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Category: University / Academia
09/02/10
02:52:00, by Lorenz 
. Categories: anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia University reforms - a threat to anthropology?
It started around 20 years ago: The idea of education as a right was being replaced by a concept of education as a commodity to purchase. Today's universities are managed like businesses, striving for "excellence", being best, competing for the "best" br… more »
26/01/10
01:09:07, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia Pecha Kucha - the future of presenting papers?
Why reading your paper when there are lot more exciting ways of presenting your research? I have asked Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcy Hessling to tell us about their experience with a recent experiment at the annual meeting of the American Anthropologic… more »
05/11/09
04:10:45, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet, ethics Anthropologists ignore Open Access Week - a report from Wellington
What's the point of science if it's not publicly accessible? Two weeks ago, the first global Open Access Week was organized. Masters' student in anthropology Karstein Noremark has written a report for antropologi.info about the Open Access Week at Victor… more »
05/10/09
21:16:26, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, University / Academia Free access to the 25 most popular Anthrosource articles!
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and their publisher Wiley-Blackwell will be offering two months of free access to 10+ years of Anthrosource content during November and December 2009.As a preview they invite us to view the Top 25 Anthroso… more »
16/09/09
00:24:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia, internet Selv-archiving repositories: Is ResearchGate the solution?
Today, ResearchGATE has launched a new Self-Archiving Repository. "This will make full-text articles available to the public, for free - the first application of its kind worldwide", ResearchGate claims in their press release:Currently, there is no w… more »
13/09/09
The increasing feminization of anthropology
Have you been in an anthropology class / course with more men then women? I haven't. In both Norway, Germany and Switzerland (pluss many other places incl South Africa, I heard), the gender balance between men and women is around 25-75. Eli Thorkelson, g… more »
07/08/09
01:25:49, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Nancy Scheper-Hughes: Public anthropology through collaboration with journalists
How can we make anthropology public? How survive as politically engaged anthropologist in conservative institutions? Nancy Scheper-Hughes answers these questions in the guest editorial in the new issue of Anthropology Today. Public anthropology impli… more »
27/07/09
12:29:02, by Lorenz . Categories: indigenous people / minorities, Us and Them, Asia, anthropology (general), University / Academia Chinese media propaganda at IUAES anthropology conference in Kunming
(update 30.7: IUAES-anthropologists "praise" Chinese government's relation to minorities) As I wrote a few days ago, the vice president of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Petr Skalník decided to boycott the IU… more »
20/06/09
03:10:13, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, religion cosmology, Us and Them, Europe, applied anthropology, University / Academia, ethics Militarisation of Research: Meet the Centre for Studies in Islamism and Radicalisation
We have discussed a lot about the strengthening ties between the military and universities in the USA and Britain, but similar things are happening in Scandinavia. And there is no public debate about it here.
One example is a research center that was… more »
28/05/09
02:35:17, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia The Open Anthropology Cooperative - A Worldwide Anthro-Community in the Making
(updated)What about creating A worldwide community for anthropological discussion and collaboration away from the restrictions of formal academic structures has been created at http://openanthcoop.ning.com/ (already more than 140 members Thursdag night!)… more »
27/05/09
00:59:34, by Lorenz . Categories: Europe, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Journal of European Ethnology is going (a little bit) Open Access
Is Open Access the new buzz-word? Do we see some change in the world of anthropology journals? Angels Trias i Valls recently announced the birth of a new open access journal, Anthropology Reviews: Dissent and Cultural Politics.
And last week, I receiv… more »
26/05/09
01:15:35, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), University / Academia Marianne Gullestad and How to be a public intellectual
Today I've been at symposium in memory of one of Norway's greatest anthropologists, Marianne Gullestad who died last year.
She was a public intellectual. She often took part in public debates and sometimes after she had published an article in a sci… more »
25/04/09
02:41:59, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia 1st of May is Open Access Anthropology Day!
Free access to anthropological knowledge online! On the 1st of May, we'll celebrate the first Open Access Anthropology Day!
Sara at Sara Anthro Blog has taken the initiative to this event.
She writes:
Anthropologists, in this day, show their… more »
01/04/09
University Cancels Alternative G20 Summit - Academics Occupy University of East London
Academic freedom and freedom of speech is more and more under threat in the "Western world": First, the University of East London (UEL) suspended anthropology professor Chris Knight, now they cancel the Alternative summit that should take place at the Un… more »
28/03/09
"Intolerant Universities": Anthropology professor Chris Knight suspended over G20-activism
(UPDATE: Alternative Summit cancelled, university occupied) Shortly after The Sunday Telegraph wrote that anthropologist Chris Knight is one of the organizers of a mass demonstration against the G20 summit in London, he was suspended from his job at the… more »
11/03/09
Why anthropologists should become journalists
We need courses and programs in "Anthropology & Journalism" to help create the critical public intellectuals of the 21st century, Brian McKenna writes in Counterpunch. Such programs will help equip students with skills to popularize critical knowledg… more »
07/03/09
15:43:12, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, Middle East, University / Academia War in Iraq: Why are anthropologists so silent?
