Jan 12 |
Svati Shah (Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “The Quest for a Fieldsite and the Ethnographic Archive: Lessons on Producing ‘The Field’ from Sexuality Research in India” (In-person and Online) (Details) |
Jan 19 |
Leilah Vevaina (Department of Anthropology, CUHK) “Trust Matters: Parsi Endowments in Mumbai and the Horoscope of a City” (In-person) (Details) |
Jan 26 |
Louisa Lombard (Department of Anthropology, Yale University) The Initiative-Killing Machine: The End and the Future of Peacekeeping (In-person) (Details) |
Feb 2 |
Saskia Wittborn (School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK) Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression (In-person) (Details) |
Feb 16 |
Yamini Krishna (Communication Studies, Flame university) |
Feb 23 |
Phillip Thebe (Department of Anthropology, CUHK) Transnational Aspirations of Zimbabweans and Other Africans In Hong Kong And Mainland China: What Are They? (Online) (Details) |
Mar 15 |
Leigh-Anna Hidalgo (Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, Yale University) Economies of Resistance: Informal Labor and Street Vendor Uprisings in the Los Angeles Street Vending Campaign, 2013-2020 (In-person) (Details) |
Mar 22 |
Zheng Guanlei (Department of Sociology, University of Science and Technology Beijing) The Medical Pluralism of Infertility: Assisted Reproductive Technologies, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Sacred Treatments (In-person) (Details) |
Apr 5 |
Matthew Adams (Division of Anthropology, Brunel University) Tentative forays into the ethnography of metaverse (In-person) (Details) |
Apr 12 |
Tim Rosenkranz (Department of Anthropology, CUHK) Of Experts and Muppets: Knowledge and Solidarity in the HK Quarantine Support Group (In-person) (Details) |
Apr 19 |
Andrew Kipnis (Department of Anthropology, CUHK) Imagining Social Change Through Policy Failures in China (In-person) (Details) |
Seminars take place at 1:00-2:30 p.m. on Zoom or in person.
In-person Venue: NAH213, Humanities Bldg, New Asia College, CUHK
ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME!