Armanc Yildiz
@armanc.bsky.social
Author | Anthropologist | Postdoc @ Humboldt Uni | Researching Anthroposophy, spirituality & science | Exploring sex ed, Whiteness & race in Germany | Editorial hats @Culture&Religion + @AmericanAnthro | Tarot, knitting & 🐾 Donna's human
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Armanc Yildiz
@armanc.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Call for Pitches for the Highlights Section — American Anthropologist
Anthropologists! Specifically, early career anthropologists! Queer, feminist, trans*, BIPOC, neurodiverse anthropologists, anthropologists with disabilities, those with working-class backgrounds, fi...
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Anthropologists! 📝✨ The Highlights section of the American Anthropologist is open for pitches—especially from early-career scholars. Got a fresh take? Share your ideas with us!
www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
#Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social
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#Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen
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November 7, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...
I found out that the podcast episodes I hosted for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social got downloaded over 100,000 times 😱 I’m both proud and terrified at the same time.
November 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I found out that the podcast episodes I hosted for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social got downloaded over 100,000 times 😱 I’m both proud and terrified at the same time.
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"we received a large number of strong applications"
November 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"we received a large number of strong applications"
German Chancellor Merz recently complained about how the cityscape has changed due to immigration, making sure we understand that he’s unhappy with the visibility of non-white people in public space. A thread 🧵
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Merz's 'discriminatory' cityscape migration remark draws ire – DW – 10/16/2025
Greens and Left Party lawmakers have urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz to apologize after he linked migration to a "problem in the cityscape." A government spokesman says critics are "reading too much i...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
German Chancellor Merz recently complained about how the cityscape has changed due to immigration, making sure we understand that he’s unhappy with the visibility of non-white people in public space. A thread 🧵
🔗 www.dw.com/en/merzs-dis...
🔗 www.dw.com/en/merzs-dis...
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Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerou....
doi.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
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This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
October 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media
Good morning #DGSKA peeps, come check out our panel, Who‘s afraid of anti racism, at 14:00 today! I’m gonna be talking about studying whiteness as an anti racist strategy.
Out now!
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
Boasblogs •
Racism has been a contentious topic within anthropology. Broadly speaking, the discipline has had a long history of engagement with—whether critical against, conniving at, or even productive of—racial...
boasblogs.org
September 30, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Good morning #DGSKA peeps, come check out our panel, Who‘s afraid of anti racism, at 14:00 today! I’m gonna be talking about studying whiteness as an anti racist strategy.
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(2/2) Other presentations include P059: "Un/Commoning Migration", P034: "Challenging Universal Rights with the Commons or Uncommons" and P011 "Common(ing) Values and Values In-Common".
See you in Cologne next week!
See you in Cologne next week!
💫Reminder💫 Only one week left!
Un/Commoning - Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology
29.09 - 2.10.2025 in Cologne
Go and check out the program
tagung.dgska.de/zeitplan/#ti...
Un/Commoning - Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology
29.09 - 2.10.2025 in Cologne
Go and check out the program
tagung.dgska.de/zeitplan/#ti...
September 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
(2/2) Other presentations include P059: "Un/Commoning Migration", P034: "Challenging Universal Rights with the Commons or Uncommons" and P011 "Common(ing) Values and Values In-Common".
See you in Cologne next week!
See you in Cologne next week!
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Looking forward to attend this year's German Social Anthropology Meeting in Cologne next week. Members of our working group participate in P057: "Who is afraid of anti-racism?", P061 "Beyond Condemnations", and P001: "Commoning Solidarities Beyond Differences?" (1/2)
💫Reminder💫 Only one week left!
Un/Commoning - Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology
29.09 - 2.10.2025 in Cologne
Go and check out the program
tagung.dgska.de/zeitplan/#ti...
Un/Commoning - Conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology
29.09 - 2.10.2025 in Cologne
Go and check out the program
tagung.dgska.de/zeitplan/#ti...
September 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Looking forward to attend this year's German Social Anthropology Meeting in Cologne next week. Members of our working group participate in P057: "Who is afraid of anti-racism?", P061 "Beyond Condemnations", and P001: "Commoning Solidarities Beyond Differences?" (1/2)
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Are you following @amanthro.bsky.social? 👀
December 5, 2024 at 3:47 PM
Are you following @amanthro.bsky.social? 👀
This is such a loss for the program and the university. Durba is a generous, intellectual powerhouse. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
A Surprise Tenure Denial in Harvard’s Gender Studies Program Leaves Some Faculty Shaken | News | The Harvard Crimson
Durba Mitra’s colleagues thought she was a near-perfect tenure candidate. When her bid was shot down in June, they were left questioning the process.
www.thecrimson.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:05 AM
This is such a loss for the program and the university. Durba is a generous, intellectual powerhouse. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Out now!
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
Boasblogs •
Racism has been a contentious topic within anthropology. Broadly speaking, the discipline has had a long history of engagement with—whether critical against, conniving at, or even productive of—racial...
boasblogs.org
September 19, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Out now!
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?"
A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion.
Give it a look:
boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...
