The Wenner-Gren Blog

New & Improved: WGF “Other Funding Sources” Section

Daniel — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:00:16 +0000

The Wenner-Gren Foundation grant and fellowship programs are very competitive. On average we fund in the neighborhood of 15% of the applications received. For this reason, we encourage all applicants to explore opportunities for funding and other services offered by a variety of outside organizations. Check out our newly updated page on alternate funding sources [...]

Interview: Dr. Andrew Irving & “New York Stories”

Daniel — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 19:28:09 +0000

Dr. Andrew Irving is Programme Director at the Granada Centre of Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester. Recently he has been working on an experimental art/anthropology research project supported by a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation entited “New York Stories” revolving around questions of inner expression and lived experience in urban space. We had [...]

Upcoming July Conferences

Daniel — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 18:24:50 +0000

Biennial Meeting of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) “Thirty Years On: Reflections and Retrospections on Southern African Archaeology Since 1983” July 3-7, 2013 University of Botswana in Gaborone The ASAPA biennial conference brings together professional archaeologists from the region and the world at large whose research interests are in southern African archaeology. [...]

Interview: Joseph Julian Ziems Weiss

Daniel — Tue, 28 May 2013 15:53:21 +0000

Joseph Julian Ziems Weiss is a PH.D. student in Anthropology at the University of Chicago. In the fall of 2011 he received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to aid research on ‘Unsettled Co-Existence: Political Community and Everyday Life on Canada’s Northwest Coast,’ supervised by Dr. Jean Comaroff. We touched base with Joseph to learn more about [...]

Engaged Anthropology Grant: Dr. Frederick Kyalo Manthi

Daniel — Tue, 14 May 2013 19:16:36 +0000

Dr. Frederick Kyalo Manthi is is a senior research scientist and head of the paleontology section at the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi. He has been involved with the Wenner-Gren Foundation since 2006, completing several post-Ph.D. research grants aiding investigation of Pleistocene-era Kenya and running workshops intended to spread human-evolution education in Kenya. He [...]

Upcoming June Conferences & Workshops

Daniel — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:52:51 +0000

June is just around the corner and with it comes two great new WGF-sponsored programs; one workshop and one conference. Let’s learn a bit more about them. Linguistic and Material Intimacies of Mobile Phones June 4-7, 2013 The National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C. (administered by the George Washington University Department of Anthropology) [...]

NYAS @ WGF April 29th: Audio Now Available!

Daniel — Tue, 07 May 2013 20:15:14 +0000

We would like to again thank Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas of Baruch College, CUNY and Edgar Rivera Colon of Columbia University for speaking at our offices on April 29th, presenting the final New York Academy of Sciences anthropology section lecture of the academic year, Cartography of “Racial Democracy”: Race, Affect, and the Production of Abject Subjects among [...]

NYAS @ WGF: April 29th

Daniel — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:41:17 +0000

This upcoming Monday is the final meeting of NYAS’ anthropology section at WGF for this season. We will be welcoming Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas of Baruch College, CUNY and Edgar Rivera Colon of Columbia University to discuss Cartography of “Racial Democracy”: Race, Affect, and the Production of Abject Subjects among Brazilians and Puerto Ricans in Newark. In this [...]

NYAS @ WGF: “The Problem with Fundamentalism” (AUDIO)

Daniel — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:18:20 +0000

Earlier this month, we hosted the penultimate installment of the New York Academy of Sciences Anthropology section’s 2012-2013 monthly meeting and lecture series. In what has proven to be a fantastic procession of fascinating subjects, we welcomed a panel of New York City-area scholars to discuss “The Problem with Fundamentalism (And Other Liberal Myths About Religion)”. [...]

WGF Symposium: The Anthropology of Christianity (AUDIO)

Daniel — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:44:39 +0000

Last month, a group of anthropologists gathered at Tivoli Palácio de Seteais in Sintra, Portugal to convene the latest Wenner-Gren Foundation symposium, “The Anthropology of Christianity: Unity, Diversity, New Directions”. Since the 1950′s, the foundation has convened more than 140 of these meetings between small groups of invited scholars to foster intensive discussion and debate [...]