Rück- und Ausblick Schreiben mit KI
Am 24.4.2023 fand unser Impuls-Workshop „Schreiben mit KI“ statt. Wir waren reichlich aufgeregt, da derzeit ja nahezu täglich neue Versionen und Anwendungsgebiete von KI entstehen und dadurch ein…
Extraordinary Lessons From a Community-Led Excavation
An archaeologist examines how community members in Cardiff, Wales, collaborated with a research team to make important insights into the Bronze Age. This article was originally published at…
Bankenkrisen, verspieltes Vertrauen und die Zukunft der UBS
Schon Dürrematt hat den dramatischen Niedergang von Banken beschrieben. Doch während er noch von einer Haftbarkeit der Verantwortlichen ausging, bleiben die verheerenden Folgen von Bankencrashs wie jü…
Aného’s Disappearing Coast
How do people adapt when the ground beneath their feet starts to wash away? All over the world, coastal communities are facing the same challenges: rising sea levels…
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members
SAR Welcomes Two New Board Members …
What does it mean to be Indigenous in the 21st century?
Last week we were invited to present our work and research group on the LMU’s official Instagram account…
Full-time lab technician (sample processing) position
Full time lab technician position based in St. John’s, NL
Post-doc position in community-based research in Nunatsiavut
A post-doctoral position in the support and evaluation of community-based research on plastics pollution in Nunatsiavut
Presentation: Cultural dimensions of digital ethics
Budka, P. (2023). Cultural dimensions of digital ethics: Anthropological notes and perspectives. Presentation at Academies for Global Innovation and Digital Ethics (AGIDE) Workshop, Vienna, Austria: …
La risa que mata: antropologÃa del humor subversivo
“No con la cólera, sino con la risa se mata ¡Adelante, matemos el espÃritu de la pesadez!” (Asà habló Zaratustra. Friedrich Nietzsche.) “Omumneepo”. Asà llaman a los ataques…
Unsteady grounds: On ethnography, academic precarity, and motherhood
This post is part of our Encountering Precarities series. The thematic thread engages with the multiple and asymmetrical forms of precarisation and vulnerabilisation involving both ethnographers and t…
The Complex Roots of Patriarchy with Angela Saini
In this episode, Angela Saini, award-winning science journalist and author of “The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule,” traces the material and social roots of patriarchy with host…
Encountering precarities: ethnography, spurious solidarity and neoliberal academia
In the wake of calls for responsibility and for ‘Raising our voice’ (AAA 2020), early-career researchers’ in anthropology risk to bear the weight to redeem the discipline while…
Susan Hartman, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town” (Beacon Press, 2022)
How can scholars employ the practices and techniques of investigative journalism? Susan Hartman provides an answer in her intimate look at refugee experience in the United States. In City…
Perspektive Sportmanagement
Ebenso wie andere eher fachferne Bereiche bietet auch der Sport Berufschancen für Geisteswissenschaftler*innen im Aufgabenbereich Planung, Steuerung, Organisation und Verwaltung – im Sportmanagem…
Violence/Freedom: Gender and the Politics of Surveillance in Public Parks
Cities all over the world have witnessed a surge in the use of surveillance technologies, such as data-gathering phone apps, facial recognition software, and closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras…
“Japan moves to criminalize exploitative photo voyeurism”
Text from Japan Today, 5/2/23. A bill has been submitted to an ongoing session in the Japanese Diet targeting a crackdown on people who take surreptitious photographs, a…
Gens
Der zweisprachige boasblog Researching Capitalism sucht nach ethnographischen Möglichkeiten, um den zeitgenössischen Kapitalismus zu erforschen. Im Zentrum steht dabei ein Manifest („Gens“), das einen…
sNAPAshots: Briana Nichols
https://practicinganthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.05.01-Briana-sNAPAshot.mp4 Transcript 0:07 [On Screen] NAPA Logo sNAPAshots Interviewer 0:07 Welcome to sNAPAshots, conversations with practi…
UNCC Shooting Four Years Later…
Yesterday marked the fourth year since a shooter entered my classroom in Kennedy 236, took two lives, and changed dozens more forever. The University of North Carolina at…
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania
Distant Doctors: A Surgical Theater in Romania – By Cristina A. Pop – Someone has a fondness for purple decor, I decide, as I look around the examination…
Mathias Levi Toft Kristiansen takes the page 99 test
My dissertation is about how middle-class people in the United States economize their everyday life to get economic security. Ethnographically, I focus on two groups of Americans who…