Call for Late-Breaking Sessions
American Ethnological Society Spring Conference 2026
May 1–3, 2026 | University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Deadline: February 13, 2026
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The AES Spring 2026 Conference invites proposals for late-breaking sessions that address urgent global, political, environmental, and disciplinary developments shaping anthropological research and practice today.
Late-breaking sessions are intended to create space for timely scholarly engagement with rapidly unfolding events and emergent debates, including (but not limited to):
- War, displacement, and humanitarian crisis
- Climate change, extractivism, and ecological collapse
- Authoritarianism, governance, and political violence
- Indigenous sovereignty, land defense, and decolonization
- Inequality, labor, racialization, and global capitalism
- Digital infrastructures, AI, and transformations of knowledge
- Ethical, methodological, and institutional challenges facing anthropology
We welcome proposals for paper sessions, roundtables, or experimental formats that bring together scholars, practitioners, activists, and community partners to think collectively about how anthropology can respond to these conditions in real time.
Further details on registration and submission procedures are available on the conference website.
For questions, contact: AESConference2026@outlook.com
