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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Reflections from the Past\, Thoughts about the Future of Archaeology - Jeffrey R. Parsons Lecture Series
DESCRIPTION:Recovering information about the past\, learning from it\, and preserving these data and lessons for future generations is central to the archaeological enterprise. The past half century has seen a tremendous growth in archaeological research\, including the collection of vast and diverse data\, and dramatic shifts in the methods used to collect it and in the conceptual frameworks by which it is interpreted. Archaeology is needed more than ever\, as the extant record is increasingly being lost to forces like development\, climate change\, erosion\, and looting. This mandates careful consideration of how we are to proceed to save what we can\, combining collaborative and ethical frameworks in preservation and research. Our goals should always be ensuring broad and equitable inclusion in our endeavors\, and open access and iterative use of what has been found for research\, resource management\, and public education. Examples of how such work has and can proceed are examined\, from a perspective shaped primarily from work in the southeastern United States\, where the author has spent much of his career. In addition to site and locality specific research\, the nature and status of larger scale data compilation efforts are examined\, such as PIDBA (Paleoindian Database of the Americas) and DINAA (Digital Index of North American Archaeology). Primary lessons are that archaeology is a collaborative endeavor\, requiring the work of many parties\, and the maintenance of these communities\, and the information they generate\, in perpetuity\, is essential.
UID:151201-21911077@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151201
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Archaeology,Anthropology
LOCATION:School of Education - 2327
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DTSTAMP:20260903T132805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260925T163000
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:148332-21903934@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:South Asian Studies,Lecture,Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260903T140601
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260930T210000
SUMMARY:Film Screening:“Searching for Nubia”
DESCRIPTION:Free screening of the the film “Searching for Nubia\,” directed by Yasmin Moll\, U-M associate professor of anthropology: “What does it mean to remember a place you have never seen? A new generation of Nubians battle misconceptions outside and inside their community as they search for a homeland lost but not forgotten. On the way they discover that finding home is never as simple as you imagine.”\n\nA director Q&A with Professor Moll will follow the screening\, moderated by Tiffany Fryer\, U-M assistant professor of anthropology and assistant curator at the Museum of Anthropological Archaeology.
UID:151525-21911689@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151525
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:film screening,AEM Featured,Anthropology,Film
LOCATION:Off Campus Location - Theatre #3
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DTSTAMP:20260824T181524
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261012T190000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Penny Stamps Speaker Series - Aanikoobijigan
DESCRIPTION:\n\nTrapped in museum archives\, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History\, spirituality\, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains\, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.\nThe film Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance\, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes\, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions like museums\, libraries\, and archives. Adam and Zack Khalil’s monumental and formally daring film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage\, laying bare the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities they were originally stolen from. Using an essayistic approach alongside vérité portraits\, the film celebrates the courageous individuals who carry out this hard and emotionally draining labor of return. \n\n—Sundance Film Festival\n\nAanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] directors Adam and Zack Khalil are members of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. They are co-directors and co-editors of the feature documentary INAATE/SE/ [it shines a certain way. to a certain place./ it flies. falls./] (2016) which premiered as the closing night film of the Museum of Modern Art’s Doc Fortnight Film Festival\, and the experimental documentary short The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets (2017) which premiered at Sundance. The Khalils are core contributors to New Red Order\, a public-secret society which calls attraction toward indigeneity into question\, yet promotes this desire\, and enjoins potential non-Indigenous accomplices to participate in the co-examination and expansion of Indigenous agency. \n\nAdam Khalil is an artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor\, relation\, and transgression. A co-founder of COUSINS Collective\, Khalil’s work has been exhibited or screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, Tate Modern\, HKW\, Walker Arts Center\, Lincoln Center\, Palais de Tokyo\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Creative Time\, Toronto Biennial 2019\, Whitney Biennial 2019\, Sharjah Biennial 15\, Counterpublic Triennial 2023\, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2020 Herb Alpert Award\, a Jerome Artist Fellowship\, the Gates Millennium Scholarship\, and honors from Sundance Art of Nonfiction and Cinereach.\n\nZack Khalil is a filmmaker and artist whose work centers Indigenous narratives in the present—and looks towards the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil also works professionally as a video editor\, most recently co-editing Alison O’Daniels feature film The Tuba Thieves (2023)\, which premiered at Sundance. Khalil’s own work has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, New York Film Festival\, CPH: DOX\, HKW\, Walker Arts Center\, Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Creative Time\, Toronto Biennial 2019\, Whitney Biennial 2019\, 59th Venice Biennale\, Sharjah Biennial 15\, and Counterpublic Triennial 2023\, among other institutions and festivals. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction grant\, and the Gates Millennium Scholarship.\n\nFollowing the Penny Stamps Speaker Series screening of Aanikoobijigan at the Michigan Theater on October 12\, a reception and Q&A will take place from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Stamps Gallery (201 S. Division St.). Filmmakers Zack and Adam Khalil\, with special guests\, will speak in reflection on their film and process.\n\nIn partnership with the U-M Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Office\; U-M Museum of Anthropological Archeology\; U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens & Nichols Arboretum\; U-M Department of Film\, Television\, and Media\; U-M Department of Native American Studies\; the U-M Department of American Culture\; the U-M Inclusive History Project\; the U-M Department of Anthropology\; U-M Museum Studies Program\; and the U-M Stamps Gallery.\n\nSeries presenting partners: Detroit PBS\, ALL ARTS\, and PBS Books. Media partner: Michigan Public.
UID:150480-21909503@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150480
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Art
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261023T150000
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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:148332-21903935@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148332
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:South Asian Studies,Lecture,Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20260827T093736
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261030T160000
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: Link will be added prior to event.
UID:148078-21902924@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/148078
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Archaeology,conference,Culture
LOCATION:Michigan Union - Pendleton Room (second floor)
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DTSTAMP:20260903T132805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261113T163000
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,Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260903T132805
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261204T163000
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,Anthropology,AEM Featured
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
CONTACT:
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