Moving Anthropology Student Network

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The Moving Anthropology Student Network ("Moving Network of Anthropology Students"), abbreviated to MASN , is a transnational network founded in 2005 for students of social and cultural anthropology (synonymous with ethnology : ethnology). The moving aspect of the name is intended to indicate the dynamic within the network, the basis for interaction is based on grassroots democracy and the network thrives on the participants' own initiatives. The term student is interpreted in a broader sense: the network is intended to maintain the mutual exchange of information between interested parties who can participate free of any compulsory professional training, as well as graduates and students of ethnology. The organization thus offers space to share and discuss ethnological activities, experiences, ideas and information across borders.

In 2009 more than 1650 participants from around 80 countries were statistically recorded; This makes the network one of the largest ethnological networks of its kind. In Great Britain, ethnology or ethnosociology is known as social anthropology , in the USA as cultural anthropology .

Content

In addition to activities on the World Wide Web, projects also lead to interactions. Central to this are the transnational MASN conferences, which are planned annually in another country in the network's program. Lectures, discussions, workshops and framework programs by participants are held here. These conferences are intended to provide space for scientific discussions and the presentation of recent research and represent a link between training and practice. Furthermore, critical views on the role and benefits of anthropology in societies are exchanged and solutions are sought together in this regard. Conferences were held in Austria in 2005, in Croatia in 2006, in Poland in 2007 and 2010, in Germany in 2007, in Italy and Slovenia in 2008 and in Ireland in 2010.

Due to the open and dynamic character of the Moving Anthropology Student Network and its reputation for organizing serious projects, the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) offered it to join them as a student association. Such an embedding in an anthropological institution would have required the creation of centralized administrative structures. However, since its foundation, MASN has been supported by grassroots democracy through voluntary motivation and personal initiatives of the participants. Because of the concern that centralized administrative structures would reduce spontaneous and varied interactions, the embedding did not materialize. However, project partnerships and mutual support at conferences emerged, such as the 6th MASN conference (19–24 August 2008) in Osilnic / Slovenia with the 10th EASA conference (26–30 August 2008) in Ljubljana / Slovenia. As well as the 8th MASN conference (20-22 August 2010) with the 11th EASA conference (24-27 August 2010) in Maynooth / Ireland.

history

MASN

The attention of two cultural and social anthropology students at the University of Vienna helped to create MASN. You heard about 'Roaming Anthropology' at the 8th EASA Conference (September 8-12, 2004). This network of students of anthropology and ethnology from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia organized transnational conferences. Furthermore, they came into contact with the “Ethnology Symposium of Students”, which takes place annually in German-speaking countries, and other small transnational seminars such as the “Mediterranean Ethnological Summer School” (MESS). With the will to create a transnational network for anthropology students, the two initiators organized a coordination meeting with other Viennese students. As a result, around 20 students from six European countries met in Vienna from February 4 to 6, 2005. The result of this coordination meeting was the founding of the transnational network MASN - Moving Anthropology Student Network. This created certain aspirations for the Moving Anthropology Student Network:

  • Formation of communicative structures: Creation of a network to send out information. This enables the exchange of messages in different countries, institutes and among 'students'. Space for discussions that no longer have to be tied to space and time.
  • Planning of conferences and meetings: In addition to the virtual exchange, meetings are organized. Students from different regions of the world come together to give lectures and workshops, hold discussions and organize other creative activities. This framework offers the direct exchange of anthropological experiences and knowledge.

The first MASN conference took place from November 3rd to 6th, 2005 in Ottenstein, Lower Austria. A Vienna MASN group took care of the organization and supplies. The impulse of the four-day conference on the topic of Connecting Europe - Transcending Borders with participating and lecturing students from ten different European countries encouraged the organization of further conferences.

MASN-Austria

At the same time, in the development process of MASN, the Moving Anthropology Social Network Austria (MASN-Austria) association, a cultural and social anthropological competence center and networking office, was founded in Vienna. This is another initiative from the MASN actors localized in Austria, who also organized the groundbreaking coordination meeting and the first MASN conference. Since then, MASN Austria has been working on future perspectives for social and cultural anthropological work, on the implementation of transnational projects as well as on socially critical and innovative impulses such as initiatives that go beyond the field of activity of the established scientific institutions.

