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Spring 2024
- January 19, 2024: Planning for Your Comprehensive Exam and Dissertation Proposal with Jonathan Anjaria and Sarah Lamb
- January 26, 2024: An Archaeological Examination of Pre-Reservation Diné History in the U.S. Southwest - Wade Campbell, Boston University
- February 2, 2024: Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation with Danilyn Rutherford
- February 9, 2024: Publishing in Academic Journals, with Professors Anjaria and Ferry
- February 28, 2024: Extreme Gender Roles: A Discussion, led by the UDRs
- March 1, 2024: Alumni Careers Panel with Olivia Spalletta, PhD '21; Aneil Tripathy, PhD '21; and Mengqi Wang, PhD '18
- March 8, 2024: Graduate Student Research Presentations: Hui Wen, Care beyond Profit: Consuming Health Products in Aging China; Kimcraig, Man seeks wife, woman seeks better; Taha Kaleem, Desiring Whiteness: Race and Queer Intimacies in Qatar; Yura Yokoyama, A (De)fortified National Future: Exposing Local Youth to Crypto-Working Opportunities in Rural El Salvador
- March 18, 2024: Care as Literature, Care as Praxis - Brandeis English Department Conference - featuring talks by anthropology doctoral students Sargam Sharma and Hui Wen.
- March 20, 2024: Get Curious! Trans Justice, with Profs. Brian Horton and AJ Murphy.
- March 20, 2024: Global Community Engagement presents Dr. Alexander Hinton speaking about "Perpetrators: Genocide and the Dark Side of Humanity", sponsored by ENACT and cosponsored by Anthropology.
- March 22, 2024: Landscapes of Suspicion: Minefields, Peace Laboratories and (Post)War in Colombia: Diana Pardo Pedraza
- April 2, 2024: Law, Legality & Social Identity: An Event with Mandel Grant Graduate Winners, featuring doctoral student Sarah Han.
- April 3, 2024: What Can YOU Do With An Anthropology Degree? UDR-hosted alumni and graduate student careers panel, featuring Ayush Thacker '23, Nina Kumar '23, and Skyler Inman, PhD candidate.
- April 5, 2024: Egalitarian Paradox: Dalits and the State in South India -- Jayaseelan Raj, Kings College, London.
- April 11, 2024: Mrs. Columbo's Anti-Politics Machine, with Aneil Tripathy, PhD '21, David Wood, and Elizabeth Ferry.
- April 12, 2024: Conference on Community-Engaged and Public-Facing PhD Research, organized by Jon Anjaria.
- April 16, 2024: Anthropology Thesis and IRB Info Session, led by Sarah Lamb and Janet McIntosh.
- April 19, 2024: Craft Session: Unwind While Winding! Led by Patricia Alvarez Astacio and Elizabeth Ferry.
- May 1, 2024: Anthropology Senior Research Day.
- May 3, 2024: The Politics of Affect: Multimodal Explorations, with Patricia Alvarez Astacio's ANTH 208: Documenting Cultures.
- May 10, 2024: ANTH 130: Filming Culture Documentary Shorts Screening
Fall 2023
- September 1, 2023: Anthropology Graduate Student Orientation
- September 8, 2023: Making a 2- or 6-Year Plan, with Jon Anjaria
- September 8, 2023: Anthropology Welcome Reception
- September 22, 2023: Hunt Lecture in Economic Anthropology - Mythri Jegathesan, Santa Clara University
- September 29, 2023: Pedagogy Discussion on Creating an Inclusive Classroom, with PhD students Medha Asthana and Gowthaman Ranganathan
- October 5, 2023: Brownies in Brown - Open House
- October 6, 2023: Normative Collusions and Amphibious Evasions: Contested Politics of Queer self-making in Ghana: Kwame Edwin Otu, Georgetown University
- October 13, 2023: IRB Workshop with Professor Sarah Lamb
- October 20, 2023: How to Write in Graduate School
- November 1, 2023: Explore the Anthropology Major
- November 3, 2023: The Memory of Fruits: Artist Talk and Arts Research Creation Workshop by Claudia Claremi
- November 10, 2023: Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine - Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins, Bard College
- November 30, 2023: Disclosure Imperatives and (Non-)Disclosures: Women’s Experiences of ‘Self-Illness’ (Nafsānī bali) in a Culture of Trauma Testimony - Anu Ahmed, Medical Anthropology Job Talk
- December 1, 2023: Anti-Black Devices and Acceptable Failures: Race, Dermatology, and Technoscientific Knowledge - Yesmar Oyarzun, Medical Anthropology Job Talk
- December 4, 2023: The Cosmopolitics of Health: Healing and Radical Resurgence in the Andes - Lucía Stavig, Medical Anthropology Job Talk
- December 6, 2023: The Boundary: Medicaid Governance and Care in the U.S. City - Tali Ziv, Medical Anthropology Job Talk
- December 11, 2023: Hidden Labor, Floating Dreams: Chinese Miners Living the Socialist-Capitalist Duality in Colombia - Changhong Zhang Dissertation Proposal Defense
Spring 2023
- Jan. 27, 2023: Social Event and Alumni Roundtable on Careers in Anthropology with Manny Moss MA '13, Mrinalini Tankha PhD '13 and Nicole Welk-Joerger MA '14
- Jan. 30, 2023: Storytelling Performance and Workshop with Chandreyee Lahiri, Writer and Storyteller. Hosted by ANTH 122b — We Are All Ears: Power, Politics and Ethics of Storytelling
- Feb. 10, 2023: Interested in Joining an Archaeological Excavation? Co-sponsored by Classical and Early Mediterranean Studies.
