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Green Light for GATE

We are happy to announce that the previously hypothetical GA Event to be held in Vancouver this July 26-29th is going ahead; in only two weeks, the response was sufficiently strong to warrant giving the conference its “green light.”

The current slate of presenters includes Eric Gans (UCLA), founder of GA; Ian Dennis (University of Ottawa); [...]

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In-group solidarity

Stanley Kurtz does anthropology:

In the first part of this piece, I showed that, on a world scale, the radical form of in-marriage represented by the union of parallel cousins is highly unusual. Parallel-cousin marriage is confined almost exclusively to the region once ruled by the original eighth-century Islamic empire, and this involuted form of marriage [...]

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Firstness

Tom Barnett‘s argument: America does not preside over an Empire. It was just first to start working out the rule sets for globalization. The reality is that “globalization comes with rules, not a ruler.”

From the transcript of yesterday’s show:

HH: Now you posed the question which I’m sure many anti-interventionists are having, are forming as they [...]

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Call for Papers

Generative Anthropology Thinking Event

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thursday 26 July — Sunday 29 July 2007

Meetings to be held on the Campus of the University of British Columbia

Discount Accomodations available at UBC Gage Tower Suites adjacent to the Conference

Call for Papers

For well over a decade now, generative anthropology has been actively circulating in the intellectual marketplace, attracting [...]

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Vancouver July 26-29: Generative Anthropology Thinking Event

Dear GABlog readers,

Attached on request you will find a Call for Papers, Tentative Agenda, and Information about the first ever GA conference, which we hope to hold in Vancouver from Thursday 26 July through Sunday 29 July, with sessions occuring the Friday and Saturday, this summer, 2007. The event’s name is GATE for [...]

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Constitutionalism and the Global Intifada: An Essay on Originary Political Thinking

http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm?frm=5370&sec_id=5370