By Peter Versteeg – The opening images of the documentary “White Balls on Walls” show us an ivory tower: a huge building, shining white, almost sterile, a stronghold of modern art. This is an institute,…
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By Barbara van Male – A freelance journalist, a UX-researcher, a policy advisor in radicalisation, a researcher in water management, and a senior officer at an NGO walk into a room. Their shared background? They…
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By Michiel Baas – The University of Amsterdam has appointed a committee to investigate academic freedom within its institution. The reason for this is a complaint from lecturer Laurens Buijs who takes specific aim at…
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By Luciana Massaro – Writing ethnography can be an intimidating experience. As anthropologists we face the challenge to write and interpret what research participants share with us in a way that respects their points of…
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by Anastasiia Omelianiuk – There is a striking contrast between significant attention to Ukraine after the 2022 re-invasion and the pre-February abstinence of Ukraine in the global cultural and political milieu. Just a few months…
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By Maaike Matelski – On 8 December 2022, Nickey Diamond visited the VU for two lectures. Nickey is an activist from Myanmar who recently started a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Konstanz, where…
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By Larissa Zanstra – ‘The midwife tells the woman in labour that she sees she is having a hard time during the contractions. “The strength of them is good, after breaking the membranes you can…
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by Jo Püst – This is the story of Samira the Snail. Together with various other animals and plants, she lives in a small village near the forest. Samira wants to build a new house…
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By Marina de Regt – “So this is Xmas, and what have you done, another year over and a new one just began”, John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang exactly 50 years ago. It was…
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