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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 1 Fri

Anschaire Aveved | Beyond Primordial Attachment: Belonging, Ethnography, and Cultural Analysis

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Feb 8 Fri

Alejandro Grimson | Cultural Legitimation of Inequality: The Case of an Oil City of Patagonia

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Feb 15 Fri

Matthew West | Materialities of Light: Growing Properties, Finding Property in the Taiwanese LED Industry

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Feb 20 Wed

Sophia Stamatopolou-Robbins | Measuring Futures in the Expectant Times: Garbage, Ecologies, and Statecraft in the West Bank

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 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 1 Fri

Guangtian Ha | In the Name of Autonomy, or, Does the National Question Exist?: Politics, Biopolitics, and the Governance of National Minorities in China

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 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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Mar 29 Fri

Maria del Rosario Ferro | The Story Teller Reflections on the Life and Death of Mama Luca Mojica

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Apr 5 Fri

Sarah Vaughn | Muddled Facts

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Apr 10 Wed

Jennifer Newell | Lecture

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Apr 19 Fri

Erin Yerby | Spectral Bodies of Evidence

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Apr 23 Tue

Julie Skurski, Alejandro Velasco | AFTER CHAVEZ: Legacies and Vicissitudes in Venezuela and the Region

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

6:30 PM

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Apr 24 Wed

Kate Heupel | Archaeology's Authentic: The Familiar and Unfamiliar in New Buffalo Commune Artifacts

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 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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May 3 Fri

Dianne Scullin | Towards a Sounded Archaeology: Moche Use of Multi-Media at Huaca de la Luna

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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May 6 Mon

Elizabeth Gelber | Crude Accumulations: Rogue Pipelines and the Oil Thief

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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May 8 Wed

Joel Lee | Caste Gods Old and New

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Sep 17 Tue

Sarah Muir | On Historical Exhaustion: Argentine Critique in an Era of "Total Corruption"

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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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Sep 27 Fri

Xenia Cherkaev | Letun

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 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 11 Fri

Nina Alnes Haslie | Looking for Sea Turtles Between the Island and the Sea: A Story About the Tide, the Moon, and a Machine Gun

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 15 Tue

Daniella Wurst | Arguedas and the Limits of Multiculturalism: Yawar Fiesta (1941) and El Zorro de Arriba y El Zorro de Abajo (1971)

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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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Oct 25 Fri

Guangtian Ha | Inhabiting the (Un-)Seen: Islam Misrecognized

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 29 Tue

Marc Edelman | cycles of Land Grabbing in Central America: An Argument for History and a Case Study in the Bajo Aguán, Honduras

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 PM

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Nov 1 Fri

Lisa Hajjar | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 8 Fri

H. M. Bizri | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Room 501, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Nov 12 Tue

David Pedersen | Migrants, Money, and Moralization of the Present in El Salvador

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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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Nov 14 Thu

Dianne Sculiin | Moche Ceramic Whistles: Breathing Life into Narrative

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

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 18 Mon

Raqs Media Collective | Capital of Accumulation

Room 501, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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Nov 25 Mon

Elizabeth Povinelli | Karrabing, Low Tide Turning

Room 754, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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Nov 26 Tue

Regnar Kristensen | 50 Years Since and 50 Meters from The Children of Sanchez: From Culture of Poverty to Culture of Security (Mexico City)

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 PM

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Dec 2 Mon

Nikolas Kosmatopoulos | A.N.T.S. at War: A Socio-tech Ethnography of the Gaza Flotilla

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Dec 3 Tue

Marwan Rechmaoui | Images, Texts, and Conversations

Room 208, Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Dec 4 Wed

Murat Guney | Turkey's Neoliberal State of Emergency for Economic Growth, and the Changin Perceptions of Risk, Safety, and Social Security in Tuzla Shipyards, Istanbul

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Dec 12 Thu

Seema Golestaneh | Open Sounds, Hidden Spaces: Wandering, Listening, and Alternative Spatial Formation in Sufi Iran

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Dec 13 Fri

Matthew West | Property's Properties: Invention and the Ownership of Intangible Knowledge

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library. Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Jan 28 Tue

Anna Cant | Revolutionary Politics and Regional Context in Velasco's Peru (1968-1975)

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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 11 Tue

Hugo José Suárez | Religiones emergentes en México

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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 25 Tue

Juan Obarrio | South Seminar

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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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Feb 27 Thu

Catherine Fennell | Last Project Standing: Sympathy and Citizenship in Post-Welfare Chicago

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Mar 7 Fri

Joel Lee | Sensuous Caste

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Mar 10 Mon

Jenny Perlin, Chiu-Chen Liu | Gaps, Slips, Trips, and the Overlooked

Room 754, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

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Mar 13 Thu

Robin Nagle | Keep Garbage Beautiful: Conflicts of Scale, Agency, and Urban Infrastructure

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Mar 25 Tue

Charles Hale | From "Simultaneous Struggle" to Decolonial Horizons: Can Afro-Indigenous Politics Do Without a Language of Contention?

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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 8 Tue

Sujatha Fernandes | Storytelling as a Resource: The Emergence of a Storytelling Model from Truth Commissions to Obamacamp

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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 10 Thu

Rod Campbell | Cityscapes Seminar

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 11 Fri

Clara Han | Echoes of a Death: Violence, Endurance, and the Experiences of Loss (Santiago, Chile)

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

1:00 PM

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Apr 11 Fri

Anschaire Aveved | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Apr 22 Tue

Daniella Gandolfo | A Day in "The Pit": A Bataillean Look at an Informal Market in Lima

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 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 24 Thu

Meredith Linn | Immigration, Health, and the City: A Visceral Historical Archaeology of Nineteenth-Century Irish Immigrants and Typhus Fever in New York City

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 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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May 2 Fri

Natalia Mendoza | The Restitution of Assemblyman Oumar Boure: Transparency and Opacity in the communal Council of Kita

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

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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May 5 Mon

Monica L. Smith | What Was the Role of the Middle Class in Early Urbanism?

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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May 6 Tue

Rafael Rojas | La piel del socialismo: Carleton Beals y la Revolución Cubana

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

6:10 PM - 8:30 PM

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May 8 Thu

Xenia Cherkaev, Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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May 8 Thu

Christina Williamson | Cosmopolis and Countryside in the Hellenistic World: The Urban-Centric Landscape of Pergamon

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Oct 2 Thu

Caterina Pizzigoni | In the Church and at Home: Approaches to Saints in Early Latin America

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 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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Oct 23 Thu

Courtney Singleton | Archaeologies of the Present: Critical Engagements with Post-Industrial Urban Transformations

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Oct 24 Fri

Paul Gootenberg | A Long Strange Trip: Latin America's Global Drugs

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Oct 29 Wed

Rema Hammami | The Politics of Gender in the Flat-Pack "Peace": GBV (Gender Based Violence) Programming as Global Governmentality in Occupied Palestine

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 30 Thu

Justin Wolfe | Legislating Dissent: Race, Republicanism and the Public Sphere in Post-Independence Nicaragua

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 7 Fri

Valentina Pellegrino | The Recognition of Difference Is Not a Blank Check

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 12 Wed

Sarah Muir | The Currency of Failure: Money and Middle-Class Critique in Post-Crisis Buenos Aires

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 18 Tue

Nuruddin Farah | Hiding in Plain Site

Held Auditorium, Barnard Hall, 3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

7:00 PM - 10:00 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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Nov 20 Thu

Dario A. Euraque | In Search of Froylán Turcios: The Life and Times of Armando Méndez Fuentes (1925–2003)

