European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA) Events
Future events
Mind Embedded and Embodied – Futures of Psychological Anthropology. The first Biennial Conference of the European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)
2-4 June, 2020 | University of Helsinki
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Past events
Network Launch
The network (ENPA) was founded by Dr James Davies, Dr Keir Martin and Dr Thomas Stodulka in January 2018, and the official launch took place on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, 9.00 – 10.45 am, in Room 26, as part of the EASA2018 biennial conference, held in Stockholm, Sweden.
The ENPA inaugural meeting included a roundtable discussing seminal themes, challenges, and debates confronting psychological anthropology in Europe today.
As psychological anthropology concerns evermore drift and travel eastwards, from the American Global North to sites of burgeoning interest in Europe and the Global South, we will explore what such developments will yield in terms of new theoretical, methodological and analytical insights. We aim to explore questions such as:
- What will a European psychological anthropology distinctly offer given its roots in a more socially inclined anthropological enterprise?
- To what extent must European psychological anthropology be primarily a critical enterprise - namely, a domain of analysis politically committed to interrogating the theoretical and practical outcomes of the international spread of psych-narratives from the global North?
- To what extent must such an endeavour provide an interdisciplinary arena for critical exchange with the medical, psychiatric and neurosciences?
- What is the role of ethnography and fieldwork in European psychological anthropology?
Invited guests: James Davies (University of Roehampton, UK), Jill Korbin (Case Western Reserve University, US; President of the SPA-AAA); Victoria Kumala Sakti (MPI for Ethnic & Religious Diversity, D); Edward T. Lowe (SOKA University, US; editor-in-chief Ethos); Robert Lemelson (UCLA, US); Anita von Poser (FU Berlin, D); Antonius C.M.G. Robben (Utrecht University, NL)
All those interested in participating in the network are warmly invited to join the ENPA mailing list (see below) for information about future events and activities.
The ENPA network convenors and administrative team
