American Anthropological Association

AES 2026 Spring Conference Registration
2026-01-15 | Provincia de Panamá
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.
