06-05 09:00 - 2025-06-07 17:00 | Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
The 2025 SEA meeting proposes to explore constellations of practices and strategies for sustaining life through activities that are not necessarily part of formal or even legal work and commerce. Our call seeks to explore the expansion, heterogenization and transformation of these practices and economies, questioning concepts of periphery, marginality and exclusion in order to analyze processes of capital valorization in local and transnational spaces of dispute and conflict over legitimate orders. The conference will be held in Puebla, Mexico. A colonial city located near Mexico City, the location allows for consideration of past and present economies while drawing on pioneering Latin American debates in popular, feminist and spatialized economies.
This meeting seeks to promote discussions around the collaborative aspects at stake for majority populations, whose lives in many parts of the world are increasingly precarious and ever more traversed by illicit trade and traffic, territorial and spatialized control and regulation, and multiple and diverse violences. Popular economy perspectives allow us to examine such strategies in their most plural sense, as a set of diverse and even contradictory experiences and practices, that constantly exceed our conceptual categories, and as such, have continually reorganized modes of organization and cooperation, as well as political subjectivities. Feminist economic analyses point to the importance attending to marginalized populations’ provisioning practices in contexts of capitalist expansion. This means understanding the increasingly complex work of taking care, in negotiation with not only state and private, but also illicit organizations and actors. Finally, a spatial approach to translocal and transnational economies allows us to read popular sectors’ multiple and variegated strategies of stabilization and dispute in the context of economic and political crises inscribed into multiple and unequal territories marked by incessant mobilities and inmobilities.
Framed by these perspectives, we seek to put anthropological and archeological studies into discussion to help us understand the ways that neoliberal destructuring of salaried work and public services have made it increasingly difficult for marginalized populations to function completely separately from illegalized circuits: families members migrate through trans-border trajectories, contraband provides possibilities for both work and affordable goods, young people find diversified labor opportunities in expanding criminalized networks. Explorations of actually existing popular economies from feminist perspectives will help us better understand the intensification and transformation of strategies to guarantee reproduction over multiple territories.
The 2025 SEA meeting “Sustaining Life between Popular and Illicit Economies” will be bilingual, with translations and exchanges in English and in Spanish. We hope that our exchanges in this SEA meeting will help us explore the recreation of common modes of existence that allow popular sectors to establish lives worth living in increasingly difficult conditions for their reproduction, particularly with the multiplication of interconnections between popular and illicit economies. Please see ttps://econanthro.org/meet/2025-sea-45th-annual-meeting/ for a full description of the call including papers topics of particular interest.
Abstracts will be received through the SEA Submission Site through February 3rd, 2025. For more information, please contact Cristina Cielo at mccielo@flacso.edu.ec

Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference
2025-06-21 - 2025-06-23 | University of California, Santa Barbara
The Society for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR) Biennial Conference will be held June 21-23, 2025 at U.C. Santa Barbara. SAR welcomes paper and panel proposals on ALL TOPICS in the Anthropology of Religion. At the same time, we do have a main Conference theme for 2025: Religiosities, Ecologies, and Environmentalisms in the Age of the Anthropocene.
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Ana Mariella Bacigalupo, Anthropology Department at SUNY Buffalo; she will speak on indigenous religious environmentalism in Peru.
For the first time, our SAR Biennial Conference will collaborate with the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC) https://www.issrnc.org/. The last day of our SAR Conference (June 23, 2025) will overlap with the first day of their Conference, also to be held at UC Santa Barbara. SAR members are free to stay on and attend ISSRNC panel sessions with no extra charge.
Anthropology needs to expand beyond the study of mere humans, for the effects of climate change and the pollution of our life-sustaining biosphere are impacting all living species, which are interdependent. This conference brings into play interpretive, scientific, and religious perspectives on forms of life in their cultural and natural environments. It promotes new ways of inquiring into the entangled relations between humans and deities, ancestors, ghosts, animals, insects, plants, and sacred natural formations such as rocks, rivers, and mountains. Across the globe, how do different religious communities, doctrines, and institutions play a role in the age of the Anthropocene?

Publishing an Article: Tips and Strategies from AAA Journal Editors
2025-08-20 15:00 - 16:15 | https://americananthro.org/event/publishing-an-article-tips-and-strategies-from-aaa-journal-editors/
Publishing an academic article can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be! This webinar will help early-career researchers navigate the process. Our panel of editors will help demystify journal publishing and offer practical tips for writing and revising your article.
Panelists

Elizabeth Chin, editor-in-chief of American Anthropologist
Dána-Ain Davis, former editor-in-chief of Feminist Anthropology
Sameena Mulla, former editor-in-chief of Feminist Anthropology

Our panelists will discuss

Choosing the right journal for your work
Structuring your manuscript and honing your argument
Understanding the peer review and revision process
Common reasons articles are rejected, and how to avoid them

This webinar is the first of four publishing-related webinars hosted by the AAA. Stay tuned for the next three webinars later this fall!