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 20 Thu

Deen Sharp | Solidere and the Rearrangement of Lebanon

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

6:00 PM - 7:30 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 17 Tue

María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo | Savages Welcomed: Imputations of Indigenous Humanity in Early Colonialisms

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

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Feb 19 Thu

Amiel Melnick | Jam-Space and Jam-Time: Traffic in Nairobi

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 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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Feb 27 Fri

Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Mar 5 Thu

Laurence Ralph | The Aura in Authenticity: Reproducing the 'Real' in a Chicago Street Gang

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Mar 6 Fri

Jason Pine | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Mar 6 Fri

Vanessa Agard-Jones | Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in Martinique

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 9 Mon

Yarinar Bonilla | Beyond the Paradox of Sovereignty

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 10 Tue

Bryan McCann | Favelas in an Age of Political Transformation: The Brizola Years in Rio de Janeiro

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

6:30 PM - 9:00 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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Mar 31 Tue

Alicia Cooperman | (Un)natural Disasters: Drought and Distributive Politics in Brazil

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

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 2 Thu

Nick Bacon | Bullet Burbs: Understanding the Intersection of Guns, Gas Guzzlers, and Government in Tertiary Urban Peripheries

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 6 Mon

Yannis Hamilakis | A Multi-temporal Archaeology: Sensoriality and the Ontology of Duration

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 10 Fri

Madeleine Elish | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 14 Tue

Eli Dollarhide | Cityscapes Seminar

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 17 Fri

Tamar Blickstein | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 21 Tue

Deneb Kozikoski Valereto | modernity at the Frontier: Amazonian Perspectivism and Inhibited Synthesis

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

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Apr 23 Thu

Elizabeth Angell | Buildings That Matter: The Politics of Fragility in a Seismic Cityscape

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 24 Fri

Easton Anspach | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 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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Apr 30 Thu

Gastón Gordillo | Cityscapes Seminar

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

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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May 1 Fri

Christopher Santiago | The Lady of the Blue Lagoon

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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May 8 Fri

Stacy Lo | Scheps Memorial Lecture

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Sep 22 Tue

Alfonso Salgado | The Social Life of Activists: The Communist Youth of Chile and the Young Communists of the Sixties

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

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Oct 22 Thu

Vita Peacock | Through the Looking Mask: Narratives of Transformation in Anonymous

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 6 Fri

John Molenda | Feng Shui and Spatiality

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 13 Fri

José Ramón Cossío | Lecture on Egalitarian Marriage in Mexico

Casa Italiana, 1151-1161 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Dec 4 Fri

Victoria Gross | Contested Narratives of Time and Space: Caste Politics and Aesthetic Occupation in South India

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Dec 9 Wed

Ethnographic Futures Working Group | Journalism, Anthropology, and Indigenous Activism: A Conversation on the Co-Production of Ethnographic Film in Amazonian Ecuador

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

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Dec 16 Wed

Erin Yerby | The Body Dis-placed

Sheldon Scheps Library, Room 457, 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 7 Mon

Naor Ben-Yehoyada | A Sea of Scales: Fishing and Region Formation between Sicily and Tunisia

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 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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Mar 25 Fri

Fatima Mojaddedi | On Suicide Bombers

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Mar 29 Tue

José Ragas | ID Wars: Electoral Machines, Political Party "Carnets," and the Expansion of Citizenship During the Great Depression in Perú

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 8 Fri

Aarti Sethi | Debt, Accumulation, and the Potency of Money

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 12 Tue

Heather Vermeulen | Decolonizing the Plantation Grotesque

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 15 Fri

Amiel Bize | Road Agents

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 18 Mon

Mapping Space, Imagining Community: Anthropology Senior Thesis Symposium

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

10:30 AM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 20 Wed

Rosalind Morris | Reading Images: On Memory and Place

Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 21 Thu

Elizabeth Povinelli | Art & ... An Anthropology of the Otherwise

Triangle NYC, 20 Jay Street, 317 + 318, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11201

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Apr 22 Fri

Natacha Nsabimana | Interring the Dead, Unearthing the Nation

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 25 Mon

Veena Das | The Rhythms of Psychiatric Power: Foucault from the Slums of Delhi

Room 208, Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, New York, NY 10027

4:10 PM - 6:25 PM

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Apr 26 Tue

Nicole Theresa Hughes | Spectacular Psychomachia: Religious Antagonism in New Spanish and Brazilian Jesuit Theater

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 28 Thu

Apr 29 Fri

Zoe Crossland, Severin Fowles | Insuetude: Conversations in Technological Discard and Archaeological Recuperation

Second Floor common Room, The Heyman Center, 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027

1:00 PM

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Apr 29 Fri

Soo-Young Kim | An Avalanche of Spreadsheets, Models, and Forecasts: The Future in Greece

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 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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Sep 26 Mon

Oct 1 Sat

What is Comparative Media?

Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, Room 304, Barnard Hall; Room 501, Schermerhorn Hall

6:00 PM - 5:00 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 14 Fri

Chris Krupa, Partha Chatterjee | Fields of Dreams: Some More Secrets of Primitive Accumulation (in the South)

Room 457, Sheldon Scheps Library, Schermerhorn Extension

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Oct 18 Tue

Rosalind Morris, Elizabeth Povinelli | Celebrating Recent Work by Elizabeth Povinelli and Lila Abu-Lughod

Second Floor Common Room, The Heyman Center, 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Oct 25 Tue

Camilla Sturm | Archaeological Gems of Pittsburgh

Archaeological Institute of America, 44 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02108

10:00 AM - 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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Oct 28 Fri

Campus Memorial for Elaine Combs-Schilling

St Paul's Chapel, 1160 Amsterdam ave, New York, NY 10027

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Oct 28 Fri

Asli Zengin | Sex Under Intimate Siege: Gender Noncomformity, Medico-Lagal World and the State in Contemporary Turkey

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

5:10 PM - 7:00 PM

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Nov 4 Fri

Deniz Duruiz | The Making of a Kurdish Working Class

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 4 Fri

Randal McGuire, Zoe Crossland | Materialities of the Border and Contemporary Archaeology at the US-Mexico Border

Room 457, Sheldon Scheps Library, Schermerhorn Extension

6:30 PM - 8:30 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 14 Mon

Rafael Sánchez, Claudio Lomnitz, Rosalind Morris | Dancing Jacobins: A Venezuelan Genealogy of Latin American Populism

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

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Nov 16 Wed

Firat Kurt | Forms of Authoritarianism in Turkey

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 18 Fri

Natacha Nsabimana | We Were Tricked

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 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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Dec 2 Fri

Aarti Sethi | The Ethical Economy of the Peasant

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

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Dec 14 Wed

Sumayya Kassamali | The Present Exhausted: the Time of Being a Migrant Worker in Beirut

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

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 22 Wed

Brinkley Messick | Islamic Governance, Sharia Interpretation, Imamic Yemen

CGIS South 020, Belfer Case Study Rm, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA

5:00 PM - 7:00 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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Apr 19 Wed

Apr 21 Fri

Talal Asad | Reflections on Secularization, Ritual, and Politics

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 8 Fri

Elizabeth Povinelli | Ephemeropteræ 2017/#10

TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna, Austria

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Sep 23 Sat

David Scott | Thinking about John Dunkley

Pérez Museum, Miami, Florida

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 29 Fri

Rosalind Morris | The Wages of Death and the Death of Wages: Gambling on Gold in De-Industrializing South Africa

Room 215, McGraw Hall, Cornell University

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Sep 28 Thu

Sep 29 Fri

David Scott | The Jamaican 1970s: A Symposium

Second Floor Common Room, The Heyman Center for the Humanities

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 2 Mon

Elizabeth Povinelli | "The Jealous One" Film Screening

Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris

5:00 PM - 8:00 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 7 Sat

Rosalind Morris | Wagering Translation in the Underground: Gold, Money, and the Task of Communication in De-Industrializing South Africa

