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 […]