Event

Venice, 5 September 2025 The TRACTS network’s final symposium marks the culmination of three years of collaborative inquiry within the Trace & Social Justice (WG2) and Climate Change (WG3) working groups. Co-hosted by the THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, and organised in collaboration with two networks of the European Association of Social Anthropologists—Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH) and Anthropology of […]

Download the CFP here TRACTS WG2 symposium September 11-12, 2025 Helsinki, Finland  Chairs: Otso Aavaranta (Uniarts Helsinki), Lee Douglas (Centre for Visual Anthropology, Goldsmiths UoL), Magdalena Buchczyk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)  The TRACTS Network is pleased to partner with the Uniarts Research Pavilion in Helsinki for a two-day symposium on experimental approaches to trace. This event will bring together researchers and artists

Building on the questions about the relationship between violence and traces on one hand, and affects, knowledge, art, and social justice on the other, this seminar focuses on tracemaking, border deaths and co-memoration. It aims to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, practices, and experiences, as well as to provide a space for reflection on alternative imaginaries and possible future direct actions.