Joshua A. Bell

Mother Tongue Film Festival The Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival celebrates cultural and linguistic diversity by showcasing films and filmmakers from around the world.

25 films in 27 languages from 14 regions of the 🌏 🌎🌍

11th Mother Film Festival (Feb 19-22) starts Thursday - All programs are free @ Smithsonian’s NMAI, NMAA, NYU DC, Planet Word, GWU & Georgetown.

Details here: mothertongue.si.edu #recoveringvoices #mothertonguefilmfestival

Cellphones Rock Podcast Episode · Sidedoor · 04/16/2025 · 29m

Big thanks to @sidedoorpod.bsky.social for repeating the episode📱🪨 about NMNH exhibit Cellphone: Unseen Connections “It's a technology that relies on the earth. Most people don't tend to think of it. …But all of that is from the earth, and then processed.”
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The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump. At least one company has found a work-around to international opposition to deep-sea mining: The Trump administration.

The deep-sea mining industry got tired of waiting for international approval. Enter Trump.

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#Mining #Indigenous #Sea #DeepSea #MarineLife

A photo illustration of a Motorola flip phone over a glitching American flag, overlaid with the headline, "Crossing the U.S. Border? Here’s How to Protect Yourself."

Here are some tips on the law — and how to prevent the U.S. government from using your own data against you.

Last few hours to reserve any of these five 🔥🎥 from the #mothertongue2023 & #mothertongue2024 - mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule

This 🎥 is a personal favorites from last 10 years - Ten leading Indigenous filmmakers from Australia, Aotearoa, & South Pacific craft an anthology film in response to the 250th anniversary of the invasion of their lands. #mothertongue2025 watch here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/films/we-are...

We showed this fantastic short - Mother’s Tongue (2021) by D. Wilmos Paul in #mothertongue2024 and so pleased to bring it back - watch it here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/films/mother...

2 fantastic films from our 2019 Mother Tongue Film Festival - at other ends of the great Moana - Blackbird and Sgaawaay K’uuna Edge of the Knife. 4th festival featured 60 films from 22 regions in 66 languages.

Watch here: mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule
#mothertongue2025 #

Jáaji Approx (2015) ExperimentalDirector: Sky HopinkaEnglish and Hočak (Ho-chunk) with English subtitles- is one of my favorite shorts of the 2017 Mother Tongue Film Festival #MTFF2017 - you can stream it here for next 48 hours - mothertongue2025.eventive.org/schedule

🎬 Pasts, Presents, and Futures | 7–8:30 pm - This screening of poem-turned-film “WINHANGANHA” is followed by a virtual Q&A with artist and director Jazz Money.

🎬 As Noites Ainda Cheiram a Pólvora (The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder) | 4–6 pm - 📽️about filmmaker Inadelso Cossa visiting his grandmother, confronting fading memories & blurred lines btw truth & fiction, & reflecting on Mozambique’s civil war; Q&A w/ @amalinhadoc.bsky.social & Mariano Bartolomeu

🎬 A’-t’i’ Xwee-ghayt-nish (Still, We Live On) | 12:30–1:30 pm - 🎥 about raising new generations of Tolowa language speakers; Q&A w/ Mary Linn, curator of language & cultural vitality, CFCH

🎬 Eallogierdu (The Tundra Within Me) | 2–4 p - 🎥 about Lena who moves to Sápmi in Northern Norway w/ her son.

Today is the last in-person screenings for the 10th #mothertongue2025 - screenings are at hirshhorn: mothertongue.si.edu

🎬 Honoring Our Relations | 11 am–12 pm: A collection of family-friendly shorts that prompt us to think about our lives in relationship to others and the world around us. 1/

Grateful to all who came for opening night of 10th Mother Tongue Film Festival! The Zotigh Singers performed a welcome song, we watched award-winning Cree filmmaker Tasha Hubbard’s feature-length film Singing Back the Buffalo & had a Q&A with the director modeled by Cindy Benitez #mothertongue2025

Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific? Analyst says while USAid supports hundreds of jobs, the most significant damage from Donald Trump’s cuts will be to US relations with the Pacific The dismantling of USAid by president Donald Trump is having a ripple effect across the Pacific as people…

Explainer: what will the withdrawal of USAid mean for the Pacific?

Application deadline - March 1, 2025

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Summer Institute in Museum Anthropology (SIMA) Virtual FAQ . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Please join SIMA Director and NMNH Curator Joshua A. Bell, SIMA alumni and NYU PhD candidate Matthew R. Webb as well as SIMA Collections Intern Coordinator Kelly Hofschneider for a virtual Webinar/FAQ...

Please feel join SIMA alumni/NYU PhD candidate Matthew R. Webb, SIMA Collections Intern Coordinator Kelly Hofschneider & I for a virtual Webinar/FAQ about SIMA) this FRIDAY - 2/7/25 (11:00 – 12pm EST). Registration is required.

To register go to: smithsonian.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/

2025 Mother Tongue Film Festival YouTube video by Mother Tongue Media

...the reel for the 10th Mother Tongue Film Festival is out - 10 days for 10 years (Feb. 20-23rd in-person; Feb 24-March 1st virtual).

Super grateful to the one and only Sprigga Mek for the use of his beautiful song - Vanua Ralemana which is about village life... 🇵🇬

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These amazing scholars will be joined by Smithsonian curators and staff (announced soon) over the month long program.

Reminder: Research and Collections Internships application deadline is March 1st (naturalhistory.si.edu/research/ant...)

Professor Mikinaak Migwans (U. Toronto) (SIMA alum), and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Howard Morphy (ANU) will be returning to teach. 3/

, while Emeritus Ethnologist Candace Greene (NMNH), Professor of Museum Studies Cara Krmpotich (U. Toronto), 2/

We are pleased to announce that for our 2025 summer session of SIMA (June 23 - July 18th) we will be joined by 6 guest faculty: Professor of Anthropology Paul Basu (Oxford) and Honorary Associate Professor Frances Morphy (ANU) will be joining us for the first time 1/

Reminder that call for SIMA applications is open (March 1st deadline)

So cool!

10 days for 10 years (2.20-3.1.25) the Mother Tongue Film Festival will be celebrating 10 years of showcasing 🎥 that “explore the power of language to connect the past, present & future”. Grateful to my colleagues, the filmmakers & our various partners #mothertongue2024
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Basketry is one of my favorite ways people engage with the world - this is great project and am looking forward to reading - congrats to authors

Ilana Gershon on her book, The Pandemic Workplace Interview by Bonnie Urciuoli Bonnie Urciuoli:  What arguments in your book seem relevant right after Trump’s victory on November 5th? Ilana Gershon: We just had an election that, for half the …

I thought maybe a different take on Trump's appeal might be interesting to read -- so just posted a discussion about my new book on the CaMP anthropology blog: campanthropology.org/2024/11/11/i...

ANU Press New Release Cover image of 'A Grammar of Warlmanpa'

Our newest title is a grammatical description of the Warlmanpa language, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia presently spoken in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory and surrounding country

Purchase a copy or download for free doi.org/10.22459/GW.2024

#morphology

📚📚📚New Book Review! 📚📚📚

Joseph O. Baker reviews //Fighting to Breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore// by Nicole Fabricant @ucpress.bsky.social 2023 #anthrosky #anthropology

Find it here:⬇️
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Asbestos mountains, before being pounded and shed around the planet, and two witnessed. Engraved by William John Burchell (1781-1863) - "Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa".