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

02.06 | MIRIAM TICKTIN, GC WITH SERENE KHADER, BROOKLYN AND CAMILLE ROBCIS, COLUMBIA
[BOOK LAUNCH] Remaking the World in Authoritarian Times

02.11 [WED] | SAMEENA MULLA, EMORY
Listening for Anti-Blackness in the Court: Sonic Patriarchy and Sexual Assault Sentencing [RM 9205/6]

02.13 | ORISANMI BURTON, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
Wartime Epistemology: Black Radical Thought in Times of Rising Fascism

02.18 [WED] | CHRISTIEN TOMPKINS, RUTGERS
Stranded Assets, Technocratic Burdens: Articulating Interventions from New Orleans to NYC [RM C201/2]

02.20 | ARJUN SHANKAR, GEORGETOWN
On Global Brownness: Rethinking Race, Caste, and Labor

03.06 | HANNAH CHAZIN, COLUMBIA
Political Animals: Fractal Recursion in the Analysis of Political Life in the Late Bronze Age South Caucasus

03.13 | RUDOLF GAUDIO, PURCHASE COLLEGE, SUNY
Sanitation at Scale: Dwelling and Belonging in Nigeria’s Planned Capital

03.27 | ANDREA MORRELL, GUTTMAN CC WITH AISHA KHAN, NYU, MAGGIE DICKINSON, QUEENS, AND JEFF MASKOVSKY, GC-QUEENS
[BOOK LAUNCH] Prison Town: The Making of the Carceral State in Elmira, New York

04.17 | LAURIAN BOWLES, DAVIDSON COLLEGE — LEITH MULLINGS LECTURE
Aluminum Pans, Fugitive Labor, and Affective Anti-Blackness in Accra

04.24 | CHRISTINE WEBB, NYU
The Arrogant Ape: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism and Why it Matters

05.01 | LOUISE LENNIHAN: A CELEBRATION!

05.08 | VINCENT CRAPANZANO: A CELEBRATION!

05.15 | DISSERTATION PROPOSAL SHOWCASE