Showing posts with label June 10. Show all posts
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Friday, June 10, 2016

Eurosphere agenda: “Two fifths of Europeans are digitally illiterate… “#EURO2016 begins…

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Two fifths of Europeans are digitally illiterate

The European Commission wants to sink the 40% average of people who have little or no ability to use technology.
The Euro 2016 European football championship kicks off on Friday. A security force of 90,000 police, soldiers and private security agents will be deployed to ensure safety at the event. Never before has there been such a focus on security at a football championship. The press also hopes the matches will play out without incident – not least because this would calm tensions in the host country.

Both campaigns in Britain’s European referendum are build on thin theories which utterly fail to understand each other.

The average temperature in Strasbourg is 20C image by Unknown – Reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-00017 from Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

 

The government in London has extended the deadline for registering for the EU referendum by two days due to technical problems. With two weeks to go before the vote on June 23, Brexit and Bremain are almost neck and neck in the polls. For both the UK and the EU the referendum provides a good opportunity to launch vital debates, commentators point out.
Gas: Europe’s smart choice for heating
Natural gas has dramatically changed the way we heat our homes, businesses and schools, enabling us to live comfortably without emptying our wallets. And we do so while at the same time not compromising the environment.

Tribes of Paris

In most cities, different neighbourhoods have a different character and those who live in them can develop tribal loyalties. Hugh Schofield explains how it works in Paris.
European countries relying on finance as a source of revenue are becoming increasingly concerned about Brexit, according to search data from Google. And with good reason: rating agency S&P has highlighted just how sensitive their economies are to the UK. EurActiv France reports.

Spanish election: Look left for the key battleground

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Spanish election: Look left for the key battleground

Debate: Protest party dominates Italy’s local elections

Prime Minister Renzi’s Democratic Party has suffered major losses in the first round of Italy’s mayoral elections. Rome and other big cities could soon be led by candidates from the protest party Movimento Cinque Stelle. Commentators hold Renzi personally responsible for his party’s losses and urge him to continue with his reform agenda.

Everywhere, people are increasingly hostile towards whoever wants them to vote just for the sake of stability and out of fear of a jump into the unknown.

Norway teaches migrants about Western women

Should migrants be taught how to treat women?

Euroscepticism on rise, poll suggests

Euroscepticism is on the rise in 10 nations in the EU, a new poll suggests, though a slim majority of respondents remain favourable to the institution.

Refugee deaths in Mediterranean hit 10,000

More than 10,000 people have died crossing the Mediterranean to Europe since 2014, the UN said yesterday (7 June), as the EU unveiled fresh plans to stem the migrant flow from Africa.
Austrian far right challenges presidential poll result
Austria’s far right Freedom Party lodges a challenge to last month’s presidential poll, which it narrowly lost, citing numerous irregularities.

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[insted of proms] Turkey’s leading High Schools’ graduations become a space of anti-government protests

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As AKP leadership fails to produce alternative successful educational sites, it moves to destroy what remains as “old Turkey”s success stories. Minister of Education specially appointed headmasters to many of the leading high schools and after a year, their mess is protested by graduating students. It started in Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (protest video here) and followed by Cağaloğlu Anadolu Lisesi, protests prevented in Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi but could not be in Vefa Lisesi according a report in Turkish.

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Kadıköy High School students released a communique highlighting censorship…

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Incentives for Tourism (!) “New security checkpoints at #İstiklal Street in #Beyoğlu, #Taksim

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Istanbul at Night

Istanbul’s Ramadan tradition of Jazz in Ramadan is back for a seventh straight year with big names in the world of jazz appearing for evening performances throughout the holy month

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New Turkey: Main opposition leader threatened with bullet… MPs’ immunity lifted…

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One person threw bullet at CHP Leader Kılıçdaroğlu at the funeral of the two police officers who lost their lives in the bomb attack launched in Vezneciler.
Main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu was protested by a group of unknown people at yesterday’s funeral for two police officers who were killed in a car bomb attack in Istanbul’s Vezneciler district on June 7
Erdoğan’s draconian new law demolishes Turkey’s EU ambitions

The president’s targeting of opposition parties has shattered any illusions that Turkey is a western-style democracy

Any chance Turkey could join the EU by 2020, as Brexit campaigners have asserted, went up in smoke on Wednesday after the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, signed a draconian new law that in effect demolishes any notion that his country is a fully functioning, western-style democracy.

The United States has warned about the “chilling effects” of a controversial Turkish bill – recently approved by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – that lifts the parliamentary immunities of scores of lawmakers
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Erdoğan lifts Turkish MPs’ immunity in bid to kick out pro-Kurdish parties

President signs bill that allows prosecution of lawmakers currently under investigation – most of whom are from pro-Kurdish or opposition parties

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has signed a bill lifting lawmakers’ immunity from prosecution – a constitutional change likely to remove a pro-Kurdish opposition party from parliament.

