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PARIS (AP) — BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful - and now, a threat to French state secrets.
That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts, who have advised against their use by officials in France’s corridors of power, reportedly to avoid snooping by U.S. intelligence agencies.
“It’s not a question of trust,” French lawmaker Pierre Lasbordes told The Associated Press. “We are friends with the Americans, the Anglo-Saxons, but it’s economic war.”
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May 4, 2007
Just came across a new feature of the journal Ethnos, called “Anthropologists Are Talking” which has the following mission statement:
The aim of the series is to provide an alternative to the standard, single-authorarticle that academic journals generally publish in order to give spaceto a more dialogic kind of reflection. When they do not write, anthropologistsarguably spend much of their professional time (though perhaps not as muchas they might like) engaged in informal academic conversations, corridor talk,and debates with colleagues at seminars and conferences. ‘AnthropologistsAre Talking’ seeks to emulate these kinds of informal conversations in theconviction that they often turn out to be formative for the ideas that laterbecome the basis of our publications. The series is intended to explore theseinformal kinds of inspiration and knowledge production that otherwise rarelymake it into academic journals. The series does so by bringing together agroup of anthropologists and inviting them to talk candidly and spontaneouslyabout a contemporary issue of common concern to them.
Sounds quite similar to what we’ve been trying to do in our best moments in the Labinar. This installment of AAT is a discussion about “anthropology after globalization” between Eric Hirsch, Bruce Kapferer, Emily Martin, and Anna Tsing
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April 9, 2007
From the UC French Dept. email list:
My name is Minh-Khue Bui and I am part of the BAM/PFA Student Committee.
This Wednesday, April 11, the Committee is presenting their last event of
the school year, Cine/Spin. It is a performance that fuses french cinema
with live music and if you think it would interest those in the French
Department (faculty and students), I would greatly appreciate it if you
could forward this email to them. The details of the event are as
follows:
On Wednesday, April 11, at 8 p.m., join us for an entirely new event where
we invite Cal student DJs to mix live to classic film from the early
twentieth-century.
The film is Jean Vigo’s “Zero for Conduct” (Zero de Conduite), an
irreverant story of student rebellion at an oppressive boarding school.
The DJs are four Cal students we’ve invited to spin the film a whole new
contemporary soundtrack.
Stick around after the screening for our After School Special, with food,
DJs, and prizes for best prep school get-up.
Cine/Spin
Wednesday, April 11, 8 p.m.
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way (up the stairs opposite Urban Outfitters)
Admission:
General $8
Cal students $4
Stick around for our After School Special
* Picture Day * Snack Time * DJs
Dress:
Prizes for best PREP SCHOOL CHIC (think blazers, knee socks, oxfords, ties
… )
Brought to you by the BAM/PFA Student Committee, the Pacific Film Archive,
and KALX FM. With special guests UC Berkeley Jazz Ambassadorial Quintet.
Sponsored by Bows & Arrows
March 8, 2007
The following is my draft statement on social assessment. It is a draft, and has some typos I am sure. Please give me some feedback and comments if you care to. It contains a discussion on the notion of the social, the post social, and remediations of the social, as well as some discussion of the science and society literature and evolving fields of social assessment.
On Social Assessment in the Natural Sciences: Analyzing a Domain of Reproblematization
February 21, 2007
I am still waiting on paperwork here in Lyon, and since it is not far away, yesterday I visited the UN Geneva headquarters. Attached is a picture for Adrian. It was interesting to see what the bookshop had for sale - the offerings included Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen’s “The Risk Society at War” and Mike Davis‘ “The Monster at our Door: the global threat of avian flu”.
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