It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Gill Conquest on May 5, 2017. Gill was an exceptional student and an exceptional person. Her interests were broad-ranging, extending well beyond the academic through performances of traditional stories and pantomimes, to writing plays and science fiction, sailing andContinue Reading
Haidy Geismar, UCL As I’m sure you are all aware, last week Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pam, battering the country with winds of over 270 mph. The storm knocked out the country’s telecommunications and transport infrastructure and now, just a few days later, it is estimated that more then 70%Continue Reading
Born on January 1st 1924 in Toulon, historian Jacques Le Goff has died on 1 April in Paris aged 90. He took up a teaching position and eventually headed up the Paris based School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS). He was one of the main proponents ofContinue Reading
The University of Tartu has recently hosted its XI annual Maailma World Festival of Documentary Film (March 15-22). The event opened with a session to honour the career of the Siberian filmmaker, reindeer herder and environmentalist Yuri Vella [1948-2013] In memoriam: Filming and Being Filmed. The festival session dedicated toContinue Reading
Recent obituaries for the late doyen of cultural studies, who also greatly influenced material culture studies, Professor Stuart Hall, have appeared in the Jamaica Observer and the Guardian. A founding member of the New Left Review, Professor Hall is probably best known in the UK as an inaugural member ofContinue Reading
Arthur C. Danto, a provocative and influential philosopher and critic who championed Andy Warhol and other avant-garde artists and upended the study of art history by declaring that the history of art was over, has died. He was 89. Danto, an art critic for the Nation magazine from 1984 to 2009Continue Reading
A number of prominent anthropologists have passed away in recent weeks, perhaps most notably, George W. Stocking [July 13th, aged 85], Keith Basso [Aug. 4th, aged 73] and Igor Kopytoff on August 9th. With his major contribution ‘The cultural biography of things: commoditization as process’, in Arjun Appadurai’s groundbreaking TheContinue Reading
Being Between: Thinking with Peter Loizos’ Legacy Dr Rebecca Bryant Friday 8 March 2013 at 6.30 p.m. London School of Economics European Institute, Lecture Room 1, Ground floor, Tower 1, Clements’ Inn, London WC2A 2AE Chaired by Dr Jonathan Parry, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the London School of Economics,Continue Reading
Here Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon discuss a collaboration that they undertook for the New Museum last year in which they created a visualization showing the cultural specificity and partiality of google image search.The piece was called Image Atlas. via Seven on Seven 2012: Aaron Swartz and Taryn Simon onContinue Reading
Originally published in the SocialistWorker.org on October 2, 2012 Neil Smith: A Passionate Scholar and Socialist Bill Roberts, a founding member of the ISO, and Hector Agredano, a doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center, remember the life of a determined activist. Neil Smith, the renowned scholar, beloved teacher and devoted activist, died on SeptemberContinue Reading
Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 (from the guardian.co.uk) Hobsbawm, a lifelong Marxist whose work influenced generations of historians and politicians, died in the early hours of Monday morning at the Royal Free Hospital in London after a long illness, his daughter Julia said. He was 95. Hobsbawm’s four-volume history of theContinue Reading