When: Monday, September 12, 9:00am – 11:00am Where: Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center Amphitheater 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004 Dr. Jonathan LaPook, medical correspondent for the CBS Evening News, will interview Dr. Paul Farmer at Hooks Book. A portion of the event’s proceeds will be donated to Partners In Health, the non-profit [...]
• Libya: the oily truth FoxNews quoted William Beeman, chair of the anthropology department at the University of Minnesota: “Our interests are mostly commercial,” he said. “The U.S. has an important supply of excellent sweet crude out of Libya. There are very few places in the world that have oil of this quality.” According to [...]
Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world When: April 3-6, 2012 Where: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India This conference will investigate art and aesthetics in their widest senses and experiences, from a variety of perspectives and in numerous contexts: the material arts, crafts, performance, bodies, digital and new media, metaphysics, and other related themes. [...]
• Cultural critique of sex offender treatment in the U.S. Cultural anthropologist Roger Lancaster published an opinion piece in the Sunday New York Times that draws from his book, Sex Panic and the Punitive State. Lancaster is a professor of anthropology at George Mason University and director of cultural studies. In his essay he indicates [...]
Abstracts Due: October 1, 2011 Symposium: September 19-22, 2012 The Textile Society of America invites paper proposals for its upcoming symposium, Textiles & Politics, to be held in Washington, D.C. September 19-22, 2012. We seek presentations from all textile-related disciplines and interdisciplinary areas, including but not limited to anthropology, art, art history, conservation, cultural geography, [...]
Global Health & Innovation Conference 2012 Presented by Unite For Sight, 9th Annual Conference Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA When: Saturday, April 21 – Sunday, April 22, 2012 The Global Health & Innovation Conference is the world’s largest global health conference and social entrepreneurship conference. This must-attend, thought-leading conference annually convenes 2,200 leaders, changemakers, students, [...]
Please Don’t Beat Me, Sir!, has been officially selected to have its world premiere at the 2011 Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) in October! The Independent listed BIFF (“Asia’s largest film festival”) as one of the top twelve film festivals of 2011. In order to make the most of this exciting opportunity, the filmmakers need [...]
• Looting in England not “mindless” The recent rioting and looting in several cities in England are not “mindless” or random, according to cultural anthropologist Sean Carey of Roehampton University. In an article he wrote for The New Statesman, Carey points to the targeted looting of high-end shops, including jewelry and technology stores, as an [...]
By contributor Sean Carey Politicians in the U.K. are puzzled about the cause and scope of the recent disorders on the U.K. mainland. Last night, for example, I listened to Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chair of the British Conservative Party, and Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, squaring up to each other on BBC [...]
Guest post by Joanne Brucker Recently, I was helping Faton, a Roma friend of mine, fill out his college application. He had arrived at the question of ‘Father’s Occupation,’ when he looked up and asked me, “Can I write social assistance for father’s occupation.” All I could do was to shake my head and reply, [...]
