The protests around the world against racism, police violence and white supremacy spark much needed conversations. This blog calls to critically look at, and change, our own practices as anthropologists in the Netherlands and at Leiden University. Authors: Anouk de Koning and Jasmijn Rana The increase of race-based violence and the death of George Floyd […]
Contested Histories and the Future of Anthropology Roundtable | Anthropology Day 2019 | How do we position ourselves in a scientific field that has been founded in and has been complicit in colonial enterprise? How do these past allegiances and their legacies put the core of the discipline into question? Since Writing Culture (Clifford and […]
Dreaming about futures of anthropology teaching Workshop | Anthropology Day 2019 | In this workshop, we hope to collectively dream about and play with alternative ways of teaching anthropology. Kristine Krause (University of Amsterdam) invites participants to experience alternative forms of teaching and learning together that draw on theatre practices. How can we create other […]
Anthropologists Engage the future Closing Panel | Anthropology Day 2019 | “During the final panel of this day, we ask anthropologists working in different fields to reflect on their professional engagement with the future. The four speakers will not present their own work as such, but rather engage in a conversation on how they, as […]