Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS)
The Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS) is a weekly yearlong seminar that meets on Tuesdays or Fridays at 12:45 in Schwartz 103 (except where noted below). The series includes anthropology colloquia presented by invited guests and Brandeis anthropology faculty, alternating with workshops, reading groups and presentations by graduate students. For more information, contact anthropology@brandeis.edu.
January 24, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Graduate students Sadaf Nausheen, Sargam Sharma and Iris Zhou will be presenting their research.
January 31, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Maura Finkelstein will be presenting her research on equine therapy.
February 7, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pmLocation: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Brandeis graduate alumni Sierra Dakin Kuiper, Ashlee Moser, Scott Schnur, Allison Taylor will talk about their career journeys.
February 11, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Brendane Tynes will lead a workshop based on her expertise and role at the Wenner-Gren Foundation.
February 25, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
This seminar is about how to publish articles in academic journals.
March 7, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Ieva Jusionyte will present on her new book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border.
March 14, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Amy Moran-Thomas will present her research on the embodied histories of energy.
March 21, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Claudia Strauss will present on her new book, titled What Work Means: Beyond the Puritan Work Ethic.
March 28, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
This seminar is about how to identify and explore anthropological conversations your research might intervene in.
April 8, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
This joint session with other social science graduate students will focus on research communication.
April 25, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pmLocation: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Professor Patricia Alvarez Astacio will present her research on human and nonhuman labor.
April 29, 2025
Time: 12:45 - 2:05 pm
Location: Schwartz 103 (BARS classroom)
Graduate students will present their research.