🚨 Big news! 🚨 A new grant program designed to support and celebrate research partnerships that blend the skills and knowledge of anthropologists and activists and community leaders from minoritized and marginalized groups. Deadline August 1st!
The application portal for the Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Post-PhD Research grant is now available!
Deadline: Nov. 1st, 11:59 PM EST.
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If you have questions email applications
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.org.
Wenner-Gren funds research projects for doctorates and doctoral students in anthropology and related fields, as well as writing projects, media projects, conferences, workshops, and collaborative capacity building. Visit our site for more info!
Call for Applications - Announcement: Doctoral Fellowship for Palestinian Students in Cultural and Social Anthropology - University of Milan-Bicocca. Deadline: July 9 2024. The successful candidate will start the program on November 1 2024.
Another awesome
#webinar
coming up later this month: The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Race, Racism, and Its Reckoning in American Anthropology
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We're delighted to announce that Laurence Ralph has been selected to serve as Current Anthropology's next editor! Ralph will take the reigns January 1, 2019.
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It's well known that Sun Ra taught a course at Berkeley in 1971. What's not well known, however, is that same year Michel Foucault cut a yé-yé 45 under the stage name "le fou mystérieux". WGF possesses the only known copy. (It's not good)
BIG news: We will now accept all materials (e.g., application forms, CVs, project bibliographies) exclusively online. Applicants no longer need to mail us printed duplicates!
🚨BIG NEWS🚨:
@SAPIENS_org
is launching a podcast. We need anthropologists to contribute, *especially* if you have field-based projects within the next 6 months and/or have new publications of interest to non-academic audiences. Email chip at sapiens dot org if you're interested.
Next Wednesday is going to be big. First, "The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Race, Racism, and Its Reckoning in American Anthropology" sponsored by the UCLA Department of Anthropology Race, Racism, Policing and State Violence Committee
As part of an exciting new initiative, the Foundation will award a special $1million grant to a randomly selected Dissertation Fieldwork Grant application containing the phrase "you gotta hand it to them"
Save the date! May 22, 2024, Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for a Dissertation Fieldwork or a Post-PhD Research Grant, A Workshop co-sponsored by SOAS GLOCAL. Time: 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada).
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Another
#webinar
you can't miss coming up 5/20: '“Skeletons in the Anthropological Closet” Museum Collections and the Demand for Principles of Accountability' Orangized by
@ABA_AAA
,
@cee_upenn
, Anthropology Southern Africa, and us.
Save the Date! May 6, 2024 01:00 PM in Eastern time (US and Canada). Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for an Engaged Research Grant, A Workshop co-sponsored by the ABA (Brazilian Anthropological Association).
Join us tonight 5PM EST for "The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn? Race, Racism, and Its Reckoning in American Anthropology" (and yes, it's being recorded as well!)
This exceptional bear figurine was discovered in a peat bog near Słupsk. It was carved from amber during the Mesolithic- Neolithic, ca. 5000- 2000 BC
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#Poland
Call for Applications, Postdoctoral Researcher - Member of the Research Group REVENANT – Revivals of Empire: Nostalgia, Amnesia, Tribulation.
Deadline 8 September 2023
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TOMORROW 12PM EST: Many questions abound about why contemporary museums still hold the skeletal remains of people who never consented to their use. How can we imagine an anthropology committed to “radical humanism?"
The Wenner-Gren Foundation stands with our colleagues worldwide who are protesting George Floyd's senseless, brutal murder in custody and the deeply history of violence and white supremacy crystalized in this horrific event. 1/2
The Center for Palestine Studies is pleased to announce the competition for the 2024-2025 Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Postdoctoral Award in Palestine Studies!
Applications are due on 4 March 2024.
The Wenner-Gren Foundation and the University of Chicago Press are delighted to announce the selection of Caroline Schuster and Catherine J. Frieman to serve as Current Anthropology’s next co-editors.
Save the date! On June 13 please join us for a discussion of the Engaged Research Grant program. WG president Danilyn Rutherford will describe the program’s objectives, go over the criteria of evaluation, and offer tips on writing a winning proposal.
Webinar 4/23: How to Write a Graduate School Application: A Graduate School Application Workshop for Underrepresented Scholars in Anthropology
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On Oct 2nd at 10AM Eastern and again at 9PM Eastern join Danilyn Rutherford, President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation, for a discussion of proposal writing in these tumultuous times.
