a) EASA Community check-in on 23 October at 12pm noon
As the new academic year begins, many EASA members are starting fresh semesters and research projects. We appreciate the valuable scholarship and service work you continue despite increasing attacks on academics and growing precarity in higher education that affects anthropologists worldwide. The EASA Working Group on Human Rights and Academic Freedom, along with the EASA Executive Committee, invites EASA members to our community check-in – a safe space to connect with fellow members, share concerns, exchange strategies, and build solidarity during these challenging times. After brief greetings from Working Group and Executive members, we’ll have an open microphone format. Share your concerns, questions, or stories of resilience during these challenging times. Feel free to bring lunch or drinks as we connect and support each other, even online. As the saying goes: “Bread eaten together tastes better” – let us embrace this wisdom by sharing food and solidarity across our global community. EASA members should receive registration details via email. If not, check your spam folder or contact membership(at)easaonline.org.
b) EASA Autumn webinars
- Webinar Series on Research Careers and Working Conditions
Doctoral researcher: Student or Worker? Implications for fieldwork and research visits
Starting with the fall of academic year 2025-2026, EASA will organize a series of webinars on research careers and working conditions and on the implications of these structural conditions on ethnographic fieldwork, research visits, and daily life, particularly for doctoral candidates and other early career scholars. While doctoral-level research is work, not all PhD candidates are considered workers, but categorized as students or bursaries, and treated accordingly. A ‘worker’ legal status comes with its own advantageous set of protections and benefits such as sick pay, work travel insurance, parental leave, pension rights, and unemployment benefits, beyond the level of the salary/stipend.
The series will host researchers, academic administration, HR managers, trade unionists, policy-makers, and activists, including representatives from the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (EURODOC), Young Academy of Europe (YAE), European Association of Social Sciences and Humanities (EASSH), Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE), and PrecAnthro. The series will start with a webinar with the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers (EURODOC), an organization that has continuously promoted the professional status of PhD candidates in Europe, including through its successful participation in the recent reversal of the bill that legalised bursary PhDs in the Netherlands. Stay tuned! In the coming weeks, EASA members will receive more details about these webinar series, including registration details, via email.
- How to publish with Social Anthropology / Anthropologie Sociale? (24 October 2025, 11 am – 1 pm CET).
Members of the SA/AS editorial team will meet with recent journal authors and discuss their latest publications, as well as share their experiences and insights from the peer-review process and discuss what it’s like to publish original research in our journal. It is a perfect chance to meet fellow authors and editors and get answers to all your burning questions. Mark the date in your calendar, and register here.
c) Migration Scholars’ Global Solidarity and Resistance Network teach-ins/outs
The Migration Scholars Mobilize Network is a recently founded independent collective of scholars, teachers, students, and activists committed to defending academic freedom, speaking the truth about migration, and standing in active solidarity with migrants and refugees everywhere. As its first global action, the Network is calling for a simultaneous global in person teach-ins/outs to happen in locations around the world on 11 November 2025. These locally situated, globally simultaneous actions will build on the themes “A War on Migrants is a War on All of US; Migration is a Social Good and a Human Right: We Stand with Migrants.”
Learn more on the Global Teach-ins/Out. If you would like us to highlight one of your events, please get in touch with the EASA Secretary indicating “Migration Teach-In/Out” in your headline.
d) Council for European Studies conference call for panels and papers (Dublin, 2026)
The next Council for European Studies conference will take place in June 2026 at the University College Dublin. We want to strengthen the links between EASA and CES, strengthen anthropology’s contributions in the largest European studies organisation, foster interdisciplinary links and collaborations, and promote European anthropology at the conference. Please find the active Call for Panels & Papers – submission date: 15 October. We encourage all anthropologists working on Europe – in particular on the theme of Integrity, Solidarity, and Unity: Hopes and Realities of the European Future, to submit either pre-formatted (closed) panel proposals, single paper proposals, roundtable/book panels, or side event proposals.