For the 47th UGAT Annual Conference, we invite anthropologists, scholars from various disciplines, development workers, activists, community leaders, and other practitioners to reflect upon and share their experiences of doing engaged anthropology or engaging with anthropologists as public intellectuals towards this end. How have these engagements made a difference to affected communities? What does it mean to co-produce and co-mobilize knowledge among academics, community members, and various stakeholders?

What creative, evocative, unsettling, or even militant ways have been deployed in engaging with different publics on raising awareness and catalysing action? What are the prospects, constraints, and ethical dilemmas in an engaged anthropology? How can we reimagine anthropology that shifts from extractive knowledge production to ethically grounded, care-based, community-led action—where stepping back, refusing to research, or dismantling ‘knowledge gaps’ become valid and necessary forms of engagement?

The conference will be held onsite in Holy Name University, Tagbilaran, Bohol on November 12-15, 2025. Check our website athttps://www.ugat-aghamtao.org/47th-conference-2025for more details!

Likewise, CALL FOR PAPERS can be accessed:https://bit.ly/UGAT47AbstractSubmissions

(RT Nobleza/Island Innovation Academic Council Representative)

(Photo by: UGAT)