Common Room, Swift Hall, University of Chicago

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 7 Sat

Oct 8 Sun

Elizabeth Povinelli | Propositions #1: What We Mean

BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Pauwstraat 13a, 3512 TG Utrecht, the Netherlands

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 12 Thu

Oct 13 Fri

David Scott | Michael Manley's Styles of Radical Will

Rm 1008 Humanities, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 14 Sat

Maria José de Abreu | Pious Technologies and Secular Designs

Heyman Center for the Humanities, 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 20 Fri

David Scott | The Fragments/Whole

Haus der Kunst, Prinzregentenstrasse 1, D-80538 Munich, Germany

11:20 AM - 1:20 PM

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Oct 20 Fri

Rosalind Morris | Silver Linings: Beyond and Beneath the Visible World

Paviljoen, Steenstraat 1 1, 2312 BS Leiden

9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

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Oct 18 Wed

Oct 22 Sun

Elizabeth Povinelli | Frontier Imaginaries: Toxic Political Concepts

Room 612, Schermerhorn Hall, New York, NY 10027

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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Oct 27 Fri

Priya Nelson | Publication Workshop

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Oct 28 Sat

Oct 29 Sun

Elizabeth Povinelli | Karrabing Film Collective: Saltwater Dreams

Starr Cinema, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG

12:00 PM

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Oct 30 Mon

Rosalind Morris | The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, 3rd floor, Broadway and West 117th Street

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Oct 30 Mon

Elizabeth Povinelli | Object Positions Public Lecture 6: The Aesthetic Mark and the Cultic Difference—A Reply of the Karrabing Film Collective with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Nov 1 Wed

Rosalind Morris | The Wages of Death and the Death of Wages: Gambling on Gold in De-Industrializing South Africa

Room 208, Knox Hall

6:15 PM - 7:30 PM

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Nov 1 Wed

Elizabeth Povinelli | The Aesthetic Mark and the Cultic Difference

Centre Pompidou, Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 Paris

7:00 PM - 9:00 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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Nov 15 Wed

Rosalind Morris | Mediation and Violence in South Africa

Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, West Duke 101, Duke University

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 30 Thu

Mara Green | Modality Matters in Language Ideology: Embodied Experience and Signing Practices

Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road, NW Washington, DC 20008

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM

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Dec 5 Tue

Esra Özürik | Inheritance and Belief: Locating turkish Studies at the Crossroads of Conversion

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension

4:15 PM - 5:45 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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Feb 2 Fri

Ken Wissoker | Publishing Workshop

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Feb 22 Thu

Lila Abu-Lughod | Settler Colonialism Observed: Palestine's Alter-natives

Room 219, Aaron Burr Building, Princeton University

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 26 Mon

Feb 27 Tue

Open House in Anthropology

Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

12:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 2 Fri

Firat Kurt | Belligerent Grammars: Formalist Bureaucracy, Substantive Politics, and Full Life at Margins of Istanbul

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

5:10 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 6 Tue

Samantha Fox | Retrofitting the Socialist Housing Complex

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Mar 22 Thu

Brinkley Messick | The Book Launch of Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

The Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 210 Euston Road, London NW1 2DA

5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Mar 26 Mon

Anastasia Piliavsky | Hierarchy as Hope

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Mar 28 Wed

Catherine Fennell | Ends of Houses

Hussey Room (2nd Floor), Michigan League, 911 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 2 Mon

Apr 6 Fri

Partha Chatterjee | "I am the People": Reflections on Popular Sovereignty

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 16 Mon

Patrick Nason | On the Calling of Sharks

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

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Apr 26 Thu

David Scott | A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living

Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St. - Auditorium New Haven, CT

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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May 9 Wed

Lila Abu-Lughod | Museums and Recognition Politics in Settler-Colonial States

Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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May 10 Thu

Naeem Mohaiemen | I Used to Think Art is a Gift, Now I Am Not so Sure

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

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Jun 19 Tue

Jun 22 Fri

Paige West | Critical Approaches to Dispossession in the Melanesian Pacific: Conservation, Voice, and Collaboration

Oslo Metropolitan University (formerly the Oslo and Akershus University College), Oslo, Norway

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Aug 1 Wed

Camilla Sturm | Exchange, Power, and Cocial Networks in Late Neolithic Walled Towns: A Geochemical Approach to the Ceramic Economy

Jingmen Qujialing, Hubei Province, China

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Jul 30 Mon

Aug 3 Fri

Catherine Fennell | Anthropologies and Aftermaths: Thinking, Narrating, and Writing Disturbances

Eilert Sundts hus, 4th floor, Moltke Moesvei 31, 0851 Oslo, Norway

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Sep 4 Tue

Lesley Sharp | Valuing Life and Death: Recalibrating the Metrics of Life and Death in the Pursuit of Moral Science

South Hall, University of Edinburgh

12:30 PM - 1:15 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 21 Fri

Timothy Pugh | Faceless Hierarchy and Early Maya States

Room 951, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 24 Mon

Brian Larkin | Generator Life

University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Building 22, Erik Holms Kanal 2, 2300 Copenhagen, Denmark

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Sep 24 Mon

Paige West | Capitalism: Is it Time to Abandon the Term? Reflections of a Historian

Room 345, Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

9:00 AM - 5:00 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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Sep 29 Sat

Sep 28 Fri

Brinkley Messick | Fallible Legitimacy: the Zaydi imāma

Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Stocker Rd, Exeter EX4 4ND, UK

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

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Oct 3 Wed

Lila Abu-Lughod | Framing Islam: 'Violent Extremism' and the Rise of Securofeminism

Room 203, Taylor Hall, Vassar College

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 4 Thu

Luciana Chamorro Elizondo | Contesting New Sandinista Pragmatism: The Return of the Revolutionary Subject?

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

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 11 Thu

Brinkley Messick | Readings in a Formation of Islamic Texts

3, Avenue Mohamed El Fassi (ex. Av. Marrakech) 10010 Hassan Rabat, Morocco

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM

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Oct 11 Thu

Lila Abu-Lughod | Framing Islam: "Violent Extremism" and the Rise of Securofeminism

Room 107, Kerr Lecture Hall, Shanklin Hall, Wesleyan University

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 12 Fri

Oct 13 Sat

Paige West | A Prayer for the World: Imagining a Future in the Face of Climate Change, Dispossession, and Transformation

Room 302, Student Center East, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois

10:00 AM - 6:30 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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Oct 18 Thu

Stefania Pandolfo | Image and Counter-Image: Dreaming Borders, Unthinking Migration

Room 208, Knox Hall

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Oct 19 Fri

Paige West | Ethnography, Decolonization, and the Post Hau Now

Room 570, Sewall Hall, Rice University, Houston, Texas

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 23 Tue

Brinkley Messick | Just, False and Discrediting Witnesses: Evidence in Sharia Courts

Faculty Lounge, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT 06511

4:15 PM - 5:45 PM

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Oct 26 Fri

Brian Larkin | Technosemiotics: Technique

Room 411, West Hall, University of Michigan

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 26 Fri

Astrid Van Oyen | A Kaleidoscopic Empire: Scale and Scalability in Roman Storage Practices

Room 951, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 30 Tue

Rosalind Morris | The Afterlives of Gold: Mining and Migrancy in Southern Africa

American Academy in Berlin GmbH, Hans Arnhold Center, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin, Germany

