A Semi-Real Anthropologist’s Adventures in Denver: A #AAA2015 Report
Already getting that blue feeling—that everyone knows what they’re doing and is on a level I’ve never been at and (it feels) never will…
Read MoreAlready getting that blue feeling—that everyone knows what they’re doing and is on a level I’ve never been at and (it feels) never will…
Read MoreIn a recent article published in the Huffington’s Post, anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse claims that the #AAA2015 in Denver was marked by a ‘turn to…
Read MoreTime to look at girls: migrants in Bangladesh and Ethiopia. Documentary film. 2015. Produced and researched by: Katarzyna Grabska, Nicoletta Del Franco, and…
Read MoreOver the last decades, ‘moving subjects’ have captivated—if not demanded—more of anthropologists’ attention. As one of the forefront communicators of social phenomena as they…
Read MoreThe two series of terrorist attacks that hit Paris this year, have given rise to a series of debates and mutual accusations about grief,…
Read MoreThis week we have dedicated an unusual amount to one single publication. This has in part been because of the unabashed claim – from…
Read MoreThe University of Helsinki Think Corner turned out to be too small for the book launch of Revisiting the Origins of Human Rights. The…
Read MoreTo the blind believer in human rights, nothing so messy as history is truly necessary. To question, to complicate, to ‘problematize’ has been thought to…
Read MoreWhere does the history of human rights begin: centuries, even millennia earlier, or a mere few decades ago? What constitutes this history and what can…
Read MoreThis Allegra week will be devoted to a theme that we have not previously addressed, namely the history of human rights. Furthermore, this thematic…
Read MoreIn September 2015, an image of a three year old Syrian child, lying lifeless on a Turkish beach, travelled the world in a matter…
Read More“Fate met Chance; I don’t know what she said to him but it was something about pictures and time” (Lorelei, 104). It is nearly…
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