Part of a new flagship program in the MA Program in Sociocultural Anthropology, the Memorial Lecture honors a distinguished anthropologist working in the spirit of Columbia Anthropology alumnus Ruth Landes' (PhD 1937), whose trailblazing ethnographic publications on Ojibwa and Afro-Brazilian women and scholarly commitment to addressing gender inequality, class injustice and racism guide the program.
Kamala Visweswaran is Professor of Anthropology at Rice University, where she also works in the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies and the Medical Humanities Program. She writes and teaches in the fields algorithmic cultures, genomic governance, surveillance studies, science and technology studies, feminist theory and ethnography, transnational and diaspora studies, ethnic and conflict, human rights, colonial law, post/colonial law and literature, comparative South Asia and Middle East studies. She was a past editor of the journal Feminist Studies (2013-17) and was the North American editor of Cultural Dynamics (1998-2005). She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (Minnesota, 1994) and Un/common Cultures: Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference (Duke, 2010). She is also the editor of Perspectives on Modern South Asia (Blackwell, 2011), and Everyday Occupations: Experiencing Militarism in South Asia and the Middle East (Pennsylvania, 2013). Her current book under contract with Duke University Press is A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence. Her new work is in surveillance studies, genomics, and public health.
This event will take place in-person. Non-CUID holders require advance registration for campus access. Please contact Jeanne Roche at [email protected].
Disability accommodations can be requested by emailing [email protected]. Advance notice is necessary for some accessibility needs.
