This event is hosted by the Departments of Botany and Anthropology of the National Museum of Natural History in collaboration with the United States Botanic Garden and supported by the Cuatrecasas Family Foundation.
The Ninth Annual Smithsonian Botanical Symposium
September 24-25, 2010, Washington, DC
People are dependent upon plants for food, clothing, medicine, fuel and [...]
From the Canadian Anthropological Society blog:
Call for a new boundary crossing network: Anthropology and Mobility
Convenor: Noel B. Salazar
Mobility, as a concept-metaphor, captures the common impression that
people’s life-worlds are in constant flux, with not only persons
(including anthropologists), but also cultures, objects, capital,
businesses, services, diseases, media, images, information, and ideas
circulating across (and even beyond) the planet. Among [...]
From our friends at American University, via the Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists (WAPA):
Revolutions! Building Emancipatory Politics & Action
The 7th Annual AU Public Anthropology Conference
Registration deadline: September 12
Join us for a revolutionizing conference as we work towards building coalitions across diverse social justice movements. We invite community activists, practicing and academic anthropologists and other [...]
11th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium
July 22 – 24, 2010
85 Main Street
Bucksport, Maine
From the official press release:
Among the presenters are your AMIA-list associates Jennifer Jenkins, University of Arizona; Ross Lipman, UCLA Film & Television Archive; J. Fred MacDonald, and Paul Spehr.
The NHF Summer Symposium is a multi-disciplinary gathering devoted to the history, theory, and [...]
Via the always fascinating Somatosphere blog, an announcement about an upcoming conference:
“Medical Anthropology in Europe: Shaping the Field”
June 1-2, Oxford, UK
“Medical anthropology has just as long a history in Europe as in North America. However, European medical anthropologists are often unknown in Britain. One reason is that they often do not write in English or [...]
“Mother’s Day Paint Job,” creative commons licensed on Flickr.
One day out of 365? Not good enough.
Anthropologists have analyzed some annual holidays such as Mardi Gras in the West and Holi among Hindus in South Asia. They often involve “inversion.”
In Mardi Gras, people have a riotously good time in ways not normally accepted. Sexuality is emphasized. [...]
To our Washington-area readers out there, the Culture in Global Affairs Program and the Global Women’s Forum at the Elliott School of International Affairs are hosting our final event of Spring 2010 this Thursday evening:
Working the Night Shift:
Women in India’s Call Center Industry
Dr. Reena Patel
Drawing from her newly released book, Working the Night Shift, [...]
Please join us for an event next week on April 8 at the Elliott School of International Affairs, part of GW’s new Global Women’s Initiative:
Global Women’s Forum:
Global Women 2020: Challenges and Priorities over the Next Decade
Thursday, April 8, 2010
6:00 – 7:15 pm
1957 E Street NW, Lindner Family Commons (Room 602)
Katherine Blakeslee, Director, Office of [...]
Guest post by Anna Applefield
Global Pulse 2010 is a 3-day on-line “global conversation” on a variety of topics pertaining to development, including entrepreneurship, global health, education, and the comparative advantages of global or local approaches. It is hosted by the U.S. Agency for International Development and led by experts in their respective fields. Its aim [...]
Very interesting event over at George Mason University this week. Everyone’s welcome – this is not to be missed:
James Der Derian (Brown University) will screen and discuss his co-directed film:
Human Terrain: War Becomes Academic
Thursday March 25, 2010
4:30 p.m.
George W. Johnson Center, Room F
George Mason University
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, Virginia
