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    EASA2026

    Poznań, Poland
    21 – 24 Jul 2026

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LP01


Patchwork ethnography: A methodological guide   
P001


Political forests – Polarised forests: Forest anthropology in Europe and the Global North    
P002


Imagining inclusive worlds from a fragmented position: How can collaboration, equity, and inclusion be pursued from within a fragmented disciplinary landscape?   
P003


Polarized bodies: Utopias, aesthetics, health and the global politics of body modifications   
P004


Performing Possibilities in a Polarized World: Anthropological Perspectives on Artistic Practices    
P005


Infrastructural polarizations: Everyday negotiations of exclusions, risks, and values [Anthropology of Economy (AOE)]   
P006


Interrogating power and society: The anthropology of policy in a time of authoritarianism   
P007


Educational aspirations, inequalities and the making of polarised futures   
P008


Productive mistrust? Between critical and destructive forms of sociality   
P009


Beyond polarised urban spaces: epistemologies, imaginaries and practices at stake   
P010


Everyday violence and the moral economies of care   
P011


Fieldwork in the archives: Archival silences, contested sources, and polarised histories [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]   
P012


Ambiguous connectivities: Remote work, mobility, and belonging   
P013


Co-Creating Justice: Gender-Transformative Methodologies and the Politics of Care   
P014


The Ethics of Circularity   
P015


'Anti-Policy' in an Increasingly Polarised World: Constructive Governance or Governing through Chaos?   
P016


Polarizations in Anthropology: Debates, Deadlocks, and Historical Lessons [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]   
P017


Practicing Blue Anthropology: Depolarizing Currents of Relations   
P018


Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence and Oppression   
P019


Mobilities under War Anxiety: Conditional Privilege and Polarised Imaginaries [Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)]   
P020


Reclaiming Cooperation: Power and Possibility in a Polarised World   
P021


Revisits and reappraisals   
P022


Entangled Undergrounds: Rethinking the Urban from Below   
P023


Dreaming and Hoping: Labouring for a ‘Good Life’ and Dealing with Im/Mobility in an Unequal World [Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)]   
P024


Gender and polarisation in pop and youth cultures: Influencers, communities and other political 'bits and pieces'   
P025


The Geopolitics of Ideologies: Post-Soviet Polarities and the Collapse of the Liberal (Dis)Order in the South Caucasus   
P026


How Shit Becomes Real: Revisiting Bricolage as a Craft of the Present    
P027


Remote work and (im)mobility: practices, relations and everyday politics [Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB)]   
P028


Fieldwork in fractured worlds: Rethinking research possibilities in human-environment relationships   
P029


Family Mobilities and Everyday Life in Wartime: Shifting Borders, Kinship, and Care [ANTHROMOB]    
P030


Polarisation in the Anthropocene: Emerging Multispecies Conflicts under Populist and Authoritarian Regimes   
P031


Emerging Green Frontiers: European uplands between green extractivism and non-extractive conservation    
P032


Methodologies of Care: Navigating Polarization in Medical, Memory, and Mobility Fieldwork   
P033


Anthropologies beyond the metropolis: disciplinary dynamics in a multipolarized world   
P034


Rethinking justice during and after mass political violence: ethnographic and comparative perspectives    
P035


Emotions on the move: migration, emotions and belonging   
P036


Anthropology of the Devil: Negotiating with Evil in a Polarized World   
P037


Family secrets and silences – can anthropology help with healing and dialogue across polarization?    
P038


Space in a Polarised World: Explorations of Displacement, Resistance, and Governance in the Global City   
P039


Exploring the Originality and Legacy of Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Charting New Frontiers in Anthropology   
P040


Reading the Silences: Court Documents, Partial Information, and Creative Legal Ethnographies of Political Violence    
P041


The Returns of Migration: Aspirations of Education and Social Obligations in a Polarised World    
P042


Confronting the Discomfort in the Field    
P043


The social life of remote work: Gender and social relations at/as work   
P044


The Transhuman condition? Rethinking intelligence, sentience, and personhood in the age of AI   
P045


