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The Anthropology program hosts numerous events for its students and faculty.

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Anthropology Colloquium

Each semester, the Anthropology hosts a colloquium series that features esteemed anthropologists discussing different aspects of the field. See this semester's colloquium schedule below.

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Fall 2023 Colloquium Events

Fall Colloquium Series Flyer — **Fall Colloquium Schedule 2023**

Zoom or Hyflex (Room 5417)

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Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia take place 4:15pm-6:15pm EST Friday.

If you have any questions, please email anthropology@gc.cuny.edu.

Sept. 29
E. MARA GREEN, BARNARD COLLEGE
The Ethics of Emergent Language in Deaf Nepal

Oct. 6
RICHARD LEVENTHAL, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
The Caste War as Maya Heritage: New Stories Connecting the Past to the Present

Oct. 13
VICTORIA SANFORD, CUNY
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Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and her Father's Quest for Justice

Oct. 20
SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
What is Buried in a Mass Grave? Earthen Transmutations and Capitalist Flows in Colombia

Oct. 27
NAOMI SCHILLER, CUNY
Toward Critically Engaged Collaborative Methods and Transformative Methodologies

Nov. 3
CHELSEY CARTER, YALE UNIVERSITY
Gaslighting: Locating Anti-Black Medical Racism in Three Acts

Nov. 10
ELLIOT PRASSE-FREEMAN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE
Rights Refused: Grassroots Activism and State Violence in Myanmar

Dec. 1
PAUL STUBBS, THE INSTITUTE OF ECONOMICS, ZAGREB
The Non-Aligned Movement, the Global South and the New International Economic Order: From Unity to Fragmentation

Dec. 8
AMY RECTOR, VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
The Zambia Rift Valley Research Project: Community and Paleoecology in Central Africa

Spring 2023 Colloquium Events

Spring Colloquium Series Flyer — Download the Spring 2023 Colloquium Schedule

Zoom or Hyflex (Room 5417)
Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia take place 4:15pm-6:15pm EST Friday.

If you have any questions, please email anthropology@gc.cuny.edu.

FEB 3: GUSTAV PEEBLES; THE NEW SCHOOL
Common(S) Currency: Collectivized Hoards & the Regulation of Money

FEB10: BOOK LAUNCH! DAVID HARVEY - INTRODUCTION BY RUTH GILMORE
“Reminiscences” on the occasion of the publication of David Harvey: A Critical Introduction to His Thought, edited by Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, and Brett Christophers

FEB 17: NATALI VALDEZ; PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Weighing the Future: Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Post-genomic Era

MAR 3: SAYGUN GOKARIKSEL; BOĞAZIÇI UNIVERSITY
Of Truths, Secrets, and Betrayals: Capitalist Nation-State Making and Reckoning with the Communist Past in the European East

MAR 10: DANIELLA GANDOLFO; WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Tears and Laughter in “The Land of the Brave Bulls”

MAR17: BOOK LAUNCH! CHRISTOPHER LOPERENA
The Ends of Paradise: Race, Extraction, and the Struggle for Black Life in Honduras

MAR 24: MEMORIAL SERVICE! JUNE NASH - CELEBRATION OF LIFE
Event takes place in rooms 9205, 9206, & 9207. Reception to follow in Skylight Room, GC, 9th floor

MAR 31: CORI HAYDEN; UC BERKLEY
The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

APR 21: GREGG MITMAN; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia

APR 28: JANET MCINTOSH; BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Between Honor and the Abyss: Necropolitical Language in the U.S. Marine Corps

MAY 5: JACINTA BEEHNER; UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
The “Hoo-Haa Effect” - An Unfortunate Name for a Series of Related Effects in Female Primate Reproduction