Engaged anthropology: Reality? Necessity? Utopia?
On June 21st to 25th, 2015, the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore organized the congress entitled Utopias, Realities, Heritages: Ethnographies for the 21st century. The event took place in Zagreb, Croatia, and brought together over 900 anthropologists, ethnologists, folklorists and others interested in European cultures and beyond. Five of our TRANSFORMATIONS editors organized the panel named “Engaged anthropology: Reality? Necessity? Utopia?”.
Academics’ call for peace in Turkey: from “going public” to “getting persecuted”
Supported by hundreds of international colleagues like Judith Butler, David Harvey and Noam Chomsky, in Turkey, more than 1300 academics have signed a petition calling for an end to the violence in the Southeast. Now Turkish prosecutors have started to investigate these academics.
Academics' call for peace in Turkey: from "going public" to "getting persecuted"
Supported by hundreds of international colleagues like Judith Butler, David Harvey and Noam Chomsky, in Turkey, more than 1300 academics have signed a petition calling for an end to the violence in the Southeast. Now Turkish prosecutors have started to investigate these academics.
Chronicle of a satisfaction foretold
Academic research seems to be neo-liberally recycled from one conference to the next, or from one publication to the other, just to produce X papers per year. But how many times can one be innovative, original, and radical over the course of a career? A story about finding (and possibly losing) a true love: anthropology.
Submit a picture story and win a spot in a two-day multimedia storytelling workshop with Transformations
You have many stories to tell, but you don’t quite know how? Send us a picture and an accompanying story and win a spot in a two-day workshop on multimedia storytelling held in Munich, 23-24 October, 2015.
Submit a picture story and win a spot in a two-day multimedia storytelling workshop with Transformations
You have many stories to tell, but you don’t quite know how? Send us a picture and an accompanying story and win a spot in a two-day workshop on multimedia storytelling held in Munich, 23-24 October, 2015.
