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. She has written about new reproductive technologies and intellectual property law and her most recent work focuses on the complexities of transparency, accountability, and audit, […]

This 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 […]

While 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 from which to explore the politics of dirt and other matters out of place. Moving away from engagements with landscape as inert background or pristine […]

Can 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 […]