Spring Is Calling
Spring has almost arrived and with it comes a series of exciting events on the anthropological calendar. We did not feature any AAA’s CFPs…
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‘All the world’s a stage?’ A review of Bruno Latour’s Gaïa Global Circus
Theatre, it could be argued, involves three major concerns: warning (criticism), representation (mimesis), and collective aesthetic imagination (aisthesis/poïesis). While the first instrumentalises theatre, and…
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ACADEMIC BLOGGING – WHO / WHAT IS IT FOR?! #RELAUNCH
By now many of our devoted Allies may have gathered that ‘something’s up!’ The changing Facebook profile, hints of ‘something to come’… Combined it…
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Boredom at #EASA2014
On August 2nd, 2014, Allegra ran a panel titled ‘Boredom, Intimacy and Governance in ‘Normalized’ Times of Crisis’ at the EASA 2014 in…
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#Events in 2015 … Time to get started!
Happy new year, Allies! As it is by now the tradition, you will find below a list of exciting upcoming events and calls, not…
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Leipzig 100: Super Model Epilogue with Savage
In his epilogue to the series of papers of the centenary symposium, Immo Eulenberger, a native of Leipzig who had his first encounter with…
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Leipzig 100 Years: Commentary on the “future of anthropology”
My commentary takes up the following questions: What are the theoretical, methodological and pragmatic challenges for an anthropology of the twenty-first century? How can…
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I’m dreaming of … December #EVENTS
It’s this time of the year when one should think of everything but work. Yet, Allie is here to remind us that 2015 is…
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100 years of (socio-cultural) anthropology in Leipzig – An introduction
The institute of anthropology was founded in November 1914 as “Sächsische Forschungsinstitut für Völkerkunde” (Saxonian Research Institute for Ethnology). It was the first anthropological…
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Anthropology and the Persistence of Universal Europe: Translation as a Key Term
The following paper [in German] was presented during the symposium ‘The Future of German Anthropology’ on 7 November 2014 at the University of Leipzig. …
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The Good, the Bad & the Whatnot: AAA 2014
What do you know: almost as soon as the AAA 2014 began, it came to its end. After one last exhausted round of parallel…
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November #Events !!!
It’s time for some EVENTS! This is what’s happening in Anthropology (and beyond). Follow the news, join networks, participate in workshops and conferences –…
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