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DTSTAMP:20260928T103657
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T130000
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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The Work of Death: U-M Anthropology Four Field Symposium 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology will host its annual Four Field Symposium on Friday\, Oct. 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Michigan Union Pendleton Room (second floor). Titled “The Work of Death\,” the symposium will gather our four anthropology subfields for speaker presentations and discussion that bring multiple scholarly perspectives to bear on death and dying — universal human experiences with profound cultural\, biological\, social\, and linguistic dimensions. Join us to explore death-related themes through time and across human societies. \n\nSPEAKERS:\n\nArchaeology: Assistant Professor Tiffany Fryer\nBiological Anthropology: Professor Beverly Strassmann\nLinguistic Anthropology: Professor Alaina Lemon\nSociocultural Anthropology: Associate Professor Scott Stonington\n\nReception to follow. This event is free and open to the public\; please register to attend. If you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu by Friday\, October 2.\n\nLIVESTREAM: https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/lsa/ant103026.html
UID:148078-21902924@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148078
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Culture,AEM Featured,conference,Archaeology,Anthropology
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room (second floor)
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DTSTAMP:20261005T154213
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261106T163000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium | “In a Land of Aid: Reflections on the Palestinian Condition”
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, the international community\, Israeli occupation\, and Palestinian elites have engineered the humanitarianization of the Palestinian Territories—reframing the question of Palestine as a humanitarian concern rather than a political one. Today\, the West Bank and Gaza Strip have become the world’s humanitarian laboratory\, and Palestinians are among the largest recipients per capita of humanitarian aid. This aid provides Palestinians with essential tools for survival and resilience\, yet it has also entrenched Israeli colonial control.\n\nIn his new book “In a Land of Aid\,” Sa’ed Atshan traces how humanitarianism has become the dominant lens through which Palestinian life is now governed. Drawing on over a decade of research\, Atshan introduces readers to foreign aid workers\, policymakers\, scholars\, and Palestinians as they navigate political constraints on the ground. Together\, these encounters reveal an aid apparatus riddled with contradiction: simultaneously sustaining life\, narrowing political imagination\, and generating new forms of inequality and contestation. Atshan concludes that most powerful response to the paradoxically dehumanizing effects of aid lies in our affirmation of shared humanity.\n\nDr. Sa’ed Atshan is Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Anthropology at Swarthmore College and currently a Visiting Scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford. He is the author of “Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique” (Stanford\, 2020)\, coauthor of “The Moral Triangle: Germans\, Israelis\, Palestinians” (Duke\, 2020)\, coeditor of “Reel Gender: Palestinian and Israeli Cinema” (Bloomsbury\, 2022)\, and author of “In a Land of Aid: Essays on the Palestinian Condition” (Stanford\, 2026).
UID:153319-21915632@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/153319
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261028T114959
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261111T180000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Guest Lecture | Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict
DESCRIPTION:This talk introduces the concept of heritage forensics\, a framework for studying abuses of cultural heritage in contexts of conflict\, genocide\, and ethnic cleansing. Drawing on the new co-authored volume\, *Heritage Forensics: Cultural on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict*\, the presentation examines how cultural sites became entangled in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh during the interwar period (1994-2020). The talk considers how satellite-based heritage forensics is being deployed prospectively\, to monitor hundreds of Armenian sites in Karabakh following Azerbaijan's 2023 takeover of the region and the displacement of its Armenian population. In doing so\, it asks: how can satellite-based monitoring function as a form of \"counter-forensics\,\" turning surveillance technologies developed for military purposes back on the state? Can heritage forensics move us beyond retrospective documentation to actively deter erasure and support truth\, reconciliation\, and accountability wherever cultural heritage is at stake?