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Ellen Messer March 17–St. Patrick’s Day fell on a Friday during Lent, when Roman Catholics ordinarily forego meat. But this year the Boston-based Roman Catholic Cardinal O’Malley gav…
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Web Roundup: If it Ledes, it Bleeds by Emily Goldsher-Diamond
This contemporary moment begs the question: what is a fact? And how do facts circulate? These questions are historical cornerstones in the study of the production of knowledge,…
When Social Media Are the News
As social media become commonplace, they reorganize publics, places, and politics in ways history cannot predict. Over a decade ago, a tectonic shift in communication technologies began…
News sites at first blush
Listing is not necessarily endorsement. Please add to this. . http://www.wsws.org/ . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_Standard . http://llco.org/study/ . http://strangetimes.lastsuperpo…
Babies and Mothers May Be Evolving Due to C-sections
The regular use of cesarean sections could be resulting in the need for even more C-sections, according to new research. Heathere Willoughby/Flickr It’s not easy to be born. In…
TaL Back in the Studio! What’s Next??
Adam, Aneil, and Ryan are all back in the TaL studio for the first time in 18 months! And it feels good. Today we talk shop about where…
Talking Anthropology: Podcasting and Its Potential for the Discipline (Part Two)
We’re back with another post from our friends at Teaching Culture blog! This time we explore podcasting and its potential for Anthropology. Here’s an excerpt, and be sure to…
Mainstreaming the Extreme: Intersecting Challenges from the Far Right in Europe – new article in the journal Intersections
This is the first issue of the new journal Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics (EEJSP). As our point of departure, we take a timely subject…
My New Podcast about College Life
I have launched a new project – a “This American Life”-style podcast about college life. It is my favorite endeavor of the past 12 years. I hope you…
Quick updates! TAL back in Boston! Burning Man mini-series, new articles, fresh episodes!
Hello dear listeners! Adam hanging with his cow friends outside Puno, Peru Just a quick update on where TAL has been and now is. Adam is back from…
December 6, 1986 & 2015: The Resilience of Violence
26 years ago today; I was pregnant, happy, optimistic for my child, who was being born into a world that had just breached the Berlin Wall. It seemed…
Douglass North has passed away
The Nobel Prize winner and economic historian Douglass North, has passed away this Monday (November 23rd, 2015) at age 95. In addition to being a founding father of…
Joint PhD in the Cognitive Science of Religion (2016-17 Studentship)
The Institute of Cognition and Culture (ICC) is offering a DEL Studentship for the Doctoral programme in the Cognitive the Science of Religion that has been established by…
Urban Space, Virtual Space, and the Media In Egypt
What is “the geography of urban uprising during the so-called Arab Spring” and, particularly, what is the relationship between its physical and virtual locations? That’s the question…
PhD studentships in Cognitive Science at Central European University, Budapest
The Department of Cognitive Science at CEU invites applications for doctoral student positions starting in September 2016. This is a research-based training program in human cognition with social…
Cambridge Moral Psychology Interdisciplinary Conference
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…
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media: Call for Papers
Constructing and Consuming Gender through Media Call for Papers CyberOrient: Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East Editor-in-Chief: Daniel Martin Varisco Guest Editor: Mona Abdel-Fadil Submission …
Pulotu – database of Pacific Religions
If good ethnographic databases works as a guilty pleasure for you, you may want to have a look at Pulotu, and thank Prof. Russell Gray and his team.…
Call for two post-doctoral researchers in cultural evolution
The Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena (Germany) are seeking to employ two full-time postdoctoral researchers in the field of cultural evolution. The…
New Website – myteachingnotebook.com
Dear subscribers, I have launched a new website focusing on the pursuit of joy in teaching and learning at myteachingnotebook.com. I’ll cross-post articles here for awhile, but if…
Xenophobia and Nativism
New paper published! Xenophobia and Nativism Hervik, Peter. 2015. ”Xenophobia and Nativism. In “International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, Wright, James D. (editor-in-ch…
Ny artikel: “Race, ”race”, racialisering, racisme og nyracisme”
Studiet af racisme og racialisering i Danmark er komplekst og behæftet med stærke moralske og politiske interesser og følelser. Ofte omtales racisme og race uden reference til den…
Ten years after – the Muhammad Cartoons: Perspectives, Reflections, Challenges International Conference, Aalborg University
Ten years after the newspaper Jyllands-Posten published 12 cartoons the Muhammad Carton Crisis continues to be a discursive reference point for new controversies involving artists and threatening Musl…
State of the art research on social behavior
In Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 2015, 3, a really useful open access collection of review papers on state of the art research on social behavior edited by…