Conference
Leiden Anthropology Conference 2
- Date
- Friday 10 October 2025
- Time
- Location
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Pieter de la Court
Wassenaarseweg 52
2333 AK Leiden
After a very succesful edition in 2020, we're excited to announce the Leiden Anthropology Conference 2 taking place on Friday, October 10, 2025!
We would like to invite you to join this one-day programme focused on the anthropological community’s expertise and vision: our critical engagements with making futures and with futures past; our inquiries into anthropological agency, its prospects and reflections; the unconventional connections and potential for anthropologies for the future in Leiden.
We will come together as a community of Leiden anthropologists to share what we are and what we know. Whether you are (or were) working, studying, collaborating at CADS, or are connected to CADS in any way - you're welcome!
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Programme
| Plenary session: kick-off | 10.00 – 11.00 |
| Parallel panels | 11.30– 13.00 |
| Lunch break | 13.00 – 14.00 |
| Parallel panels |
14.00 – 15.30 |
| Plenary session: close | 15.45 – 17.00 |
| Drinks | 17.00 - 18.00 |
Parallel panels
Critical discussion on South-South-North exchanges in rethinking anthropological theory, fieldwork, and analysis. What fresh insights emerge when perspectives from (South-East) Asia, (West-) Africa, and beyond engage with one another—rather than being mediated primarily through Northern academic frameworks?
Coordinated by Mayke Kaag and Bart Barendregt
In this panel we discuss the politics of knowledge (re)production, how it relates to cultural practices and agency shaping, and its implications for coping and living with (environmental) change. The panel start with two series of ten minute-presentations, by colleagues working with a diversity of knowledge systems in Africa and South East Asia. the panel consists of a series of pitches followed by a roundtable discussion stimulating interregional dialogues, focusing on lessons learnt and questions for future research directions.
Coordinated by Diana Suhardiman and Marja Spierenburg
Roundtable and interactive workshop answering the following questions: How do anthropologists collaborate with other disciplines? How do academics collaborate with non-academics? How do multimodality, sensory ethnography, and participatory research design enable that?
Coordinated by Carola Hein, Shajeela Shawkat and Cristina Grasseni
Making, assessing and rejecting heritage creates contexts for assessment of the past, in the light of anticipation of the future. How do heritage-oriented discourses have an impact on the constitution of social groups, and the major challenges society is confronted with?
Coordinated by Jasmijn Rana, Erik de Maaker and Peter Pels
This panel explores the CADS legacy by connecting different generations and perspectives of CADS staff members and alumni. Presentations will highlight institutional history, contemporary approaches, and various forms of applied anthropology, fostering community and exploring unconventional connections within Leiden anthropology.
Coordinated by Sarah Bozuwa and Gerard Persoon
Roundtable organized by CADS Graduate students.
Coordinated by Simay Çetin
Workshop organized by CADS Graduate students.
Coordinated by Simay Çetin
Please get in touch with the conference organisers, Cristina Grasseni and Sarah Bozuwa for any further information or if you wish to contribute.