Graduate Lunch Series: “Gender as Memory: Men and Women Making Relations after Wartime” with Martha Lagace
Friday, April 21 at 1:15 African Studies Seminar Room Anthropological accounts of African women’s travel away from home have noted how their men often interpret these activities disapprovingly as abandonment (e.g., Riesman 1998:219-220; Shaw 2002:163). Meanwhile, these societies tend to expect—and encourage—men to go about, for reasons including livelihood and independence. But what happens when […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Translated Brain: Constructing a Science of Social Work in Vietnam” with Dr. Ann Marie Leshkowich
Friday March 31th 2017, at 1:15 pm African Studies Seminar Room (232 Bay State Rd. Room 505) Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross. She is author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Hawai’i Press, 2014; winner, Harry J. Benda Prize, Association of Asian […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Nutritional Ecology of Forest-living Olive Baboons & Implications for Human Evolution” with Dr. Caley Johnson
Friday February 24th 2017, 1:15 pm African Studies Seminar Room (232 Bay State Rd. Room 505) Caley Johnson, Ph.D. Candidate and Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology at the City University of New York (CUNY). As early hominins left forests and began forging life on the savanna, they fed in increasingly open habitats and their diets diversified, especially […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “What do Widows Really Want?” with Prof. Joanna Davidson
Friday February 17th 2017 at 1:15 pm African Studies Seminar Room (232 Bay State Rd. Room 505) Professor Joanna Davidson, Assistant Professor, author of Sacred Rice: An Ethnography of Identity, Environment, and Development in Rural West Africa. Anthropological attention to widows has often provided a corrective to male biases in kinship studies by focusing […]
Reframing Hospitality: A Leap from Law to Ethics
Reframing Hospitality: A Leap from Law to Ethics Mona Siddiqui, OBE, University of Edinburgh Divinity School Thursday, February 16 4:00 PM 121 Bay State Rd. Islamic ethics exists within the framework of ‘commanding right and forbidding wrong’. This lecture will explore the limits of the law when expanding the virtues of hospitality as a theological and sociological […]
Why Are Dogs Human: Another Take on the Nature of Humanity
Why Are Dogs Human: Another Take on the Nature of Humanity Professor Liah Greenfield, University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Anthropology A comparison between human ways of life and ways of life characteristic of all animal species reveals one startling difference: while all animal ways of life are transmitted biologically (genetically), like life […]
Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter?
Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter? Melissa J. Brown, Ph.D. Brown is Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. She is the author of Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities. People in Taiwan view their identity as different from Chinese identity. That difference is rooted in historical social […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Do Parents Matter?: Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax” with Robert & Sarah LeVine
Friday, December 9th, 12pm Anthropology Department, Room 102 Bob LeVine, a professor emeritus at Harvard, has studied child rearing practices in several African societies. He taught at BU from 2006 to 2009. Sarah LeVine, a long-time research associate at Harvard, has worked with mothers and children in Africa, Nepal, Mexico and India. Their previous co-authored […]
Religious Extremism, the Media, and Counter-Terrorism in Xinjiang, China
Religious Extremism, the Media, & Counter-Terrorism in Xinjiang, China Talk by He Xinliang, member of the National People’s Consultative Congress and the National Committee […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Listening vs Lingwashing: Promise, Peril, and Structural Oblivion in White South African Linguistic Nationalism” with Dr. Janet McIntosh
December 2nd, 2016, 12:00pm Anthropology Department, PLS 102 In recent years a growing number of urban, liberal South African whites have expressed a wish to learn an indigenous language such as isiXhosa or isiZulu, often out of anxiety that their linguistic limitations have become embarrassing, even disabling, to their national belonging. Their efforts have been […]