Penn Anthropology Colloquium | Department of Anthropology

ANTH Colloquium - Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)

How does the democratic ideal of meritocracy reproduce inequality...
Elif Babul - (Mount Holyoke College) - "Legal Truth, Migrant Criminality, and Migration Management in Turkey"

This talk explores how the legal-juridical field emerges as a key...
Anth Colloquium - Brian Karl (UC-Berkley) - "Framing Experience, Experiencing Frames: Suspension and Intervention in Time-Based Representations"- Özge Serin (Whitman College) - "A Place of Madness: Time of the Death Fast and the Political"
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 - Theodore Schurr (University of Pennsylvania)

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Penn Anthropology Colloquium: Durba Chattaraj, 'Roadscapes' (2/20/2012)

As part of India's neoliberal economic transformation, rural spaces are urbanizing in-...
JT Roane - (Department of Geography, Rutgers University) - "Topology of Flames: The Political Ecology of Fire in Late Twentieth Century Philadelphia"

In "Topology of Flames" Roane partially excavates the wider matrix of...
Anth Colloquium - Alissa Jordan (Center for Experimental Ethnography) - "Medical Marronage: the Healing and Activism of Haitian Mothering in the Face of Hospital-Prison"
ANTH Colloquium - Harris Solomon (Duke University) "On Life Support"

The presence and threat of death makes life support distinct from more everyday...
ANTH Colloquium - Paige West (Barnard and Columbia)

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