Hi Everyone, We would like to provide you a sneak peek of the Anthropology Day 2024, 17 May in Leiden, by posting the abstract of Panel One. Changing the system from within: how โoutcastโ professionals try to bring about the change they wish to see in the world Anthropologists conducting fieldwork within public organizations often […]
Wereldmuseum Leiden May 17th 2024 10.00 – 18.30 tickets: https://www.ticketkantoor.nl/shop/WcQcPMGymD After decades of neoliberal erosion, across Europe, once solid welfare states are coming apart at the seams. It has now become increasingly clear that we are living and working in a grim moment in which welfare actors are unable to live up to promises of […]
Round table โ Rodrigo Ochigame, Payal Arora, Mark Westmoreland, Federico De Musso Rodrigo Ochigame is an assistant professor in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University. Their research examines unorthodox models of computational rationality, such as nonclassical logics from Brazil, nonbinary Turing machines from India, and frameworks of information science from […]
Which panel session will you join this Friday? ๐คทโโ๏ธ ย The LaSSA will coordinate one of the panel sessions. ๐โ๐๐ญ๐ฎ๐๐๐ง๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ก๐๐ญ๐๐๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ซ๐ง๐ข๐ง๐ โ โ ๐๐ข๐๐ค ๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฌ (๐๐ก๐), ๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ (๐๐), ๐๐ข๐ค ๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ณ๐๐ง (๐๐), ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ค๐๐๐ข๐ซ (๐๐) & ๐๐ง๐ง๐ข๐ค๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ฉ (๐๐). Much is written and said about the potential […]
Keynote lecture โAnthropological Strategies for Reimagining the Digitalโ – Rodrigo Ochigame Since the 1980s, anthropologists have developed multiple strategies for reimagining digital technologies. They have examined the unintended effects of new technologies; exposed the implicit assumptions of designers and engineers; collaborated with computer programmers, activists, hackers, and free and open-source software advocates; and explored the […]
On Friday 12 May 2023 (10.00-18.30), the Dutch Anthropological Association (ABv) organizes its annual Anthropology Day at Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden). This yearโs theme is ‘Reimagining the Digital’. Please sign up here. We look forward to seeing you in Leiden! Digital technologies have become matters of life and death. We live at a time when robots […]
The Dutch Anthropology Association (Antropologen Beroepsvereniging; ABv) organises aย webinar with anthropological perspectives on growth and degrowth. The webinar will take place onย Thursday 30 March 2023, 15:30-17:00 (GMT+1). Clickย HEREย to register for the webinar (or paste this link to your browser:ย https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/anthropological-perspectives-on-growth-and-degrowth-tickets-574490064247). Registration is free, you will receive a link short before the 30th. — Since the publication […]
Conference ‘Navigating Change’ | 27-28 June 2023 | Radboud University, Nijmegen Radboud University’s Department of Anthropology and Development Studies (ADS) organises the conference’ Navigating Change’ in honor of the 75th anniversary of Cultural Anthropology and the 50th anniversary of Development Studies at Radboud University. The conference will focus on global issues that challenge and transform […]