Seminars and Events
Catherine Lutz, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of Anthropology and International Studies Anthropology and Watson Institute for International Studies Brown University
Talk Title: "War's Emergent Moralities"
Reception follows in the Anthropology Department Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Lounge (Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension)
Anschaire Aveved, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Beyond Primordial Attachment: Belonging, Ethnography, and Cultural Analysis"
Reception follows in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried, Department of Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Alejandro Grimson, Professor of Social Sciences Institute of University of San Martin and researcher cof CONICET (Argentina)
Talk Title: “Cultural legitimation of inequality: the case of an oil city of Patagonia"
A light lunch will be served prior to the talk from 12:00-12:30 in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Matthew West, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Materialities of Light: Growing Properties, Finding Property in the Taiwanese LED Industry"
A light lunch will be served prior to the talk from 12:00-12:30 in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Sophia Stamatopolou-Robbins, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Talk Title: "Measuring Futures in the Expectant Times: Garbage, Ecologies and Statecraft in the West Bank"
Respondent: Professor Audra Simpson, Anth Dept., CU
A light lunch will be served prior to the talk from 12:00-12:30 in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Shannon Dawdy, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Chicago University
Talk Title: "Romantic Capitalism"
Reception follows in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried, Department of Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Guangtian Ha, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Talk Title: "In the Name of Autonomy, or, Does the National Question Exist?: Politics, Biopolitics, and the Governance of National Minorities in China"
Reception follows in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried, Department of Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Kathleen Stewart, Professor of Anthropology, The University of Texas, Austin
Talk Title: Matter Poems
“Every achieved poem inscribes a perceptual signature in the world.” Mark Doty, The Art of Description, 21
Mayssun Succarie, Arcapita Visiting Assistant Professor in the Faculty of International and Public Affairs
Talk Title: "The First Lady Phenomenon: Women's Empowerment and the Colonial Present in the Contemporary Arab World"
Reception follows in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried, Department of Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
Maria del Rosario Ferro, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, Columbia University
Talk Title: "The Story Teller Reflections on the Life and Death of Mama Luca Mojica"
Reception follows in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried, Department of Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension