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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…
We are constantly hearing that humans face an epochal moment – that, if we’re not at the end, we’re inching close. And it’s not just one sort of ending. For many people, human beings and their earth seem to be close tomany modes of ending. We are hearing conversations about the end of the EU, the end of migrants’ rights and of liberal democracy, the end of gender, sexual, and racial justice; the end of humanity; the end of the planet. So what’s next?
Anthropologist and film director, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, one of the foremost thinkers in contemporary anthropology…
Audra Simpson will deliver the lecture “Savage States, Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow” to the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration at Yale University on October 10, 2019.
1968–2018: Historia colectiva de medio siglo—edited by Claudio Lomnitz and published by the National University of Mexico City—has received the Antonio García Cubas Award, given by the Instituto Nacional de Anthropología e Historia (INAH). The publication commemorates fifty years of the 1968 movement, and won the award in the category of best publication for a general audience.
Claudio Lomnitz named "Distinguished Alumnus" (Egresado Distinguido) of his alma mater, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City.
La Gran Familia, a play written by Claudio Lomnitz and coauthored by Alberto Lomnitz, was nominated for the Premios Metropolitanos Awards in the categories of Best Original Music and Lyrics in a Musical, Best Leading Actress in a Musical, and Best Supporting Actress in a Musical.
Professor Lila Abu-Lughod is set to deliver the lecture, "Gender, Violence, Security" on Friday, November 1st as part of the B. N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture series at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi.
Elizabeth Svoboda talks with Professor Catherine Fennell about mixed-income housing, the (lack of) development of "The Plan" to desegregate Chicago's neighborhoods, and what communities owe to their constituents.