Just out: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

St Hugh’s Fellows team up to tackle tuberculosis - St Hugh's College Professors Rachel Tanner and Thomas Cousins are working with a new inter-disciplinary Oxford consortium to develop novel therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis.

www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/st-hughs-fel... An honour to be working with Prof Rachel Tanner @sthughscollege.bsky.social

An amazing book by an incredible group of authors - on a theme that could not be more timely.

(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253)

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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

After The Tylor Library: Notes on The Possibility of a Virtual Library YouTube video by Luke T

the path not to go down (mea culpa): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHGT...

Burning the Books: RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An unforgettable 3,000-year-old journey - from Mesopotamian clay tablets trying to predict the future, to Tudor book-hunters and Nazi bonfires, and on into t...

the irony (Bodley's librarian wrote this): www.hachette.co.uk/titles/richa...

Oxford and OpenAI launch collaboration to advance research and The University of Oxford has announced plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offering and capabilities with OpenAI.

the horror: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...

Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/

Intrepid Women Due for publication 8th March 2025 Introducing the extraordinary women who broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to carry out revolutionary field research in distant parts of the world ‘unsuitabl...

📣 Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social

"Stand Up for Science", les scientifiques se mobilisent vendredi 7 mars pour défendre la recherche et les universités Vendredi, des rassemblements et des marches sont organisés en France par la mobilisation Stand Up for Science. Des scientifiques veulent défendre la liberté académique en France et aux Etats-Unis.

A French colleague in the physical sciences asked me how best to support US science: by attending conferences in the US, or by boycotting them?

I don’t know how to answer.

But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.

Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...

St Hugh’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Michele Acton will be its 10th Principal. Acton is currently Chief Executive of the RSM (@roysocmed.bsky.social) and will assume the role of Principal in September 2025, when Lady Elish Angiolini KC steps down.
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal

School events 24-28 February 2025

Join us for these fantastic events happening across the School next week! ⬇️
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social

Thanks @drtianchen.bsky.social !!

Keynote done. Great conference

I’m giving the first keynote. “The Limits of Repair” on Wednesday morning.

Theme: Repair, Restoration, Reparation.

www.asnahome.org/images/ASnA_...

Off to Anthropology Southern Africa today. #workofrepair

which, very wonderfully, was published in South Africa by Modjaji / Pulani, by the incomparable Colleen Higgs

The Work of Repair In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the...

My monograph, The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa. June 2023, published by Fordham.

bit.ly/3VZn4Aq

Starting with a clean slate on a new platform. Will be work-focused, basically. Will start with a thing about my recent book.