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Rosemarie Garland Thompson is coming to Oxford to help me lead a series of events about metamorphosis. Her writing about freak shows, monsters, and disability has transformed how I think about the human condition. With Anna Landre ♿️ khansa Maria Sarah Kane & other amazing folks.

Top notch disability scholars are coming to Oxford soon to engage in public events with Oxford Kafka.

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Anna Landre ♿️, khansa Maria, Prof Hannah Thompson, & many others.

Tickets 👇

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/jun24/ka…

Thanks to Patricia Piccinini for images.

Excited to be speaking/performing inside a huge tent of Gregor Samsa caught mid metamorphosis with
#JitterbugOxford . Full details below

Excited to be reading/performing a passage from Kafka's Metamorphosis on the stage of the Sheldonian Theatre. Stay tuned for a slew of disability justice themed events about metamorphosis in Oxford that I have helped curate.

In this podcast, Eben Kirksey, author of ‘The Mutant Project’ discusses the work of Jiankui He, who created the first genetically modified babies. #Ethics

🎧 Listen here: ow.ly/Aj4550R9mQz

🧬Get 50% off the paperback with code MUT50 until Sunday: ow.ly/7yWy50R9mQA

For UK readers: 50% off my last book, which offers a window into the Chinese laboratory where unborn children were used to test CRISPR gene editing techniques.

Reposting this Oxford Medical Anthropology professorship because there are still a couple of weeks to apply. Happy to answer any questions about the position or the department. Deadline: 26 April 2024, 12 noon (UK time)

📢 Job alert!
The University of Lausanne (Université de Lausanne) are recruiting a Ph.D. student in cultural & social anthropology with interests in env. anthro, anthro of energy, climate justice, and extractives.
5 year position, excellent resources.
More info ⤵️
buff.ly/49jfUMF

We helped launch Haunting Biology by @profemmakowal.bsky.social today in Oxford. The book engages with imporant questions like: What are the anti-racist possibilities of Indigenous biology?

A cool multispecies CFP from Ludwig Weh, a scholar I just met in Berlin, plus a broader editorial collective. They have a fun writing workshop planned for later this year. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/02/26…

We are hiring! Who wants to join the Medical Anthropology team at Oxford Anthropology?

Full details on-line
anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/associ…

Hey Berlin, ready or not, here I come! On Fridày at 2:30pm I'll be speaking about Decentered Multispecies Design, at a more than human happening near you. more-than-human.eu/en/

We are printing 30,000 copies of Kafka's Metamorphosis and distributing them for free to Oxford students, staff, and the public. Come to events featuring leading disabled thinkers, gene editors, and more-than-human thinkers. Save the date: 3 June. #oxfordkafka24 #oxfordreadskafka

We are printing 30,000 copies of Kafka's Metamorphosis and distributing them for free to Oxford students, staff, and the public. Come to events featuring leading disabled thinkers, gene editors, and more-than-human thinkers. Save the date: 3rd June. #kafka24 #oxfordreadskafka

FULL-TIME PHD FUNDING: applications on #Anthropocene thought and practice, #posthumanism , #hope , #BigData , race and political ontology welcomed - fee waiver and an annual stipend of £20,622 for three years. Deadline: 8 March 2024 westminster.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Nice to be speaking about hope alongside David Chandler this weekend in Oxford.

Ball pythons are named for their fear response--they curl up in a ball when people, or other threats, are around. Read my thoughts on pythons as pets in the latest edition of The New Yorker. The New Yorker

Excited to release a new season of the Oxford Anthropology Podcast. I've been working with an amazing team of students and staff to broadcast our weekly department seminars. Thanks especially to the amazing Sebastian Antoine Salay for sound design and Stanley Ulijaszek for mentorship.