Pierre Bayle 1647 – 1706
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…
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…
Walmart: Made in China (Stanford University Press, 2026) by Dr. Eileen Otis tells the story of Walmart’s expansion in China, making the case that it is the story…
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…
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 Howe, PhD: This blog article was written for an u…
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…
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…
In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Emily Pacheco speaks with Dr Santiago Betancor Falcón (University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) about his 2025 paper, Autonomous language learning as political…
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…
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” — …
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Transcript Interviewer 0:06Welcome to sNAPAshots: conversations with professional, practi…
Written by Colin Greer and Eric Laursen The Inclusionary/Exclusionary Divide Social movements are powerful engines for change, and they coalesce …
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501784446/digital-initiation-rites/#bookTabs=1 Mikkel Kenni Bruun: Digital Initiation Rites invites the reader on an ethnographic tour de force in…
From about the middle of the first millennium of the Common Era through to the fifteenth century, Southeast Asian societies underwent a political transformation that produced the first,…
In this episode, we are delighted to be joined by educator and researcher Associate Professor Remy Low to explore what cultural competence and culturally responsive teaching looks like…
By Calvin Samarkhanova – When you think about it, transitioning from one gender to another is not too different from having a baby. Except.. the baby is also…
Today, rats are nearly synonymous with plague, but this association is surprisingly recent. For centuries, plague devastated populations without being linked to animals. So how did the rat…
Welcome to the first episode of The Cultural Competence Collective podcast! For our first episode, we are joined by the multi-talented actress, musician and director, Zindzi Okenyo! You…
Version I The Break-Up Letter by Alisse Waterston [Writing time: approximately 3.5 hours, maybe a little longer] Karel, Your letter arrived and, not surprisingly, it’s filled with your…
During his speech at the Memorial Day of Remembrance (Yom HaZikaron) ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers on 20 April 2026, [1] South Africa’s Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein attacked…
Sh. An-ski (Shloyme-Zanvl Rappoport, 1863-1920) was a writer in Russian and Yiddish, a revolutionary, a wartime relief worker, and an ethnographer who studied the Jews of the Russian…
In this episode, Claudia Radiven and Saeed Khan were in conversation with Rhea Rahman to discuss her new book ‘Racializing the Ummah – Muslim Humanitarians: Beyond Black, Brown…