Spring 2025 Brown Bag Series

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Please join the Department of Anthropology for the Spring 2025 Brown Bag Series. 

Judith Brunton
Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Rice University

Be Part of the Energy: The Spirit of the Good Life in Corporate Calgary
Friday, January 17
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Michelle Rosenthal
Lead UX Researcher, Hyatt Hotel Corporation, Chicago

Circling Back: My Learnings from Corporate America
Friday, February 7
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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William White
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley

Inflection Point: The Next Generation of American Archaeologists
Tuesday, February 11
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Lisa ​​Messeri
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University

Navigating the Desert of the Unreal
Friday, February 28
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Tam Dao
Assistant Vice President for Research Security, Office of Innovation, Rice University

Fostering Global Partnerships: Best Practices for Secure and Ethical International Collaboration
Friday, March 7
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Orlando Lara
PhD Candidate,Anthropology, Race and Justice Emphasis, UC Irvine

Securitizing Birth in South Texas: On Midwives, Birth Certificates, and Bureaucratic Doubling
Friday, March 28
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Bayo Holsey
Associate Professor, African American Studies and Anthropology, Emory University

Exceptional Blackness: Neoliberalism and the Homeland Brand in West Africa
Friday, April 4
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Caitrin Lynch
Professor of Anthropology, Olin College of Engineering

Title of Talk
Tuesday, April 8
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Rigoberto Quintana
PhD Candidate, Rice University

Autogestión and Autonomy in a 21st Century Mexico City Tianguis
Monday, April 14
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Sarah Besky
Professor of the Anthropology of Work, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University

Home Values: Land, Labor, and the Economy of Retreat in the Eastern Himalayas
Friday, April 18
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Gebby Keny
PhD Candidate, Rice University

Tbd
Thursday, April 24
12:00 PM
Zoom
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Contact

Phone: 713-348-4847
Fax: 713-348-5455
E-mail: anth@rice.edu

Postal Address

Department of Anthropology - MS 20
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892

Street Address

Department of Anthropology - MS 20
Sewall Hall, Fifth Floor
Rice University
6100 Main Street
Houston, TX 77005