The Fall 2022 Social Anthropology Seminar Series with Professor Michael Puett presents The Ruderal Science: Antibiotic Resistance, Bacteriophage Therapy, and the Archive of Recovery in Post-Soviet Georgia, a talk by Rijul Kochhar (Michigan Society of Fellows).
Abstract
This talk takes us on epistemic and epidemiological journeys to the former Soviet republic of Georgia, where I foreground a novel life-science technique of infection-control...
The Social Anthropology Seminar Series with Professor Michael Puett presents a talk with Tulasi Srinivas of Emerson College entitled “The Lake of Fire: Water, Caste and Gender in India's Climate Apocalypse”.
If water is life, as our popular understanding suggests, we ask what is a life without water? Highlighting the paradox between Hinduism’s view of water as female, sacred and sentient, and the endemic pollution of water resources and climate- driven drought in contemporary India, this ethnographic and...
ABSTRACT - A sliver of scholarship reaches the public. When it does, mostly that’s thanks to journalists who craft news stories based on their understanding of scientific results. In this dissemination pathway, research passes from academia through...