Spring 2012 Anthropology Program Colloquia
Anthropology Today for the World Tomorrow
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY 10016

All colloquia take place on Fridays, 4:15-6:15 in Room C415A (concourse level) unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments will be served afterward in the Brockway Room, Rm. 6402. Additional events may be announced. Download poster.

February 10
Vyjayanthi Rao
The New School NSSR
Event, Mediation, Public: Citizenship and Spectacle in Mumbai

February 17
Kate Crehan
CUNY Graduate Center
"Art" with a Capital "A" and the Practice of Community Art
Discussant: Charity Scribner
A Dialogue: Is Anthropology Useful for the Study of Art?

February 24
Talal Asad
CUNY Graduate Center
Fear and Revolution: Reflections on Egypt after Mubarak

March 2
Christine Gailey
UC Riverside
Beyond the New Kinship Studies: Domestic and International Adoption as a Lens on U.S. Family Formation

March 9
Special Event in Connection with the GC Initiative in Religion, Globalization and Science - Speaker TBA

March 16
Special Event in Connection with the GC Initiative in Religion, Globalization and Science - Speaker TBA

March 23
Marilyn Strathern
Girton College, Cambridge
Gifts Money Cannot Buy

March 30
Special Event in Connection with the GC Initiative in Religion, Globalization and Science - Speaker TBA

April 27
Laetitia Atlani-Duault
IRD, France
On the Ashes of the 'Colored Revolutions': Humanitarian and Development Aid in Post- Soviet Central Asia

May 4
Daniel Goldstein
Rutgers University
Community Justice and the Creative Imagination in Bolivia

May 11
Ana Ramos-Zayas
CUNY Baruch College
Street Therapists: Affect, Race, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark

See colloquia from past semesters.

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