\n\nLori Khatchadourian is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology at Cornell University\, and co-founder and co-director of Caucasus Heritage Watch. She currently serves as Director of the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material Studies. Khatchadourian’s research spans the fields of archaeology\, social anthropology\, and heritage studies\, with a particular focus on Armenia\, the wider South Caucasus\, and neighboring regions. Current projects explore the archaeology of modernity\, including problems of genocide\, deindustrialization\, and the entanglements of cultural heritage and war. She is the co-author of *Heritage Forensics: Culture on the Front Lines of the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict* (Cornell\, 2026) and author of Imperial Matter: Ancient Persia and the Archaeology of Empires (UC Press\, 2016). She is also co-editor of *Rethinking Empire: Materiality\, Metaphysics\, and Imperial Politics* (SAR\, 2026) and *Fitful Histories and Unruly Publics: The Archaeology of Eurasia *(2017).\n\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/99311308952\n\nCosponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies\, Department of Middle East Studies\, Department of Anthropology\, Classical Studies\, Center for Russian\, East European\, and Eurasian Studies\, Ancient Mediterranean Art and Archaeology (IPAMAA) Kelsey Museum\, and NAASR.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Contact: armenianstudies@umich.edu
UID:150145-21908256@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150145
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Lecture,History,Discussion,Armenian Studies,armenia,Area Studies
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - Room 555
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DTSTAMP:20261020T144533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as purely economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nREGISTRATION IS APPRECIATED for planning purposes: https://myumi.ch/e77Ax\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MATTHEW HULL\nMatthew Hull is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nexus of signification\, technology\, and institutions. His book\, “Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan\,” winner of the 2019 J.I. Staley Prize from the School of Advanced Research\, examines governance as a semiotic and material practice. He has worked on urban planning in 1960s India and police communication systems and lotteries in contemporary India. He is currently writing a book on how early modern corporations shaped democratic governance and continue to structure contemporary political life.
UID:148332-21903936@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:South Asian Studies,Lecture,AEM Featured,Anthropology
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20261029T094914
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Linguistics Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a colloquium presented by Adrienne Tsikewa (University of California Riverside) in North Quad 2435 on Friday\, November 13\, 2026\, from 4-5:30 PM!\n\nTitle: “It could be a stepping stone”: Zunglish and language ideologies\n\nAbstract: Language mixing is a prevailing linguistic practice under conditions of language contact that has been extensively analyzed and theorized by linguists (e.g. Muysken 2000\, Bullock & Toribio 2009\, Hickey 2010). When one of the languages in contact is English\, language mixing results in a variety that “liberally blends elements from English and from one or more local languages” (Schneider 2016: 341). These hybrid English varieties are a global phenomenon and are often referred to by lexical blends that combine English and the local language or community name (e.g. Spanglish\, Chinglish\, Singlish). Due to the stigma frequently associated with hybrid English (Lambert 2018\, Schneider 2016)\, connotations associated with these terms are predominantly negative\, aligning with prevalent language purism ideologies or deficit-based language ideologies of language mixing as poor or broken English. Awareness and understanding of such language ideologies is critical to Native American language contexts\, as without this knowledge “scholars and researchers-both Native and non-Native-cannot hope to understand Native American languages and the ways speakers use them\, change them\, and renew them.”(Kroskrity & Field 2009:10)\n\nIn this talk\, I present one part of my larger dissertation study on bilingual language practices and ideologies in Zuni Pueblo\, New Mexico. My analysis focuses on language ideologies towards Zunglish\, or language mixing involving Zuni and English\, expressed during interviews with adult participants of various ages and with various levels of ability in the Zuni language. I show that some of the participants express ideologies of deficiency and language purism toward Zunglish\, while others view language mixing as a necessity and as a reflection of hon a:wan A:shiwi ‘our Zuni people’ living in two worlds. I conclude by reflecting on how these ideologies can hinder community members\, in particular younger generations\, from speaking Zuni and how valuing rather than disparaging bilingual practices is essential to creating the conditions for A:shiwi who wish to gain confidence in using the language.\n\nReferences:\nBullock\, Barbara E.