Social Anthropology

2023 Nov 02

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Hiroko Kumaki (Oberlin College)

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203

Hiroko Kumaki is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Oberlin College, with a courtesy appointment in East Asian Studies. Her research is based in the Tohoku region of Japan, which she is a native to. It engages ethnographies and social theories of health, environment, as well as science and technology to examine what it means to live well in the context of profound environmental crisis. 
 
Her current book project, Becoming Fukei: Living Well in a Relational Landscape after Fukushima examines regulatory policies and everyday practices of health and well-being after...

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2023 Oct 31

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Michael Berman (Brown University)

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203

Michael Berman is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University. He has previously held positions at the University of California, San Diego, CUNY Hunter College, CUNY City College, and the University of Tokyo. Overall, he has spent approximately seven years in Japan and has conducted research in several parts of Tokyo and the Tōhoku region in northeastern Japan.

Working at the intersections of liberal secularism, capitalism, and language, that research has focused...

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2023 Oct 24

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Ryo Morimoto (Princeton University)

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location: 

Tozzer 203

Ryo Morimoto is a first-generation college graduate and scholar from Japan and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Richard Stockton Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University. His scholarly work addresses the planetary impacts of our past, present, and future engagements with nuclear things.

 

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