Donnerstag, 29.10.2015, 14 Uhr – Samstag, 31.10.2015, 15 Uhr, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Informationen und Hinweise auf der Konferenzwebseite. Programm Donnerstag, 29.10. 2015, Museum Mode…
Our calendars are full of special weeks and days to memorialise, commemorate and bring attention to the plight of people with special needs, those underserved, forgotten, marginalised and…
In addition to what’s “In the Journals” so far, and the inaugural issue of Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, September brings us a special issue of Body & Society edited…
‘Normal friend: ‘Wow, how beautiful you are!’ / Best friend: It’s Shrek on the phone, says he wants his face back.’ Meme shared on Facebook by Comix From…
Arriving at work today I was met by my coworker who wanted to talk. We’ve worked together for about three years and I see her when she comes…
Here is the first round of “In the Journals” for September. Happy autumn reading! American Anthropologist Commitments of Debt: Temporality and the Meanings of Aid Work in a…
This entry is part 7 of 7 in the Anthropologies #21 series. Next up we have an essay about climate change and education from Joseph Henderson and David…
Welcome back listeners new and old to the new and exciting season of This Anthropological Life! This season we at TAL have a lot of new content and…
Over the past couple of days, I have come across a number of items pertaining to indigenous knowledge of, and responses to, climate change. Of course, climate change…
door Erik van Ommering Europa kan gemakkelijk oorlogsvluchtelingen opvangen. Niet piepen dus, maar gewoon: welkom zeggen, vindt promovendus Erik van Ommering. Het groeiende aantal vluchtelingen dat N…
Elder Scrolls Screenshot Photo by Author By Rayna Elizabeth Elder Scrolls takes place in the world of Tamriel. Published by Bethesda (who also develops Fallout and Dishonored), the…
Mahmoud Mamdani’s new article Settler Colonialism: then and now, is now out in Critical Inquiry, which builds on talks like this one at Princeton (which I could not…
David Jeevendrampillai, UCL Anthropology Image 1: The Story of Seething Exhibition. Jan – May 2015. UCL Anthropology (Photo Credit: Timothy Carroll). UCL promotes itself as a leading global…
Plastic Soup and The Ocean Cleanup In 1997 Charles Moore “discovered” the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the middle of the Pacific Ocean: large areas in the ocean…
by Will Balmford PhD Candidate RMIT University, Melbourne See other posts on the digital ethnography reading group (DERG) This session we discussed Helen Kennedy’s 2003 article Technobiography: Rese…
The one-day Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on Friday 9 October 2015. Programme and registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26237. The Moral Psychology…
The bulky and weirdly shaped package I hold in my hands weighs nearly 20 pounds. 20 pounds of memories materialize in a final leaving present that now makes…
Final summary of the Australasian HIV&AIDS Conference. Please read on… In a panel on Power, Partnerships and Participation, Elan Lazuardi presented her work with Outreach Workers in 3 cities in…
By Krista Harper with Sam Anderson In my last blog post, I described my recent course on “Anthropology of/through Games.” Students in the class played, analyzed, and designed…
Last year Mick Taussig gave a short course to doctoral students at the University of Helsinki on the relation between research and writing. Ethnography, he repeated several times…
With our inaugural co-edited issue on Hello Anthropocene: Climate Change and Anthropology closing back up after six months of free access (and with thanks to Ryan Anderson for…
When I was hired as assistant professor and program head at Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU) in August 2014, I encountered a beleaguered, yet not quite…
Mark Goodale is currently writing Anthropology and Law: A Critical Introduction for NYU Press. The manuscript is due at the end of December 2015. One of the ideas…