Dear EASA2022 delegates

Many of the events and labs during the conference require pre-registration to participate. Please read the descriptions below, then head to the Timetable and lab pages to pre-register.

View the daily timetable and you'll see we have online meditations, an exhibition, walking and bus tours to see Belfast, sound tours of Belfast, many network meetings and the EASA AGM - none of which require pre-registration. We nevertheless recommend that you read the descriptions and plan your participation.
N.B. Dom Bryan's walking & bus tours of Belfast are on a first-come, first-served basis at the point of departure.

Of notable academic events, don't miss out on:

The session discussing the poster exhibition

• Thursday, 09:00-10:45 - Virtual Tinkering talks (Main Site Tower (MST), 01/003). Talks by participants of the Public Arts Garage’s Virtual Tinkering exhibition, an interdisciplinary collaboration between postgraduate students from anthropology, visual art, drama, dance, architecture, sonic arts, literature, design, history, art history and film studies.
• The poster exhibition Virtual Tinkering will be on Wednesday and Thursday in the Graduate School.

The two lunchtime discussion events (bring your lunch to the room!):

• Wednesday, 13:15-14:30  - Let’s talk about Ukraine: new anthropological perspectives on displacement, humanitarianism and the global impact of the war (Roundtable discussion in Whitla Hall)
• Thursday, 13:30-14:45  - Co-imagining an alternative intellectualism: an Open Space (Roundtable discussion in Great Hall)

And the evening discussion event in a bar:

• Thursday, 20:00-22:00 - United by Activism (American Bar Belfast, 65 Dock St, Belfast BT15 1LF). Pizza will be provided but drinks you have to buy at the bar.

• Wednesday, 16:30-18:45 - The Ethnographic Salon. Performing Anthropology Otherwise
  (Brian Friel Theatre, Queen's University campus)
  Please register here.
• Wednesday, 19:00-20:30 - Precarious discipline: What hope is there for anthropology?
  (Sunflower Pub, 65 Union St, Belfast BT1 2JG)
  Pre-register here.
• Thursday, 20:00-22:00  - Concert for EASA2022 delegates: VIBRATIONS!
  The concert presents two Irish bands and a vocal performance of Indian classical Dhrupad music. The concert will takes place in the Duncairn and will also be streamed online. The venue has limited places so if you wish to physically attend, please register here.
• Friday, 13:30-14:30 EASA Integrity Committee Workshop on Sexual Harassment, Assault, and Bullying in Anthropology
  (26 University Square (UQ), 01/005)
  Led by Dr. Holly Walters and Dr. Kathleen Openshaw of the MeTooAnthro Collective, this session will be hybrid. Please register in advance here.

EASA has been offering labs since 2014 as alternative, "non-paper-presenting" spaces of ethnography-making. Laboratories privilege innovation, work-in-progress, collaboration, providing an opportunity for sharing experiences of and experiments on methodology, civic and political intervention, community outreach, creative modes of doing science and disseminating knowledge, among others. In this sense, laboratories exploit the anthropological notion that forms of knowledge-making are never settled.

Please browse all the labs here, making sure you star the ones you are planning to attend so that you do not forget!

The labs listed below need to limit the number of participants, so if you wish to attend these, please pre-register via the linked lab pages. Note that the links in the long abstracts are not interactive, so you'll need to copy-paste them into a browser window. If no link to a form is included, contact the convenors via the 'Send message to Convenors' button.

Lab02 Inclusive Global Histories: Performing Collections at the Ulster Museum.
We target knowledge-sharing on performance collections; centre community memories; nurture transdisciplinary discovery of items' socio-political locations; catalyse understanding of their contemporary relevance; and converse on how to enhance access to resonant collections. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab04 Research Hurts. Experimental Sonic Laboratory (in situ)
The laboratory is dedicated to reading aloud the research-related texts that you find frustrating and outraging. We will conduct a sonic anti-meditation to put our frustrations together and make them destroy themselves through sound. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab05 A walk with sex objects: tracing the materiality of sex/uality
This Lab invites participants on a walk to reflect on how sex/uality materialises in fieldwork and how an attention to materialities can transform the study of sex and approaches to the commons. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab06 What’s Your Game? Movement, Technology and Public Space [AnthroMob]
What’s Your Game explores the potential of playfulness and movement for approaching public space in anthropology and art. We invite participants to explore the streets of Belfast on-site and online.  See lab description and pre-register.

Lab08 Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN) Workshop - "Understanding and transforming academic spaces of learning and knowledge production"
We will be using narrative methods (online) and engaging in the theatre of the oppressed (F2F) to scrutinize academic spaces of knowledge production and reflect on diverse regimes, hierarchies, ideologies and (power) dynamics, leading up to a performance-based production. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab09 Art, Anthropology and Commoning: A walking tour of artist-led studio and exhibition spaces in Belfast.
We will meet for a walking tour of artist-led exhibition and studio spaces in the city, followed by a dialogue on creative and collaborative practice in art and anthropology. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab12 Living with Dementia at the time of COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring Creative Ethnographies and Collective Exhibitions in a Residential Structure for Elderly People.
We provide a space to develop inclusive forms of participatory action-research that can engage people with dementia. In this experimental ethnography workshop, we will work together to reinterpret residents' life stories in visual forms. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab15 Cutting and Stitching Off the Ruins: A Collage Workshop
This online collage workshop invites participants to reimagine Varosha, a town in ruins embodying the trauma of violent conflict by creating collages with photographic visuals from the town. We will follow an off-modern trajectory where ruins compel us to think about the past that could have taken place and a future that may have eventuated. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab17 (Un)common landscapes: new tools for new worlds, speculation, and shared futures.
The Peace Walls are an entry point into a process using shared tools and techniques; we contest material structures, reuse, misuse, remix, or otherwise engage with processes of resemiosis to imagine new values and social realities. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab18 A single scene: ethnographic storytelling with smartphone cameras
This lab explores the multiple ethnographic storytelling capacities of smartphone video-making while inviting participants to do a single-scene film exercise. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab20 Exploring neighbourhoods: change and continuity in the pandemic
In this lab, we explore the everyday practices of neighbourhood relations and the locality's spatial dimension under COVID-19 conditions through artistic, sensual, or digital approaches and experiments. See lab description and pre-register.

Lab25 Sharing Perspectives: Virtual Reality and Immersive Art as a Methodology for Field Research (BeAnotherLab & Sonic Arts Research Centre)
This lab questions the role of VR and digital art through interactive discussion in immersion and spectatorship, a creative workshop and live demonstrations of VR works by BeAnotherLab and SARC. See lab description and pre-register.