End-of-the-Semester Summer Surprise!
After, let us say, a challenging semester, I was able to stay away from campus for a couple of relaxing and stress-free weeks. Upon my return (for a…
After, let us say, a challenging semester, I was able to stay away from campus for a couple of relaxing and stress-free weeks. Upon my return (for a…
I am sharing the CFP on behalf of Tenno Teidearu (Estonian National Museum) who is the head of the conference committee for the 5th International Artefacta Conference: Sustainability…
Celia Lanza, Gabriela Scavenius, and Amanda Guzmán Co-written by a pair of undergraduates and their faculty adviser, this essay shares our hands-on research experience uncovering, interpreting, an…
Before you commission a single new study, institutional knowledge and existing research can give your product roadmap a head start. In Tuesday’s post, I made the case for…
Ten years after the Brexit Referendum, Tribal Politics by Sara Hobolt and James Tilley argues that the vote forged two issue-based identities that continue to shape UK politics.…
Figure 1: The Lush Greeney and Wooden Roof at PDX (Credit: Andrew Mitchel) Andrew MitchelEastern Washington University Portland, Oregon’s PDX airport does things differently. I first passed thr…
Amplify, a new book by Adam Met and Heather Landy, argues that the collective energy and sense of community created at live music events is a powerful force.…
by Abel van Beijnum – I checked the (pernicious) WhatsApp business account at work. A status update appeared: a video of a colleague. With the subtitle, originally in…
Released theatrically late last month, Backrooms, the latest horror film from A24, is a bona fide blockbuster. The film grossed $81 million domestically and $118 million internationally in…
Av Magnus Dahlstedt Äntligen. Semesterns begivenhet: roadtrip norrut tillsammans med min fru Anna, längs kusten, inåt landet, via Kiruna vidare mot Narvik, neråt igen genom Sverige. Efter en…
Colleagues’ wonderful work – this is a screenshot, dm to get. https://doi.org/10.1080/01609513.2026.2682135
Long before “forward-deployed designers,” I spent two weeks watching enterprise sales reps. Here’s what I learned. At 9 a.m., notebook in hand, I settled in with Steve at…
Av Sofia Carlström Det är lätt att se på försvaret som en miljö präglad av hårda värden, vapen och våld. Men mitt fältarbete bland totalförsvarets frivilliga kvinnor visar…
My dissertation, “Beyond the Plate: Culinary Violence and the Oaxacan Chef,” introduces the theoretical framework of culinary violence to examine how chefs navigate the limitations placed…
Karl Whittington joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, Queer Making: On Artists and Desire in Medieval Europe (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2025). What role does desire play in the…
In this episode of the New Books Network, we explore Ethnographic Reflections on Marriage in Dhofar, Oman (Anthem Press, 2026), with anthropologist Dr Marielle Risse. Drawing on nearly…
In October 2022, just as the monsoon was ending, Kalpana pulled me and my field partner, Sandeep, into her house in the rehabilitated village of Popharan, one of…
What if studying at UC Berkeley’s International House is more than just an experience—it’s a transformation? In this episode of This Anthro Life, host Adam Gamwell is joined…
A workshop report of Symbiotic Viruses, convened by Benjamin Hegarty and Frédéric Keck, and held at the Collège de France and Paris Institute for Advanced Study, 4-5 March…
One of the things that stood out in my conversation with John Longhurst about his book Can Robots Love God and Be Saved? A Journalist Reports on Faith (CMU Press, 2024) was…
This rather large post documents the construction of a new apartment complex (corrected name on the apartment signage:「フォレストグクリエオーレ城垣町 I II」or, Forest Creaole Shirogakicho I and II) in my…
An exploration of the concept of cultivation, as conducted on both the land and the body, which expands our understanding of it as practice, aesthetic, and ideology. In…
In Wild Tides: Media Infrastructure and Financial Crisis in Ireland (Duke University Press, 2026), Patrick Brodie maps the shifting fortunes of the Irish economy before the 2008 financial…
Together with Cameron Harrington (Durham University), I’ve co-authored a new article on water weaponisation in the journal Political Geography. It is open access and free to access, and…