Teaching (through) the visual in Sociology
®Gabriele Galimberti – Toy Stories What’s the best way to teach? Inspired by my colleague Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova’s research paper just published in The Anthropology of East Europe Review,…
Women are heroes
The photo above is taken from the renowned documentary project Women are heroes. I am happy to spread the word about the project. I looked for more photos…
Women are heroes
The photo above is taken from the renowned documentary project Women are heroes. I am happy to spread the word about the project. I looked for more photos…
Women are heroes
The photo above is taken from the renowned documentary project Women are heroes. I am happy to spread the word about the project. I looked for more photos…
Women are heroes
The photo above is taken from the renowned documentary project Women are heroes. I am happy to spread the word about the project. I looked for more photos…
Video Shows Iran’s President-Elect Was Misquoted on Israel
Commentary by William O. Beeman: The fact that the New York Times jumped to print the incorrect information about Mr. Rouhani’s comments is testament to the prejudicial reporting…
Its Like Woodie Guthrie’s Grand Coulee Dam, Only Its a Green #OA Policy for the UC System
“But now the greatest wonder is in Uncle Sam’s fair land…” Someone needs to write a song in the style of Woodie Guthrie’s tunes celebrating the impressiveness and…
Transcribing Ottoman music
Until the19th century, music in the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on oral tradition. Compositions and playing styles were handed from generation to generation through a master-apprentice system…
Transcribing Ottoman music
Until the19th century, music in the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on oral tradition. Compositions and playing styles were handed from generation to generation through a master-apprentice system…
Transcribing Ottoman music
Until the19th century, music in the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on oral tradition. Compositions and playing styles were handed from generation to generation through a master-apprentice system…
Transcribing Ottoman music
Until the19th century, music in the Ottoman Empire was based primarily on oral tradition. Compositions and playing styles were handed from generation to generation through a master-apprentice system…
Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nuclear Decision–Porter (IPS)
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/07/ex-envoys-account-clarifies-irans-2003-nuclear-decision/ Ex-Envoy’s Account Clarifies Iran’s 2003 Nuclear Decision By Gareth PorterReprint | &nb…
Researching the race for shrinking water resources
Why has water increasingly become a source of trouble and conflict? Why is the driest continent on earth one of the world’s biggest water exporters? – I am…
Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order. Another conference session
At the next ISA World Congress in Yokohama (July 14-19, 2014), I will be the co-organizer of this session. I’m excited about that, and I am looking forward…
Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order. Another conference session
At the next ISA World Congress in Yokohama (July 14-19, 2014), I will be the co-organizer of this session. I’m excited about that, and I am looking forward…
Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order. Another conference session
At the next ISA World Congress in Yokohama (July 14-19, 2014), I will be the co-organizer of this session. I’m excited about that, and I am looking forward…
Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order. Another conference session
At the next ISA World Congress in Yokohama (July 14-19, 2014), I will be the co-organizer of this session. I’m excited about that, and I am looking forward…
PNG deal – regional solution or co-dependency
This is a pre-edited version, final version on theconversation.edu.au. We are yet to find out the details of the deal struck between Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and…
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] Dorothea was a widow who treated Martin Luther, the Duke of Saxony, and throngs of poor peasants with her…
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Dorothea was a widow who treated Martin Luther, the Duke of Saxony, and throngs of poor peasants with her medicinal waters. Anna was the powerful wife of the…
Public Health Ryan Gosling
…I just can’t help myself. I am cracking up at these! Do you know about the Ryan Gosling meme? (If not, read all about it at Know Your…
Martha Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600”
[Cross-posted from New Books in History] When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were “proto-capitalists.” I was never quite sure what…
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] Humans are quite a bit like chimpanzees, genetically speaking. Of course humans are quite a bit like fruit flies, genetically speaking. But when…
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates” (Norton, 2013)
Humans are quite a bit like chimpanzees, genetically speaking. Of course humans are quite a bit like fruit flies, genetically speaking. But when it comes to behavior, humans…