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.

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Unsettling Peripheries - AAS+ASAANZ 2020 Conference

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“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.

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2019 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards

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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.

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Michael Goldsmith awarded Honorary Life Membership of ASAA/NZ

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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.

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Marsden success for ASAA/NZ members in 2019

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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.

Graduate Stories: Ata Siulua

This instalment of Graduate Stories features Ata Siulua, PhD researcher at Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau (University of Auckland), whose thesis is entitled “Harmonising Home: Marking Tongan Indigeneity through Family and Music.”

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A Dark Perspective of Anthropology, by Arcia Tecun

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In this guest blog post, Arcia Tecun (Te Whare Wānanga o Tāmaki Makaurau/the University of Auckland) reflects on Dame Prof Anne Salmond’s comment about James Cook and white supremacy, arguing that the issues raised provide an entry point into larger conversations about anthropology and ‘race.’