Past Events
April 2013
Friday, April 19, 2013
Prof. Jason Neelis (Religious Studies, Laurier University)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm
This talk will be held at UTM. Room TBA.
AGSU Spring Wine & Cheese
5:00-7:00pm, Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King's College Circle
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
"Tinkering or Transformation: going beyond food and energy security for a well-fed world at peace"
Development Seminar
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Monday, April 15, 2013
SCL Professional Development Event with Gustaaf Houtman (Editor of Anthropology Today)
12:00-1:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Lunch will be provided to those who RSVP by April 9, 2013.
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Krista Maxwell (CE Fellow, UTSC)
"Witnessing Aboriginal Child 'Protection' in Treaty Three Anishinaabe First Nations"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
12:00-2:00pm, UTSC, MW 296
March 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Open Mic with Elizabeth Povinelli (Professor and Chair, Anthropology, Columbia University)
7:00-10:30pm, Center for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst St.
Presented by Anthropology, UTM
Click here to view the poster. Further info at https://www.facebook.com/events/426859007398191/
Friday, March 22, 2013
Prof. A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi (Trent University)
"Beyond food sovereignty: foundations of a new food system"
Development Seminar
12:00 - 2:00 pm, AP246, 19 Russell St.
Click here for further info. View the event poster here.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
1st Annual Medusa Anthropology Graduate Student Symposium
Presented by the U of T Anthropology Graduate Students Union (AGSU)
10:00am-5:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here to view the schedule. View the event poster here.
Prof. Andrew Scull (UC San Diego)
"Psychiatry and the Social Sciences in Post World War II United States"
2:00-4:00pm, AP 140, 19 Russell St.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)
"Measuring Politics and Distributing Pollution in the Paraguayan countryside"
Development Seminar
12:00 - 2:00 pm, AP246, 19 Russell St.
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Prof. Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
"The Télèphone Malgache: Gossip and Social Transformation in the Context of Transnational Migration"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Dr. Tariq Ramadan (University of Oxford)
"Towards a Shared Contemporary Applied Ethics: An Islamic Perspective"
7:30pm, Northrop Frye Hall 003, 73 Queens Park Cres. E.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Anthropology, Emmanuel College, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, the Study of Religion, and Victoria College.
Attendance is free, but seating is limited. To register now or for further information, please go to http://ramadanvisit.chass.utoronto.ca
Monday, March 11, 2013
Dr. Stephanie Lloyd (McGill University)
Medical Anthropology Job Talk
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Prof. Henrietta L. Moore (William Wyse Professor of Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
"Personal Matters: Intimacy and Exclusion in Africa and Europe"
Organized by the Centre for Ethnography
10:30am-12:30pm, UTSC, Room MW110
Prof. Becky Raboy (EEB, U of T)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Dr. Todd Meyers (Wayne State University)
Medical Anthropology Job Talk
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Dr. Zoe H. Wool (Rutgers University)
"Masculinity, Genital Injury, and the Intimate Attachments of the American Solider"
Medical Anthropology Job Talk
11:00am-1:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Friday, March 1, 2013
Professors Bonnie McElhinney and Monica Heller (U of T)
SCL Discussion Series
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
To subscribe to the mailing list or for further info, contact Lukas Ley.
Prof. Chris Garces (Cornell University)
"Checkpoint Clearance and 'Security Sexualization': The Prison Writ Large"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
1:00-3:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Prof. Margaret Lock (McGill University)
"The Alzheimer Enigma Amidst Global Aging"
Presented by the Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on "Aging, Memory, and Aesthetics", co-sponsored by the Centre for Ethnography and Canada Research Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, UTSC
3:00-5:00pm, JHB 616, 6th Floor, 170 St. George St.
February 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Prof. Morag Kersel (DePaul University, Chicago)
"Agent of Diplomacy: Archaeology as an Element of the Foreign Relations Toolkit"
Co-sponsored by the Archaeology Centre, the Centre for the Study of the United States, and the Munk School of Global Affairs
4:00-6:00pm, 208N, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Further info: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/02/28/47/-/dr-morag-kersel
Prof. Claudio Lomnitz (Campbell Family Professor of Anthropology, Columbia U.)
