ENPA Blog
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3rd ENPA Biennial Conference 2025
“Anthropologies and Psychologies in Inter/Action – Engaging Interdisciplinary Perspectives” 11-13 June 2025, University of Münster, Germany This year’s ENPA conference was jointly organized by the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and the Department of Psychology at the University of…
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Making Psychological Anthropology Public in Kazakhstan: Baby Steps
Reporting from Kazakhstan, Julia Khan shares her continuing work promoting psychological anthropology with wider publics. When we imagine what public psychological anthropology might look like, we often picture anthropologists doing fieldwork collaborating with communities, shaping interventions, or co-producing knowledge in…
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Why go public with psychological anthropology?
The ENPA Task Force on Public Psychological Anthropology make the case for public engagement and introduce their upcoming podcast series, ‘Mind the Culture’. “What do you think public psychological anthropology is?”, a friendly stranger was once asked at a city bus…
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The risk of interdisciplinarity: Thinking through psychoanalytic anthropology
In this brief theoretical exploration, ENPA board member Panos Tsitsanoudis reflects on the importance of staying with the risks of interdisciplinarity on our epistemological horizons.
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Embracing digital tools: Reflections on marketing a research project online
In this post, ENPA board member Ildze Jakunova shares her experiences using digital technologies, such as social media, graphic design, and AI tools, to promote her doctoral research project and the fieldwork process online.
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Introducing The Irritation and Human Sociality Project
What does irritation look like cross-culturally? And what can it tell us about more universal human processes like cooperation and moral judgment? Read more about this exciting new interdisciplinary project.
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Psychology and Anthropology in a Changing World: Reflections on ENPA 2023
In this post, we report some of the conference highlights and share reflections on the experience from several participants and organisers.
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Counselling and Psychotherapy as a Career for Anthropology Graduates
In this post, ENPA Convenor, John Loewenthal explores how training to become a therapist could make for a truly anthropological career.
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No Punishment, Fairness, and Autonomy: Key Values for a Good Life in Finland
PhD candidate Mãdãlina Alamã considers the findings and implications of a recently published article that she first encountered at an ENPA Works in Progress Seminar.