Penn Anthropology Colloquium | Department of Anthropology

September 9th - Nikhil Anand - (University of Pennsylvania) - "The Climate of Infrastructure: Desiccation, Durability, and Dispossession"

"In this talk I draw attention to the ways that indigenous Koli fishers in Mumbai...
ANTH Colloquium - Amanda Logan (Northwestern University) "The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of African Food Security"

Have the people of Africa always starved? Why is this question rarely posed, and...
Anth Colloquium - Tawni Tidwell (University of Vienna) - "Re-centering Tibetan Medicine and Decolonizing Care in the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic"
ANTH Colloquium - Theodore Schurr (University of Pennsylvania)

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ANTH Colloquium - Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)

How does the democratic ideal of meritocracy reproduce inequality...
September 23rd - Catherine Sameh - (University of California, Irvine)

Two...
ANTH Colloquium - Harris Solomon (Duke University) "On Life Support"

The presence and threat of death makes life support distinct from more everyday...
Anth Colloquium - Eduardo Piqueiras (David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA ) - "(Re)emergent Legionnaires’ Disease: Water Supply Systems, Infrastructural Violence, and Afflicted Lives in the South Bronx, NY."
ANTH Colloquium - Paige West (Barnard and Columbia)

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[CANCELED] ANTH Colloquium - Marcy Norton (UPenn History) "Of Flesh and Skin: Livestock Husbandry, Colonialism, and Native America, 1492 - 1650"

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