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Nov 8 Thu

Brian Larkin | The Political Aesthetics of Generators

Basler Afrika Bibliographien Klosterberg 23, 4051 Basel, Switzerland

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM

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Nov 26 Mon

Rosalind Morris | Anatomy Lessons for a Postindustrial Age

ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19 Haus 8, D-10119 Berlin, Germany

7:30 PM - 9:00 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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Nov 29 Thu

Rosalind Morris | Visible Invisibility: Media, the Manual, and the Postindustrial

Institut für Theaterwissenschaft Universitätsstraße 150 44801, Bochum, Germany

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Nov 30 Fri

Danielle Kellogg | Demographic Patterns and Democratic Implications: The Case of Athens

Room 951, Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Dec 2 Sun

Joan E. Vincent Memorial

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Dec 5 Wed

Brinkley Messick | New Books in the Arts & Sciences: Sharīʿa Scripts

Heyman Center, 2960 Broadway MC: 5730, New York, NY 10027

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

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Dec 6 Thu

Brinkley Messick | Interpretive and governing authority in the late Zaydi imāma

White-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Historical Studies-Social Science Library, Einstein Drive, Princeton, NJ 08540

1:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Dec 12 Wed

Brian Larkin | Parasites, Infrastructures & Islamic Networks

SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistraße 6-10, 3rd Floor & 5th Floor, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Jan 7 Mon

Rosalind Morris | The Gamblers: The Zama Zama Miners of Southern Africa

ICI Berlin, Berlin, Germany

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Jan 7 Mon

Jan 11 Fri

Rosalind Morris | Double Exposures: Resource Extraction, Labour and Migration in Africa, Germany and the US

American Academy in Berlin, GmbH Am Sandwerder 17-19 14109, Berlin, Germany

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Jan 23 Wed

Rosalind Morris | The Idea of Communism: Notes on the Singular and the Universal from Africa and Asia

Maison Française, Buell Hall, Columbia University

6:18 PM - 8:45 PM

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Jan 24 Thu

Audra Simpson | Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow

Alice Campbell Alumnia Center Ballroom, 601 S. Lincoln AVE, Urbana, IL 61801

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Jan 29 Tue

Jim Krane | Energy Kingdoms: Oil and Political Survival in the Persian Gulf

International Affairs Building, 420 W. 118 St., New York, NY 10027 1501

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Jan 31 Thu

Brinkley Messick | Islamic Contracts

Lester Pollack Colloquium Room, Furman Hall, 245 Sullivan St, New York NY 10012

4:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 4 Mon

Brinkley Messick | Sharia Ethnography

Jones Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544

12:00 PM - 1:15 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 7 Thu

Jackie Dugard | Navigating Human Rights Critiques: Lessons from South Africa

Room 107, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116 Street, New York, NY 10027

12:10 PM - 1:10 PM

Feb 8 Fri

Brian Larkin | Generator Life

Room 003, Woodburn Hall, University of Indiana

3:00 PM - 4:00 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 18 Mon

Ileana Selejan | Photography and Protest in Nicaragua

Room 504, Diana Hall, Barnard cOlleges

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 19 Tue

Kim TallBear | Molecular Death, Desire, and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriateness in the USA and Canada

Room 754, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 7:00 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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Feb 21 Thu

Violeta Moreno-Lax | The "Permanent Crisis" of Migration by Sea

Room 114, Avery Hall, Columbia University

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Feb 21 Thu

Birgit Meyer | Religious Matters in Public Spaces

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

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 28 Thu

Brian Larkin | The Cinema Milieu

Room 918, International Affairs Building

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM

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Mar 4 Mon

Anand Taneja | The Other Asad

Faculty House, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 5 Tue

Brinkley Messick | Explorations in Historical Anthropology

Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St George St, Toronto, ON

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 5 Tue

Penny Johnson | Companions in Conflict: Animals in Occupied Palestine

Faculty House, 64 Morningside Dr, New York, NY 10027

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Mar 4 Mon

Mar 6 Wed

Joan Scott | On the Judgment of History

Faculty House, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 7 Thu

Claudio Lomnitz | Shtetl Cosmopolitanism and the Peruvian Vanguard

Presentation Room, Oxford Road Building, Emory College, Atlanta, GA 30322

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 7 Thu

Brinkley Messick | Islamic Governance and the Problem of Legitimacy: From the Ottomans to ISIS

Instructional Centre, 1599 Outer Cir Rd, Mississauga, ON L5L 1J7, Canada

6:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Mar 11 Mon

Paige West | The Manus Island Detention Center, Decolonial Epistemic Practice, and the Future of Anthropological Inquiry

Room 315, Haskell Hall, University of Chicago

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Mar 11 Mon

Brinkley Messick | Anthropology Colloquium

1810 Hinman Avenue, 104, Evanston, IL 60208

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Mar 15 Fri

Mar 16 Sat

Student Event | ICLS: Labor In Context

Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room and Komoda Room; Jerome Greene Annex, Law Building

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Mar 20 Wed

Audra Simpson | Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow

Sty-Wet Great Hall, University of British Columbia

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 21 Thu

Brinkley Messick | Sharia Scripts: A Historical Anthropology—Professor Brinkley M. Messick in Conversation with Professor Mandana Limbert

Room 2905, The Graduate Center, CUNY

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Mar 25 Mon

Sudipta Sen | Ganga as Imperial Icon

Room 208, Knox Hall, Columbia University

4:15 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 25 Mon

Paige West | Transnational Feminist Futures Roundtable Conversation

Room 102B, Jerome Greene Hall (Columbia Law School)

4:15 PM - 6:15 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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Mar 28 Thu

Ben White | Cracks in the Wall: Beyond Apartheid in Palestine/Israel

Room 208, Knox Hall, Columbia University

12:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Mar 28 Thu

Lesley Sharp | Animal Ethos

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 29 Fri

Claudio Lomnitz | Fantasy of the Family, Fantasy of the State: A Dramaturgical Intervention in Public Social Sciences

Room 304A, Education Building, Arizona State University

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Mar 29 Fri

Claudio Lomnitz | Lively Corpses: Mexico, Between One Reform and Another

Room 201, Casa Hispánica, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 31 Sun

Elizabeth Povinelli | Karrabing at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1, New York, NY

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 1 Mon

Elizabeth Povinelli | Seens & Unscenes Toxicity, Memory, & Filmic Refusals

Scheps Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 2 Tue

Lesley Sharp | The Everyday Ethics of Human-Animal Encounters in Laboratory Science

Grand Ballroom, The Bellevue Hotel, 200 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19102

2:15 PM - 3:15 PM

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Apr 2 Tue

Claudio Lomnitz | Celebrating Recent Work by Claudio Lomnitz: Nuestra América—utopía y persistencia de una familia judía

Second Floor Common Room, The Heyman Center for the Humanities

6:15 PM - 8:15 PM

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Apr 3 Wed

Catherine Fennell | Ends of the House: Deconstructing the Dream in the Late Industrial Urban Midwest

McKinney Conference Room, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Apr 4 Thu

Claudio Lomnitz | San Fernando, Again

Room 420, CSER Seminar Room, Hamilton Hall, Columbia University

10:15 AM - 12:00 AM

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Apr 4 Thu

Luciana Chamorro | Revolution and Migration in Nicaragua: A Forty-Year History

Dodge Room, Earl Hall, Columbia University

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Apr 4 Thu

Audra Simpson | Savage States

East Pyne 010, Princeton University

4:45 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 5 Fri

Brian Larkin | The Political Aesthetics of Infrastructures

Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin M549, University of Colorado

