#UBCBoG Faculty Elections – last chance to vote
Voting in the UBC Board of Governors’ faculty elections ends at 4pm on December 8th. If you haven’t yet voted and want to here’s how: To Vote Go…
Teemu Taira, “Atheism in Five Minutes” (Equinox Publishing, 2022)
Atheism in Five Minutes, by Professor Teemu Taira, is part of Equinox Publishing’s “Religion in 5 Minutes” series. It offers insights into a number of commonly held questions…
Irene Hilden, “Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive: Dealing with the Berlin Sound Archive’s Acoustic Legacies” (Leuven UP, 2022)
Dealing with the colonial archive entails acknowledging the inability to know everything, accounting for the archive’s limited and incomplete condition. Dealing with the colonial archive is not merely…
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Hi all,This afternoon I am going to leave the virtual space & join colleagues to explore an exhibition in Malmö on dreams, images & mobile phones. In the…
Gregory Shushan, “The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife” (White Crow Books, 2022)
In The Next World: Extraordinary Experiences of the Afterlife (White Crow Books, 2022), historian of religions Gregory Shushan explores the relationships between extraordinary experiences and beliefs in life after death.…
Chris McMorran, “Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan” (U Hawaii Press, 2022)
Today I talked to Chris McMorran about his new book Ryokan: Mobilizing Hospitality in Rural Japan (U Hawaii Press, 2022). Amid the decline of many of Japan’s rural communities, the hot…
Memory, loss and living in a post-disaster village
Eighteen years after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, Annemarie Samuels visits her long-term research village in Aceh where old and new grief is met with prayer.
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022)
In Memoriam: Pat Courtney Gold (1939-2022) …
Bernard Cohn TOC
Bernard Cohn was an important anthropologist and historian of India. His 1987 volume An Anthropologist Among the Historians and Other Essays can be hard to find in digital.…
Female African warriors and their brave fight against the African slave trade by Jehron Muhammad
The film “The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring award-winning actress Viola Davis, though receiving much acclaim, has …
Atoll Ways of Being with the Ocean
A perspective from low laying atolls brings climate discourses and practical realities together. Tokelau experiences with political intervensions employed by overseas agents range historically from in…
Henni Alava, “Christianity, Politics and the Afterlives of War in Uganda: There is Confusion” (Bloomsbury, 2022)
Today I had the pleasure of talking to Dr. Henni Alava, postdoctoral researcher at Tampere University, on her fascinating new book published by Bloomsbury as part of the New Directions…
Lan Anh Hoang, “Vietnamese Migrants in Russia: Mobility in Times of Uncertainty” (Amsterdam UP, 2020)
Vietnam and Russia share a common socialist history dating back to the Cold War. But since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and Vietnam’s đổi mới reforms, Russia…
Adieu, Bruno Latour!
By Barbara Arisi and Jean Segata In order to celebrate the mes de los muertos (month of the dead), we write this obituary. We pay homage to one…
Stellenbörse für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW48
Diese Woche gibt es eine tolle Stelle im Bereich Stadtentwicklung, Recht und Soziales, ausgeschrieben vom Deutschen Institut für Urbanistik (Berlin), eine Volontariatsstelle im Bookspot Verlag…
Student Governors call out lack of #UBCBoG Transparency
UBC-V student governors took to twitter November 30th to call out #UBCBoG’s lack of transparency. December 5th’s full meeting of the board has a mere one hour of…
När började halar-märken användas?
När man rör sig i Åbo är det uppenbart när studenterna har någon form av festlighet eller tillställning. Då ser man studenter i halare – alltså en slags…
بررسی تطبیقی شخصیت آشیل-اسفندیار و رستم-هکتور در ایلیاد و شاهنامه
این مطلب در خرداد ۱۳۸۸ منتشر و اکنون در تاریخ ۱۵ آذر ۱۴۰۱ بازنشر میشود. دو همتای آشیل و هکتور، یعنی اسفندیار و رستم در حماسهء بزرگ منظوم…
How a Song Bridged Diné and Ndebele Worlds
An anthropologist recounts a magical moment of songwriting collaboration between Diné (Navajo) and Ndebele artists gathered for the WOMAD Festival in South Africa. ✽ In October, I traveled…
Lueger Unser. Eine Polemik
In Wien stehen viele Denkmäler herum, die einen antisemitischen Politiker ehren. Auf eine Intervention reagierte die Stadt erst mit Schweigen, dann mit Kunst und altbekannten Ausflüchten zur Geschicht…
Writing Life (no. 21): An interview with Ruth Behar by Natashe Lemos Dekker
Image 1: One of Ruth’s writing spaces filled with family and childhood photos, art and objects that inspire her and that are filled with memories. On the laptop…
Plantas para alejar las malas vibras
Aquí se puede leer mi ponencia del Congreso Internacional sobre la Amazonía Peruana II, titulado “Plantas para alejar las malas vibras: Observaciones etnbotánicas de la Amazonía urbana.” …