We're looking for a one-year Teaching Fellow to start in August 2025. Come and join our team! We're receiving applications until 4th July. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Social Anthropology Away Day 2025 ✨ Discussing our values, contemporary anthropology and what we love about our work in Edinburgh on the sun-kissed roof of the National Museum of Scotland. #anthropology #edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social

This Friday, 9th May, we’re celebrating Lotte Hoek’s (@mediaautomatiek.bsky.social) promotion as Professor of Cultural Anthropology. She will give her inaugural lecture, ‘For an anthropology of the screen’. If you’re in the vicinity, please come and join us. www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

"The history of corruption/anti-corruption has been a popular struggle over what politics should look like." New on FirstView, "A Thousand Years of #Corruption: A History of Corruption and Anti-corruption in the #Philippines since 1946" by Marco Garrido. doi.org/10.1017/S001...

“Unpacking a sacking: Moral outrage and female workplace precarity in peri-urban India” by Dr. Atreyee Sen We look forward to welcome Dr. Sen to the Anthropology Seminar to discuss thee dynamics of moral surveillance of digitally literate, young professional women in India. Join us!

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 Seeking a post-doc for 5.5 years (!) on our brand new @medicinewithoutdoctors.org project! The candidate will be working with @cathm.bsky.social and the wider team to lead on playful, design-based methodological collaboration. Deadline 31 March 2025 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMD146/p...

There are three more Social Anthropology seminars coming up this semester in Edinburgh! Don’t miss our brilliant speakers: ✨ Nafis Hasan (14/3) ✨ Atreyee Sen (21/3) ✨ Pooyan Tamimi Arab (28/3) Fridays, 3-5pm, Chrystal Macmillan Building, all welcome! #anthropology @pooyan1983.bsky.social

We're excited to host @jasondeleon.bsky.social's Munro Lecture later this month: Soldiers & Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling 27 March 2015, 17.15 MacLaren Stuart Room G. 159 Old College This event is open to all: jasondeleon.eventbrite.co.uk @uoe-sps.bsky.social

We could not be prouder of our former Social Anthropology PhD student Dr. Amarasuriya, who was appointed Sri Lanka’s first woman prime minister in 24 years. She was sworn in on 24 September 2024. Her intelligence, integrity, and empathy, have since marked her tenure. #AnthroSky #Anthropology

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Hello everyone! 👋 We're a bit late, but looking forward to posting here often and re(connecting) with you. In the meantime, please give us a follow and repost this. 😊 #AnthroSky #Anthropology

Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

*️⃣*️⃣*️⃣ AE FORUM (52.1): I Was Wrong *️⃣*️⃣*️⃣ “What even the cowherds and women know”: Everyday life and its promise by Veena Das #anthrosky #anthropology Find it here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...

How about a kinship studies starter pack? Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share! Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social

On Monday, 9th Dec, we're hosting a hybrid seminar by Gabriel Scheidecker (Zurich). His talk will introduce the field of global parenting interventions, and point out the relevance of the anthropology of kinship and encourage a critical exchange between these fields www.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-event/e...

Anthropologists! There's a new call for special issues out with Social Analysis. Deadline is 15 Jan 2025 - please get in touch if any questions www.berghahnjournals.com/fileasset/sa...

👇CFP for the SCA Biennial UNconference, Restorative Relations Here’s the starting point: does the thought of attending another academic conference elicit fatigue and burnout instead of excitement and possibility? Can it be different? This is gonna be GOOD! @culanth.bsky.social #anthrosky

It was called LiveJournal and you told the whole world what you wouldn’t even share with your therapist

love it when a book is published specifically for me (on diagrams in anthropology!) punctumbooks.com/titles/burni...

Our department at Australian National University is hiring in medical #anthropology. It’s Level B (continuing), equivalent to Assistant Professor. PhD must be in hand (not abd unfortunately). Closing end of Jan. Please spread the word! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...

#CFP “Global Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change,” Association of Southeast Asian Studies conference at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, September 15-17, 2025. Submit paper and panel abstracts by April 30 for consideration.

How about a kinship studies starter pack? Please let me know if you’d like to be included (or removed). And please share! Cc: @wennergrenorg.bsky.social

The #anthropology of #ambiguity edited by Mahnaz Alimardanian and I, published by @manchesterup.bsky.social 🔗https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526173843/the-anthropology-of-ambiguity/

We published the first 4 installments of "Field Notes: Repair" last week — and there's 4 more to come this week! With contributions by dozens of inspiring scholars, designers, planners and activists. More here: placesjournal.org/series/field...

Three reminders: 1) Delete/erase your X profile/handle from your public profiles (e.g. email signatures, webpage social media widgets, etc.) 2) Make sure you archive all bookmarks & add your Bsky handle (if you want to!) to your X userame 3) Keep in mind Bsky is also privately owned 🤷

Dear all, particularly everyone in #Myanmar, My book "Rethinking community in Myanmar. Practices of #WeFormation among Muslims and Hindus in Urban Yangon" is now available #openaccess @ Uni Hawai'i Press free to download & searchable. Please share widely! manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/ret...

My starter pack of fellow Filipino academics, researchers, and thought leaders now on Bluesky. go.bsky.app/GrA6ymj

I have assembled an initial Southeast Asia starter pack. Do let me know if you think you should not be on the list or if you should be included. #SoutheastAsia go.bsky.app/2mwrXEg

I’ve tried to put together a non-exhaustive list of anthropologists on bluesky together. Did I miss anyone? Should I add you? go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK #anthropology #anthrosky

Are you thinking of doing a PhD at one of the UK’s largest social anthropology departments? If yes, please get in touch. I’ve recently taken over as admissions advisor of the University of Edinburgh’s PhD Social Anthropology programme. More information here: www.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

APPLY NOW: the 2025 Sociological Review Seminar Series funding call is open. You have until 3 October to apply for support for online, hybrid or in-person seminars/symposia on subjects within the publishing interests of The Sociological Review journal. buff.ly/46HF5Zq

NEW ISSUE: 2024’s first journal issue brings together 12 new papers, including nine #openaccess papers, on subjects ranging from women’s altruism and haunted activists to turning over Stoke-on-Trent pottery, and from Queering the Map to elite bridge players. journals.sagepub.com/toc/SOR/72/1/

Back to work today after post-AAA bout of Covid - great to see this massive volume waiting for me. Thank you Cecilia, Silvia, and Martin for the wonderful opportunity!

Economy and Society Special Issue Competition. £5,000 of workshop/event funding available. Application deadline: 12th January 2024. We would particularly welcome proposals that address topics which are of particular importance for the journal. See our website for further details.

One of my joys this semester is helping organise Sylvia Yanagisako's Munro Lecture. This is happening tomorrow, 12 October. If you're in the vicinity, please join us.

This website works like a charm for finding connections from your other platforms https://skeet.labnotes.org