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Dear Allies,
Once more, the moment has come to ask you to show us your love and support! Our website is more than 10 years old and despite regular updates, it is about to collapse under the weight of all that we published. We asked Gennady, our genius webmaster, to do the necessary heavy repairs but it will cost more than we can actually afford.
We also have plenty of new ideas that we will not be able to implement without your donations. As you know, Allegra advocates for slow scholarship and rejects the dictatorship of impact factors and rankings. Yet we feel our collective hard work does not always receive the attention it deserves. We are no longer a blog but an online multimodal publication platform that practises care reviews. We publish scores of essays and thematic series each year and mobilise an equal number of friends and allies to carefully review our content. We want this labour of love to be acknowledged and cited. We therefore decided to get DOIs for all our publications.
All this needs money: you can donate via this link here or by scanning the QR code which will lead you to the Paypal account of Les Indépendantes, the Swiss-based feminist association that hosts Allegra.
We will continue to produce a radically optimistic anthropology that seeks to understand what it is to be human in times of reckoning with the fragility of our global existence. In collaboration with LAWNET (the EASA network for the anthropology of law, rights and governance), we are organising a panel on radical optimism (P173) at the EASA conference in Barcelona on Friday 26 July, 9:00-10:45, 11:15-13:00. Building on hopeful pedagogies, the panel posits radical optimism as a way to sharpen anthropology’s liberatory potential (!). In this spirit, the panel will follow a dialogical format where presenters and the audience collectively produce new ideas. Come and join us!
More importantly, we want to draw your attention to a motion concerning collaborations with Israeli academic institutions that will be discussed and submitted to a vote during EASA’s General Assembly on Thursday 25 July at 3 PM (Museu Maritim de Barcelona). To make an informed decision, we encourage you to read the information provided here, our “Framing Gaza'' series, and attend the numerous panels, roundtables and plenaries on Palestine that will take place during the conference:
Last, but not least, Allegra will be back with its traditional EASA party. We will congregate on the square Fossar de les Moreres on Thursday 25 July at 21:00, right after the plenary on Academic Freedom and Palestine. The square is — so we’re told — lined by bars where we will be able to find drinks and enjoy the night with colleagues and friends. We look forward to seeing you all soon!
Thank you in advance for your support and see you in Barcelona!
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