Don’t Miss the Quilts of Southwest China Exhibition Opening at MMWC
While the coming week will be diverse and full as always, I have one big hope–that many friends, colleagues, campus citizens, and community members will come out for…
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CFP: Making Sense of Taste
An intriguing call for papers! Please direct inquiries and submissions to the contacts listed below. CALL FOR PAPERS Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2017 – Making…
Fair Necropolis: The Peruvian Dead, the First American Ph.D. in Anthropology, and the World’s Columbian Exposition of Chicago, 1893
Given just how many people participated in the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, it is understandable that historians have used the well-documented presence of a manageable few individuals…
Interview: BITS of Belonging by Simanti Dasgupta
What links a water privatization scheme and a prominent software company in India’s silicon city, Bangalore? Simanti Dasgupta’s new book, BITS of Belonging: Information Technology, Water, and Neoliber…
Hoger opleidingsniveau migranten leidt amper tot betere arbeidsmarktpositie
Omslag Integratie in zicht? -SCP Door Mehmet Şahin Het rapport integratie in zicht[1], opgesteld door Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau (SCP), is op 15 December 2016 gepubliceerd. De onderzoekers…
I am an American: A Fourth Open Letter to Our Students
Will you say no to intolerance and ignorance? But is that what life is all about? Can you call out hate when you confront
I am an American: A Fourth Open Letter to Our Students
Will you say no to intolerance and ignorance? But is that what life is all about? Can you call out hate when you confront
Undergraduate Futures
On how anthropology might create a safer world for human difference. In writing a piece on the topic of Futures as current senior undergraduates in anthropology we…
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Hi all, A busy week for curating development news: More on Yegna, the state of development journalism & anti-aid campaigns; report writing has not adapted to the digital…
Links & Contents I Liked 215
Hi all, A busy week for curating development news: More on Yegna, the state of development journalism & anti-aid campaigns; report writing has not adapted to the digital…
Comet Quest
How the Rosetta mission created a new archaeological site in space. Artist’s impression of Rosetta releasing the Philae Lander. ESA-C/Carreau/ATGmedialab A tale of two Rosetta Stones Archaeolog…
The Future of Education is Now
We must radically reform higher education to meet the most pressing needs of our age. It’s Taco Day at Meadowlark Retirement Community in Manhattan, Kansas. “The students usually…
What’s Your Beef
How eating brisket shapes the future in the present. A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his…
When Social Media Are the News
As social media become commonplace, they reorganize publics, places, and politics in ways history cannot predict. Over a decade ago, a tectonic shift in communication technologies began…
Big Data, Ethical Futures
Social media and digital networks research is human subjects research. Why not make it more ethical? As more and more disciplines crisscross and work together to study the…
CFP: Theorizing Harm
Whether focused on toxicity, disease, disaster, violence, or malfunction, STS scholars have long studied harm. Given the great diversity of approaches and cases, this panel seeks to take…
Surekha Davies, “Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps, and Monsters” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
You find a lot of strange things on late medieval and “Age of Discovery” era maps. Of course there are weird beasts of every sort: dragons, griffins, sea…