- Feb. 10, 2023: Public Scholarship at Brandeis: New Directions: Professor Émilie Diouf (English), Professor Elizabeth Ferry (Anthropology), Professor Sara Shostak (Sociology) and Gowthaman Ranganathan (Anthropology) with Angel Queentus. Co-sponsored by Mandel and COMPACT.
- Feb. 13, 2023: Anthropology Graduate Alumni Celebration. Hosted by GSAS.
- Feb. 15, 2023: Storytelling Performance and Workshop with Dzidzor Azaglo with Baban Gida— Performance Poet, Educator, Curator. Hosted by ANTH 122b — We Are All Ears: Power, Politics and Ethics of Storytelling
- March 10, 2023: Presenting your research at academic conferences
- March 13, 2023: Storytelling Performance and Workshop with Jomion & the Uklos — African Jazz Musical Ensemble (with MusicUnitesUs). Hosted by ANTH 122b — We Are All Ears: Power, Politics and Ethics of Storytelling
- March 17, 2023: Ethnographic Data Analysis Workshop with Daniel Souleles
- March 17, 2023: Hunt Lecture in Economic Anthropology — Daniel Souleles: Whoosh Goes the Market: Algorithms, Automation and Alienation
- March 31, 2023: From Research Idea to Dissertation and Publication, with Jon Anjaria, Maya Dworsky, Elizabeth Ferry and Emily Ibrahim
- April 17, 2023: Senior Thesis and IRB Info Session
- April 18, 2023: kimcraig's Dissertation Proposal Hearing, "Bare Sticks: Stories of Male Reproduction, Rural Masculinity and Social Exclusion among Chinese Rural Bachelors"
- April 19, 2023: What does English-language hegemony mean for the academy? Part of the series on "Toward Language Justice in Higher Education" sponsored by the Ethics Center.
- April 19, 2023: Storytelling Performance and Workshop with Norah Dooley, storyteller, author, educator. Hosted by ANTH 122b — We Are All Ears: Power, Politics and Ethics of Storytelling
- April 21, 2023: Care, Narrative and Community: Silence and Sacrifice in Troubled Times with Merav Shohet, Boston University
- April 24, 2023: Moriah King's Dissertation Proposal Hearing, "Our Own Food and Shelter: Examining the Social Processes of Learning and Landscape Management Practices of Black Farmers in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area."
- April 28, 2023: Graduate Student Research Presentations featuring Kalie Jamieson, Sophie Katz, Gowthaman Ranganathan, Julie Scesney and Yura Yokoyama
- May 4, 2023: Senior Research Day
- May 17, 2023: Sarah Han's Dissertation Proposal Hearing, "Baloch Women & the Aesthetics & Infrastructures of Citizenship in the United Arab Emirates."
- May 17, 2023: Nhi Le's MA Project, "Making, Materiality and Embodied Knowledge."
