91社区

Mon., September 23

Fadi Bardawil (Duke University) "Theory鈥檚 Resistances: Translating the 1960s Arab Left and the Current Revolutions (2011-)"听 12:30, LEA 738

Thurs., October 17

Lynn Meskell (Stanford University) "Engineering Internationalism: Colonialism, the Cold War and UNESCO's Victory in Nubia" 17:00, Le Salon, Mus茅e de Beaux Arts

Mon., October 28

Emanuele Coccia (脡cole des Hautes 脡tudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris ) "The city of the future: the museum of contemporary nature" 12:30 , LEA 738

Mon. November 4

Fr茅d茅ric Keck, (CNRS Research Director, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale) 鈥淲orkshop and discussion of his forthcoming Book: Avian Reservoirs : Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts.鈥� 16:00, EDUC 434

Fri. November 8

James Ferguson, (Stanford University) "Rightful Shares and the Claims of Presence: Distributive Politics beyond Labor and Citizenship", 16:00- 18:00, Redpath Museum

Thurs. November 14 (CANCELLED)

Kristin Norget, Daniel Ceres and Erik Kuhonta Anthropology of Catholicism: A panel discussion

Fri. November 15 (CANCELLED)

Valentina Napolitano (University of Toronto) "Borders Incarnated: notes on an anthropology-theology (un)awkward relation" 13:00 - 15:00, LEA738

Mon., September 17

Professor Junko Habu (University of California Berkeley) "Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability" 12:30 - 14:00, Peterson Hall 116

Tues., October 9

Prof. Alireza Doostdar (University of Chicago) "Islam, Science, and the Gender of Reason" 16:00, Birks SCR

Thurs., October 18

Professor Miriam Ticktin (The New School) "Care Beyond Innocence" 12:30 - 14:00, Arts 160

Tues. November 6

Prof. Noah Salomon, (Carleton University) 鈥�For Love of the Prophet: The Art of Islamic State-Making in Sudan鈥�, Birks SCR

Wed. December 5

Prof. Liz Roberts, (University of Michigan) "Bioethnography as Method", 16:30- 18:00, Room 101, 3647 Peel Street.

Fri., Jan 19

Mayanthi Fernando (UC Santa Cruz), Michael Allan (University of Oregon), Kabir Tambar (Stanford University); "Religion and Politics in a Secular Age" 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Fri., Feb 23

Heath Cabot (University of Pittsburgh); The European Refugee Crisis And Humanitarian Citizenship in Greece, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Mon., Feb 26

Homa Hoodfar (Emerita Concordia University); Framing Academic Freedom And Critical Thinking As Trasnational Rights: Re-Envisioning The 1997 UNESCO Document, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Wed., Mar 21

Mette Risor (Department of Community Medicine, General Practice Research Unit, UiT The Arctic University of Norway); Subjectivities At Stake: The Crafting of Agency And Personhood During Clinical Assessment of CFS, 12:30 - 2:30 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Mon., Mar 26

David Nolin (Postdoctoral scholar, Pennsylvania State University); Pulling Together: The Behavioral Ecology of Cooperative Hunting in Lamalera, Indonesia, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Mon., Apr 9

Jean-Michel Landry (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, 91社区); Ethics As A Vocation. SHI'I Clerical Training in Lebanon, 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Mon., Sep. 25

Saida Hodzic (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies听Cornell University); "Anthropology Debris: NGO Governance and the Ends of Cutting in Ghana;" 12:30 - 2:00 pm, Peterson Hall 116.

Mon., Oct. 16

Jon Altman (Associate Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and the Director, University of Washington's Middle East Center) "Contestations over the Environmental Governance of Indigenous Lands in Australia in the Age of 鈥楶unitive Neoliberalism"; 12:30-2pm Peterson Hall 116.

Tues. Oct. 24

Arzoo Osanloo听(Associate Professor, Department of Law, Societies, and Justice and听Director,听University of Washington's Middle East Center) "Embodied Forbearance: Mercy and Mediation in Iranian Criminal Law", 4:30-6pm TNC, Morrice Hall

Fri., Nov. 10

Maple Rasza听(Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies, Colby College)听"The Maribor Uprisings: Toward a Participatory Form of Visual Ethnography", 12:30-2 pm Education 613

Fri., Nov. 24

Abou听Farman听(Assistant Professor of Anthropology, The New School for Social Research) "Aneasthetic, Synaesthetic: Making Senses of the Afterlife in 3 Acts"; November 24, 12:30-2 pm, Peterson Hall 116

Mon., Feb. 6

Jesse Casana (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth); "Artifacts of Settlement: Mapping of Archaeological Landscapes of the Northern Fertile Crescent;" 12:30-2:00pm, 3460 rue McTavish, Peterson Hall Room 116.

