Colloquium

Upcoming Events

April
14

For Every Species, a Language: AI, Interspecies Communication, and the Democratization of Language to Nonhuman Worlds

Date
Monday, April 14, 2025, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Courtney Handman
April
28

Capitalism and the Semiotics of Corporate Personhood in a Law of Natural Persons

Date
Monday, April 28, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Matthew Hull
May
12

Thus Will the Chaos of Nations be Gradually Resolved Into Order. Writing, Language, and a Persistent Search for Containment

Date
Monday, May 12, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Keith Murphy
May
19

[COLLOQUIUM ONLY] Un-captive Listening: From Machine Translation to Machine Transduction in an Era of Expansive AI

Date
Monday, May 19, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Beth Semel

Past Events

March
10

[POSTPONED] Countering Reproductive Genocide in Gaza: Palestinian Women's Testimonies

Date
Monday, March 10, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Sarah Ihmoud
February
24

Settler Ontocide

Date
Monday, February 24, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Severin Fowles
February
10

Frequency: Black Women in the Atlantic

Date
Monday, February 10, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Christen Smith
January
27

World-building Amidst Climate Instability: Geoaesthetic Practices in Ancash, Peru

Date
Monday, January 27, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Beth Grávalos
January
13

Angola Prison’s Black Ecologies

Date
Monday, January 13, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Justin Hosbey
November
11

The Public Wages of Whiteness: Hardship Compensation and Settler Kinship in the Canary Islands

Date
Monday, November 11, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Eda Pepi
October
28

Allah's Ninety-Nine Names: Towards an Ethnography of God

Date
Monday, October 28, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Amira Mittermaier
October
21

After Reality in Rio de Janeiro: Gods and Snitches in the Wargaming Encounter

Date
Monday, October 21, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Alessandro Angelini
October
14

Divine Presences and Absences in the Anthropology of Islam

Date
Monday, October 14, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
Speaker
Charles Hirschkind
October
7

Anthropology After AI

Date
Monday, October 7, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50,51A
Speaker
Morten Axel Pedersen