Redefining "good work" in the age of platform, AI, and digitally mediated labour.   
P046


Failure as polarising principle: Hegemonic expectations, politics of belonging and individual agency   
P047


Futures of manual labour [Anthropology Across Ruralities][Anthropology of Labour]   
P048


Death and dying under military occupation: the enactment and contestation of a polarizing doctrine   
P049


What might come to matter between conceptual and imagistic ways of knowing: Anthropologists engaging the lyric essay    
P050


Moral Economies of Racial Reckoning: Liberalism, Empire, and the Politics of Responsibility   
P051


Creating meaningful connections and lives in a polarized world: lessons from digital and everyday feminisms in Asia   
P052


Bodies and health in a changing climate    
P053


Entangled Ruins: Polarised Temporalities and the Afterlives of Decay   
P054


Dilemmas of categorisation for bureaucrats and anthropologists in a polarised world    
P055


Citizen science and eco-ethnography: methodological possibilities in a polarising world   
P056


Drought: Thinking through life in a drying world   
P057


Decolonisation through law: Discourse, practices and possibilities for justice and liberation across polarising worlds. Keywords: Decolonisation; law; state; justice; political polarisation   
P058


Experiments with Trace: Towards Radical Possibilities   
P059


Polarized Destinies: Land, Value, and Justice in the Renewable Energy Transition    
P060


Polarized Politics of (Un)Belonging in Rural Places: Thinking Cosmopolitanism and Nativism from the Places that Don’t Matter [ACRU]   
P061


Peripheries at the Centre (Again)   
P062


Healthcare in a polarised world: Chronicity and fracture through perspectives from the Global South   
P063


History in person: Living with history in the ethnographic present    
P064


Speaking of silence: Negotiating speech in a polarized world   
P065


Ethnographic and qualitative approaches to care poverty and care inequalities    
P066


Abolitionist Perspectives on Criminalization and Carcerality [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]   
P067


Consumed Belongings: Staging Heritage Claims [Network for an Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH)]   
P068


The Potential of Art: Toward an Entangled Anthropology for the 21st Century [Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART)]   
P069


Beyond Polarity: Rethinking Ontology and Method through Extraordinary Experience    
P070


When Anonymity is No Longer Enough! “Fictionalization” as a New Way of Writing Ethnography in the Age of Digital Surveillance   
P071


Infrastructures of Division, Infrastructures of Hope: Media and Polarisation in Africa    
P072


Studio Anthropology   
P073


Beyond informality: popular economies in a polarized world   
P074


Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures    
P075


No Neutral Ground: Anthropological Engagements in Times of Armed Conflict   
P076


Pilgrimage Cosmopolitics: Gods, Technologies, and the Environment   
P077


Seeing in Conflict: Visual Methods and Polarisation as Productive Tension   
P078


Aesthetics of Circulation: Logistics, Relationality and Conflict   
P079


Digital Financialisation, Governance and Subjectivities: Exploring Possibilities Beyond Polarisation   
P080


Beyond Bans and Binaries: Strategies of Resistance and Destigmatization in Abortion Activism   
P081


Ecologies of Expertise: Living with Change in Polarised Environments   
P082


Immunitarian politics: rethinking the contours of self and other, exclusion and community    
P083


Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the Mid-19th and Early 20th Centuries [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]    
P084


Despots and the Infrastructural State: Comparative Ethnographies for a Decolonial Counterstrategy   
P085


Gender-diverse care practices in the digitalization of informal economies   
P086


Heritage at the Edge: Polarisation, Belonging, and Neo-Nationalist Nostalgia   
P087


Teaching and Learning Anthropology in a Polarising World [Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN)]   
P088


Ageing at crossroads: Polarisation and possibilities of caring and ageing well paradigms in Central and Eastern Europe   
P089


The Everyday Geopolitics of Infrastructure    
P090


“From the Ground Up”: thinking through sediments, materials, and deeper times   
P091


Splitting the Chronotope: Space–Time Coordinates of Polarisation in/of Anthropology [EASA Network for an Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH) and Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)]    
P092


