During the Syrian war, which has now raged for a decade, the attention of scholars, media commentators and activists has primarily focused on human displacement. More than
60% of the world’s refugee population – over 30% of which are victims of internal displacement – reside in the Middle East, mainly due to large-scale armed [...]
Sandhya I. Fuchs (LSE and University of Bern) will talk about “Kaleidoscope of truth: Legal fictions, real cases and controversial proof in the production of the Prevention
of Atrocities Act in Rajasthan”. Natasha Raheja (Cornell University) will be the discussant. [...]
Plusieurs membres du collectif DPC participent à une journée d’étude consacrée à la reconstruction de Notre-Dame de Paris et à la loi du 29 juillet 2019, destinée
à encadrer cette reconstruction [...]
We conclude … that all four factors favor [Lynn] Goldsmith and that [Warhol’s] Prince Series works are not fair use as a matter of law. We further conclude that the Prince
Series works are substantially similar to the Goldsmith Photograph as a matter of law. [...]
This is the second part of the conversation our assistant editor Emilie Thévenoz had with Nika Dubrovsky (Read part 1 here). They chatted about some of the workshops Nika
organised, and how children sometimes just need a framework through which to think the changes in their society, and the importance of fostering pushbacks. [...]
Omri Grinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa) will talk about “Vernacularizing Bureaucracy and Quantifying Violence: The Writing of Palestinians’
Testimonies in Israeli Human Rights NGOs”. Sylvie Bodineau (York University) will be the discussant. [...]
The Anthropology 4 Kids book “What is a nation?” begins like this: This book is a game. We are going to invent a new nation together and, at the same time, we will think
why in different countries and at different times people have thought so differently about what [a?] “nation” is? [...]
I spent most of my life doing two things – raising children and moving from country to country. I’m an eternal immigrant. England, where I live now, is my eighth relocation.
My husband, who is an anthropologist, once told me that he thinks that all immigrants are anthropologists. [...]
On a February Thursday afternoon, Nika Dubrovsky and Allegra assistant editor Emilie Thevenoz sat down together over Zoom. The chat covered the pedagogical concepts and ideas
that guide Nika’s work, the ways anthropology can help children question the value systems they inherited and why that’s important, the way publishing houses [...]
