Dissertation Defense

Past Events

December
3

An Archaeology of Tinkering: The Resilience of a Fragile Technology in Turpan, Xinjiang

Date
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 8:30am - 9:30am
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Haoran Shi
June
3

Production After Harm: A Political Economy of Resource Conflict in Peru

Date
Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Adela Zhang
May
30

Designing Cyborg Consciousness: How Smartphones Transform Perception, Embodiment, and Cognition

Date
Friday, May 30, 2025, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Location:
Building 40, Room 41J
Speaker
Alberto Navarro
March
4

Psychic States: The Judicialization of Fear in U.S. Asylum Law

Date
Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Location:
Building 50, Room 51A
Speaker
Valentina Ramia
October
18

Patria Y Muerte: Growing Old in Contemporary Cuba

Date
Friday, October 18, 2024, 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Room 50, 51A
Speaker
Elix Colon
June
13

The Affective Spatialization of Urban Politics: Social Movements, Urban Development/Environment, and Post-Handover Hong Kong

Date
Thursday, June 13, 2024, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 52H
Speaker
Shan Huang
June
4

Refining Politics: Oil Development, Environmental Activism, and Political Improvisation in Rural Malaysia

Date
Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Building 40, 41J
Speaker
Chun-Yu Wang (Jo Ann)
June
4

Beyond Legality: Unveiling the Mauritius Slave Trade Through a Comparative Analysis of Shipwrecks

Date
Tuesday, June 4, 2024, 9:00am - 10:00am
Location:
Zoom
Speaker
Stefania Manfio
May
31

Addiction, Social Psychiatry, and Exhausted Life in Japan

Date
Friday, May 31, 2024, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Location:
Building 50, 52H
Speaker
Gokce Atici
May
30

Interspecies Empire: Animals in the Northern Provinces of the Wari Empire (Modern Peru)

Date
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 9:30am - 10:30am
Location:
Terrace Room
Building 460, Room 426
Speaker
Weronika Tomczyk