Turkey’s Nobel laureate writer Orhan Pamuk, speaking to Italian daily La Repubblica, has said he “sometimes misses the good old days when Turkey’s problems were ignored and not discussed.”
The former Bugün daily columnist and the attorney of Hidayet Karaca, Gültekin Avcı who was imprisoned within the scope of Selam Tevhid case has been released.

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New photo from Facebook June 10, 2016 at 05:11PM

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Anthropology roundup: “AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem” by Savage Minds…

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AAA Boycott Vote Postmortem

By now you have probably heard that the boycott vote failed by an incredibly narrow margin:

In the end an astounding 51% of its 10,000 members participated. The resolution failed by exactly 39 votes: 2,423-2,384 (50.4%-49.6%)—a statistical dead heat.

David Palumbo-Liu, Steven Salaita, Charlotte Silver, and Elizabeth Redden have all written excellent postmortems about the vote. Having read all four, it strikes me that there are three important points to be made: The first is that the AAA is still moving ahead with a statement of censure of the Israeli government and other actions. The second is the role played by outside groups that sought to influence the vote. And the third is the status of the BDS movement after the vote. Read on for my take on each of these three points…

The Anthropology of Empowerment
Huffington Post
Sometimes people ask if I’m a poet. As the founder of Get Lit, an organization dedicated to empowering youth by asking them to claim iconic poems and perform their own spoken word responses, it’s a sensible question…and one I should be able to answer.

Food Anthropology, A Tribute to Sidney W. Mintz

What are your essential articles for teaching a Food Anthropology course? What most distinguishes Food Anthropology from other ways of studying food? What are the most important insights from Food Anthropology that need to be shared?

With three months of access left on the March 2016 issue of Open Anthropology,Cultural Heritage, it is time to roll out the June 2016 issue on Food Anthropology. This issue will also be a tribute to the passing of Sidney W. Mintz, known as the “father of food anthropology.”

Teaching AAA 2016: Indexes and Icons

TEACHING THE 2016 AAA ANNUAL MEETING THEME: EVIDENCE, ACCIDENT, DISCOVERY

2016_MeetingHave you considered linking your teaching with the 2016 Annual Meeting theme,Evidence, Accident, Discovery? This new blog series offers relevant teaching resources to instructors of undergraduate and graduate courses on methods, ethics and theory. While none of these modules pretends to offer an exhaustive bibliography of its topic, each will suggest readings and matching discussion topics relating to one aspect of the politics and ethics of evidence and discovery in anthropology. Think of it as a week’s course readings in a (virtual) box…

Ancient DNA and human history

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A very useful review of the field c. mid-2016. The only major addition would be the study on Upper Paleolithic Europeans that appeared recently.

A Decolonial Turn in Anthropology? A View from the Pacific

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series.

By: Lisa Uperesa

Over the past two decades, non-White and non-Western scholars have posed serious challenges to the politics of knowledge production in anthropology and the academy more widely. In the wake of critiques of Orientalism, the articulation of indigenous methodologies, and the exploration of indigenous epistemologies, not to mention critiques of whiteness and white privilege, we might assume a new, more inclusive time in anthropology has begun. But has it? Drawing on my experience as a scholar trained in anthropology, as well as a decade of experience as a member and four years as board member including one as chair of an international anthropological scholarly organization, in this essay I explore the continuing dynamics of marginalization of indigenous Pacific scholars in and through the claiming of scholarship and scholarly organizations and anthropology itself as white public space.

Neolithic Aegean genomes

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I had covered this paper when it went on the bioRxiv, but the final version has been published in PNAS in open access.

Anthropology And Anti-Semitism
Daily Caller
One of the core principles of modern anthropology is cultural relativism, the idea that researchers must not make value judgements about the societies they study. Anthropologists think of themselves as setting aside their biases and preferences in

 

Nature 534, 245–248 (09 June 2016) doi:10.1038/nature17999

Homo floresiensis-like fossils from the early Middle Pleistocene of Flores

Gerrit D. van den Bergh, Yousuke Kaifu, Iwan Kurniawan, Reiko T. Kono, Adam Brumm, Erick Setiyabudi, Fachroel Aziz & Michael J. Morwood

Lao Camp Food (Part 2)

This is the second installment of a food journal I kept during several days in February camping with a bomb clearance team in Laos. If you missed my previous post, please see Lao Camp Food (Part 1).

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New photo from Facebook June 10, 2016 at 12:21PM

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Another scandal in US: With no opportunity for a show “Erdoğan Leaves US Before Muhammad Ali Buried

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan cut short a trip on June 9 to the United States, where he had gone to attend the funeral ceremony of boxing legend Muhammad Ali
President Erdoğan has returned to Turkey before attending the funeral of Muhammad Ali allegedly for his requests of laying Kaaba cover on his coffin and reading Quran being turned down.

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