Armanc Yildiz

If you’ve been to graduate school, you should read Katabasis

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ...

New article out now: "Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism," a conversation between Chloe Ahmann, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, Radhika Govindrajan, Julia Leser, Zeynep Oguz, Yuka Suzuki, Noah Theriault. #Anthropology

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Wasn’t Marshall plan white supremacy?

I'm reading some student essays and a student who never shows up to class wrote that the classes are anonymous, you never get to know your classmates, THEREFORE, smoking is a great way to get to know them. WHAT?

Tomorrow 👻

Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

Hi Chas! They‘re 1232 & 4543.

Two sessions in conversation about ghosts, ethnography, and the real.
We hope to see many of you there.

#AAA2025 #Anthropology #Religion #Ethnography

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Session 2
2:30–4:00 PM
Napoleon Ballroom B3, 3rd Floor
Discussant: Fadeke Castor
Panelists: Ellen Badone, Mary Hamner, Adeline Masquelier, Armanc Yildiz

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Friday, November 21 — Sheraton

Session 1 (Executive Panel)
12:45–2:15 PM
Grand Ballroom A–C, 5th Floor
Panelists: Maryam Abbasi, Alexander Fernandez, Eric Hoenes, Connie Jones, Stephanie Palmié

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If you’re attending #AAA2025, join us for our paired panels, “Real Ghosts?! Not Metaphors, Not Hauntology, Not Derrida,” exploring ethnographic encounters with spirits, presence, and the boundaries of reality and experience.

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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Job Vacancies - Universität Bremen Offene Stellen

Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

Here’s what I’ve done so far: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profil...

I found out that the podcast episodes I hosted for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social got downloaded over 100,000 times 😱 I’m both proud and terrified at the same time.

"we received a large number of strong applications"

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Write to me if you don't have access to the pdf!

Fear makes the soul: constituting whiteness through moral panics in postcolonial Germany On New Year's Eve 2015/2016, over five hundred complaints were lodged against refugees accused of sexually harassing passersby at Cologne's main train station. The subsequent discussions and media ...

Lastly, I wrote an article on this whole debacle, as these are colonial anxieties with long histories that buttress whiteness (4/4): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

First, a perfect response from Abir Al-Sahlani, a Swedish member of the European Parliament (3/4):

Germany news: Merz 'cityscape' criticism continues – DW – 10/22/2025 Chancellor Friedrich Merz is facing criticism for his controversial "cityscape" remarks last week, including from his own party. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich have extended head coach Vincent Kompany's con...

When criticized, Merz doubled down: “Everyone knows it’s true — just ask your daughters,” implying that immigrants are sexual harassers (2/4):
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Merz's 'discriminatory' cityscape migration remark draws ire – DW – 10/16/2025 Greens and Left Party lawmakers have urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz to apologize after he linked migration to a "problem in the cityscape." A government spokesman says critics are "reading too much i...

German Chancellor Merz recently complained about how the cityscape has changed due to immigration, making sure we understand that he’s unhappy with the visibility of non-white people in public space. A thread 🧵
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Peki bu kurbanların parası emniyetin hangi bütçesinden çıkıyor?

Babasından beter bisiy oldu

Bu hafta da hem aldattigi hem onun yuzunden kaza geciren hem de hafizasini kaybeden karisina kendisini teselli ettirmesi soku

<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library In southern Arizona, emergency responders rescue and transport unauthorized migrants who get hurt crossing the border, either when scaling the steel fence in urban areas or taking remote and dangerou....

Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow

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Cover of the edited volume Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World: New Approaches to print Sources published by Palgrave. The cover image is a 35mm black and white photo of a show in a queer club with two individuals in pup wear reading media during the performance.

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Good morning #DGSKA peeps, come check out our panel, Who‘s afraid of anti racism, at 14:00 today! I’m gonna be talking about studying whiteness as an anti racist strategy.

(2/2) Other presentations include P059: "Un/Commoning Migration", P034: "Challenging Universal Rights with the Commons or Uncommons" and P011 "Common(ing) Values and Values In-Common".

See you in Cologne next week!

Looking forward to attend this year's German Social Anthropology Meeting in Cologne next week. Members of our working group participate in P057: "Who is afraid of anti-racism?", P061 "Beyond Condemnations", and P001: "Commoning Solidarities Beyond Differences?" (1/2)