Archives Matter: Queer, Feminist and Decolonial Encounters When: June 2 and 3, 2016 Who: Centre for Feminist Research Where: Goldsmiths, University of London, Lewisham Way, New Cross, London…
The Georgetown Americas Initiative & Institute for the Study of International Migration present: Susan Terrio, Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University, Author of: Whose Child Am I? Unacco…
The Past, Present and Future of African American Genomes: A Workshop on Ancient DNA Retrieval and Application When: April 12, 9am Who: The Howard University Cobb Research Laboratory Where: Gallery Lo…
Pedagogy in Religious Studies in Contemporary Tibet: The Kagyu Tradition at Larung Gar Buddhist Academy When: Monday, March 28, 4pm-5:30pm Who: Tibet Governance Project Where: Elliott School of Inter…
To conclude our thematic week, it’s time for yet another events’ post! This time the theme is, of course, human rights. Given what we have discussed also earlier,…
To conclude this Allegra week, it is time for yet another events’ post! These are always a thrill to us: they allow us to get in touch with…
Ever so often we find it indispensable to remind ourselves & everyone else that one of Allegra’s guiding mottos is ‘slow food for thought‘. Indeed, one of the…
You know us: we do not want to miss a single opportunity to publicise hot and exciting events on the anthropological calendar. And because times are dark (to…
What is an academic blog? Who form its audience and who are, or should be, its authors? How does blogging resonate with more ‘serious’ – or at minimum…
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward contemporary social and political issues with a new…
On Saturday 28 November Alun Withey and I hosted Framing the Face: New Perspectives of the History of Facial Hair, a one day conference funded by the University…
In our 2-day workshop – Grounding (Im)mobilities – Embodiment, Ephemera, Ecologies – at the ICS in Lisbon this past September, more than 30 anthropologists gathered to problematise the (im)material di…
Already getting that blue feeling—that everyone knows what they’re doing and is on a level I’ve never been at and (it feels) never will be. Thoughts of this…
In a recent article published in the Huffington’s Post, anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse claims that the #AAA2015 in Denver was marked by a ‘turn to public anthropology’, i.e a…
Over the last decades, ‘moving subjects’ have captivated—if not demanded—more of anthropologists’ attention. As one of the forefront communicators of social phenomena as they are lived ‘elsewhere’, we…
I’m still applying moisturizer three times a day to rehydrate after the arid Denver conditions. It was an energizing, exhausting, and momentous #AAA2015 as members voted overwhelmingly in…
Relations and Dependencies, the second Helsinki Knots Symposium, tackled how two disciplines, anthropology and sociology, deal with the interplay between the intellectual and political/economic condit…
Today our coverage of the Biannual Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society continues with selected notes from panels – brought to you by Maija Lassila and Aleksis Toro,…
This week, anthropologists will be making their way to Denver for the yearly academic (and sometimes chaotic) ritual that is #AAA2015. The “Familiar/Strange” theme of this year’s AAA…
This week, Allegra makes a five-day trip to the northern capital of Finland, Helsinki! Our fantastic local allies have put together a comprehensive string of posts about the…
>INSERT BLURB – BLA-BLA-BLAHBLA-BLAH< Fine, this was no editorial omission although the thought is fun, right! Rather it was a carefully deliberated opening intended to capture the cull…
It’s that time of year again, when anthropologists start gathering on Twitter, finish writing their papers, and pack their scarves for the annual AAA pilgrimage. (Given the extended…
It’s Autumn (at least here in Europe), days are becoming shorter and you’re feeling a bit low? Worry no more dear Allies! We have put together this list…
The one-day Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference will take place on Friday 9 October 2015. Programme and registration: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/26237. The Moral Psychology…