Week in Review: July 3-9
There were some interesting news pieces this week. I’m particularly on the lookout for stories on that topic, since I will be giving a talk on race, disability,…
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Get a taste of summer… and upcoming #EVENTS!
Yes, the summer has finally arrived: time to plan for the upcoming academic year! As has become our monthly tradition, Andrea at Allegra has compiled for you a…
Liminality, Biomedicine, and the Law – A symposium supported by the wellcome trust
Biomedicine and the life sciences continue to rearrange the relationship between culture and biology, problematizing what it means to be a person, and introducing uncertainty and instability to…
Save the date: Public Anthropology Conference (PAC 2015) 12th Annual Conference
SHIFTING CLIMATES Dialogues of the Urgent and Emergent Call For Participation jv6775a@student.american.edu When: October 3-4, 2015 Where: American University, Washington, DC The rapidly transforming …
Machik Weekend: A global forum for civic engagement and Tibet
Machik Weekend a global forum for civic engagement and Tibet November 20-22, 2015
GW event: Promoting Arctic Urban Sustainability
When: Thursday and Friday, June 4-5, 2015, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Where: Alumni House (1918 F Street NW), Washington, DC 20052 The unprecedented rate of climate change in the…
Scott Atran’s address to the UN security council
It is not everyday that an anthropologist is asked to speak before the security council: Scott Atran did, on the 23d of April. See video here.
Standardardizing Species: Listening to, Representing, and Universalizing Bird Sounds in the 20th Century
I’m excited for Alexandra Hui’s upcoming talk November 4th at UC Davis and for the chance to act as discussant of her paper. She will be the second…
Call for posters: Reciprocity and Social Cognition
The Berlin School of Mind and Brain organizes a symposium on “Reciprocity and Social Cognition”, from the 23rd to the 25th of March, 2015. Keynote speakers will be…
Summer course on Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms, Budapest, June 2014.
The CEU Summer University announces the course: “Morality: Evolutionary Origins and Cognitive Mechanisms”, June 23-30, 2014, Budapest, Hungary . Application deadline: February 14, 2014. What makes hu…