September 25, 2024

Student Conference, Reading Groups

Students will be introduced to the annual student-led conference hosted by the Anthropology department.

October 2, 2024

MA Portfolio: Informational Workshop

October 9, 2024

Joelle Vailly (NSSR Visiting Scholar) on interdisciplinarity between social and biological sciences

October 16, 2024

PhD Statement of Purpose Workshop

October 23, 2024

Anya Bernstein – Pleistocene Park: Engineering Wilderness in a More-than-Human World

Using the approach of multispecies ethnography, in attending to the nonhuman agencies at work in the project, Anya Bernstein argues that Pleistocene Park differs from other rewilding projects in emerging as a survivalist project with a distinct anthropocentric bent.

August 28, 2024

Joint Faculty/Student Welcome Party!

February 22, 2023

Public Talk / Leah Horgan – Becoming Data-Driven: Designing, Administering, and Resisting the Smart City

Leah Horgan is a critical informatics scholar and designer whose work examines the intersection of technology, design, and urbanism.

February 27, 2023

Public Talk / Alexandra Lippman – Sonic Sovereignty: Amplifying, Legislating, and Pacifying Funk in Rio de Janeiro

By carefully attending to the regulation and production of funk in Rio, Alexandra shows how controlling public sound is central to sovereignty, power, and the production of difference.

March 1, 2023

Public Talk / Dana Burton – On the Edges of Evidence: Opening up Scientific Formation through Astrobiology

Burton's research sits at the intersection of anthropology of outer space, science and technology studies, history of the American space sector, and multispecies scholarship. Her fieldwork follows scientists, documents, microbes, and machines across Earth and beyond.

March 6, 2023

Public Talk / Christien Tompkins – “Who Wants to Be Human Anyway?”: Design, Race, and Anti-Blackness in New Orleans’ Privatized Education System

Christien Philmarc Tompkins' work is broadly concerned with the critical ethnographic study of how technocratic interventions into inequality reproduce racialized governance in the United States.

February 8, 2023

Public Talk / Jacquelin Kataneksza – Cross-Border (Im)mobilities: The Spatial Politics of Zimbabwean Provisional Practices

Jackeline is a Zimbabwean scholar whose work explores historical and contemporary formations of subaltern subjectivities and how inter-temporal intersections have been operationalized to disrupt dominant power structures.

January 25, 2023

Public Talk / Columba Gonzalez-Duarte – “With the future on our backs.” The tied mobilities of monarch and human migrants

Columba explores the monarch butterfly’s tri-national conservation dynamics, exploring connections between NAFTA’s agri-food industry, labour migration, and monarch decline.

January 30, 2023

Public Talk / Alize Arican – Figuring It Out: Caring Toward Migrant Futures in Istanbul

Alize's work centers on urban life, temporality, migration, racialization, and care.

February 1, 2023

Public Talk / Nakaya Flotte – Sanctuaries In transit: Trans Queer Migration and Grassroots Humanitarian Care in the Migrant Routes from Central America to Mexico and the United States

Nakaya's ethnographic project consisted in over two years of field ethnographic research in the United States, Mexico, and Central America following the migratory journey and lives of hundreds of Central American in-transit refugees.

February 6, 2023

Public Talk / Carla Hung – Trafficking in Hospitality: Criminalizing the Community Care Networks of Eritrean Refugees in Italy

Carla works with the Eritrean refugee community on issues of communal care, trafficking, and political activism in a postcolonial context.

April 20, 2022

Guest Lecture with Javier Morillo-Alicea: Outside The Academy with an Anthropology Education

January 24, 2022

Job Talk / Nicholas Denning – The Spirit of Oil and Rights of Nature: Resisting the Resource Logics of Extractivism

This talk draws from his current book project, Extractive Bio-sovereignties and Imaginations of Post-Oil Futures, which encourages readers to reconsider global ecological crises from the perspective of people resisting extractivism in Ecuador and across the Global South.

January 26, 2022

Job Talk / Saudi Garcia – Sensing Cianuro: Mining Toxicity and the Radical Politics of Bio-geo-social Health in a Dominican Mining Zone

Saudi Garcia's work is grounded in the Afro-Caribbean embodied experience of gold mining tailing dam toxicity and resource conflict among Black Dominican and Haitian farmers in the lower Cibao Valley’s mining zone.

January 31, 2022

Job Talk / Alberto Morales – Science from Below: Multispecies Relations and Global Health Inequalities

Based on 18 months of fieldwork in Panama City, Panama, this talk sheds light on the ecological and multispecies relations that figure prominently in global health research and the work of natural products scientists.

February 2, 2022

Job Talk / Elena Sobrino – Infrastructures of Altruism in the Flint Water Crisis

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Flint, Michigan, this talk identifies the quotidian welfare and labor practices that are upheld by crisis-driven configurations of care.

February 17, 2021

Circular Prototypes for Urban Futures – Talk with Atsuro Morita

Osaka STS scholar Atsuro Morita will join us from Tokyo.

March 10, 2021

Anthro Cooking Party

For our last workshop before Spring Break, you are all invited to connect from your kitchen and to cook some special dish or dessert reminding you of home.

March 24, 2021

Faculty Book Talk – The Book of Unconformities

Hugh Raffles will join us to talk about his last book The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time published in August 2020.

March 24, 2021

The Eighth Continent: Lunar Enclosures in the Twenty-First Century Race for the Moon

Tamara Álvarez examines the way in which regulatory practices are advancing the three-dimensional enclosure of the Moon's land and setting the basis for a lunar private property regime.

March 31, 2021

Post MA-PhD: What’s Next?

We’ll meet with four alumni of the NSSR Anthropology Department to talk about life after graduation.

April 30, 2021

Alicia Cheng – ADX Workshop

Laura Forlano has studied the materialities and futures of socio-technical systems.

September 10, 2020

Introduction to the Workshop

We will be discussing the formats for workshops, best practices around inclusivity, calling-in, and how we construct a space where we as a community can come together.

October 7, 2020

Applying to PhD Programs

Prof. Ann Stoler and a number of PhD students will host an informal discussion about the process of applying to PhD programs.

October 14, 2020

PhD Qualifying Exams

Prof. Nicolas Langlitz and PhD. Tamara Alvarez will host an informal discussion on PhD qualifying exams.

October 21, 2020

Student Life and Family Panel

This panel will be an opportunity to hear from students across NSSR and at multiple career stages about their experiences of family life with an academic career.

November 11, 2020

Writing Carceral Capitalism: The Praxis of Autotheory

Dr. Wang (Eugene Lang College) will present on her latest work.

November 19, 2020

Writing Workshop

Prof. Hugh Raffles will speak with students about the process of writing, his most recent book, and some tips for editing and giving feedback to peers on their writing.

December 2, 2020

Back from the Field and Scholar-Activism

Prof. Abou Farman and Prof. Miriam Ticktin will speak with students about their experiences as scholar-activists and about some of their own fieldwork.

December 9, 2020

Closing Community Event