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Professor Rosalind Morris has written a pandemic-themed poem published in South Africa's major independent newspaper Daily Maverick. Read the thought-provoking piece here-- https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-04-30-unlocked-poems-for-critical-times-part-nine/
Lesley A Sharp has been awarded the 2020 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
For more information, please visit https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/lesley-a-sharp/.
Elizabeth A. Povinelli is 2019-20 Distinguished International Visitor at the Department of Geography, Durham University.
States of Extreme:
Body Politics, Quick Takes, States of Exception
The Department congratulates Professor Lesley Sharp for receiving the Royal Anthropological Institute Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems. The award recognizes Professor Sharp's longstanding contributions to anthropological studies of bioethics, and in particular, commends her recent publication, Animal Ethos: The Morality of Human-Animal Encounters in Experimental Lab Science (2019). The RAI noted that the publication "broadened the scope of bioethics...by developing new understandings of the morality of care in animal experimentation and interspecies relationships…
Rosalind Morris has been appointed Research Associate at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the Witwatersrand. The position will extend for 3 years.
The Department congratulates Vanessa Agard-Jones for winning a Lenfest "Great Teacher" Award for the year 2020-2021. Established in 2005 with a $12 million gift from the late University Trustee Gerry Lenfest (’58 LAW, ’09 HON) the awards “honor exceptional instruction and scholarship, with a special emphasis on the mentoring of students in the arts and sciences” and carry a $25,000 stipend for each of three years.
Elizabeth Povinelli's video "The Origins of Bigfoot" is featured as the Winter Special on Vdrome until 12 January 2020. Watch the video at http://www.vdrome.org.
Professor Brian Larkin will present the keynote lecture, "Generators and the Production of Technical Systems" at the Media Infrastructures in the Middle East conference, American University of Beirut. The conference will be held January 9-11, 2020.
Lila Abu-Lughod will deliver the lecture "Security and the Political Geographies of Gender Violence" as a part of the Liberal Studies Department Global Lecture Series.
Tuesday, December 3, 5:30 p.m.
NYU Liberal Studies
Hemmerdinger Hall, Silver Center
31 Washington Place
In the course of the first two After Progress symposia it has become apparent that, rather than an idea to be criticised, “progress” names instead an entire array of capitalist, colonial and extractivist operations. It is a world-ploughing machine that suffuses the very modern mode of evaluation from which the values of global development, infinite growth, technological innovation, and salvage accumulation are derived. And it is one which simultaneously infuses and animates well-meaning dreams of cosmopolitan redemption, and stories of innocence and reconciliation. Yet, despite its poisonous,…
Cosmopolis #2: rethinking the human
October 23–December 23, 2019
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris
France
www.cosmopolis.centrepompidou.fr
The platform
Cosmopolis focuses on research-based and collaborative art practices, constructing bridges between new forms of creative experimentation and critical vocabularies from contemporary theory, between reconceived geographies and histories. Through residencies, exhibitions, discursive programs and publications, it engages with artists whose work is concerned with the production of relationships…
Audra Simpson will deliver the General Anthropology Division Distinguished Lecture, “Empire of Feelings" for the American Anthropological Society meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia on November 22, 2019.
David Scott will present his lecture, "A Sense of Displacement: Stuart Hall's Art of Living" at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, Legon.
Friday, 15 November 2019 @ 11:00am
Discussion series titled “Exploring the Seventh Continent”, to be held on the opening and closing weeks of the Biennial on 14 September and 9 November 2019, aims to initiate dialogue between the anthropological approach and artistic point of view by bringing together philosophers and biennial artists. Among the distinguished participants of the discussion series are; Assoc. Prof. Dr Ayfer Bartu Candan, known for her work on urban anthropology; Assoc. Prof. Dr Emanuele Coccia with his research on eco-politics, introducing the vegetal sphere into philosophy; Assoc. Prof. Dr Jennifer Deger who…