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… More
Reframing Hospitality: A Leap from Law to Ethics
Reframing Hospitality: A Leap from Law to Ethics Mona Siddiqui, OBE, University of Edinburgh Divinity School Thursday, February 16 4:00 PM 121 Bay State… More
Why Are Dogs Human: Another Take on the Nature of Humanity
Why Are Dogs Human: Another Take on the Nature of Humanity Professor Liah Greenfield, University Professor and Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and… More
Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter?
Is Taiwan Chinese? And Does it Matter? Melissa J. Brown, Ph.D. Brown is Managing Editor of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. She is… More
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… More
Religious Extremism, the Media, and Counter-Terrorism in Xinjiang, China
Religious Extremism, the Media, & Counter-Terrorism in Xinjiang, China … More
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… More
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… More
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… More
Graduate Lunch Series: “The Yin World in Chaos: Expanding Cities and Transforming Religions in Contemporary China” with Prof. Robert P. Weller
Friday October 14th 2016, 12:00pm PLS102 (Anthropology Seminar Room) Rapid urban expansion in wealthy parts of China has led to the resettlement… More