(Food, Aesthetics, Technoscience) Collective, and her work has most recently appeared in the Fundamentally the workshop is committed to engaged scholarship that rejects the false dichotomy between rigorous intellectual work and community activism.
Each workshop reflects the research interests of a particular group of faculty members and graduate students.For a complete list and descriptions of all the graduate workshops, please visit the The African Studies Workshop (ASW) is an interdisciplinary group made up of students and faculty researching the peoples of Africa and its diasporas, past and present. The emphasis of these workshops is the presentation of graduate student works-in-progress.
is an interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, faculty, and guests to share and discuss ongoing research projects. The course includes visits to museums with guest museum professionals as guides into the culture of museums. Her dissertation, “Producing Taste: The Senses in American Food Science,” asks what theories of the senses scientists involved in food product design hold, and how these are emergent in their experimental techniques and in the development of foods and beverages. This year, we wish to branch out into visual culture. Critically analyzing the burgeoning literature on ethnographic practice and theory, and focusing on carefully formulated empirical studies in particular locations, this workshop aims to locate the theoretical position of North America within the field of anthropology and related disciplines.The theme for the Ancient Societies Workshop in 2010-11 will be “Representations: Myth, Religion, Image.” Last year’s workshop explored ancient religion from the perspective of ancient law, mostly by drawing on literary and epigraphic evidence. Formerly active under the name Money, Markets, and Consumption, in its renewed form, the workshop aims for involvement of students from various disciplines, mainly from the social sciences, including sociology and political science, as well as history and anthropology. Anthropology of Museums (=MAPS 34500, MAPS 34400). Because the scope of many forms of mass culture extends beyond the boundaries of any one discipline, the workshop is committed to interdisciplinary work.This workshop address the different processes of racialization experience within groups as well as across groups in sites as diverse as North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Asian Pacific, and Europe. Faculty and students pursue knowledge in areas such as archaeology, linguistic anthropology, human rights, indigenous groups, globalization, the politics of race, gender, sexuality, mass media, visual culture, and the study of science and technology. Locations explores ethnographic research in Canada and the United States within social scientific fields engaging core cross-disciplinary anthropological problems. In addition, we are open to contributions from and welcome the participation of scholars from other areas, such as the humanities, marketing and business management, public policy, and law.The Semiotics: Culture in Context workshop seeks to advance research grounded in a semiotic framework. The Pozen Center is launching a new project: a virtual human rights library, the first to focus on approaches from the social sciences and the humanities. In the midst of ongoing violence of state agents and white vigilantes against Black and Indigenous peoples in the Americas, we in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago support Prof. Ryan Jobson interviews PhD alum Yarimar Bonilla Prof. Ryan Jobson interviews Prof. Prof. Susan Gal Wins 2020 Quantrell Award
Its meetings provide a chance to encounter the latest work in science studies, presented by outside speakers, faculty, and graduate students. Annual themes are chosen by a rotating lineup of faculty curators.