Past Scheps Memorial Lectures and Workshops

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:

Event poster for Anastasia Piliavsky's "Hierarchy as Hope"

"Hierarchy as Hope" by Anastasia Piliavsky

"Hierarchy as Hope" by Anastasia Piliavsky

Event Poster for Patrick Nason's "On the Calling of Sharks"

"On the Calling of Sharks" by Patrick Nason

"On the Calling of Sharks" by Patrick Nason

Event poster for Fernando Montero Castillo's "Matrilocal Military: The War on Drugs in the Moskitia"

"Matrilocal Military: The War on Drugs in the Moskitia" by Fernando Montero Castillo

"Matrilocal Military: The War on Drugs in the Moskitia" by Fernando Montero Castillo

Event poster for Naeem Mohaiemen's "I Used to Think Art Is a Gift, Now I Am Not so Sure"

"I Used to Think Art Is a Gift, Now I Am Not so Sure" by Naeem Mohaiemen

"I Used to Think Art Is a Gift, Now I Am Not so Sure" by Naeem Mohaiemen

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Sarah Vaughn | Muddled Facts

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Erin Yerby | Spectral Bodies of Evidence

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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Joel Lee | Caste Gods Old and New

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Xenia Cherkaev | Letun

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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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

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Guangtian Ha | Inhabiting the (Un-)Seen: Islam Misrecognized

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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Lisa Hajjar | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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H. M. Bizri | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Room 501, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Joel Lee | Sensuous Caste

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library. Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Anschaire Aveved | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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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

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Xenia Cherkaev, Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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Ana Miljanic | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Jason Pine | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:30 PM - 2:30 PM

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Vanessa Agard-Jones | Body Burdens: Toxic Endurance and Decolonial Desire in Martinique

Room 465, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Yarinar Bonilla | Beyond the Paradox of Sovereignty

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Yannis Hamilakis | A Multi-temporal Archaeology: Sensoriality and the Ontology of Duration

Room 963, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Madeleine Elish | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Tamar Blickstein | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Easton Anspach | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Christopher Santiago | The Lady of the Blue Lagoon

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Stacy Lo | Scheps Memorial Lecture

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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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

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John Molenda | Feng Shui and Spatiality

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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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

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Erin Yerby | The Body Dis-placed

Sheldon Scheps Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

4:10 PM - 6:00 PM

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Fatima Mojaddedi | On Suicide Bombers

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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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

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Amiel Bize | Road Agents

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Natacha Nsabimana | Interring the Dead, Unearthing the Nation

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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Firat Kurt | Forms of Authoritarianism in Turkey

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Natacha Nsabimana | We Were Tricked

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Aarti Sethi | The Ethical Economy of the Peasant

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

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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

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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

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Samantha Fox | Retrofitting the Socialist Housing Complex

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

6:10 PM - 8:00 PM

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Anastasia Piliavsky | Hierarchy as Hope

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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Patrick Nason | On the Calling of Sharks

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

12:10 PM - 2:00 PM

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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

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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

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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

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Fernando Montero Castrillo | Provincializing Prohibition

Sheldon Scheps Memorial Library, Room 457, Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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