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Apr 5 Fri

Claudio Lomnitz | Lively Corpses: Everyone Must Die—A Guide to Survival

Room 201, Casa Hispánica

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 10 Wed

Brinkley Messick | Spaces of Knowledge: Material Histories of Shari'a Texts

Center for Material Histories, NYU

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Apr 11 Thu

Claudio Lomnitz | Lively Corpses: Questions Concerning Death in Nineteenth Century Mexico and Spanish America

Room 201, Casa Hispánica

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 11 Thu

Claudio Lomnitz | Questions Concerning Death in 19th Century Spanish America

Room 201, Casa Hispánica, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 14 Sun

Rosalind Morris | The Geography of Images

Athens Conservatory, Athens, Greece

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

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Apr 16 Tue

Lindgren Johnson | Animality and Fugitive Humanism in Nineteenth-Century African America

Room 457, Sheldon Scheps Library, Schermerhorn Extension

6:10 PM - 8:10 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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Apr 26 Fri

Catherine Fennell | Ends of the House: Deconstructing the Dream in the Late Industrial Urban Midwest

Room 301, Cobb Hall, University of Chicago

3:00 PM - 4:20 PM

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Apr 26 Fri

Audra Simpson | Savage States: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow

Colorado College

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 27 Sat

Vanessa Agard-Jones | Selvage/Obsidian

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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May 3 Fri

Leslie Sabiston | Entangled (Dis)orders: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Indigeneity, and the Candian Criminal Justice System

Franz Boas Lounge, Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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May 10 Fri

Hi'ilei Hobart | Local Color: Hawaiian Shave Ice, Rainbow Aesthetics, and State Multiculturalism

Hamilton Hall, 1130 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

America/New_York

May 10 Fri

Fernando Montero Castrillo | Provincializing Prohibition

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

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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May 11 Sat

Student Exhibition: Art & Science in Archaeological Illustration

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

America/New_York

May 23 Thu

Brinkley Messick | The Anthropologist as Reader

2.2059, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Jul 15 Mon

Lesley Sharp | Animal Research Unbound

Henderson Lecture Theatre, XFI Building, University of Exeter

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Aug 12 Mon

Paige West | An Anthropology for the Present

Sandbjerg Gods, Sønderborg, Denmark

12:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Sep 5 Thu

Sep 6 Fri

Paige West | Environmental Anthropology: Contemporary Theory, Method, and Scope

National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) 1 Park Place, Suite 300 Annapolis, MD 21401

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Sep 6 Fri

Sep 7 Sat

David Scott | Thinking About Orlando Patterson

TBD

10:00 AM - 5:00 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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Sep 20 Fri

Lisa J. Lucero | A Cosmology of Conservation: Diverse and Sustainable Resource Management Among the Ancient Maya

Room 951, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Sep 24 Tue

Lila Abu-Lughod | The Courage of Truth: Making Anthropology Matter

TBD, University of Leuven, Belgium

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Sep 27 Fri

Shatha Safi, Michel Salameh | Reclaiming Space: The Rehabilitation of 50 Villages in Rural Palestine

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Sep 30 Mon

Rosalind Morris | Passages out of Modernity: Gambling, Gold and Deindustrialization in South Africa

University of Minnesota, 130 Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 4 Fri

Ghassan Kanafani | Returning to Haifa

Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts, 615 West 129th Street, New York, NY 10027

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Oct 10 Thu

Elizabeth Povinelli | Geontologies Book Talk

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Oct 11 Fri

Oct 12 Sat

Maria José de Abreu | Discoveries, Migrations, and Journeys

Fortaleza de Sagres, 8650-360 Sagres, Portugal

9:00 PM - 12:00 AM

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Oct 15 Tue

David Scott | Thinking about the Life of Stuart Hall

House of Literature, Wergelandsveien 29, 0167 Oslo

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 17 Thu

David Scott | Stuart Hall and Postcolonial Politics

House of Literature, Oestre skostredet 5-7, 5017 Bergen

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 23 Wed

Juno Parrenas | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Oct 24 Thu

Noura Erakat | Book Talk

Room 101, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY 10027

4:30 PM - 7:30 PM

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Oct 24 Thu

Oct 25 Fri

Brian Larkin | Thinking the Ecological in Media Studies

Room 612, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

6:00 PM - 5:45 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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Oct 31 Thu

Paige West | Decanonizing Political Ecology

Bush House, North East Wing, 40 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Nov 1 Fri

Rosalind Morris | Spectral-White: Keynote Lecture

Haus der Kulturen der Walt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 1 Fri

Lila Abu-Lughod | Gender, Violence, Security

Conference Room, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, 29 Rajpur Road,

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Nov 1 Fri

Paige West | A Prayer for the World: Imagining a Future in the Face of Climate Change, Dispossession, and Transformation

Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE

6:00 PM - 9:00 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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Nov 14 Thu

Paige West | A Prayer for the World: Climate Change, Engaged Scholarship, and the Social Sciences

Room 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

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Nov 14 Thu

Nov 15 Fri

Camilla Sturm, Andrew Womack | Integrative Approaches to Ceramic Anthropology in Early China: New Directions in Pottery Research

Tang Center for Early China, Room 509, Kent Hall, Columbia University

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Dec 3 Tue

Sameh Zoabi | Screening of "Tel Aviv on Fire"

Katharine Otto-Bernstein Screening Room, Lenfest Center for the Arts, 615 West 129th Street, New York, NY 10027

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Dec 4 Wed

Amy Hollywood | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Jan 29 Wed

"The Cost of Gold: A Conversation about Informal Mining and its Representation," with Rosalind Morris and Radhika Suramanaia at Slought Foundation

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Feb 5 Wed

UN2019: Documentary Ethnography/ Film: Exploration and Experimentation-- Wednesday Film Program, Department of Anthropology

833 Mudd Building

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 12 Wed

Kaya Williams | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 12 Wed

UN2019: Documentary Ethnography/ Film: Exploration and Experimentation-- Wednesday Film Program, Department of Anthropology

Mudd Building Room 833, Columbia University

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 14 Fri

Maria José de Abreu lecture at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS)

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 14 Fri

Rosalind Morris' 'The Gamblers' to be presented at The Black Box, Montréal

3:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 18 Tue

David Scott | Moral Criticism and the Problem of Evil

172 Meeting Street, Box l958, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Feb 19 Wed

Elizabeth A. Povinelli lecture and film screenings "Emerging Worlds"

University of California, Santa Cruz

12:00 PM - 12:00 AM

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Feb 19 Wed

UN2019: Documentary Ethnography/ Film: Exploration and Experimentation-- Wednesday Film Program, Department of Anthropology

Mudd Building Room 833, Columbia University

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 20 Thu

Rosalind Morris and Susan Meiselas in conversation—"Documentary in Critical Times"

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Feb 24 Mon

SELF-DEVOURING GROWTH: JULIE LIVINGSTON IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN LARKIN

The Graduate Center (CUNY) 9100, The Skylight Room

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Feb 26 Wed

Ömür Harmanşah | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 27 Thu

Anthropology Open House

The Robert F. Murphy-Morton H. Fried Department Lounge 465 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 27 Thu

Water Activism: Detroit, Flint, and the Great Lakes

Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room; Lenfest Center for the Arts; 615 W 129th St; New York, NY 10027

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Feb 28 Fri

Archaeology Open House

951 Schermerhorn Extension

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Mar 4 Wed

"Shielding Hope, Killing Hope and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey" Ayşe Parla, Department of Anthropology, Boston University

807 Schermerhorn Hall (not Extension)

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM

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Mar 4 Wed

UN2019: Documentary Ethnography/ Film: Exploration and Experimentation-- Wednesday Film Program, Department of Anthropology