Engaging Publics: Science Communication for Anthropologists
2025-09-18 12:00 - 13:15 | NY
How can anthropologists effectively communicate their research to broader audiences without sacrificing complexity or context? Join us for a webinar on science communication tailored specifically for anthropologists. This session will explore tools, strategies, and real-world examples for translating anthropological insights into accessible, compelling narratives for public audiences, policymakers, journalists, and interdisciplinary collaborators.
Our panelists will discuss

Best practices for writing and speaking about scholarly research for nonacademic audiences
How to identify the “so what?” of your research and craft a clear message
Tips for working with media, engaging on social platforms, and contributing to public scholarship
Common pitfalls in science communication and how to avoid them

Panelists

Agustin Fuentes
Natalie Konopinski
Chip Colwell

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Call for Papers and Sessions for the 2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
2025-10-01 | Concordia University, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 0A1, Canada
Submissions are now open for the Work and Family Researchers Network 8th Biennial Conference, June 17-20, 2026, Concordia University Montreal Canada. More than 400 scholars are anticipated to attend. The conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course. Submission deadline is October 1, 2025. Upon request, submissions received by September 1, 2025 will be expedited to facilitate Canadian visa approval. To submit your paper, poster, or session proposal, follow this link: https://wfrn26.mymeetingsavvy.net/. For more information on the 2026 conference and travel to Canada, visit the conference webpage: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.

Call for Work and Family Researchers Network Early Career Fellowship Applications
2025-10-01 | NY
The Work and Family Researchers Network (WFRN) is seeking applicants for its 2026-2027 Early Career Work and Family Fellowships. The goal of the program is to help promising young scholars establish career successes and integrate them within the WFRN research community. Fellows receive a 2026 membership in the WFRN, conference registration, and $250 to attend an Early Career Fellowship Preconference (June 17, 2026) and the 2026 WFRN Main Conference (June 18-20, 2026) in Montreal, Canada. To be eligible, candidates must have received their doctorate in 2023 or later and have yet to progress into tenured or secure senior-level positions. The deadline for applications is October 1, 2025. Questions about the program can be addressed to the program co-directors, Nicole Denier (ngdenier@gmail.com) and Yang Hu (prof.yanghu@gmail.com). Application submission information and further details on the Early Career Fellowship program can be found on this link: https://wfrn.org/early-career-fellowship/.

Publishing Impact: Elevating the Work of Practicing Anthropologists
2025-10-17 14:00 - 15:15 | NY
This webinar is designed for practicing anthropologists who want to learn more about publishing and engaging in broader conversations in the field. Whether working in government, nonprofits, private industry, or community-based organizations, practicing anthropologists offer valuable contributions to anthropological knowledge and praxis. But in many cases, the publishing needs of practicing anthropologists do not align with the academic publishing system. This webinar will offer strategies to elevate practice-based knowledge and make your work visible and impactful both in and beyond peer-reviewed journals.
Our panelists will discuss

Identifying the right publication venues for practice-based work
Writing for both academic and nonacademic audiences
Coauthoring with collaborators, clients, and community partners
Navigating issues of confidentiality, ownership, and ethics

Panelists

Jennifer Collier Jennings (EPIC)
Matt Artz (AAA Executive Board Member)
Suanna Selby Crowley (NAPA)

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Promoting Your Scholarship: Strategies for Wider Impact
2025-10-29 15:30 - 16:45 | NY
Join acclaimed anthropologists Anand Pandian, Barbara King, and Tracie Canada for an inspiring conversation on bringing scholarship to the public. Drawing from their own successes—featured in outlets like The New Yorker, NPR, USA TODAY, The Guardian, and more—they’ll share strategies for connecting with audiences beyond academia, from museum exhibitions to national media. Discover how to amplify your voice, reach new readers, and make your work matter in the wider world.
Panelists

Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins University), author of SOMETHING BETWEEN US: The Everyday Walls and How to Take Them Down
Barbara King (professor Emerita, College of William & Mary), author of Animals’ Best Friends and How Animals Grieve
Tracie Canada (Duke University), author of Tackling the Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football (UC Press)

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2025 AAA Annual Meeting
2025-11-19 - 2025-11-23 | NY
Join us for the 2025 AAA Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, as we delve into the theme of “ghosts.” We welcome our colleagues to embrace the creative potential of the spectral to examine the ways that the past haunts the present, and that the immaterial becomes tangible to inflect the everyday.
Join anthropologists from all over the world in a program with general sessions, flash presentations, poster sessions, workshops, and a film festival, as well as receptions, tours, and other special events.

