Boas Seminars

Jan 30 Wed

Catherine Lutz | War's Emergent Moralities

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Feb 20 Wed

Shannon Dawdy | Romantic Capitalism

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Mar 13 Wed

Kathleen Stewart | Matter Poems

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Mar 27 Wed

Mayssun Succarie | The First Lady Phenomenon: Women's Empowerment and the Colonial Present in the Contemporary Arab World

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 24 Wed

Hlonipha Mokoena | Anonymity and the Zulu Policeman: An Economy of Portraiture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Sep 18 Wed

Anand Pandian | Cinemechanics: An Anthropology of Creation

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 25 Wed

Whitney Battle-Baptiste | The Materiality of Race and Gender: Consciousness-raising, Testifying, and Breaking New Ground in African Diaspora Archaeology

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 9 Wed

Peter Szendy | Fetishim, or: With the Marxes in the Big Store

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 16 Wed

David Nirenberg | Anti-Judaism, Critical Thought, and the Possibility of History

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 23 Wed

Joanne Randa Nucho | Untangling the WIres: Infrastructues, Jurisdictions, and Sectarianism in Lebanon

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 13 Sat

John W. Norder | Landscape Offerings: Memory and MAteriality in the Rock Art of the Canadian Shield

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:13 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 30 Thu

Darryl Li | Jihad and Universalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 12 Wed

Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría | Shiny Scissors, Sharper Knives: Adaptationist, Symbolic, and Economic Models of Technological Change

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 19 Wed

Anna Grimshaw | Is Ethnographic Film History?: Boas, Mead, and Contemporary Practice

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 26 Wed

Stefania Pandolfo | The Passion of Zulikha: Islam, Psychoanalysis, and the Question of Extimacy

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 26 Wed

Thomas Lamarre | Tokyo's Teletopia: Media Infrastructures and Cosmologies

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 9 Wed

Rachel Watkins | Raps on Race: Corrspondence Between Cobb and his colleagues, 1932–1955

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 23 Wed

Rudolf Mrazek | Lenin, Son of Soemijati (and Brother of Jews) Radical Translation in the Dutch East Indies and in Bohemia

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 30 Wed

Marc Abélès | Society Against the State: From Primitive Society to the Micropolitics and the Molecular (Clastres/Foucault/Deleuze-Guattari)

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 15 Wed

Miriam Ticktin | The Politics of Planetary Care: Going Beyond the Social

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 19 Wed

Barbara L. Voss | Burn Layer: The Archaeology of Anti-Immigrant Violence

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 21 Wed

Paul R. Mullins | The Archaeology of Absence and the Color Line: Race, Effacement, and Urban Renewal

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 25 Wed

Michael Silverstein | "Thingy" Words: Anthropology and the Dilemma of Recognition's Cunning

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 11 Wed

Cori Hayden | Access, Excess

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 8 Wed

Ghassan Hage | On Exterminability: The Affective Culture of Settler-Colonialism Today

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 29 Wed

Gastón Gordillo | The Emergent Properties of Destruction: A Forensic Ethnography of the Argentine Soy Boom

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 20 Wed

Maria Sidorkina | Russian Trolls: Politics, in a Manner of Speaking

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 22 Fri

Mara Green | Icons, Eye Gaze, Ethics: Understanding Natural Sign in Deaf Nepal

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Jan 27 Wed

Rihan Yeh | La Racha: Speed and Violence in a Mexican Border City

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 29 Fri

Shunsuke Nozawa | Masks, Handshakes, and Phatic Fantasies

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Feb 29 Mon

Kerry Ryan Chance | the Living Politics of Fire in Post-Apartheid South

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 2 Wed

Iracema Hilario Dulley | Naming Others: Iteration and Infelicity in Colonial Angola

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 4 Fri

Elana Resnick | Dismantling the Promise of Progress: Waste Management, Racialized Labor, and Transformation in Bulgaria