Tues., Feb. 7

Margaret Lock (Marjory Bronfman Professor Emerita, Department of Social Studies of Medicine/Department of Anthropology, 91社区), delivered the Huxley Memorial Lecture, "Mutable Environments and Permeable Human Bodies;鈥� 5:00-7:00 p.m., Leacock Bldg. Rm. 232. .

Mon., Feb. 20

Michael Asch (Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta; Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria); 鈥淥n Being Here to Stay: A Conversation on Resolving Political Relations between Indigenous Peoples and the Settler State;鈥� 12:30-2:00pm, 3460 rue McTavish, Peterson Hall Room 116.

Mon., Apr. 3

Danielle Groleau听(Associate Professor, Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 91社区; Culture and Mental Health Research Unit, Lady Davis Medical Institute, Jewish General Hospital); 鈥淭he Psychological Experience of Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria: Cultural Relativism or Human Rights? 鈥� a WHO Study;鈥� 12:30-2:00pm, 3460 rue McTavish, Peterson Hall Room 116.

鈥淟and Issues and the Global Indigenous Rights Movement among San Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa: A Comparison of Two Cases from Botswana and South Africa.鈥�

Junko Maruyama, Associate Professor, Department of International and Cultural Studies, Tsuda College, Tokyo

Monday, October 31, 12:30-2pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淭raditional Stores and the Architecture of Cigarette Circulation in Indonesia.鈥�

Marina Welker, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University

Friday, November 11, 12:30-2pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淧overty and the Quest for Life: Spiritual and Material Striving in Contemporary India.鈥�

Bhrigupati Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Brown University

Wednesday, November 16. 12:30-2pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淎bundance: Uneven Inclusion at an Andean Resource Frontier鈥�

Eric Hirsch, Institute for the Study of International Development, 91社区

Monday, November 28, 12:30-2pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

"The Opossum and the Coyote, Thirty Years Later: From farmers鈥� co-op to territorial defence in the northeastern Sierra de Puebla (Mexico)"

Pierre Beaucage, Professeur 茅m茅rite, D茅partement d'anthropologie, Universit茅 de Montr茅al

Friday, January 15, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

"New directions in psychiatric anthropology: Cultural phenomenology, critical neuroscience, and global mental health"

Laurence Kirmayer, James 91社区 Professor and Director, Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, 91社区

Friday, January 29, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

"Cosmopolitan Maya Women: Rethinking Interregional Interactions during the Terminal Classic to Postclassic periods (ca. 800-1521 CE)"

Christina Halperin, Professeure adjointe, D茅partement d'anthropologie, Universit茅 de Montr茅al

Friday, February 5, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish.

鈥淢emories of Childhood: Genre, Autobiography, and Voice鈥�

Clara Han, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University

Friday, March 11, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淲ildlife听Conservation, Land Use听Conflicts, and Indigenous Peoples鈥櫶齊ights in Zimbabwe鈥�

Robert Hitchcock, Professor of Geography and adjunct faculty member, Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University

Wednesday, March 16, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淩eflections on critical archaeological practices in the Near East: Notes from the field鈥�

Arnulf Hausleiter, Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Monday, March 21, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淭he Pandemic Perhaps: Notes on Faith and Reason鈥�

Carlo Caduff, Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King鈥檚 College London

Wednesday, April 6, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

鈥淚mages, Image Wars and the Study of Religion鈥�

Birgit Meyer, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Utrecht

Thursday, April 7, 5:30pm, Rm 767, Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., Concordia University

(co-sponsored by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture, the Global Emergent Media Lab, the Departments of Religion, Communication Studies, and Social and Cultural Anthropology, the Office of the Vice-President, Research and Graduate Studies, Concordia University; and the Department of Anthropology, 91社区)

"One World Anthropology"

Tim Ingold, Chair in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

Friday, October 9, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

Public Lecture: 鈥淗usband-Killing in Chicago and the New Unwritten Law鈥�

Thursday, November 12, 5-7 pm, Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 313

Seminar: 鈥淗ow Legal Speech Acts鈥�

Friday, November 13, 1:00-2:30 pm, Faculty of Law, New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 202

Marianne Constable, Professor of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley

(co-sponsored by Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Dean of Arts Development Fund, Legal Theory Workshop, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Department of Anthropology, Critical Social Theory, Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas)

