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September 25, 2019 to September 28, 2019

Graduate Diversity Recruitment Weekend

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This Graduate Diversity Recruitment Weekend is designed for students who are historically under-represented in Anthropology and Geography, Environment and Society graduate programs and who...

September 30, 2019

Passages Out of Modernity: Gambling, Gold and De-Industrialization in South Africa

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Department of Anthropology, Fall 2019 Colloquia Series Speaker- Dr. Rosalind C. Morris of Columbia University Lecture Description- For more than a century, South Africa was the world’s...

October 7, 2019

Afro-Brazilian Feminisms in Times of Crisis

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Special Lecture featuring Dr. Erica Williams of Spelman College Lecture Cosponsored by- History, Political Science and Sociology Departments Lecture Description- This lecture will explore...

November 14, 2019

Therapy Apps and Virtual Nurses: Of Meaning, Machines and the Future of Connective...

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Some jobs have relationship at their core, depending upon a personal, emotional connection between practitioners and recipients. Efforts to make such "connective labor" more standardized,...

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