Fall 2022
- Aug. 26, 2022: Anthropology Graduate Student Orientation
- Sept. 9, 2022: Welcome Reception
- Sept. 16, 2022: Benson Saler Lecture: Emily Ibrahim — "Folded Speech: A Semiotics of Uncertainty in an Accra Zongo"
- Sept. 21, 2022: Peace, Justice, and Knowledge-Production in Yemen. Co-sponsored event hosted by Crown Center for Middle East Studies
- Sept. 22, 2022: Explore the Major with the UDRs
- Sept. 23, 2022: IRB workshop with Professor Sarah Lamb
- Sept. 30, 2022: Grants Workshop with Professors Charles Golden and Sarah Lamb
- Oct. 14, 2022: Crosstown Connectivity: Brandeis and Boston University Social Gathering
- Oct. 21, 2022: Hope and Despair: Field Notes from Queeristan with Parmesh Shahani. Sponsored by Mandel Center for the Humanities, co-sponsored by Anthropology.
- Oct. 21, 2022: Aja Lans — A Bioarchaeology of the Self
- Oct. 26, 2022: Untangling Equity and the Environment: The Future of Conservation and How We Get There, with Tanner Yess of Groundwork Ohio River Valley
- Oct. 28, 2022: Lisanne Norman: Creating Diversity & Inclusion in UX Research & Design
- Nov. 17, 2022: Ethics in Research: Tales from the Field — UDR-hosted panel with Jonathan Anjaria, Charlie Goudge and Sarah Lamb
Spring 2022
- Jan. 28, 2022: Anthropology Ingathering
- Feb. 4, 2022: Paige Henderson, Sierra Dakin Kuiper, Brittany Lee Long: Alumni Roundtable — Career Diversity
- Feb. 11, 2022: Elizabeth Ferry and Janet McIntosh: Preparing for Your Comprehensive Exam
- Feb. 17, 2022: Emily Cohen Ibañez: Fruits of Labor (cosponsored)
- Feb. 18, 2022: Paja Faudree: Magic Mint: The Rise of the Global Salvia Trade (or, this is your mind on Pollan)
- March 4, 2022: Ayana Omilade Flewellen: The Will to Adorn: Black Women and Sartorial Choice Post-emancipation
- March 11, 2022: Elizabeth Ferry, Caitrin Lynch, Sarah Pinto, Steven Gonzalez and Casey Golomski: Anthropologists Writing Creatively
- March 18, 2022: Charlie Goudge: The Scars Of Colonial Intent: Embodied archaeological legacies of chemical, ecological and ideological violence in the British Caribbean
- March 25, 2022: Sarah Lamb: IRB Workshop
- March 31, 2022: Anthropology UDRs Ji Chen '23, Margo Sobel '22, Ayush Thacker '23: Explore the Anthro Major
- April 1, 2022: Gideon Singer: Trash Talk: Practicing garbology in the private and public sectors
- April 8, 2022: Sonia Jurado: Discrimination, Harassment and Sexual Misconduct
- April 12, 2022: Sarah Lamb: Senior Thesis Info Session for Anthro and WGS majors
- April 29, 2022: Kalie Jamieson, Yelim Lee, Katie Tinch: Graduate Student Presentations
- May 4, 2022: Anthropology Senior Research Day
Fall 2021
- Sept. 10, 2021: Isar Godreau: Non-Sovereign Racecraft: How Colonialism, Debt, and Disaster are Transforming Puerto Rican Racial Subjectivities
- Sept. 24, 2021: Anita Hannig and Janet McIntosh: Applying to Doctoral Programs
- Oct. 8, 2021: Benson Saler Lecture: Jacqueline Fewkes: American Mosques, The Sacred and The Mundane
- Oct. 22, 2021: Jon Anjaria and Anita Hannig: Nuts and Bolts of the Doctoral Program in Anthropology
- Nov. 5, 2021: Brian Horton: Shimmers in the Dark: On the Possibilities of Intimate Touch in Bombay’s Queer Sexpublics
- Nov. 12, 2021: Elizabeth Ferry and Anita Hannig: Writing Op-Eds
- Dec. 3, 2021: Gemmae Fix: Exemplifying Anthropology Through Practice
Spring 2021
- Feb. 5, 2021: Professional Development Seminar: Translating a Qualitative PhD to a User Experience Job
- Feb. 12, 2021: Mark Auslander: Decolonizing the Museum World: Anthropological Interventions and Career Prospects
- Feb. 26, 2021: Professional Development Seminar: Social Justice-Oriented Qualitative Research Jobs
- March 5, 2021: Alex Blanchette, Tufts University: Off-Animals and Other Late Industrial American Creatures
- March 12, 2021: IRB Workshop
- April 9, 2021: Krysta Ryzewski: The Blue Bird Inn, Detroit: Historic Preservation and Jazz Archaeology
- April 30, 2021: Krystal Smalls, The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Digital Body-Snatching: TikTok, Utilitarian Anti-Blackness and the Entextualization of the Black Body in Social Media
Fall 2020
- Sept. 25, 2020: Workshop: Grant Writing. Offered by Professors Jon Anjaria and Charles Golden. Offered by Professors Ellen Schattschneider and Javier Urcid
- Oct. 2, 2020: Workshop: Applying to PhD Programs.
