ADVANCED SEMINARS / 2020
March 15 – 19, 2020
Rescheduled: March 21 – 25, 2021
Oikography: Home and Housing in Ethnography and Critical Theory
Co-chaired by João Biehl, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University, and Federico Neiburg, Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
This seminar foregrounds the house as a site of empirical analysis and theoretical exploration, drawing from a range of ethnographic contexts. Taking the oikos as at once a built structure, a collection of relations and affects, and a node in neighborhoods and larger political, economic, and bio-chemical systems, participants move across scales to ask how people’s lives and worlds are made and remade in relation to the house and housing configurations.
Postponed June 21 – 25, 2020
Indigenous Women’s Proposals to Address the Root Causes of Guatemalan Migration: Economic Development, Social Equality, and Regional Stability
Co-chaired by Irma A. Velásquez Nimatuj, Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professor of Latin American Studies, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, and De Ann Pendry, Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Set against the current climate of rising racism and violence against migrants and asylum seekers in the United States, this seminar will focus on indigenous women’s analyses and critiques of the root causes of migration and forced displacement in Guatemala.