PhD candidate Xuyi Zhao gives lightning talk at the Pardee Center’s 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows fall reception
Anthropology PhD candidate Xuyi Zhao presents at a series of lightning talks by the Pardee Center’s 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows at our fall reception Tuesday, October 3 at 4:00 pm. Xuyi’s talk is on the paper she completed this summer during the Fellowship — a highly selective program that accepted eight Fellows this year from a candidate […]
Prof. Merry White presents her new book Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture at the Harvard Book Store
Prof. Merry White & Ben Wurgaft present their new book, Ways of Eating: Exploring Food through History and Culture at the Harvard Book Store at 7pm, Wed, 10.4. https://www.harvard.com/event/ben_wurgaft_and_merry_white/
Contemporary Chinese Culture Lecture — Dr. Erik Mueggler on “Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China”
We are very excited to announce our second Contemporary Chinese Culture Lecture! Dr. Erik Mueggler (Univ. of Michigan) will speak on “Writing, Slavery, and Indigenous Sovereignty in Southwest China” on Wednesday, Oct. 11th at 3-5pm in CILSE Colloquium 101 (610 Comm Ave). Dr. Erik Mueggler is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research covers a variety of […]
Prof. Frank J. Korom gives a lecture a Keio University in Japan on the tension between Buddhist nationalists and Sufis in Sri Lanka
Prof. Frank J. Korom will be giving a lecture at Keio University in Japan on October 19, 2023 on some of his current research concerning the tension between Buddhist nationalists and Sufis in Sri Lanka.
Prof. Joanna Davidson Talks at CISS on Her New Book
BU Anthropology Prof. Joanna Davidson with her co-editor, Dinah Hannaford, will give a brief introduction to their book, Opting Out: Women Messing with Marriage around the World, and then invite a roundtable of participants to share their approaches on the book’s central themes from their own epistemological and methodological perspectives. Come hear from colleagues in anthropology, […]
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 […]
Prof. Robert Hefner at the G20/R20 Religion Forum
From November 2 to 3, 2022, Robert (Bob) Hefner of the Department of Anthropology attended the G20 Religion Forum (R20) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. The Religion 20 Forum was a special sub-meeting within the general G20 forum, announced as an “International Summit of Religious Leaders” and entitled, “Revealing Nurturing Religion as a Source of […]
Dr. Adam Gamwell: Beyond Academia: Anthropology and Culture in the Public Eye
Our undergraduate club Anthropology in the Works hosted a discussion with Dr. Adam Gamwell titled Beyond Academia: Anthropology and Culture in the Public Eye on Wednesday, November 2nd. Dr. Adam Gamwell is the host of This Anthro Life, an interdisciplinary podcast on all things business, culture, technology, and design. Dr. Gamwell discussed changes in the field of anthropology […]
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 […]