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Mar 9 Wed

Maria José de Abreu | Iconic Economies of São Paulo: Space, Image, Circulation

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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May 9 Mon

Els Lagrou | Copernicus in the Amazon

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 21 Wed

John Durham Peters | John Lilly, Dolphin Voices, and the Tape Medium

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 28 Wed

Duana Fullwiley | "We May... Be Addicted to Ancestry...": Curiosity and Consent in the Time of Genetic Science

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 12 Wed

Sophia Roosth | Stromatolite Safari: Fossil-Hunting and Coeval Estrangement in Montana

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 26 Wed

Michael Taussig | Franz Boas Seminar

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 9 Wed

Partha Chatterjee | Translating in the Theater

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 30 Wed

Andrea Muehlebach | Franz Boas Seminar

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 18 Wed

Hannah Chazin | Rethinking Archaeological Models of Intensification through Milk as Natureculture

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 25 Wed

Alan Greene | Provisioning the Political: A Critical Archaeology of Transfiguration in the Ancient South Caucasus

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 30 Mon

Bryan Miller | All Are Xiongnu: the Performance of Empire in Inner Asia

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 8 Wed

Christopher Morehart | "Let the Earth Forever Remain": The Materiality of Landscapes and History in the Northern Basin Mexico

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 15 Wed

Sarah Newman | Talking Trash: Rethinking Refuse in Maya Archaeology

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 29 Wed

Laurence Ralph | The Black Box of Police Torture

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 12 Wed

Stephen Collier | First Notes Toward an Anthropology of Counter-Planning

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 4 Wed

Judith Scheele | A Good Fight: Violence and Female Excellence in Northern Chad

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 25 Wed

Jafari Allen | There's a Disco Ball Between Us: Ehtnography of an Idea

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 8 Wed

Anya Bernstein | Freeze, Die, Come to Life: The Many Paths to Immortality in Contemporary Russia

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 24 Wed

Nick Bartlett | Recovering Futures: Historicity, Hope, and China's Heroin Generation

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 19 Wed

Danilyn Rutherford | The Title is the Sovereignty of Vulnerability

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 26 Wed

Ruben Oliven | National and Regional Identities in Brazil: The Peculiarities of Rio Grande Do Sul

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 17 Wed

Stefania Pandolfo | Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 28 Wed

Laurent Oliver | Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in the Age of Anthropocene

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 6 Wed

Yukiko Koga | Post-imperial Reckoning: Law, Redress, Reconciliation

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 11 Mon

Laleh Khalili | Tankers, Tycoons, and the Making of Modern Regimes

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 20 Wed

Jessica Winegar | Love, Disgust, and Struggles for Sovereignty in Egypt

Room 963, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 27 Wed

Aimee Meredith Cox | "When the End of the World Comes, I Want to Be in Cincinnati..." Narrating Time, Space, and Freedom in a River Town

Room 963, Schermerhorn Hall,

4:10 PM - 7:00 PM

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Apr 17 Wed

Alan Rumsey | Children’s Language Socialization, Intersubjectivity, and Sociocultural Formations

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 7:00 PM

Apr 24 Wed

Lisa Stevenson | Anthropology as an Impossible Science

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 11 Wed

Sean Brotherton | Humanitarianism Under Erasure: Cuba and the Politics of Global Health

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Oct 23 Wed

Juno Parrenas | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Oct 30 Wed

Hi'ilei Julia Hobart | Feeling Cold in Hawai'i: Ice, Indigeneity, and Embodiments of Empire

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 30 Wed

Hi'ilei Hobart | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:03 PM

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Nov 13 Wed

Jason Pine | Chemaera

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Nov 13 Wed

Jason Pine | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Dec 4 Wed

Amy Hollywood | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 12 Wed

Kaya Williams | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Mar 11 Wed

CANCELLED-Robert Nichols | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Apr 8 Wed

CANCELLED- Joao Biehl | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Apr 22 Wed

CANCELLED- Hussein Ali Agrama | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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