Please join us for a wine and cheese reception to meet SIEF President Čarna Brković, SIEF Series co-editor and Cultural Analysis editorial board member Hande Birkalan-Gedik, and Patrick Laviolette and Alexandra Schwell, editors of Ethnologia Europaea, who will share information about SIEF's publication venues.

This reception celebrates the vital scholarship of SIEF, highlighting three key publication venues.

SIEF Series:  Launched in 2025, our peer-reviewed Berghahn book series publishes monographs and edited volumes on the cultural and historical study of everyday life.  

Ethnologia Europaea: SIEF’s A-ranked flagship journal, founded in 1967, focuses on European cultures and societies.

Cultural Analysis: SIEF's interdisciplinary, open-access journal dedicated to investigating expressive and everyday culture.

We look forward to connecting with you and sharing insights into these exciting research channels.

Beyond Borders: Human Connection Through Volunteering

The aim of the workshop is to promote solidarity, intercultural understanding, and community engagement in an increasingly polarized world.

By activities conducted in this meeting we would like to:

- explore how volunteering can foster empathy, solidarity, and meaningful connections across cultural differences.

- encourage participants to recognize and challenge stereotypes and assumptions in order to develop a more open and empathetic understanding of others.

- experience and reflect on how collaboration can still happen even when communication is imperfect or restricted.

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Centrum Inicjatyw Międzykulturowych Horyzonty (Horyzonty Intercultural Initiatives Centre)

is a non-profit organization based in Poznań, Poland. We create educational, cultural, and community-based projects that promote intercultural dialogue, social inclusion, solidarity, and active citizenship. Through workshops, exchanges, festivals, and local initiatives, we connect people from diverse backgrounds and support cooperation across cultures and generations.

See more: https://cimhoryzonty.org/en/home-page/

Open Mic: Voices for Academic Freedom

Organized by the EASA Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom

An open, informal space for anyone who wants to speak, listen, or simply stand alongside others on questions of academic freedom and human rights, from departments shuttered in the name of educational reform to budget cuts that quietly hollow out critical scholarship, to more direct forms of repression and censorship. It is an invitation to name what threatens the university as a critical space, and anthropology's place within it, and to reflect together on the dignity, integrity, and ethics that should underlie how we produce knowledge. Just as importantly, it is a chance to hear one another's struggles across different contexts and find ways to stand behind and support each other. Anyone is welcome to bring a story, a concern, or a few words, or simply to be present. No formal program, just an open floor and a shared commitment to solidarity.

Island in the Net - Digital Culture in Post-Castro Cuba

Cuba is living through a digital revolution, and it looks nothing like Silicon Valley. In Island in the Net (Princeton University Press 2026), Steffen Köhn traces how Cubans built their own internet from the ground up,  through flash drives, black markets, and grassroots networks, culminating in the social media–fueled protests of July 2021, showing how access to digital technology has fundamentally altered the dynamics between citizens and an authoritarian state.

At EASA2026, Steffen Köhn and Ruxandra Ana will discuss the book in light of Cuba's current existential crisis: prolonged blackouts, fuel shortages, and tever increasing pressure from the U.S., and ask what digital culture and community-driven connectivity mean when the lights go out. The talk will take place at ROZBRAT - Social center of alternative culture, Poznan’s longest-running squat.

We invite you to join us at our exhibit table to browse our latest titles and connect with Berghahn authors, editors, and friends from across the EASA community. The reception will also feature brief presentations showcasing a selection of recent publications.

Countermapping the Borderscape. Methodological Reflections from the Polish–Belarusian Border 

This workshop invites participants to engage with an interactive counter-map of the Polish–Belarusian borderscape. Developed through activist documentation and research conducted since the onset of the humanitarian crisis, the map draws on the methodology of counter-mapping. Rather than reproducing exact locations, it foregrounds the mechanisms of violence, regimes of control, and the everyday experiences of people on the move.

Through collaborative group work and collective discussion, participants will use the map to reconstruct and analyse the situation at the Polish–Belarusian border, focusing on material infrastructures, specific sites, and practices of violence, resistance, and contestation. The session will also provide space for critical reflection on the possibilities and limitations of counter-mapping as a methodological approach. Particular attention will be given to the intersections of research and activism, ethical challenges of knowledge production, and complementary methods that can support engaged forms of inquiry.

Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy

Researchers on the Border (Badaczki i Badacze na Granicy) is an inter-university, interdisciplinary grassroots research network established in 2021 in response to the humanitarian crisis on the Polish–Belarusian border. Working within critical border studies and an activist research approach, the group studies this irregularized migration route and the impacts of the border regime.

See more: www.bbng.org

https://www.facebook.com/BadaczeiBadaczkiNaGranicy/  

Anthropology and Anthropologists at a Time of Repression, Genocide, and Militarization

Organized by the EASA Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom

What does it mean to produce knowledge at a moment defined by repression, genocide, and militarization? What can "knowledge" even be under such violent conditions, and what responsibility does that place on those who produce it? These questions are sharpened by the precarity and attacks on academic freedom increasingly shaping anthropological work itself.

This session takes up several intertwined threads: the politics of boycott and severing institutional ties with Israeli academic institutions in the context of the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people, the dissonance of "business as usual" scholarship amid the destruction of lives and worlds, the mounting precarity of academic life under funding cuts and rising anti-intellectualism, and the politics of care and support in the face of all this.

Chairing & Moderating: Ruba Salih (EASA Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom, University of Bologna)

Speakers:

Hayal Akarsu (EASA President, Utrecht University)

Helena Zohdi (EASA Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom, Goethe University Frankfurt)

Sultan Doughan (EASA Exec, Goldsmiths) 

Mezna Qato (University of Cambridge)

Andreas Streinzer (Universität Wien) 

Noor Blass (Utrecht University) 

Victoria Klinkert (University of St. Gallen) 

Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge) 

Gradhiva is an international Journal dedicated to Anthropology and Histories of Arts, published by the Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac. it is published in French, but some issues are also published online in English. 

This session, at the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Gradhiva (which started in 1986) and the 20 years of the Musée du quai Branly  (open in 2006). It will offer an opportuity for readers and potential authors to meet the editor. 

Since 2005, the journal has been published by the musée du quai Branly  in Paris, and has been dedicated to the study of arts in the  widest possible sense of the term : it explores all forms of production and practices that are subjected to judgments of an aesthetic character,  as well as the contexts or fields in which these forms of production and  practices move about. Dedicated equally to non-European and Western  arts, the journal is open to various disciplines : anthropology, art history, history, sociology, literary studies, and musicology. Finally, the journal strives to develop, through a singular and often unprecedented iconography, an interaction between text and image. Originally created in 1986 by Michel Leiris and Jean Jamin as a support for the history and archives of anthropology, Gradhiva became a leading journal bridging anthropological, art historical and visual studies.

Editors-in-Chief: Julien Bondaz, Olivia Bourrat, Benoît de L’Estoile, Nélia Dias

Editorial Board: Emma Aubin-Boltanski, Christine Barthe, Julien Bondaz, Baptiste Brun, Teresa Castro, Michèle Coquet, Vincent Debaene, Pierre Déléage, Emmanuel Grimaud, Christine Guillebaud, Monique Jeudy-Ballini, Frédéric Keck, Sarah Frioux-Salgas, Denis Laborde, Rémi Labrusse, Anne Lafont, Anne-Christine Taylor

Editorial Coordination: Maïra Muchnik

What really happens after you hit submit? Join Social Anthropology/Anthropology sociale for a session on the inner workings of academic publishing — brought to you in collaboration with editors from other journals across the discipline.

Topics will include journal ecology and differences between journals, the peer review process, the role of AI in publishing, and more. Whether you are a seasoned author or preparing to submit for the first time, this is your chance to ask questions and gain a clearer picture of how publication decisions are made.

„They did not let us speak”: Stories from the Polish-Belarusian border (date of workshop: 24th July, hour/room tba)

Drawing on our data and the testimonies shared with us, we will talk about the situation of people on the move at the Polish-Belarusian border after the suspension of the right to seek international protection. Together, we will look at what these stories reveal about current border practices, everyday conditions of people on the move, and the consequences of increasingly restricted access to rights and safety.

Stowarzyszenie We Are Monitoring / We Are Monitoring Association

The We Are Monitoring Association is part of the Granica Group coalition. Together with other organizations, informal initiatives and local residents, we co-create a solidarity network of humanitarian aid on the Polish-Belarusian border. Since 2021, we have been working for human rights by collecting, analyzing and sharing data on the scale of movement, provision of support, abuses of power and various forms of violence, including institutional, experienced by people on the move. Our work also aims to complement the public discourse on migration by creating a space for expression for people whose rights to freedom of movement and seeking safety have been denied.

See more: https://wearemonitoring.org.pl/en/home/