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On January 18 Lesley Sharp delivered a keynote address “Methodologies of Absence in Medical Anthropology: Mobilizing Elusiveness, Invisibility, and Erasure as Methodological Praxis” to members of the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK) as the recipient of the Wellcome Medal for her book Animal Ethos: The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science.
Congratulations to Eduardo Romero Dianderas, who won the Roy A. Rappaport prize from the Anthropology and Environment Society. And to Alyssa James, who won the Johnnetta B. Cole Travel Award from the Association of Black Anthropologists.
Danielle Carr asks, 'Brain scans look stunning, but what do they actually mean?' and answers on the basis of her dissertation field research. Check out the article, which appears in the November 22, 2021 issue of Psyche, here.
Congratulations to Amiel Bize (PhD 2018) who has been awarded the 2021 Cultural Horizons Prize for her article “The Right to the Remainder: Gleaning in the Fuel Economies of East Africa’s Northern Corridor.” The Society for Cultural Anthropology's "Cultural Horizons Prize" recognizes the best article appearing in the previous year of Cultural Anthropology, and is awarded by a jury of advanced doctoral students.
Congratulations to Stephanie Ratte and Benjamin Liberatore for receiving Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grants.
Holland Tunnel Newburgh is very pleased to present The Longue Durée, the third exhibition by the artists' collective The International Society of Antiquaries, or ISA. Members of the society include artists Olivia Baldwin, Kyle Cottier, Elisa Pritzker, and Greg Slick, and archaeologist/artist Jeff Benjamin. The exhibition runs from October 16 through November 21, 2021
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Lila Abu-Lughod was interviewed by Nick McAlpin on a podcast for The New Arab Voice on the occasion of the 35th Anniversary of the publication of her book Veiled Sentiments. Released on September 10, it can be accessed on the website of The New Arab here or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts etc. The segment starts around 24:00.
Rosalind Morris's film, We are Zama Zama, has been named an official selection and finalist in the competition for 'Best Feature Documentary' at the Annual Copenhagen Film Festival. The film made its debut at the ENCOUNTERS International Documentary Film Festival in June. For more on the film, visit the website.
Danielle Carr, doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology, has published a review essay in The Nation, entitled 'A Virus without a World: The Politics of Science Writing.' Read Danielle's thoughtful response to Carl Zimmer's new book, Planet of Viruses, here.
Considering writing a senior thesis? Look at what some of our great anthropology majors are doing now.
Columbia University Press has awarded its 2021 Distinguished Book Award to Partha Chatterjee for I Am The People. The collection of essays was originally presented as a sequence of lectures in the context of the Department's annual Ruth Benedict Lectures Series, in 2018. They were the second in the annual series.
The prize was recognized at a ceremony in Low Library, October 27, and Lila Abu-Lughod, representing Anthropology and Timothy Mitchell representing MESAAS, received it on Partha Chatterjee's behalf since he was unable to get an appointment for a visa application to return…
Eleni Myrivil, who obtained her PhD from Columbia's Department of Anthropology in 2004, is at the forefront of efforts to mitigate climate-related heat crises. Appointed as Chief Heat Officer in Athens in 2021, she was elected to the Athens City Council in 2014 and served as a deputy mayor from 2017 to 2019, focusing on the city’s resilience amid climate change.
For more on Eleni Myrivili's path-breaking efforts to bring anthropology to bear on the most pressing problems of the times in Greece, read the article in the New York Times.
The General Anthropology Division (GAD) has long supported innovative scholarship that transcends the seemingly all too rigid boundaries that divide the various fields of anthropology.