Spring 2024 Brown Bag Series

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

Lupe Flores
Ph.D. Candidate, 
Rice University
Mobile Data, Im/mobile Bodies: Digital Innovation, CBP One™ and Automated Inspections Across the Extended Mexico-US Border
Monday, January 22
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom

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Ian Lowrie
Director of User Experience, eSimplicity

How "Anthropologists" Think: About Users, for Example
Tuesday, January 23
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom

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Nessette Falu
Assistant Professor of African and African Diasapora Studies, University of Texas

Black Queer Worth Making and Gynecology in Brazil
Co-presented by Rice Anthropology; Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality;
and Center for African and African American Studies

Friday, February 2
Lecture
12:00 PM
Sewall 305 and Zoom

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Workshop
3:00 PM
Registration is Required

Katie Ulrich
Ph.D. Candidate, Rice University

Making Sugar into Oil: The Paradoxes of Sugarcane-based Biofuels and Bioplastics
Tuesday, February 6
12:00 PM
Zoom

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Louis Bertin 
Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American & Africana Studies
University of Kentucky

Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, and Religious Practice in the Bahamas
Co-presented by Rice Anthropology,Center for African and African American Studies, and Department of Religion
Friday, February 16
12:00 PM
Kraft Hall, Room 110
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Andreas Vavvos
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Social Anthropology,
University of Saint Andrews, and the Department of Psychology, University of Crete

Causally Explaining Opposition to Hydrocarbon Extraction: A Critical Realist Collaborative Ethnography
Thursday, February 22
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom

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Screening of Balloon by Filmmaker Pema Tseden
Followed by Discussion with Professors Huatse Gyal and Cymene Howe
Co-presented by Rice Anthropology, Rice Cinema, and Chao Center for Asian Studies
Friday, March 1
3:30 PM Reception
4:00 PM Screening
Sewall 301 

Kamari Maxine Clarke
Distinguished Professor of Transnational Justice and Sociolegal Studies, The University of Toronto at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies
Notes Toward an Otherwise Anthropology of the Black Atlantic World
Co-presented by Rice Anthropology;  Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS); and Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality (CSWGS)
Tuesday, March 5
12:00 PM
Zoom

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Jerry Zee
Assistant Professor in Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University
Affiliate, USC Ethnography Studio, the Department of Geography at NTU (National Taiwan University)

Permutable Stratosphere: Takedown, Downwelling, and Other Ways of Falling out of the Sky
Wednesday, March 20
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom

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Dalia Munenzon
Assistant Professor | Urban Design in Sustainable Communities and Infrastructure
Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, University of Houston

Expecting Uncertainty: Climate Adaptive Cities
Wednesday, April 10
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom

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