International conference “Why the World Needs Anthropologists - The Power of Isolation“ was held

The 11th international conference “Why the World Needs Anthropologists - The Power of Isolation“ was held in Supetar on the island of Brač from 27th to 29th October 2023. The conference was organized by the Applied Anthropology Network - European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) and partners. The conference was attended by 248 anthropologists from Croatia and Slovenia, and various countries of Europe and the world who participated in lectures and workshops discussing what isolation means in the context of longstanding and mutually interconnected crises.

The participants listened to the lectures in the Supetar cinema for two days, while 7 workshops were organized on various locations on the island of Brač. Isolation as a construct in redefining the political, social and digital reality was discussed by Dace Dzenovska (University of Oxford), Lana Bobić (VoxFeminae), Karmen Šterk (University of Ljubljana), Rafram Chaddad (https://www.rafram.com/), Tomislav Pletenac (University of Zagreb), Heli Rantavuo (Spotify, eBay, Microsoft, OP Financial Group), Anders Kristian Munk (University of Kopenhagen) and students of anthropology from Europe and Croatia.

The Organizational team expresses gratitude to the support of all participants, institutions, partners and sponsors (Croatian Science Foundation, Slovenian Research Agency, Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, Croatian Ethnological Society, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, the City of Supetar, Supetar Tourist Board, etc). We also wish to thank our friends and colleagues who supported the conference with their attendance.

Lana Peternel and Dan Podjed