Pig’s Feet and Southern Roots
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
A digital drawing of a pig, with its head, hooves, and tail colored red, and its body patterned with green dollars, by the author. A note from Mecca…
In the summer of 2015, I was a first-year graduate student when I joined a field project at La Ferrassie, a Neandertal’ site tucked into the Périgord region…
The Light strikes my Grandmother’s confirmation certificate on the morning of May 25, 2026…
Reading selections from his Dictionary, and his Mohamet Marx and Engels mention:“The man who deprived seventeenth-century metaphysics and metaphysics in general of all credit in the domain o…
Get it out: On the Politics of Hysterectomy by Andréa Becker (New York University Press: 2025) Hysterectomy is the most common gynecological procedure worldwide, yet until recently only…
Was haben Geld- und Finanzmarktpolitik mit der Entstehung von Hungersnöten zu tun? Eine neuere Studie des Wirtschaftshistorikers Charles Read zeigt, wie Hungerforschung neu zu denken ist, weil wirtsch…
Rindszunge in Sahnesauce mit Kapern, Sacha47, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons A note from Mecca (Med) Howe, PhD: This blog article was written fo…
Annikki Herranen, Ph.D., Burke Climate and Health Fellow, Harvard Global Health Institute Where the material foundations of a lifeway melt away, what reparative possibilities emerge? Thr…
Während meiner Reise in den Niederlanden habe ich an der Universität Leiden einen Zettel gefunden und mitgenommen: Hacking the Humanities. Introduction to Computational Thinking and Analysis.…
Outbreak mitigation always operates within a tension between technical expertise (lo técnico) and political imperatives (lo político). My conversations with epidemiologists in Guatemala over the past …
The Students for Palestine solidarity encampment stood for 38 days in front of the University of Helsinki’s Porthania building until it was removed by the police at the…
Dokumente abzulegen, auszusortieren und in Ordner-Ordnung zu bringen, das war und ist keine besonders attraktive Aufgabe für mich. Aber ich kam nicht drumherum. Nach fast 35 Jahren als…
در تاریخ اندیشه معاصر کمتر متفکری را میتوان یافت که همچون ادگار مورن در مرز میان فلسفه، جامعهشناسی، انسانشناسی، نظریه سیستمها، زیستشناسی، آموزش و اندیشه سیاسی حرکت کرده…
تصویر: ادگار مورن، از ناصر فکوهی ادگار مورن، فیلسوف، انسانشناس، جامعهشناس، فیلمساز و متفکر برجسته فرانسوی دیروز در سن ۱۰۴ سالگی درگذشت. سخن گفتن از یک «غول فکری»…
پادکست افقهای بینالمللی، مترجم: زهره دودانگه نکته: این گفتوگو پس از جنگ ۱۲ روزه ایران و اسرائیل در خردادماه ۱۴۰۴ انجام شده، و خواندن آن در فهم و…
New reproductive and bodily intervention biotechnologies not only promise to cure or prevent diseases, but are also shaping a new regime of bodily normalization that redefines which lives…
The Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA), a section of the American Anthropological Association, recognizes innovative and influential contributions to the field of museum anthropology. The Aug…
Geschätzte Lesedauer: 3 Minuten Visiting scholar from Masaryk University in Brno Valéria Bláha shares insights into her work. What is the focus of your current project? My dissertation…
Derzeit bin ich auf Arbeitsreise in den Niederlanden. Bei der Erkundung der Karriereberatung für Geisteswissenschaftler:innen an den Unis ist mir ein Wort begegnet, das ich in anderer Verwend…
In November 2025, in Rio de Janeiro, the seminar (in)SAM — “Food (in)Security Under the Microscope: Rethinking the Relationship Between Food Systems, Microorganisms, and Sanitary Norms” — …