Ledige studentplasser ved NIBR, våren 2020
Er du masterstudent og jobber med by eller sted? By- og regionforskningsinstituttet NIBR ved OsloMet ønsker flere studenter velkommen, og lyser hvert semester ut åtte studentplasser i våre…
Serin D. Houston, “Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance” (U Nebraska Press, 2019)
In Imagining Seattle: Social Values in Urban Governance (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), the geographer Serin Houston complicates Seattle’s liberal and progressive reputation through a c… Visit New…
Die Klimablockade
11.000 Wissenschaftler warnen vor dem «Klimanotfall» – der Menschheit drohe durch die Klimaerwärmung «noch nie dagewesenes Leid». Gleichzeitig werden die ideologischen Konflikte in der Klimafrage imme…
Providing Accessibility as a Meeting Attendee
You’re getting ready for the Annual Meeting! Great! Do you ever wonder about who goes and who doesn’t go? And why? As anthropologists, we are trained to analyze…
Det oppgraderte mennesket.
Hvor sitter det som gjør deg menneskelig? I hjernen? I hendene? I sjelen? Og hvor mange deler av deg selv kan du bytte ut før du ikke lenger…
On reproductive work and family, again by Cinzia Greco
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Lewis Verso, 2019. 224 pages. In the first segment of the 1963 Oscar-winning anthology film Ieri, Oggi e Domani, Sophia Loren…
How Belonging Shapes the Vaccination Crisis
[no-caption] Marcel Hirshegger/SAPIENS Anthropologist Elisa Sobo never wanted to study the issue of vaccination. The topic was too fraught, she says, and she didn’t want to touch it…
Critical Imagination at the Intersection of STS Pedagogy and Research
*This post was co-authored by Emily York and Shannon Conley* In 2017, we established the STS Futures Lab—a space to critically interrogate plausible sociotechnical futures and to develop…
PrEP at the After/Party: The ‘Post-AIDS’ Politics of Frank Ocean’s “PrEP+” by Benjamin Weil
Introduction HIV/AIDS prevention efforts have taken many forms, ranging from pop-up stalls at LGBTQ+ Pride parades to circuit parties at popular queer venues. In this essay, we examine…
«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
«Habt Mut…» – Die Geisteswissenschaften kommunizieren!
Philipp Burkard (Leiter Science et Cité, Gastautor) [1] Sokrates auf der Agora. Quelle: Hulton Archive / Getty Images Wir können nicht davon ausgehen, dass sich ein breites Publikum…
Gatekunst og graffiti
Jeg kjører på motorveien gjennom Johannesburg sentrum, og med sitt store gjenkjennelige MaMa-veggmaleri ser jeg bydelen Maboneng fremfor meg. Over de siste tiårene har graffiti og gatekunst blitt…
Pädagogik neu denken!
Publikation über die Migrationsgesellschaft und ihre Lehrer_innen Autor*innen: Prof. Dr. Yasemin Karakaşoğlu, Prof. Dr. Paul Mecheril, Jeannette Goddar Wie kann Pädagogik in der Migrationsgesellscha…
Jonathan Rosa, “Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race” (Oxford UP, 2019)
Jonathan Rosa‘s new book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (Oxford University Press, 2019) examines the emergence of ling……
Sichuan food and the transience of traditions
One of my secret passion (or not-so-secret, if you know me a bit) is cooking. Last weekend was devoted to the new edition of Fuchsia Dunlop’s The Food…
Other People’s Clutter
perhaps the most perplexing item she had kept from her time was the empty casing of an artillery shell from World War Two. She told me that many…
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trade books…
#men, too?
Die #MeToo-Debatte hat einmal mehr gezeigt: Es wäre höchste Zeit, dass die Männer, die das Verhalten der Weinsteins, Trumps etc. beschämend finden, selbst sagen, was sie von sich…
Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice
Anthrodendum welcomes guest editors Beatriz Reyes-Foster and Rebecca J. Lester. Writing for Them, Writing for Us: Resilience in Practice In part two of our series, Humanizing Fieldwork, we…
Mare Nullius participates at Norad seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience”
Written by Dr. Camilla Borrevik. On 22 October 2019, I participated in the seminar “Ocean management: opportunities, challenges and experience” in Oslo, Norway. The seminar was organised…
Uni für alle: Bürger-Uni-Veranstaltungen 4.11. – 9.11.
Von der Osterinsel über Berlin nach Korea: In dieser Woche gibt es an der Goethe-Universität wieder zahlreiche, interessante Veranstaltungen und Vorlesungen zu Themen aus aller Welt. So beschäftigt…
Agriculture in Human Evolution – by Keith Hart
In his Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality among Men (1754) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was concerned, not with individual variations in natural endowments, but with…
Digging up the Dead
The Slavia Field School in Mortuary Archaeology in Drawsko, Poland, unearthed a 400-year-old cemetery. Joanna Pearce Excavating a 17th-century cemetery in the small town of Drawsko, Polan…