“On the Origins of the ‘Mexican Race’”
Centre for Transnational and Diaspora Studies Guest Lecture Series
4:00-6:00pm, JHB 100A, 170 St. George St.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Dr. Krista Maxwell (CE Fellow, UTSC)
Medical Anthropology Job Talk
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
Asli Zengin (CE Fellow, UTSC)
"Violent Intimacies: Tactile State Power, Sexed Bodies and the Politics of Touch in Contemporary Turkey"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
12:00-2:00pm, UTSC, MW 296
Friday, February 15, 2013
Prof. Alan G. Morris (University of Cape Town)
"Cultural Identity, Ritual Murder, and Human Rights in South African Forensic Anthropology"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Dr. Ron Williamson (Chief Archaeologist, Archaeological Services Inc.)
Book Launch: The Mantle Site: Economic Planning and Foreign Affairs in a Sixteenth Century Community
Hosted by the Archaeology Centre and Archaeological Services Inc.
5:30-6:30pm, followed by a reception, BA 1160, 40 St. George St.
Further info: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/02/11/46/-/ron-williamson-book-launch
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Dr. Colin Shaw (University of Cambridge)
"'Putting Flesh Back Onto The Bones': How do we reconstruct the prehistoric activity patterns of our hominin ancestors?"
UTSC Bioarchaeology Job Talk
9:30-11:30am, MW 296, UTSC
Click here to view the job talk poster.
Prof. Avi Gopher (Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University)
"No Longer Acheulian, Not Yet Mousterian: Cultural and biological transformations at Middle Pleistocene Qesem Cave, Israel"
Presented by the Archaeology Centre
5:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Further info: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2013/02/05/48/-/prof-avi-gopher
January 2013
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Dr. Genevieve Dewar (UTSC)
"Origins and Transformations"
UTSC Bioarchaeology Job Talk
1:30-3:30pm, MW 296, UTSC
Click here to view the job talk poster.
Friday January 25, 2013
Alonso Barros (Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago)
"Governing the Transition to Renewable Energies: Towards a new global regulatory framework for key resources, with insights from the Lithium Project in the Chilean Atacama"
Development Seminar Series
12:00-2:00pm, BL 205, 140 St. George St.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Sarah Hillewaert (University of Michigan)
"Between the expected, the respected, and the desired. Negotiating ambivalence through sights and sounds in Lamu (Kenya)"
UTM Linguistic Anthropology Job Talk
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Alonso Barros (Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago)
"Lithium People: at the Crossroads of Mining and Renewable Energy"
Anthropology Colloquium Series/Development Seminar
1:00 - 3:00 pm, AP246, 19 Russell St.
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Benjamin Smith (Vassar College)
"On marbles and (little) men: stance and the emergence of toughness in Peruvian Aymara boyhood"
UTM Linguistic Anthropology Job Talk
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here to view the job talk poster.
Friday, January 18, 2013
Merav Shohet (U of T Sessional Lecturer)
SCL Discussion Series
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
To subscribe to the mailing list or for further info, contact Lukas Ley.
Prof. Andy Roddick (McMaster University)
"Communities on the Horizon: Reconsidering Style and Social Boundaries Before Tiwanaku"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Dr. Christopher Ball (MacEwan University)
"Exchanging Words: Language, Ritual, and Relationality in Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Park"
UTM Linguistic Anthropology Job Talk
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here to view the job talk poster.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Prof. Timothy Harrison (NMC, U of T)
"Tayinat's Lions and Monuments: Neo-Hittite Sculpture and the Role of Assyrian Influence"
Public Lecture presented by the Canadian Society for Mesopotamian Studies
8:00pm, Earth Sciences Auditorium B142, 5 Bancroft Ave
Click here to view the poster, or visit http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/csms/lectures.html for further info.
December 2012
Monday, December 17, 2012
Dr. Rebecca Carter (Brown University)
"Life after Urban Death: Murder, Religion, and Social Inclusion in post-Katrina New Orleans"
UTSC Job Talk
9:30-11:30am, UTSC, MW 296
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Carlos E. Avendaño (San Carlos Guatemala State University)
A Tale of Two Mayan Landscapes: Paleoecological Reconstructions of Lachuá Lowlands and Purulha Highlands in the Atlantic Slope in Guatemala
Presented by the Archaeology Centre
12:00pm, AP 140, 19 Russell St.
Further info: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2012/12/17/35/-/avendano-a-tale-of-two-mayan-landscapes
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Rediscovering Peking Man: New Discoveries and the Canadian Connection
ROM Event featuring presentations from Dr. Chen Shen, Dr. Xing Gao, Dr. Xiaoling Zhang, Dr. Yue Zhang, and Dr. Shuangqian Zhang
2:30-4:30pm, ROM Eaton Theatre
Further info: http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2012/12/16/36/-/rediscovering-peking-man
Friday, December 14, 2012
Dr. Sascha Priewe (The British Museum, London)
"Sogdian Burials in China: The Archaeology of a Diaspora Community"
Presented by the Archaeology Centre
3:00pm, AP 140, 19 Russell St.
