Free of conceptual limitations, the Sheldon Scheps Memorial Lectures and Workshops Series is a platform for graduate students to discuss their works-in-progress across theoretical and area-specific lines, and to invite guest speakers. It prides itself on keen and useful jovial discussion.
Scheps Workshops for the 2017-2018 academic year included:
Previous Scheps Workshops
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sarah Vaughn | Muddled Facts
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Erin Yerby | Spectral Bodies of Evidence
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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
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
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
Joel Lee | Caste Gods Old and New
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Xenia Cherkaev | Letun
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
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
Guangtian Ha | Inhabiting the (Un-)Seen: Islam Misrecognized
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Lisa Hajjar | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
H. M. Bizri | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Room 501, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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
Joel Lee | Sensuous Caste
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library. Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Anschaire Aveved | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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
Xenia Cherkaev, Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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
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
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
Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Jason Pine | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Vanessa Agard-Jones | Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in Martinique
Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Yarinar Bonilla | Beyond the Paradox of Sovereignty
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Yannis Hamilakis | A Multi-temporal Archaeology: Sensoriality and the Ontology of Duration
Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Madeleine Elish | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Tamar Blickstein | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Easton Anspach | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Christopher Santiago | The Lady of the Blue Lagoon
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Stacy Lo | Scheps Memorial Lecture
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
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
John Molenda | Feng Shui and Spatiality
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
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
Erin Yerby | The Body Dis-placed
Sheldon Scheps Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Fatima Mojaddedi | On Suicide Bombers
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
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
Amiel Bize | Road Agents
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Natacha Nsabimana | Interring the Dead, Unearthing the Nation
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
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
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
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
Firat Kurt | Forms of Authoritarianism in Turkey
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Natacha Nsabimana | We Were Tricked
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Aarti Sethi | The Ethical Economy of the Peasant
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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
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
Samantha Fox | Retrofitting the Socialist Housing Complex
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
6:10 PM - 8:00 PM
Anastasia Piliavsky | Hierarchy as Hope
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Patrick Nason | On the Calling of Sharks
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
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
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
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
Fernando Montero Castrillo | Provincializing Prohibition
Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM