Die Kämpfe in #Syrien halten an: In den letzten Stunden hat HTS alle Städte & Gebiete westlich des Euphrats eingenommen, bis nach Deir Ez Zor. Auch die Stadt Tabqa, wo das notdürftig Auffanglager für kurdische Geflüchtete aus #Shebha und #Aleppo lag, ist unter Kontrolle von HTS & türk. Milizen.

While they get credits for stage dives?

Many thanks to the colleagues at CEREN for the invitation to a roundtable on dispossessions and the unmaking and remaking of homes in displacement. When?:
22 October, 2pm.
Where?: Uni Helsinki's Soc&Kom, room 209.
Looking forward to this exchange! #dispossessions #migration #universityofhelsinki

Ruth Benedict | Anthropologist

Helped lay the foundation of modern anthropology. Studied under Boas; Margaret Mead was her student.

Until her 1931 divorce she was unable to draw a salary because a married woman wasn't considered in need of one. Born #OTD in 1887. #WomenInSTEM

Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...

At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/instit...

People listen in a yard to a person talking to them from the stairs of a building, a tree and a speaker left and right.

Just learned on our anual party that Helsinki's Faculty of Social Sciences was founded 80 years ago on the very day Nazi Germany capitulated. What a day to start such an endeavor!

Looking forward to exchanging and developing thoughts about #disability, #queer, and #environmental #justice across disciplinary and scientific boundaries.

Event poster with colorful gradient background. Text reads: "Disrupt, Reclaim, Transform! Cripping and Queering Environmentalism. 13:30–17:30, 12.05.2025, Minerva Plaza, Helsinki.

I'm delighted to join "Disrupt, Reclaim, Transform! Cripping and Queering Environmentalism. An Arts-Research Experience" on May 12th, 2025, at Minerva Plaza, organized by my colleagues from the OBaMa, RESET, WEIRD research project at Uni Helsinki.

Headline: Meta Says It's Okay to Feed Copyrighted Books Into Its AI Model Because They Have No "Economic Value" Image of books

How convenient. futurism.com/meta-copyrig...

Institut für Ethnologie & Ethnologische Sammlung Göttingen Göttingen Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA)

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Looking forward to talk about the LEGACIES ERC research project and at my alma mater, Uni Göttingen’s Anthropology Department on Thursday 24 April 2025. The talk is based on recent fieldwork in the San Francisco Bay Area focussing on material and environmental legacies.

Solidarity with all colleagues in the US, defending #anthropology !!!

3-5 PM ET, May 6, 2025

Join @americananthro.bsky.social
here:
my.americananthro.org/NC__Event?id...

#AAATownHall #JoinTheConversation #AnthropologyMatters #DefendAnthropology #AcademicFreedom #AAAEvents #HigherEdCrisis

How the inheritance system thinks | 7 | Queering kinship, gender and c This chapter explores how alternative kinship, non-normative sexualities and gender cut through the inheritance system and focuses on queer and feminist

See for instance www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

These are some impressions from a little history tour with Antu Sorainen in Kallio, Helsinki. Thank you, Antu, for this exciting and incredibly insightful afternoon!

If you interested in #queer and #feminist #anthropology, #kinship and #inheritance you must check out her fantastic work!

#anthrosky #ethnography #dispossessions #home #displacement #illegal #refugee #translation #totalinstitution #violence #forcedmigration #deportation #method #border

Thanks, will send you a copy ;-)!

Ich verantworte die Research Area zu Religionsgemeinschaften als Agenten von Mobilitätsrechten (z.B. Kirchenasyl) und freue mich über Bewerbungen aus der Religionswissenschaft und Religionssoziologie! --> www.uni-goettingen.de/de/research+...

Special thanks to Indre Richter for the marvelous cover illustration!

Many thanks to Steven Vertovec @mpimmg.bsky.social, @didaanlau.bsky.social, Paolo Boccagni for their support. Moreover, thanks to all the wonderful participants, colleagues, and friends who helped me to make this book happen.

A Material Culture Ethnography of Home-Making in Asylum Reception This book explores a sense of home while in exile, drawing on ethnographic research conducted in German asylum reception facilities from 2016-2020.

I just got the news that my ethnography on #materialculture and #home-making in #asylum reception is finally out. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... Interested in #migration research in #anthropology, #sociology, or #geography, check it out! 😉

Techno-material entanglements and the social organisation of difference Vertovec’s social organisation of difference framework links three research areas. They study difference and its social importance: encounters, representations, and structural configurations. This ...

#NEW Article Alert 📢Discussing #Urban #Diversity and its techno-material entanglements in light of Social Organisation of Difference ➡️ need for collaborations social and engineering sciences. Why? Read here: www.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2469694 @tilmannheil.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Abdullah Öcalan u.a.

Abdullah Öcalan ruft als Schritt für einen Friedensprozess die PKK dazu auf, die Waffen nieder zu legen und sich aufzulösen.

Hintergrund: Schwarz-Weiß Bild des Gedenkens auf dem Marktplatz in Hanau, Menschen halten Schilder mit den Gesichtern der Ermordeten. Darauf die Schrift: Wir gedenken: Gökhan Gültekin Sedat Gürbüz Said Nesar Hashemi Mercedes Kierpacz Hamza Kurtović Vili Viorel Păun Fatih Saraçoğlu Ferhat Unvar Kaloyan Velkov

Wir gedenken:

Gökhan Gültekin
Sedat Gürbüz
Said Nesar Hashemi
Mercedes Kierpacz
Hamza Kurtović
Vili Viorel Păun
Fatih Saraçoğlu
Ferhat Unvar
Kaloyan Velkov

Sie wurden vor fünf Jahren, am 19. Februar 2020, bei dem rassistischen Anschlag von Hanau ermordet.
#KeinVergessen

Bundestagswahl - Trumpismus made in Germany - medico international Die Migrationspolitik wird zum Einfallstor eines autoritären Staatsumbaus.

"Die Skandalisierung von Migration stellt die Brücke zur Mitte dar und ebnet den Weg, um rechtsstaatlichen Prinzipien dem politischen Entrechtungswillen unterzuordnen" scharfe Analyse von Sabine Hess und Valeria Hänsel. www.medico.de/blog/trumpis...

We offer an allowance for your contribution to the project. For more information, see below.

We look forward to learning about your legacy!

#bayarea #sanjosecalifornia #legacy #inheritance #environmental #environmentaljustice #sociology #socialpolicy #anthropology

Logo Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, logo European Research Council. QR Code research participation.

Research participants needed!

We want to learn about what you leave behind. Do you live in the Bay Area? Become an interviewee for the University of Helsinki's LEGACIES research project, which focuses on material legacies and environmental ones.

Write to friedemann.yi-neumann@helsinki.fi Check out the FAS blog: blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...
#anthropology #sociology #legacy #comparison #environmentaljustice #anthropocene #material

Interested in thinking about what we humans leave behind and its #material and #environmental implications? Join our panel at the Finnish #anthropology Society Conference COMPARISONS in Helsinki, 16-18 June 2025! See panel abstract below. Deadline 31 January 2025

The deadline was extended we are looking forward to your proposal!