Events Archive
A Brazil LAB event with Silvio Almeida (Professor of Law and Philosophy, Mackenzie University and Getúlio Vargas Foundation).
Discussant: Frederick Wherry, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology
Moderator: Thomas Fujiwara, Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs
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A Brazil LAB and Amazônia 2030 event with Rudi Rocha (Professor of Economics, Getúlio Vargas Foundation; Research Coordinator, IEPS).
Discussant: Márcia Castro (Andelot Professor of Demography, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health).
Moderator: João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology
Several friends of Gwen, Bridget, Caijsa, Dana, George, Jenny, Nina, and Rachel, wanted to make sure that there is a space for her wide-ranging group of friends, loved ones, and supporters to come together to remember and celebrate the amazingness that was Gwen Gordon.
They will be…
A special Zoom reading with leading composer, librettist, and jazz musician Hannibal Lokumbe.
Hannibal will read the libretto from his current opera composition, The Jonah People, and take questions from the attendees.
Held during a class, Rituals of Governing, but open to all.
Co-sponsored by the…
Based on long-term ethnographic research, this talk draws on three generations of Black women from a low-income family in Santiago de Cuba. Hanna Garth details their household labor to feed the family, paid domestic labor cooking and cleaning in the homes of wealthier white Cubans, and entrepreneurial endeavors, such as…
Kristina Douglass is an archaeologist who investigates how people, land- and seascapes co-evolve. She is the Joyce and Doug Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute and Assistant Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Penn State University. She is a Penn State Institutes for Energy and the Environment co-funded…
Film screening followed by discussion with the director. Discussants: João Biehl, Guilherme Fagundes & Maria Luísa Lucas (Anthropology and Brazil LAB).
Synopsis: Brazil has the world’s second highest death toll due to COVID-19. The government’s necropolitics can be captured in two…
Arbel Griner, Postdoctoral Research Associate, CHW
Desire pills, love sprays, maternity drops: Pharmacological Normativity and the making of Love as a Scientific Fact
Marian Thorpe, Postdoctoral Research Associate, PLAS
Controversies of Consent: Wordsmithing Free, Prior, and…
Wednesday, November 10 at 12pm ET / Betts Auditorium / Zoom
The coastal landscape around the Gulf of Kutch in Western India is defined by unprecedented economic development…