Alexandra Oancă

I am so happy that my chapter, 'Hierarchising heritage: bordering Europe and stratified subalternities in the Easts and Souths of Europe', is part of this recently published collection. Have a look! The book is open access at: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526174727/ @manchesterup.bsky.social

🔊Europeanisation as violence is available #OpenAccess on manchesterhive: tinyurl.com/mwk679ju

Celebrating 10 Years of Open Access at MUP. New Titles: January 2025. Purple, pink and yellow rainbow banner. White Manchester University Press logo. Book covers from left to right: The renewal of postwar manchester; Europeanisation as violence; Refashioning the Renaissance.

🔓Our first #OpenAcess titles of 2025 are now available!

A compelling account of the transformation of post-war #Manchester, an edited collection on processes of Europeanisation, and an exciting volume on Early Modern #Fashion.

Read for FREE on manchesterhive! #10YearsOfOA

Today, January 9, marks the 7-year anniversary of my PhD defence. It's almost unbelievable how quickly time passed. Three country moves, four universities - it was difficult at times, and I was barely hanging on. It is still difficult at times.
But I am still here. Still fighting ✊

All eligible EASA members will be sent a ballot by end of 16th December. Please check your email (also spam folder). If it seems to you that you have not received your ballot, please email easa@nomadit.co.uk

EASA members, if I may, please consider casting your votes to the three candidates endorsed by PrecAnthro: Ana, Isabel and me. I am also encouraging you to vote for Hayal Akarsu who served as a co-opted member of the current EASA Executive Committee. The voting will be open until 15th January 2025.

I am running together with two other members of PrecAnthro, Isabel Bredenbröker @isbelb.bsky.social and Ana Ivasiuc @anaivas.bsky.social (who is currently serving as EASA president and also running for reelection).

EASA executive election The online election by members will take place between 16th December and 16th January 2025. The candidate profiles are now online.

I am running for reelection for the Executive Committee of the European Association of Social Anthropologists @easainfo.bsky.social. Today the list of candidates was published, so you can read our statements here: easaonline.org/about/electi...

Screenshot of a part of the first page of "A Manifesto for Safer Fieldwork" and the words "Out now!" on a red background.

"The many incidents that we were told about and the recent publications show the prevalence and diversity of unsafe fieldwork experiences and the need for a paradigm shift towards a more nuanced approach to researcher safety." - Read our manifesto here: saferfieldworkproject.de/manifesto/

Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home - Allegra Lab I am going to start with breathing what I push out of me and what you push out of you and what we push out of each other lungs working like billows lungs

Delighted we get to reflect on the making of our codesigned short film ordinary treasures in this short essay for Allegra . It asks the question if you were forced to leave your home what one object would you bring with you ? allegralaboratory.net/ordinary-tre...

EASA mourns Thomas Hylland Eriksen EASA mourns a unique intellectual and remarkably generous colleague, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, who passed away on 27 November, surrounded by his closest family.

I fell in love with anthropology through Thomas Hylland Eriksen's Small Places, Large Issues.
European anthropology is poorer, sadder, and lonelier without Thomas.
We shall remember him for the remarkable way he gave life - and anthropology - meaning.

easaonline.org/news/eriksen

CALL FOR ARTICLES 📣
Special issue of Southeastern Europe
"Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures"
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, and @katkusic.bsky.social

Abstracts and bios submission: by 2025/01/31
bit.ly/CFPPolEcoSEE

Share widely!

💥Call for panel proposals for the APeCS conference in Edinburgh, 2-3 June 2025:

Future-Making in Times of Conflict, Violence and Insecurity

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