Cairo has strong Blade Runner vibes youtu.be/RScZrvTebeA?...

One further piece in the plague-puzzle I’ve been inadvertently building, showing how #18thC #plague policy implementation was negotiated to the tiniest detail when it came to the circulation of cows, but apparently less important when it came to people. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting 🔗🎁 Read open-access here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... 🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology

Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting 🔗🎁 Read open-access here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... 🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology

If you’re excited by @danielsoar.bsky.social’s @lrb.co.uk review of Pynchon’s new novel, you’re going to want to follow our project #LiminalWater, the premise of which is that Rijeka (Fiume) is in fact the centre of the universe. chanse.org/liminalwater/

A gem and one of only three YT recordings of the Piva Jazz Band youtu.be/YmlBbxy8_F4?...

Now under contract from @manchesterup.bsky.social: PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS on #Eurovision and its narratives of queer, national, European belonging in post-Cold-War Europe bakercatherine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/p... The history and memory behind where we now are.

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

✊ Each December, Yugoslavia held nationwide humanitarian campaigns in support of global liberation struggles. 📄 Read more about 'Solidarity Weeks' and Yugoslav humanitarian internationalism in Dora Tot’s latest article published in the Journal of Contemporary History: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...

The original slavic stare: youtube.com/shorts/Y29tb...

A group of MA students from the @unimainz.bsky.social travelled to the Red Cross archives in Geneva to study the everyday life of international organizations during the Cold War. The result has been published by @alameda.institute alameda.institute/dossier/non-...

I enjoyed reading and reviewing Chelsi West Ohueri's book "Encountering Race in Albania. An Ethnography of the Communist Afterlife" @leibniz-ios.de www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Exklusiv | In der Fördergeldaffäre um Ahmad Mansour springt ihm nun die Ethnologin Susanne Schröter publizistisch zur Seite. Sie gibt die neutrale Beobachterin. Interne Dokumente zeigen jedoch: Auch sie sollte von den rund 9 Millionen Euro für Mansours Projekt profitieren. 1/x

Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂 iupress.org/978025307522...

2nd (3rd, 4th...) generation migrants are a policy fantasy. You either migrate across space - or you don't, in which case you are not a migrant.

Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out! 🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h... #Anthropology #OA

Es geht weiter... taz.de/AfD-hetzt-ge...

Proofs are ready and "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" (Indiana UP 2026) can be pre-ordered 🥂 iupress.org/978025307522...

Genauso wie man den deutschen (deutschsprachigen) Sonderweg der Habilitation endlich aufgeben sollte, sollte man die Ausbeutung der Privatdozent*innen durch unentgeltliche Titellehre sein lassen. Sie ist ein Instrument der sozialen Auslese. Ich habe unterschrieben. Unterschreib Du auch!

Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025 www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...

Join in the #SIEF European Ethnology Transnational Syllabus Collective and send in your thoughts by 01st December 2025 www.siefhome.org/higher_ed/sy...

Here's academia.edu for you, folks. Quite sure this rubbish does not comply with the European GDPR. Gonna download all my papers and move to Knowledge Commons hcommons.org #medievalsky #academia

Marc Abeles' "Quiet Days in Burgundy" with its focus on family dynasties in French politics is as relevant as ever

No sign of the actual book yet but today is the official date of publication of my book on The New International Economic Order .. if you want to read it, you know what to do .. and that does not include complaining in the comments about its price!

📚 Check out the book reviews in the latest issue of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 📚 Including a review by DAFINA GASHI of "Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey" by @claulie.bsky.social www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Bei der heutigen #Bundespressekonferenz zur humanitären Lage in Gaza sowie der Rolle der 🇪🇺 und 🇩🇪 zog @gerdu.bsky.social Parallelen zur Lage in Gaza und dem Genozid in Srebrenica vor 30 Jahren. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-oX... (Minute 10:34-15:00) #Gaza #Srebrenica #Genozid #Verantwortung

Looks promising - thorough engagement with Federici's Caliban and the Witch awildnewwork.com/composting-c...

Am 11. Juli 1995 begann der Völkermord von Srebrenica. 30 Jahre später fragt Ger Duijzings auf z|o, welche Lehren sich daraus ziehen lassen und verweist auf die Gewalt im Gazastreifen. ➡️ tinyurl.com/ctx83fy3

Our special issue 'Socialist Health: Of Shortages and Solidarity' in EHMH has been published! brill.com/view/journal... Fantastic articles by @alilacandonga.bsky.social @jelenadj.bsky.social @nalbrecht.bsky.social @severyandyakonov.bsky.social and many more, supported by @erc.europa.eu #histmed

On epistemic emotions aeon.co/essays/how-a...

Die letzte Woche war übrigens eine gute für die Geisteswissenschaften im Rhein-Main-Gebiet, nach @dfg.de -Förderentscheidungen: Zwei neue Graduiertenkollegs, "Ästhetik der Demokratie" an der @goetheuni.bsky.social und "Techniken des Bezeugens" an der JGU Mainz! www.dfg.de/de/service/p...

Five things to remember about war:

World War 3 kinda sucks, but you know, it was either this or pronouns

Public Anthropologist just published the special Issue "Speaking Out Against Genocide and Repression". The special issue features research articles as well as a variety of different contributions including satirical, poetical, and biographical pieces. 🔗 buff.ly/9HXJ5yD

Thrilled to see this article out in the world, soon featuring in the special issue on Health and Socialism edited by @doravargha.bsky.social @alilacandonga.bsky.social and Luis Aue! For more on entanglements between socialist and social medicine from the Yugoslav perspective: t.co/5QnTExGqa7

It's the last day of the International Society for Ethnology & Folklore conference! Come talk to us, and remember to use code SIEF2025 for 35% off select titles. The SALE is also available online until 27 June 2025. For more details: bit.ly/4kig659 #SIEF25 #academicsky #anthropology

If you wondered why the EU is ignoring protests in #Serbia, look no further. The EU (ofc in agreement with Serbia's corrupt regime, how else) has declared the Jadar mining project strategic. This is bound to devastate an entire region, in the name of "green transition," which is anything but.

Look forward to thinking together with @alinajasina.bsky.social about decolonization or decentering through the lens of the Global Easts

Und auch mit Holger Stoecker u.a. am 26. Mai und mit @charnab.bsky.social u.a. am 16. Juni

Such a lovely example of the "thinking with" approach (vs. "thinking against" / "the courtroom model") as elaborated by @charnab.bsky.social here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New article in Political Philosophy: "We Cease to be Mere Fragments: Justice, Alienation, Liberalism and Socialism" by Jan Kandiyali (Durham) and Martin O'Neill (York) @jkandiyali.bsky.social @martinoneill.bsky.social, available open access here: politicalphilosophyjournal.org/article/id/1...

For lovers of podcasts and social justice: My colleague @severyandyakonov.bsky.social has interviewed Canadian doctor Yipeng Ge, who went to Gaza on a humanitarian mission and was suspended from his university. Public history at its best. Please share! creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...