Anthropology Colloquia
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Spring 2023
Wednesday, April 12 - Rachel LeeProfessor of Gender Studies & English
Director, Center for the Study of Women (2015-2020), UCLA
Chemical Entanglements: Gender and Exposure The Story of the Environmental Illness Oral History Archive
Winter 2023
Wednesday, March 8 - Triloki Nath PandeyUniversity of California, Santa Cruz
Grappling with Past, Present, and Future Archaeology, Ethnology, and Ethnography in the Pueblo Southwest
Wednesday, February 1 - Jess Auerbach
University of Cape Town
Weighting data: Hydroinformatics, drift, and the cable around the Cape
Fall 2022
Monday, November 21 - Sophie Chao
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer in the Discipline of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Time has Come to a Stop: Indigenous Lifeworlds, Socio-Environmental Change, and Plantation Temporalities on the West Papuan Resource Frontier
Monday, November 7 - Larisa Jasarevic
Honey’s on the wheels. Beekeeper’s prayers.
Monday, September 26 - Dr. Jannelle Baker
Assistant Professor, University of Athabasca
Eating in the oil sands: How Boreal foods speak to us
IN PERSON ONLY! (SPEAKER WILL PRESENT REMOTELY)
Spring 2022
Wednesday, Apirl 6 - Dr. Jonathan Rosa
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Latinx Languages & Identities Beyond Borders
Wednesday, May 18 - Dr. Emily Lim Rogers
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Brown University
Biomedicine’s Binds: ME/CFS, Patient Socialities, and Attachments to Science
Winter 2022
Wednesday, February 16th - Dr. Paulla A. Ebron
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Pest House: A figure for the Anthropocene
Wednesday, February 23rd - Dr. Rachel Watkins
Associate Professor of Anthropology, American University
Narrative as Scientific Evidence: Identifying Black Humanities in the Study and Return of Anatomical Others
Spring 2021
Wednesday, May 12th - Mayanthi Fernando
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
“Storying the NonSecular: Posthumanism, Presence, and Modalities of the Perhaps”
Wednesday, May 26th - Marina Peterson
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
A Matter of Noise
Winter 2021
Wednesday, February 24th - Laura A. Ogden
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth University
Loss and Wonder at the World’s End
Winter 2020
Wednesday, January 15th - Andrea Ballestero
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rice University
A Future History of Water: How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices
CANCELLED - Wednesday, February 5th - Shelly Errington
Professor Emerita of Anthropology, UCSC
To Make an Ethnographic Film in the 21st Century
Wednesday, March 11th - Sarah Vaughn
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Another Skin: Belonging and Climate Adaptation in Guyana
Fall 2019
Wednesday, October 16th - Viviane Vedana & Rafael Devos
Professors, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
News of Fish: Techniques and Distributed Ecological Knowledge Among Fishermen, Fish Traders, and Schools of Mullets in Brazil
Monday, October 28th - Justin Dunnavant
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
A Historical Ecology of Slavery in the Danish West Indies
Wednesday, November 6th - Tony Rudyansjah
Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Indonesia
State, Society, and Relations of Dependence Over the Long Term in North Seram, Eastern Indonesia
Wednesday, November 13th - Birgit Müller
Professor, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris
Reconnecting Through Water: Ground Water Management in a Green California Desert
Spring 2019
Wednesday, April 24th - Megan Kruse
Fiction and Creative Nonfiction Author and Instructor
Crafting Emotion
Wednesday, May 8th - Raquel Pacheco
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Santa Cruz
Gender Progress as a Pillar of Mexico’s post-agrarian Citizenship
Wednesday, May 22nd - Mark Anderson
Associate Professor, UC Santa Cruz
From Boas to Black Power, a Book Presentation
Winter 2019
Wednesday, January 23rd - Niko Besnier
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Utopia Modern: Palm Springs and the American Imaginary