"Hope for China鈥檚 Environmental Crises Lies in Public Participation"

Libo, Consultant and Editor-in-Chief, Green Cover Book - Annual Review of China's Environment

Friday, December 4, 12:30-2:00pm, Peterson Hall, Room 116, 3460 rue McTavish

(co-sponsored by STandD [Centre for Society, Technology and Development], CICADA [Centre for Indigenous Conservation and Development Alternatives] and the Department of Anthropology)

Political Therapeutics in Contemporary Italy

Cristiana Giordano, University of California Davis

Monday, September 22

(co-sponsored with the 91社区 Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry)

Wasting or Making Time and Space? 听Sweeping and Tattooing in the Mozambican Woodlands

Ingrid Nelson, University of Vermont

Monday, October 6, 4:00-5:00 pm, Burnside Hall 426

(co-sponsored with the 91社区 Department of Geography)

Mesolithic Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Research in Ireland

Killian Driscoll, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Universit茅听de Montr茅al

Monday, October 20

Resilience and Hope amidst Conflict and Despair: Civil Society, NGOs, and Development in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Patience Kabamba, Visiting Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

Monday, October 27 (pending confirmation)

When Worldings Meet, and Matters of Concern Run out of Esteem

Mario Blaser, Memorial University

Monday, November 3

The Tyranny of the Commons, a Critical Perspective from the Peruvian Andes

Ingrid Hall, Universit茅听de Montr茅al听

Monday, December 1

Gaia, Anthropology and the Law

Bruno Latour, Professor Science Po

Friday, March 21, 4-6pm Chancellor Day Hall : Maxwell Cohen Moot
Court (room 100), 3644 rue Peel Montreal Quebec Canada

(co-sponsored with Law, Pearson Chair, Situating Science)

Time on Device: Slot Machine Design and the Turn Away from Risk in Gambling

Natasha Schull, Associate Professor, MIT, Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Thursday, April 10, 5:15, Arts W-215

(co-sponsored with Wolfe Chair and Media@91社区)

Is the Law Hopeful?

Annelise Riles, Jack G. Clarke Professor of Far East Legal Studies and Professor of
Anthropology at Cornell University Law School

Monday February 3, 4-6 pm, Chancellor Day Hall: Common Room, 3644
rue Peel

(co-sponsored with the Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy)

Los Exvotos Pictogr谩ficos Guadalupanos: Reglas Tradicionales y Transformaciones Medi谩ticas

Margarita Zires, Universidad Aut贸noma de M茅xico, Xochimilco, Mexico

(co-sponsored with the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
and the Latin American and Carribbean Studies Interdisciplinary Program)

Metrics of the Global Sovereign: Numbers and Stories in Global Health

Vincanne Adams, Professor, University of California, San Francisco,
Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine

(co-sponsored with SSOM)

Workshop: Fieldwork After Ethnos

George Marcus, Professor, Department of Anthropology UC Irvine;
Tobias Rees, Assistant Professor SSOM, 91社区;
Katherine Lemons, Assistant Professor, Anthropology 91社区 (discussant)

(co sponsored with SSOM)

Prototyping & Contemporary Anthropological
Experiments with Ethnographic Method

George Marcus, Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine

(co-sponsored with SSOM, Concordia Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
CEREV Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence)

Repatriation and the Second Life of Heritage: Return of the Masks in Kodiak, Alaska

James Clifford, Emeritus Professor in the History of Consciousness
Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz

(co-sponsored with Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University)鈥�

The Great Chinese Grasslands and the Fate of Their Pastoral Peoples.

Philip Salzman, Professor, Department of Anthropology, 91社区
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The Fog of Humanitarian War: the Indistinguishability of Warriors, Enemies, Victims, and Saviors

Mariella Pandolfi, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
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Ethnographic Film Screenings and Q & A with Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab Filmmakers

Lucien Taylor, Professor Anthropology Harvard University;
J.P Sniadecki, Assistant Professor Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University;
Stephanie Spray, Harvard University

(co-sponsored with RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival)

Films:

Songhua

J. P. Sniadecki, 2007

Yumen

Xu Ruotao, J.P. Sniadecki and Huang Xiang, 2013

People's Park

Libbie D. Cohn and J.P. Sniadecki, 2012

An Audio Performance

Ernst Karel, 脡milie Payeur

Manakamana

Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, 2013

Foreign Parts

V茅r茅na Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki, 2010

Roundtable with Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab Filmmakers

