With the inspiration, creativity and help of Anthropology students from several European countries we organized this symposium to get connected by presenting our works, exchanging our hopes, fears, visions, dreams and ideas.

While the whole world is confronted by rapid changes, increasing social inequality, war and huge movements of people, an ever increasing number of students choose Social and Cultural Anthropology as their field of interest.

Through our anthropological knowledge and practice we acquire attitudes like mutual comprehension, empathy and sensibility. From this starting point we can develop our own anthropological skills to unmask and fight the way in which recent forms of social polarisation and cultural determinism disrupt individuals and societies.

By combining our efforts and sharing our experiences we can explore common perspectives and create the basis for our own professional future in this world.

Let’s just as a first step connect Europe and transcend borders in order to release our discipline from its isolation inside the academic ivory tower by introducing Social and Cultural Anthropology to a broader public and into our everyday lives.

This Newsletter plus the site www.movinganthropology.org [*] are the virtual part of the MASN-beginning.

The Organizing Team Vienna, October 2005

[* the currently active website is: movinganthropology.net ]