Wednesday, February 13th - Noelle Stout
Associate Professor, NYU
Toward a Feminist Theory of Predatory Bureaucracy
Wednesday, March 6th - Ilana Gershon
Ruth N. Hall Professor, Indiana University Bloomington
Thinking Across Multiple Social Orders and Leaky Boundaries
Fall 2018
Wednesday, October 31st - Robert Connell
UC Presidential Postdoc, UC Davis
Survival: A Socio-Historical Approach to Resource Extraction, War and Autonomy in the Maroon Circum-Caribbean
Tuesday 5-7pm*, November 13 - Maple Razsa
Associate Professor of Global Studies, Colby College
The Maribor Uprisings: Live, participatory documentary
*Please note, this event will be on a Tuesday night, in the Namaste Lounge on campus
Monday 3:15-5:00 p.m*, December 3 - Nidhi Mahajan
Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz
Monsoon Mobilities: Labor, Debt, and Kinship in the Dhow Trade
*Please note, this event will take place on a Monday
Spring 2018
Professor of Russian and East European Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Winter 2018
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
*Special event will take place in 259 Humanities 1, 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Fall 2017
October 4 - David Bacon
Photojournalist and author
In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte
Co-hosted with Gastronomica
October 18 - Jennifer GoettAssociate Professor, Michigan State University
After Territorial Recognition: Afro-Nicaraguan Autonomy and Racialized Dispossession
Co-hosted with the Center for Emerging Worlds
October 25 - Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
Christianity as Kinship Practice: Ritual, Ethics, and Indigeneity in the Syriac Diaspora
Spring 2017
April 19 - Daniel Fisher
Associate Professor, Sociocultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Spun Dry: Mobility and Jurisdiction in Northern Australia
May 3 - Eitan Wilf
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University
Clutter: Unpacking the Stuff of Business Innovation
Senior Scholar at the School for Advanced Research
Hearing Heat: An Anthropocene Acoustemology
WINTER 2017
February 8 - Sareeta Amrute
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle
adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora
Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas, Austin
What Comes Through: The Point of Writing Ethnographically Now
FALL 2016
October 12 - Kregg HetheringtonAssociate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Concordia
The Redistribution of Killing: Plants, Labor, and Paraguay's Long Green Revolution
November 2 - Cristiana Giordano - CANCELLED
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
Shipwrecking Temporalities: The European “Refugee Crisis” and The Anti-Crisis Paradigm
November 9 - James Smith
Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
The Eyes of the World: The Mining and regulation of "Digital Materials" in the Eastern DR Congo
SPRING 2016
March 30 - Hanna Garth
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
The Politics of Adequacy: Food and Everyday Life in Post-Soviet Cuba
April 27 - Tobias Rees
Associate Professor of Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University
Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
After Ethnos
with discussants Lawrence Cohen, Professor of Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley, and Ian Whitmarsh, Associate Professor and Director of the Medical Anthropology Ph.D. Program at UC San Francisco.
May 11 - David McDermott HughesProfessor of Anthropology, Rutgers University
The Eden Problem: Utopia and Unemployment on New Energy Landscapes
May 23 - Nir Avieli (Monday)
Visiting Professor, Middlebury College
Senior Lecturer of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel
Meat Masculinity and the Logic of the Occupation: Food and Power in an Israeli Military Prison for Palestinian Detainees
Co-sponsored by:
Gastronomica, Journal of Critical Food Studies
WINTER 2016
January 20 - Lucas BessireAssistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma
The Glimpse: Remediating Indigeneity and Critique on the Ayoreo Video Project
Reception to Follow:
Please join us for a reception with Lucas Bessire at Danilyn Rutherford's house.
