Colloquia are held Mondays, 3:30-5:00pm in 261 Social Sciences 1, unless otherwise noted.

SPRING 2013

April 15th ~ Iveta Hajdakova
PhD Student at the Institute of Postgraduate Study Programmes
Faculty of Humanities, Charles University
TBD

April 22nd ~ Jessica Bissett Perea
UC Presidential Postdoc, UCB
Soundscapes of Blackness and Indigeneity in Alaska

April 29th ~ Keith Murphy
Assistant Professor, UC Irvine
Enregistering Design 

May 6th ~ Karen-Sue Taussig
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota
Science, Salvation, and the Politics of Potentiality: 
Mobilizing Social Action for New Medical Technologies

May 13th ~ Ma Vang
UC Presidential Postdoc, UC Riverside
The Terrorist-Ally:
Hmong American History and the Case against General Vang Pao

May 20th ~ Gastón Gordillo
Associate Professor, University of British Colombia
Constellations of Rubble: The Generativity of Destruction

June 3rd ~ Fenella Cannell
Reader in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics
TBD 

Winter 2013

January 28th ~ Jeffrey Schonberg
Graduate Fellow, UCSF/UCB
Seeing Through Violence: Homicide in West Oakland, California 

February 25th ~ Alessandro Duranti
Professor of Anthropology & Dean of Social Sciences, UCLA
Creativity Under Pressure: Jazz Socialization Across Settings

March 4th ~ Ashley Carse
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Whittier College
The Machete and the Freighter: 
Exploring Policital Ecology and Infrastructure at the Panama Canal 

March 18th ~ Jon Daehnke
Visiting Assistant Professor, UCSC
Places of Protocol:
Memory, Archaeology, and Colonial Legacies on the Columbia River

Fall 2012
October 8th ~ Reed Malcom and Kate Marshall
Editors, University of California Press
The State of Book Publishing, Scholarly or Otherwise

October 15th ~ Karen Barad
Professor of Feminist Studies, UCSC
Ma(r)king Time: Remembering the Future 

October 22nd ~ Tanya Luhrmann
Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Hearing Voices in San Mateo, Accra and Chennai

October 29th ~ Shannon Dawdy
Assoicate Professor of Anthropology & Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Antiques and the Old Idea of the Fetish

November 5th ~ Marianne Lien 
Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
Becoming Sentient; Choreographies of Care in Salmon Farming