Ethnographic Engagements
Events take place from 12:00–1:30 pm in Social Sciences 1, 261, unless noted otherwise.
Light refreshments will be provided and you are welcome to bring a lunch.
Fall 2019
The following events will take place from 3:30–5 pm in Social Sciences 1, Ethnographic Library, Room 328
October 21
Graduate Student Conference Practice
Darcey Evans and Hafsa Mohamed
November 18
Luz Cordoba (Jess Madison-Pískata as discussant)
November 25
Producing Lombe Junction: The Relationality of Infrasturcture(s) and Patterns of Reconstruction in Rural Post-War Angola
Aharon de Grassi, San Jose State University's Department of Geography (Discussant Alirio Karina)
Spring 2019
May 2
Species Cleansing: Cultural Pattern of Rat Control Practices
Gabriela Jarzebowska, PhD candidate at University of Warsaw & Fulbright Fellow at Wesleyan University
May 31
Evading Guanxi and Evading Vulnerability in Bureaucratic Practice
Tim McLellan, Postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Chinese Studies at UC Berkeley
Winter 2019
Feb 8
After Forestry: What's a Heterogenous Forest?
Jon Nyquist, PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Cruz
Fall 2018
October 18
EE presentation practice for grads (highly encouraged for all students)
November 1
Robert Connell, UC Presidential Postdoc from UC Davis
November 19
Can Dalyan, Denison University
Spring 2018
May 10
Maria A. Guzman-Gallegos, Department of Anthropology, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oslo
Person Multiple, Undesired Sameness and Negated Exposures in Amazonian Sites of Extraction
Discussant: Nancy Chen
Winter 2018
March 9
Lesley Green, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Cape Town and Founding Director: Environmental Humanities South
Chapter from forthcoming book, Life: Environmental Sciences and Decoloniality in South Africa
Discussant: Kristina Lyons
Fall 2017
December 7
By Chava Contreras, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department
Killer Kats and Maruchan Devils: Chemicals and Food as Environmental Epigenetic Triggers
Discussant: Renya Ramirez
Spring 2017
April 6Anna Weichselbraun, Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
The Order of Nuclear Things: Bureaucratic Objectivity at the IAEA
Discussant: Andrew Mathews
Winter 2017
March 9Jeffrey Omari, PhD Candidate, Anthropology Department, UCSC
Digital Access amongst the Marginalized: Democracy through Internet Governance in Rio de Janiero
Discussant: Mark Massoud
Spring 2016
April 28Emily Cohen Ibañez, Adjunct Professor, Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs, Science and Justice Research Center, UCSC
Military Utopias of Mind and Machine
Discussant: Danilyn Rutherford
Winter 2016
March 10Sarah Kelman, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UCSC
Fall 2015
November 12Aja Smith, PhD Candidate, Department of Marketing and Management, University of Southern Denmark
A Whole Lot of Words Get in the Way: On Becoming a Facilitator of Horse-Assisted Leadership Training
Discussant: Danilyn Rutherford, Professor and Chair, UCSC Department of Anthropology
Spring 2015
May 28
Natalie Baloy, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Collaborative Research for an Equitable California (CCREC), UC Santa Cruz
Coffee Table Books, Souvenirs, and a Bit of Guilt
Discussant: Jon Daehnke, Assistant Professor, UCSC Anthropology Department
Winter 2015
February 27
Cecily Engelhart
Siouxtable Food: A documentary film
Discussant: Renya Ramirez
Fall 2014
October 30
Aaron Montoya
Dance and Nakedness: communicating a threshold of deprivation in the new service economy
Discussant: Ted Warburton
November 20
Cecilia Guadalupe Salinas
The Land Without Evil: con-temporalities in the context of nature politics in Misiones, Argentina
Discussant: Mark Anderson
Spring 2013
May 9
Dolly Kikon (Doctoral Candidate, Stanford University)
Seasonal Friendships: An Ethnography of Coal Traders in the Foothills of Northeast India
Discussant: Suraiya Jetha
May 23
Peter Leykam (Doctoral Candidate, UCSC)
Uncreative Spaces: The Social Life of Knock Off Cell Phones
Discussant: Marianne Lien
Katja Brøgger Jensen
Aarhus University
TBA
Winter 2013
January 31
Christian Palmer
Discussant: Don Brenneis
February 21
Special EE event in conjunction with the Sawyer Seminar and Strathern/Haraway lecture
TBD
Spring 2012
April 12
Frida Hastrup (Anthropology, University of Copenhagen/UCSC)
Encounters on the Coast: Introducing an Analogue Anthropology
Discussant: Vivian Choi (Anthropology, UC Davis)
April 26
Valentina Napolitano (Anthropology, University of Toronto/UC Berkeley)
Toward an Anthropology of Traces
Discussant: Danilyn Rutherford (Anthropology, UCSC)
May 10
Rosa Ficek (Anthropology, UCSC)
Migration and Mobility Along the Pan American Highway in Panama's Darien Gap
Discussant: Mark Anderson (Anthropology, UCSC)
Winter 2012
February 9
Stephanie Mc Callum
The Hyperreal Refugee: Politics of Truth and Suspicion in Argentina
Discussant: Mayanthi Fernando
February 16
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 15
Katy Overstreet
The Possibilities of Happiness: California Happy Cows, Wisconsin Farmers, and the Biopolitics of Production
Discussant: TBA
Fall 2011
October 6
Professor Mayanthi Fernando
Discussant: David Marriott
November 3
Peter Lutz
Careveillance of Aging Bodies as Proxemic Diffraction
Discussant: Jason Alley
