Previous Editions

1st edition – 2006

2st edition – 2007

3rd edition – 2009

Keynote: Jack Katz (UCLA), The ethnographer’s crucible

4th edition – 2012

Keynote: Alessandro Dal Lago (University of Genova), Il canto del mondo. L’etnografia globale della musica di Alan Lomax

5th edition – 2014

Keynotes:
Michael Burawoy (University of California, Berkeley), Philosophy of Praxis. A Gramscian appoach to
ethnography

Marc Abélès (EHESS, Paris), Globalization and the State

6th edition – 2016

Keynotes:
Pun Ngai (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Ethnographic intervention. Global production and workers’ power
Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton), When ethnography goes public

7th edition – 2018

Keynotes:
Michel Agier (EHESS, Paris), Empathy as method: reflections on the ethnographic encounter
Wendy Espeland (Northwestern University, US), Visibility and invisibility through numbers

8th edition – 2021

Keynotes:
Frédéric Keck (Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale, CNRS, Paris), How to do an ethnography of preparedness including non-humans in the anticipation of pandemics
Avery Gordon (University of California, Santa Barbara & University of London), The Hawthorn Archive and the utopian margins

9th edition – 2023

Keynotes:
Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University, US), Devoted strangers: Managing detachment in skeptical
ethnography

Laleh Khalili (University of Exeter, UK), The corporeal life of commerce at sea