Tag: academics
Ruy Llera Blanes , June 25th, 2020
While we now seem to be approaching post-confinement, and after the closure of campuses and improvised conversion to online teaching, there has been much discussion regarding the long-term…
Fran Barone , January 19th, 2020
Via The Conversation: Research and creative thinking can change the world. This means that academics have enormous power. But, as academics Asit Biswas and Julian Kirchherr have warned,…
Jodie-Lee Trembath , August 15th, 2018
At the end of a day of academic work, you may not want to talk to anybody else, and giving yourself that option is a form of self-care….
Jodie-Lee Trembath , June 13th, 2018
Outside the academy, I’m sure the perception remains that academics sit in leather armchairs, gazing out the gilded windows of our ivory towers, thinking all day. That has…
Jodie-Lee Trembath , January 17th, 2018
Although I’ve often been heard to sigh and groan that “technology hates me”, just like any other self-respecting anthropologist, in this post I want to consider just what…
Gamwell , June 7th, 2017
Click the image above to read the blog post on Savage Minds What a title! This Anthro Life has teamed up with Savage Minds to bring you a…
Marie-Pierre Renaud , May 18th, 2016
With this series, the TGA team had several objectives. One was to share some of our own wisdom and knowledge with those of you who are considering starting to blog….
A. J. West , November 13th, 2015
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
A. J. West , November 13th, 2015
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master's course a few years ago after…
A. J. West , November 13th, 2015
I was talking in the pub about the fundamental nature of anthropology with one of my classmates during my master’s course a few years ago after…
A. J. West , August 2nd, 2015
I was looking in Blackwell's bookshop the other day – the big famous bookshop on Broad Street in Oxford – and I came across The Indo-European Controversy…
Daniel Miller , May 13th, 2015
Perhaps the biggest problem of our entire project is that every time anyone asks us a question we have nine different answers, which is not what the person…
Kerstin B Andersson , September 12th, 2013
I’m borrowing this expression from one of Biella Coleman’s tweets, not to emphasise her message, but since it embodies well my feelings regarding a review report on one…
Kerstin B Andersson , May 1st, 2013
Panel proposal for the Bengal studies panel entered. We will see if it gets accepted! The Bengal studies panel has been a recurrent phenomenon at the EASAS /…
Kerstin B Andersson , March 14th, 2013
I’m based in Sweden. Sweden is a country with a very small population, something, which of course, also is reflected in the academic setting. A rather limited number…