The SCA has released a free, virtual issue of Cultural Anthropology focused on Business Cultures. The issue includes five essays published between 2003-2009, as well as supplemental material and a discussion forum. An introduction by Esra Ozkan reads: In response to the increasing encounters between global commodities and local markets, the recent economic crisis that [...]
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Anthropologist Nancy Abelmann (Univ. Illinois Urbana-Champaign) delivered the welcoming address for the 2010 conference of The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). The virtual conference, “Grand Challenges and Global Innovations,” was held across a variety of digital spaces, including Second Life, YouTube, and Google Wave. HASTAC organized a number of presentations that may [...]
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The Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR), part of Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, is pleased to announce the development of the Human Rights Web Archive . As part of Columbia’s larger initiative to collect free and at-risk web resources, the Human Rights Web Archive is dedicated to preserving web-based information of importance to [...]
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On April 10, AAA Executive Director William Davis appeared before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies to offer formal testimony in support of the Obama Administration’s request for an appropriation of $7.4 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Davis noted that while NSF provides only 21 percent of the [...]
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This date marks the one year anniversary of the AAA blog. We thank all of our readers who stuck with us throughout the year, as well as the AAA members who have produced exciting and unique content for our site. If you have any recommendations about how we can improve our blog or suggestions for [...]
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CounterPunch’s “Pulse of the Planet” series continues with an article by American University anthropologist Adrienne Pine. The series, which draws attention to critical issues in human rights and environmental policy, was initially derived from conference papers delivered at the “Pulse of the Planet” panel during AAA’s 2008 annual meeting in San Francisco. In her article, [...]
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The Library of Congress recently announced that every public tweet sent out since March 2006 will be placed in its digital archives. With 50+ million tweets/day, Twitter will add a significant amount of data to the 167 terabytes currently housed at the LOC. Digital repositories provide an excellent resource for researchers, and will hopefully generate [...]
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Last year, the AAA joined a number of organizations in urging the State Dept. and Homeland Security to stop denying visas to foreign scholars, writers, and activists based upon their political views, associations, and ideas. This practice of “ideological exclusion,” a legacy of the Bush administration, has slowly been showing signs of change. In January, [...]
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President Obama signed legislation this week that will help reform the federal student loan program. The number and amount of Pell grants will increase thanks to a cost-reducing measure that cuts out subsidies paid to banks to act as middlemen. This measure is expected to save taxpayers an estimated $68 billion by 2020. Starting July [...]
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CALL FOR INTEREST Capacity-Building for Culture in Development: Using New UNESCO Policy/Programming Tools Background/context: As part of UNESCO initiatives to promote the culture and development agenda, the Organization is currently seeking consultants to support the project “Capacity-Building for Culture in Development: Using New UNESCO Policy/Programming Tools” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and [...]
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