Reminder 📣📣 Only 3 days left to send your submissions for the #ASAA2025 6th Biennale | Come join us in Praia #CaboVerde this September 🌍
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I had the unique opportunity to present a paper this past Tuesday on "Patient-Machine Interaction and #Decoding Medical Imaging" as part of a panel on Emerging Intersection of Computing and #Health at the University of Cape Town's Digital Health Summit.
Patrice Lumumba, the iconic DRC independence leader and its first Prime Minister, was brutally murdered on January 17, 1961. Remarkable to think he was overthrown by the venal and treacherous Mobutu Sese Seko after just 73 days on September 5, 1960, having ascended to office on June 24, 1960.
Wealthy countries are looking to offload asylum-seekers on poorer partner states. The human toll is devastating – and it's undermining the foundations of the global refugee system.
www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...
Cover of Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures by Gabrielle Hecht. Cover portrays a sandy and rocky landscape. In the foreground, a shirtless man, wearing blue pants and a black hat, chips away at the ground with a pick ax.
Big congratulations to @gabriellehecht.bsky.social, whose book "Residual Governance" has won the 2024 African Studies Association Best Book Prize!
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In 2024, a record 10,457 people died or disappeared while attempting to reach Spain via irregular maritime routes, with the Canary Islands seeing the highest number of casualties.
www.infomigrants.net/en/post/6210...
[New Visiting Fellow Alert] 🎊
We at HUMA-Institute for Humanities in Africa are pleased to welcome Prof. Antonadia Borges from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro @ufrjoficial.bsky.social in #Brazil as a 2025 Visiting Research Fellow #Humateam
More: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/about/p...
[New Visiting Fellow Alert] 🎉
Our #HUMAteam is pleased to be hosting Prof. Marcelo C. Rosa from the Rio de Janeiro Federal Rural University (CPDA/UFRR) in Brazil as 2025 Visiting Research Fellow.
Read more: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/about/p...
This is (also) how anti-migrant politics is the spur to fascism
‼️ Although the rumour of big-scale evictions of camps by the Tunisian authorities that made its way around some weeks ago did not come true, we want to stress that there have been several smaller but no less violent raids. Migrants die every day as there is no medical care available.
Out soon: Exploring Ethnography of Outer Space: Methods and Perspectives, featuring my chapter "Anthropologists in outer space: Science fiction, infrastructure, comparison." A huge thanks to the editors for making this happen!
1. Nobody shall be forcibly returned to Syria - nobody means nobody
2. Syrians shall continue to have access to asylum in third countries - including the EU
3. Syrians will need massive supports to reintegrate if/when they decide to return - let’s be ready
www.refworld.org/policy/count...
In his intervention at Ladsis Study Day | Université Hassan II Casablanca, #HUMATeam Doctoral Research Fellow
@nabilferdaoussi.bsky.social focused on the unequal landscape of #migrationresearch & the politics of knowledge production in #Morocco
Nabil's op-ed: africanarguments.org/.../turning-...
📣Job alert (postdoc): Immigration, Information, and Technologies @irms-concordia.bsky.social
Open to all #migration researchers, particularly those working with text-as-data, NLP or computational social sciences approaches.
www.concordia.ca/artsci/resea...
#Polisky #Migcitsky #poliscisky
Congratulations prof. @divinefuh.bsky.social! A well-deserved role for such a visionary leader. Wishing well!
Parody of the Coachella 2024 lineup poster, with the headline, “Anthropology and Social Change Low Residency MA+PhD” Headline acts are replaced with the phrases, “Activist Ethnography, Militant Research, Social Change, with tons of subject areas in the place of the bands including, Rojava Revolution, Zapatismo, Workers Inquiry, World-Systems Research, Indigenous Resistance, Self-Determination” etc. Poster concludes, “and… Have No Doubt We are Anticapitalist” and finally, “courses taught by: Andrej Grubačić - Targol Mesbah - Michelle Glowa.”
Based lineup just dropped. Earn your MA or PhD in our virtual Activist Anthropology program! Register here for the Spring Open House, Jan 27 at 10am Pacific: www.ciis.edu/events/sprin...
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Legal notice: this is parody and we are not impersonating Coachella
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#activist #anthropology
"France has for the first time acknowledged that its soldiers carried out a "massacre" in Senegal in which dozens – perhaps hundreds – of West African troops were killed almost exactly 80 years ago, Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has said."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
As a next-generation social justice non-profit organization, we hold space for gratitude and call for Indigenous land reclamation this Thanksgiving.
ImmDef will be closed on November 28th and 29th.
🎉 Great news! The #EHBEA2025 submission deadline has been EXTENDED by 2 whole weeks! 🚀
You now have until MIDNIGHT (UK time) on Monday, Dec 16th to get your abstracts in. Don’t miss your chance to shine! 🌟 Submit here: ehbea2025.com
#EvolutionaryScience #AcademicConference
@ehbea.bsky.social
⭕UPDATE: After waiting for over 2 years for his trial, and with the initial February date already postponed, M. Elfallah appeared in court yesterday, only to learn that the prosecution had presented his case to the wrong court—as if they hadn’t had enough time to figure this out!
Going to Berlin for the conference “Usages de Foucault” organized by C.T. Burmeister & @heikedelitz.bsky.social
I speak on the tense co-production of migration and society through the epistemological-political grids of “people” and “population” (>>> OA article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)
The European Commission failed to disclose documents on the EU-Tunisia Memorandum (migration, development, trade, green energy). After initial denial, the Commission identified 13 documents, none on preparatory exchanges. This raises transparency concerns.
www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/news-docu...
What a fantastic set of books! & a wonderful range of interdisciplinary work on migration 💫
Glad Emergency in Transit @ucpress.bsky.social is here, alongside books by @petramolnar.com @elenahabersky.bsky.social & more
Thanks @austinkocher.bsky.social for this thoughtful write-up ⬇️⬇️
Burkina Faso: Dashboard du Domaine de Responsabilité Violence basée sur le Genre Coordination nationale (Octobre 2024) #Refugees
Important publication coming up soon! www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...
@kamilafialkowska.bsky.social and #NataliaJudzińska reflect on the role of hegemonic #whiteness in construction of #hostileenvironment on the PL-BY border, #bordercrisis #pushbacks
This is a good start, but standards of asylum accommodation are still very poor in places. In our report last year we found people forced into entirely inadequate conditions, with little support, crowded together 10/11 to a room, minimal facilities etc.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
We received an alarming footages from Southern Algeria in the City of Tamanrasset where for three days in low black migrants have been hunted down, beaten, tortured and thrown into the desert.
It is unclear if it a nationwide campaign fueled by Arab Anti-black racism or EU-funded violence as usual
188 Palestinian journalists killed in the last 14 months.
