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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Another pair of us (Renita and Jen) initiated the Meeting Ethnography project back in 2013.

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Want More Innovation? Try Connecting the Dots Between Engineering and Humanities

Digital Promise

Connecting STEM with humanities doesn’t just provide the well-rounded education today’s employers want. So, separating and prioritizing STEM from humanities ignores the fact that we live in a complex social and cultural world. And it is not an “engineering course for humanists.”.

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Latin American Solidarity in Changing Times  

Anthropology News

It was 2013, and I was on my first trip to Colombia. After my first trip to Colombia in 2013, I began to grapple with this question. Throughout the Cold War, campaigns of discreditation against capitalist alternatives flourished in the United States, and identity-based and human-rights-focused campaigns became more prominent.