News & Events

Upcoming Events: Fall 2018

STS Lunch Seminar Series: Decolonizing Botany
Banu Subramaniam, Professor and Chairs WGSS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, September 28, 2018
12:00-1:15pm | Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room
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Recent Events

Public Lecture: "Bridging Academics and Comics: an ethnoGRAPHIC novel about Revolution, Friendship, and Medical Promise"
Sherine Hamdy, Associate Professor of Anthropology (University of California, Irvine)
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
5:00-6:30pm | Tisch Library, Room 304
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Graphic Ethnographies Workshop
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
12:00-1:15pm | Sophia Gordon Multipurpose Room
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Recent News

Tatiana Chudakova was awarded the 2018 General Anthropology Division's Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship.
(August 2018)

Nick Seaver's course "How to Pay Attention" is featured in The New York Times article "Finding It Hard to Focus? Maybe It's Not Your Fault: The rise of the new 'attention economy.'"
(August 2018)

Nick Seaver studies the algorithms that read you and your taste, and the people who build those 'recommendation' services, which tell you what music you're going to like and what you should listen to next. Listen to his podcast with Christopher Lydon, 'The Algorithmic Age', on WBUR Radio Open Source.
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(Februrary 2018)