The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
Wissenschaft, Gender und erzwungene Migration: Ein auto-ethnografischer Blick zweier ukrainischer Wissenschaftlerinnen
Erzwungene Migration betrifft weltweit eine ganze Reihe von Akademiker:innen und ihre Forschung. Die Soziologin Olena Strelnyk und die Kulturwissenschaftlerin Mariya Shcherbyna richten ihren Blick au…
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, “Why Men?: A Human History of Violence and Inequality” (Hurst, 2023)
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patriarchal power and warfare? Did it…
Gaza is not a humanitarian crisis: on self-defence, depoliticising language, and contextualisation
On Thursday evening October 26, EU member states finally agreed to a formal declaration calling for ‘humanitarian corridors and pauses’ of the shelling in Gaza. The declaration also…
Barbara H. Tedlock, 1942-2023
Barbara Tedlock at Maya-themed holiday party, SAR Dobkin Boardroom, 2016 The School for Advanced Research is sad to report news of the death on September 11, 2023, of…
Weltbeziehungen
Vor knapp zwei Wochen wurde in Erfurt der Forschungsbau “Weltbeziehungen” offiziell eröffnet. Es war eine der ersten Veranstaltungen, an der ich im Rahmen meines Fellowships teilgenommen habe. W…
Weltbeziehungen
Vor knapp zwei Wochen wurde in Erfurt der Forschungsbau “Weltbeziehungen” offiziell eröffnet. Es war eine der ersten Veranstaltungen, an der ich im Rahmen meines Fellowships teilgenommen habe. W…
Júlia Fernandez: Outside of Humanity: Palestinian Children and the Value of Life
The algorithm swiftly gets it –yes, I am sucked in by news about Gaza- and collapses my social media platforms’ feeds into a monothematic thread that mirrors my…
We Need to Tell Our Own Stories
In the controversies swirling around Margaret Mead’s work in American Samoa, one set of voices has too often been left out: that of Samoans. Sparked by a provocative…
Gaza in the light of German Holocaust memory culture
German Foreign Minister and Green party member Annalena Baerbock announced on the 23rd of October that Germany will not support a ceasefire as demanded by the EU –…
Diagnos: nostalgi
(H)aha-upplevelse 5 av 8 från Kunskapskabarén på Åbo Svenska Teater. Föreställningen Smärtsamt! – en nostalgisk föreställning om (då)tid, den 26 oktober på Tiljan, Åbo Svenska Teater Dags för…
Von Mexiko nach Guatemala – die Anfänge der zentralamerikanischen Archäologie
Von Oktober 1895 bis Mai 1897 bereiste das Ehepaar Caecilie und Eduard Seler Mexiko und Mittelamerika. Ihre Forschungserkenntnisse schufen einen Grundstein für die Altamerikanistik. Text: Ulr…
Michael Serazio, “The Authenticity Industries: Keeping It Real in Media, Culture, and Politics” (Stanford UP, 2023)
In recent decades, authenticity has become an American obsession. It animates thirty years’ worth of reality TV programming and fuels the explosive virality of one hot social media…
On Algorithmic Divination
Scientist operating an algorithmic divination machine as imagined by Midjourney’s AI (image by Author & Midjourney). Algorithms are tools of divination.[1] Like cowry shells, scapular bones,…
Antonio De Lauri: The Courage of Historical Truths
With the destruction of Gaza by Israel under way and the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories worsening day by day, a recurrent question is raised in…
Darren Byler on his book, Terror Capitalism
https://www.dukeupress.edu/terror-capitalism Interview by Xiao Ke Xiao Ke: Thank you so much for accepting my interview invitation. After reading this book in detail (again), I just want to…
Oscar Salemink (1958-2023) – a Personal Tribute
My dear friend Oscar Salemink died in Copenhagen on September 23 after a prolonged struggle with myeloma cancer. He was outstandingly generous, mischievously funny, and an indomitably social…
Verantwortungsbewusstsein – On German Responsibility
For many years now we have met Germans who declare that they are ashamed of being German. I have often felt tempted to answer that I am ashamed…
The Dirt
Discard Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that takes systems of waste and wasting as its topic of study, including but beyond conventional notions of trash and…
Neil Cohn, “Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension” (Bloomsbury, 2020)
Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are…
Stellenbörse für geisteswissenschaftler*innen KW44
Diese Woche gibt es z.B. ein Volontariat im Bereich Festivals und Veranstaltungsförderung bei der Stadt Dortmund, eine Assistenz-Stelle im Bereich Kuration beim Bonner Kunstverein und eine Ste…
I’ve won a prize: Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grant
The best thing about this award is the fact that someone like myself can qualify at all. The Women’s History Network, recognising those doing rigorous research without being…
Lesley Nicole Braun, “Congo’s Dancers: Women and Work in Kinshasa” (U Wisconsin Press, 2023)
Today I spoke with Lesley Nicole Braun to talk about her new book on Congo’s dancers. Dance music plays a central role in the cultural, social, religious, and family…
Utsa Mukherjee, “Race, Class, Parenting and Children’s Leisure: Children’s Leisurescapes and Parenting Cultures in Middle-Class British Indian Families” (Policy Press, 2022)
Children’s leisure lives are changing, with increasing dominance of organised activities and screen-based leisure. These shifts have reconfigured parenting practices, too. However, our current understandings of these processes…