Following up on my post last week about the “Neurosociety” conference, I wanted to mention yet another recent symposium on neuroscience and society which you can now listen to online. This was called “Personhood in a Neurobiological Age,” and it was held last September at LSE as the final event in the “Brain, Self and Society” project which was located …
Humanity is a new periodical published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, which describes itself as an “international journal of human rights, humanitarianism and development.” These topics have been a central interest for many anthropologists of late and indeed anthropology is well represented among the members of the editorial collective and contributors to the journal’s first issue. Here’s how …
Just when you thought it was safe to engage in human exceptionalism…. Cultural Anthropology comes along with a special issue on “Multispecies Ethnography.”
In their introduction– which surveys a range of literatures and conceptual turns which have preceded and laid the groundwork for this “species turn” – S. Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich write:
“A new genre
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The number of interesting conferences and lectures in medical anthropology and STS available online is growing steadily. In addition to not having the time to attend all of these conferences, we soon won’t have time to listen to all of them online.
The latest one I’ve come across is a project at the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Humanities Center called “What …
I’ve written here in the past about the National Humanities Center’s On the Human Forum–a site meant to foster discussion about what “the human” has or is coming to mean in the context of contemporary social and technoscientific developments. The topic of this summer’s issue of Daedalus is “On Being Human” and it is specifically framed as …
At the National Humanities Center’s excellent On the Human Forum, Paul Rabinow has a new post describing his recent work on synthetic biology–conducted in collaboration with a number of students and colleagues in other disciplines. The project emerged from Rabinow’s work directing the Human Practices Thrust of the Berkeley-based Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC). Rabinow begins his post …