Guest post by Thomas Hylland Eriksen It was only a matter of hours between the blast in central Oslo and my most extensive and exhausting engagement with international media since I started out as an anthropologist in the 1980s. Between Friday night and Wednesday, I spoke on radio, on television (via a mobile phone), to [...]
• On extreme rightwing terrorism in Norway Thomas Hylland Eriksen….published an essay in the Guardian in which he notes that rightwing extremists in Norway are not very visible and that it’s difficult to easily label various websites, blogs, and chat groups as “rightwing.” One thing the various loose networks and groups may have in common [...]
Guest post by Majid Razvi If “monk-politician” strikes you as somewhat of a contradiction… well, you might be right. Meet Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. His title contains within it a sad reminder of the current plight of the Tibetans. On July 14, the Culture in Global Affairs Research and Policy Program [...]
Conference Dates: October 14-16, 2011 American University, Washington DC Submission deadline: September 16, 2011 5PM Eastern Time Contact: AUPublicAnthro@gmail.com Website: http://american.edu/cas/anthropology/public (Re)Defining Power: Paradigms of Praxis The Eighth Annual Public Anthropology Conference Join us for a conference that examines and uncovers various systems of power. New paradigms of praxis must be about more than making [...]
UPDATE: Zahi Hawass has confirmed that he is losing his appointment as Egyptian Antiquities Minister in an ongoing cabinet shuffle. • Whose lies are better? Two weeks ago, cultural anthropologist Mike McGovern of Yale University published an op-ed in the New York Times about the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case in which he argued for understanding of [...]
An article in Nature discusses high and rising rates of something referred to in English as “nodding syndrome” among several hundred children in South Sudan, northern Uganda and other neighboring regions. A photo caption states that each village in South Sudan has an afflicted child. Nodding syndrome is found among children 5-15 years of age. [...]
Hong Kong and Asian Cinema: Creativity and Culture in an Era of Globalization This meeting of the Asian Cinema Studies Society welcomes paper, poster, workshop and panel proposals covering all aspects of Asian film and media. Although proposals related to the conference theme of Hong Kong and Asian cinema in the era of globalization may [...]
The University of California Press in association with the Center for a Public Anthropology annually sponsors an international competition that awards a formal, publishing contract for the best book proposal submitted—independent of whether the author has completed (or even started) the proposed manuscript. This year, there were 282 submissions. They were from every continent (except [...]
The CIGA Seminar Series Presents Tibet and the Politics of Exile in the New Millennium by Samdhong Rinpoche, Tibetan Prime Minister in Exile A distinguished scholar and leading Tibetan public intellectual, Professor Samdhong Rinpoche has served as the first elected Tibetan Prime Minister in Exile from 2001 to 2011. He was professor of Tibetan studies [...]
• To tell the truth or not the truth: a complicated question Cultural anthropologist Mike McGovern, assistant professor at Yale, published an op-ed in The New York Times in which he provides context about Guinea and why someone from Guinea might choose to misrepresent his or her background in order to get out. As you [...]
