ASAA/NZ Annual Conference

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In-Person

Date: December9,2025

Location: Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand, New Zealand

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We are pleased to announce that this year’s annual conference will be held on 9-12 December in Whāingaroa (Raglan), Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand. 2025 marks 50 years since our association was formed and we look forward to welcoming you to this milestone event as we celebrate five decades of annual gatherings in Aotearoa.

Conference theme: Edges, Borders, Margins, and Peripheries:

What role do edges, borders, margins, and peripheries play in shaping social and material worlds? What does it mean to do anthropology in a world where old models of cores and peripheries have been broken apart? How can peripheral anthropologies contribute to the unsettling of the discipline? In asking these questions, the 2025 ASAA/NZ conference aims to foment conversations around the sites, spaces, actors, and practices taking shape on the periphery to understand how they are actively making and remaking the contemporary world.

Participants & Organizers

Association of Social Anthropologists of Aoteroa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ)(Organizer, Host)

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ASAA/NZ is a vibrant community of anthropologists who are from, work in, or are interested in issues related to Aotearoa/New Zealand and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The photos on this site, which have been taken by or of our members (see below), illustrate the diversity of regions in which we do fieldwork. ASAA/NZ is a relatively small association, with some 100 members. Our main activity is an annual conference, usually in November or December, hosted by the university programmes in rotation. We also run an active e-list for discussion.