Projects

MASN conferences

  •  1st conference: Connecting Europe - Transcending Borders. 3rd to 6th November 2005, Ottenstein in Austria
  •  2nd conference: Anthropology in Action. November 8th to 12th, 2006, Opatija in Croatia
  •  3rd conference: Acting upon Reality. April 18-22, 2007, Małopolska in Poland
  •  4th Conference: Exploring Anthropology. 7th to 11th November 2007, Blaubeuren in Germany
  •  5th Conference: Empowering Anthropology. May 4-9, 2008, Siena, Italy
  •  6th Conference: Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers. August 19-24, 2008, Osilnica in Slovenia
  •  7th Conference: Ethics and Humand Rights in Anthropological Perspective. March 24-28, 2010, Krzyżowa in Poland
  •  8th Conference: Anthropological Trajectories. 20th to 22nd August 2010, Maynooth, Ireland
  •  9th conference: What are we doing? Multiple roles, uses and influences of anthropology in contemporary society. May 2-6, 2011 Ludbreg in Croatia
  • 10th Conference: Being Consciousness - From Knowledge and Knowing to Consciousness. June 6 to 10, 2012, Kautzen in Lower Austria

MASN-Germany published a reader for the fourth MASN conference Exploring Anthropology , which took place in 2007 in Blaubeuren, Germany.

MASN-Austria projects

In addition to the transnational conferences, there are also smaller or regional activities. Four more coordination meetings were held. Regional MASN centers, such as MASN-Austria, have been set up, which regularly organize events or meetings and carry out and support projects.

  • Talking Anthropology is a monthly discussion group in Vienna in which anthropological projects, works, current topics, actions and research are presented.
  • Podcast Talking Anthropology is a series of current anthropological conversations on various professional fields, research and subject areas that can be accessed via the World Wide Web. Recordings from discussions, conferences and other current events are also published.
  • ETHNOCINECA (Ethnographic and Documentary Filmfest Vienna) presents a film show, unique in Vienna, dealing with cultural and social anthropological topics. The ethnographic film festival is organized annually free of charge by students of cultural and social anthropology through the MASN-Austria association. In addition to the film exhibition, the Ethnocineca also organizes a monthly film club, whose main concern is to give free documentary film space for discussion and critical reflection.
  • Quell Wasser Festival 2009 , the information, art and culture event for water, the elixir of life, was held on 26. – 28. June 2009 celebrated in Vienna at several venues. It is part of the AquaAnthropos project, which consists of the European Spring Water Conference 2008 and the Spring Water Festival 2009.
  • Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood , on September 30th to October 2nd, 2010 the University of Vienna organized this international conference in partnership with MASN-Austria on the global characteristics of Shah Rukh Khan and Bollywood.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eli Thorkelson: Experience, Reflexive Socialization and Disciplinary Order in Anthropology. In: Michigan Discussions in Anthropology. Volume 18, No. 1, 2010, pp. 20-21 ( online ).
  2. ^ Hirschfeld, Benjamin / Pasieka, Agnieszka / Reinberg, Niko / Volesky, Shawn. 2007. Moving Anthropology Student Network - MASN, in EASA Newsletter 44 July: 11-13. http://www.easaonline.org/downloads/newsletters/easa_news_44.pdf , accessed on September 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ Moving Anthropology Student Network Posterpresentation at the EASA conference 2008 http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=439 , accessed on September 20, 2010.
  4. ↑ cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 16, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / movinganthropology.de
  5. ↑ cf. Hirschfeld, Benjamin. 2007. Moving Anthropology Student Network, in Cargo 2007, April 27: 35-37 http://www.cargo-zeitschrift.de/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Itemid=69 , accessed on September 20, 2010.
  6. ↑ http://masn-austria.org/ accessed on September 26, 2010.
  7. ^ Moving Anthropology Student Network Germany e. V .: Exploring Anthropology: Perspectives on Interactions, Changes & Challenges. Reader of the 4th MASN Conference November 7th – 11th 2007. Blaubeuren, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-026463-4 .
  8. ↑ Homepage: MASN-Austria. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ http://www.masn-austria.org/index.php/site/on/laufende/ , accessed on September 26, 2010.
  10. ↑ http://www.talkinganthropology.com/ , accessed October 5, 2010.
  11. ↑ Self- portrait : ETHNOCINECA - Association for the Promotion of Audiovisual Culture. ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Own website, October 2013, accessed on July 25, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ethnocineca.at
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aquaanthropos.com
  13. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 26, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.univie.ac.at