Further info at http://www.archaeology.utoronto.ca/index.php/events/icalrepeat.detail/2012/12/14/32/-/lecture-dr-priewe
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Dr. Katie Kilroy-Marac
"Rethinking Memory: Entangled Time and the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal"
UTSC Job Talk
2:30-4:30pm, UTSC, MW 296
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Prof. Nikhil Anand (Haverford College)
"ScareCities: The Infrapolitics of Water Supply in Mumbai"
UTSC Job Talk
2:30-4:30pm, UTSC, MW 296
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Friday, December 7, 2012
AGSU Winter Wine & Cheese
6:30-9:30pm, Junior College Room, University College, 15 King's College Circle
November 2012
Friday, November 30, 2012
Professor Simon Coleman (U of T)
SCL Discussion Series
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Dr Brian Stewart (Harvard University)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Profs. Andrea Muehlebach and Tania Li (U of T)
"The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy"
Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies Methods Cafe
2:00-4:00pm, JHB100A, 170 St. George St.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Regent Park Research Panel: New Findings from the Field
5:00-7:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Professor Amira Mittermaeier (U of T)
"Islamic Charity in Egypt: On Ethics and Its Limits"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
1:00-3:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, Room MW 296
Dr. Paul Duffy (SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, U of T Anthropology)
"Mobility and Symbolism in Middle Bronze Age Europe"
Toronto Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Series
5:00-7:00pm, MC 252, 5 King's College R.
Further info: http://aiatoronto.ca/lectures/
Prof. Tim Harrison (U of T, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations)
"Lions, Statues and Treaties: Cultural Heritage Preservation in Southeastern Turkey"
Presented by Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, in conjunction with the Turkish Community for Turkish Studies Association and the Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies
6:30pm, Room 108, Koffler House, 569 Spadina Ave. Reception to follow.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Dr. Amanda Melin (Dartmouth College)
"Understanding Primate Color Vision Variation: Exploring Genes, Behavior and Ecology"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Book Party
Prof. Naisargi Dave: Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Prof. Andrea Muehlebach: The Moral Neoliberal: Welfare and Citizenship in Italy
4:00-6:00pm, Victory Cafe, 581 Markham St., Toronto
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Dr. Malini Sur (UTSC Centre for Ethnography Fellow)
"Capricious Maps and Affective Imprints: Peasants, Spies and Citizens along the India Bangladesh Border"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
1:00-3:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, Room MW 296
Friday, November 16, 2012
Prof. Sanjay Reddy (Dept. of Economics and India China Institute, New School for Social Research, New York)
"The New Dynamics of Global Inequality: China, India, the West and the Rest"
Development Seminar
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Further info: http://www.devsem.utoronto.ca/ or click here to view the event poster.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Cultural Resource Management II: Even More Tensions Surrounding the Industry
Heritage Interest Talk on CRM
Join us for Part II of our discussion of making one's way in the CRM world. Based on extended interest, we have made this into a two-part event focusing on the state of CRM in Canada, and the ongoing struggle to balance interests, academic goals, and heritage desires. Bring your lunch and join the conversations, even if you couldn't make Part I! Event is open to all; students particularly welcome.
12:00pm-1:00pm, AP 140, 19 Russell St. Click here to view the event poster.
Dr. William R. Leonard (Prof. & Chair, Dept. of Anthropology, Northwestern U.)
"What did humans evolve to eat? Human nutritional health in comparative perspective"
The Professor Edna W. Park Lecture for 2012 presented by the Household Science & Nutritional Sciences Alumni Association, U of T.
5:00pm, HS 610, 155 College St. Reception to follow.
Friday, November 9, 2012
Professor Michael Smith (Arizona State University)
"Archaeological Measures of the Quality of Life for Ancient Communities and Households"
Presented by Dept. of Anthropology, UTM and the U of T Archaeology Centre
9:30am, AP 140, 19 Russell St.
