October 11, 2022
Is This Funny to You?: Queer and Trans Humor in Alabama
Join us for our inaugural anthropology PhD Lunchtime Lecture Series! This semester we will hear from Sarah Chant, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology whose research explores how queer and trans people in the American South use practices of affect and memory to claim history and belonging in the region.
November 29, 2022
Beyond Make-do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil
Join us for our inaugural anthropology PhD Lunchtime Lecture Series! This semester we will hear from Sarah Chant, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology whose research explores how queer and trans people in the American South use practices of affect and memory to claim history and belonging in the region.
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October 11, 2022
Is This Funny to You?: Queer and Trans Humor in Alabama
Join us for our inaugural anthropology PhD Lunchtime Lecture Series! This semester we will hear from Sarah Chant, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology whose research explores how queer and trans people in the American South use practices of affect and memory to claim history and belonging in the region.
November 29, 2022
Beyond Make-do Innovation: Practices and Politics of Technological Improvisation in Brazil
Join us for our inaugural anthropology PhD Lunchtime Lecture Series! This semester we will hear from Sarah Chant, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology whose research explores how queer and trans people in the American South use practices of affect and memory to claim history and belonging in the region.
August 31, 2022
MA Portfolio: Informational Workshop
September 7, 2022
Joint Faculty/Student Welcome Party!
March 30, 2022
ASA Meeting
May 4, 2022
Loneliness x Solitude
Cedric Williams on torture and therapy and confinement and freedom.
April 27, 2022
ASA Meeting
May 11, 2022
End of the Semester Celebration!
January 24, 2022
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Anthropology Reading Group (Spring 2022) - Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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.
September 22, 2021
Counting Frequency: Un/gendering Life and Death in the Americas
Christen Smith will deliver the lecture "Counting Frequency: Un/gendering Life and Death in the Americas."
September 24, 2021
Faculty session with Hugh
A faculty session with Hugh Raffles to discuss his ongoing work.
September 29, 2021
Faculty session with Abou and Ann + Student-Faculty Welcome Party!
A faculty meet-and-greet session with Abou Farman & Ann Stoler + our Student-Faculty Welcome Party in-person!
October 6, 2021
ADX Presentation + ASA Meeting
October 13, 2021
Faculty session with Larry, Shannon, and Nick
A joint faculty session with students featuring Larry Hirschfeld, Shannon Mattern, and Nick Langlitz.
October 20, 2021
MA Capstone Commentary
Workshop dedicated to discussing the MA Portfolio Commentary.
October 25, 2021
Cooper Hewitt Field Trip – ADX Workshop
Field trip to the Cooper Hewitt organized by ADX. Reserve your tickets in advance.
November 3, 2021
ASA Meeting
November 10, 2021
The Limits of Complexity with Talia Dan-Cohen
Talia Dan-Cohen will be visiting the department to have a discussion on her work.
November 12, 2021
BRIC Field Trip – ADX Workshop
Field trip to the BRIC Museum organized by ADX. Reserve your tickets in advance.
December 1, 2021
ASA Meeting
February 17, 2021
Circular Prototypes for Urban Futures – Talk with Atsuro Morita
Osaka STS scholar Atsuro Morita will join us from Tokyo.
February 24, 2021
Faculty Book Talk – Chimpanzee Culture Wars
Nicolas Langlitz will join us to talk about his last book Chimpanzee Culture Wars.
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 12, 2021
Andrew Moon: Back from the Field
We will meet with Anthropology PhD candidate Andy Moon to talk about his journey in the department, his research and two-year fieldwork experience.
April 14, 2021
Against Terricide: Outline of a Research Program – Talk with Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar's talk will discuss transition design.
April 16, 2021
Anthropology & Design Exhibition 2021
ADX invites students to explore and experiment with anthropological and design research methods that open up new epistemological and creative possibilities, and illuminate our lived experiences and imaginations.
April 16, 2021
Laura Forlano – ADX Workshop
Laura Forlano has studied the materialities and futures of socio-technical systems.
April 30, 2021
Alicia Cheng – ADX Workshop
Laura Forlano has studied the materialities and futures of socio-technical systems.
January 27, 2021
MA portfolio debrief
This workshop will be specifically dedicated to second-year MA students who have been working on the brand new portfolio format.
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.
September 16, 2020
Kick Off of the Media Series
This will be the first in a series of events centered on multimodal work, including documentaries, artist talks, and more.
September 23, 2020
Reflections on The Torture Letters
We will be hosting a lecture with Laurence Ralph from Princeton University.
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
December 16, 2020
Department Holiday Party!
March 25, 2020
Landfall
We will first watch Stephanie Schiavenato's short film LANDFALL. The film explores the lingering effects of trauma on the relationship between a mother and her son who migrated from Colombia.
March 11, 2020
Back from the Field
We will be hosting a workshop with Liliana Gil chatting about her insights after returning from fieldwork.
February 19, 2020
Georgina Voss
Georgina Voss trace her route out of anthropology and industrial economics into art and design, exploring how her training in the former has shaped the latter.
February 5, 2020
Bernhard Garnicnig
We will be chatting with Bernhard Garnicnig about the intersection between artistic and research practice.
April 27, 2019
Theft
Theft calls into question concepts such as sovereignty, subjecthood, and justice.
May 5, 2018
Negative Space
How can we seek, engage with, and generate spaces around what have traditionally been considered objects of inquiry in the field of anthropology? What can we gain from doing so?
April 29, 2017
Flux: State(s) of Change
What if we explored states of in-betweenness, following the cracks, tracing the tensions and describing what lives between rigid structures and flexible agencies?
April 30, 2016
Refuge
Conceptualizing Refuge in these times of duress requires space. What is refuge as a space?
April 18, 2015
Magnetic: Attraction, Repulsion, and the Social Sciences
From classic topics of anthropological inquiry to more recent academic work, our social world is constructed along the lines of our attractions and repulsions.
April 26, 2014
The (Troubled) Field
What is a field site is becoming more and more troubled, but many are constrained by prior expectations of what counts as fieldwork.
April 12, 2013
Failures
Whether imagined, lived or witnessed, most if not all of us know something of what it is to fail.