Projects

Talks on the Economy, Market, Politics and Organizations (TEMPO) is an interdisciplinary workshop of faculty and graduate students devoted to the development of empirical work exploring the global and/or comparative dimension of “the economic” in social life.

Based on textual analysis, historical materials and ethnographic research by Sinologists, Historians, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, this workshop explores social forms running from ancient China to their transformations across Indo-Pacific.

This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank.

These researchers, all linguistic anthropologists, pay attention both to major world languages like English and Chinese and to small, minoritized, and unwritten languages, just as they try to understand what is happening at micro- and macro-levels in all communities whose linguistic ideologies, practices, and institutions they study.

This research project investigates the use of contemplative Buddhist practices and their associated traditional, yet changing, contexts in Bhutan.

The students will form an essential part of KASP’s pedestrian field team during the first campaign, along with students from other universities, the co-directors and specialist scholars (see below ‘global mission’).

We are an interdisciplinary, international collaboration of leaders/ stakeholders from Winneba Ghana and UVa addressing environmental challenges facing West African coastal cities and wetlands.

The UVa Center for Social Medicine will bring together faculty and students from the University of Virginia and Mbarara University of Science and Technology to imagine a new approach to access to healthcare.

Overcoming historical discrimination and contemporary disadvantages, a powerful blossoming of writings by Tibetan women has emerged over the past few decades.

People differ on how fairly they think the resources are distributed.