Keynote lecture ‘Anthropological Strategies for Reimagining the Digital’ – 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 year’s 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 a webinar with anthropological perspectives on growth and degrowth. The webinar will take place on Thursday 30 March 2023, 15:30-17:00 (GMT+1). Click HERE to register for the webinar (or paste this link to your browser: 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 […]
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, […]