"The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences." – Ruth Benedict
On Thursday, April 15th, 12:00 – 1:30 PM (EDT) you won’t want to miss part one of the new webinar series, “Can Anthropology Be Radically Humanist?”
To register for this event click here.
Panelists:
Kelly Gillespie, PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of the Western Cape
Sheela Athreya, PhD, Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Shadreck Chirikure, PhD, British Academy Global Professor, University of Oxford
Ora Marek-Martinez (Diné, Nimiipuu, Hopi), PhD, Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Native American Cultural Center, Northern Arizona University
Facilitator: Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture)
Hosted by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Organized by the Association of Black Anthropologists, Anthropology Southern Africa, and the Center for Experimental Ethnography
On Friday, April 23rd, 9:00AM – 12:00 PM (EST), the University of Michigan LSA Anthropology will be hosting, “How to Write a Graduate School Application: A Graduate School Application Workshop for Underrepresented Scholars in Anthropology”. To register for this event click here.
On Monday, April 26th, 6:30 PM (EST), the New York Academy of Sciences webinar series returns with Dr. Yolanda T. Moses presenting, “”Anthropological Perspectives on Race, Nation and for Whom Is American Great?” A discussion and Q&A will follow the lecture.
To register for this event click here.
Looking for funding? The Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study has just posted its call for applications for the following fellowship programs:
The General Fellowship Programme
The Barbro Klein Fellowship Programme
The Global Horizons Fellowship Programme
For more information about these programs and how to apply click here.
If you missed it the first time now you can check out, “Black and Indigenous Futures”. This webinar was hosted by the Society of Black Archaeologists, Indigenous Archaeology Collective,
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies, and The Andrew Fiske Memorial Center for Archaeological Research.
From the Covid-19 pandemic to the global struggle for racial justice, anthropology has not escaped 2020 unscathed. On Tuesday, March 30th Danilyn Rutherford, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, hosted a discussion of proposal writing in these tumultuous times. She discussed the Foundation’s approach to supporting anthropology worldwide, offered tips on succeeding in the competition for Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-PhD Research Grants, and described some of the Foundation’s new initiatives.
