The 2020 Global Business Anthropology Summit has been announced. It will be held in Berlin, Germany at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology Freie Universität Berlin. The theme is Are We Ready For 2030? How about 2080? It will be a free two-day event, but you must register to attend.
The program includes the following sessions:
Session 1: Demystifying the future + Building Action Plans
Lucia Laurent-Neva, Visual Signo, UK
Marion Grimberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Dominique Desjeux, France
Carsten Claus, Oberkorn, Hamburg, Germany
Session 2: Taxation + Social Responsibility
Pavle Menalo, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Niccolo Marina, Beyond Research srl, Milano, Italy
Lotta Björklund Larsen, University of Exeter Business School, UK
Hera Brown, Fulbright-Schuman Researcher to the European Union, USA
Christine B. Avenarius, The Central Agency for Continuing Vocational Education and Training in the Skilled Crafts (ZWH), Berlin, Germany
Session 3: Beyond Sustainability
Pablo Mondragón Valero, Antropología 2.0, Spain
Dan Podjed, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (ZRC SAZU), Slovenia
Veronica Reyero Meal, Antropología 2.0, Spain
Lucia Laurent-Neva, Visual Signo, UK
Session 4: Gender + Business Opportunities
Lamia Karim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon, USA
Melissa S. Fisher, Visiting Scholar, New York University Institute for Public Knowledge, USA
Session 5: Change + Diffusing Behaviors within Organizations
Andreas Hoffbauer, Atelier Kultur, New York, USA
Session 6: Business Anthropology for the Future + Building a Knowledge Commons
Rosa Ester Snyder
Allegra Pochtler
Robert J. Morais, Columbia Business School, USA
Susan Kresnicka, Kresnicka Research and Insights , USA
Alberto Guglielmone, The Story Group – Nati per raccontarti, Milan, Italy
Learn More
If you are interested in learning more about the 2020 Business Anthropology Summit, please check out the official website. You can also read my posts from last year on the 2019 summit at Fordham University, which hosted many beneficial business anthropology panels and workshops.
And if you are confused by the term “business anthropology,” check out some common definitions that describe the discipline.
