Our Common Grounds: Pasts, Presents, Futures of Anthropology in Cyprus
The Cyprus Association of Social Anthropologists (CASA) invites contributions to its inaugural conference, to be held in Limassol, Cyprus, on 4 and 5 September, 2026. This conference marks the launch of CASA, an association dedicated to bringing together anthropologists working in and from Cyprus, fostering scholarly exchange, supporting professional development, and connecting academic anthropology with broader public and applied contexts. We are delighted to inaugurate CASA with a gathering that reflects the full scope of what such an association can be: a community of practice, a space for exchange and critical reflection, and a platform for collective action.
In this spirit, the conference engages with anthropology in Cyprus as an occasion to examine, celebrate, and critically reflect on the discipline as it has been practiced, transformed, and reimagined on and from this island. Rather than approaching Cyprus merely as a field site, the conference foregrounds anthropology in and from Cyprus, across academic, professional, and public contexts. In other words, we turn the discipline’s own tools — reflexivity, historicity, comparative analysis — upon ourselves, our trajectories, and the conditions that have shaped our work.