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Event Series The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life

Description: The Implicit Normativity in Language and Norms of Life

Commons East Room 304 3301 N Charles St, Baltimore, MD

This interdisciplinary workshop takes description as a route to explore the ways in which our norms are embedded within and throughout language rather than reflecting external rules. While hard oppositions have been made between description and narration, pictorial and verbal, sound and sense, this workshop is attempting to create a vocabulary of description at different […]

9:00 - 10:30am - Lifecycles of the Urban 10:45 - 12:15pm - Time in Crisis 3:00 - 4:30pm - On the Clock: Temporalities of Labor 4:45 - 6:15pm - Embodied in Time

Enacting Temporality

Gilman 132 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Keynote speaker: Chloe Ahmann (Cornell U.) 2024 JHU Anthropology Graduate Student Conference

Famine, War, and International Humanitarian Law

Please join us for an online panel discussion on Thursday, April 25th, noon to 1pm, about famine, war, and international humanitarian law, details below. Please also help publicize the event by sending this message to others (including posting the attached flier). Advanced Zoom registration required. When war and famine come together, how should international legal bodies and […]

This is an image advertising an event in honor of professor Veena Das. It depicts the cityscape of Rome.

Veena Das Honored in Italy

Veena Das is being honored in Italy with an Italian translation of Life and Words and a conference

This image displays information about the upcoming Anthropology Colloquium on September 10th. "Brewing Technologies and Drinking Cultures in Early South Asia (and Methods for Studying Them)" James McHugh (University of Southern California) Mergenthaler 426 September 10th 4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow)

Anthro. Colloquium Series: James McHugh

“Brewing Technologies and Drinking Cultures in Early South Asia (and Methods for Studying Them)" James McHughProfessor, School of ReligionUniversity of Southern California Mergenthaler 426and on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688 A reception will be served afterward.

Flyer advertising the colloquium given by Hoon Song. The background is of a pink bed, in a pink, whimsical room. The image looks like something from a dream.

Anthro Colloquium Series: Hoon Song

"The Dream in North Korea's Historiography" Hoon Song (University of Minnesota) Mergenthaler 426October 8th4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688

Flyer for the Anthropology Colloquium "Personation and Property: Caste in Lucknow's Domestic Labor Market" Co-sponsored by Global South Humanities Joel Lee (Williams College) The flyer features the smiling face of the speaker (man) and in the bottom portion a temple lit up with a orange and yellow glow.

Anthro Colloquium Series: Joel Lee

"Personation and Property: Caste in Lucknow's Domestic Labor Market" Co-sponsored by Global South Humanities Joel Lee (Williams College) Mergenthaler 426October 15th​4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688

Flyer for Yukiko Koga's colloquium. Image features a textured, grey background with a headshot of Professor Koga. Yukiko wears glasses and is smiling. She has long, dark hair and seems to be in a forest.

JHU Anthro Colloquium Series: Yukiko Koga

"Unrepayable Debt: Post-imperial Redress, Repair, and Reconciliation in East Asia" Co-sponsored by East Asian Studies Yukiko Koga (Yale University) Mergenthaler 426October 22nd4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688

A flyer advertising Talia Katz's talk. The background is a drawing of children surrounding a globe.

JHU Anthro. Colloquium Series: Talia Katz

"A Ring Transforms: Children Learning Life and Death in Lod" Talia Katz (Johns Hopkins University) Mergenthaler 426October 29th4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688

Image advertising the colloquium given by Amy Moran-Thomas. The central image shows three frames of film that undeveloped.

JHU Anthro. Colloquium Series: Amy Moran-Thomas

"Redacted Reckoning: An Anthropology of Institutional Silences After Tuskegee Study Researchers' Experiments in Guatemala" Co-sponsored by the Program in Medicine, Science, and Humanities, the Program in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine Amy Moran-Thomas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Mergenthaler 426November 12th4:00pm – 5:30pm (Reception to follow) No Zoom link […]