Tsantsa, the journal of the Swiss Ethnological Society, has published an issue titled “Anthropology and Journalism: Two professions between competition, cooperation and legitimacy.” Boris Boller, co-coordinator of the issue, tells us, “Contributions range from an article on concealed local collaborations of foreign news reporters or reflexions on trends towards an ‘embedded anthropology’ in high-risk organisations [...]
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The 11th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium will run July 22-24 in Bucksport, Maine. Registration by July 12 (today) is required, and is open to media professionals, teachers, students and the public. Presentations will explore how amateur and noncommercial filmmakers around the world have created a wide range of representations of Indigenous peoples and cultures [...]
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We are proud to announce that the Anthropology News Flickr photostream has now surpassed 50,000 views! Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to explore our members’ visual work on Flickr. The most popular images to-date include the winners and finalists of the 2008 AAA photo contest, followed closely in number of views by [...]
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UNESCO and the International Social Science Council have published their 2010 World Social Science Report, now available as a pdf. The report’s foreword, by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, notes, The huge disparities in research capacities across countries and the fragmentation of knowledge hamper the capacity of social sciences to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow…. Social scientists [...]
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For 2010-11, the Columbia University Human Rights Seminar will be held under the theme “Human Rights in Conflict: Exploring the Issues, Assessing the Challenges.” Organizers welcome scholars and advocates who wish to explore factors that lead to conflicts in specific human rights issue areas, and examine their philosophical, sociological, political and legal underpinnings. Seminars consist [...]
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The National Humanities Alliance has informed us of the following June news: On June 1, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission awarded 88 grants totaling $7,038,063 for projects in 36 states, Puerto Rico and DC. See the press release for a list of awardees. On June 10, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced [...]
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Yesterday, China Radio International featured an English-language debate program about cultural heritage protection in China. Panelists included Cornell anthropologist Magnus Fiskesjö, Zhang Qin (Tongji U, Shanghai) and Lou Deyin (Tsinghua U, Beijing). The panel discussion, from the show “Today,” is now available online. The introduction describes, “Since China launched economic reforms 30 years ago, cultural heritage protection [...]
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Nature has published a special report (pdf summary) on the results of its spring 2010 salary and career satisfaction survey. More than 10,500 scientists responded. Among the results are the findings that job satisfaction improves for most scientists throughout their career in academia, and “guidance received from superiors or coworkers” was the biggest influence on [...]
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Touring the Hall of Human Origins: A Visitor’s Impressions
By Guven Witteveen On March 17 the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History unveiled the newest addition to their permanent exhibits: the Hall of Human Origins. Since this museum counts 7 million visitors a year (second only to the Louvre in 2009), we can expect lots of people from the US and abroad to weave [...]
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