Lucien Taylor, Professor of Visual Arts and Anthropology Harvard University;
J.P Sniadecki, Assistant Professor Department of Performing and Media Arts, Cornell University;
Stephanie Spray, Harvard University;
Lisa Stevenson; Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, 91社区 (moderator)

(co-sponsored with RIDM Montreal International Documentary Festival)

Films:

As Long As There's Breath

Stephanie Spray, 2009

Sweetgrass

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Ilisa Barbash, 2009

Leviathan

Lucien Castaing-Taylor and V茅r猫na Paravel, 2013

Fieldwork in Photography

Dr. Robert Desjarlais, Professor of Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College,听
Berkeley CA

Capitalism after Progress: Salvage Accumulation on Blasted Landscapes

Dr. Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz

(co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology, Concordia University)

What would the world look like if we examined it without expectations of progress?听 This talk offers a taste from my 鈥淟iving in Ruins鈥� project, in which a charismatic wild mushroom helps me view the world through disturbed forests and displaced rural people鈥攖hat is, through humans and nonhumans negotiating progress鈥檚 ruins.听 Capitalism certainly looks different from this perspective.听 Suddenly it is clear that capitalism can never be self-contained; accumulation is always salvaged for capitalism from non-capitalist social landscapes, including the ruined industrial forests of my mushroom study.听 How could we have missed this?听 Without the blinders of progress, the riches of global heterogeneity come into view, both terrible and sweet.

Workshop on Excerpts from Anna Tsing's "Living in Ruins" Manuscript*

Dr. Anna Tsing, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz

(co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology, Concordia University)

Title TBA

Dr. Betsey Brada, Ph.D Anthropology, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Health and Well-Being, Princeton University

(co-sponsored with SSOM)

When Law and Social Science Diverge: Causation in the International Law of Incitement to Commit Genocide

Dr. Richard Wilson, Gladstein Professor of Human Rights, Professor of Anthropology and Law, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut

Debt, Credit and the 鈥淓nd鈥� of Finance in Post-Fukushima Japan

Dr. Hiro Miyazaki, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University

(co-sponsored with SSOM and the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy)

The ongoing global financial crisis suggests that the era in which finance served as a site of vigorous intellectual and socio-economic experiment may have come to an end. This sense of the end of finance has particularly intensified in Tokyo. Theories, techniques and conceptual tools of finance designed to manage and profit from risk have served as means of socio-economic reform in Japan since the burst of the economic bubble in the early 1990s. Financial market professionals have been a major force behind the promotion of a new culture of risk and responsibility. Following the global financial crisis of 2007-2008, however, Tokyo is quickly losing its status as a global financial center, and Tokyo鈥檚 financial market professionals now face new challenges ranging from frequent lay-offs and downsizing to a sheer lack of intellectual excitement.

In this context, Japan鈥檚 triple disasters on March 11, 2011, and the profound uncertainty of the world that the disasters have revealed, have presented a new layer of challenges to Tokyo鈥檚 financial market professionals. In particular, the accident at Fukushima Dai鈥檌chi Nuclear Power Plant created a financial crisis of its own. Its operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), a major supplier of electricity in the greater Tokyo area, was what many perceived as one of the most financially stable companies and was the biggest issuer of corporate bonds in Japan prior to the accident. After the disasters, major Japanese financial institutions, such as mega banks and insurance companies, were suddenly exposed to a wide range of risks associated with TEPCO鈥檚 large corporate debt as well as lawsuits and massive compensation claims against the utility company. These risks quickly became major sources of anxiety and profit opportunity for Tokyo鈥檚 financial market professionals.

In this paper, drawing on my ethnographic field research in Tokyo in 2011 and 2012, I examine two contrasting market responses to the TEPCO crisis orchestrated by Tokyo鈥檚 financial market professionals in the months following the disasters, as manifestations of these professionals鈥� conscious efforts to re-deploy theories and techniques of finance in a newly found sphere of profound uncertainty. I offer these ethnographic examples as illustrations not only of problems associated with the specificity and peculiarity of Japan鈥檚 debt and credit markets but also of a more general question of how theoretical, technical and professional commitments are made anew.

Hirokazu Miyazaki is Director of the East Asia Program and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Cornell University. He has studied indigenous Fijian gift giving and Japanese derivatives trading. He is the author of The Method of Hope: Anthropology, Philosophy, and Fijian Knowledge (Stanford University Press, 2004) and Arbitraging Japan: Dreams of Capitalism at the End of Finance (University of California Press, 2013).