Bringing Perspectives Together: Multimodal Ethnography in a Polarized World [Multimodal Ethnography].   
P093


Sensing Violence: Infrastructures, Ecologies, and the Human Condition    
P094


The agency of religious buildings in Europe    
P095


Embodied Difference and the Ecologies of Interaction: Language, Disability, and Neurodivergence in a Polarised World   
P096


Polarised by Time: Technologies and temporalities of reproductive health and rights    
P097


Infrastructuring a Climate-Changed World    
P098


Swirling Thresholds: Disability and Chronicity Within and Beyond Experiential, Biomedical and Political Categories   
P099


From Private Senses to Public Evidence    
P100


I have a Dream: Ethnographies of Dreaming Within and Beyond a Polarised World.    
P101


Solidarity despite everything   
P102


Cripping Ethnography: Anti-Ableist Approaches to Anthropological Knowledge Production   
P103


Feminism and Digital Anthropologies   
P104


Everyday Infrastructures in a Polarised World: Anthropological Perspectives and Possibilities   
P105


Dementia, Difference, Critique: Thinking with the Other in Dementia Socialities    
P106


Migrating Activism from the Global South to the Global North: Trajectories and New Engagements   
P107


War as a Framework of Legitimacy: The Entwinement of Conflict and Migration Control   
P108


Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication   
P109


Sport, Capitalism, and Desire   
P110


Securitizing Forests: Ecologies and Politics of Security in the Climate Age    
P111


Welfare from below: enacting social protection across social and political spectrums    
P112


Encoding Biodiversity: Between Techno-imperialisms and Nativism, Data Extraction from Ridges to Deeps across Europe and the Pacific [ACRU]    
P113


Technologies in/as Conflict: Living In-Between Technological Utopias and Material Realities    
P114


Living with Rivers: Ecologies, Politics, and the Making of Fluvial Worlds   
P115


Making bodies, making masculinities    
P116


Into the ordinariness of citizenship. A political anthropology perspective on the art of crafting survival possibilities through (de)polarizing practices.    
P117


Moral Investments and Ethical African Capitalism: Reconfiguring Capitalism from the South?    
P118


Affective Governance: Analysing Atmospheres in Political and Legal Anthropology [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]   
P119


Beyond Goddesses and Patriarchy: Negotiating Gender in Contemporary Spiritual Milieus    
P120


Grief and the Contestation of Necropolitics: State Power and Resistance in Everyday Experiences of Death and Dying   
P121


Institutional Whiteness: Ethnographies of State Practices across Europe [Anthropologies of the State (AnthroState)]   
P122


Learning from the ‘Prophets of Doom’: On Prepping in Polarized, Dystopian Worlds    
P123


For a Darker Anthropology: Redefining the Epistemological and Moral Commitment of a Community of Practice   
P124


A Polarizing Panel? (Drafting an Escape Plan)   
P125


Genocidal Durations: Unweaving Worlds and the (Im)Possibilities of Antigenocidal Reweaving   
P126


Transformations of Consciousness in a Polarised World: Ethnographic Inquiries into Psychedelics   
P127


Fighting for the Truth? Skepticism and Certainty, Doubt and Belief in a Polarized World   
P128


Everyday maintenance of energy infrastructure in a polarized world    
P129


Embodied Digitalities: Polarised Imaginaries of Bodies, Emotions, and (Dis-)Connections   
P130


Political islands – on the potential of a non-continental perspective   
P131


Politicising Labour and Health in the Contemporary   
P132


Regeneration: Kin Relations, More-than-Human Worlds, and Practices of Change   
P133


Embodied Imaginations after the Post-   
P134


“Medical pluralism” under scrutiny: the polarisation of care in therapeutic pathways   
P135


Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements as an alternate ecosystem: A Resistance to Polarisation and Authoritarian Control   
P136


Racialization and casteification: Encountering labor in contemporary capitalism [Anthropology of Labor (AoL)]   
P137


Narrativising marginality - persevering with identity politics in a polarised world.   
P138


Beyond the Decolonial Turn: Examining Academic Collaboration from the Perspective of the Global South   
P139


