Feb 5 Charles King, Georgetown University, “Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the 20th Century”
Feb 18 Charles Hallisey, Harvard University, “Encountering the Contours of the Moral Person: Insights on Moral Anthropology”
Feb 25 Emma McGlennen, Johns Hopkins University, “The Ladies of Las Palmas: Senegalese Migrants on the Margins of Marriage”
Mar 3 Lindsay Bell, University of Western Ontario, “Architectures of Extraction: Arctic Diamonds and Ordinary Aspirations in Canada’s Northwest Territories”
Mar 24 Cana Ozden-Schilling, Johns Hopkins University, “Cultures of Optimization: Electricity and Everyday Markets”
Apr 7 Nicole Labruto, Johns Hopkins University, “Matabolic Intimacies: Cultivating Plants and Sustainability in Brazilian Transgenic Sugarcane Science”
Apr 14 Katherine Fehr Chandler, Georgetown University, “Unmanning”
Apr 28 A celebration honoring the career of Professor Deborah Poole
Apr 30 Parry Scott, Federal University of Pernambuco, “Ethnography on Care: Women Tell Their Stories” film screening & discussion