ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2025 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Shalvi (Panjab University), Will Stringer (Maynooth University), Kēhaunani Springer (University of Waikato), and Clare Collins (Massey University). Special commendations also went to Fine Brendtner (Aarhus University) and Angela Wong (University of Sydney) for their online presentations. These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.

The full programme for our ASAA/NZ 2025 conference is now available online so you can browse the complete schedule of sessions, workshops, and presentations exploring this year’s theme: Edges, Borders, Margins, and Peripheries. We look forward to seeing you in Whāingaroa!

We invite nominations of students and early career researchers (ECR) from around Aotearoa for the Sam Taylor-Alexander ECR Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology. The closing date for nominations is Friday 14 November 2025.

We are pleased to invite applications for Round Two of the Kākano Fund Award from students enrolled during 2025 in a graduate degree course for a BA Hons or MA or PhD in Social or Cultural Anthropology at a New Zealand University. Round Two applications are due on Monday 22 September 2025. The closing date is earlier than usual so that successful students wanting assistance to attend our annual conference know the outcome of their applications to Kākano before the Early Bird conference registration date. 

Thanks to generous support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, we can offer five travel awards of up to NZ$1000 each for ASAA/NZ 2025 conference participants from low- and middle-income countries.* This travel award is to help financially support participants without access to funding, such as precarious scholars and postgraduate students without institutional support. Priority will be given to applicants from Oceania and Southeast Asia given their proximity to Aotearoa New Zealand and travel affordability. Applications are due by 31 August 2025.