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We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
August 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Die ersten Schilder hängen schon….
August 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Die ersten Schilder hängen schon….
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Congratulations Zeynep! Here's an interview with the author you can listen to: newbooksnetwork.com/gendered-for...
August 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Congratulations Zeynep! Here's an interview with the author you can listen to: newbooksnetwork.com/gendered-for...
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📣 @amanthro.bsky.social invites pitches for its new Highlights section, featuring creative, experimental, and critical work from early-career anthropologists.
Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF
Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF
August 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
📣 @amanthro.bsky.social invites pitches for its new Highlights section, featuring creative, experimental, and critical work from early-career anthropologists.
Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF
Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF
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🎙️ Highlights | Check out our own @armanc.bsky.social l in conversation with @emmabunkley.bsky.social about her powerful article, “The Weight of Rumor,” from the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist.
Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
#AnthroSky #MedAnthro
Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
#AnthroSky #MedAnthro
#EmmaNelsonBunkley — American Anthropologist
by Armanc Yildiz In this edition of Highlights, Emma Nelson Bunkley joins us to discuss her compelling article, “ The Weight of Rumor ,” published in the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist...
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August 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🎙️ Highlights | Check out our own @armanc.bsky.social l in conversation with @emmabunkley.bsky.social about her powerful article, “The Weight of Rumor,” from the June 2025 issue of American Anthropologist.
Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
#AnthroSky #MedAnthro
Listen here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
#AnthroSky #MedAnthro
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#OTD 30.7.1898 starb Otto v Bismarck.
Bis heute wird er als einiger Deutschlands bewundert, seine unrühmliche Rolle im Kolonialismus wird verdrängt. Nicht nur machte er das Deutsche Reich zur Kolonialmacht, er wirkte an entscheidender Stelle bei Aufteilung Afrikas mit. /2
Bis heute wird er als einiger Deutschlands bewundert, seine unrühmliche Rolle im Kolonialismus wird verdrängt. Nicht nur machte er das Deutsche Reich zur Kolonialmacht, er wirkte an entscheidender Stelle bei Aufteilung Afrikas mit. /2
July 30, 2025 at 10:10 AM
#OTD 30.7.1898 starb Otto v Bismarck.
Bis heute wird er als einiger Deutschlands bewundert, seine unrühmliche Rolle im Kolonialismus wird verdrängt. Nicht nur machte er das Deutsche Reich zur Kolonialmacht, er wirkte an entscheidender Stelle bei Aufteilung Afrikas mit. /2
Bis heute wird er als einiger Deutschlands bewundert, seine unrühmliche Rolle im Kolonialismus wird verdrängt. Nicht nur machte er das Deutsche Reich zur Kolonialmacht, er wirkte an entscheidender Stelle bei Aufteilung Afrikas mit. /2
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🚨 Our June 2025 issue is out! 🚨
Includes 5 research articles + two special sections:
✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin
🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century
Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
Includes 5 research articles + two special sections:
✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin
🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century
Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this issue
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
🚨 Our June 2025 issue is out! 🚨
Includes 5 research articles + two special sections:
✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin
🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century
Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
Includes 5 research articles + two special sections:
✨ Unsettling the Self: Autoethnography and Related Kin
🕯️ Ethnographies of a Dying Discipline—Anthropology in the 21st Century
Read here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15481433...
#AnthroSky #Anthropology
"...the preoccupation with Muslim women’s liberation enables feminist (and other) activists to feel a transcendent moral purity, unburdened by any sense of their own complicity in global inequalities, armed interventions, or military occupations. "
www.publicbooks.org/saving-musli...
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Saving Muslim Women - Public Books
The 2015 Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris—along with the brutal activities of ISIS—have spurred a resurgence of concern about Islam in Western media. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof fretted .....
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July 22, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"...the preoccupation with Muslim women’s liberation enables feminist (and other) activists to feel a transcendent moral purity, unburdened by any sense of their own complicity in global inequalities, armed interventions, or military occupations. "
www.publicbooks.org/saving-musli...
www.publicbooks.org/saving-musli...
I look forward to this episode of the Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social
Jens Spahn beim Schaden den er anrichtet irgendwie auch zunehmend der Sarrazin der CDU. Erst verschwendet er 6,6 Mio. Euro, dann vergleicht er die SPD mit der NSDAP und kokettiert mit einer AfD-Normalisierung (häh?) & nun kann er die Beschädigung des Verfassungsgerichts nicht verhindern. Good Work.
July 14, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I look forward to this episode of the Bad Gays @badgayspod.bsky.social
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BREAKING: M-Straße darf umbenannt werden.
Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis.
Dank an alle Initiativen!
h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis.
Dank an alle Initiativen!
h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
July 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
BREAKING: M-Straße darf umbenannt werden.
Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis.
Dank an alle Initiativen!
h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...
Jetzt wird der große Schwarze deutsche Philosoph der Frühaufklärung, Anton Wilhelm Amo, im Herzen des früheren Kolonialimperiums geehrt. Wahrlich historisches Ereignis.
Dank an alle Initiativen!
h/t @decolonizeberlin.bsky.social
www.zeit.de/gesellschaft...