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Professor Michael Smith (Arizona State University)
"Are Ancient Cities Relevant to Contemporary Urbanization?: Archaeology and Comparative Urbanism"
Presented by Dept. of Anthropology, UTM and the Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, IB 200, UTM Campus
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Professor Naisargi Dave (U of T)
"Death and Family: Queer Archives of the Space Between"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
1:00-3:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, Room MW 296
Friday, November 2, 2012
Professor Bianca Dahl (UTSC)
SCL Discussion Series
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Professor Karen Hébert (Yale University)
"The Work of Wildness: Refashioning Salmon in Southwest Alaska"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
October 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Professor Anne Meneley (Trent University)
"The Qualities of Palestinian Olive Oil"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Speaker Series
3:00-5:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, Room MW 296
Friday, October 26, 2012
Prof. Guy Standing (Economic Security, University of Bath)
Prof. Standing will talk about his book The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class. Further info at http://www.devsem.utoronto.ca/
12:00-2:00pm, Room 179, University College
Click here to view the event poster.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Professor Alyshia Gálvez(CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies)
Immigrant Citizenship: Interactions of Immigrants with Public Prenatal Care in New York City and the Paradox of Belonging
Latin American Studies Luncheon Series
12:00-2:00pm, Room 200, 15 Devonshire Pl.
Further info and registration at http://las.utoronto.ca/component/illbethere/public/immcitizen
Professor Erick Mueggler (University of Michigan)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
Professor Paul Christopher Johnson (University of Michigan)
"Objects of Possession: Photography, Spirits and the Entangled Arts of Appearance"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Dr. James Delgado (Director, Maritime Heritage NOAA)
"Titanic: Every Davit, Every Boiler, Every Shoe"
Presented by the U of T Archaeology Centre and the Explorers Club
6:00-8:00pm, BA 1180, 40 St. George St.
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Friday, October 5, 2012
Professor Valentina Napolitano (U of T)
SCL Discussion Series
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Professor Matthew Johnson(Northwestern University)
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here to view the event poster.
September 2012
Friday, September 28, 2012
Back From the Field & Archives: CSAS Graduate Students on Their Research
4:00-5:30pm, 208N, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Please register at: http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?EventId=12225
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Friday, September 21, 2012
Prof. Alain Deneault (Sociology, UQAM)
"Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World's Mining Industries"
12:00-2:00pm, Room 179, University College
Prof. Deneault will talk about his new book Imperial Canada Inc., which examines Canadian mining at home and abroad. Further info at http://www.devsem.utoronto.ca/
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Matthew Walls
"Inuit Kayak Hunting in Greenland: An Ethnoarchaeological Perspective"
Illustrated Lecture presented by the Archaeological Institute of America Toronto Society and the U of T Archaeology Centre
5:10pm, MC 252, 5 King's College Rd.
Click here for more info.
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Prof. Martin F. Manalansan IV (University of Illinois)
Queer Dwellings: Migrancy, Precarity, and Fabulosity
CSUS and F. Ross Johnson Distinguished Speaker Series
5:00-7:00pm, 208N, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Registration required at http://www.munk.utoronto.ca/EventDetails.aspx?eventid=12283
May 2012
Friday, May 11, 2012
"Uncovering Our Early Past: First Nations in Toronto"
4:00-6:00pm, Anthropology Building Lobby, 19 Russell St.
Please RSVP by Friday, April 20, 2012.
April 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Professor Zhenyu Sun (Ningxia University)
"The Hui Islam and the Hui Islamic Philosophy"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
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Thursday, April 26, 2012
Graduate students recently returned from the field discuss their experiences
1:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
AGSU Spring Wine & Cheese
4:00-6:00pm, Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King's College Circle
Click here to view the event poster.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Workshop on the Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
9:00am-5:15pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Ontario Archaeology Society Lecture, Visitors Welcome
7:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Thursday, April 12 - Friday, April 13, 2012
"(Re-)Placing the City: Sacralizing Migrant Materialities"
9:30am-5:00pm, Croft Chapter House, University College
Further info: http://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/event_details/id=667
Monday, April 9, 2012
"Settling History in the City of David: Pilgrimage and Agency in the Spacetime of an East Jerusalem Archaeological Site"
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
March 2012
Friday, March 30-Saturday, March 31, 2012
AP 367, 19 Russell St. RSVP to sarah.gould@utoronto.ca
Visit the website at http://madagascarworkshop2012.wordpress.com/
Friday, March 30, 2012
Prof. Biella Coleman (McGill University)
"E pluribus unum: in Lulz we Trust"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Dr. Dimitris Dalakoglou (University of Sussex)
"Urban Spatialities of the Crisis: Athens Beyond the Syntagma Square Movement"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here for further info and to view the event poster.
