Unless otherwise noted, all talks will be held on Fridays at the Graduate Center on the Concourse level in Room C-415A, beginning at 4:15PM. Refreshments will follow in the Brockway Room of the Anthropology Department, on the 6th floor.

Jan 31
NAOR BEN-YEHOYADA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
The Criminalization of Subjunctive Kinship: Freemasons and Mafiosi in Trapani since the 1980s

Feb 7
SHELDON SKAGGS, BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CUNY
Unlocking the Ancient Maya at Pacbitun, Belize: An Archaeometrical Perspective

Feb 28
LUISA STEUR, UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM
“They Didn’t Even Make a Bulla”: A “Darker Red” Perspective on Sanitation Workers and “Structural Racialization” in Globalizing Centro Habana

Mar 7
ANGELA REYES, HUNTER COLLEGE & THE GRADUATE CENTER, CUNY
Philippine Elite “Nature”: Naturality, Naturalization, and Naturalism in Linguistic and Semiotic Anthropology

Mar 14
LEITH MULLINGS MEMORIAL LECTURE: AMANDA J. GUZMÁN, CENTER FOR PUERTO RICAN STUDIES, HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Collected Puerto Rico: Curating Object, Art, and Digital Practice

Mar 28
RENNY THOMAS, NYU
Healing, Market and the State: The Life of Unani in an Indian Small Town

Apr 4
MARGOT WEISS, WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Unsettling Queer Anthropology

Apr 11
MEREDITH LINN, BARD GRADUATE CENTER
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845-1875

Apr 25
ALUMNI HOMECOMING EVENT: CHINA SAJADIAN, VASSAR COLLEGE
Debt and Refuge: The Agrarian Politics of Displacement in Syria and Lebanon

May 2
DON ROBOTHAM: A CELEBRATION!
with AKISSI BRITTON, PREETI SAMPAT, TED POWERS, TED SAMMONS, DEBORAH A. THOMAS, AND DONALD ROBOTHAM

May 9
LOCHLANN JAIN, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Talk Title TBD

May 16
ABIGAIL E. ASANGBA, NYU
Microbial Diversity in Wild Primates