Please join the Department of 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 Chappel 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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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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Sarah Reynolds
Zwan Postdoctoral Associate, Boniuk Institute, Rice University
Irreversible Returns: Controversies Over Glacier Geoengineering in Chile
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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Anna Agbe-Davies
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology,
College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chappel 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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