Monday, March 26, 2012
Merev Shohet (UTSC Centre for Ethnography Fellow in Ethnographic Writing)
"Time, Person, and Conduct in Central Vietnam"
Centre for Ethnography Anthropologies of History and Historicity Series
10:00am-12:00pm, MW 269, UTSC Centre for Ethnography
Prof. Adam T. Sellen (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
"Murky Waters: Edward Thompson and the Looting of the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá, Yucatán."
Anthropology Colloquium/Latin American Studies Luncheon
12:00-2:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Registration is required by March 22, 2012. Click here for further info and registration.
Friday, March 23, 2012
"American Mestizo: Ideologies of Race and Nation in American Organizations for 'Mixed Race' Children in the Philippines, 1922-1955"
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Prof.
Danilyn Rutherford (University of California, Santa Cruz)
"The Passions of the Trekking Machine: Affect and Technology in the Making of Stone Age New Guinea"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
3:00-5:00pm, UTM Campus, Health Sciences Complex
To be followed by end-of-year get-together (with a catered meal). Tours of the new Archaeology Labs will also be available. Click here for further info.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Rebekka King (UTSC Centre for Ethnography Fellow in Ethnographic Writing)
"Christianity After Christ: Performing Deconversion Narratives in Progressive Christianity"
Centre for Ethnography Anthropologies of History and Historicity Series
10:00am-12:00pm, MW 269, UTSC Centre for Ethnography
Friday, March 16, 2012
"The Catholicization of Neoliberalism"
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Medusa Conference
10:00am-2:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Prof. Irene M. Silverblatt (Duke University)
"Irene Silverplatt: Living Document"
Latin American Studies Living Document Series
12:00-2:00pm, Trinity College Boardroom, 2nd Fl, 6 Hoskin Ave.
Registration required by March 14. For further details and to RSVP visit http://las.utoronto.ca/component/illbethere/public/silverblatt
Prof. Marina Welker (Cornell University)
"'We should be like Starbucks': The Social Audit in a Mining Corporation"
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Prof. Irene M. Silverblatt (Duke University)
"Lives of a Memory: Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger and the Politics of Remembrance"
UTSC Centre for Ethnography Anthropologies of History and Historicity Series, co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice-Principal (Academic) and Dean, UTSC
5:00-7:00pm, UTSC AA 160. To be followed by a reception in BV 380, the Ralph Campbell Lounge.
Click here for more details.
February 2012
Friday, February 10, 2012
Ángeles López-Santillán (Anthropology Postdoctoral Fellow)
"Value, treasures and money: Environmental Policy in Protected Areas in Mexico"
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Dr. Sandra Fahy (University of Southern California)
Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies Job Talk
2:00-3:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Click here for more details.
January 2012
Friday, January 27, 2012
Prof. Rupert Stasch (University of California, San Diego)
Anthropology Colloquium Series co-sponsored by the Asian Institute
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Please click here to register online.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
"Everything was Carved": Film Screening and Discussion with Prof. Cara Krmpotich
Cultural Heritage Interest Group Event
2:00-4:00pm, Media Commons Room 1
Third Floor, Robarts Library, 130 St. George St.
Click here for more info.
AGSU Pub Night
The AGSU invites all Anthropology faculty and graduate students to their first Pub Night of 2012
Starting at 4:00pm, GSU Pub, 16 Bancroft Ave.
Further info: hyunjoo.oh@utoronto.ca.
Friday, January 20, 2012
Prof. Damani Partridge (University of Michigan)
Anthropology Colloquium Series co-sponsored with the European Union Centre of Excellence
4:00-6:00pm, 108N, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Please click here to register online.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
"Transforming Masculinities in Vanuatu"
UTSC Social Sciences, Anthropology Job Talk
1:00-3:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, MW 296
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Dr. Zeynep Gürsel
“Brokering Images, Reproducing World Views”
UTSC Social Sciences, Anthropology Job Talk
2:00-4:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, MW 296
Monday, January 9, 2012
Dr. Bianca Dahl
"The Invention of Orphans: Humanitarian 'Crisis' during Botswana's AIDS Epidemic"
10:30am-12:30pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, MW 296
UTSC Social Sciences, Anthropology Job Talk
Monday, January 16, 2012
"Landfills as Disculture: the Actors and Biopolitics of Euro-American Waste and Energy"
1:00-3:00pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, MW 296
UTSC Social Sciences, Anthropology Job Talk
December 2011
Friday, December 9, 2011
U of T Dept. of Anthropology Graduate Student Town Halls
Masters Students: 10:00-11:00am, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
PhD Students: 11:00am-12:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
RSVP to anthro.officeofthechair@utoronto.ca.
