CANCELED – Advanced Seminar Presentation “Oikography: Home and Housing in Ethnography and Critical Theory”

Due to current travel restrictions, this advanced seminar has been postponed and the associated public presentation has been canceled.

A presentation by advanced seminar co-chairs João Biehl, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, Frederico Neiburg, Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and seminar participants.

In an age where we see huge movements of people migrating from their native lands to other places in search of safety, shelter and, generally, a better life, the participants in this advanced seminar explore what house and home really mean to humans.  Seminar scholars seek to understand house and home as not simply bounded units, but as sets of dynamic relations that set into motion connections among buildings, objects, families and forms of government, and among intimacy, public spaces, and the polis. Learn more about the seminar’s focus here.