Engaging antrohopology in development and social change

Engaging antrohopology in development and social change: practices, discourses and ethics. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 20-23 January 2010. Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and Development (APAD). APADs upcoming biannual international conference will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Major challenges of engaging anthropology are to reconnect theory and practical application, and to create a platform for dialogue between a theoretically oriented, empirically grounded anthropology, and an anthropology directly applied to development and social change. Inventer e mobiliser le local. Inventing and Mobilising the Local