AGSU Winter Wine & Cheese Party
6:30-9:30pm, Junior Common Room, University College
Tickets $3. Click here to view the poster.
Friday, December 2, 2011
Professor Carlota McAllister (York University)
Creatures of empire: Darwin, gauchos, and multispecies anthropology
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Professor Michael Ellenberg (Aarhus University, Visiting Prof at U of T Anthropology)
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
12:00-2:00pm, 108N, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Click here to register.
Professor Paul F. Healy (Trent University)
Ancient Maya Warfare
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:30-4:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
November 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Dame Marilyn Strathern (Girton College, Cambridge University)
Gifts Money Cannot Buy
Presented by UTSC Centre for Ethnography
6:00-8:00pm, UTSC, SY 110
Light refreshments 5:30-6:00pm in SY 110 foyer. Catered reception to follow 8:00-10:00pm, Ralph Campbell Faculty Lounge, BV 380.
Click here for further info.
Saturday, November 19, 2011
U of T Anthropology AAA Reception
Hosted by the Department and the UTSC Centre for Ethnography. Faculty, students, alumni and friends attending the AAA meetings in Montreal are welcome to attend.
8:00-11:00pm, Room 516B, Montreal Convention Centre, 1001 Place Jean Paul Riopelle
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Dr. Beatriz Paredes Lorente
The Making of "Workers of the World": Language and the Labor Brokerage State
Presented by Women & Gender Studies
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 364, 19 Russell St.
Friday, November 11, 2011
The Ancestors of the Bushmen - Reconstructing Behaviour and Adaptations
ASA Academic Seminar
11:30am-12:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Socio-Cultural Medusa Conference
12:30-2:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Presenters include: Steven Dorland, Mark Dolynskyj, Walter Callaghan, Tori Sheldon, and Melinda Vandenbeld-Giles
Friday, November 4, 2011
Professor Adam T. Smith (Cornell University)
The Political Machine: Sense, Sensibility, and Sentiment in the Late Bronze Age Caucasus
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
October 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Friday, October 21, 2011
2011-2012 Medusa Conference Focused on Biological Anthropology & Biological Archaeology
12:30-2:30pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Professor John R. Bowen (Washington University in St. Louis)
Islamic Shariah Councils in England: A Challenge for Civil Law?
Anthropology Colloquium Co-hosted by the University of Victoria/U of T European Union Centre of Excellence
2:00-4:00pm, 108N, Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Pl.
Advance Registration is Required. Click here to Register
Monday, October 17, 2011
Aylwyn Scally (Welcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Evolution of the Great Apes and the Gorilla Genome Project
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Friday, October 14, 2011
The Value of (Performative) Acts
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Professor Matthew Engleke (London School of Economics)
Kingdom and Christendom: Signs of Faith in the Palace of Westminster
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Professor Erick Seeman (SUNY Buffalo)
The Huron-Wendat Feast of the Dead: Bones, Blood, and the Colonial Encounter
Anthropology Colloquium Series
2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
September 2011
Friday, September 30, 2011
"We have always eaten chicken!": memory, marriage, and the market in the new millennium northern Sudan
10:00am-12:00pm, AP 367, 19 Russell St.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Professor Bhavani Raman (Princeton University)
Conceptualizing the Past in South India
UTSC Centre for Ethnography "Anthropologies of History and Historicity" Speaker Series
3:30-5:30pm, UTSC Centre for Ethnography, Social Sciences Bldg, MW 296
The People who Greeted the French: What was Daily Life Like for Iroquians of Southern Ontario in the 14th to 17th Centuries?
Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Series
5:15-6:15pm, Room 1190, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Professor Charles Bonnet (University of Geneva)
Doing Archaeology under the Cathedral of Geneva
Lunchtime Seminar Co-hosted by the Archaeology Centre and the Swiss Consulate General
12:00-2:00pm, AP 246
Please RSVP to kristy.bard@utoronto.ca
Continuous and Discontinuous Persons: Two Dimensions of Ethical Life
Centre for Ethics Seminar Series
3:00-5:00pm, Room 200, Larkin Building, 15 Devonshire Pl.
Friday, September 23, 2011
4:00-6:00pm, Lobby, 19 Russell St.
