Anticipating Law: The Prognostics of Fear and Hope #LawNet2017
This week Allies will once again be in action – this time at the 2017 EASA LawNet Workshop in Bern on September […]
Advice and Tips for Anthropologists
According to the AAA, anthropology is defined as the study of what makes us human. In accordance with its broad
ANTHROPOLOGY FOR AN AGEING PLANET
When I teach undergraduates about ageing in anthropology, I sometimes begin by stating the very mundane fact that none of
EASA and European Anthropology: An Interview with Antonio De Lauri #EASAexec
Antonio, you decided to run for the elections of the new EASA committee. Can you let EASA members know a
Time-ing Out of Old Age with Marc Augé
I have carried Marc Augé’s book Everyone Dies Young (New York: Columbia University Press 2016), with me everywhere these past
Ethnographies of Academia
There is a mythology of nourishment deposited in the language of the intellect.[1] Thoughts are digested. Ideas are chewed upon.
RECLAIMING THE UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN
Universities are in turmoil. There was a time when they stood out as pinnacles of Enlightenment, where scholarly elites could
A Story of Two Stones
On a cold December day in 1995, after finishing my daily studies as a junior high school student, I was
Evidence for the future: time and proof in commercial risk forecasting
“We are an intelligence and analysis company that forecasts. We are not a news organisation that tells stories. We are
The International Institute of Not Doing Much
Browsing the web in preparation of this ‘Slow week’, we came across an online initiative whose Manifesto resonated with Allegra’s