The Welling Professorship Lecture by Lawrence D. Bobo, Ph.D. “Post Racialism: The Racial Divide in the Age of Obama” Lawrence D. Bobo is the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He holds appointments in the Department of Sociology and the Department of African and African American Studies. His [...]
• Stanley Ann Dunham: her story The New York Times magazine‘s cover story this week is about President Obama’s mother who was a cultural anthropologist. The article is adapted from a forthcoming book on Dr. Dunham called A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother. Last year, Duke University Press published her study [...]
Guest post by Sean Carey The royal wedding is almost upon us, and while austere republicans have taken cover, the rest of the UK population is in thrall at the prospect of the forthcoming spectacle. In fact, I had a haircut yesterday, and the Greek Cypriot owner told me that she was closing the salon [...]
The second issue of the new multidisciplinary journal, Celebrity Studies, has just been published. It is a special issue devoted to the subject of Michael Jackson. Surprise, surpise this era of economic strain including relentless library cutbacks for journal subscriptions (at least at my university), it is nothing short of amazing to see a new [...]
Guest post by Sean Carey Surrey County, one of the so-called Home Counties, had an estimated population of 1.1 million in 2009. Surrey is predominantly white — 95 percent of the population according to the 2001 census. But the other five percent of Surrey offers interesting ethnic diversity. For example, in the town of Woking, [...]
Doctoral Scholarship in Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews The St Andrews Centre for Pacific Studies invites applications from candidates with a doctoral research project in any field of Social Anthropology, with a regional focus on the Pacific. This fee waiver doctoral scholarship will start in September 2011 and cover tuition fees at the UK/EU [...]
• Ask an anthro Two articles in the mainstream media this past week recognized the relevance of cultural anthropology to major global issues. An article in the Guardian discusses the importance of family planning for improving women’s health and reducing poverty in developing countries. It quotes J. Joseph Spiegel: “If you ask anthropologists who live [...]
Robust Cultural Pluralism in the New World Order: Three Prophecies 2011 distinguished lecture, sponsored by the Institute for Ethnographic Research Richard A. Shweder, William Claude Reavis distinguished service professor of human development at the University of Chicago, will analyze visions of the coming world order, such as the “end of history” thesis that predicts the [...]
George Mason University’s Center for Emerging Market Policies (CEMP) invites you to: Silos in Finance: The Silences that Contributed to the Financial Crisis When: Friday, April 15, 5:00 – 6:30 PM Reception immediately following talk. RSVP at: cemp@gmu.edu Speaker: Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, social anthropologist and author of the best-selling [...]
• Bernie, let’s chat Gillian Tett is the Financial Times’ US managing editor and a cultural anthropologist with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University. This week she co-authored an article published in the FT on Bernard Madoff, based on a chat with the swindler himself. • Friend me The subject of animal-animal friendships prompted a network [...]