The brand-new Engaged Research Grant program is designed to support and celebrate research partnerships that blend the skills and knowledge of anthropologists and activists and community leaders from minoritized and marginalized groups. Read more:
Exciting news! In effect for the Nov. 1st 2022 deadline, the max grant amount for the WG Dissertation Fieldwork Grant and Post-PhD Research Grant has been increased to $25K. DF - PPHD -
On August 23rd, 1:00 PM WAT (UTC +1), join the Foundation’s president, Danilyn Rutherford, for a discussion of the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Post-PhD Research Grant, and the Engaged Research Grant programs!
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In case you missed it the archive of the May 6th workshop, "Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for an Engaged Research Grant," co-sponsored by the ABA (Brazilian Anthropological Association) is live!
Mark your calendar! On May 14th at 11:00 AM EST,
@SAPIENS_org
will be holding a Public Scholars Training Fellowship Q&A. Please join us to learn about the program and how to apply!
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This is a moment of reckoning. Anthropologists have an ethical obligation to use their talents and resources to combat injustice and contribute to the shaping of a better world for everyone our discipline touches. We have an ethical obligation to support them as they do. 2/2
Thrilled to announce that Wenner-Gren Workshop organizers, Laura Heath-Stout and Jess Beck, have launched a website featuring their workshop, "Socio-Politics of Knowledge Production in Anthropology and Archaeology." Visit it here: .
Happy to share that past Wenner-Gren grantee, Penelope Dransart and her colleagues contributed a chapter to the recently published, "Anthropology and Climate Change: From Transformations to Worldmaking."
Webinar: SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship Q&A.
Join us for a webinar on May 30th at 11am EST to learn about the program and how to apply!
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Apply Now! Wenner-Gren Fellowship in Anthropology and Black Experiences.
The deadline for applications is November 6, 2023, for a fellowship starting in September 1, 2024.
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This brand-new fellowship aims to expand the anthropological conversation and build capacity in anthropology by amplifying perspectives previously under-represented in the discipline.
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APPLICANT: im looking at how ways of social being incubated in mid-century popular dance music cultures laid the foundation for new strains of Greenlandic nationalism
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APPLICANT: I request a grant of $20k to do research on
Save the Date! New Webinar Series: Indigenous Peoples, Heritage and Landscape in the Asia Pacific: Knowledge Co-Production, Policy Change, and Empowerment
@UCLACotsen
The Wenner-Gren Foundation in partnership with the UC Irvine School of Social Sciences are excited to announce a new webinar series, “Criticism Inside, Alternatives Alongside: Organizing Otherwise to Intervene in Anthropology’s Future“.
Announcing the SAPIENS Public Scholars Training Fellowship! Learn how to write and publish for public audiences in a year-long
@SAPIENS_org
fellowship. Great experiences + USD $2,500 award. Info:
Deadline: July 15th. Apply now:
Deadline Reminder! Wenner-Gren is seeking a doctoral student to join the Advisory Council, a group of six anthropologists who offer feedback and advice to the Foundation on our programs, initiatives, and future directions.
Deadline: August 1st
Call for Papers! The Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA) invites abstracts (sessions, papers, posters, and videos) for the Program of the 84th Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM, March 26-30, 2024.
Deadline: October 15, 2023
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On September 28th, 2023, 10:00 AM Eastern Time, (US and Canada), join Chip Colwell, the editor-in-chief of SAPIENS magazine for a discussion about how to pitch your work.
Register:
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Folks, what are some ethnographic films you'd consider important, interesting, or just plain good? Bonus points if they're available online.
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"As a shark anthropologist, I explore the life created in the intersection of humans and sharks, and challenge human exceptionalism in classical ethnographic investigation."
Read more about this exceptional encounter
Two-year paid fellowship opportunity at Wenner-Gren! Fellow will take part in identifying and recruiting reviewers, vetting feedback, and tracking trends in the research WG supports. Applications will be accepted until April 14, 2023.
5/20: This panel serves to open a series of conversations dedicated to exploring the possibilities of an anthropology grounded in a commitment to “radical humanism.”
Don't miss out! On September 23rd, 12:00 PM Eastern Time, the Wenner-Gren Foundation will be hosting, “Toward Radical Humanism in Anthropology: Ethnographic Praxis, Relationality, Multi-Modality”.
Mark your calendar! Feb 23rd WG and SOAS GLOCAL will co-host a series of webinars on funding opportunities for anthropologists and researchers in their respective disciplines. Time: 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM Eastern Time.
Webiner - April 12th 2023: Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for an Engaged Research Grant.
Time: 8:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register:
Info:
Join us on September 28th at 7AM and 7PM Eastern Time, for, “Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Dissertation Fieldwork and Post-PhD Research Grant”.