The War Against Public Educaton
People who don’t like public education usually don’t like strong faculty unions like the Association of Pennsylvania State
Article Alerts for September 2016
These are the most recent publications in the subfield of discard studies for September 2016.
#Reviews Week – and a Student-Led Research Project!
This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our frequent and much cherished reviewer Gabriela Radulescu explores…
‘What happened to sex trafficking?
The University of Melbourne is hosting a symposium on Gender, Mobility Regimes and Social Transformation in Asia, 3-4 November, 2016. Further details can be found here. I will…
Die Zukunft von Refugee ResettlementMachen die September-Gipfel einen Unterschied?
Im September wurden in New York zwei Gipfel abgehalten: Der UN-Gipfel zu Flucht und Migration und der von US-Präsident Obama initiierte Gipfel der Staats- und Regierungschefs zur globalen…
Academics Start Reviewing Journals
Academic Journal Reviews is now live. It describes itself as: “A place for academics to review the publishing process at peer-reviewed journals.” And it is, in a sense,…
Superbugs evolve in waste water, and could end up in our food
While the conversation on antibiotic resistance has started, one part of the story has not been highlighted. The risks to human and ecosystem health are strongly connected to…
Trump: A Bolivian’s Perspective
[Savage Minds welcomes guest bloggers Daniel M. Goldstein and Raúl Rodriguez Arancibia] In the Andes last summer, while traveling to visit family and friends prior to beginning his…
Mill City Museum
David Beriss Going to Minneapolis for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association? Readers of this blog will probably want to explore the diverse foods available around…
The War Against Privacy
In the May-June 1993 issue of Wired Magazine, an article on a group of mathematicians advocating a radical, libertarian, cryptographic philosophy appeared on the front cover. The group…
UCL Anthropology launches joint cross-section seminar series on “resilience”
UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept. Beginning after November reading week, the series will use insights fr…
UCL Anthropology Launches joint cross-section seminar series on “resilience”
UCL Anthropology launches a joint cross-section seminar series titled “Resilience – Merits and Critique of a Concept.” Beginning after November Reading Week, the series will use insi…
Web Roundup: Photography and Visual Tech by Lily Shapiro
This month’s Web Roundup is focused loosely around the theme of the visual. How do we use photography and other mediums to tell stories, and what stories do…
The Free-to-Readers Edition of Material Vernaculars: Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
As I discussed in a previous post, works in the Material Vernaculars series are being made available in a free-to-readers PDF edition via IUScholarWorks. The eponymous edited collection Material…