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Kākano Fund 2025 - Round One applications now open
Lorena Gibson

We are pleased to invite applications for Round One 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 One applications are due on Monday 26 May 2025.

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Lorena Gibson
Lorena Gibson
Call for papers for ASAA/NZ 2025 conference
Lorena Gibson

The call for papers for our 2025 conference, Edges, Borders, Margins, and Peripheries, is now open. We encourage submissions of abstracts of no more than 250 words for individual papers, panels, and group sessions that engage with our theme; however, unrelated submissions are also welcome. The deadline for abstracts is 31 May 2025.

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Lorena Gibson
ASAA/NZ 2025 Conference: Edges, Borders, Margins, Peripheries
Lorena Gibson

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 ASAA/NZ conference will be held on 9-12 December in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. The call for abstracts will open on 17 March.

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ASAA/NZ Treaty Principles Bill Submission Online Workshop
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Still not sure on the Treaty Principles Bill Submission process? Join us on Zoom on Monday 16 December at 7pm to get informed, and prepare your submission alongside other like-minded individuals from across the motu. Whānau and friends more than welcome. Nau mai, haere mai!

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Lorena Gibson
ASAA/NZ statement on the abolition of Marsden Fund Humanities and Social Sciences panels
Lorena Gibson

The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ) is dismayed by the government’s decision to abolish the Marsden Fund’s Social Sciences and Humanities panels. We are deeply concerned by the extent this will set back the affected disciplines and New Zealand’s research environment as a whole. We ask that this arbitrary decision be reversed with immediate effect.

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ASAA/NZ Kākano Fund results for Round Two, 2024
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Two PhD candidates were awarded grants in the October 2024 Kākano Fund round.

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Call for nominations: Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology
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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.

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Lorena Gibson
New website feature: ASAA/NZ Official Statements and Open Letters
Lorena Gibson

We have launched a new section on our website dedicated to the collective voice of ASAA/NZ members. This new section is home to our official statements and open letters. It includes our 2020 Declaration of Climate Emergency, an open letter to Aotearoa New Zealand political leaders in solidarity with Palestine (October 2023), and our most recent open letter to the coalition government of Aotearoa New Zealand.(August 2024).

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