Colloquium

Past Events

May
22

Hamites, Nilotes, and True Negroes: Charles Seligman, Africa, and the Racist Roots of Anthropology

Date
Monday, May 22, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Jemima Pierre - Professor, UCLA, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology,
May
8

Solo Mothers and New Formations of Collective Life in São Paulo's Peripheries

Date
Monday, May 8, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Teresa Caldeira - Professor, Department of City & Regional Planning, UC Berkeley
April
24

Africa to the Rescue? On the Cultural Politics of Interventionism in Somalia

Date
Monday, April 24, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Samar Al-Bulushi- Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
April
17

Song and Subterfuge: Caste in the Devotional Music Industry

Date
Monday, April 17, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Joel Lee- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Williams College
April
10

Feasting on Debt: Sri Lanka’s Plantations and the Errata of Fantasy

Date
Monday, April 10, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Mythri Jegathesan- Associate Professor, Anthropology, Santa Clara University
March
6

Criminalizing Care and Neglect in Sexual Assault Sentencing: Race and Punishment in Milwaukee, WI.

Date
Monday, March 6, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Sameena Mulla - Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University
February
27

Anthropology and Theology: For a Theopolitical Relation

Date
Monday, February 27, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Valentina Napolitano - Professor of Anthropology at University of Toronto
January
30

Care and state: A theoretical approach and an example from the Hungarian countryside

Date
Monday, January 30, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) & Zoom
Speaker
Tatjana Thelen - Professor of Anthropology at University of Vienna
December
2

Annual Lecture on Social and Racial Justice

Date
Friday, December 2, 2022, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room) and Zoom
Speaker
Dána-Ain Davis - Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of New York
November
14

The Death of Misunderstanding

Date
Monday, November 14, 2022, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
Speaker
Fatima Mojaddedi - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Davis