Do you want to learn about issues in conservation ethics while driving or walking with your dog? Add this Podcast to your list, with episodes created by William & Mary students
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Pic of Monte Olivia by me, not very close to Virginia but..
My amazing department is hiring a Linguistic Anthropologist!
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How can we engage rivers, gardens, or chickens in qualitative research? 🌱🐓🌊
From Egyptian livestock to Mexican rivers, our new open-access paper shares methodological guidance to listen beyond the human 👉 doi.org/10.1177/1077...
#MoreThanHuman #QualitativeMethods #Posthumanisms #PlanetaryHealth
New ahead-of-print article! In "Tenacious," Claudia Leal examines the multidimensional history of dogs in Latin America since the colonial era. doi.org/10.3828/whpe... #envhist 🗃️
A couple of job postings in the #histSTM #histsci #histmed realm: Asst Prof in Social Studies of Medicine at Cambridge, due Nov 17.
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Submit your book nominations to the Sutlive Book Prize!
It goes to the best book published in prior year, in any discipline, that makes use of anthropological perspectives in order to examine historical contexts and/or the role of the past in the present.
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Please join us for a discussion event on Extinction, with @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and Rachel Webster, at Manchester Museum, on 18 Sept 2025.
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Heading to #4s #4S2025 anyone else on the CLT - Seattle flight arriving at 6.41pm? Just checking in case we can share a cab? Looking forward to this!
sorry!
Commentary on the Forum - Snap, Crackle, and Hiss: Noise in the System, by Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social
I, too, know how it feels to be a ghost. At least, I think I did. In the early years of this century, I found myself in the eastern...
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The Anthropologist as ghost, by Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social
In 1999, at the age of 23, I completed my first independent research project as part of my Honours year of my Arts degree at the University of Melbourne. For six weeks I was based in a villa...
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Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, by Trevor Engel
I’d like to invite you all to join me on a journey as I tease out some of the layers of loss and removal throughout the nonconsensual journey of the person...
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The Haunting Legacy of Racism in Anthropology: The Ghosts of Human Remains Identification Methods
by Thiago P. Barbosa @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social & Amanda Domingues @mandadomingues.bsky.social
This article examines the enduring legacies of colonialism and...
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The archive as ghost and the possibility of history
by Ricardo Roque.
In thinking about specters in anthropology’s colonial archives the image that comes to mind is of Indigenous people, namely the colonized and the subjugated, whose voices and perspectives...
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Can orangutans speak? Conjuring the ghosts of human evolution science (by Lisette Jong)
In this essay I conjure a ghost. For long I doubted whether I was summoning or conjuring and whether my doing mattered to the ghostly apparition at all....
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The demands we place on the spectral Other: mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts (by Lydia Gibson @lydz-gibby.bsky.social)
What does it mean to be haunted? Good and colleagues (2022: 440) describe haunting as an affective state induced by...
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'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there (by Vivette García-Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social)
I first encountered haunting as a methodology unexpectedly in 2017, while conducting fieldwork in Mexico City...
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Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys (by Michelle Bootcov)
This paper explores recursive journeys of a blood-borne virus through a Derridean hauntological lens. I trace the spectral presence of the hepatitis B virus and its antigen, and their ghost-like routes...
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Haunting as Anti-Method: Ecological Rage in the Wake of Organized Disappearance (by @mdicenta.bsky.social)
In landscapes marked by genocide, state terror, and ecological transformation, ghosts do not simply represent what was lost but return to disrupt...
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Kowal, E., & Domingues, A. (Series Eds.). (2025). Ghostly Lessons: A Forum on Haunting. @profemmakowal.bsky.social @mandadomingues.bsky.social
Haunting is experiencing a renaissance. Derrida has undoubtedly put his stamp on it with hauntology (Derrida 1994)...
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Ghostly Lessons: New Forum at Anthropology Theory Commons @anthrotheory.bsky.social led by Emma Kowal & Amanda Domingues
Right on time before the 2025 AAA Meeting on "Ghosts" in November @americananthro.bsky.social
Essays are short but deep (including mine)! www.at-commons.com/ghosts
Today on Edge Effects, our Companion Species series dives into fishy companionship. Wading in the waters of Utah Lake, Teri Harman explores the history, resilience, and culpability of “invasive” carp in Utah Lake. Are carp the villains or victims of this story? 🐟
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Can companions be kin and consumed? Today on Edge Effects, Mara Dicenta Vilker, Micah Dill, & Elena McCullough argue yes. They take a river-view to companionship by bringing together herring restoration discourse with fishers' oral histories. 🐟 edgeeffects.net/human-herrin...
Thanks Marisol! I'm so glad Juan Camilo is at William & Mary!!
2yr Mellon Postdoc in Environmental Humanities, with focus on multispecies politics @williamandmary
Review applications begins March 14!
jobs.wm.edu/postings/64052
The STS department at RPI (great people and dept) has two Job Searches in Design and STS, one Tenure Track and one Teaching Track
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Silvio siempre, en cualquier ciudad, domingo mañana o viernes noche
The National Science Foundation will soon require researchers to gain prior approval from tribal governments for any proposal that “may impact tribal resources or interests”
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#science #philsci #HPBio #anthropology
Science as Culture Special Issue:
Colonial Relations in Modern Techno-Securitisation CfP
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Deadline for abstracts tomorrow, Nov 15!
CFP: Techno-Environmental Racialization. @sthv.bsky.social
We invite contributions that explore racializing techno-environmental processes and how these are un/done by knowledge practices and multispecies relations. Submit 👇🏾
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