Colloquium

Upcoming Events

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
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

Past Events

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
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
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
April
14

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

Date
Monday, April 14, 2025, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
Location:
Building 50, 51A
**This event is open to those of the anthropology community ONLY**
Speaker
Courtney Handman
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