"Pushing the Frontiers of Anthropology: Stanford Anthropology and the legacy of Sylvia Junko Yanagisako"
Speaker
Professor Sylvia Yanagisako
Date
Fri March 1st 2024, 9:00am - 6:00pm
Location
Department of Anthropology
Building 50, Room 51A
Building 50, Room 51A
Schedule
| 9:15am | Opening Welcome from Chair of Anthropology Thomas Blom Hansen |
Panel 1: 9:30am - 10:30am | Anna Tsing & Karen Ho “Among the Boys: The Constitutive Nature of Gender and Kinship in Capitalist Political Economies” |
Panel 2: 10:45am - 12:15pm | Lisa Rofel “Unsettling Theories of Power: How Sylvia Yanagisako taught me to be a Cultural Anthropologist” Tom Boellstorff “They Think the Transnational Through the National”: Discourse, Selfhood, and Other Intersections |
Panel 3: 2:00pm - 3:30pm | Mei Zhan “A theory of no theory: generating feminist sentiments and commitments”. Aisha Beliso- De Jesús “The Kinship Enterprise of Medicalizing Police Violence” |
Panel 4: 3:45pm - 5:15pm | Maron Greenleaf “Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon.” Robert Samet “A Modest Empiricism: Doing Theory Through Ethnography.” |
| 5:15pm - 6:00pm | Open Session |