Prof. Annemarie Samuels Gives Department Talk: Narrating Immanent Finitude: Silence, Ambivalence, and an Ethics of Care at the End of Life in Indonesia
Narrating Immanent Finitude: Silence, Ambivalence, and an Ethics of Care at the End of Life in Indonesia “In this talk I reflect on the ethical work of living with life-limiting illness and immanent death in conditions of marginalization. While such ethical work may include activist attempts to voice the silenced conditions of inequality, I suggest […]
Prof. Ben Finkel delivers Anthro Department Talk on “The Challenges of Senescence for Wild Male Chimpanzees”
Longevity is a hallmark of human evolution. Yet little comparative work has investigated aging primates in the wild, and the uniqueness of our aging phenotype remains unclear. In our closest and particularly long-lived relative, chimpanzees, old males reproduce less and have lower dominance rank, but maintain certain aspects of body condition and continue to sire […]
Department Talk Series: Dr. Huwy-min Liu
Our second Department Talk of the semester will be on Monday, March 20th at 12:30pm in HIS 304. Dr. Huwy-min (Lucia) Liu’s talk is titled “A Death Economy, market Governance, and Market Subjects: An Ethnography of Funeral Professionals in Urban China”. One of the most significant changes in death matters occurring in contemporary China has been the institutionalization and professionalization of […]
Department Talk Series: Dr. Ruslan Yusupov
On Thursday, February 2nd, 2023, the Anthropology Department hosted a talk withDr. Ruslan Yuspov on 232 Bay State Rd. in PLS 505. Dr. Yusupov is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. His talk, A Measure of Sovereignty: Memory, Violence, and Ethnoreligious Policies in Southwest China, “explores how a community […]
Department Talk: Dr. Amanda Leiss
Our next Department Talk will be on Thursday, Nov. 10 at 12pm in PLS 505. Dr. Amanda Leiss will speak on “Faunal evidence for paleoenvironmental change coincident with the emergence of Acheulean technology at Gona”. The Gona research area in Ethiopia has the longest continuous record of Early Stone Age (ESA) archaeology in eastern Africa […]
Lunch Talk: Prof. Zachary Mondesire
On Thursday, Oct 13, the Anthropology Department will be hosting new Pardee School professor Zachary Mondesire in the ASC conference room (232 Bay State Road, Room 505) from 12-1:30pm, speaking on “Racial Formation Between the Two Sudans.”
Lunch Talk: Emily Williamson Ibrahim
Join us on zoom on Thrusday, April 14 at 1:00pm for Emily Williamson Ibrahim’s talk: “Folded Speech: An Ethics of Comings-and-Goings in an Accra Zongo” https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/96271053459… Passcode: 724053
Lunch Talk: Dr. Jennifer Raff
Department Lunch Talk Series: Thursday, March 3rd @ 1:00pm Dr. Jennifer Raff will lead a book talk on her New York Times Best Seller, “Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas”. This talk will be held virtually: https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/91036105333?pwd=aXpJbDJ5S0gvS3JqMnpJY0VuR3RSdz09 Meeting ID: 910 3610 5333 Passcode: 005435 How–and when–did people first come to the American continents? In the last two decades, models […]
Lunch Series Talk Friday, November 5 @12pm
Department Lunch Talk Series: Friday, November 5th @ 12:15pm “There is no such thing as a normal menstrual cycle: menstrual phenotypes, menstrual changes, and lived experience” with Dr. Kathryn B.H. Clancy Register here to attend. If the date of the talk has passed, watch the zoom recording on our YouTube channel.
Lunch Series Talk Friday, October 22 @12pm
Register for our next Lunch Talk, “Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era” on Friday, 10/22 with Natali Valdez Weighing the Future is the first ethnography of ongoing prenatal trials in the United States and United Kingdom. Studying prenatal trials reveals larger processes of capitalism, surveillance, racism, and environmental reproduction in a postgenomic era. Valdez […]