Mudd Building Room 833, Columbia University

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Mar 11 Wed

CANCELLED-Robert Nichols | Franz Boas Seminar

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Jan 29 Wed

Mar 20 Fri

CANCELLED/ CLOSED- Rosalind Morris' 'The Zama Zama Project' opens at Slought Foundation

12:00 PM

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Mar 23 Mon

Mar 27 Fri

CANCELLED- Fourth Annual Ruth Benedict Lectures

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Barnard College;

4:10 PM - 8:00 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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May 18 Mon

Anthropology Graduation Celebration 2020

1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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May 27 Wed

Undergraduate Senior Thesis Presentations

9:30 AM - 2:15 PM

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Jun 25 Thu

Archaeology in the time of Black Lives Matter

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Sep 23 Wed

Holdings with Rosalind Morris

3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 2 Fri

Bookfest for Karen Engle's "The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict" with Lila Abu-Lughod

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Oct 14 Wed

Virtual Boas Series, "Only One Flaw (On the Rule of Law in Mexico)" with Claudio Lomnitz and Fernando Escalante

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 15 Thu

The Ancestors Call from the Future with Rosalind Morris

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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Oct 28 Wed

Virtual Boas Series, "Unpayable Debt" with Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Chazelle Rhoden, and Elizabeth A. Povinelli

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 18 Wed

Virtual Boas Series, "Anthropology in the Mix: Learning to be the Trouble" with Amelia Moore and Paige West

4:10 PM - 6:10 PM

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Feb 5 Fri

Religion and the mastery of public space in Nigeria

9:15 AM - 1:15 PM

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Feb 24 Wed

Claudio Lomnitz in conversation with Claire Messud at the Brooklyn Public Library

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Mar 2 Tue

Rosalind Morris speaks at the Pembroke Center, Brown University, on 'The Simulacrum of Sovereign Debt'

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Mar 4 Thu

Gerbrands Lecture with Elizabeth A. Povinelli

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Mar 9 Tue

Claudio Lomnitz speaks at the American Writers Museum

On-Line Event

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Mar 17 Wed

Apr 5 Mon

On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Apr 8 Thu

Gender from the Margins/ Geopolitics and Gender Violence: A Webinar with Lila Abu-Lughod

8:30 AM - 11:30 AM

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Apr 9 Fri

Master Class with filmmaker Tala Hadid, hosted by Bette Gordon and Rosalind C. Morris

ZOOM - See announcement text for address details

3:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Apr 19 Mon

Undergraduate Senior Thesis Symposium, with key-note speaker, Marisa Solomon, on 'Geographic Wounds'

10:00 AM - 2:30 PM

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Apr 29 Thu

The Identity Document and the Documentary Gesture: Notes from South Africa. Rosalind Morris in conversation with Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

ZOOM

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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May 4 Tue

Mediendenken (MEDIA THOUGHT) workshop: Rosalind Morris speaks on 'Overheard and Afterseen: Reflections on Documentary Receipt (not Reception)'

via Zoom

11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

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Mar 17 Wed

May 10 Mon

On the Possibility and Impossibility of Reparations

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Apr 29 Thu

May 28 Fri

Conference: Decoloniality and the Politics of History

https://spanitalport.as.virginia.edu/decoloniality-and-politics-history-columbia-art-history

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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Aug 31 Tue

ACADEMIC RESOURCE FAIR - for first year students interested in archaeology

Via Zoom

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Aug 31 Tue

ACADEMIC RESOURCE FAIR - for first year students interested in sociocultural anthropology

Via Zoom

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Sep 10 Fri

Claudio Lomnitz in conversation about his book Nuestra América at Instituto de Estudios Sociales

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Sep 13 Mon

"Heritability and the Ancestral Present" Seminar by Elizabeth Povinelli, Social Anthropology Series at Harvard

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Sep 13 Mon

Film Screenings by Elizabeth Povinelli, Harvard Film Study Center

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Sep 14 Tue

Lecture by Darryl Li, Moderated by Lila Abu-Lughod

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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Sep 18 Sat

Moving-Image Activism and Disobedience on Screen, Panel with Elizabeth Povinelli

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Sep 23 Thu

Rosalind Morris in conversation with Anselm Franke and Kersten Stakemeier at HKW

Virtual

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Sep 24 Fri

"When the Story Goes Dark, we Find New Ways to Tell the Story," Elizabeth Povinelli at Art Basel

7:00 AM - 8:00 AM

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Sep 28 Tue

Anna Tsing, author of The Mushroom at the End of the World, and co-creator of Feral Atlas, in conversation with Sarah Cole, Dean of the Humanities

Virtual

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 6 Wed

Elizabeth Povinelli seminar in Anthropocene Histories

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Oct 16 Sat

Gallery Opening: 'The Longue Durée', with Jeff Benjamin and the International Society of Antiquaries

46 Chambers Street, between Broadway and First Street, Newburgh, NY, 12550

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Nov 4 Thu

Heritability and the Ancestral Present: Still & Moving Images with Elizabeth Povinelli

Online

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Dec 3 Fri

Dec 6 Mon

Rosalind Morris's film screens at African Diaspora International Film Festival

4:00 PM

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Dec 14 Tue

Dec 15 Wed

Conference: 'Thinking Through Settler Colonialism and Racial Capitalism in the Context of the Nordics'

Zoom

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Jan 19 Wed

Heritability and the Ancestral Present, Elizabeth A. Povinelli in conversation with Hillary Chute

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Nov 18 Thu

Jan 31 Mon

Department Opens Applications for new Hurston-Deloria Fellowships for Doctoral Study in Anthropology

12:00 AM - 5:00 PM

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Feb 2 Wed

Rosalind Morris in Webinar with South African journalist, Richard Poplak, about her film and the future of migrancy in southern Africa

5:00 AM - 6:30 AM

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Feb 2 Wed

Elizabeth Povinelli in UCL Social Anthropology Series

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Feb 9 Wed

Boas Talk by Myles Lennon, "Affective Energy: The ‘Equicratic’ Politics of Solar Technology From Wall Street to West Harlem"

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 23 Wed

Elizabeth A. Povinelli screens her film, The Inheritance

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Feb 25 Fri

Sociocultural Anthropology Open House(s)

11:10 PM - 1:00 PM

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Feb 25 Fri

Webinar with Lila Abu-Lughod on the Cunning of Gender Violence

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Mar 9 Wed

BOAS SEMINAR - Kessie Alexandre

Diana LL03, Barnard Campus

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 10 Thu

Celebrating Recent Work by Maria José de Abreu

ZOOM

5:00 PM - 7:00 AM

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Feb 9 Wed

Mar 13 Sun

'Closer to the Ground' - Group Exhibition at Berlinale Forum Expanded opens with Rosalind Morris and Alumnus, Naeem Mohaiemen

Silent Green, Berlin, Germany

12:00 PM

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Mar 14 Mon

Book Launch - Rosalind Morris, Yael Navaro, and others

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Mar 22 Tue

Paige West on "Climate Connections: Gender, Solidarity, and Futurity”

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Mar 23 Wed

Kaya Williams, on Mental Health and Incarceration in New Orleans

Diana LL03, Barnard Campus

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 28 Mon

Vanessa Agard-Jones speaks on 'Racial Capital, Chemical Kin' at the New York Academy of Sciences, with Jafari Allen as discussant

Zoom or Youtube

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 6 Wed

Ghassan Hage, Benedict Lecture #2: 'The Colonial Debt'

Salzberger Parlor, Barnard College

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 8 Fri

Ghassan Hage, Benedict Lecture #3: 'Anisogamic Futures'

Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard College

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 4 Mon

Apr 8 Fri

Ruth Benedict Lectures by Ghassan Hage. Lecture #1: 'Figures of the Viable Life'

Sulzburger Parlor, Barnard College

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 11 Mon

Apr 12 Tue

'Populism and New Theopolitical Formations in the Americas' Workshop

9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

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Apr 21 Thu

"The Political Aesthetics of Light" Keynote by Brian Larkin

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Apr 28 Thu

TRANSLATING THE END OF THE WORLD: A Conversation with Dorothy Zinn and Jasmine Pisapia about translating Ernesto de Martino’s La fine del mondo.

