We remember

R.I.P. Milan Kundera

New academic year, new seminar series in Utrecht ... looking forward to welcoming Anouk de Koning who will talk about the Dutch welfare state, everyone welcome #anthrotwitter EASA

A milestone. Last week, UCSIA.org celebrated the 20th anniv of its Summer Schools on Religion & Society, which I've been part of as a participant and then as a guest lecturer. This collegial group convened to work on the theme for the next three years.😇 📷 Sigrid Meulemans

Super excited about presenting my book on 6 October in Utrecht, hosted by Contesting Governance With wonderful @alec_badenoch, Müge Özoğlu and Prof Bruinessen as discussants! Moderation by Rebecca Bryant. Join us if you are in town! Cultural Anthropology UU uu.nl/en/events/book…

This week we start the project on Cultural dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation! Interested? join us for this hybrid session. Led by Bishawjit Mallick ! #culture #climatechange #adaptation

Our special issue of the open-access journal Critical Times (6:2), published by @theicctp Duke University Press and titled “The Destruction of Loss,” asks how one narrates loss after the destruction of its context & in the absence of a common horizon (thread) read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times…

Super excited about this conversation-Living with War Pollution Across the Globe-next week in Amsterdam. I will be speaking about the legacies of depleted uranium and the politics of ignorance and uncertainty (as a form of soft pollution) sewagner EASA EnviroAnt Network EASA

Congratulations Marlene Schäfers, on the publication of Voices that Matter. It was a great discussion on the voice-sound-affect of Kurdish dengbêj, reclaiming the practice and insistence on circulating the culture. I am looking forward to reading it +

On a recent trip to Bosnia-Herzegovina, @rashaelass was curious to see how a European country that survived besiegement, war and genocide might look three decades on. She writes what she learned in this New Lines Magazine essay. newlinesmag.com/first-person/i…

A Czech publisher just signed off an email with “May your pillow be cold on both sides throughout the whole summer” and that might be the nicest thing anyone’s ever said to me

A pleasure to talk to Aaron about my new book Good Chaps, about British political corruption

Although our 6-year project on #sustainability, #frugality, household food waste🍞🥕🥛& water consumption 🚿🚾🚰in 🇨🇿 & 🇳🇱 began in Jan, today's launch of our funky website feels like a proper start: resourceeurope.cz Watch this space. Czech Academy of Sciences @MaikeMelles Czexpats In Science

Happy to see that Utrecht advertises its library like the gangsters’ secret lair in a 1940s Bugs Bunny cartoon