Many US-anthropologists protested against the Vietnam war in the 60s. Why have anthropologists been so reluctant to engage with the "immense tragedy" and "waste of resources by our governments" in the Iraq war, Antonius C.G.M. Robben and Marshall Sahlins… more »
06/03/09
21:51:55, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Asia, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia Back from Lahore: Terror and Open Access
Shalamar Gardens, Lahore
I have been back from Lahore, Pakistan's cultural center and "City of Poets", for a while now. It was one of the most inspiring journeys I've been to.
Just a few weeks ago we've been at the same place where - a few days a… more »
27/01/09
04:05:59, by Lorenz . Categories: politics, Us and Them, anthropology (general), Middle East, University / Academia Boycott Israel? - More anthropologists on Gaza (II)
(text changed, name removed, see comments below) Four anthropologists are among a long list of scholars who in The Guardian call for a boycott of Israel:
We must do what we can to stop Israel from winning its war. Israel must accept that its security… more »
06/01/09
14:31:25, by Lorenz . Categories: corporate & business anthropology, applied anthropology, University / Academia What is good applied anthropology?
Most anthropologists work outside the university where they don't enjoy academic freedom. These anthropologists must be better prepared for the perils of non-academic applied work, Brian McKenna writes in Counterpunch. For good applied anthropology is be… more »
05/01/09
Do we (still) need journals?
"Journals? Who cares?" anthropologist George Marcus said recently. Journals as we know them are a thing of the past, and the last to understand this fact are universities and academics, philosopher Mark C. Taylor says in an interview with E. Efe Çakmak i… more »
09/12/08
22:00:35, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia Open access to all doctoral dissertations at Temple University
(via Open Access News) Temple University has decided to provide open access to all its doctoral dissertations, starting with those completed August 2008 as Steven Bell, Associate University Librarian announced only a few days ago.
You can browse and… more »
21/10/08
14:12:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, University / Academia A short summary of recent open access news
AAA Creates "Open Access" to Anthropological Research announced the American Anthropological Association two weeks ago. But in reality, open access is only granted to two journals (American Anthropologist and Anthropology News) and to articles that are a… more »
30/08/08
23:53:19, by Lorenz . Categories: anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia First reports from Europe's largest anthropology conference (EASA)
Today was the fifth and last day of the 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. There are no news stories yet, but anthropology students at the University of Ljubljana have already wr… more »
28/08/08
00:44:08, by Lorenz . Categories: Us and Them, globalisation, migration, persons and theories, University / Academia, interdisciplinary How to challenge Us-and-Them thinking? Interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen
As some of you might know, I work as a journalist at the interdisciplinary research programme Culcom - Cultural Complexity in the New Norway. I've just put online the English translation of my interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen, research director of C… more »
23/06/08
00:31:00, by Lorenz . Categories: Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, journal articles / papers, University / Academia Is it time to boycott SAGE?
It sounds like a satire on capitalism but reality is often even worse. If you have written an article for SAGE you cannot send your own article to colleagues, you cannot copy nor save it. You can read it on one computer only according to anthropologist a… more »
16/05/08
01:09:25, by Lorenz . Categories: Africa, development empowerment, applied anthropology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, interdisciplinary The resurgence of African anthropology
What is the state of anthropology at African universities? African anthropology is interdisciplinary and focuses on solving problems like poverty, diseases and violence, Paul Nchoji Nkwi writes in the book World Anthropologies (download the book):
Th… more »
16/04/08
Cooperation between the Pentagon and anthropologists a fiasco?
The collaboration between the U.S. military and anthropologists has been criticized for both political and ethical reasons. According to a recent article in Newsweek, the whole project could end as a fiasco: The implementation of the $40 million project… more »
09/03/08
20:00:14, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, anthropology (general), journal articles / papers, University / Academia, internet Ethnographic research: Why care about plagiarism?
Educators complain about plagiarism. But it is not principally because material is too readily available that students copy and paste material from the internet to their papers. It's because new forms of authorships are emerging online, anthropologist Su… more »
26/02/08
15:15:05, by Lorenz . Categories: technology, Open Access Anthropology and Knowledge Sharing, fieldwork / methods, cyberanthropology, University / Academia, internet, websites Plans to study anthropological online communities and Open Access movement
Anthropology of anthropology: How do anthropologists form online communities? How are open access publishing and other developments that have sprung up online changing community boundaries? Soon, an anthropologist will do fieldwork among us online anthro… more »
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