April, 2023
Vol. 15, Issue 1 – April, 2023 Features A Case Study …
REMID Website-Relaunch: Finde den Fehler!
Sehr geehrte Mitglieder und Interessierte, Wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu dürfen, dass die REMID-Website einem umfassenden Relaunch unterzogen wurde. Um sicherzustellen, dass alles reibungslos…
Extreme Arctic weather impacts for animal husbandry
Florian Stammler and Erik Kielsen Much has been written already about the losses of reindeer due to icing-over, or rain on snow events, among reindeer herders in Siberia…
Zeitmanagement jenseits des Mainstreams
Aus dem Workshop gefragt Wenn wir insbesondere als historisch arbeitende Geisteswissenschaftler:innen mit Projektmanagement befasst sind, kann sich eine Unzufriedenheit einstellen, sobald …
Florida 2024 Annual Meeting: APLA Calls for AAA Transparency
This statement is a call to action from the board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. The Association … More
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Photo Exhibition 写真展 Matsuri 「Through Multi-sighted Photographies」 祭り 「多視点からの写真を通して」 2024 February 10 (Sat) ~ 13 (Tues) 2024年2月10日(土) ~ 13日(火) 11:00 – 18:00 (last day / 最終日は 11:00 –…
Selbstständigkeit: Informationen, Netzwerk und Bestärkung
Orientierende Plattformen für geisteswissenschaftliche Innovationen und Anwendungen Brotgelehrte-Gründungswerkstatt voraus: 5.2.2024, 14-15:30 UhrGründungswerkstatt – Brotgelehrte (o…
Zine-making in Leiden: workshops on experimental print publications
Can academia still be fun and experimental? Maybe it can with the printing, folding, and collage techniques of zines. In two hands-on workshops, Sander Hölsgens and James McGrail…
Ludovic Slimak, “The Naked Neanderthal: A New Understanding of the Human Creature” (Pegasus Books, 2023)
What do we really know about our cousins, the Neanderthals? For over a century we saw Neanderthals as inferior to Homo Sapiens. More recently, the pendulum swung the…
Social challenges for Vietnam
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Volume 25, Issue 1 (2024) Issue1 Social challenges for Vietnam Introduction Introduction Introduction: challenging transformations for Vietnam John H…
REMID e.V. feiert Neustart mit Modernisierung der Website
Das vergangene Jahr 2023 markierte einen Neustart für REMID e.V. auf vielen Ebenen. Mit einer frischen Vorstandskonstellation kam auch eine neue Energie auf: REMID wurde modernisiert und präsentiert…
SAFN Awards: Undergrad and Grad Award Deadline March 31, 2024!
Texas State Fair Awards. Photo: David Beriss Amanda Green, SAFN President Welcome to the new year SAFN members! We want to draw your attention to SAFN’s Awards, which…
How Ethnographic Research is Shaping the Future of Insight in Business and Technology
How can businesses effectively integrate insights from social sciences like psychology and anthropology to gain a deeper understanding of human behavior, and how might this integration impact decision…
Thank You!
Dear Readers, Over the years, some of us (the past and present members of the collective that runs this blog) have been fortunate enough to meet some of…
Gene Therapy’s Promise Meets Nigeria’s Sickle Cell Reality
Breakthrough treatments can now cure sickle cell anemia in the U.S. But the pricey therapies will hardly help in Nigeria, where social changes could do more for millions…
Fatih Tatari: Pasturing Dairy Technosciences in Northeastern Turkey
https://aoe.fi/api/v1/download/fatihtatarinewest-1706178793771.m4a This talk explores dairy infrastructures in rural Kars, a northeastern border province of Turkey. Ba…
Intravenous ideological global apparatus – IISAs
I am holding out for the new intravenous culture industry critique. Cannot get students to leave their screen devices alone even if they are banned in the classroom.…
Don Nonini and Ida Susser: Introduction: Fascism, Then and Now
On November 14, 2023, at the University of Toronto, we, the conveners of the Political Economy Discussion Group, an informal transnational group of anthropologists working in political economy,…
Sketch Art Exhibition::「立呑み絵日記」 (Standing Bar Diary) by Syuhei Shibukawa
Photo courtesy of Syuhei Shibukawa via his Facebook. I learned of this exhibition through the 関西酒場研究会 (Kansai Bar Study Group) on Facebook. Syuhei Shibukawa likes to go to tachinomiya,…
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Call for Papers | Special Issue: Speaking out against genocide and repression
In this special issue, we invite anthropologists to reflect on their responsibilities and experiences of speaking and acting out in response to Israel’s assaults on Gaza, and to…
Taking on Parkinson’s Disease—With Boxing Gloves and Punching Bags
In a California gym, people living with Parkinson’s practice noncontact boxing to redefine their experience of the disease and maintain a sense of self. ✽ The smell of…
The Woman in Dutch Language
By Eva van der Pol – Ever since I can remember, I have loved language. To me, it is so interesting to see where words come from, how…
Lachen im Krieg. Humor als Waffe des Widerstands
Humor stellt Gesellschaft her und macht Hoffnung auf eine andere Zukunft. Leidet eine Bevölkerung unter einer Besatzung, dann gehören frecher Humor und subtiler Sprachwitz zu den Waffen der…