Bodhisattvas and Bart Simpson: All about Tsherin Sherpa and his work Explore Tsherin Sherpa’s journey from traditional thangka painter to global contemporary artist blending Buddhist iconography with pop culture in Divine Disruption.

Divine Disruption: The Art of Tsherin Sherpa opens May 30 at Honolulu Museum of Art

#Nepal

Sunset over a South Asian cityscape with a call for dissertation workshop proposals on articulating futures, projects, and practices.

**Updated CFP** PhD candidates are invited to apply for our October 3-5 dissertation workshop on "Articulating South Asian Futures," to be held at NYU Shanghai.

Thanks to Henry Luce Foundation for supporting this program!

https://bit.ly/AAS-SouthAsianFutures

Barça AND Liverpool already out of the Champions League? 😭

Book cover. The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historical structures of subordination like caste or race. Sharika Thiranagama examines rural communities in the South Indian state of Kerala, where decades of Communist Party rule has transformed life through land reform and social reorganization.

New book on the private life of caste in India www.ucpress.edu/books/the-mo...

Woman with sunglasses smiling in front of the US Capitol.

At the Capitol again today trying to make inroads on the disastrous plans to kill social science at the NSF. Your turn. Call your reps. Tell them Congress must act to preserve funding for SBE. Seriously. Today.

Got to give a fun/therapeutic talk today with puns, cite Indigenous scholars, and joke about the mutual critiques of science-social science to anthropology students/faculty friends while sharing stories of life as an academic-regulator over the last 4 years...
Nice to have only one hat now.

flyer w same info

Today @ UH Mānoa Anthropology Colloquium
Prof. Aurora Kagawa-Viviani @akkagawa.bsky.social

WAI COMMUNITY MATTERS: The Imperative of Place-based Water Research & Education for Hawaiʻi

3pm
Crawford Hall 115

Students at Florida’s 12 public universities will no longer be able to fulfill their general education requirements by taking an introductory sociology course

So much talent! With cameo by Ashmina Ranjit, a leader in #Nepal arts & activism for decades. Love that the older generation is not only represented as saying no to girls, but also supporting & (occasionally) even leading the way

Yes, Ujjwala Maharjan!

Every headline I read reaffirms our decision not to attend World Cup Games. sigh.

Flyer for online presentation by Rachel Tjoeng, PhD candidate in Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, sponsored by CLEAR

Tomorrow 12:00 pm HST
Found in the Folder: Vital Nurse Refusals through Time in Hawai‘i Nei

Writing that abstract for #AAA2026? I just noticed that a Discussant is now required this year in the new rules for Oral Presentation Panels.

welcome back, trade winds & sunshine. we missed you!

Repair crew working on landslide that closed one lane

landslides creating some gnarly traffic Windward side. big thanks to repair crews 🙏🏼

"Weaving diplomacy and policy with poetry, she offers a vision of community-led adaptation, underpinned by indigenous knowledge of survival and relationships to the environment."

Wednesday, April 1st, 6:30 p.m., HST Orvis Auditorium, UH Mānoa

"Internationally acclaimed poet and performer Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner explores how the climate crisis in the Marshall Islands is inseparable from longer histories of colonialism, nuclear testing, and displacement."

Udon soup

overcooked the eggs.

kombu almost done soaking

Cutting board with some non traditional ingredients because I’m working with what’s in the fridge

making dashi in a super-flu feverish haze

I still use the Malkki and Passaro chapters in my grad seminar on methodology (by choice, not laziness)

Kathmandu ranked world’s third most polluted city at Friday noon Experts expect new government to take concrete steps to address air pollution. Brief rain likely across Bagmati, Gandaki, and Sudurpaschim provinces until Sunday.

Hoping the new 🇳🇵government can work toward cleaner air

1) Medical Anthropology
2) Demographic Anthropology
3) Anthropology of S Asia and Nepal

I'm old enough that I had to search actual journals in the Rock and photocopy the articles.
And I turned one of my comps into a publication, so there's that.

my new favorite insult

🚨Calling all anthropologists who love sport, study sport, play sport, and/or write about sport. It’s time for a topical interest group focused on sport to bring us together in conversation and collaboration. If you’re interested in forming a TIG, please let me know. It only takes 10 of us to start.🚨

I've been questioning my plans to travel to Nepal. If I can deal with pain and back spasms everyday in the US, I can also deal with it in Nepal. जाऔं !

The survey being distributed via email by USF researchers for R1 faculty on AI use is good – I would encourage you to participate

(unlike the internal university survey on AI I recently received that had me yelling at the questions)

"Snakes and handlers are bound together through forms of care that extend life while sustaining vulnerability, as human labor, snake biology, and biomedical demands are forcibly synchronized."

In “Toxic Synergy” #MedAnthroHI doctoral candidate Erin McConkey "introduces the notion of the precarious grasp to describe the unstable entanglements between humans and venomous snakes at a Thai antivenom facility, where survival depends on mutual exposure to harm."

Reading a 2025 peer-reviewed article on access to emergency obstetric care in LMICs and the author cites articles in the lit review for subjects that ARE NOT ADDRESSED IN THE CITED ARTICLES. LLM lit review or?

The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents | Fortune Neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath said older generations “screwed up” giving students access to so much technology: “I genuinely hope Gen Z quickly figures that out and gets mad.”

Now THAT's a headline.

"The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents"

fortune.com/2026/02/21/l...