Fall 2025
Monday, September 15
Sarah Pinto, Tufts University
Topic: The Ethical Monster: Theorizing Ugliness and Gendered Political Subject in India
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Co-sponsored by Anthropology and the Institute for Islamic Studies
Monday, October 20
Nat Nesvanderani, Laval University.
Topic: Performance and Place-Making: Collaborative Media Production with Displaced Youth in Iran
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 108
Co-sponsored by Anthropology, the McGill Refugee Research Group, the Institute for the Study of International Development and the Critical Media Lab.
Wednesday, November 26 and Thursday, November 27
Rosalind Morris, Columbia University
Topic: To be advised
Seminar: November 26, 12:30 in LEA 738
Reading: November 27, 17: 30 in PETH 108
Co-sponsored by Anthropology and the Critical Media Lab
Winter 2025
Friday, March 28
Nicolas Delsol, Laval University.
12:30 - 14:30 PETH 116
Rescheduled from February 17.
Monday, April 7
Nisrin Elamin, University of Toronto
12:30 - 14:30 PETH 108
Co-sponsored by Anthropology, ISID, the McGill Refugee Research Group, and the African Studies program.
Fall 2024
Wednesday, September 11
Dr Pedro Guillermo Ramón Celis, Banting Postdoctoral Researcher at McGill
Topic: Lidar mapping in a Zapotec sacred mountain: Archaeology of Guiengola, a fortified Mesoamerican city
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Monday, September 23
Prof. Alice Bellagamba, University of Milan-Bicocca
Topic: Belonging as Freedom. Post-slavery trajectories of emancipation from Southern Senegal (1950s to present)
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Monday, October 28
Prof. Luis Vivanco, University of Vermont
Topic: Adventures in Creative Stumbling
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Winter 2024
Friday, February 16
Dr Lauren Hosek, University of Colorado Boulder
Topic: Embodying Belief: A Historical Bioarchaeology of Religious Identities
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Monday, March 11
Prof Jeffrey Witsoe, Union College
Topic: The Sovereignty in the Document: Brokers, Activists and Rights in Rural Bihar, India
14:00 - 16:00 PETH116
Fall 2023
Monday, September 18
Prof. Stefanie Graeter, University of Arizona
Topic: Bodies with Minerals: Toxicity, Life, and Politics in Peru’s Neoextractive Era
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 108
Monday, October 2
Prof. Christina Halperin, Universite de Montreal
Topic: Foreigners Among Us: Captivity and Enslavement in Ancient Maya Society
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Thursday, October 19
Prof. Aldon Morris, Northwestern University
Topic: W.E.B. Du Bois and Modern Social Science: A Conversation with Aldon Morris
13:00 - 17:00 Faculty Club Ballroom
Monday, November 13
Xenia Cherkaev, Ph.D. Humbolt University of Berlin
Topic: Investments Private and Personal: Theories of Markets and Households
12:30 - 14:00 PETH 116
Winter 2022
Monday, February 21
Prof. Susan Lepselter, Indiana University
Topic: “Left Standing” – A Performance of written and video ethnographic poetics.
12:30 - 14:30 Online
Monday, March 28
Prof. Natacha Nsabimana, University of Chicago
Topic: "Reburying the Dead of 1994 and Rethinking Historic Time in Rwanda”
12:30 - 14:30 Online
Monday, April 11
Jasmine Pisapia, Grégoire Hervouet-Zeiber, Marina Alamo Bryan (McGill, Columbia University)
Topic: Anthropology Speakers Series Roundtable
12:30 - 14:30 Online