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Reassembling 'The Social Organization': Franz Boas, Indigenous Ontologies, and the Anthropology of Art

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NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS SPEAKER: Aaron Glass, Bard Graduate Center Over the course of his long career, Franz Boas’s writings on Indigenous art comprised one of his major contributions to anthropological theory and museum practice. Boas’s 1897...

Buddhist Studies Forum

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Chairs: Janet Gyatso, James Robson

Provides an opportunity for faculty, students, and participants to discuss approaches to Buddhist Studies that are as diverse as philology, philosophy, intellectual history, anthropology, art history, literary studies...

Seminar with Karen-Sue Taussig

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CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Karen-Sue Taussig, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota Karen-Sue Taussig, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology at The...

Ujala Dhaka-Kintgen

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Ujala Dhaka-Kintgen received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University with a dissertation on the relationship between governance and marginality in Muslim working-class neighborhoods of Mumbai. In 2013-14, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow for the...

Michaela Schäuble

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Michaela Schäuble is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), where she also received a Ph.D. in 2010. She studied comparative literature and social anthropology at Tübingen University and Yale...

Seminar with Amy Moran-Thomas

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CRITICAL HEALTH HUMANITIES SPEAKER: Amy Moran-Thomas, MIT Amy Moran-Thomas is Associate Professor of Anthropology at MIT. Her ethnographic research focuses on how health technologies and ecologies are designed and come to be materially embodied—often...

Thiemo Breyer

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Thiemo Breyer holds Masters degrees in philosophy, cognitive science, and historical and social anthropology from the Universities of Freiburg and Cambridge. He received a doctorate (2010) and a habilitation (2014) in philosophy from the University of...

Lindsay Ofrias

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Lindsay Ofrias is a cultural anthropologist whose research broadly examines the relationship between law, health, and the environment. Her current book project, Beyond the Oil Frontier, uses multi-sited transnational fieldwork to explore efforts for...

Kessie Alexandre

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Kessie Alexandre is an Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research organizes around questions of risk and ethics; environmental racism; climate justice and the social implications of climate change adaptation...

Alex Fattal

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Alex Fattal received a PhD in Anthropology as well as a secondary field in Critical Media Practice from Harvard University in 2014. His book manuscript, Guerrilla Marketing: Information War and the Demobilization of FARC Rebels, examines the way the...

Partha Chatterjee on "International Law and the Pedagogy of Violence"

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Partha Chatterjee on "International Law and the Pedagogy of Violence" Featured Speaker: Partha Chatterjee Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Made possible by the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

James Scott: Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals and ... Us

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James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor of Anthropology, Yale University