The choices that churches make about their musical style do more than simply change the sounds one hears in their gatherings, but actually form certain kinds of community.…
Journalism is under attack in many contexts from Hungary to the United States. In Turkey, the situation is not different. Autocracy changed the profession radically and forced some…
NINTH ALL-INDIAORIENTAL CONFERENCE TRIVANDRUM DECEMBER 20th to 22nd 1937Observations taken more than acentury ago, these* papers describe many things which areno longer actual, and they are become rec…
It seems in Sri Lanka a holy text was burnt… a ‘heretical’ text brought from Benares, but not burnt before it inspired the king (Kumaradasa) and some devoted souls……
The Department of Anthropology at University of Memphis (my alma mater) is offering a one-year graduate student fellowship with Terminix. This is an exciting opportunity to gain hands-on…
We are in the middle of the Rhineland’s lignite mining region, a semi-urban to rural area in the west of Germany. The landscape is considerably altered by past…
Debates about climate change have long entered political arenas through diplomacy, bureaucracy and regulations as part of worldwide environmental governance. Global efforts to foster greener energy i…
A poster in an Ebola response center breaks down the evolving response to the epidemic—including efforts to address social and cultural concerns. Annie Wilkinson On May 24, 2014,…
Even before the pandemic hit Brazil’s favelas, residents began organizing to protect themselves — against both the novel coronavirus and the government’s active suppression of effective public …
Octomom: Deep-sea octopus guards her eggs for over four yearsAmazing footage of an amazing mother The Empty Brain: Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge, or store…
During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human displacement. More than 60%…
In this very special episode of New Books in Interpretive Political and Social Science we feature Lee Ann Fujii’s Interviewing in Social Science Research: A Relational Approach (Routledge, 20… Visit New Books…
Duane Jethro’s Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Aesthetics of Power (Bloomsbury, 2020) is a terrific book. In it, Jethro develops a novel analytical framework… Visit New…
آندره لوروا-گوران ترجمه اصغر کریمی زایش اشاره و گفتار وسیرتحول آن، فن و شیوه زبان فصل دوم مغز و دست …چنین بود که در پرتو این سازمان، روح…
لیلا اردبیلی سال ۲۰۱۹ انتشارات آکسفورد کتابی با عنوان کتاب راهنمای جامعه شناسی شناختی منتشر کرد که در آن کسانی همچون عمر لیزاردو، اویاتار زروباول، کارن سرلو، و…
ریسک در چند دهه ی اخیر از انحصار دانش تخصصیِ علوم پایه و مهندسی (علوم فیزیکی) که فقط با ابزارهای فنی تخمین زده می شود، خارج گردیده و…
مرگ برای زنی که «خِرَد مذهب او بود» آیا مرگ روشنفکر با مرگ یک فرد عادی متفاوت است؟ وقتی مرگ، سرنوشت انکار ناپذیر هستی انسانی است و…
افشاگریِ کاسیرر و آرنت از اسطوره های سیاسی ـ ایدئولوژیکیِ «دیستوپیایی» ؛ و وضع موجود ایران در جهان دیستوپیایی امروز (۲۰۱۹ ـ ۲۰۲۰ میلادی)، منطقه بحران زده ی…
„Identitätspolitik“ gilt wahlweise als liberal oder illiberal, zu links oder nicht links genug. Ein Blick in die letzten drei Jahrzehnte aber zeigt: Die Forderung, auf Themen von Kultur…
Ted Chiang is a science fiction author who wrote the story that became Arrival (via Metafilter). Recently in The New Yorker: How much can you optimize for generality?…
SAR Announces 2021-2022 Native Artist Fellows …
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 send papers centering…
شیوع موج جدیدی از کرونا، باز هم منجر به گفتگوهایی بر سر نحوه مدیریت بحران کرونا در ایران شد. پرسش آنست که چرا با وجود هشدارهای متخصصان…
A nasal voice is rambling on in a long monologue about how to best pitch a startup on Clubhouse when I log on sometime in March. It is…