Anthropology ANTH

The Oil Machine: Film Screening and Director Chat

Join us for a screening of the much-buzzed about film, “The Oil Machine,” followed by a Q&A with Director, Emma Davie. Facilitated by James Sanchez.

Oil has been an invisible machine at the core of our economy and society. It now faces an uncertain future as activists and investors demand change. Is this the end of oil?

Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

Open to the Public

Queer Anthropology: A Dialogue

Erin Durban and Lucinda Ramberg, two feminist, queer, postcolonial scholars, will have a conversation about queer anthropology: What does it mean to queer anthropology? How can we do anthropology, as well as ethnographic methods more broadly, in a queer way and for queer purposes?

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti

Erin Durban, a scholar of queer anthropology, will discuss their book The Sexual Politics of Empire: Postcolonial Homophobia in Haiti. Evangelical Christians and members of the global LGBTQI human rights movement have vied for influence in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. Each side accuses the other of serving foreign interests. Yet each proposes future foreign interventions on behalf of their respective causes despite the country’s traumatic past with European colonialism and American imperialism. As Durban shows, two discourses dominate discussions of intervention.

Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)

Open to the Public

Svea Closser Lecture: Engaging Community Health Workers in Global Health Policymaking through Reality TV Competitions

Community Health Workers (CHWs), the majority of whom are women, are the bedrock of primary care provision across the world but are often employed at the bottom of health hierarchies where they have little voice. We developed a policymaking “Shark Tank” competition for female CHWs working on polio vaccination in Peshawar, Pakistan. Structured processes can allow the least powerful actors in global health structures to suggest innovations that work for them.
 

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Open to the Public
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The Tlingit People of Sitka, Alaska as Portrayed by Elbridge Merrill, an American Photographer (1899-1929)

Sponsored by:
Anthropology
Elbridge W. Merrill (1870-1929), a talented professional photographer from New England, spent thirty years in the town of Sitka, Alaska documenting the life of its multiethnic population: Tlingit Indians, Russian Creoles and Euro-Americans. Merrill’s images of the local indigenous people’s ceremonial and daily life are particularly striking. They are both beautiful and a major source of historical information on the rich culture of the Tlingit people.

Middlebury College

Open to the Public
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Author Talk with Lisa Uperesa: Gridiron Capital: How American Football became a Samoan Game

Since the 1970s, a “Polynesian Pipeline” has brought football players from American Samoa to Hawaii and the mainland United States to play at the collegiate and professional levels. In Gridiron Capital Lisa Uperesa charts the cultural and social dynamics that have made football so significant to Samoan communities.

Virtual Middlebury

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