Cornell Anthropology Events
Upcoming Anthropology Events
For a listing of past events and colloquia, please visit our events archive.
Spring Semester 2012
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My current research project is an investigation into the nascent Islamic cultural youth scene thriving in contemporary Britain’s urban contexts. Within this scene, it looks...Location: McGraw Hall -
As humans we are literal and figurative kin to other primates with whom many of us coexist in diverse social, ecological, symbolic, conflictual, and even hopeful, contexts....Location: McGraw Hall
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Feb 6 12:15pm Sri Lanka’s Little Rome: Return Migration to a Catholic Town - Bernardo Brown (Graduate Student, Cornell Anthopology)
In the town of Negombo, Sri Lanka, many transnational workers return home, only to re-migrate after a short time. This paper follows the lives of several Sri Lankan Catholic...Location: Uris Hall -
Feb 6 12:15pm La Roca Penitentiary as Black Site? Interpreting 'Maximum Security' Discourse in Ecuador
Co-sponsored by the Latin American Studies Program and the Latino Studies Program.
Chris Garces, Ph.D., Princeton Univeristy, 2009
Dr. Garces taught for three years at Sarah...Location: Seminar -
Feb 6 5:30pm AGSA Workshop: Melissa Rosario (Anthropology) - Occupation Rhythms: On Dead Time & System Breaks"Occupation Rhythms: On Dead Time & System Breaks"
Melissa Rosario, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Cornell University
Discussant: Charis Boke (Cornell, Anthropology)...Location: McGraw Hall
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Nicaraguan Health Ministry protocols for the control of Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue fever, hinge on an aesthetic ordering of the urban household: one in...Location: McGraw Hall
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Department of Science and Technology Studies Spring 2012 Seminar Series
Abstract: In her multiple award winning book, Do Glaciers Listen, Julie Cruikshank juxtaposes...Location: 374 Rockefeller Hall -
"Big Construction, Big Opening, Big Development: Liberalism and Legitimacy on China’s New Silk Road"
Lauren Hansen - Cornell, City & Regional Planning
Discussant: Tim...Location: McGraw Hall
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Feb 14 4pm Meet the Author - Nerissa Russell
Social Zooarcheology
Publisher Comments: This is the first book to provide a systematic overview of social zooarchaeology, which takes a holistic view of human–animal...Location: Cornell Store -
Pueblos of the American Southwest participated in the sometimes dramatic – but more often subtle – transformation of cosmologies throughout their histories. Through the...Location: McGraw Hall
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Owen Marshall - Cornell, Science & Technology Studies
"The Social Construction of Autotune: Standardizing Standardization in Pitch Correction Technology"
About the...Location: McGraw Hall
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Seeing Like a Split Legal Subject: Chinese Muslims, Lacan, and the Law
How do Muslims in China (Hui) abide by their obligations under shari’a while, at the same time,...Location: McGraw Hall -
Feb 27 5:30pm AGSA Workshop: Courtney Work (Anthropology) - Economies of Merit: Power & Presence through a Khmer Buddhist Temple"Economies of Merit: Power & Presence through a Khmer Buddhist Temple"
Courtney Work - Cornell, Anthropology
About the Ethnography Workshop: Organized by Cornell...Location: McGraw Hall
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"Whitehouse, Power Electronics & "(Non)Meaning: Investors, 'Confusionists,' and Authorial Failure"
Jason Yonover - Cornell, German Studies (Senior Thesis)
Discussant: Owen...Location: McGraw Hall
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Mar 7 12:15pm Ergos: A New Energy Currency
Gokce Gunel, graduate student in the Department of Anthropology, will present a seminar about a proposal for Abu Dhabi's 'Eco-City', Masdar, to institute an 'energy currency'...Location: Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall -
Mar 9 3:30pm Anthropology Colloquium: Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria (Bard College) Urban Form and Political Practice in MumbaiUrban Form and Political Practice in Mumbai
This paper explores how political subjectivity both manifests in, and is informed by, spatial practices. For middle-class civic...Location: McGraw Hall
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Location: McGraw Hall
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Mar 26 5:30pm AGSA Workshop: Angie Boyce (S&TS) - Economies of Merit: Power & Presence through a Khmer Buddhist Temple"Monitoring Foodborne Illness Outbreaks: The Structure of the US Public Health Surveillance System"
Angie Boyce - Cornell, Science & Technology Studies
Discussant: Danya...Location: McGraw Hall
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Thomas Blom Hansen is the Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies and Professor in Anthropology. He is also the Director of Stanford’s Center for South...Location: McGraw Hall -
"Sharing Stories, Sharing a Profession: Ethnographic Encounters with Women Physicians"
Danya Glabau - Cornell, Science & Technology Studies
Discussant: Emily Goldman...Location: McGraw Hall
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Location: McGraw Hall
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"The Kinship of Kallikaks: Ad Hoc Familial Reckoning and the Anthropological Critique of Kinship"
Averill Leslie - University of Chicago, Anthropology
About the...Location: McGraw Hall
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Apr 13 3:30pm Anthropology Colloquium: Joe Masco (University of Chicago) - Biosecurity Noir: Locating the WMD in a World Without Border
Joseph Masco is the author of the The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico (2006, Princeton University Press). His current work examines the...Location: McGraw Hall -
"Expert Knowledge and the Evolution of a Science Culture in Fire and Arson Investigation"
Michelle Spektor - Cornell, Biology & Society (Senior Thesis)
About the...Location: McGraw Hall
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