ASA Conferences
The ASA organises an Annual Conference on a specific theme, which is usually held during the Easter vacation at a UK university. The conferences have their own section within this website, accessible from links on this page, and panel/paper proposal and registration are all done using online forms. The panel/paper abstracts are made available online, and can be edited by the convenors/authors via the Login link above. Every ten years the ASA holds a Decennial Conference which is international in scope.
If you are considering applying to organise an ASA conference, please see the Conference guidelines.
Forthcoming conferences
ASA2012 in Delhi
Title: Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
Convened by: Susan Visvanathan and Parul Mukherji, JNU
Location: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6th April 2012
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Past ASA conferences
ASA2011 in Lampeter
Title: Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things
Convened by: Penny Dransart, Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant / University of Wales Trinity Saint David
Location: Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant / University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 13-16 September 2011
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ASA2010 in Belfast
Title: The Interview – theory, practice, society
Convened by: Dr Jonathan Skinner, and Dr Dominic Bryan, Dept of Anth, Queen’s University Belfast
Location: Queen's University , Belfast, 13th-16th April, 2010
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ASA 2009 in Bristol
Title: Anthropological and archaeological imaginations: past, present and future
Convened by: Dr David Shankland, Dept of Arch and Anth, University of Bristol
Location: University of Bristol, 6th-9th April, 2009
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ASA 2008 in Auckland
Title: Ownership and appropriation
Convened by: Professor Veronica Strang and Dr Mark Busse
Location: University of Auckland, New Zealand, 8th-12th December, 2008
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ASA 2007 in London
Title: Thinking through tourism
Convened by: Professor Tom Selwyn and Dr Julie Scott
Location: London Metropolitan University, England, April, 2007
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ASA 2006 in Keele
Title: Cosmopolitanism and anthropology
Convened by: Professor Pnina Werbner and Dr Sean McCloughlin
Location: Keele, England, 10-13 April, 2006
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ASA 2005 in Aberdeen
Title: Creativity and cultural improvisation
Convened by: Professor Tim Ingold and Dr Elizabeth Hallam
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, April 4 - 7, 2005
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ASA 2004 in Durham
Title: Locating the Field: Metaphors of Space, Place and
Context in Anthropology
Convened by: Dr Simon Coleman and Dr Peter Collins
Location: Durham, England, March 29-April l, 2004
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Future Fields - national conference on fieldwork for graduate students and junior researchers
Location:
Oxford, December 17-19, 2003
This was partially funded by the ASA.
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ASA 2003: Decennial Conference in Manchester
Title: Anthropology and Science
Convened by: Profs Penny Harvey, Peter Wade and Dr Jeanette Edwards
Location: Manchester University, 14th - 18th July.
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ASA 2002
Title: Perspectives on Time and Society: Experience, Memory,
History
Convened by: Professor Wendy James and Dr David Mills
Location: Arusha, Tanzania, 8 - 10 April.
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The following earlier conferences do not have further information available online.
ASA 2001
Title:
Rights and Entitlements
Convened by: Drs. Richard Wilson
and Jon Mitchell
Location: University of Sussex Mar
30th - Apr 2nd.
ASA 2000
Title: Participating in Development: Approaches
to Indigenous Knowledge
Convened by: Drs. Paul Sillitoe (Durham),
Johan Pottier (SOAS) and Alan Bicker (Kent)
Location: SOAS, University of London.
ASA 1999
Title: Elite Cultures: Anthropological
Perspectives
Convened by: Drs. Cris Shore and Steve Nugent
Location: Goldsmiths College.
ASA 1998
Title: Indirection, Intention and Diplomacy
Convened by: Prof. Joy Hendry and Dr. Bill Watson
Location: University of
Kent.
