Mercenary fishing for academic vanity
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
Message to a friend on publishing ‘requests’/offers: Increasingly colleagues who publish an article in any good journal soon get an unsolicited email from some generic named (unhea…
Common sense tells us that play and work are opposing categories. However, in our society we often encounter situations where the boundaries between these two categories become difficult…
In this colloquium session, Dennis Zuev and Madlen Kobi will provide insights into a recently published Special Issue for the journal Visual Studies. This special issue provides insights…
Elina Choi and Joshua Babcock Image by Wolf for Pixabay AI anxieties are widespread today. But how new are these concerns? Generative AI technologies have come on the scene relatively re…
SAPIENS’ 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives. ✽ when the writing is done reference room locked index cards slotted library doors bolted when the…
A compelling work that explores the lives and aspirations of young footballers with deep nuance and insight, The Precarity of Masculinity: Football, Pentecostalism, and Transnational Aspirations in Cameroon (Berghahn Books,…
The Sphere Within Sphere sculpture at the United Nations Headquarters in New York carries a profound message. As a gift from Italy to mark the arrival of the new…
Here's the link to the original article: Bruce Yu Lepeng: Teen From Singapore Raised $83,000 After Inspired by Ukrainian Refugee’s Heartbreaking Story (everydaypeople.sg)
Here's the link to the original article: ACS (Independent) students’ online non-profit reaches across the world | The Straits Times
Half a century after the Space Race of the bipolar international system, today’s space race involves a broader range of actors, no longer limited to States. In fact,…
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, William T. Taylor explores how momentous…
Watch the recently released trailer for WOVEN. The short film is coming out soon.
Today, we’re excited to bring you something a little different. Recently, we’ve been sharing a lot of episodes and shorts inspired by the work I’ve been doing alongside…
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The restaurant industry is one of the few places in America where workers from lower-class backgrounds can rise to positions of power and prestige. Yet with over four…
It is well-known that the institution of marriage has changed dramatically in the past few decades. However, very little research has focused on the role of religious institutions…
Co-authored by my friend from the village, Felix Mangombe, our new article has just been published in the journal People and Nature after quite full on period of…
I had the opportunity to participate in a Women’s Health PAC in Boston. We heard from some luminaries in the field, and I left feeling inspired by what…
An anthropologist who works with deaf communities in the Arabic-speaking Middle East argues that ending Israel’s war on Gaza and occupation of Palestine is a matter of disability…
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term that refers to nonheterosexual and gender nonconforming identities in…
A passage from the novel Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor reads: La Matosa was slowly dotted once more with shacks and shanties raised on the bones of those…
In 1867, Marx wrote about of Mary Anne Walkley, overworked to death for a society dress – according to the London Chronicle. Now, instead of ruffle of lace,…
The novel is a historical and autobiographically filtered indulgence, yet the making of worlds can sweep you away for a day or a week. Right to choose, needless…
Who runs Britain? In Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard UP, 2024), Aaron Reeves, and Sam Friedman, both Professors of Sociology at the London School of Economics, tell the…