Colloquium

Upcoming Events

May
18

"We Don’t Need ‘Caste,’ We Have Religion:” Siddis, Claims-Making, and their Potential Refractions in Contemporary Hyderabad, India

Date
Monday, May 18, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Gayatri Reddy

Past Events

May
11

The Palestinian Lives of Property

Date
Monday, May 11, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Paul Kohlbry
April
27

There Are No Slaves in the New China: BDSM in China and Taiwan

Date
Monday, April 27, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
J. Lorand Matory
April
13

From Urban Erasure to Rural Reorganisation: Status, Survival, and Rural Mobilisation Among Mumbai's Ex-Millworkers

Date
Monday, April 13, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Sumeet Mhaskar
March
9

Severing Relation: Haitian ‘Criminal Deportees,’ Torture, and the Spatialized Ethics of Removal

Date
Monday, March 9, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Jeffrey Kahn
February
23

Opacity in Gaza: Intimate Relations as Resistance

Date
Monday, February 23, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Hadeel Assali
February
9

In the Open Time of Dispossession: Camp, Colony, Palestine

Date
Monday, February 9, 2026, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Nasser Abourahme
November
10

What is an Ethnographic Interview: Thoughts at the Intersection of Anthropology and Psychiatry

Date
Monday, November 10, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Bhrigupathi Singh
October
20

Malevolence and Modernity in the Psychiatric Clinic and Indigenous Worlds of South India

Date
Monday, October 20, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Andrew Willford
October
13

Caring For Memories: Culture, Loss, Memory, Mourning and Revitalization

Date
Monday, October 13, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Arthur Kleinman
October
6

A Somewhat Untraditional “Trad” Wife: The Case of the Malagasy Women’s Quest for Upward Mobility Through Transnational Marriage to French Men

Date
Monday, October 6, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
**This event is open to those of the Stanford community ONLY**
Speaker
Jennifer Cole