As a current fellow, I can vouch that it is one of my best fellowship experiences with weekly writing/discussion sessions, meeting fellow writers, & getting trained in podcasting from some amazing people in the industry. Do apply. #AnthroTwitter

MES invites you to debrief and share ideas and experiences from your campus, esp. regarding supporting student protesters, supporting Palestinian students, and faculty mobilization. Monday, May 13, from 1-2 EST. Zoom meeting no. 770288330 .

Over 300 anthropologists (and counting) call out American Anthropological Association leadership for its weak stances on Palestine and refusal to take direction from last summer's supermajority membership vote for boycott. Warns of no-confidence vote if things don't change.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

“I hereby confer upon you
the degree: From the river to the sea. “
Fady Joudah 🍉🍉🍉

Today a Palestinian MA student from the destroyed Al Azhar University successfully defended his MA thesis in a tent in Rafah. The student now plans to do a PhD in Education.

'Radical Ethnography is not just about re-search, it is about re-building—acting to redress/mitigate the harm done.'
New from Society for Cultural Anthropology's #TeachingTools on the teaching of radical ethnography
⌲ by Rosalina Diaz

Read it here ⤵️
buff.ly/44ylDgW

We are holding a competition to support early career anthropologists in publishing their first monograph. The monograph will be published as part of the LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology series now published by LSE Press.

This is historian Annelise Orleck, practicing what she preaches

This does not make me feel safe!!!! Bring back the students I LOVE the students we protect!! ♥️😭

My husband, Prof. Steve Tamari, is out of the hospital. He will need surgery on his hand, and he is in pain from nine broken ribs. We are asking for time to rest and heal. We will not be taking media interviews at this time. Here is Steve's statement and ways you can support.

Crowd gets larger and larger every 15 minutes. Nearly a thousand people now in front of the encampment UofT Occupy for Palestine University of Toronto #Toronto

Very sweet post. What actually happened is that these guys followed the police, used them as protection, called a woman the n word, beat up a kid the police had already knocked over, and then followed a known local white nationalist organizer who led them to get the flag back up

Y’all - Pls correct inaccurate news from MSM, including by CNN -- those arrested in the first roundup at Columbia University WERE ALL STUDENTS. About 26 Columbia college & about 58 Barnard College students arrested & suspended. The others were from other schools AT COLUMBIA. No outsides.

Save the Date! May 6, 2024 01:00 PM in Eastern time (US and Canada). Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for an Engaged Research Grant, A Workshop co-sponsored by the ABA (Brazilian Anthropological Association). buff.ly/44nFRts

The 13 arrested participants in the Clio Hall sit-in Princeton University have released a statement on the events of April 29.

docs.google.com/document/d/1ab…

🚨 LIBERATED!! University of Toronto students have SUCCESSFULLY set up their ENCAMPMENT of King's College Circle in SOLIDARITY WITH PALESTINE, despite attempts by police to disrupt our non-violent protest.

Welcome to the People's Circle for Palestine.

Happening now #Mcgill #McGillEncampment Jewish community members and allies are here to protect the encampment from the Zionist “counter protest.” The pro-genocide counter protestors have been implying all morning that the SPVM is there to protect them.
#Divest #FreePalestine

Here is another statement by UCLA faculty, this time from members of the Dept of English condemning the university’s police raid on the student protest encampment & its inaction against violent mobs attacking student protesters.

hey American Anthropological Association, as a #BDS endorsing association, what about some statement in support of these 🔥student protests demanding boycott and divestment, instead of a meeting with the Tampa mayor who was Chief of Police!? #priorities #pinkwashing #StudentsProtest #FreePalestine

TO RESPOND TO STUDENTS WHO ARE DEMANDING THAT COLUMBIA STOP INVESTING IN WEAPONS MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. WHO DO THEY SERVE? WHO DO THEY PROTECT? CAPITALISTS AND COLONIZERS