The New York Times recently ran this photo essay by the Iranian documentary photographer Hossein Fatemi of diverse women in Tehran posing behind veils of one sort or another, accompanied by a short commentary critiquing the imposition of the hijab on secular women there. While the piece ran in the “Review”Continue Reading
Over at the UCL Social Networking Sites and Social Sciences Project, Danny Miller writes about his research at a London hospice where he has been exploring the resonance of new media at the end of life: Alongside my ethnographic research in The Glades I have now been working for over a yearContinue Reading
In celebration of the first ever Museum Week, Berghahn Journals is delighted to offer you free access to two special virtual issues. The first features a collection of articles from eleven of our journals spanning multiple disciplines which deliver scholarly and informed opinion on museum studies. Article topics include: MuseumsContinue Reading
The A.V Club, the film and tv reviews section The Onion has started a new occasional series: Iconography: a visual study of pop culture’s most fascinating objects. The first in the season looks at the iconic gold head in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom…Continue Reading
After a legal case to have the speaker of the PNG Parliment’s order to destroy several of the building’s carvings recognized as illegal failed, a group of academics has published a discussion paper entitled “Purging Parliament: A New christian Parliament in Papua New Guinea“. The piece debates whether or notContinue Reading
My Street’s annual competition is now open for submissions, with a deadline of May 19th. My Street is a documentary film archive, focused on the UK, but expanding rapidly across Europe of short films produced by amateur, professional (and anything in-between) filmmakers. The project is resolutely local – allContinue Reading
Reblogged from the blog of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion Through 2013, the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion has funded over 125 researchers in 38 countries. Every year they come together at the University of California, Irvine to share their research questions and conclusions. TheyContinue Reading
The Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) has convened an interdisciplinary research seminar entitled “Things: Material Cultures 1500 – 1900. The brief of the research group is here: With the dawning of modernity came the age of ‘stuff.’ Public production, collection, display and consumptionContinue Reading
Chris Rumford and Alistair Brisbourne, Royal Holloway, University of London We would like to draw your attention to a new research project entitled ‘Global Things’. In outline, the project seeks to identify a number of ‘global things’ and explore what makes them global, what this can tell us about theContinue Reading
By Aaron Glass (Bard Graduate Center) After knowing about the book for a couple of years, I finally found the time to read The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), Edmund de Waal’s evocative exploration of his material patrimoine. The book traces its author’s geographical, archival, and emotional wanderings though theContinue Reading
At Cabinet Magazine, Stefan Hellmreich “puts an ear to popular science and poetry, following a history that has, first, shells singing, speaking, sighing, and echoing distant oceanic and communal pasts, and next, shells reflecting back the personal and present moment, and, then, as we approach today, delivering sounds imagined deepContinue Reading