Event Archives

Events Archive

Drugs, Crime, Sex, and Sufis: Politicizing Islam in Kurdish Istanbul

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Drugs, Crime, Sex, and Sufis: Politicizing Islam in Kurdish Istanbul
Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 4:30 pm

Chris Houston and Onur Günay did anthropological research in Istanbul amongst Kurdish migrants, Islamic groups, and Sufi orders twenty years apart. In this talk, they will reflect upon surprising continuities and ruptures between state discourses and policies towards Islam and Kurds.

Location: 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker(s):
Christopher Houston
Macquarie University, Sydney
Onur Günay
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University

THE TOXIC CAMPUS BREW Whiteness, Masculinity, Drinking Laws, Stress and Shame

Global Health Program
THE TOXIC CAMPUS BREW Whiteness, Masculinity, Drinking Laws, Stress and Shame
Fri, Nov 9, 2018, 12:00 pm

Jennifer S. Hirsch, a medical anthropologist, is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.

Location: Robertson Hall, Bowl 001

Brazil: A Biography

Brazil A Biography
Brazil: A Biography
Thu, Nov 8, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location: 3rd Floor Atrium, Aaron Burr Hall

Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Ryo Morimoto

Ryo
Environmental Humanities Colloquium: Ryo Morimoto
Wed, Nov 7, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location: 111 East Pyne

The Hole: An Ethnographic Descent into Mexico City's 'Anexos'

Angela Garcia
The Hole: An Ethnographic Descent into Mexico City's 'Anexos'
Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 4:30 pm

In the past decade, informal addiction treatment centers called anexos (annexes) have proliferated throughout Mexico. Run and utilized by low-income communities, these centers utilize captivity, coercion and violence as instruments for recovery.

Location: 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker(s):
Angela Garcia
Stanford University

Writing Capital's Cosmopole: Towards a Dialogical Narration of South African Performance

Coplan

The Trial, A Film by Maria Augusta Ramos

Brazil Lab
The Trial, A Film by Maria Augusta Ramos
Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 4:30 pm

Screening and discussion of The Trial (with English subtitles). 

Location: 106 McCormick Hall

Amazon at the Crossroads: Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Conservation

Brazil Lab
Amazon at the Crossroads: Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Conservation
Tue, Oct 16, 2018, 4:30 pm

Beto Veríssimo is a senior researcher at Imazon, an NGO think-and-do-tank based in the Brazilian Amazon that he co-founded in 1990. He was trained in Agricultural  Engineering at the Federal Rural University of the Brazilian Amazon and earned a Masters in  Ecology at Pennsylvania State University.

Location: 144 Louis A. Simpson Building

AMS Workshop with Carol Greenhouse

Carol Greenhouse
AMS Workshop with Carol Greenhouse
Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 12:00 pm

Please RSVP to Candice Kessel.

Location: 102 Jones Hall

Film Screening: In the Last Days of the City

Mia's Film
Film Screening: In the Last Days of the City
Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 4:30 pm

Followed by discussion with director Tamer El Said

Location: 100 Jones Hall

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