Events

Wooden sailing vessels or dhows have long traversed The Indian Ocean, making it what some scholars have called “the cradle of globalization.” Today, dhows or vahans from Kachchh in western India […]

Drawing on her longterm study of Zulu song and dance, Meintjes revisits instances of ngoma vocal performance in order to explore the idea of breath and aesthetic vitality foregrounded in popular political […]

Technological Colonialism: The Political Economy of Innovation and Global Health With billions of people in low-income countries still without Covid-19 vaccines and therapeutics, this pandemic has exposed the neo-colonial structures […]

This talk names the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a […]

What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark's empirical research and professional experience, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens […]

Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond This is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In […]

          The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at […]

The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist, the historian, the archaeologist, the artist, the musician and the poet, as they all bring into dialogue the past and future  […]

“Hot and Cool Mothers” moves toward a media theory of mothering and parental “fitness.” The article begins with an investigation into midcentury pediatric psychological studies on Bad Mothers and their […]