2nd Floor Common Room, Heyman Center for the Humanities or via livestream

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 29 Fri

Apr 30 Sat

Media and/as Infrastructure Virtual Symposium Keynote by Brian Larkin

9:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Jun 16 Thu

Jun 18 Sat

Rosalind Morris's new opera, Southern Crossings, opens June 16

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM

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Jun 28 Tue

Jun 29 Wed

'Naming Touch' Symposium with Maria José de Abreu and Rosalind Morris

Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin

3:00 PM - 9:00 PM

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Sep 28 Wed

BOAS SEMINAR - DEBORAH THOMAS, "Surrender: The Death of the West, Caribbean World-Building and the Future of Us All."

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 3 Mon

Oct 5 Wed

RUTH BENEDICT DISTINGUISHED LECTURES - Hazel Carby on 'Art and Political Ecology'

Maison Française

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 14 Fri

Climate Crisis in South Asia: Imagining Other Ways

501 Schermerhorn Hall (Upper campus)

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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Oct 27 Thu

Evasion Lab: The Disappeared in Latin America and Africa

Fayerweather 411

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Oct 31 Mon

Maria José de Abreu's talk "Madeira 1420: The Holy Cross, Homo Saccharine, and the Anti-Type" at the University of California, Davis

2203 Social Science and Humanities Building, UC Davis

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 2 Wed

Boas Seminar presents Xenia Cherkaev, '"Russian Socialism" beyond Law and Politics'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 16 Wed

Boas Seminar presents Alex Blanchette, 'Sweated Life and Post-Industrial Animal Slaughter in the United States'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Jan 26 Thu

Discussion: The aftermath of the attacks in Brazil's capital

420 W 118th St, New York, NY 10027

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 15 Wed

Sarah Bruno lecture, 'Emotional Dexterity: Afro-Puerto Rican Resistencia in Bomba’s Batey'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 16 Thu

Webinar: 'The Cunning of Gender Violence'

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

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Feb 22 Wed

Amarilys Estrella lecture, 'Ghosts, Zombies, and the Possibility of Life: Human Rights Activism Against Death by Racism'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Feb 23 Thu

Rosalind Morris to deliver Doll Lecture on Money and Religion

Green Hall 0-S-6, Princeton University

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 22 Wed

BOAS SEMINAR - Lauren Coyle-Rosen, 'Law in Light: Priestesses, Priests, and the Revitalization of Akan Spirituality in the United States and Ghana'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Mar 29 Wed

Franz Boas Seminar: Larisa Kurtović, "Future as Predicament"

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 12 Wed

BOAS SEMINAR - Amira Mittermaier, "Ninety-Nine: Towards an Ethnography of God"

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 19 Wed

The Fredrik Barth Lecture: "Museum Politics & the Problem of Voice", w/ Dr. Lila Abu-Lughod

1 Silber Way 1 Silber Way 9th Floor Boston, MA 02215

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Apr 26 Wed

Boas Seminar - Webb Keane, "When Speech Isn't Free: Varieties of Metapragmatic Struggle"

963 Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Apr 27 Thu

Apr 29 Sat

reproduction of possibility: a colloquium on black critical thought

Schemerhorn Hall Extension

5:00 PM

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Jun 7 Wed

Rosalind Morris's film, 'We are Zama Zama' to open new Leuphana Institute for Advanced Study

“Scala” Art house Cinema | Apothekenstr. 17 | 21335 Lüneburg

7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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Sep 13 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Lydia Gibson, 'Plastic Value: a calculus of use, value, power, and order through single-use plastics'

963 Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 13 Wed

Book Launch: 'The Cunning of Gender Violence: Geopolitics and Feminism,' edited by Lila Abu-Lughod, Rema Hammami, and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian.

World Room, Pulitzer Hall, Columbia University

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Sep 15 Fri

Sep 16 Sat

Nations in Fragments: A Conference in Honor of Partha Chatterjee

Buell Hall, Columbia University

10:30 AM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 20 Wed

BOAS Seminar, Sheng Long: 'Circulation of Numbers: State Violence of Quantifying Geography and Subjectivity'

Scheps Library

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 27 Wed

BOAS Seminar: David Giles, 'Sweeping the City: Notes on Shelter(lessness), Political Sustenance, and Illiberal Care'

Scheps Library, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 29 Fri

E. Mara Green lectures on 'The Ethics of Emergent Language in Deaf Nepal'

The Graduate Center, ROOM 5417 365, Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10016

4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

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Oct 11 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Jatin Dua, 'Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis'

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 11 Wed

Elizabeth Povinelli and the Karrabing Collective, screening 'The Mermaids' at Performance Space

Performance Space New York, 150 First Avenue

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

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Oct 12 Thu

'Conversations on Land in and out of the Americas,' with guest speakers Amiel Bizé and Deepa Ramaswamy

300S Buell Hall, Columbia GSAPP

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Oct 18 Wed

BOAS seminar: Kriti Kapila, King's College London

963 Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 20 Fri

BOAS Seminar: Jacob Bongers, 'Empire and Death in the Andes'

VIA ZOOM

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Oct 24 Tue

Rosalind Morris lectures at Humboldt University, 'Like War: Statelessness and (dis)Organized Violence'

Anton-Wilhelm-Amo Strasse 40/41, Berlin 10117, or via zoom

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 26 Thu

Open House in Anthropology

465, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 5:00 PM

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Nov 9 Thu

Mexico's Disappeared Crisis

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 10 Fri

Global Perspectives on the Criminalization of Migration: A Conference

Heyman Center, East Campus Residence Hall Columbia University New York, NY 10027

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM

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Nov 13 Mon

Rosalind Morris screens 'We are Zama Zama' at the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy, and the Graduate Institute in Geneva

Auditorium A1A, Maison de la paix, Geneva Graduate Institute

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM

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Nov 13 Mon

The Genealogy of the Question of Palestine: Teach-In and Discussion

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Nov 15 Wed

Anthropology Faculty Talk: Paige West

465 Schermerhorn Extension (Anthropology Lounge)

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Nov 18 Sat

Marco Antonio Castro Cosío's Memorial and Celebration of Life

The Joseph Pulitzer World Room, 2950 Broadway New York, NY 10027

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Nov 23 Thu

Seeing in the Dark: Rosalind Morris on Cinema, Resource Extraction and the Afterlives of Gold

Cinema Giorgione Cannaregio 30100, Venezia, Italy

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Nov 29 Wed

BOAS Seminar: China Sajadian

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Dec 6 Wed

BOAS Seminar: LaShaya Howie, 'The Body in Black Funeral Practices: The Right Red and Other Important Matters'

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Jan 24 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Constantine Nakassis

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Jan 31 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Roderick Campbell

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 16 Fri

Colonization and the Politics of Sympathy

465, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Feb 21 Wed

CANCELED: BOAS Seminar: Matthew E. Engelke

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 28 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Todne Thomas

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 6 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Adam Leeds

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 20 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Anna Agbe-Davies

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 21 Thu

Open House in Anthropology: Spring 2024

465, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

4:10 PM - 5:00 PM

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Mar 27 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Carlo Caduff

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 3 Wed

Book Launch Roundtable. "Gleaning for Communism"

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor New York, NY 10027 United States

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Apr 3 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Raffaella Taylor-Seymour

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 10 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Mandana Limbert

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 17 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Fadi Bardawil

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 18 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Yannis Hamilakis

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 25 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Matthew Engelke

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 27 Fri

Brian Larkin speaks at the conference, "State Effects"

Fayerweather 209, Columbia University

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Oct 9 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Brian Larkin: 'Of Scandals, Free Speech, Firing and Things of that Nature in the Anthropology Department'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 18 Fri

'Historical Anthropology: Lessons from Taiwan and China,' Retirement Celebration for Myron Cohen

457 Schermerhorn Extension, Scheps Library

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 19 Sat

Rosalind Morris speaks as part of Brown conference, 'For Whom Do We Read?'

