ENPA Work in Progress Seminar (WiPS)

The ENPA Works-in-Progress Seminar (WiPS), launched by ENPA in October 2021, and run by Nadia Augustyniak, Mona Behnke, Mayssa Rekhis, and Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa on the steering committee, is a forum in which faculty, researchers and postgraduate students present works in progress, receive feedback, and exchange ideas about research in psychological anthropology and allied fields. We meet on a Thursday of each month from 5 to 7 pm CET.

Each seminar meeting features one or more presentations of work in progress. The presentation format is flexible and open-ended; each seminar includes ample time for discussion, offering a stimulating, collaborative space to foster discussions in psychological anthropology. 

Scholars and students at all levels interested in psychological anthropology are welcome to attend, and no advance registration is required. 

To receive announcements and Zoom links for upcoming meetings, please join our mailing list: https://forms.gle/t2MgUtQzqyk9Ni2w9. 

For more information on WiPS or to enquire about presenting your work at a future seminar, write to: wips@enpanthro.net.

ENPA Work in Progress Seminar (WiPS) 

Sessions Nov 2025 – March 2026

Date of the seminar	Presenter	Title of the presentation
Thursday, 6th November 2025, 5pm CET	Nadia Augustyniak, University of Helsinki	“Rethinking Youth Mental Health: A Proposal to Explore Youth Distress in Sri Lanka”
Thursday, 4th December 2025, 5pm CET	Maria Salomão, Leipzig University	“Disavowal in Practice: Examining Knowledge Production in Childhood Intervention Research”
	Sama Al-Maqbali, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies	“Autoethnography of the Uninhabitable We Lived There Anyway…”
Thursday, 8th January 2026, 5pm CET	Jeannine-Madeleine Fischer, University of Konstanz	“Affective delegitimization: the public making of emotions in South Africa’s land and housing debate”
	Ghita El Hassouni, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies	“Occupied bodies in the face of mediated loss: thinking maternal grief experiences in Gaza”
Thursday, 5th February 2026, 5pm CET	Anton Gumenskiy, University of Warwick	“Silent and Explicit Temporalities in Migrant Narratives”
	Alexander Berezkin, California Institute of Integral Studies	“Pre-reflective Experience and Bodily Difference in Intersex Migrant Lives”
Thursday, 5th March 2026, 5pm CET	Ildze Jakunova, University of Helsinki	“Between Two Millstones: Cruel Optimism and Imagining Alternative Futures amid Mental Health Struggles in Latvia”