The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present:

Dr. Sareeta Amrute

 
“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”
Works-In-Progress Seminar
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
2-4pm
Humanities 1, Room 402
Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper

“adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora”
Colloquium
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
3:15- 5:00pm
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Dr. Sareeta Amrute is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the university of Washington, Seattle. Her scholarship investigates personhood and labor within technological capital and throughout the South Asia diaspora. She is particularly interested in how race and class are reviews and remade in sites of new economy work, such as coding and software economies, and her first book Encoding Race, Encoding Class: Indian IT Workers in Berlin was published in Fall 2016 by Duke University Press.