Futures

Installation – Urban Infrastructure: Obsolescence and Futurity Walking Tour

On: October 16, 2013

In: Announcements and Listings, Conference and Event Reports, Objects and visual analyses

American Anthropological Association Meetings 2013 Chicago, Illinois USA Sunday, November 24th, 10 am – 1 pm Crucial infrastructures in North America have begun to reach the ends of their lifespan, with malfunctions and their effects increasingly commanding public and political attention. Our installation draws on a burgeoning conversation in anthropologyContinue Reading

CFP: DML2013 – Democratic Futures: Mobilizing Voices and Remixing Youth Participation

By: Material World

On: October 23, 2012

In: Announcements and Listings, Conferences and other events

Chicago, Illinois March 14-16, 2013 Website: http://dml2013.dmlhub.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/dmlconference Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DMLResearchHub Conference Chair Craig Watkins Introduces DML2013 Theme Conference Chair: Craig Watkins (University of Texas, at Austin) Conference Committee: Sasha Costanza-Chock (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Susan Crawford (Cardozo Law School) Nigel Jacob (City of Boston) Ellen Middaugh (Mills College) NicoleContinue Reading

Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage and Technology

On: November 29, 2019

Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual “Santander Art and Culture Law Review” (SAACLR), is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the impact of the digital turn

ERC Research Group Indigeneities in the 21st Century: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships and 1 Doctoral Position

On: October 11, 2019

2020/21 Fellowship Competition: Royal Museums Greenwich

On: August 30, 2019

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Occasional Paper 6: Destructivistas

Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces,

Occasional Paper 5: Mr Coperthwaite – a life in the Maine Woods

Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and Helen Nearing, Bill Coperthwaite was committed to what he called“a handmade life.” For over fifty years

Occasional Paper No 4: Properties and Social Imagination

Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology We are pleased to announce the latest issue of our Occasional Paper Series as well as the relaunch of the site with new and improved design by our newest editor, Matt Hockenberry. Properties and Social Imagination is a book length project that drew on explorations and experiments

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