MIT Anthropology is grateful for the opportunity to co-sponsor the Indigenous Sciences Speaker Series talks with the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Sciences, CBIKS, at UMASS Amherst (Director: MIT Anthropology Professor Sonya Atalay)

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Jesse Pirini (Māori), a Senior Lecturer at the Wellington School of Business and Government at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand and co-Editor for the edited volume Indigenous Management: Knowledges and Frameworks (in press), will be presenting Weaving Western and Indigenous Business Lenses: Self-Determination and Solutions for a Better Society. 

Abstract: Indigenous businesses and organizations are developing approaches to successful management and organization to support self-determination. Indigenous ways of knowing and doing also help address urgent societal challenges including sustainability, climate change, inclusion and innovation. In this presentation Jesse shares practical examples from Aotearoa, New Zealand of Indigenous perspectives braided with popular management thinking to support self-determination. Considering successes, challenges and discussing future pathways for research and practice. 

Join us for an event exploring the future of cheesemaking in the face of climate change, featuring speakers from Switzerland and New England.

As climate change reshapes agriculture and food production across the globe, what does the future hold for cheese? Will sustainable practices for traditional cheesemaking be compatible with our climate goals? Does the future lie with plant-based cheese? This event dives into how producers in Switzerland and New England are rethinking cheesemaking in the face of rapid climate and planetary shifts. Join cheesemakers, sellers, and fellow cheese enthusiasts to explore whether traditional and cutting-edge approaches to cheesemaking can co-exist on our warming planet.

In his book Code Work, Héctor Beltrán examines Mexican and Latinx coders’ personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

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Laura Anderson Barbata will discuss her projects Ocean Calling, 2017, and Ocean Blues, 2018 in greater detail. The Ocean Calling was presented in 2017 at the UN's First Ocean Conference in New York. The following year, in collaboration with artists from the Caribbean diaspora and Mexico, she presented Ocean Blues, a work in response to the effects of global warming on all forms of life that make the ocean their home.

SOUTHEAST: a city within a city A hands-on exploration of what it felt like to live in a neighborhood that once produced more steel than any other place in the world. The documentary brings together builders, soldiers, scholars, gangsters, musicians, and politicians from the Southeast Side’s past and present to explain what happened to neighborhoods full of life and different cultures after the jobs disappeared. 

Join us for an immersive experience that blends documentary film, live narration, and musical performances. Original music performed live by writer/director Steven Walsh and his grandfather Roger "Coco" Gomez (accompanied on guitar by Matt Goetz)! Friday Sept. 27th at 5:30 in MIT’s Bartos Theater, Building E15 basement off Ames St.

4 - 5:30pm @ The Nexus, 14S-130 in Hayden Library  

Please join SECASP Director Prof. Chris Walley and other co-collaborators as they discuss the project and screen segments of the site’s newly launched and final multimedia documentary. Wetlands to Waste explores the environmental history of the multiracial Calumet region and the rise of environmental activism led by Latina, white and black residents against industrial pollution and landfills. Funded in part with grants from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST), National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Donnelly Foundation. 

5:30 - 6:30pm, Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain)

 Reception on Walker Lawn outside Building 14 (or 14E-304 if rain).

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP; just show up and bring your friends!

Come relax with us and enjoy some fun conversation! No need to RSVP, just show up and bring your friends!

Mexican anthropologist Aída Hernández, currently a Fellow at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute, will join us to discuss her feminist activism-research in Mexico through the work of a creative writing project for imprisoned women she has helped lead. The event will feature a screening of a short film about the project: Semillas de Guamúchil (“Five women who discover creative writing in prison share their poetry now in their life at large”). We hope you can join us!

As a relatively new and evolving field within anthropology, multispecies ethnography challenges traditional human-centric perspectives by engaging with the complex web of relationships between humans and non-human entities, including plants, fungi, and animals.

This lecture reconstructs the process by which "Inca trepanation" became an accepted scientificfact, and the looting and trade in "Inca" and Andean ancestors and crania it relied upon to provide further museum "specimens" to prove or disprove Indigenous skill at this high-risk maneuver. Central to this process was the work of Andean collectors and Peruvian surgeons like the anthropologist Julio C. Tello, whose authority was sought but effaced by Americanist anthropologists in the United States.

Join directors Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones for a Q&A moderated by Prof. Gabriella Coleman (Harvard) co-sponsored by MIT Anthropology, MIT Philosophy, and MIT Schwarzman College of Computing Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing

In this talk Jason De León will discuss his new book "Soldiers and Kings", a long-term ethnographic study focused on understanding the daily lives of Honduran smugglers who profit from transporting migrants across the length of Mexico. Using the stories of several smugglers, he examines the relationship between transnational gangs and the clandestine migration industry, as well as the difficulties of doing ethnography in this violent and ethically challenging context.

Part of A • H • STS speaker series:

This talk from Colette Perold analyzes the role of U.S. empire in the creation of South American markets for tabulating equipment and early mainframe computers. Grounded in two major programs—the 1940 Census of the Americas and the 1960s Latin American Free Trade Association—this talk explores the role of data integration and trade integration as two components of a regional strategy for U.S. corporate dominance over hemispheric tabulating and computing industries.

HOLLOW TREE follows three teenagers coming of age in their sinking homeland of Louisiana. Their different perspectives shape their story.

The screening will be followed by a conversation with Director Kira Akerman, Producer Monique Walton, and the 3 protagonists. The Q&A will be moderated by Dr. Kate Brown, Professor of History of Science at MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society.  Seating is limited. Please register.

The event is sponsored by The Living Climate Futures Group at MIT.

The Center for Ethnographic Research at UC Berkeley welcomes MIT Anthropology Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor Héctor Beltrán for a discussion of his book, "Code Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands"