Fall 2024 Brown Bag Series

Fall 2024 series

Please join the Department of Anthropology for the Fall 2023 Brown Bag Series.

Laurin Baumgardt
Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University
Meantime Designs: Housing, Infrastructure, and Participatory Architecture in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Friday, September 6
12:00 PM
Zoom
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Melanie Ford Lemus 
Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University
Infrastructure Under “Hydrocracy”: Autonomous Well-Building in Peri-Urban Guatemala
Friday, September 20
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Nicolas Mabillard
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Houston, and Institute
for Sociological Research, University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland
Growing an Honorable Child in a Senegalese Transnational Family
Friday, October 4
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Zeynep Oğuz
Lecturer, Anthropology of Development, University of Edinburgh
Unset In Stone: On Environmental Thought and Conspiring with the Earth
Thursday, October 10
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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This lecture is supported by the Rice-Edinburgh Strategic Collaboration Awards and the Department of Anthropology

Helina Woldekiros
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
The Complex History of African Chickens: Combining Archaeological and Biometric Methods to Explore Origins and Diversity
Friday, October 18
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Gizem Haspolat
Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University
The Promise of the Touched Cow: Care, (re)production, and Commodification
Friday, October 25
12:00 PM
Zoom
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Helena Zeweri
Book Talk: Between Care and Criminality: Marriage, Citizenship, and Family in Australian Social Welfare
Friday, November 15
12:00 PM 
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Shannon Mattern
Penn Presidential Compact Professor of Media Studies, University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Creative Research and Practice, Metropolitan NY Library Council
Wither Institutions?
Friday, December 6
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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