Holding Conflict, Making Care: Lived Experience in Polarised Mental Health Worlds   
P140


Desiring Queerness, Disabilities, and Race: Differential Integrations in a Polarizing World   
P141


Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies   
P142


Politics of Just Transitions: Navigating Contested Governance and Socio-Ecological Transformations   
P143


Open Science in a Polarised World – Opportunities and Challenges for Anthropology   
P144


Understanding emotional polarisation in contemporary culture and politics: what can a psychological anthropology contribute?   
P145


Beyond Sea-Blindness? Ocean Knowledge between Technological Oversight and Multiple Harms    
P146


Rematerializing populism: Objects, infrastructures, and ecologies of the political   
P147


Fragile Ground: Ecological and Existential Erosions in a Changing World   
P148


Outsourcing: (un)limited delegation of (in)tangible work in an increasingly polarized world?   
P149


Hot Encounters: An Anthropology of Thermoception   
P150


Care and Violence: Rethinking Articulations in Theory and Practice   
P151


Urgency in a polarized world    
P152


Commoning Life in a Polarised World: Multispecies Perspectives on Conservation, Subsistence, and Repair   
P153


Opacity and Energy Knowledge: Getting to Just, Sustainable Energy Policy in a Polarising World [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]   
P154


Theories and methodologies to subvert racializing processes [Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network]   
P155


Looking at how artworks are made: a gateway to subjective processes – reimagining participant observation [Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART)]    
P156


Intervening in polarised futures [Future Anthropologies Network]   
P157


Theatre From The Field: Exploring anthropology through performance [Creative Anthropologies Network (CAN)]   
P158


Ethnology and anthropology: A polysemous relationship, polarizations and overlaps [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]   
P159


The Work of Resistance: Possibilities for Labour in Polarising Worlds [Anthropology of Labour (AoL)]   
P160


Towards a moral economy of commitment and stake [Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE)]    
P161


Rethinking Contemporary Spiritualities through Social Movements [Contemporary 'Spiritual' Practices Network (CSP)]   
P162


Feminist and Queer Ethnographies of Labor, Institutions, and Everyday Struggles [Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (NAGS)]    
P163


Moving Beyond Polarities in (Im)mobilities Research [ANTHROMOB]   
P164


Disruptive movements. On the ambivalence of polarisation in contexts of activism [Anthropology and Social Movements (ANTHROSOC)]   
P165


Unmaking and Remaking ‘Language’: Ontological Challenges to Language Pedagogy, Revitalization, and Archiving [EASA Linguistic Anthropology Network (ELAN)]   
P166


Aspirations and the Digital: Strategies, Contestations, and Fractures in Contemporary Social Worlds [European Network for Digital Anthropology (ENDA)]    
P167


Right-Wing Nationalism, Affective Polarisation and Queer Sexual Education under Attack [European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA)]   
P168


Towards an anthropology of complicity: resistance, collaboration and the everyday labour of social transformation [Anthropologies of the State (AnthroState)]   
P169


Epistemic inequalities and global perspectives of medical anthropology’s interrogation of AI in healthcare [Medical Anthroplogy (MAE)]   
P170


Circular care: experiencing infinity/eternity in the small gestures of life [Muslim Worlds Network (MWN)]   
P171


The politics of emotion in conflict, violence and collective struggle [Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security (APeCS)]    
P172


Digital affordances in a polarising world [Media Anthropology (MediaNet)]   
P173


Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: Experiences for a Public Anthropology of Food [FoodNet]    
P174


Theorizing Fascism through Ethnography: Anthropological approaches to fascism in a Polarised World [Anthropology of Fascisms (AnthroFA)]   
P175


Pilgrimage through Conflict(s): Laterality, Movements and Scales [Pilgrimage Studies Network / PILNET]   
P176


Beyond Enclosures and Disclosures: Possibilities for Invisible and Uncertain Sites and Subjects for Novel Ethnographic Aging Trajectories [Age and Generations Network]   
P178


