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The ReWorkChange workshop, held on 20–21 January at the University of Antwerp, marked the official launch of the ERC-funded project Remote Work and Social Change. Bringing together scholars from anthropology, media studies, and related fields, the workshop created a space for sustained reflection on how remote and hybrid work are transforming everyday life across different social and geographical contexts.  The opening session, led by Elisabetta Costa, set the tone by askin...

EASA 2026, held at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań from 21-24 July under the theme "Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World", brought together 2,043 delegates across an extensive programme of panels, roundtables, laboratories, films, and plenaries. For ReWorkChange, the conference became an important moment of collective visibility and, more importantly, comparative reflection. All eight members of our team presented work emerging from field sites in Shanghai, Istanbul, Amster...

We are excited to invite you to the workshop ‘Remote Work and Social Change’. This is an in-person, two-day event taking place on 20-21 January at the University of Antwerp, in collaboration with ViDi, the Visual and Digital Cultures Research Centre. The workshop will explore how digitally enabled remote work is reshaping everyday life, mobility, social relations, and lived environments across diverse contexts and countries.  Please sign up here, as we o...