Please join the Anthropology Graduate Colloquium Committee for an Invited Panel on Public Anthropology.
March 17, 4 p.m. in Hale Sciences 230
Reception to follow in Hale Sciences 450
Public Anthropology: Responding to Political Urgency
Anthropologists writing at the dawn of the 21st century have been concerned with the discipline's attentiveness to timing and the 'unbearable slowness' of ethnography (Marcus 2003). Now, more than ever, in light of new policies, executive orders, a highly polarized political climate in the United States, and the resurgence of nativist and racist movements, many anthropologists are left wondering if there is a place for anthropology to respond to these events and if so, how the nature of fieldwork and writing fits into this response. In these times, we turn to public anthropologists — those who not only theorize and publish work for academics, but bridge their theory and method into a space that reacts to current events in meaningful ways and speaks to more than just an academic audience. During this panel and the discussion afterward, we will hear from scholars working on the ground and in print who use anthropology as a tool to fight back against injustice and ignorance. We are especially interested in starting conversations among anthropologists working and teaching in the state of Colorado. We hope to foster a multi-campus discussion that unites the Colorado anthropology community and speaks back to political dislocation.
List of Speakers:
March 17, 4 p.m. in Hale Sciences 230
Reception to follow in Hale Sciences 450
Public Anthropology: Responding to Political Urgency
Anthropologists writing at the dawn of the 21st century have been concerned with the discipline's attentiveness to timing and the 'unbearable slowness' of ethnography (Marcus 2003). Now, more than ever, in light of new policies, executive orders, a highly polarized political climate in the United States, and the resurgence of nativist and racist movements, many anthropologists are left wondering if there is a place for anthropology to respond to these events and if so, how the nature of fieldwork and writing fits into this response. In these times, we turn to public anthropologists — those who not only theorize and publish work for academics, but bridge their theory and method into a space that reacts to current events in meaningful ways and speaks to more than just an academic audience. During this panel and the discussion afterward, we will hear from scholars working on the ground and in print who use anthropology as a tool to fight back against injustice and ignorance. We are especially interested in starting conversations among anthropologists working and teaching in the state of Colorado. We hope to foster a multi-campus discussion that unites the Colorado anthropology community and speaks back to political dislocation.
List of Speakers:
- Professor Whitney Duncan (Department of Anthropology, University of Northern Colorado)
- Professor Sarah Horton (Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver)
- Professor Donna Goldstein (Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Dr. Steve Nash (Department Chair and Curator of Archaeology, Denver Museum of Nature and Science; blogger, Sapiens)
- Professor Bianca Williams (Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder)