Platform voor Antropologen
On Thursday 8 December 2022, ABv organises a webinar on Activist Teaching. How to infuse students with hope and agency, when teaching about issues of injustice, privilege, and power? How to make options for counterhegemonic action visible in the classroom? Can teaching be a way of doing activism? How can reflexive learning be an avenue […]
Door: Karolien van Teijlingen After more than two years of doing without our favourite anthro gathering, we were immensely happy to see many of you at the Day of Dutch Anthropology 2022. This year, our discussions centred on questions on truth and post-truth in anthropology. The exciting programme, which was pulled together by ABv board-members […]
Een verslag van Why the World Needs Anthropologists 2022 door Jelte Vegter In het weekend van 23 tot 25 september 2022 was het tijd voor alweer de 10e editie van het WWNA-congres van het Applied Anthropology Network van de EASA (European Association for Social Anthropologists). Ditmaal georganiseerd op de Humboldt-Universität in Berlijn, was het wederom […]
Organized by LaSSA In this panel we argue that the crisis of truth should be understood in relation to a crisis of knowledge production. While much effort is being made in ‘opening’ science, for instance by providing open access publications, by disseminating scientific knowledge to a broader audience, or by mass enrolment in the universities, […]
On Friday 20 May 2022 (10.30-18.30), the Dutch Anthropological Association (ABv) organizes its annual Dag van de Antropologie. This year’s theme is Crisis of Truth. The Anthropology Day will take place face-to-face in Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden. You can buy your ticket via this link(Ticketkantoor). The ABv is looking forward to welcome you all. During the […]
The frictions and tensions of reorienting ethnography in the post-truth era Keynote lecture by Bram Büscher (WUR). Discussant: Rebeca Ibanez Martin (UvA, Meertens Institute) You can watch the keynote via this link. It is time for anthropology to (re)claim truth. Or at the very least to render truth productive. The rise of post-truth and the truth of […]
Follow the Science? Panel discussion with Annemarie Samuels, Danny de Vries, and Stuart Blume, organized by Andrew Littlejohn. Debates over social and political responses to COVID-19 often feature calls to “follow the science.” But which science or sciences should we follow, and how? The virus is a social phenomenon spread through contact between people and […]
On Friday 20 May 2022 (10.30-18.30), the Dutch Anthropological Association (ABv) organizes its yearly Dag van de Antropologie (Anthropology Day). This year’s theme is Crisis of Truth. The Anthropology Day will take place face-to-face in Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden. You can buy your ticket via this link. The ABv is looking forward to welcome you all. Crisis of […]