Andrews House 110, 13 Brown St., Providence, RI

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

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Oct 19 Sat

Thinking Politically After Gaza

Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive, New York

2:30 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 23 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Annelies Kusters, 'Understanding Compromised and Compromises of Understanding'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Nov 14 Thu

Portugal in (Not-) Not a Small Country: Continental Extensions, Maritimization of the Land.

Tozzer Anthropology Building #203

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Nov 16 Sat

Then and Now - a new book on Freud, the group and social relation, with Rosalind Morris

School of Visual Arts 133 W. 21st Street, New York, NY

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

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Dec 13 Fri

Dec 14 Sat

Extractive Media: a conference convened by Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Brian Larkin, and Debashree Mukherjee

807 Schermerhorn Hall

5:00 PM

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Jan 22 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Juan Carlos Mazariegos

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Jan 28 Tue

Elizabeth Povinelli hosts an Open Session at the Store Front

97 Kenmare Street New York, NY 10012

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Jan 31 Fri

In Defense of the University: A Forum

1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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Jan 31 Fri

Nao Ben-Yehoyada lecture, "The criminalization of subjunctive kinship: Freemasons and mafiosi in Trapani since the 1980s"

Room C-415A, CUNY GRADUATE SCHOOL

4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

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Feb 5 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Ismail Alatas

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 6 Thu

Forced Disappearance and Governmentality: A Conference

Scheps Seminar Room - 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

8:30 AM - 6:30 PM

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Feb 19 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Asanda-Jonas Benya 'Women Miners Negotiating Identity in South Africa’s Platinum Mines'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 26 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Karma F. Frierson, 'Reckoning with the Third Root: Blackness Before Recognition in Vera Cruz, Mexico'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 5 Wed

Audra Simpson speaks at the Stanford Humanities Center

Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA and online

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

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Mar 6 Thu

Audra Simpson lectures at the Stanford Anthropology Department

Building 50, Room 51A, Stanford University, CA

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

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Mar 5 Wed

Mar 10 Mon

THINKING of, with, from, and about ASIA: a lecture series

457 Schermerhorn Extension, 4th Floor

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 11 Tue

Audra Simpson in conversation with Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel, for the Shirley Greenberg Annual Lecture

Social Sciences Building (FSS), room 4007, University of Ottawa, Canada

5:30 PM - 7:03 PM

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Mar 18 Tue

Mar 17 Mon

Rosalind Morris to lecture at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin

Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin

1:30 AM - 3:30 AM

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Mar 22 Sat

Mar 23 Sun

Rosalind Morris to screen 'We are Zama Zama' at Neues Kino, Basel

Neues Kino, Klybeckstrasse 247, 4057 Basel, Switzerland

12:00 PM - 2:00 AM

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Mar 29 Sat

Mar 30 Sun

Columbia and Barnard anthropologists join 'Pulsion' for a symposium on 'Free Association: Free Speech?'

Saturday: 321W 44th street, Suite #510, NY, NY 10036; Sunday: 81 Court Street Floor 4, Brooklyn, NY 11201

11:00 AM - 6:00 AM

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Apr 1 Tue

Lisa Stevenson presents work in progress, 'The Not Elsewhere'

457 Schermerhorn Extension, Scheps Library

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

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Apr 2 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Dace Dzenovska 'Emptiness and Dreams of Empire in the Latvian Russian Borderlands'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 15 Tue

Rosalind Morris reads from her new volume of poetry, 'For Lack of a Dictionary'

Book Culture, 536 West 112th Street

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Apr 16 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Euclides Gonçalves 'Memes As Ways of Knowing in Africa'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 23 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Patricia Spyer

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 24 Thu

Book Launch, Rafael Sánchez's 'Reconocimientos: A Memoir of Becoming'

457 Scheps Library, Schermerhorn Extension

6:15 PM - 8:00 PM

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Sep 17 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Nicholas Glastonbury

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Sep 23 Tue

Rosalind Morris in conversation with D. Vance Smith about 'Unstable Ground'

N107, School of Architecture, Princeton University

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Sep 26 Fri

Elizabeth Povinelli in conversation with Philippe Descola

Villa Albertine 972 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10075

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Oct 1 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Adam Baczko

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 8 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Rosalind Morris

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 9 Thu

Elizabeth Povinelli at the Northrop Frye Centre, on 'Melting Glaciers, Rising Tides'

Northrop Frye Centre, VC102, University of Toronto

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Oct 15 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Serra Hakyemez

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 22 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Lisa Min

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Oct 31 Fri

BOAS Seminar: Lisa Bjorkman

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Nov 5 Wed

BOAS Seminar: James Meador

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Nov 12 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Adèle Blazquez

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Nov 18 Tue

Book Talk. “Caring Like a State: The Politics of Russia’s Demographic Crisis”

Marshall D. Shulman Seminar Room, 1219 International Affairs Building 420 W 118th Street, 12th floor, New York, NY 10027, United States

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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Nov 20 Thu

Book Discussion: Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani with Sean Jacobs

Book Culture 112th 536 W 112th St New York, NY 10025

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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Nov 26 Wed

Zoë Crossland to deliver 37th McDonald Annual Lecture

Yusuf Hamied Centre, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Christ's Church, Cambridge

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Dec 3 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Paloma Rodrigo Gonzales

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Dec 3 Wed

Celebrating Recent Work by Mahmood Mamdani

The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, Columbia University

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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Dec 9 Tue

Book Translation Launch, Maria José de Abreu's "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism"

Mário de Andrade Library, R. da Consolação, 94 - República, São Paulo - SP, 01302-000, Brazil

12:00 PM

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Dec 11 Thu

Book Translation Launch, Maria José de Abreu's "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism"

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

12:00 PM

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Jan 28 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Miriam Ticktin, 'Thinking with and beyond Innocence: from Liberal to Illiberal Politics'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 4 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Andrew Willford, 'Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic and Indigenous Worlds of South India'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

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Feb 18 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Emily R. Bock 'Not Suitable For Work (NSFW)'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 4 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Natalie Bump Vena 'Ethnographic Interventions in New York City Governance'

963, 9th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Mar 25 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Eric Plemons 'The Perfect Organ to Give Away: Uterus Transplant as Exception'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 1 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Trinidad Rico 'Authenticating the Local: Heritage Expertise and Nation-Building in Qatar'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 15 Wed

Lecture - "Maghrebi Jewish Return"

207 Knox Hall

4:10 PM - 6:30 PM

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Apr 22 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Angela Reyes 'From Conyo to Rizal: Elite Emanation and Inversion'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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Apr 24 Fri

Anthropology Senior Thesis Symposium

754 Schermerhorn Extension

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

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Apr 29 Wed

BOAS Seminar: Sonia Das 'The Longest Lament'

457, 4th Floor Schermerhorn Extension

2:10 PM - 4:00 PM

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