Thomas Mann und Magnus Hirschfeld
2025 ist nicht nur der 150. Geburtstag Thomas Manns, sondern auch der 90. Todestag Magnus Hirschfelds. Während Mann seine ersten Erzählungen und Romane schrieb, erfand Hirschfeld die Theorie…
2025 ist nicht nur der 150. Geburtstag Thomas Manns, sondern auch der 90. Todestag Magnus Hirschfelds. Während Mann seine ersten Erzählungen und Romane schrieb, erfand Hirschfeld die Theorie…
History ain’t what it was. Here is the great historian of India, Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, with an amazing caption for an illustration of a water buffalo: “Water-buffalo (p.…
Matt Durington and I had a wonderful time giving a talk at UBC Okanagan. Thanks to Dr. Fiona McDonald and the Collaborative and Experimental Ethnography Lab. Multimodal…
by Lars Gabriel Unlayao Slettebø[1] and Fabio Nicolás Venero Figueroa[2] Atop a finely woven gold-threaded mat sits a man with immaculate posture, adorned with a cape of shimmering…
The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement:…
by Emma van der Tak – “I saw that you have written for newspapers before,” Albert remarks as the waitress puts down our coffee. While I did so…
Cancelling Mbembe On June 6 2024 I was present in the grand hall that is the University Aula of the University of Bergen in Norway when my friend…
Syaifudin Zuhri’s book Wali Pitu and Muslim Pilgrimage in Bali, Indonesia: Inventing a Sacred Tradition (Leiden, 2022) is a detailed examination of the recent emergence of the Wali Pitu (“Seven…
The kind people at Heidelberg dug this out of the drawer the mice keep for snacking in the lean times. I did not have a digital copy before…
Cyber feudalism, techno corvée, or semi feudal cyber colonialism. Why feudal now? because the resistance levels are in an ebb the oppressive apparatus access tried and true modalities…
La foto es de Dave Bottons Fragmento de “Horizontes perdidos”, texto para el catálogo de la exposición Islas y horizontes. Obras de la colección Es Baluard (Fuenlabrada, 2016)…
Solen skiner varmt över en ockuperad gammal tågstation i Rom. Här huserar den transfeministiska organisationen Lucha y Siesta, som driver ett kvinnohärbärge i den största byggnaden sedan 2008.…
An archaeologist explains how generative artificial intelligence has the potential to reshape our views of ancient people, arguing that a critical perspective is needed to use this technical…
For the eighth season of the SAPIENS podcast, we’re meeting at a crossroads of cultures—past and present—in search of humanity’s collective destination. Culture is a force that makes…
A Song Namacurra onoloba nikayedhoNamacurra asks for helpFrelimo onoguliya mathaka na atxinaFrelimo is selling our lands to the ChineseNafuna minivedele manera adhouweWe want to find a way for…
Each day weaves its own tale, and no two days unfold alike in the Mandal Valley. The Mandal Valley is like any central Himalayan valley, rich and teeming…
An SLA Online Conversation Friday, April 4, 2025 12pm to 1:30pm Central Time (UTC-6) Register for the Zoom meeting at: https://tinyurl.com/slaonline2 This online panel gathers several established ling…
More scholars of language on Trump and Trumpism Send us yours to be added! Sorry Not Sorry: Political Apology in the Age of Trump Jan David Hauck Teruko…
Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, and Fiona Wright https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487548841 We’re delighted to announce the publication of our new edited volume,…
By Sumin Myung, Cultural Anthropology, Victoria University of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology…
Polly Katherine Lewis passed on March 8, 2025 from COPD complications after a two decade long struggle. Polly was born May 22, 1947 in Vallejo, CA. Her father…
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to … More
Wir freuen uns, eine spannende Kooperation bekannt zu geben: REMID ist ab sofort offizieller Partner des Podcasts Schöner glauben! Der Podcast Schöner glauben, gegründet von Jason L…
Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai’s Shore (Cornell UP, 2024) reveals the ways that technical images such as weather infographics, sea-level projections, and surveys are…