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Big Brains Podcast: Shannon Lee Dawdy on how death in the US is changing
May 17, 2022
From green burials to DIY funerals, understand how death in America is changing with Shannon Lee Dawdy (Ep 84). Anthropologist examines what our rituals reveal about society, especially after 9/11.
WIRED: Ada Palmer and the Weird Hand of Progress
February 11, 2022
"The past we think we know is wrong and so is the future." IFK Faculty Ada Palmer talks about dystopias, her science-fiction series Terra Ignota, and more with Wired Magazine.Announcements
Ada Palmer presenting at Boskone, New England’s oldest science fiction convention
February 11, 2022
Boskone is the annual science fiction convention of New England Science Fiction Association (NESFA) and the oldest science fiction/fantasy/horror [SF/F/H] convention in New England.
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Robert J Richards on Nazi racial ideas
February 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Robert J Richards cited in Evolution News article "Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking"In the Media
Is the legal standard for libel outdated?
February 04, 2022
IFK Faculty Genevieve Lakier looks at Sarah Palin's lawsuit against the New York Times and discusses the Sullivan rule in libel law, in the Washington Post.
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‘Jim Crow relic’: A short history of the filibuster
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty William Howell comments on the history of the filibusterIn the Media
Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy
January 18, 2022
IFK Faculty Austan Goolsbee in conversation on midterms and the U.S. economy on MSNBCThe Sleep of Reason Produces Cats
January 12, 2022
IFK Faculty Michael Rossi on Edward L. Thorndike’s experiments with cats and scientific experimentation
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There is no Planet B
January 11, 2022
Science fiction scholars and IFK postdocs Katherine Buse and Anastasia Klimchynskaya offer insight on sci fi history and planet speculation in Popular Science
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Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?
January 11, 2022
IFK Faculty Ada Palmer tells WIRED Voltaire could be considered the first Sci-Fi writer thanks to a piece he wrote in 1752, Micromegas which features aliens.News
Brad Bolman receives various honorable mentions for essay awards and research grant
December 02, 2021
Honorable mentions from FHHMLS Graduate Essay Award and FHHS John C. Burnham Early Career Award and Received Royal Society Lisa Jardine Grant
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Ana Klimchynskaya receives the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant!
December 02, 2021
Congratulations to IFK Postdoc Ana Klimchynskaya on receiving the Science Fiction Research Association Support a New Scholar Grant! The New Scholar Program supports scholars of outstanding promise in
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Shannon Lee Dawdy’s ‘American Afterlives’ charts growing marketplace for new death rituals
November 15, 2021
IFK Faculty and Research Grant Recipient Shannon Lee Dawdy's book 'American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the 21st Century' charts growing marketplace for new death rituals.
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IFK Faculty Eve L. Ewing and Michael Rossi Receive the 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
November 15, 2021
IFK Core Faculty Michael Rossi and SIFK Faculty Research Grant Recipient Eve Ewing recently received the prestigious 2020 and 2021 Laing Awards
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America Needs a New Scientific Revolution
November 05, 2021
James Evans' research on scientific progress and the "ossification" of research