March 2016
Abounding Life, or, Gathering the Ten Thousand Wild Things: A Conversation with Judith Farquhar and Lili Lai
Judith Farquhar (Chicago/NHC) and Lili Lai (Medical Humanities, Peking) are working on a book together tentatively titled Gathering Medicines in the Mountains: Nation, Body and Knowledge in China's Ethnic South.
Find out more »September 2016
Brown Bag Lunch
Lindsey West is a senior PhD student in Medical Anthropology; she just started as an Experience Researcher for Adobe Systems where she uses her training in ethnographic methods and interviewing to bring insights into the product design process. Since deciding to look beyond teaching, she has learned a lot about the kinds of jobs that exist for anthropologists, and some useful tips for studying and communicating with cultures outside of academia. While nearing completion of her Ph.D., Kim Allen decided to return to her…
Find out more »November 2016
PhD dissertation defense of Laura Gutiérrez
Laura Gutiérrez’s dissertation defense will be held on Monday, November 7, starting at 2:00 pm (public talk) in the Anthropology Lounge. The title of Laura’s dissertation is: “The Political Ontology of Seeds: Seed Sovereignty Struggles in an Indigenous Resguardo in Colombia.”
Find out more »Malena Rousseau Dissertation Defense
Seeking Buen Vivir: Re-imagining Livelihoods in the Shifting Political Economic Landscape of Cangahua, Ecuador Malena Rousseau Dissertation Defense Monday, November 28 at 1pm AL313A Common Room
Find out more »March 2017
Anna Kushkova Defense- Public Talk
FROM: Anna Kushkova’s dissertation committee Anna Kushkova will defend her dissertation “Navigating the planned economy: Accommodation and survival in Moscow’spost-war ‘Soviet Jewish pale’” on Monday, March 6, 2017. The defense will begin at 8.45 am in Alumni 304, followed by a public presentation at 12.30 in Alumni 313A.
Find out more »Taylor Livingston Public Talk
My Body Knows What to Do": Social Support in a Prenatal Setting This is not your standard prenatal visit: there are nametags, cookies, and group yoga. CenteringPregnancy (CP), a facilitative, non-hierarchal group prenatal healthcare program, which challenges the traditional provider-patient model of prenatal care and its central tenet that women and their pregnant bodies need medical professionals’ surveillance and intervention. Research has shown that participants of CP have better birth outcomes than women seeking traditional prenatal care, especially in reducing the rates…
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