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Anthropology and Social Change
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Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴‍☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
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I was invited to deliver the keynote speech for a three-day conference on Michael Burawoy.
Another verse of a long goodbye to my dearest colleague, friend, and comrade…
Thanks to Portuguese sociologists for organizing this conference.
Details of the conference 🧵
October 9, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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CFP: "The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe." International conference in Romania, May 2026. Keynotes by Stefania Barca, Erik Swyngedouw, and Andrej Grubačić.
#envhist #envhum
Call for Papers: The Greyzone of the Green Transition - Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe - ecoJust home
The Greyzone of the Green Transition is a conference dedicated to advancing conversations on environmental justice in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It brings together senior , doctoral, and postdo...
grants.ulbsibiu.ro
September 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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“Contradicting this idea that feminism is no longer relevant, gendered rhetoric is now a primary mode of bolstering state power. Insidiously, feminist language is being reappropriated to justify the erasure of feminist ideas and feminist history.”
The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict
Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college ...
www.publicbooks.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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“Gaitán’s murder is the climax of the book, a death foretold, an event so compressed with hope that its explosion sent historical shrapnel in all directions.”

In a new interview at PB, Greg Grandin discusses the execution of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán.
www.publicbooks.org/a-second-enl...
“A Second Enlightenment”: Greg Grandin on Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity
“My books try to explain a tension.”
www.publicbooks.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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To understand the uprising and crisis in Indonesia, here is our selection of articles from ALR: labourreview.org/indonesias-u...
The Anatomy of Indonesia’s Uprising
Since late August 2025, Indonesia has been gripped by a wave of spontaneous and violent protests that shook the foundations of the new Prabowo-Gibran administration. What began as online discontent sp...
labourreview.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Carolyn Lesjak reviews Fredric Jameson in NLR 154:

‘In contrast to “the private lives of currently fashionable autofiction”, the works discussed here “try to write the collective, or at least register the crisis of the individual attempting to do so.”’

newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...
September 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Curious about mostly online our activist Anthropology MAs+PhDs?

Sign up for the Sept 5, 4pm Pacific Time Info Session with our founding department chair, Andrej Grubačić: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

Train in Anthropology informed by methodologies from Anarchism to Marxism.
August 23, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Brands Me and my
marketing to gay friends:
gays:
June 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Refusal of business as usual saves lives.
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Rest in Power, David Graeber
April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If “end-stage capitalism” were a single picture.
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
In our Societies Against the State course this Spring, we are studying the Kurdish Freedom Movement all semester!
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Curious about our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up today to join the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...
March 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
📹Subcomandante Marcos removes his mask!
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Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology, including research in solidarity with populations in struggle? Sign up for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...
March 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up here for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Time online Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

📹Department friend @davidgraeber (RIP🖤) from davidgraeber.org on the Paradox of Sovereignty
March 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Eyal Weizman 4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture+the Q+A, up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfD1...
Eyal Weizman "Conditions of Life Calculated..." on the Gaza Genocide -David Graeber Memorial Lecture
YouTube video by Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS
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February 18, 2025 at 10:58 PM
New Degree option just dropped! Looking to finish a BA? Maybe get an accelerated MA with us in Activist Anthropology? See link below for info on CIIS accelerated degree programs!
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February 18, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Wednesday! ciis.zoom.us/j/98062486957

Celebrate David Graeber’s birthday with us! 4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture with Eyal Weizman. Bookmark the above Zoom link.
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“Conditions of Life Calculated...” on the Gaza Genocide 1/10
February 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
IWW Bay Area newest shop, APTP Workers are facing union busting tactics from management and could use your support! ❤️🐈‍⬛
APTP Worker response to management. Those local to Oakland are encouraged to come to the APTP MLK Day event on Monday. There is no call for a boycott!

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January 20, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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APTP Workers encourage your support by attending the MLK event. Support the cause, support the workers! There’s no call for a boycott!
January 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Rojava Under Pressure: Women’s Revolution As A Beacon Of Hope In Uncertain Times.

See the full video here, now with simultaneous translation into English: youtu.be/gRBeoYolDOg
Rojava Under Pressure: Women’s Revolution As A Beacon Of Hope In Uncertain Times
YouTube video by Kongra Star
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December 19, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Anarchist methodologies in Anthropology. It’s definitely a thing: Scott, Clastres, Graeber. And in fictions of Anthropology, LeGuin.
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What’s rare (maybe unprecedented?) is an entire graduate department like this.
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Join us at the CIIS Spring Open House to learn more: www.ciis.edu/events/sprin...
December 17, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Decolonizing Knowledge and Science. Breaking Isolation and Weaving Solidarity with the Universities of North and
East Syria/Rojava

Feb. 20 Symposium: csua-paris.org/online-sympo...
CSUA - Paris
csua-paris.org
December 12, 2024 at 8:31 PM
December 12, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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No more stop-gap solutions in northeast Syria. Time to solve the whole problem and make the Kurdish issue a matter of democratic politics on both sides of the border.
www.kurdishpeace.org/research/con...
In Northeast Syria, Solve The Whole Problem – Kurdish Peace Institute
www.kurdishpeace.org
December 11, 2024 at 1:23 PM