Anthropology of Europe Workshop

Welcome to the Anthropology of Europe Workshop at the University of Chicago. We are one of the Graduate Workshops in the Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. The workshop meets bimonthly (please see this year's schedule for times and locations). Graduate students and faculty with related research interests are invited to attend.

The workshop explores current research by Europeanist anthropologists and draws on insights from history, sociology, and cultural studies. We invite participants from these and other disciplines. The workshop treats Europe as an expansive entity which manifests itself in complex social practices and contested political, economic, and discursive forms. We examine Europe's colonial history and the contemporary transformations in Eastern Europe through detailed ethnographic analysis, and we approach Europe as a social, cultural, and bureaucratic body that is constantly reshaped through processes of supranationalization, regionalization, and localization.

For more information, feel free to contact us.