SAR Receives $900,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
The School for Advanced Research (SAR) is honored to announce that it has been awarded a grant in the amount of $900,000 from the National Endowment for the…
Why We Need a Future Where Technology is Calm
Meet me at CES 2024! I’m helping launch the latest product from mui Lab, an award-winning creator of home devices based on Calm Technology principles. I’ve been advising…
Dismantling the “Man the Hunter” Myth
Two biological anthropologists analyze archaeological and physiological evidence to debunk enduring assumptions about the gendered division of labor in ancient times. This article was originally publ…
“Imperium sine fine”. De la epigrafía imperial a la honorífica en la ciudad ibero-romana de Ocuri
Read Time:8 Minute, 55 Second Juan Vegazo, descubridor de la “ciudad ibero-romana de Ocuri”, dejó constancia en su cuaderno del hallazg…
Luft aus anderen planeten
Stefan George Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten.Mir blassen durch das dunkel die gesichterDie freundlich eben noch sich zu mir drehten. Und bäum und wege die ich liebte…
Fault Lines: Curator Q&A with Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu
Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻOiwi/Native Hawaiian) is a fifteen-year veteran of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she developed scores…
This Militarization
A poet-anthropologist conveys her life when she was coming of age under the increasing mobilization of military forces in Indian-occupied Kashmir. If you missed the introduction to “This…
Documenting the Kashmir Conflict Through Poetry
SAPIENS’ 2023 poet-in-residence sketches the history she speaks to in three poems from Indian-occupied Kashmir. “Speak up for your lips are not sealed, and your words are still…
"It’s just a joke": Why We Need to Pay Attention to Far-Right Humour
There is a growing industry of far-right comedy. What role does humour play in the mainstreaming and normalisation of the far right?
E. Gabriel Dattatreyan on his book, The Globally Familiar
https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-globally-familiar Eléonore Rimbault: Much of the energy of The Globally Familiar derives from your candid and involved focus on the young b-boys and rappers …
LA REPRESENTACIÓN DE LAS PROTAGONISTAS FEMENINAS DE STUDIO GHIBLI.
Read Time:8 Minute, 5 Second Las películas de Studio Ghibli, en especial las dirigidas por Hayao Miyazaki (Tokio, 1941), han dejado una…
Rita Kesselring, “Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa” (Stanford UP, 2017)
Rita Kesselring’s important book Bodies of Truth: Law, Memory, and Emancipation in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Stanford University Press, 2017) seeks to understand the embodied and everyday effects of…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW02
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. eine Stelle als wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in bei der Universität Bielefeld (Literaturwissenschaft) – insbesondere interessant für Menschen mit einem Wunsch nach …
Die Ruine. Nachgedanken zum Berliner Humboldt Forum
Totgesagte leben länger. Nach jahrelangem Streit um das Humboldt Forum hat die Macht des Faktischen gesiegt. Eine historische Bestandsaufnahme.
La seducción
La foto es de Forrest Walker Notas para el espacio “El rincón y la esquina”, del “Hoy por hoy” de la Cadena SER, con Marta Sanz, del día…
My 2023 Reading List
2023 was, iirc, the second year I’ve set the goal of reading a book a week — and this year I managed to do it again! It was…
Settler, Settler Colonialism, and the Indigenous
As bombs descend on Gaza and the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) slowly infiltrates the urban spaces of Gaza protesters around the world have taken to the streets. Pro-Israeli…
دربارۀ نعیم بدیعی: روزنامهنگاری «نوین»
ندا دهقانی: ۱۰ سال از کیهان بچهها بزرگتر است. ششم دیماه ۱۳۳۵ بود که پدرش آن را راهاندازی کرد. کاغذهای چرک و پاکنویس کیهان بچهها که همیشه روی…
زنان در حلقۀ مردان (نقد فیلم شاعری، POETRY)
شاعری یک فیلم درام به کارگردانی لی چانگ-دونگ است که در سال ۲۰۱۰ منتشر شد. این فیلم برنده جایزه بهترین فیلمنامه در جشنواره فیلم کن ۲۰۱۰ شد و…
پایان بیگانهگرایی
آلبن بنسا / برگردان ناصر فکوهی آلبن بنسا(Alban Bensa)، متخصص ساخت گفتمان سیاسی در نزد کاناکها (Kanak)ی کلدانی نو در اقیانوسیه و مدیر پژوهشی در مدرسه مطالعات عالی…
Jayaseelan Raj, “Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit life in the Indian Tea Belt” (UCL Press, 2022)
What does the collapse of India’s tea industry mean for Dalit workers who have lived, worked and died on the plantations since the colonial era? Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of…
Matthew O. Jackson, “The Human Network: How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs, and Behaviors” (Vintage, 2019)
Social networks existed and shaped our lives long before Silicon Valley startups made them virtual. For over two decades economist Matthew O. Jackson, a professor at Stanford University, has studied…
2024: A Look Ahead
New Year’s festivities inevitably include reviews of the year that’s …