2022 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards

ASAA/NZ is delighted to announce the 2022 winners of the Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards: Sharayne Bennett (University of Waikato); Etienne De Villiers (University of Otago); and Imogen Spray (University of Auckland). Special mentions also went to Alireza Gorgani (York University, Canada), Yi Li (University of Otago), and Jordan M Walker (Massey University). These awards recognise excellence in conference presentation skills by ASAA/NZ graduate student members.

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

We invite 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 on Monday 24 October 2022.

Call for Papers: Australasian STS Graduate Student Network workshop, 28-29 July 2022

The call for papers for the Australasian STS Graduate Student Network workshop is now open. The multisited workshop will be held on 28-29 July 2022. Feel free to circulate the workshop’s call for papers with any interested students and early career researchers who are thinking critically about science and technology.

Position available: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Associate Professor in Anthropology (Pacific Region)

The School of Language, Social and Political Sciences | Te Kura Mātāpuna Tangata at the University of Canterbury invites applications for a full time (37.5 hours per week) permanent Lecturer, Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor in anthropology. Applicants must have a PhD degree and a record of published research. Preference will be given to Māori/Pacific scholars with an understanding of Indigenous knowledge in Pacific contexts. Applications close on Sunday 12 June 2022 (midnight NZ time).

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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.