Transforming Art Historical Practices Through Collaboration
New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…
New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…
New Program at the School for Advanced Research, funded by the Getty, invites scholars to reimagine art history through equity, reciprocity, and community engagement SANTA FE, NM (June…
Every two weeks I am going to feature one of the chapters of our Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality which was published in spring 2024. This week we…
The collapse of Bashar Al-Asad’s authoritarian regime (2000-2024) and the less-violent-than-expected capture of Damascus by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) brought […] The post Beyond Preaching Unit…
On December 8, 2024, I received a flurry of WhatsApp messages from my friend Rawia. At the time, she was […] The post On inheritances and contradictions: Agrarian…
It is a Tuesday in May in upstate New York, and the world is greening all around me. A little rain falls from a clouded-over sky scattering bright…
This is the sixth day of the war. The sixth day of unprovoked aggression by the Israeli genocidal regime against Iran, my country. The killing spree and the…
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/guarded-by-two-jaguars Max Conrad: You argue that Catholicism as a religion facilitates heteroglossia and is ultimately shaped – formed and reformed – by dialo…
On the morning of December 8, 2024, just hours after the fall of the Al-Asad regime was officially declared, Syrians […] The post The Dictator’s New Clothes: Syrian…
To be honest, I can’t describe my feelings now; it is a historical moment. Syrians finally feel they can breathe, […] The post Recalibrating Hope and Revolutionary Temporality…
Racializing Caste: Anthropology Between Germany and India and the Legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970) (De Gruyter, 2025) analyzes how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and…
“Al-‘ard haafya. La terra è nuda [the land is bare].” Abdu concluded one of our discussions with this sentence in […] The post Return to a Bare Land…
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year […] The post Their Life Has Been Taken;…
Joyful crowds toppling statues, unsealing torture prisons, defacing regime iconography, ordinary people roaming freely through Al-Asad’s Presidential Palace . . […] The post Recalibrating Syria:…
In The Banality of Good: The UN’s Global Fight against Human Trafficking (Duke University Press, 2024), Dr. Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so…
By Maaike Matelski – Four years after the military coup of February 2021, Myanmar was hit by a massive earthquake on 28 March 2025. While the earthquake may…
BySylvie PlanelPhD Anthropology First Place Winner, Writing Competition on the Theme of Transformation Their figures project shifting shapes on the ground, cutting out the sun as they fly…
The Council for Museum Anthropology is seeking nominations for its Distinguished Service Award. The award recognizes CMA members whose careers demonstrate extraordinary achievements that have adv…
On the 7th of December 2024, Damascus was up all night having a special kind of party. At 3 a.m., my siblings […] The post On Silence appeared first on…
Thinking, writing, and publishing from Latin America pose significant challenges, especially for younger researchers. Academic work is affected by various kinds of asymmetries, but when we add to…
The Invisible Light That’s Harming Our Health — And How We Can Light Things Better I recently spent a few weeks running a conference for a community of researchers and writers…
One of the many benchmarks for AI is the “Turing test,” Alan Turing’s adaptation of the “imitation game” where an interrogator must decide which of two respondents…
In the Sikkim and Kalimpong Himalayas in Northeast India, supply chains are often interrupted by changing monsoon systems that damage highways. Responding to uncertainty, communities are reclaiming an…
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