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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.
Dr. Talal Asad, author of the iconic Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, will teach an "Exploring the Idea of Secular Reason" course in the fall.
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century is a history of Columbia University anthropologist Franz Boas and his students Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria, and Zora Neale Hurston.
Anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli will be 2020 Theorist in Residence at CalArts in the MA in Aesthetics and Politics Program.
Congratulations to PhD student Gustav Kalm for receiving the Chateaubriand Fellowship, awarded by the Embassy of France in the United States!
Congratulations to recent graduate Aarti Sethi for recently being appointed as a College Fellow in Anthropology at Harvard University!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Nile Davies for being awarded an IRCPL Summer Fellowship!
Congratulations to PhD candidate Firat Kurt for being awarded the Polonsky Fellowship at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem!