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 […]
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 […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Global God Talk: Communication Anxiety and Playful Improvisation in Interfaith Encounters” withDr. Marcy Brink-Danan
Wednesday, November 16th 2016, 12:00pm Anthropology Department, PLS102 From President Obama’s Interfaith Campus Challenge to the Doha Annual Interfaith Dialogue Conference, today there are few places in the world where government policies have not prioritized increased interfaith “communication.” Why is God talk experiencing such a global boom? To investigate this question, I study international organizations […]
Graduate Lunch Series: “Does Market Integration Give Rise to Social Inequality? The Case of Mosuo in Southwestern China” with Dr. Chun-Yi Sum
Friday October 28, 2016, 12:00pm PLS102 (Anthropology Seminar Room) The Mosuo (Na) are a Tibeto-Burman ethnic group in southwestern China. This small population of 30,000 on the provincial border of Yunnan and Sichuan is known for being the only remaining matrilineal society in all of China. Since the 1990s, tourism and economic development have brought […]