Unless otherwise noted, all colloquia take place on Fridays from 4:15pm to 6:15pm EST at the Graduate Center.

Feb. 2
ELISABETH HILDEBRAND, STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
From Fishers to Herders: Changing Environments, Economies, and Social Lives Around Lake Turkana 5000-4000 BP
Room 5417

Feb. 9
COURTNEY DESIREE MORRIS, UC BERKELEY
My Mother’s Body, or Mapping the Biological Life of Jim Crow
The Skylight Room (Room 9100)

Feb. 16
BOOK LAUNCH! PHILIPPE-RICHARD MARIUS + INTRODUCTION BY DON ROBOTHAM, CUNY
The Unexceptional Case of Haiti: Race and Class Privelege in Postcolonial Bourgeois Society
Room 5417

Mar. 1
JILLIAN CAVANAUGH, CUNY
No More Peace: Memory, Narrative and the Precarious Self
Room 9206/9207

Mar. 8
CARTER CLINTON, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
Beneath the Surface: A Genetic and Historical Investigation into African American Communities
Room C201/C202

Mar. 15
JULIE SKURSKI, CUNY
Money, Morality, and the Petrostate: The Critical Vision of a Venezuelan Political Artist
Room 9206/9207

Mar. 22
SANDRA ROZENTAL, EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Ethnography in the Badlands: Capturing a Volcano’s Aftermath
Room 5417

Apr. 5
XENIA CHERKAEV, HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY
A Self-Governing Marketless Social: Russian Theories of Illiberal Modern Life
Room 9206/9207

Apr. 12
ARIEL WILKIS + MARIANA LUZZI, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH
The Dollar: How the US Dollar Became A Popular Currency in Argentina
Room 5417

Apr. 19
BOOK LAUNCH! MARC EDELMAN, CUNY
Peasant Politics of the Twenty-First Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change
Room 9206/9207

May 3
SEBASTIAN RAMIREZ, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
What is Buried in a Mass Grave? Earthen Transmutations and Capitalist Flows in Colombia
Room 5417

May 10
ZARIN MACHANDA, TUFTS UNIVERSITY
Social Aging in Wild Chimpanzees
Room 5417