The DGSKA (German Anthropological Association) has recently launched a call for papers for the workshop panel on “Un/commoning the region. Rethinking “the region” through care, solidarity and resistance“, organised in the framework of the DGSKA 2025 Conference “Un/Commoning Anthropology“.

The Conference, organised in collaboration with the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Cologne, will take place from 29 September to 2 October 2025 in Cologne, Germany.

Regional expertise is a core requirement for ethnographic research and anthropological expertise.
Scholars working in different regions are invited to engage in a dialogue on the complex and contradictory conceptualizations of “their regions“.

Contributions should address the question of what constitutes “a region”, “the regional” and its borders, and how practices of un/commoning shape regions with a focus on care, solidarity and resistance, even across species boundaries, that might challenge dominant social formations and power relations.
Convenors: Gerhild Perl (University of Trier) & Lene Faust (University of Bern)
Chair: Christoph Lange (University of Cologne)
Please submit your contributions at: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/15990
Deadline for submission is 15 January, 2025.