PhD Student Jonathan Norris hosts book talk with Marwan Kaabour on his new edited book: The Queer Arab Glossary
PhD candidate Johnathan Norris hosts a book talk on October 8 with Marwan Kaabour on his new edited book: The Queer Arab Glossary at the Geddes Center. Kaabour’s book compiles key Arabic words on queer life, broken into specific sections based on Arabic dialects, vignettes and stories written by Arab queer people throughout the Middle […]
Contemporary Chinese Culture Lecture: Dr. Yunxiang Yan, The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of Family Ideology in Contemporary China
Contemporary Chinese Culture Lecture was held on Monday, Sept. 23rd with Dr. Yunxiang Yan, professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. “The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of Family Ideology in Contemporary China” The Chinese family ideology, broadly defined as the widely accepted ideas and ideals regarding the family institution, family relations, and family life, […]
Anthropology Department Talks 2024-2025: Dr. Rachel Hall-Clifford, A Method in Three Stories: Ethical Reckonings with the Lives of Data and the Case for Co-Design
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc, is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Departments of Sociology and Global Health at Emory University. She is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Talk Abstract: A method in three stories: Ethical reckonings with the […]
Prof. Joanna Davidson at Fostering Community in the Classroom: Strategies and Reflections
Discover fresh insights on Fostering Community in the Classroom: Strategies and Reflections with panelist Joanna Davidson at BUFacultyForum2024! Register now: http://spr.ly/6019kf8yP
Annual Fredrik Barth Lecture: ‘Stretching the Swamp’ with Dr. Anna Tsing
Join us Wednesday, March 27 from 3-5 PM for the Annual Fredrik Barth Lecture in CDS 1750, reception to follow. This year’s speaker, Dr. Anna Tsing, is a professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. This lecture takes listeners to the west coast of Papua to consider more-than-human livelihoods nurtured in mud — and the […]
Prof. Robert Hefner Speaks at Book Talk: Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics
Welcome to a book talk for our very own Prof. Robert Hefner. Islam and Citizenship in Indonesia: Democracy and the Quest for an Inclusive Public Ethics is just out from Routledge, and the event will include comments from the renown political theorist Andrew March. Wednesday, Feb 28th from 4-5:30pm in the Eilts room. Register here /cura/2024/01/30/book-talk-islam-and-citizenship-in-indonesia-democracy-and-the-quest-for-an-inclusive-public-ethics/
Department Talk Series: Dr. Amy Moran-Thomas
Please join us on Wednesday, February 28th from 12:20-1:10pm for a Department Talk by Dr. Amy Moran-Thomas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. The talk will take place in CAS 426 at 725 Commonwealth ave. Oil in Stereo: Ancestry Through Infrastructure, an ethnography of oil histories in western Pennsylvania, brings the texture of a family album to the interior […]
Prof. Annemarie Samuels Gives Department Talk: Narrating Immanent Finitude: Silence, Ambivalence, and an Ethics of Care at the End of Life in Indonesia
Narrating Immanent Finitude: Silence, Ambivalence, and an Ethics of Care at the End of Life in Indonesia “In this talk I reflect on the ethical work of living with life-limiting illness and immanent death in conditions of marginalization. While such ethical work may include activist attempts to voice the silenced conditions of inequality, I suggest […]
EVENT: Collaborative indigenous Archaeology at Mohegan
Prof. Ben Finkel delivers Anthro Department Talk on “The Challenges of Senescence for Wild Male Chimpanzees”
Longevity is a hallmark of human evolution. Yet little comparative work has investigated aging primates in the wild, and the uniqueness of our aging phenotype remains unclear. In our closest and particularly long-lived relative, chimpanzees, old males reproduce less and have lower dominance rank, but maintain certain aspects of body condition and continue to sire […]