AES 2026 Spring Conference Registration
2026-01-15 | NY
Register for the 2026 American Ethnological Spring Conference to take place May 1 – 3 at the University of Victoria, British Columbia Canada.
Submissions due January 15, 2025.
Forty years ago, George Marcus and Michael Fischer declared the 1980s an “experimental moment in the human sciences,” urging anthropologists and other human scientists to rethink ethnography as a site not only of representation but of intervention, invention, and critique. Today, in the context of ecological crisis, political rupture, technological transformation, and epistemic reordering, we ask: what does experiment mean today?
This conference invites scholars to reflect on experiment as both object and mode of anthropological inquiry. How do anthropologists collaborate, compose, and critique in experimental ways? What does it mean to “experiment” with form, with method, with theory, or with the infrastructures of scholarly work? And how might experiment be situated—ethically, politically, historically—in relation to those whose lives and knowledge we engage?
We welcome proposals that explore (but are not limited to) the following themes:

Experimental ethnography: form, aesthetics, genre
Collaborative and co-creative fieldwork practices
Indigenous experimentation
Speculative anthropology and future-oriented inquiry
Archives, objects, and materiality as sites of experiment
Multispecies and more-than-human experimentation
Interdisciplinary knowledge creation and experiments across disciplinary boundaries
Experimental publics: art, activism, and engaged scholarship
Technologies and infrastructures of knowledge production
Risks, failures, and ethical entanglements of ethnographic practice
Experiments in pedagogy and teaching anthropology

We encourage contributions in diverse formats, including academic papers, roundtables, and workshops.
Join us as we ask: What does it mean to experiment in and with anthropology today?
More information
Registration & Submission Guidelines
To register and submit proposals for the conference, the following steps need to be taken prior to the submission deadline: January 15, 2025

Register for the AES Spring 2026 Conference. You need to register for the conference before submitting your abstract.
Once you register, you will receive a link to the submission form in your confirmation email. The submission form should only be completed by:

an individual proposing a paper presentation
the organizer of a panel, roundtable, author-meets-critic, or other organized panel structure. Panel participants do not need to fill out the submission form.

Initial acceptance decisions will be communicated by February 1, 2026, and the program will be released closer to the conference date.

For inquiries, contact AES.

Call for Work and Family Researchers Network Predoctoral Preconference Applications
2026-01-15 | Concordia University, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 0A1, Canada
On June 17, 2026, the Work and Family Researchers Network will hold a Pre-Doctoral Preconference at Concordia University in Montreal Canada during its 8th Biennial Conference. The Predoctoral Preconference will provide workshops intended to help graduate students form meaningful connections with diverse scholars, learn about publication strategies, as well as how to engage with stakeholders such as organizational leaders or policy advocates. Questions can be directed to organizers Wen Fan (wen.fan@bc.edu) and Jaeseung Kim (jkim1203@o365.skku.edu). Space is limited. Applications close January 15, 2026. Those selected to attend the preconference will be notified in February 2026. Information about the 2026 WFRN conference and the preconference application can be found at this link: https://wfrn.org/2026-work-and-family-researchers-network-conference/.

2026 Work and Family Researchers Network Conference
2026-06-17 - 2026-06-20 | Concordia University, 1450 Guy Street, Montreal, Quebec, H3H 0A1, Canada
Work and Family Researchers Network next conference will be June 17-20, 2026 at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. The WFRN will host preconference events on June 17, including Predoctoral Workshops and Early Career Fellowship Workshops. Information on applying to participate in preconference events is presented below. The main conference of presentations and plenaries will take place June 18-20.
Concordia University is located at 1450 Guy Street Montreal, Quebec Canada. Registration is in the John Molson School of Business (JMSB) also known as the “MB building”.
The 2026 conference theme is Centering Care Across the Life Course.
Care is foundational to human well-being and to the functioning of our workplaces, families, and societies, yet it remains chronically undervalued. The 2026 WFRN Conference theme “Centering Care across the Life Course,” will explore how we can place care at the core of work, family, and policy conversation, ensuring that care and caregiving responsibilities are supported equitably.
This theme emphasizes care not only as caregiving responsibilities (for children, elders, and others with needs across the life course), but also as relational labor that sustains healthy families, workplaces, and communities. Whether expressed through care work in families, professional care work, informal caregiving, or relationship-building at work, care deeply shapes individual trajectories and well-being, workplace experiences, and organizational cultures.
Achieving a care-centered society requires both structural reforms and cultural shifts, ensuring policies reflect the needs of diverse caregivers while also building public and political support for care as a shared societal responsibility. This conference invites scholars, practitioners, policymakers, journalists and other stakeholders to explore solutions that prioritize care, in all its forms.
