The provisional programme for our 2022 conference is now available. The programme contains information about the venue, transport, accommodation, and COVID-19 precautions, as well as the provisional schedule.
Registration is now open for the 2022 ASAA/NZ Conference "EMERGENC(i)ES"
Registration for the 44th ASAA/NZ Annual Conference is now open. The conference will take place from 14-16 November 2022 at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
The disappearance of Bruno Araújo Pereira and Dom Phillips
The Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand supports the Associação Brasileira de Antropologia (ABA) and their statement regarding the disappearance of Bruno Araújo Pereira and Dom Phillips.
ASAA/NZ 2022 Conference CFP extended to 24 June
We have extended the deadline for the 2022 ASAA/NZ conference abstracts to Friday 24 June 2022. Our conference page has more information about the theme of Emergenc(i)es and the hybrid format that the conference will take when we host it in November 2022.
Call for Papers: ASAA/NZ 2022 Annual Conference
We are pleased to announce that the 44th ASAA/NZ Annual Conference will take place from the 14th to 16th of November at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.
We would like to acknowledge the energy, time, and effort that was put into last year’s conference which sadly had to be cancelled. Therefore, building on last year’s theme of “Emergency” and in light of our (re)emergence from lockdown into an ongoing pandemic, we are proposing “Emergenc(i)es” as the theme for this year’s ASAA/NZ conference.
Abstracts of no more than 200 words are due by 10 June 2022. Please see our Conference page for more information.
2021 ASAA/NZ Conference call for abstracts
The University of Waikato Anthropology Programme is pleased to announce that the 2021 ASAA./NZ conference will be held on Friday 26 and Saturday 27 November 2021 at the Waikato Museum/Te Whare Taonga o Waikato in downtown Hamilton (1 Grantham Street).
The theme of the conference is ‘Emergency’. Abstracts of up to 300 words are due by 31 July 2021. Please see our Conference page for more information.
2021 ASAANZ+AAS Conference Cancelled
ASAA/NZ Declares Climate Emergency
Call for Nominations: The Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology
ASAA/NZ is delighted to call for nominations of Students and Early Career Anthropologists from around Aotearoa for the Sam Taylor-Alexander Early Career Researcher Prize for Ethics and Engagement within Anthropology. The prize aims to recognise the ‘everyday ethical’ labour and engagement that is continually practiced in, and essential to, the academy, and in doing so, to foster a culture of allyship, social justice, and generosity within Aotearoa/New Zealand anthropology. Applications close 16 November 2020.
'Just let me be DysleXic' - an exhibition based on research by Dr Ruth Gibbons
Kākano Fund 2020 - applications now open
Lessons from Lockdown: On the Importance of Movement
ASAA/NZ Intern Frances McClelland
AAS+ASAANZ 2020 conference ‘Unsettling Peripheries’ postponed
It is with great regret that we inform you of the postponement of the 2020 joint conference of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. Our conference was to be held in December of 2020, but we have made the difficult decision to postpone the event to the end of 2021.
Graduate stories: Luka Lim-Anapu-Cowley-Bunnin
Unsettling Peripheries - AAS+ASAANZ 2020 Conference
“Unsettling Peripheries,” the 2020 combined conference of the Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ) will be held on December 8-12 at Victoria University of Wellington’s Pipitea campus, in the heart of Wellington city, Aotearoa New Zealand.
2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards
ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Maria Blanca Ayala (University of Canterbury); Nicola Manghi (Università di Torino/University of Waikato); Mona-Lisa Wareka (University of Waikato); and Brodie Quinn (University of Auckland). These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.
Michael Goldsmith awarded Honorary Life Membership of ASAA/NZ
Michael Goldsmith (Honorary Fellow of the University of Waikato, and Research Associate in Anthropology at the University of Waikato) has been awarded Honorary Life Membership of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand. We are delighted to confer this award upon him in recognition of his four decades of outstanding service to our organisation, to the success of social anthropology at the University of Waikato and throughout the country, and for his many contributions to the Pacific Islands and their peoples.
Marsden success for ASAA/NZ members in 2019
Congratulations to our colleagues and ASAA/NZ members Dr Marama-Muru Lanning (James Henare Māori Research Centre at the University of Auckland), Associate Professor Susanna Trnka (University of Auckland), Dr Barbara Andersen (Massey University), and Dr Susan Wardell (University of Otago), who have all won prestigious Marsden Fund grants in 2019.
