Seminar Guests
2024 – 2025
Loren Landau (Professor of Migration and Development, University of Oxford) and Anne McNevin (Associate Professor of Politics, New School for Social Research): October 9, 2024
José Antonio Lucero (Professor and Chair at the Comparative History of Ideas Department, University of Washington, and a political scientist by training) and Michael Steven Wilson (Indigenous human rights activist): November 13, 2024
Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist: February 4, 2025
2023 – 2024
Julie Klinger (Geography & Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware): November 21, 2023
Daniel Bertrand Monk (George R. and Myra T. Cooley Professor of Peace & Conflict Studies and Professor of Geography, Colgate University): March 18, 2024
Veronika Kusumaryati (Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Ernst Karel (Musical Artist): April 4, 2024
2022 – 2023
Jacqueline Castillo, Carlos Mora and Lilian Calvache (Mothers of False Positives, Colombia):
November 8, 2022
Charles Hirschkind (Anthropology, Berkeley): December 14, 2022
Ricardo Aleixo (poet & performer, Brazil): April 20, 2023
2021 – 2022
Moisés Kopper (Anthropology, LAMC): November 30, 2021
Jasbir Puar (Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers): April 20, 2022
2020 – 2021
Eppchez! (Philadelphia-based theatre-maker)
E. Carmen Ramos (National Gallery of Art)
Aaron Bryant (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
Ariana A. Curtis (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture)
Saidiya Hartman (English and Comparative Literature, Columbia)
2019 – 2020
Brett Pyper (School of the Arts, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg)
Janet Vertesi (Sociology, Princeton)
Meredith Loken (Political Science, UMass Amherst)
2018 – 2019
Nidiria Ruiz Medina (Community organizer and peace rights activist, Colombia)
Sandra Laugier (Philosophy, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne)
Anna Tsing (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz)
2017 – 2018
Froylan Enciso (Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económica)
Floriza de la Cruz Pinto and María de Jesus Lima (Indigenous Activists, Yanomami Women’s Association, Brazil)
Jason De Léon (Anthropology and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA)
2016 – 2017
Mary Roldán (Latin American History, CUNY)
Cristina Lleras (Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia)