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The Call for Panels for the 16th EASA Biennial Conference  "New anthropological horizons in and beyond Europe" has been launched.The EASA conference will be held from 21-24 July, 2020 at the ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. The official deadline for the call for panels is October 21, 2019. This means we need to have panel abstracts ready well in advance of this date. To have your panel listed as network-affiliated panel, it is necessary to first check with the EAN convenors and this year we will pick out of the proposals the official EAN panel and will affiliate the other selected panel. In the past, we have found network affiliated panels are more likely to be successful than individual submissions, so we'd encourage you to consider submitting an official EAN panel.Many suggested themes of the conference are highly relevant to issues within energy research. You can find more details about the theme here.Please send your panel suggestions to the EAN to Simone Abram simone.abram[at]durham.ac.uk Elisabeth Moolenaar emoolenaar[at]regis.edu and Nathalie Ortar nathalie.ortar[at]entpe.fr by October 6th. This will ensure we have time to make editorial suggestions as well as find collaborators for your panel suggestion (if need be). If you have any ideas but are unsure how to go about refining them into a panel abstract, by all means contact us to discuss the issue further.Remember we are notresponsible for the decisions of EASA, however we are offering advice anddiscussion of your panel ideas in order to strengthen the argument. This way wewill also have an overview whether panels with similar topics are beingproposed.Please have a look at the conference webpage regarding panel formats, submission rules and other useful info. For those of you whohaven't submitted before. The guidelines state the following:Submission rules:&#160; *&#160;&#160; Panelsshould have at least two co-convenors (panel organisers) from differentinstitutions, and ideally from different countries.&#160; *&#160;&#160; Atleast one of the convenors must have a PhD degree.&#160; *&#160;&#160;Delegates (those attending the conference) may only make one presentation each.It is allowed to be a co-author on additional papers if you are not the onepresenting them. In addition, a delegate may also convene once (be that aplenary, panel, lab or roundtable) and be a discussant or a chair in oneplenary session, panel, or roundtable. Roundtable participation counts as beinga discussant, not a presenter.&#160; *&#160;&#160; Allconvenors and presenters must be members of EASA (during 2020), and pay theirsubscription before the conference. You need not conform to this rule whenmaking your proposal, but must address it after your proposal has beenaccepted.&#160; *&#160;&#160; EASArequires all accepted panels to be open to paper proposals through the website:panels should not be organised as 'closed' sessions, although roundtables canbe.&#160; *&#160;&#160; Whenproposing an EASA network panel, please inform the network convenors of yourproposal before submitting it. The network name must be appended to the titleof the proposed panel. e.g. Latest research in soul kitchens [Anthropology ofFood Network].&#160; *&#160;&#160; Allattending the conference, including panel convenors, paper presenters,discussants and chairs, will need to register and pay to attendSelection process:The Scientific Committee ofEASA2020 will decide which proposals to accept based on:a) compliance with 'therules'b) on clarity, cohesion,reliability and academic rigour (quality) The Scientific Committee will payattention to different anthropological traditions and topics.&#160; *&#160;&#160;EASA2020 can host a maximum of 2000 delegates, which from experience suggestsapproximately 180 panels. This is likely to be below 50% of the number ofproposals received.&#160; *&#160;&#160; Allproposals must be made via the online form.&#160; *&#160;&#160;Proposals should consist of a panel title, a short description of &#60;300characters, and an abstract of 250 words.&#160; *&#160;&#160; Theproposal may also include the names of any chairs or discussants, althoughthese can be added subsequently using the login environment, Cocoa. Please usethe convention of Firstname Lastname (Institution). (Where convenors will takethese roles, you need not re-enter their names.)