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Until the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the mass suicides-massacre at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978 represented the largest number of man-caused civilian deaths in a single event in…
Hi all, I just returned from 2 great days at AidEx in Brussels-probably one of the best non-conference meeting experiences I had in a long time!While I’m still…
Rat für Migration sucht wissenschaftliche/n Mitarbeiter*in für Geschäftsstelle ab 01.02.2019 Der Rat für Migration (RfM) ist ein bundesweiter Zusammenschluss von rund 150 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wiss…
Earlier this month, Atul Gawande, physician-author and new CEO of the yet-to-be defined health venture formed by JP Morgan, Berkshire Hathaway, and Amazon, published the long-form New Yorker…
Good news everyone. The free-to-download-and-read version of the latest title in the Material Vernaculars series–The Expressive Lives of Elders: Folklore, Art, and Aging edited by Jon Kay is…
The Speaking Justice to Power series is now available as downloadable ebooks. SJP I & II are available on our teaching resources page. You may also download them…
Image Credit: African and Caribbean War Memorial, Windrush Square, Brixton, London (Kelly Foster CC BY SA 4.0) In this reading list, we recommend fifteen books previously reviewed on the…
With almost 20 years of multidisciplinary work between Lisbon, São Paulo and Porto Alegre, and a huge sense of adventure towards work, Alisson Avila is a key actor…
Social cognition includes the ways we explain, predict, interpret, and influence other people. The dominant philosophical theories of social cognition–the theory-theory and the simulation theory… Visit New Books…
A recent discussion between CAoS co-founder Jerome Lewis and UCL Associate Professor Hannah Knox, in which they discuss public anthropology in the context of climate change and digital…
Since I returned to freelancing a couple of months ago, I’ve been spending a great deal of time on the business aspects of my work (in addition to…
People collect water from a pump in a small village in Mozambique. Graeme Robertson/Getty Images Roxana* and Rajah are neighbors who live on the outskirts of Nampula City…
Announced on November 13th 2018 in Brasília, the £200,000 Newton Prize for projects demonstrating the best science and innovation to address global challenges through partnerships was awarded to…
Surprise! As a special holiday treat, the SAPIENS team is presenting this unedited conversation between SAPIENS host Chip Colwell and acclaimed science journalist Carl Zimmer about DNA, identity,…
The second part of this interview with Nicholas De Genova moves into an analysis of the so-called refugee crisis since 2015 and possibilities for militant academic research that…
NAME: Alexandra Michel-Döbler STUDIENFÄCHER: Ethnologie, Politikwissenschaft BERUF: Länderkoordinatorin +++ Ich habe Ethnologie studiert, weil… … ich es spannend fand, vom System auf die einzel…
Although bluegrass music is typically associated with the bluegrass state of Kentucky and Appalachia, the genre is actually played in many pockets all around the world. In Czech…
In the opening keynote for UX Camp Chicago, I spoke integration and amplification. How do we deepen our focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, in order to deliver better experiences…
When I was a boy, my father and I used to plan road trips together. We would go to our local American Automobile Association (AAA) office and get…
When now Brazilian president-elect Jair Bolsonaro promised during his campaign to withdraw from the Paris climate accord, putting development ahead of environmental protection, many in the agribusines…
Image: NASA (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glacial_lakes,_Bhutan.jpg) “There are many reasons why people in our field work remotely,” one data analytics coordinator tells me. We are talking …
“Sisi sworn in for second Egyptian presidential term amid crackdown on critics,” read the headline of the Reuter story on President As-Sisi assuming his second term in office.…
Human beings have long seen themselves as the center of the universe, as specially-created creatures who are anointed as above and beyond the natural world. Professor and noted…