Past Events

Past Events

May 10, 2023

Anthro Tea!

May 10, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Apr 26, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Apr 26, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Apr 25, 2023

Legacies of Coal: In Search of a Just Transition

Apr 25, 2023 Tue, April 25th, 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM 14S-130, The Nexus, Hayden Library

Sponsored by the MIT Climate Nucleus, co-hosted by the Environmental Solutions Initiative and MIT Anthropology

Speakers:

Mike Belding (Greene County, County Commissioner)
Veronica Coptis (Center for Coalfield Justice, former Executive Director)
Tonya Yoders (CCJ, Community Organizer for Greene County)

Registration link    https://forms.gle/rWbo3WYqKPmX5Fe39

This panel intends to illuminate local nuances in visions for the future of the region, and perhaps lead to brainstorming for research and/or policy that can support their interests - allowing for a dialogue where community partners know what capacity MIT has, and MIT begins to understand its role in public engagement. Greene County is one of the most salient examples of an at-risk region for climate injustices during the energy transition, and is a primary area of focus for ESI’s research.

 

 

Apr 10, 2023

Dr. Laurence Ralph Colloquium: "Juvenile Murder, Vengeance, and Grief"

Dr. Laurence Ralph

Princeton University

Apr 10, 2023 4:00-5:30pm 14S-130, The Nexus, Hayden Library

This talk will examine the ramifications of juvenile incarceration. A central focus of my discussion will be juvenile murder, as I discuss two separate, yet interrelated, cases in which teenage boys of color were killed by their peers. I ask: How does a victim’s family heal from homicide?

 

Apr 6, 2023

MIT Anthropology Book Party!

Apr 6, 2023 4:00-6:00pm Salon West, Samberg Center

 

Celebrating works by: Manduhai Buyandelger | Stefan Helmreich | Amy Moran-Thomas | Heather Paxson |  Bettina Stoetzer

JOIN US!

April 6th , 4 - 6pm, Salon West, Samberg Center

Apr 5, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Apr 5, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Mar 22, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Mar 22, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Mar 13, 2023

Colloquium: Dr. Michael J. Hathaway "Forays in Decolonizing Biology: Thinking about What Mushrooms Live For"

Dr. Michael J. Hathaway

Simon Fraser University

Mar 13, 2023 4:00-5:30pm 14S-130, The Nexus, Hayden Library

In this talk, Michael will provide an introduction to his latest book, What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake and the Worlds They Make, which was just published by Princeton University Press. For this STS and Anthropology-oriented audience at MIT, he will explore how we might explore the legacy of Enlightenment thinking and the English language in shaping the emergence of the discipline of biology.

Mar 8, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Mar 8, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Mar 1, 2023

Stefan Helmreich MITx Panel "Encouraging Students to Share their Perspectives & Questions on Course Topics"

Mar 1, 2023 March 1, 11:30a-12:30p 36-144

MIT Open Learning Residential Education xTalks:  Learn how colleagues foster a community where students share different perspectives and ask questions to further their learning, and what digital tools support these efforts.

  • Stefan Helmreich, Elting E. Morison Professor of Anthropology, who will share his experience in 21A.500, 21A.303, 21A.505.
  • Maxine Jonas, Senior Lecturer in Biological Engineering, and Biological Engineering Communication Lab Fellow, who will share her experience in 20.309.

Residential Education staff will be available to share technical and pedagogical practices to support student learning. Attendees are welcome to participate in Q&A, and share their experience.

Feb 22, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Feb 22, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Feb 16, 2023

Symbionts exhibition walk-through at MIT List, followed by dual book launch of Symbionts and What Is Life?

Feb 16, 2023 3pm: Symbionts Walkthrough, 4pm: Book Launch Party MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Cube (E15-001)

with Caroline A. Jones, Stefan Helmreich, and Sophia Roosth

Feb 8, 2023

Anthro Tea!

Feb 8, 2023 4:00-5:00pm E53-335

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation: no need to RSVP!

Jan 31, 2023
Jan 27, 2023

Ikaika Ramones lecture: "Rulers and Ruffians: Indigenous “Class Eugenics” in Hawaiʻi"

Ikaika Ramones

New York University

Jan 27, 2023 Friday 1/27 2:00-3:30PM E51-095

Jan 25, 2023

Akil Fletcher lecture - "Black Fantasy: Reformatting Black Identity in Final Fantasy XIV"

Akil Fletcher

University of California, Irvine

Jan 25, 2023 Wed 1/25, 11:00 AM -12:30 PM E51-095

Jan 23, 2023

Dina Asfaha lecture "Organic Clinicians and the Underground Hospital Network"

Dina Asfaha

University of Pennsylvania

Jan 23, 2023 Mon 1/23 2:00-3:30 PM E51-095

Dec 13, 2022

MIT WGS "Articulating Abortion" Series: Abortion Rights as Human Rights: The Continuing Fight for Reproductive Justice

Zakiya Luna, Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar

Department of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis

Dec 13, 2022 Tuesday, December 13, 2022 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM 3-133

The Women's & Gender Studies presents the year-long Articulating Abortion series. It is with great honor we will welcome Professor Zakiya Luna to MIT campus. Professor Luna will defend reproductive rights as human rights.

Nov 28, 2022

Xenia Cherkaev Book Talk "Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice"

Xenia Cherkaev

Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg

Nov 28, 2022 Mon, Nov. 28, 4-5:30PM 14S-130, The Nexus, Hayden Library

Xenia Cherkaev will speak about her forthcoming book Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice (Cornell UP 2023). The book tells a radically new story of how the Soviet system functioned and why it failed. Mediating between today’s popular narratives of “Soviet times” and the ownership categories of Soviet civil law, it shows the Soviet Union as an explicitly illiberal modern project, reliant in theory and fact on collectivist ethics. A historical ethnography, its narrative begins in the 2010s with former Leningrad residents’ stories of gleaning industrial scrap from worksites. Placing these stories in conversation with Soviet legal theories of property and with economic, political and social history, this book shows the Soviet Union as a “socialist household economy,” whose members were guaranteed “personal” rights to a commons of socialist property rather than private possessions. It traces the development of such “personal” rights though three historically significant turns – during the 1930s, 1960s and 1980s – and shows how the Soviet project unfolded in dialogue with contemporaneous neoliberal thought in one overarching debate about the possibility of a collectivist modern life.

Nov 16, 2022

MIT WGS "Articulating Abortion" Series: Race in the Roberts Court: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization

Khiara M. Bridges

UC Berkeley School of Law

Nov 16, 2022 Wednesday, November 16, 2022, 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM 4-231

The Women's & Gender Studies presents the year-long Articulating Abortion series. It is with great honor we will welcome Professor Khiara M. Bridges to MIT campus. Professor Bridges will excavate the role of race in the Court's decision in Dobbs to reverse Roe v. Wade.

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