Olympic Resilience: The “Refugee Nation” Competes For A Place on the World’s Stage
The first ever team comprised of refugees debuted at this year’s Rio Olympics. They were the penultimate team to enter […]
Saving the periphery from itself: The problem with thinking the postcolonial from the metropole
In February of this year, I participated in a Middle East, South Asian and African Studies graduate student conference at
Summer EVENTS list
Hello Allies! Once again, Aude came up with this wonderful list of events for you, to give you a foretaste
Where are the ladies, Didier Fassin? #EASA2016 Keynote
It’s hot and humid, and yet circa 1000 anthropologists are determined to enter the main conference room of U6 of
#EVENTS from misconception to transformation
Let’s conclude this Allegra week with another one of our monthly events’ post! No thematic focus this time but a
ICPA 2016: 18th (FAKE!) International Conference on Political Anthropology
My heart skips a beat, more than once. Finally, a conference in the one place I wanted to return to
REDUX: Responsibility and Scholarship in the Current Political Moment – Graduate Conference | 25-26 September 2015
Anthropology today is in a moment of creative rupture, redefinition, and profound possibility. Our collective intellectual energy is directed toward
“Snapshots of Change” – How Focusing on Change Affects Perspectives on Research Material
Ever since the multiplication of protest movements that have gained prominence since 2011, the issue of change and its assessment
Looking for #Events? Follow us this way!
You know us well! We, at Allegra, are always on the look out for exciting anthropological events from around the
Rethinking political agency in the Middle East #project
This week Allegra focuses on an exciting new feature incorporated into our beloved website a while back: namely Projects! What this