Short Abstract

EASA continues its successful experience with Labs as a space for collective discussion, collaborative practice, and creative contribution; and we encourage participants to explore this year’s theme, Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World.

Long Abstract

We suggest submitting proposals that differ from the typical 20-minute conference paper format and favour the experimental forms of sharing practical anthropological knowledge. As previously, Lab organisers would facilitate interaction, improvisation, speculation, as well as creative and open-ended approaches that go off the well-trodden paths and unveil new ways of anthropological thinking.

EASA2026 asks the potential Lab convenors to consider the following key questions:

- What is the role of anthropology and humanistic reflection in a polarised world?

- What does polarisation mean from the anthropological point of view?

- What does polarisation mean for the anthropological debate?

- What possibilities do we have and what possibilities can we open through our engagement?

- How to encounter, translate, and witness conflict in a polarised reality?

- How can we contribute to imagining a reality that is less polarised and conflicted than the one we currently find ourselves in?

- What could be the transformative and generative potentialities of polarisation?

This Lab Programme has 6 pending lab proposals.
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