Please join Rice Anthropology for the Spring 2026 Brown Bag Series.
Anne Allison
Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Cultural Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Duke University
The Crisis of Necro-Sociality in Japan: Caring for the Dead Otherwise
Friday, January 23
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Townsend Middleton
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Quinine’s Remains: Empire’s Medicine and the Life Thereafter
Friday, February 6
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Sponsored by Program in Science and Technology Studies
Christien Tompkins
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
Rutgers University-New Brunswick
New Book Talk: A Burdensome Experiment: Race, Labor, and Schools in New Orleans
Wednesday, February 11
Time and Location TBD
Presented by Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)
Stephen Molldrem
Assistant Professor, Bioethics and Health Humanities, The University of Texas Medical Branch
Becoming “Disease-Agnostic”: Translational Science, Biomedical Innovation, and the
Valorization of Universal Utility in the Sciences
Friday, February 20
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Sponsored by Program in Science and Technology Studies
Samar Al-Bulushi
Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine
New book talk: War-making as World-making: Kenya, the United States, and the War on Terror
Wednesday, March 4
12:00 PM
Location TBD
Presented by. Center for African and African American Studies (CAAAS)
Sarah Reynolds
Zwan Postdoctoral Associate, Boniuk Institute, Rice University
Gendered Discourses within Vodun
Friday, March 6
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Faye Ginsburg
Kriser Professor of Anthropology at New York University,
Co-director of the Center for Disability Studies
Disability Worlds in the Shadow of Ableism
Friday, April 10
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Sponsored by Program in Science and Technology Studies
Anna Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, April 17
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom
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Webb Keane
George Herbert Mead Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
From Talking Tools to Metahumans: Social Interaction, Semiotic Skill, and the Authority of AI Chatbots
Thursday, April 23
12:00 PM
Sewall 570 and Zoom Only
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Sponsored by Department of Religion and Program in Science and Technology Studies