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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Michael Berman (Brown University)

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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...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Ryo Morimoto (Princeton University)

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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...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Kathryn Goldfarb (University of Colorado Boulder)

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Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Clint Carroll (University of Colorado Boulder)

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We are pleased to host Clint Carroll, Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, on October 5, 2023 as part of Harvard Anthropology's Seminar Series for a talk, entitled "...

Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series: Audra Simpson (Columbia University)

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Full Abstract How is the past imagined to be settled? What are the conditions that make for this imagining, this fantasy or rather, demand of a new beginning? In this piece I consider the making of ‘new time’ in light of histories of wrong doing –...

ANTHRO 2910 - Theories of the Social

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Prof. Ajantha Subramanian Th 9:00 AM - 11:45 AM This required seminar offers an overview of theoretical trends in social anthropology from approximately the 1960s and situates these trends within longer genealogies of social thought. The central animating...

ANTHRO 2725/HISTORY 2725 - Anthropology and History

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Profs. Ajantha Subramanian and Vincent Brown W 9:45 AM - 11:45 AM Explores exchanges between the disciplines of History and Anthropology, emphasizing overlaps and distinctions in the treatment of mutual concerns such as the representation of time and...

ANTHRO 2705 - Semiotic Anthropology

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Prof. Nicholas Harkness Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM This seminar examines the mediation of socio-cultural life by sign phenomena in multiple modalities of experience.

ANTHRO 2689 - Image making in the Jewish imagination: drawing trauma, home and the diasporic condition

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Prof. Ruth Mandel W 6:00 PM - 8:45 PM What can we learn from alternative, multimodal forms of knowledge production? This course applies anthropological approaches to Jewish graphic narratives. We will explore the ways Jewish authors grapple with complex...

ANTHRO 2690 - Middle East Ethnography

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Prof. Steven C. Caton Th 12:00 PM - 2:45 PM The discursive construction of culture and its complex politics are examined in a wide range of ethnographies that have been written recently on countries in the Middle East, including Lebanon, Jordan, Israel...