Ethnographic Engagements
Thursdays, 12:00 noon - 1:30pm in the Ethnographic Library, 328, Social Sciences 1
Spring 2013
May 9th
Dolly Kikon (Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University)
Seasonal Friendships: An Ethnography of Coal Traders in the Foothills of Northeast India
Discussant: Suraiya Jetha
May 23rd
Peter Leykam (Doctoral Candidate, UCSC)
Uncreative Spaces: The Social Life of Knock Off Cell Phones
Discussant: Marianne Lien
June 6th
Katja Brøgger Jensen
Aarhus University
TBA
Winter 2013
January 31st
Christian Palmer with Discussant, Don Brenneis
February 21st
Special EE event in conjunction with the Sawyer Seminar and Strathern/Haraway lecutre
March 14th
TBD
April 12th
Frida Hastrup (Anthropology, University of Copenhagen/UCSC) - "Encounters on the Coast: Introducing an Analogue Anthropology"
Discussant: Vivian Choi (Anthropology, UC Davis)
April 26th
Valentina Napolitano (Anthropology, University of Toronto/UC Berkeley) - "Toward an Anthropology of Traces"
Discussant: Danilyn Rutherford (Anthropology, UCSC)
May 10th
Rosa Ficek (Anthropology, UCSC) - "Migration and Mobility Along the Pan American Highway in Panama's Darien Gap"
Discussant: Mark Anderson (Anthropology, UCSC)
February 9th: Stephanie Mc Callum - The Hyperreal Refugee: Politics of Truth and Suspicion in Argentina"
Discussant: Mayanthi Fernando
February 16th: Matthew Wolf-Meyer & Chris Cochran
"The Braid of Minor Science and Literature: Thresholds of the Reproductive and Revolutionary Sciences"
Discussant: Wlad Godzich
March 8: Michael Atkins
"Knowing where to go and finding what you are looking for: The Emergence and Persistence of
Places of Anonymous Sexual Encounter and Street Sex Work Between Men"
Discussant: Marcia Ochoa
March 15th: Katy Overstreet - "The Possibilities of Happiness:
California Happy Cows, Wisconsin Farmers, and the Biopolitics of Production"
Discussant: TBA
Fall 2011
October 6th: Professor Mayanthi Fernando
Discussant: David Marriott
November 3rd: Peter Lutz - "Careveillance of Aging Bodies as Proxemic Diffraction"
Discussant: Jason Alley