Boarding my flight home, having lost my father in law and dear friend within days of each other. Two people in my life who fought so hard to live despite all that insisted otherwise. That I’ll never again hear them share their plans and what brought them joy is just crushing.

704 Barnard/Columbia faculty express very strong concerns about Barnard College President Laura Rosenbury aggressively censoring discussion of Israel/Gaza.
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SAW Book Prize 2024: Call for Submissions. In 2024, the SAW Book Prize will be awarded to an edited volume with a publication date of 2021 or later. The deadline for receiving books is June 1, 2024. Self-nominations are welcome. saw.americananthro.org/pub/sawbookpri…

The President of Columbia University lied in her Congressional testimony on Wednesday. Several times. One of those times relates to comments I have made about the safety of our students at Columbia. Consider this a correction and a demand for an apology. 🧵

Since I arrived Santa Clara Univ, Michelle Bezanson has been my person. For my first conf travel in 2014, she dog sat for me. This past Feb, my dog camped outside her office. This was the effect Michelle had on those she loved. Writing this today for our Department breaks my heart. 💔

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If 25 gifts are made towards the Anthropology Department on this Day of Giving, the Kobayashi Family will make a $2.5K gift to the Department! Help us unlock this challenge ➡️ bit.ly/3vTAMME

#AllinforSCU

👀 !!! Excited and grateful to see Brotherless Night here.

Reminder: We will be holding a SAW-AAA Virtual Session Organizing Workshop on Monday, April 8, 2024. You can register at [email protected]. saw.americananthro.org/pub/saw-aaa-vi…

If you’re an academic & more concerned w/protecting your “brand” than speaking out against the US funded Israeli genocide in Gaza, then you’re not a scholar or intellectual, you’re a bureaucrat, an institutional cog. This is the banality of evil. Shame on you. Free Palestine 🍉

Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024)

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Join Jenny Shaw (Jenny Shaw), Mauri Systo, Gerardo Rodriguez, and Cameron Butler for this Virtual Session Organizing workshop hosted by SAW! Monday, April 8th and email [email protected] to register! #anthrotwitter

It’s been one of those “only in academia” weeks. Made all the more clear by landing on spring “break” of the quarter system. My therapist recommended to keep my slow to respond auto reply on until June. Seriously considering it.

Sharing my thoughts on the attempts to revive transitional justice processes in Sri Lanka.

I’m giving a talk via Zoom, on my new book, Karma & Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka, soon (March 27th)! Check me out!

Columbia Univ Press

Thanks to American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies for hosting!

#anthrotwitter Please share this call for applications widely with your networks of feminist anthro ABD students! ⬇️

'I cannot afford to lose my job but losing my job is insignificant in the face of genocide. I think it's absolutely critical that I, and everyone else making sacrifices in the name of Palestinian liberation, keep that in mind.' Maura Finkelstein

'In Defense of Academic Freedom:

Trying really hard not to be Reviewer 2 but when I read a manuscript based on “desk research” and a “short field visit” to SL about Sri Lanka’s plantation sector without citing even one Malaiyaka Tamil, I can’t with the violence of plantation logics on the page.

New blog from Iromi Perera colombourbanlab ✏️

Since Covid-19, it seems that crises have kept on coming with no respite for the poor in working-class areas of Colombo.

This has had a disproportionate effect on women, who are bearing the brunt of household work.

In Defense of Academic Freedom: Defamation, Intimidation, and Suspension -- Featuring: Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores & Maura Finkelstein, Moderators: Bassam Haddad & Mariam Durrani twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

This is today!!!!!