Speakers for Spring 2020
February 20, 2020 Radhika Govindrajan "More-Than-Human-Democracy:
On the Political Lives of Cows, Rivers, and Mountains in Contemporary India"
February 27, 2020 AGSO speaker Cameron Gokee "Conflict and Community in a West African Shatter Zone"
March 3, 2020 (TUESDAY) ANTHRO CLUB Zoë Crossland "Postmortem lives: the corpse and
evidence in the forensic imaginary"
CANCELED March 26, 2020 Jaume Franquesa Bartolome "Power
Struggles: Dignity, value and the renewable energy frontier in Spain" CANCELED
CANCELED April 9, 2020 Luis
Claudio Symanski "The Material Expressions of Central African Religiosity in Brazil in Documents and Artifacts" CANCELED
CANCELED April 17 (FRIDAY 1:00) Daniel J Hoffman "Empty Gestures, Empty
Spaces, Empty Times:
Thinking Emptiness
In West Africa Today" CANCELED
Speakers for Fall 2019
November 7, 2019 Nikhil Anand Canceled
November 14, 2019 Kristin Doughty "Carceral Repair: Methane Extraction in Lake Kivu, Rwanda"
Speakers for Spring 2018
February 15, 2018 Deborah Thomas "Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Affect, Witnessing, Repair"
March 8, 2018 Maple Razsa (funded by CES) "The Maribor Uprising"
March
22, 2018 AGSO Randy McGuire "Steel Walls and Picket Fences: Rematerializing the U.S.-Mexican Border in Ambos Nogales"
April 19, 2018 Steven Wernke
Speakers for Fall 2017
October 5, 2017 Miriam Ticktin " Border Walls: Transnational Design and the Politics of
Humanity"
October 12, 2017 Rachael Watkins " An Alter(ed)native Perspective on Bioanthropology"
*****October 24, 2017 (TUESDAY) Seth Holmes
Speakers for Spring 2017
February 9. 2017 - AGSO Pamela Geller "Illimitable Wonders: To Rethink Biophysical Data"
February 16, 2017 Severin Fowles "Comanche Imperialism and the Theater of War"
March 9, 2017 Rosemary Joyce "Confronting the Limits of Materials: From Kitty Litter to Granite in the Archaeology of Nuclear Waste"
April 13, 2017 - AGSO Matthew Reilly “White Slaves” to White Nationalism: Racial Alterity and the “Redlegs” of Barbados
April 20, 2017 Saida Hodzic " Anthropology’s Shadows: NGO Governance and the Ends of Cutting in Ghana" ----CANCELED AS OF 19 APRIL 2017---
Speakers for Fall 2016
September 29, 2016 - Sarah Lamb "On Being (Not) Old: The Cultural Biopolitics of Life-Course Aspirations in the U.S. and India"
October 6, 2016 - Alaka Wali "Engaged Anthropology as Museum Practice"
November 3, 2016 - AGSO Marcia Inhorn "Cosmopolitan Conceptions in Global Dubai: A Reprolexicon for 21st-Century Reprotravel"