Event Archives

Events Archive

Artist Talk & Film Screening: Preserving Our Place: Our Knowledge is Power
Fri, Sep 22, 2023, 4:00 pm7:00 pm

Our Knowledge is Power: The Cultures of Beauty and Survival in Isle de Jean Charles, LA and Shishmaref, AK

Artist Dennis Davis and curator Chantel Comardelle have partnered on a multimedia exhibit showcasing the beauty of culture of their communities and the price of the climate crisis. Hundreds of…

Location
Paul Robeson Center for the Arts, 102 Witherspoon Street, Princeton
Proprioceptive Sociality
Thu, Sep 21, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

The ability to see what another is seeing is the first step towards understanding what another is saying, according to most accounts of normal language development. A long tradition of western theory has built its account of the emergence of sociality on sight: language, and social life more generally, begins with the visual ability to imagine…

Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker
Princeton Terra Indígena: An Art Exhibition in Progress by Denilson Baniwa
Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 12:15 pm1:15 pm

A conversation between the artist and Princeton curators

Speaker: Denilson Baniwa, Amazonian Indigenous Artist.

Discussants: Jun Nakamura (Princeton University Art Museum), Carlos Fausto (Museu Nacional & PIIRS),…

Location
216 Aaron Burr Hall
Speaker
"Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone"
Thu, Sep 14, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

Ryo Morimoto's book celebration of the release of Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone (April 2023)

In conversation with:

Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Planetary Governance: Perspectives from Brazil
Wed, Sep 13, 2023, 4:30 pm6:00 pm

A Brazil LAB event with Ilona Szabó (Igarapé) and Brian Winter (Americas Quarterly). Discussant: Deborah Yashar (PIIRS Director; Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs).

 

Location
A71 Louis Simpson Building
Speakers
Academic Expo
Mon, Aug 28, 2023, 1:00 pm4:00 pm

The Department of Anthropology looks forward to meeting and welcoming the Class of 2027 at the upcoming Academic Expo. From 1:00 to 4:00 P.M. on August 28, incoming students can learn more about Anthropology and the three tracks: Sociocultural Anthropology, Medical Anthropology and Law, Politics, and Economics.

We hope to see you…

Location
Frick Chemistry Laboratory
Anthropology Class Day Awards and Celebration
Mon, May 29, 2023, 4:00 pm5:00 pm

The Department of Anthropology at Princeton University warmly invites The Class of 2023, their parents, family, and friends to attend the 

2023 Class Day Celebration

Monday, May 29, 2023

4:00 PM in the James Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau Street

Anthropology Department 50th Anniversary Celebration
Fri, May 26, 2023, 12:00 pm2:00 pm
Friday, May 26 | 12:00 Noon
219 Aaron Burr Hall
With lunch and a birthday cake!

  Illuminating our Histories and Creative Futures
 

Opening Remarks by Professor and Chair João Biehl             &nbsp…

Location
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Veins of Conflict: Bodies and the Environment in Peru's Copper Circuit, 1884 - 1930
Wed, May 10, 2023, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Abstract: In the early 20th century, at a time when the world was rapidly electrifying, the rise of industrial copper mining in central Peru produced a series of environmental conflicts. Mining depleted water sources, smelter smoke altered the ecology of the valleys, and underground work environments became toxic. This talk will examine the…

Location
Morrison Hall, Room 224
Speaker
Arc of Interference: Medical Anthropology for Worlds on Edge
Tue, May 2, 2023, 6:00 pm7:30 pm

The radically humanistic essays of Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals. Please join us for a conversation with the coauthor of this visionary new collection and two of today’s leading anthropologists.

Location
Labyrinth Books and Online
Speakers