The Team of Undisciplined Anthropology and the editorial office of the journal “Etnografia Polska” invite you to the State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw (ul. Kredytowa 1) for a meeting and discussion about the latest issue of “Etnografia Polska” entitled “Anthropology more-than-human”.
Time-space:  16 May (Tuesday), 6:00 p.m.

 
In the discussion, we will address the very concept of more-than-human anthropology. What does its use mean and what directions of research does it suggest? What implications can the concept of humans, other entities, or the world in general as variable systems of relations have for ethnographic research? Is it worth emphasizing such radical approaches to relationality itself, or is it better to focus primarily on the relations between human and non-human actors? We will discuss, among other things, the human body as a holobiont and hybrid, as well as the anthropological experience of laryngectomy.
We invite anthropologists, as well as anyone interested in working beyond disciplinary divisions, and in particular undisciplined representatives of all scientific disciplines. During the meeting, it will be possible to purchase the latest and archival volumes of “Polish Ethnography”. The inspiration for the special volume of “Polish Ethnography” were the topics discussed during the first series of open seminars of the Undisciplined Anthropology Team.

The discussion will be attended by:

Adrianna Biernacka-Gemel – MA in ethnology and cultural anthropology, works as a researcher and UX designer in the medical industry, collaborates scientifically with the Human Interactivity & Language Lab at the Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw. She is interested in medical anthropology, disability studies, ecological and enactive approaches to cognition, as well as monistic, new materialist and interactive perspectives on life. In her scientific activity, she tries to combine anthropological, cognitivist and philosophical approaches with the use of literary fiction, bodywork and workshop methods.

Agnieszka Halemba – social anthropologist specializing in the anthropology of religion. She works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where she leads the Team of Undisciplined Anthropology. She also teaches at the University of Potsdam, is the chair of the Asian Studies Commission of the Committee of Ethnological Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the journal Ethnologia Polona. She conducted research in southern Siberia, Zakarpattia (Ukraine) and eastern Germany.

Dr. Joanna Mroczkowska – social anthropologist, specializing in the anthropology of food and consumption, as well as in studies on the memory of the Polish People’s Republic, post-socialism and small towns. She works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is the editor-in-chief of “Etnografia Polska” and a member of the Undisciplined Anthropology Team. She conducted research in Poland, Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan. She carried out the research project “Social memory of Polish village and small-towns’ dwellers. Anthropological perspective on food and post-socialism (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle).

Dr. Magdalena Kozhevnikova – ethnologist and bioethicist, graduate of the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the German-Russian Magisterium “Intercultural Communication” (Moscow University of the Humanities/Alice Salomon Hochschule). In 2015-2018 she worked at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, currently an assistant professor at IEiAK UW and a member of the Team of Undisciplined Anthropology at the IAE PAN. She deals with non-human entities, transspeciesism and interspecies ethics.

Dr. Habil. Łukasz Smyrski, prof. IAE PAN – social anthropologist, specializing in landscape anthropology and ethnic studies. She works at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, is a member of the Team of Undisciplined Anthropology and editor of “Etnografia Polska”. He conducted ethnographic research in Lithuania, Ukraine, southern Siberia and Mongolia. He is the author of the monographs “Ajdyn means the moon. Nations of southern Siberia” (2008) and “Between the power of the gaze and practice. Anthropology of the landscape” (2018).

Konrad Zieliński, for several years associated with the University of Warsaw, a graduate of cognitive science, a doctoral student of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School and a researcher and project manager at the Human Interactivity and Language Lab. His scientific interests include the analysis of speech and human communication in all its complexity, as well as new new medical technologies. He is inspired by theories in psychology, anthropology and cognitive science, which emphasize the role of individual embodied experience, interpersonal relations, and the social and material environment in shaping human interactions. He is currently implementing the NCN Preludium BIS grant “Ecological psychology and enactivism in research practice: theoretical and empirical analysis of bionic systems for laryngectomized patients”.

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