Past Events

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

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

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
- Brittany Long MA’13, Research Associate, The Rescue Agency
- Shawn Dunlap MA’17, Health Science Specialist, US Dept of Veterans’ Affairs
- Aneil Tripathy ’12, MA’14, Executive at the Climate Bonds Initiative and current PhD student
- Donny Slater PhD’14, Teacher, Philips Academy Andover School
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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