Penn Anthropology Colloquium | Department of Anthropology

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...
March 3rd - Clara Han - (Johns Hopkins University) - "Inheriting War in a Form of Life: Affliction, Dying, Loss"

How might we ethnographically render what it...
ANTH Colloquium - Theodore Schurr (University of Pennsylvania)

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Emily Lindsey (Excavation Site Director, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum) - "Dawn of the Anthropocene: How Humans in a Warming Climate Drove Pleistocene Mammal Extinctions and Re-shaped California’s Landscapes"
ANTH Colloquium - Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)

How does the democratic ideal of meritocracy reproduce inequality...
Anth Colloquium - Erin Manning (Concordia University) and Brian Massumi (Université de Montréal) – “The Misplaced Concreteness of the Senses”

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

The presence and threat of death makes life support distinct from more everyday...
March 17th - Andrew Kim - (University of Carlifornia, Berkeley)
ANTH Colloquium - Paige West (Barnard and Columbia)

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Coren Apicella - (Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania) - "Hunter-Gatherer Insights on the Puzzle of Cooperation"

The evolution of human cooperation is described as one...

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