Looking forward to to tomorrow’s lecture at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social department on rethinking the margin through #Afghanistan’s grassroots histories. Come join if you’re in #Oxford - open and free talk

Looking forward to today’s workshop on #ethnographic research at GCU in Lahore.

Afghan #mutualAid networks have rapidly emerged in recent weeks to support deportees dropped at the border, amid a mass deportation drive that has expelled half a million #Afghans from #Iran. I explore the past&present of these grassroots solidarity networks for @ajammc.bsky.social

Looking forward Monday’s “Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority&Political Change in #Afghanistan” (@stanfordpress.bsky.social) Book Talk at Berlin’s Humboldt University‘s “Transregionale Gespräche”, 14. July 6pm. free&open to the public. Please join us. #Berlin #Sufism #CivilSociety #Afghanistan

I look forward to today‘s talk at the @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social in #London celebrating the Norchi Prize for my book “Sufi Civilities”. It’s free, so please join us in person or online! @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Looking forward to next week‘s @lorentzcenter.bsky.social / @niodamsterdam.bsky.social workshop on the impact of war on the environment, offering a combined social and natural scientific engagement with comparative cases from #Vietnam, #Afghanistan, #Iraq, and #Ukraine.

I look forward to my upcoming talk celebrating the Norchi Prize in #London. Please mark your calendar and join us if you’re around! @stanfordpress.bsky.social #sufism #afghanistan #anthropology #civilsociety

#AWARD| NIOD researcher @annikaschmeding.bsky.social has won The Royal Asiatic Society's Charles H. Norchi Award for her book "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in Afghanistan". Congratulations! Read more about the Charles H. Norchi Award. ⤵️

This is a fantastic opportunity - until March 31, second monographs after the PhD as well as PhD dissertations can be nominated for the Islamic Studies Research Award of the Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation. Both Awards come with a prize money of €5000! For details ⤵️

What a quote! Hard to watch what’s happening but @adnanrkhan.bsky.social aptly analyzes recent developments in #Turkey

It was a great pleasure to talk w/Sahil Warsi&Maureen Pritchard at the Society of Reluctant Anthropologists (#SORAPod) - also, what a great name! - about embodied knowledge, the question of communities whom we research with, questions of care, hope, mental health… open.spotify.com/episode/7c83...

💫 ✨ I am thrilled to announce that my book "Sufi Civilities: Religious Authority and Political Change in #Afghanistan" @Stanfordpress.bsky.social has received the Charles H. Norchi Award by @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social Grateful to all Ustads who taught me&to all who supported the research&writing.

Grateful for the generous&generative review of my book Sufi Civilities (@stanfordpress.blsky.social ) by FatimaMojaddedi (in IJMES), who engages with what the book offers and where it shows new directions for further theorising and research www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A great anthro podcast episode where Dr. Annika Schmeding talks about "how contemporary urban Sufi communities in Afghanistan deal with violence & transition...and demonstrate resilience by creatively responding to & navigating historic shifts". 👏🎙️

this was such a wonderful interview to do!! I adored chatting with the extraordinarily brilliant and eloquent @annikaschmeding.bsky.social about her work -- listen (and read the book!!) to learn so much about the nuances of leadership and authority in Afghanistan's Sufi communities

*Podcast Alert* I had the extraordinary pleasure to discuss my book Sufi Civilities (@stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with the delightful @bcheves.bsky.social for @ajammc.bsky.social find our conversation on their website or Spotify #afghanistan #anthropology #sufism

Over 1,000 documents digitized and made available to researchers. Many openly readable for the first time in over 800 years since first written, in Persian in #Afghanistan, with quite a few translated into English by the Invisible East Team. Such as this relatable story:

Tomorrow! Looking forward to tomorrow's “Sufi Civilities” Book Talk at the Abu Sulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at @georgemasonu.bsky.social . It's a Hybrid Event and Open to all. So, please join us! #afghanistan #sufism #civilsociety islamicstudiescenter.gmu.edu/events/16721

When people praise Canada as an immigration destination, this is the side they don’t see. Adnan Khan spent several years delving into the dark world of immigration consultants and their victims. #migration #canada #exploitation thewalrus.ca/immigration-...

New #openaccess publication: “Where do nomads bury their dead? Necro-ostracism, statelessness, and the pastoral/peripatetic divide in #Afghanistan” Many thanks to the editors and interviewees who discussed the issues with me over the last decade. A short thread 🧵

This looks promising! Conference on Colonial Encounters and challenges of religious minorities between #Afghanistan, Central Asia and #Iran Deadline 14.March orient.cas.cz/en/news/Call...

‼️Fancy doing #Afghanistan-related research in beautiful Paris? 2 new job opps for PhD scholarships (Persian pre-modern mss) post-docs (open field). Historical #Khurasan included! bit.ly/42Mh9EB & bit.ly/3CAD86B. Deadlines: Mar & Apr 25 @Inalco @invisible_east

Join us for the Workshop next week “Politics of Manhood: Martyrs, mystics and merchants" at ISS of Erasmus University Rotterdam organised by Dr. Saad Ali to explore the construction of masculinities at the intersection of religion, violence, commerce, politics and power. www.iss.nl/en/events/po...

Thanks @aanafgh.bsky.social for reviewing "Sufi Civilities" @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Christian Bleuer concluded that "Sufi Civilities will remain for decades a mandatory (English-language) text for understanding the role of Islam in Afghanistan." www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/c...

⭐ Call for Submissions! ⭐ Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart Due Feb 14, 2025 An invitation to reflect on the challenges & insights of contending w/mental illness, disability, chronic illness, & neurodivergence as an anthropologist #AnthroSky #anthropology americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...

Good opportunity: post-doc vacancy with Alessandro Rippa at University of Oslo within the project “Knowledge in Crisis: The Dynamics of Environmental Expertise amidst Rural Change” #anthropology #job #postdoc #norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Scholar Rescue Fund is seeking applications from qualified threatened and displaced scholars. Apply or refer by January 20, 2025 for possible consideration in March 2025. www.scholarrescuefund.org/for-scholars/

5 doctoral positions at the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in #Oslo www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Lovely to find a friend‘s book in our local bookstore. And while I want others to read it, too, of course I bought the German version the Joy of Consent by Manon Garcia @manongarcia.bsky.social

Our new Book ✨“Frontier Ethnographies: Deconstructing Research Experiences in #Afghanistan and #Pakistan” (Berghahn) is out & 50%off with the promo code 👉🏽 CHOU7595 until 31.December. Pls Ask your library to order! The introduction is open access available here: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Choudh...