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We are proud and delighted that the ASA has chosen Edinburgh for the festival’s second edition.  \nThe reason is a shared one. This year, Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh marks its eightieth anniversary. The discipline has been taught and researched here since 1946-through changing buildings, methods, and questions, and through generations of students, scholars, alumni and friends who have shaped what social anthropology has become at Edinburgh and beyond. PeopleFest is the perfect occasion to open that community out into the city, in good company with colleagues from across the ASA’s wider network.  \nAcross three days, fifty-six events will  \nspill out of seminar rooms and into film cinemas, parks, restaurants, bookshops, a pub, a coastal field site, and a Mixed Reality experience of the African diaspora. There are listening walks and zine workshops, films and live podcasts, Mixed Reality and the Firth Lecture, an open mic and an exhibition of photographs of urban aftermath. There are conversations on the future of  \nhigher education, climate ethnography, anthropology in schools, the labour of growing fruit, and why we treat machines like people. There is poetry, and there is plant communication. There is a quilting workshop and a roundtable on food sovereignty. We hope something here surprises you.  \nThe festival is also a chance to ask what social anthropology is for, in this moment-when public life increasingly demands the kinds of careful listening, sustained attention, and historical imagination that the discipline has practised for generations. Eighty years on, weare excited to showcase how vital these skills are in a rapidly changing world.  \nWhether you are arriving from across the city or across the world, and whether you have spent your life inside the discipline or are arriving for the first time, we are very glad you are here.  \nDr Lucy Lowe  \nHead of Social Anthropology University of Edinburgh  \nWelcome from the ASA  \nThe ASA and Social Anthropology at Edinburgh share a birth year. Both were established in 1946—a moment of post-war reconstruction in which, perhaps surprisingly, a small society of social anthropologists and a university department on George Square were among the things being built. Eighty years later, here we all still are.  \nASA PeopleFest is the festival we made when we asked ourselves what a public anthropology might look like—not a conference squeezed into public-facing clothing, but something built differently from the start. The first edition, in Manchester in 2024, told us this was an idea worth continuing. The second, here in Edinburgh, is shaped by everything that experience taught us, and by the particular character of this city and this department.  \nAnthropology has always understood itself as a discipline of attention—to the small, the easily missed, the patiently observed. PeopleFest extends that attention outward:  \ninto film cinemas and bookshops, listening walks and live podcasts, climate fieldwork and zine-making.  \nThe events you’ll find in this programme were proposed by anthropologists across the UK and beyond, and they reflect the breadth of what the discipline now does—and the openness with which it does it. Together, they make the case for anthropology as a public good rather than an academic specialism.  \nWe are particularly grateful to the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science for hosting us, to Dr Lucy Lowe and her colleagues for their warm welcome, and to the many event organisers, volunteers, and ASA staff whose work brought PeopleFest to the city.  \nWe hope you find something here that surprises you, ","cbCaib8xAXC2cgzv","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaib8xAXC2cgzv","pdf",1843033,32,"English","# Five threads through three days\n## THE STRANDS\n## Venues at a glance","[{\"question\":\"What is ASA PeopleFest 2026?\",\"answer\":\"ASA PeopleFest 2026 is a three-day festival celebrating social anthropology and bringing it into public spaces across Edinburgh, beyond the conference room.\"},{\"question\":\"How is the festival programme organized to help attendees find events?\",\"answer\":\"Events are grouped by five conversation strands, and each listing includes one or two small coloured dots so visitors can follow a strand through the booklet.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of events are included in the programme?\",\"answer\":\"The programme includes listening walks, zine workshops, films, live podcasts, Mixed Reality experiences, open mic sessions, photography exhibitions, workshops, and roundtables alongside conversations on education, climate, health, and food sovereignty.\"}]","ASA PeopleFest 2026 - Programme | PDF",1790284481,49]