Welcome to the AAI

The Anthropological Association of Ireland exists to promote social and cultural anthropology within Ireland. Our activities involve the organisation of, usually, two conferences or workshops per year, and the publication of the Irish Journal of Anthropology. We also try to provide professional anthropological support in Ireland for those conducting anthropological work here, in the form of our ethical guidelines.

 

We are proud to announce our Forthcoming Spring Conference:

MEMORY, IDENTITY AND BELONGING IN AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD

1 - 2 May 2009

(NOT 31 April - 1 May as previously advertised)

Queen’s University Belfast

The Anthropological Association of Ireland conference invites papers from postgraduates and established scholars on the broad issues of identity, memory and belonging in a mobile world.

We invite participants to consider papers on the following topics:

• Indigenous identity, environment and belonging
• Citizenship, rights and the law
• Multiculturalism, migration and memory
• Boundaries, borders and belonging
• Religion and belief in mobile contexts
• Language and discourse as embodiment and memory
• Corporations, governments and institutions in an unstable world
• The movement of objects across borders
• Transnational consumption
• Identity and belonging in music

A special panel at the conference will be dedicated to the Anthropology of Music:

If you would like to submit a paper for presentation, abstracts are due by Monday 9 March.

The full Call for Papers (in Word format) with details of where to send submissions is available Here.

 

Current Edition of the IJA

The current edition of the journal is edited by Fiona Magowan and Máiréad Nic Craith, and looks at new directions in European Ethnology and Anthropology in Northern Ireland.

 

For details about AAI conferences in general, click Here.

For details of the Irish Journal of Anthropology, click Here.

For details of how to become a member of the AAI, click Here.

For links to research being conducted in Ireland at the moment, at postgraduate level and above, click Here.

 

Call for Web Pages

We are always looking for submissions of brief web-pages from members of the AAI, and from anthropology postgraduates in Ireland, to promote anthropology on this site. For details, see our Call for Web Pages.