Current Ethnography and Social Theory is an intellectual forum that invites substantive and continuous conversation between students in Sociocultural Anthropology and those located in other disciplines historically concerned with social and cultural analysis; and offers students within Sociocultural Anthropology robust opportunities to theorize common concerns and share ongoing work with peers.

This workshop thus centers anthropological theory, methods, and ways of knowing without limiting the conversation to those narrowly undergoing a course of professional training in sociocultural anthropology. We take inspiration from moments in our disciplinary history in which, for example, anthropologists have enriched their work through dialogue with historians (yielding richer theories of historicity and the archive) and engaged broader efforts to theorize political life. Ultimately, this workshop posits that anthropological concerns go beyond the purview of culture, embracing interdisciplinary questions in diverse fields such as aesthetics, legal studies, environmental humanities, and economics. Sharing (early) research in an interdisciplinary community will encourage the formulation of creative research questions and offer a renewed sense of the relevance of ethnographic questions to our understanding of social life.