The University of Barcelona hosts world experts to rethink and redefine anthropology
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From 23 to 26 July 2024, the University of Barcelona will be the international epicentre of academic reflection in anthropology, since it will hold the eighteenth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), which will take place at the Faculty of Geography and History and the Faculty of Philology and Communication. It will include sessions and activities at the Maritime Museum, the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), the Ethnological Museum and the Ateneu del Raval. The conference, “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”, will bring together more than two thousand international anthropologists to share knowledge and explore new horizons in the discipline.
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Culture
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18/07/2024
From 23 to 26 July 2024, the University of Barcelona will be the international epicentre of academic reflection in anthropology, since it will hold the eighteenth Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), which will take place at the Faculty of Geography and History and the Faculty of Philology and Communication. It will include sessions and activities at the Maritime Museum, the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), the Ethnological Museum and the Ateneu del Raval. The conference, “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology”, will bring together more than two thousand international anthropologists to share knowledge and explore new horizons in the discipline.
The opening conference will be held on Tuesday 23 July at 7.00 p.m. at the Maritime Museum under the title “Hacer y deshacer Cuelgamuros: afrontar la necrotoxicidad en el inframundo franquista”, by Fernando Ferrándiz, researcher at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
The conference programme will include a wide range of academic and cultural activities, such as exhibitions, workshops, presentations and film screenings. The talks present a wide range of topics, from decolonization to moral economies, mobilities, reproductive politics and populism. The conference sessions will be held in English, Spanish and Catalan.
“Antropología de la cultura popular catalana, identidad y política” (Anthropology of Catalan popular culture, identity and politics) will take place on Tuesday 23 at 5.00 p.m., at the Moja Palace, where two new books on Catalan identity, cultural heritage and politics in the light of recent political transformations will be presented. The books are Cultura popular, identitat i política a la Catalunya contemporània, by Alessandro Testa (Charles University in Prague) and Mariann Vaczi (University of Nevada), and Les torres humanes de Catalunya: els castells, la política cultural i la lluita cap a les altures, by Mariann Vaczi.
There will also be “A Life of European Anthropology”, an act of academic recognition of the career of Professor Emeritus Joan Bestard (Palma, 1947), on Wednesday 24 at 3.00 p.m. at the UB’s Faculty of Geography and History, in which different Catalan and European professors and researchers will give an overview of his contribution to anthropology.
In this conference, visitors can also see the exhibition “The Arts of Observation, which links anthropology to art through illustrations inspired by short articles on public anthropology, which shows the transforming power of interdisciplinarity.
The conference programme will include a wide range of academic and cultural activities, such as exhibitions, workshops, presentations and film screenings. The talks present a wide range of topics, from decolonization to moral economies, mobilities, reproductive politics and populism. The conference sessions will be held in English, Spanish and Catalan.
“Antropología de la cultura popular catalana, identidad y política” (Anthropology of Catalan popular culture, identity and politics) will take place on Tuesday 23 at 5.00 p.m., at the Moja Palace, where two new books on Catalan identity, cultural heritage and politics in the light of recent political transformations will be presented. The books are Cultura popular, identitat i política a la Catalunya contemporània, by Alessandro Testa (Charles University in Prague) and Mariann Vaczi (University of Nevada), and Les torres humanes de Catalunya: els castells, la política cultural i la lluita cap a les altures, by Mariann Vaczi.
There will also be “A Life of European Anthropology”, an act of academic recognition of the career of Professor Emeritus Joan Bestard (Palma, 1947), on Wednesday 24 at 3.00 p.m. at the UB’s Faculty of Geography and History, in which different Catalan and European professors and researchers will give an overview of his contribution to anthropology.
In this conference, visitors can also see the exhibition “The Arts of Observation, which links anthropology to art through illustrations inspired by short articles on public anthropology, which shows the transforming power of interdisciplinarity.
The 18th EASA’s Biennial Conference brings together more than two thousand researchers, who will turn the Raval into the heart of transformative anthropological research.
Another activity is “Field/Works II: Generating Ecologies of Trust”, an online exhibition project commissioned by the members of EASA Antropology and the Arts (ANTART), Maxime Le Calvé and Jen Clarke. This initiative calls on artist-anthropologists to present multimodal works.
The conference will feature innovative workshops such as “Architecture of an Arch”, an interactive installation that will explore new models of spatial boundaries based on bodily interactions. It brings together research on the architecture of the geometric language of the body by Jaime Refoyo and research on lightweight structures by Daria Kovaleva (ILEK, University of Stuttgart), together with research on movement and cognitive neuroscience by Jarunya Srinivasan (University Carlos III de Madrid). This evolutionary installation will be open from 23 to 26 July, with a workshop on the 24.
The 24 will also feature the Ethnographic Salon, run by the Creative Anthropologies Network, coordinated by Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University), Eva van Roekel (Free University of Amsterdam), and Alisse Waterston (City University of New York). It is a creative laboratory involving experimentation and performative exchange of ongoing artistic works inspired by field experiences that do not fit with academic writing and theorizing.
The local committee of the conference is coordinated by professors Roger Sansi and Camila del Mármol from the Department of Social Anthropology. Other UB professors on the committee include Irene Sabaté, Mikel Aramburu, Roger Canals, Isaac Marrero, Aníbal García, Raúl Márquez, Fabiola Mancinelli and Ignacio Domínguez.
This conference will not only be a great academic event, but a true celebration of diversity and the interconnection of knowledge, and will once again demonstrate the importance of the UB as a centre committed to critical thinking and culture.
The conference will feature innovative workshops such as “Architecture of an Arch”, an interactive installation that will explore new models of spatial boundaries based on bodily interactions. It brings together research on the architecture of the geometric language of the body by Jaime Refoyo and research on lightweight structures by Daria Kovaleva (ILEK, University of Stuttgart), together with research on movement and cognitive neuroscience by Jarunya Srinivasan (University Carlos III de Madrid). This evolutionary installation will be open from 23 to 26 July, with a workshop on the 24.
The 24 will also feature the Ethnographic Salon, run by the Creative Anthropologies Network, coordinated by Fiona Murphy (Dublin City University), Eva van Roekel (Free University of Amsterdam), and Alisse Waterston (City University of New York). It is a creative laboratory involving experimentation and performative exchange of ongoing artistic works inspired by field experiences that do not fit with academic writing and theorizing.
The local committee of the conference is coordinated by professors Roger Sansi and Camila del Mármol from the Department of Social Anthropology. Other UB professors on the committee include Irene Sabaté, Mikel Aramburu, Roger Canals, Isaac Marrero, Aníbal García, Raúl Márquez, Fabiola Mancinelli and Ignacio Domínguez.
This conference will not only be a great academic event, but a true celebration of diversity and the interconnection of knowledge, and will once again demonstrate the importance of the UB as a centre committed to critical thinking and culture.