With the arrival of September, the congresses return to A Coruña. From this Tuesday to Friday, September 8, the city receives more than 700 anthropology professionals, who meet for the 16th edition of its International Congress.

At the opening ceremony was present the Councillor for Education, Employment and Institutional Relations, Juan Ignacio Borrego. He assured that "it is a great pleasure for our city and for our mayoress, Inés Rey, to have been appointed as the venue of this International Congress of Anthropology, which brings together important anthropologists from different countries". A Coruña welcomes back, after a great summer, the season of congresses, outlining another year as a "city that has everything necessary to host large events like this" and that is "open, welcoming and multicultural", in the words of the councilor. 

International perspective

This meeting has an international perspective, focusing part of its program on the anthropology of Portugal and Galicia. In addition, among the main names attending this event is the Mexican Rossana Reguillo Cruz, PhD in Social Sciences, national researcher Emerita SNI (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores) and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences. She was in charge of opening the conferences of the International Congress of Anthropology this afternoon from the Teatro Colón.

This event will also be attended by Mari Luz Esteban, Llorián García Flórez and Andrés Rodrigues will also be part of this event from the Ágora Center with a plenary that unites art and anthropology, as well as Astrid Ulloa, anthropologist of the National University of Colombia, expert in environmental movements and indigenous peoples, gender and indigenous feminisms, territorial feminisms, feminist political ecology, indigenous territories and extractivism. The Colombian will close the congress from the Rectorate of the UDC.

Current and open programming

The program of this international congress has plenary tables, book presentations, tables that will revolve around various current issues, as well as many symposia. 

The citizens will be able to approach the 'NORMAL Espazo de intervención cultural' of the Universidade da Coruña, to witness the audiovisual exhibition of ethnographic cinema that is celebrated in parallel to this event. A total of 10 documentaries, short films and sound pieces of varied themes will be screened, from traditional Galician music to violations of the human rights of migrants, according to the organization. 

The event, which has the Council of A Coruña and the Consortium of Tourism and Congresses as collaborating entities, is promoted by the Galician Association of Anthropology (Agantro) and the Association of Anthropology of the Spanish State (ASAEE) with the participation of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) through the Institute of Heritage Sciences (INCIPIT), the three Galician universities (Universidade da Coruña, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and Universidade de Vigo) and the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro.