Graduate Lunch Series: “Reflections on 25 Years of the Archaeology of Childhood” with Dr. Jane Eva Baxter
Thursday, March 5th, 2020 12:00 – 1:30 pm African Studies Seminar Room, Fifth Floor 232 Bay State Road The Archaeology of Childhood is a field of study with a relatively short history. This talk reflects on the field from when Jane Baxter was preparing the manuscript for her first book, The Archaeology of Childhood (Alta […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Diet, Life History, and the Primate Gut Microbiome” with Dr. Elizabeth Mallott
Thursday, February 6th, 2020 12:00 – 1:30 pm African Studies Seminar Room, Fifth Floor 232 Bay State Road The gut microbiome plays an important role in primate nutrition and physiology. Gut microbes break down otherwise undigestible food and mediate nutrient absorption. The transition to a diet that focuses more heavily on animal prey has shifted […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Making Up Kinds of People Making Kinds of Things: The Origin of Anthropology and Ethnology” with Dr. Adam Kuper
Friday, November 15th, 2019 12:00 – 1:30 pm African Studies Seminar Room, Fifth Floor 232 Bay State Road Anthropology and ethnology were among the ‘human sciences’ that emerged in Europe in the 1820s and 1830s. The ethnologists looked to find a home for themselves in the new constellation of public museums. Their first theoretical debates […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Eskimo Snow in Brazil: An Anthropological Perspective on Color and Race” with Dr. James P. Ito-Adler
Thursday, November 7th, 12:15 – 2:00 African Studies Seminar Room fifth Floor 232 Bay State Road James P. Ito-Adler is a social anthropologist who specializes in the study of Brazilian society and culture. His fieldwork experience includes work with the Japanese in Brazil, the Portuguese in Cambridge and Somerville, and Alaska Natives on the North Slope. […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Harmful Comparisons: Frames of Genocidal Violence and the Intractability of Belonging in Germany” with Dr. Sultan Doughan
Friday, October 25th, 2019 12:00 – 1:30 pm African Studies Seminar Room, Fifth Floor 232 Bay State Road Anthropologists have recently attended to the phenomenon of national belonging by pointing to local practices in their transnational articulation as a complex claim to homeland or exclusion thereof. This paper aims to contribute to these debates by […]
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 […]
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 […]