- Oct. 9, 2020: Laurence Ralph, Daunasia Yancey and Karlene Griffiths Sekou: Black Lives Matter: Connecting Academia and Activism
- Oct. 16, 2020: Lauren Santini — First Archaeological Identification of Nixtamalized Maize
- Oct. 23, 2020:Film Screening of Border South. Comments by Raul Paz Pastrana and Ieva Jusionyte, PhD '12.
- Oct. 30, 2020: Applying Material Culture to your Research: Faculty Panel
- Nov. 6, 2020: Archeologist David Freidel.
- Nov. 10, 2020: "Out There Without Fear" — A Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Jamaican Dancehall Culture
- Nov. 13, 2020: How Anthropological Expertise Can Live in Industry with Professor Jon Anjaria and Ingrid Ramón Parra.
- Nov. 20, 2020: Dealing with the Emotional/Psychological Stresses of Academia. Offered by Professors Patricia Alvarez and Brian Horton
Spring 2020
- Feb. 7, 2020: Adrienne Keene: "I just had to be there: Experiences of Indigenous students in the #NoDAPL movement"
- Jan. 17, 2020: Discrimination, Harassment and Sexual Misconduct — Sonia Jurado, Office of Equal Opportunity
Fall 2019
- Dec. 9, 2019: Landscapes of Inequality. Annie Danis
- Dec. 6, 2019: Environments of British Caribbean Rum Production. Charlotte (Charlie) Goudge, Bristol University
- Nov. 19, 2019: Excavating Empire: The Material World of Precolonial, Colonial, Postcolonial and Decoloniality. Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann, Hampshire College
- Nov. 15, 2019: Archaeologies of Whiteness from the West Indies to West Africa. Matthew Reilly, City College of New York
- Nov. 8, 2019: My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File. Katherine Verdery, City University of New York
- Oct. 25, 2019: The Rules of Friendship and Debt in Jakarta's New Economy. Doreen Lee, Northeastern University
- Oct. 18, 2019: Workshop — Integrating Theory.
- Oct. 11, 2019: Workshop — Grant Writing.
- Sept. 6, 2019: Department Welcome Reception.
- Aug. 30, 2019: Workshop — Strategies for Grad School Success
Spring 2019
- May 3, 2019: Anthropology Senior Research Day
- April 5, 2019: ;Pursuing Diverse Careers: a Panel Discussion with Alt-Ac Alumni
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Brittany Long MA’13, Research Associate, The Rescue Agency
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Shawn Dunlap MA’17, Health Science Specialist, US Dept of Veterans’ Affairs
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Aneil Tripathy ’12, MA’14, Executive at the Climate Bonds Initiative and current PhD student
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Donny Slater PhD’14, Teacher, Philips Academy Andover School
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- March 15, 2019: Graduate Student Open House
- March 8, 2019: The Archaeology of Indentured Labor: Domestic Landscapes and Everyday Life on a Mauritian Plantation. Julia Haines, University of Virginia
- March 1, 2019: Greening the Hunt. Richard Schroeder, Brandeis University
- Jan. 18, 2019: Grant Writing Seminar
Fall 2018
- Dec. 5, 2018: The State of the Individual: Biometric IDs and the Founding of a New "Digital India." Vijayanka Nair, A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Dec. 3, 2018: On the Way: Digital Infrastructures and Imperial Legacies in Iceland. Alix Johnson, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University, Ontario, Canada
- Nov. 30, 2018: Cannibalizing Race: The Queer Lives of Anti-Black Racism in Urban India. Brian Horton, PhD Candidate, Brown University 2019
- Nov. 28, 2018: Citizen Forces: Topologies of Policing and Afterlives of Reform in Turkey. Hayal Akarsu, Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
- Oct. 12, 2018: Images of the Gods at the Postclassic Maya Urban Capital of Mayapan: Ritualized Production, Use, and Disguise. Marilyn Masson, Professor of Archaeology, University at Albany, SUNY
- Sept. 21, 2018: The Planetary Imagination: Digital Maps, Virtual Presence, and Being on Other Worlds. Lisa Messeri, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
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