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SPRING 2013: January / February / March / April / May / June
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Archaeology Program Seminar Series
"The Paradoxes of Late Antiquity: A Thermodynamic Solution"
a talk by John Bintliff (Leiden University)
Monday, April 1st
Geological Museum, Haller Hall
Harvard University
24 Oxford Street
12:00 p.m.
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Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
“Microcredit Liability: untangling the credit/debt twinship in Paraguayan development lending”
a talk by Carline Schuster (Academy Scholar, Weatherhead
Center, Harvard University)
Monday, April 1st
William James Hall 1550
4:15 p.m.
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Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
"Governing ‘the Poor’: Development Futures in Democratic South Africa"
a talk by Kerry Chance (Harvard University)
Monday, April 8th
William James Hall 1550
4:15 p.m.
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Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
"The Return of Khulekani Khumalo, Zombie Captive: Imposture, Law, and the Paradoxes of Personhood in South Africa"
a talk by John Comaroff (Harvard University)
Monday, April 15th
William James Hall 1550
4:15 p.m.
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The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Presents
"Five Features of Three Kingdoms Period Architecture"
a talk by Nancy S. Steinhardt (University of Pennsylvania)
Wednesday, April 17th
Porté Seminar Room (S250), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge St.
5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Early Korea Project
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Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860-2012)"
presented by Julie O'Brien Kleinman
Monday, April 22nd
Yenching Common Room
Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue, 1st Floor
4:15 p.m.
Joint Social Anthropology/CMES
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Archaeology Program Seminar Series
"Eventful times – societal change amongst northern European hunter-gatherers around the 12.920 cal BP eruption of the Laacher See volcano, Germany"
a talk by Felix Riede (Director, Laboratory for Past Disaster Science -LaPaDiS-
Aarhus University, Denmark)
Wednesday, April 24th
Putnam Lab, Peabody Museum
12:00 p.m.
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"Navigating a Multispecies World: A Graduate Conference on the Species Turn" April 25-26 2013
Thursday, April 25th 3:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room 1550, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street
a talk by Stefan Helmreich (Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, MIT); a screening of the acclaimed 2011 British documentary, “Project Nim”; panel sessions on interspecies representation, ontology, subjectivity, agency, ethics, sociality, and politics
Friday, April 26th 8:45 AM - 5:30 PM
Bell Hall, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK Street
a talk by Noam Chomsky (Institute Professor & Professor of Linguistics, Emeritus, MIT);
panel sessions on interspecies representation, ontology, subjectivity, agency, ethics, sociality, and politics.
For more information and to RSVP for this event, please visit: multispeciesworld.eventbrite.com. Seating is limited.
Co-sponsored by the Harvard Program on Science, Technology, and Society (STS), Harvard Department of Anthropology, the MIT Department of Anthropology, the Harvard Divinity School, and the Harvard Political Ecology Working Group (PEWG).
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Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Discourse, Morality, Body: Radical Socialism at Dazhai Village (1946-1978)"
presented by Shu Chang
Friday, April 26th
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
10:00 a.m.
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The East Asian Archaeology Seminar Presents
“Western Han Peripheries: Archaeological Research on the Sinification of the Borderlands”
a talk by Zheng Junlei (Sun Yat-sen University)
Friday, April 26th
59D Putnam Lab
11:30 a.m.
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Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Citizen Factory:
Schooling and Person-making
in Contemporary Rural China"
presented by Min Zhang
Friday, April 26th
Bowditch Room, Peabody Museum
2:00 p.m.
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Social Anthropology Program Seminar Series
"Responses to Racism Under Neo-Liberalism: The United States Compared"
a talk by Michele Lamont
(Sociology and AAAS, Harvard University)
Monday, April 29th
William James Hall 1550
4:15 p.m.
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Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Digital Jianghu: Independent Documentary
in a Beijing Art Village"
presented by John Paul Sniadecki
Tuesday, April 30th
CCVA, Main Lecture Hall
Film screening at 1:00 p.m.
Presentation at 2:30 p.m.
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Department of Anthropology Dissertation Defense
"Public Culture and Cultural Citizenship at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival"
presented by Toby Lee
Tuesday, April 30th
William James Hall Room 301
5:00 p.m.
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