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 […]
Lunch Series Talk Friday, September 24 @12pm
Join at 12pm on September 24 for Chun-Yi Sum’s discussion “Politics of indifference: Mourning Wang Yue in late-socialist China.” Register in advance for this meeting: https://bostonu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kcOuvrjsvGNAZc71Gi09cJIqk2p6rR7Si Abstract: This talk examines the changing sociological meaning of indifference in urban China after the tragic death of a two-year old girl in a road accident in 2011. […]
Lunch Series Talk Thurs, April 22 @12pm
Prof. Caterina Scaramelli and Prof. Merav Shohet will discuss their recent books and lead a conversation on care, love, and moral ecologies in Turkey, Vietnam, and beyond. Join us at 12pm! Meeting ID: 992 9900 8262 Passcode: 010839
Prof. Hefner gives Lunch Series talk on Thursday April 8th at 12pm
The next Department Lunch Talk will be Thursday, April 8th at 12pm. Prof. Bob Hefner will speak on “Making Documentary Films in Anthropology: Some Lessons from Hefner and Bagir’s ‘Indonesian Pluralities’”.
Department Lunch Talk! Dr. Andrew Wooyoung Kim
On March 11th @ 12pm, Dr. Andrew Wooyoung Kim will give a virtual talk on “Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Maternal prenatal stress, infant birth outcomes, and adolescent psychiatric morbidity in Soweto, South Africa.” South Africa’s rates of mental, neurological, and substance use disorders are among the highest in sub-Saharan Africa, […]
Department Lunch Talk! Kevin Rosenfield
On February 10th @2pm, Kevin Rosenfield will give a talk titled “Artificial intuition: Can machine learning techniques help us understand the evolutionary origins of concealed and advertised ovulation?” via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting – https://bostonu.zoom.us/j/91510859008?pwd=Vmt3REJHQXYzcFRVYnU2WHB3azdtQT09 Hypotheses regarding the evolutionary origins of behavioral and soft-tissue traits are notoriously difficult to test, and those invoking natural selection […]
Lunch Series Talk with Noha Roushdy, December 4
Department Lunch Talk Series on December 4th, 2020 “Mimicry and the Production of Elite Masculinities in an International School of Egypt” with Noha Roushdy If the date of the talk has passed, watch the zoom recording on our YouTube channel.
Lunch Series Talk with Dr. Andrea Berlin, November 13
Department Lunch Talk Series on November 13th, 2020 “At Home on Board: the Kyrenia Ship and the goods of its crew” with Dr. Andrea Berlin. If the date of the talk has passed, watch the zoom recording on our YouTube channel.
Lunch Series Talk with Andrea Blackburn, October 16
Department Lunch Talk Series on October 16th, 2020 “Frugivory, seed dispersal, and dispersal distances by Bornean orangutans” with Andrea Blackburn. If the date of the talk has passed, watch the zoom recording on our YouTube channel.