\, and Almeida Jacqueline Toribio\, eds. 2009. The Cambridge\nhandbook of linguistic code-switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.\n\nHickey\, Raymond\, ed. 2010. The handbook of language contact. Oxford:\nWiley-Blackwell.\n\nKroskrity\, Paul V. and Margaret C. Field.2009.Native American language ideologies:\nBeliefs\, practices and struggles in Indian Country. Tucson\, AZ: University of Arizona\nPress.\n\nLambert\, James. 2018. A multitude of “lishes”: The nomenclature of hybridity. English\nWorld-Wide 39(1): 1-33.\n\nMuysken\, Pieter. 2000. Bilingual speech: A typology of code-mixing. Cambridge\, UK\nand New York: Cambridge University Press.\n\nSchneider\, Edgar W. 2016. Hybrid Englishes: An exploratory survey. World Englishes\n35(3): 339-354. doi:10.1111/weng.12204
UID:154080-21917130@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/154080
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:colloquium
LOCATION:North Quad - 2435
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DTSTAMP:20261020T144533
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life with Associate Professor Matthew Hull
DESCRIPTION:Join the U-M Department of Anthropology for the annual Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series! Associate Professor Matthew Hull will present the fall 2026 series\, titled “Incorporations: Capitalism and Collective Life.”\n\nAbstract: “Corporations are often seen as purely economic actors\, but they have been central to Anglo-American governance for centuries—pioneers of democratic assembly\, speech\, citizenship\, and constitutions. Many features of corporations\, once grounded in democratic ideals\, now foster the unresponsiveness of these institutions. These lectures will include discussion of a diverse array of corporations: medieval guilds\, the English East India Company\, Alaska Native corporations\, and caste-based corporations in India.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in West Hall Room 411. They are free and open to the public:\n\nFriday\, Sept. 25\n“Corporate Persons in Human Law: Reproduction\, Kinship\, Jurisdiction”\n\nFriday\, Oct. 23\n“Freedom and Citizenship: Corporate Membership and the Making of Exclusion”\n\nFriday\, Nov. 13\n“Meetings and Speech: Corporate Mediations of Will”\n\nFriday\, Dec. 4\n“Sharing and Inequality in Corporations”\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nREGISTRATION IS APPRECIATED for planning purposes: https://myumi.ch/e77Ax\n\nIf you need accommodations to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MATTHEW HULL\nMatthew Hull is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the nexus of signification\, technology\, and institutions. His book\, “Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan\,” winner of the 2019 J.I. Staley Prize from the School of Advanced Research\, examines governance as a semiotic and material practice. He has worked on urban planning in 1960s India and police communication systems and lotteries in contemporary India. He is currently writing a book on how early modern corporations shaped democratic governance and continue to structure contemporary political life.
UID:148332-21903938@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:South Asian Studies,Lecture,AEM Featured,Anthropology
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260921T122847
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20270315T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:A Brief History of Pretending to Use the Computer
DESCRIPTION:The post-pandemic explosion of work-from-home arrangements is often credited with the rise of \"mouse jigglers\,\" devices or programs that simulate user input\, allowing workers to evade surveillance by their managers. But the history of pretending to use computers is nearly as long as the history of actually using them. This talk traces the genealogy of techniques for simulating computer use\, ranging from coffee mugs set on keyboards to AI agents granted root-level privileges. These techniques have evolved in parallel with new methods and motives for detecting computer use—most conspicuously\, efforts to assess whether users are paying attention by conflating their attention with the activity of the machines they use. The ubiquity of simulated computer use raises questions about the units in which the attention economy is denominated.\n\nNick Seaver is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University\, where he also directs the program in Science\, Technology & Society. His research examines the relationship between cultural concepts and technological practices\, particularly in computational settings. He is co-editor of Towards an Anthropology of Data (2021) and the author of Computing Taste: Algorithms and the Makers of Music Recommendation (2022)\, an ethnographic study of music recommender system developers. He is currently writing a book on the meaning and measurement of attention and developing a project on the anthropology of contraptions.
UID:152534-21913889@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152534
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Science,Society,Technology
LOCATION:Tisch Hall - 1014
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