Fall 2016 Events
September
Event Title: “Beyond ISIS: What Should the Next U.S. President Know About the Middle East?”
Date & Location: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 4 p.m. @ Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Description: This panel discussion of Crown Center researchers will examine current and developing key issues in the Middle East that do not always make the news headlines. The event offers attendees expert insight into the challenges facing our next president in this region.
Event Title: “Where Does Responsibility Lie? Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict”
Date & Location: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. @ Mandel Center for the Humanities
Room Reading Room, 3rd Floor
Description: A talk by Dr. David Myers. Refreshments will be served.
Event Title: “Where Does Responsibility Lie? Reframing the Israel-Palestine Conflict”
Date & Location: Tuesday, Sept. 20, 4 p.m. @ Mandel Center for the Humanities
Room Reading Room, 3rd Floor
Description: A talk by Dr. David Myers. Refreshments will be served. Myers is the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Professor of Jewish History at UCLA. He has written widely in the fields of Jewish intellectual and cultural history.
Event Title: “Hamilton, the Panel: The Politics of Default, Bailouts, and the Power of the Purse in the Aftermath of the American Revolution”
Date & Location: Thursday, Sept. 29, 2 p.m. @ Olin Sang 207
Room Reading Room, 3rd Floor
Description: Panelists include George J. Hall (presenting), David Hackett Fischer, Steven L. Burg, and Paul Jankowski.
October
Event Title: “Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right”
Date & Location: Thursday, Oct. 6, 3:30 p.m. @ Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Description: A colloquium by Arlie Hochschild, Emerita Professor of Sociology at UC Berekely.
Event Title: “Waiting in the Courthouse: Hope, Doubt, and Endurance in the Anti-Terrorism Trials of Northern Kurdistan.”
Date & Location: Friday, Oct. 7, 2:30 p.m. @ Schwartz 103
Description: Serra Hakyemez holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from The Johns Hopkins University. Her dissertation is titled “Threat to the State: An Ethnography of Kurdish Political Trials.” As a Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Hakyemez will work on a book project, “Terrorism Trials in Turkey,” that will build upon her dissertation. She will incorporate new archival materials on the previous political trials of the members of the Kurdish movement to examine the imbrications of law and violence in the history of political trials in Turkey.
Event Title: Alison Pugh, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia
Date & Location: Thursday, Oct. 20, 2:00 p.m. @ Pearlman Lounge
Description: A colloquium by Alison Pugh, Associate Professor of Sociology from the University of Virginia. Her research and teaching focus on how people adapt — emotionally and culturally — to economic trends such as increasing inequality, insecurity, rationalization, commercialization, overwork, and risk.
Event Title: “From Antiracist Education to Electoral Campaigning: The Complex Calculus of Race and Politics in Brazil”
Date & Location: Friday, Oct. 28, 2:30 p.m. @ Schwartz 103
Description: Dr. Antonio José Bacelar da Silva (University of Arizona), will discuss the recent reemergence of black organizations, Black NGOs, in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil) and their uses of race as a political strategy. At the core of Brazilian identity is the idea that there are no clear racial divisions in Brazil. Bacelar Da Silva’s work specifically explores the boundaries, the limits, and possibilities of black activists’ stated goals of embracing racial differences in antiracist education and electoral campaigning. This presentation is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion program sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences and Provost and is co-sponsored with the Latin American and Latino Studies program.
November/December
Event Title: “Biometric Bodies, or, how to make fingerprinting technology work in India” – Ursula Rao, Director of the Institute of Anthropology, University of Leipzig
Date & Location: Friday, Nov. 4, 2:30 p.m. @ Schwartz 103
Description: Ursula Rao is an urban anthropologist focusing on India. Biometric technology is proliferating around the globe and has a growing presence in India. Although scholars frequently discuss surveillance, data security and safety, we know close to nothing about the social impacts of biometric devices. How are people repositioned when identification is assigned to an electronic inspection of the body? Routine users of digital fingerprinting devices learn to render a specific social and physical body. They must frequently cope with a “false reject” that causes a disjunction between the body-as-person and the body-as-data. The biometric body is the body of the perfect match. It is created through new hygienic regimes and the manipulation of relations of distance and closeness, such as assertion of class difference and kin solidarity.
Event Title: Dr. Ya-Wen Lei, Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.
Date & Location: Thursday, Nov. 17, 1:00 p.m. @ Pearlman Lounge
Description: Colloquium and research topics at the intersection of political sociology, law and society, economic sociology, and urban sociology.
Event Title: Applied Anthropology/Activism Panel
Date & Location: Friday, Dec. 2, 2:30 p.m. @ Schwartz 103
Description: The panel will include several speakers addressing the topic of applied anthropology and activism. What can anthropology look like outside of an anthropology department? How do people use anthropology? This panel will discuss and examine anthropology’s uses and application in contexts as different as in public health and international law.
Nina Kammerer is an anthropologist and researcher in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. Dr. Kammerer has done extensive field work in Northern Thailand and Catalonia as well as in public health. She teaches courses on methods and helps students make use of the ethnographic tradition in all manner of setting and for all manner of use.
Adonia Lugio is an urban anthropologist who studies bicicultures in Los Angeles. Her portion of the discussion will center on how as a mobility practice, bicycling reveals the flexibility of urban space and the different embodied experiences contained therein on the basis of class and race in particular.
Leigh Swigart is Director of Programs in International Justice and Society at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life of Brandeis University. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, and having done extensive field work in Senegal, Dr. Swigart uses her anthropological sensibilities to understand issues of language diversity in international law.