Not Hollywood: Independent Film As Cultural Critique by Dr. Sherry Ortner Date: Thursday, September 22nd Time: Lecture 4:00-5:30 pm, with reception to immediately follow Location: McShain Lounge Georgetown University will celebrate the creation of its very own Department of Anthropology by throwing a big lecture and reception. Professor Sherry Ortner will give the Inaugural Lecture of [...]
Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Science, published by Berghahn, is currently inviting submissions for Volume 5 (2012) and Volume 6 (2013). Aims and scope This peer-reviewed journal uses the social sciences to reflect critically on learning and teaching in the changing context of higher education. The journal invites [...]
• The costs of war(s) The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken 225,000 lives and will ultimately cost more than $3 trillion, according to a multidisciplinary study by professors at Brown University. The “Costs of War” study brings together the work of more than 20 economists, political scientists, legal scholars and anthropologists in [...]
Cultural anthropology is not, overall, an events-driven field of study as are journalism and political science. But if, in recent times, there was to be an event that would inspire cultural anthropologists to apply their research skills and analytical insights, 9/11 is high on the list. Cultural anthropologists excel at looking at the local and seeing [...]
The Costs of War is a report written by several professors and policy experts from around the country and centered at Brown University’s Watson Institute. One of the authors and co-director is Catherine Lutz, cultural anthropologist and chair of the department of anthropology. If you take a look at the report, you might wonder: what [...]
By contributor Sean Carey Almost the first thing I noticed as I entered the one-way system in Youghal, a seaside town at the mouth of the River Blackwater in East Cork, was a huge banner draped over a high stone wall at the rear entrance of the local Supervalu supermarket. It was advertising the merits [...]
Congratulations to Frances Norwood, assistant research professor in the GW Department of Anthropology, for being selected to receive the 2011 Margaret Mead Award for her book, The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care – Lessons from The Netherlands,” (2009). The Margaret Mead Award is presented to a younger scholar for [...]
• Arab Detroit The Detroit Free Press carried an article about a new book about life in the Detroit area’s Arab-American community in the decade since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The book, Arab Detroit 9/11: Life in the Terror Decade, incorporates academic, artistic and everyday voices and viewpoints from one of the most well-known [...]
