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Call for Papers: ASAA/NZ 2022 Annual Conference

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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.

Conviviality: A virtual, asynchronous, open access conference, 4-9 October 2021

The Political Ecology Research Centre at Massey University and the Centre for Space, Place & Society at Wageningen University are hosting Conviviality, an open access, virtual conference, in the week of 4-9 October 2021.

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2021 ASAA/NZ Conference call for abstracts

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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.

MA researcher Jacqueline Watt wins the 2020 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition

The Sites Editorial Board is delighted to announce that MA researcher Jacqueline Watt is the winner of the 2020 Sites Senior Student Essay Competition. The winning essay is entitled 'Kiwiburn- a ‘Biophilic festival’: Considering mind-body-environment connections to nature in blended festivalscapes'. This essay will be published in the 2020 December issue of Sites.

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

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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.

Call for proposals/abstracts for a Special Issue in SITES entitled "Biomedicine, borders and borderlands: (re)Negotiating belonging, home, care, and nation"

Following on the success of the 2019 SOMAA Hui “Biomedial Dialogues: Thinking across Bodies and Borderlands,” we are pleased to announce a call for proposals/abstracts for a Special Issue in SITES: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. The Special Issue is co-edited by Dr. Courtney Addison, Dr. Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Dr. Pauline Herbst, and Dr. Mythily Meher, and long abstracts are due by 1 October 2020.

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'Just let me be DysleXic' - an exhibition based on research by Dr Ruth Gibbons

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‘Just let me be DysleXic:’ An experience and expression of dyslexic thinking, an exhibition based on Dr Ruth Gibbon’s research, opens in Auckland during Dyslexia Awareness Month (October 2020).

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AAS+ASAANZ 2020 conference ‘Unsettling Peripheries’ postponed

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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.

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Graduate stories: Luka Lim-Anapu-Cowley-Bunnin

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Our first instalment of Graduate Stories for 2020 features Luka Amber Leleiga Ruth Lim Schweitzer Anapu Bernard Cowley Bunnin, who recently completed a BA Hons with a double major in cultural anthropology and Pacific studies at Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau (University of Auckland).

Call for Nominations for Sites General Editor from 2020 - March 2023

Sites is a peer reviewed journal of social anthropology and cultural studies dedicated to publishing scholarly papers which explore aspects of Pacific societies and cultures. As our current General Editor Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye has completed her successful term as editor, we now seek nominations for the position of General Editor (March 2020- March 2023).

India 2020: Statement of Solidarity and Concern From Scholars in/of/from Aotearoa New Zealand

We, the undersigned scholars based in Aotearoa New Zealand universities, express our deep concern at the ongoing police violence and brutality being deployed across India in response to protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), 2019 which the United Nations Human Rights Office has called ‘fundamentally discriminatory in nature’. This statement demonstrates solidarity with the protesters, some of whom are students and academic staff of universities in India.