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March 24th - Audra Simpson - (Columbia University) - "Occupying Selves or How to be an Indian via Unciteable Pain"

How has trauma has come to operate as a claim in the making of oneself? How is this...
ANTH Colloquium - Bethany Wiggin & Nikhil Anand (University of Pennsylvania)

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Jim Sykes - (Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania) - "Not a Real Job?: Musical Labor, Productivity, and Value in the Anthropocene"

In this talk, Jim Sykes reads from his book-in-progress, Musicianhood: Enchantment and...
Alex Nading - (Cornell University) - "The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and the Limits of Life Support in Nicaragua’s Sugarcane Zone

This talk draws from a book in progress on how residents living in the environs of a...
Penn Anthropology Colloquium: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 'Who's Got the Knife?' (2/21/2012)

On October 27, 2011 Levy Itzhak Rosenbaum, a well-connected international transplant...
Anth Colloquium - Tina Lasisi (PSU) - "Sense and Salience: Measuring What Matters in Hair and Skin"

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ANTH Colloquium - Gayle Fritz (Washington University) "Diverse Foods and Fields at Cahokia: Looking for Lessons from the Past"

Cahokia—the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas north of Mexico—was fed by...
March 31st - Malav Kanuga - (Making Worlds Cooperative) - " Through the Lens of an Unfinished Rebellion: Narrative Condemnation, Abolition, and Common Sense"

During the summer 2020 rebellions in the United...
ANTH Colloquium - Adriana Petryna (University of Pennsylvania)

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Nidhi Mahajan - (University of California, Santa Cruz) - "A View from the Dhow: Capitalism and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean"

Wooden sailing vessels or dhows have long traversed the Indian Ocean making it...

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