The (il)licit Sea [Anthropology of the Seas (ANTHSEAS)]    
P179


Post-Work Societies and Futures [Applied Anthropology Network (AAN)]   
P180


Disfigured Ecologies, Between Parameters and Para-matters [Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation (#Colleex)]   
P181


Disentangling the humanitarian-exploitation nexus in the context of asylum reception in Europe [Anthropology of Humanitarianism (AHN)]   
P182


New Mediterranean Masculinities: Rethinking Honor in the Time of the Manosphere [Mediterraneanist/MedNet]   
P183


Mountain territorial (re)claims. Engaging with indigeneity and autochthony in a polarized world [SIEF] [ACRU]   
P184


Transnational Perspectives on Carceral Technologies: Power, Resistance, and the Politics of Control [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]    
P185


Indeterminate Property [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]    
P186


Watching the police: ethnographies of counter-seeing [Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR)]   
P187


Responding to a Polarised World? Tradition and Neotraditionalism in today’s Africa [Africanists Network]   
P188


Disengage! Multimodal approaches beyond (op)positions. [Multimodal Ethnography (Multimodal)]   
P189


Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? Intergenerational Critique and Epistemological Vigilance in Medical Anthropology [MAYS network panel]   
P190


Irritation and human sociality [European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)]   
P191


Anthropology of the end-times: Disturbing world, worlds, and worldings [Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DiCAN)]   
P192


Production of anthropological knowledge in a polarised world in Europe and beyond: contemporary challenges and risks. [Europeanist Network (EuroNet)]   
P193


Ruralities as frontiers of possibilities [Anthropology across ruralities (ACRU) ]   
P194


Polarized Digital Images: On Computer Vision in Visual Anthropology [VANEASA]   
P195


After Empathy: Multispecies Perspectives in Political Ecology [Humans and Other Living Beings (HOLB)]    
P197


Matters of Risk: Infrastructures and Technologies of (In) Security and Polarization [Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security (ApeCS)]   
P198


Reproduction in Times of Crisis   
P199


Polarisation in feminist (queer) theory: reflections on epistemological conundrums    
RT01


Climate policy and action in cities: recalibrations of a polarised issue   
RT02


In the Ruins of Value: Anthropology, Capitalism, and the Politics of Worthlessness    
RT03


Spirituality in a divided world: Rethinking healing, difference, and coexistence    
RT04


Displacement as a form of life: Migration, authoritarianism, and solidarity [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]   
RT05


Asia not as a Method: Rethinking the Cold War relatedness from Asia   
RT06


Struggles for decriminalising and demedicalising abortion in contemporary Europe: the Polish Abortion Dream Team    
RT07


Critique in "crisis": constructing new grounds for inquiry across postsocialism and postliberalism [CLOSED]   
RT08


Look away now! When Violence Becomes the Field   
RT09


Ethnographies of Joy: Snippets from a Definitionless Dictionary [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]   
RT10


Disruptive mobilities: Unsettling law, space, and identities through movement   
RT11


Tree vs. tree vs. human: Tree struggles at the age of polarisations   
RT12


Structuring Affects in Black and White: On Care and its Others    
RT13


Family Business: Doing fieldwork with children and/or partners   
RT14


Ecofeminist Ethnographies of "Green" Energy Projects: Destabilising Colonial Structures in European Energy Transitions    
RT15


Polarised bodies. Fatigue, care, and the affective politics of survival   
RT16


Is There a Place for Computation in Anthropology? Building a methodological foundation for computational anthropology    
RT17


Building a less polarized world through anthropological education and new audiences, using international and local networks [Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN)]    
RT18


How we do is what we do   
RT19


Longing Otherwise: the Politics and Poetics of Desire in a Fractured World   
RT20


Disappearance and its others – speculation, opacity and the negative in anthropology   
RT21


Triangulation and Polarization: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Fieldwork - [Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory (NCAT)]   
RT22


Between Green Extractivism and Fossil Fascism: The Role of Critical Anthropology [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]   
RT23


Making Things Public: collaborations and possibilities [Network for an Anthropology of History & Heritage (NAoHH)]    
RT24


The Polarised Planet: navigating the activist-sceptic divide in an age of environmental extremes    
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