“Linnaeus in Sápmi: Generating Knowledge in Transit”
The Anthropology Research Team is very happy to welcome you all at the Arctic Centre for a joint presentation by Professor Elena Isayev and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, both…
The Anthropology Research Team is very happy to welcome you all at the Arctic Centre for a joint presentation by Professor Elena Isayev and Professor Staffan Müller-Wille, both…
VANDA is an international conference, first to be held in Vienna in fall 2018, aimed at bringing together scholars from various fields of anthropology and ethnology, as well…
This post announces the launch of a book. It is also an invitation. The book, The Ethnographic Case: Telling Stories, Shaping Knowledge, was conceived as a Somatosphere curated…
I’m very pleased to announce that we are welcoming a group of new members to Somatosphere‘s Editorial Collaborative. Below is a list of their names and affiliations, but please…
Just a short announcement to point out that a couple of names have disappeared from our sidebar as we move to make our list of authors better reflect…
Scholars, indigenous activists and students from both sides of the Atlantic (or Pacific?) met at the small Venetian island of San Servolo from 14th to 19th of January…
This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there will…
This will be the last post on the domain savageminds.org, but the site will live on. It will live on both at this address (savageminds.org) where there will…
We have the pleasure to host at the anthropology team Annikki Herranen-Tabibi, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. She is doing research on kin-based forms of care, an…
If many of our colleagues send their application to this job offer, we may be able to get another Arctic anthropologist to our team. Please consider, it’s a…
When we started this blog over 8 years (!) ago, part of the motivation was that those of us working on issues of policing from within the discipline…
Our colleagues in Vienna have this interesting job opening in a project that combines anthropology and GIS in the area of the East Siberian railway region (BAM, AYAM).…
August 31 is the deadline for paper submissions to a congress in Moscow. Judging from the keynote speakers, this should be also very interesting for us anthropologists, because…
Hope everybody is enjoying the summer. For those who prefer to read announcements at this time, here is an interesting one. Hopefully many of ‘our people’ apply, so…
Rethinking taste. By confronting natural and human sciences this symposium raises new questions about taste. We invite the audience to wonder with us: How are the connections between…
Call for Papers for AAA 2017 Meeting in Washington, DC Session Title: Anthropology of Police: Techno-politics, Reform, and Questions of Violence Organizer: Hayal Akarsu Discussant: Kevin G. Karpiak…
On 23 March 2017, The Anthropology Research Team is happy to invite Professor Tim Ingold to participate as a guest discussant to a workshop that will be held…
The last thirty years have seen an intensification in ways of thinking about our health and disease in the future tense. Risk, precarity, subjunctivity — all three point…
Somatosphere invites readers to submit to “Aftermath,” a new series examining the consequences of recent nationalist political turns throughout the world, including the US election. We are…
The recent announcement by the Yamal government to artificially reduce the number of reindeer in the Yamal-Nenets Okrug by a quarter of a million animals has caused a…
Colleague Arthur Mason sent around a link to the collection of popular short essays that many anthropologists contributed to a theme around extractive industries in the Arctic, but…
Letter from the Editor: I am happy to announce Welcome to the The Co-Desinging with Machines edition. As someone with one foot in industry redesigning organizations to flourish in a…
Dear readers, belown seems to be a really promising job opening. For our community of Arctic Anthropologists, of course we would be most interested in getting as many…
This is the general topic of the next course in our PhD programme by the Uarctic Thematic Network “Arctic Extractive Industries. It’s going to take place this time…