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Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds"
The Anthropology Department presents: Emerging Worlds Lecture Series: "Shifting Worlds" Marilyn Strathern Dame Marilyn Strathern was the William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1994 to 2008. […]
Fenella Cannell: "Ghosts and Ancestors in the Modern West"
Unnamed VenueThis Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR's Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster. Dr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and has also conducted research on kinship and religion in the United States. She worked in the Philippines in 1988-89, 1992, and 1997. Her fieldwork was with Catholic rice-farming people in […]
Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhile Mary Douglas' oft-quoted maxim states that, "dirt is matter out of place," it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground […]
FreeAnthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
UC Santa CruzCan humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth. Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 pm Ursula K. Le Guin Discussants: James Clifford and Donna Haraway Tickets no longer available for The Rio Theater. However, there are still two options […]
