Colloquium

Upcoming Events

February
26

Colloquium Series: Dr. Chloe Ahmann

Date
Monday, February 26, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
March
4

Colloquium Series: Dr. Michael Lempert

Date
Monday, March 4, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
March
11

Colloquium Series: Dr. LaShandra Sullivan

Date
Monday, March 11, 2024, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)

Past Events

November
13

Colloquium: Boas’s Most Difficult Problem of Anthropology: Documenting and Explaining Patterns in Human Culture, with speaker Manvir Singh, UC Davis

Date
Monday, November 13, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
Speaker
Manvir Singh- UC Davis
November
6

Annual Lecture on Social & Racial Justice, Relational Repair: Black Life Beyond Injury

Date
Monday, November 6, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
Speaker
Jovan Lewis- UC Berkeley
October
23

Colloquium: Cooperation without Submission: Jurisdictions of Significance in Native Nation-U.S. Relations, Justin Richland

Date
Monday, October 23, 2023, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Department of Anthropology
Main Quad - Building 50
Room 50-51A (Colloquium Room)
Speaker
Justin Richland- UC Irvine
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