“Queer in Anthropology” on the World Anthropology Day

Date: Feb 20th. 2025 12:30 CET Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien

https://univienna.zoom.us/j/66350803556?pwd=paIHewTTSXtf3BIbFTnlNgHKTNimpg.1

Meeting-ID: 663 5080 3556

Kenncode: 131112

What’s happening?

“Queer in Anthropology” is an online meet-up organised by ENQA, the European Network of Queer Anthropology. On 20 February, which is World Anthropology Day, we want to come together to hang out, discuss, share experiences, and conspire in a world in turmoil. The digital meet-up session will have a central part where people can informally share their research and find possible collaborators, allies or readers. Everyone is welcome, even if they are not network members (yet)! There will be two rooms for open conversation, each dealing with a current topic of concern for queer anthropologists and anthropologists working on queerness: 

Room 1: Fieldwork and queer/trans positions

This room is a space for discussing queerness and fieldwork. While we acknowledge that there are also researchers working on and with queer issues who do not consider themselves as part of the vast queer spectrum, this space is particularly dedicated to queer researchers. This is in order to create a safer space of mutuality and share experiences. Questions that may be raised are, for example, the following: How do we position ourselves in the field and to interlocutors as queer researchers? What intersectional alliances are possible between queer researchers and queer interlocutors? Where are there divisions and how have people addressed these productively? How do we identify, write and represent in contexts that persecute queer identities? How can we form alliances with other queer people in such spaces? 

Room 2: Institutions and queer (im)possibilities

The current political situation of increased funding cuts for research, limits to free speech and a general turn to the right across Europe affects anthropologists and their funding at universities, research institutes, etc. Marginalized perspectives and researchers at the margins (often combining several intersectional traits) are even more affected when budgets are reduced and less positions available. At the same time institutions do not support structurally queer academics in applications, fundings etc. - quite the contrary. In this room we want to open a space for exchange on the challenges of queer (im)possibilities in the institutions. The room is open to all members of the network and interested parties.