Co-sponsored by
February 17 - Jeffrey S. Kahn
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis
Smugglers, Migrants, and Demons: Passages of Wealth in the Haitian Caribbean
February 24 - Gil Anidjar
Professor, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Weapons of the Strong
March 9 - Abou Farman
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research
Suspended Animations: The Eschatological Gap and the Time of Life in the Secular
FALL 2015
October 7 - Mette Nordhal Svendsen
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
Head of the Centre for Medical Science and Technology Studies
Pig-Human Relations in Neonatology: Knowing and Unknowing in Resource Making and Resource Management
October 21 - Jason De León
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The Land of Open Graves: Necroviolence and the Politics of Migrant Death in the Arizona Desert
October 28 - Jerry Zee
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology and Program in Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis
Patterns in the Sand: Earthy and Political Time at China's Desert Shores
November 4 - E. Mara Green
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego
Making Sense: The Semiotics and Ethics of Deaf-Hearing Conversations in Nepal
Professor, Department of Anthropology
The Role of Ashrams in Making Mahatma Gandhi
SPRING 2015
April 15 - Juned Shaikh
Assistant Professor of History, UC Santa Cruz
Revolutionary Desires, Spatial Entanglements: Dalit Literature and Bombay City, 1950-1982
University of California President's Doctoral Fellow, UC Santa Barbara
Indigenous Hinterlands in Colonial San Francisco Bay Area, California
May 13 - Alexander S. Dent
Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies, George Washington University
Notes Toward an Anthropology of Confidence
May 27 - Sharika Thiranagama
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
"Grease Devils": Violence and Militarization in Postwar Sri Lanka
WINTER 2015
February 4 - Lucinda Ramberg
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University
Who and What is Sex for? Notes on Theogamy and the Sexuality of Religion
February 11 - Noah Salomon - Location: Humanities 1, room 202
Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College
When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere
March 4 - Duana Fullwiley
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
The New Race: Human Difference, American Genome Politics & Modern Progress
March 11 - Vanessa Agard-Jones
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Body Burdens: Soil, Sediment, and Accretive Violence in Martinique
FALL 2014
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo
October 27 - Jessica Cattelino
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Los Angeles
Unsettling Nature: An Everglades Ethnography
November 3 - James Ferguson
Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
A Rightful Share: Beyond Gift and Market in Politics of Distribution
Professor Emeritus, UC San Diego
Zig Zagging in and out of the Ethnobotanic Garden of Oaxaca
SPRING 2014
April 16 ~ Susan Visvanathan
Professor of Sociology
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Friendship and Work: Reading the Lives of Romain Rolland, Madeleine Slade and Gandhi
*April 21 ~ Lucien Castaing-Taylor
Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology, Harvard University
Director of Harvard' Sensory Ethnography Lab
Director of Harvard Film Study Lab
TBA
*7pm in Communications 150, Studio C
April 28 ~ James Battle
University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz
Bioethical Conscription: Ascriptive Inequality, Kinship, and the Moral Economy of Participation
May 12 ~ Joe Dumit
Professor of Anthropology & Director of Science and Technology Studies
University of California, Davis
Director of Science and Technology Studies
May 19 ~ Sergio Navarrete
Research Scholar, Center for Research and Superior Studies in Social Anthropology, CIESAS
Community and Citizenship: Windbands in Oaxaca, Mexico (19th to 21st Century
WINTER 2014
January 27 ~ Seth Holmes
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
& Graduate Program in Medical Anthropology
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers and
the Naturalization of Inequalities in the United States
February 3 ~ Sarah Bakker Kellogg
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley
The Ethics of the Singing Subject: Music, Multiculturalism,
and the Middle Eastern Christianity in the Netherlands
February 10 ~ Micha Rahder
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
Mapping Gobernabilidad in Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve:
Conservation Knowledge and Action on a Troubled Landscape
February 24 ~ Manduhai Buyandelger
Associate Professor of Anthropology, MIT
Millennial Haunting: The social life of ghosts, shamanism, and memory against culture in postsocialist Mongolia
March 3 ~ David Ransel
Professor Emeritus, Indiana University
They Are Taking That Air From Us.” The Sale of Russian National Heritage and Recreational Sites to Private Developers and the Emergence of Civil Society Opposition
March 10 ~ Smadar Lavie
Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Visiting Professor, Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century, University College Cork
Wrapped in the Flag of Israel
Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
FALL 2013
October 28th ~ William Mazzarella
Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Totalitarian Tears, or Does the Crowd Really Mean It?
November 4th ~ Alpa Shah
Reader, Department of Anthropology
London School of Economics
Revolution and Social Transformation:
The Maoist Movement in India
November 18th ~ Vicente Rafael
Professor of History
University of Washington
The Wars of Translation:
American, English, Colonial Education and Tagalog Slang, 1920s - 1970s
December 2nd ~ Yarimar Bonilla
Assistant Professor
Rutgers University
Non-Sovereign Futures?
French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of Disenchantment
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 Political 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
Associate 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
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