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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:The University of Michigan Department of Anthropology presents its fall 2025 Roy A. Rappaport Lecture Series\, “Bananapocalypse: Un/Making Plantation Capitalism\,” with Assistant Professor Alyssa Paredes:\n\n“Existential crises hang over the producers of the world’s food. Many of these challenges are self-inflicted. In the banana-growing regions of the Southern Philippines\, which produce fruit for export to Japanese markets\, plantations unleash pesticide drift\, food waste\, water effluent\, and fungal pathogens into the surroundings. The plantocratic elite systematically shirks responsibility for these excesses\, using legal contracts\, scientific conventions\, and standards of trade to frame them as “external” to their supply chains. However\, plantation management is regularly proven wrong in its assumption that the things they try to push downstream will not double back to haunt them. Everyday actors on the plantations’ peripheries transform the devices designed to work against them into openings for intervention. Their efforts implore critical scholars of the environment and of global economies to take seriously the possibility that Big Ag’s increasingly frequent failures to reproduce itself are more than just minor inconveniences to business-as-usual. In this series of lectures\, I trace the afterlives of the externalities that commodity production obscures\, disguises\, or otherwise erases from its ambit of accountability. In so doing\, I offer an ethnographic model for turning the commodity studies model\, inherited from generations of anthropologists\, inside-out.”\n\nRappaport lectures will take place on the following fall Fridays from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in 411 West Hall. They are free and open to the public. \n\nFriday\, Sept. 12\nElses and Externalities: The Un/Making of Plantation Capitalism \n\nFriday\, Oct. 10\nRejects: Food Cosmetic Standards and the Geopolitics of Waste\n\nFriday\, Nov. 14\nEffluent: Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River\n\nFriday\, Dec. 5\nForce Majeure: The See-Through Plantation\n\nVIRTUAL PARTICIPATION LINK: https://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nIf you need accommodations in order to attend\, please email anthro.exec.secretary@umich.edu.\n\nABOUT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ALYSSA PAREDES\nAlyssa Paredes is an environmental and economic anthropologist with research interests at the intersection of industrial agriculture\, transnational supply chains\, and social mobilization between the Southern Philippines and Japan. Her book manuscript\, tentatively titled “Bananapocalypse: An Ethnography of the Commodity for the 21st Century\,” is under contract with the University of California Press. Additionally\, her work appears in journals in anthropology\, history\, geography\, food studies\, and Asian studies. She is also co-editor of “Halo-Halo Ecologies: The Emergent Environments Behind Filipino Food” (University of Hawaii Press 2025). She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Yale University.
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URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/135598
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology,Archaeology,Ecology,Environment,History,Southeast Asia
LOCATION:West Hall - 411
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DTSTAMP:20250820T083719
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250912T150000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Complex Communities
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought-provoking conversation exploring how climate change is transforming the fragile forest ecosystems of the American West. U-M Research Scientist & Lecturer Dr. Stella Cousins will share insights from her fieldwork\, while artist Catherine Chalmers offers a creative lens on the natural world. Moderated by Institute for the Humanities Arts Curator Amanda Krugliak\, this dialogue blends science\, art\, and storytelling to illuminate the urgent challenges within these threatened landscapes.\n\nChalmer's exhibition *Conifer Trees\, Bark Beetles\, and Fire* is on view at the Institute for the Humanities Gallery Sept. 11 - Oct. 24. For complete details and more related events visit https://lsa.umich.edu/humanities/gallery/current-exhibitions/catherine-chalmers.html.\n\nABOUT THE PARTICIPANTS:\n\nCatherine Chalmers is the Jean Yokes Woodhead Visiting Artist at the Institute for the Humanities. She holds a BS in engineering from Stanford University and an MFA in painting from the Royal College of Art\, London. She has exhibited her artwork around the world\, including MoMA P.S.1\; MassMoca\; The Drawing Center\; Kunsthalle Vienna\; The Today Art Museum\, Beijing\; among others. Her work has been featured in the New York Times\, The New Yorker\, Washington Post\, The Brooklyn Rail\, Time Out New York\, ArtNews\, Artforum\, and on PBS\, CNN\, NPR\, and the BBC. Two books have been published on her work: *Food Chain* (Aperture 2000) and *American Cockroach* (Aperture 2004). Her video “Safari” won Best Experimental Short at SXSW Film Festival in 2008. In 2010 Chalmers received a Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in NYC.\n\nDr. Stella Cousins is an ecosystem ecologist interested in understanding how and why forests change. She uses patterns measured in trees and forests such as growth\, mortality\, and community dynamics to reveal how ecosystems respond to human demands and disturbances. Her current research focuses on the drivers of tree mortality in California forests and the transformations that can be expected in ecosystems that experience rapid change. In earlier research she has examined forest carbon processes\, air pollution impacts to montane forests\, provision of watershed services\, and the management of vegetated cultural landscapes. Her work leverages comprehensive surveys conducted by the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program\, long-term monitoring\, and measurements ranging from individual tree rings to whole forest structures. Dr. Cousins is broadly interested in how landscapes can be sustainably managed for multiple benefits\, which often involves collaborating on multi-disciplinary teams and investing in place-based data collection. She is especially interested in social-environmental problems facing the Western United States. Prior to joining SEAS\, Dr. Cousins was an Assistant Professor at California Polytechnic State University and a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley and was a graduate fellow at the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). \n\nAmanda Krugliak is a curator and artist known for performative\, conceptual\, and experiential installations\, in charge of programming for the Institute for the Humanities Gallery since 2009. In 2012\, she co-created the internationally recognized installation *State of Exception *with artist Richard Barnes and U-M anthropologist Jason De León based upon De León’s Undocumented Migration Project. She is frequently a guest lecturer and leads workshops on curating scholarship and the gallery as a social justice practice.
UID:136658-21878987@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/136658
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Climate Change,Discussion,Ecology,Humanities,Interdisciplinary,Sustainability,Visual Arts
LOCATION:202 S. Thayer - Institute for the Humanities Osterman Common Room
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