Interviews and podcasts about Animals, Robots, Gods:
Interview at Public Books, March 1, 2025
Talk at “AI for Animals” Conference, March 23, 2025
New Books Network, March 3, 2025
Nature and Nurture, Jan 23, 2025
How to Academy Podcast, August 30, 2024: https://howtoacademy.com/podcasts/anthropologist-webb-keane-animals-robots-gods/
Distinguished University Professor Inaugural Lecture, March 18, 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUvQ1BIKH7w
Interview, Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, April 15, 2025: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/webb-keane-part-1/
Interview about “godbots” that use AI as an ethical advisor 2023:
Collegiate Professorship Lecture, October 2020:
Rebuilding Macroeconomics, 1-2 October 2018, HM Treasure, London
“How Everyday Ethics Becomes a Moral Economy, and Vice Versa” (Talk, 15 minutes)
“How Everyday Ethics Becomes a Moral Economy, and Vice Versa” Slides
“How Everyday Ethics Becomes a Moral Economy, and Vice Versa” Interview
Lecture at Notre Dame, 11 May 2017:
The Semiotics of Stance in Everyday Ethics
On “godbots” that use AI to dispense ethical advice:
https://news.umich.edu/are-you-there-ai-its-me-god/
Interviews about Ethical Life
- With Stuart Campbell on Consider This, KZYX Radio
- Critical Realism Webinar Series
- With Charity Nebbe on Talk of Iowa on Iowa Public Radio
- With Ilana Gershon on CAMP Anthropology
Religion and Secularism
“Name that holiday, some say: Clothing urges ‘Christmas’ greeting” Ann Arbor News (Dec 2005)
Secularism and Christmas for Jack Lessenbery Show, WUOM (National Public Radio), Dec 2005.
“Relics warm the spirits of Catholics” Detroit Free Press (Nov 1999)
CBS TV News interview on relics of St Therese (Nov 1999)
Gifts and Commodities
Some of the outlets that carried interviews with Webb Keane on this topic between December 1999 and January 2001 were WOMC-FM Detroit, Financial Times (London), FastBand GlobalCast, Toronto Star, Oregonian (Eugene), National Post (Canada), WUOM-FM (NPR, Ann Arbor), USA Today, Omaha World-Herald
Research in Indonesia
Tsunami in Aceh, Anthropology Newsletter (Mar 2005)
Indonesian-language radio interview on Voice of America (Sept 2000)
“Anthropologist Webb Keane on Language, Ritual, and Social Change” The Journal of the International Institute vol. 8 (3): 6-7 (Spring/Summer 2001)
Material Culture and Possessions
“Tips to Help Speed Things Along” Los Angeles Times (Dec 2004)
“Painted Past: Borneo’s Traditional Tattoos” National Geographic News Online 18 June 2004
Culture and Cognition
“White Men Can’t Contextualize” Lingua Franca (April 2001)
