Among the many benefits of joining the SEA are the opportunities we offer for you to connect with other economic anthropologists from across the country and around the world, whether for 1-2 hour online seminars or 2-3 day conferences.
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Radical Spotlights in Economic Anthropology
Radical Spotlights is an online seminar and workshop series in economic anthropology, held twice a year, hosted by SEA (Society of Economic Anthropology of the AAA) and EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists).The aims of Radical Spotlights are to increase insight into and knowledge produced by Economic Anthropologies. The plural (anthropologies) highlights that anthropologists work from within different paradigms, approaches, positionalities, epistemologies and that anthropologists around the world analyze the economics in the everyday life of people, but also reflect on how their own research is always situated within specific institutional, political-economic, and cultural contexts.
Upcoming Episode
Radical Spotlights: Anthropological Approaches to the Climate Crisis
September 21 2026, 16:30 CEST / 09:30 CDT / 10:30 EDT
Online, via Zoom: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/61904227828?pwd=fRS4Ml4dCxQJqPy9B014T3HzzH3MFl.1
Speakers:
Alf Hornborg
Professor Emeritus, Lund University, Sweden
Cymene Howe
Associate Chair Professor, Rice University, USA
Andrea Muehlebach
Professor of Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water, University of Bremen, Germany
Organised by Olubukola Olayiwola, University of Richmond, Elena Sischarenco, University of Bologna & Ieva Snikersproge, University of Neuchâtel
Previous Episodes:
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- Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values — December 16, 2025
- Radical Spotlights: Desire, Sexuality, and the Economy — July 7, 2025
- Radical Spotlights: Economics of Political Chhaos — March 6, 2024
- Radical Spotlights: The Economics (and Politics Too) of Care — October 10, 2024
SEA Annual Meeting
Each spring, the engaging and sociable SEA conference focuses on a single theme, with opportunities to present on additional topics at the conference’s poster session. The SEA conference has a long tradition of providing scholars considerable support to papers in development. The conference’s small size – with just one, or at most two, speakers in any given time slot – means presentations receive considerable attention. Attendees follow a single conversation over the course of three days, with a culminating, open discussion that never fails to inspire. For junior scholars and practitioners, especially, the meetings are a welcoming place that offers formal mentoring activities and lots of opportunity for informal connecting.
Papers presented at the meetings are eligible for publication in a special, peer-reviewed, issue of Economic Anthropology organized around the conference theme.
Follow the links below to learn about past meetings, their themes, and conference programs.
