Torture Trees: Police Violence from Chicago to the War on Terror
Laurence Ralph, Harvard University (Cultural Anthropology) The history of police torture that I will discuss in this talk …
Where Has ‘Japanese Women’s Language’ Gone? Language and New Forms of Gender Inequality in Post-bubble Japanese Society
Miyako Inoue, Sociolinguist, Stanford University I focus on what is called “women’s language” in Japanese, a set of …
The Pensioner’s Dilemma: Generations, Class, and Inequality in Southern Europe
Susana Narotzky, University of Barcelona (Cultural Anthropology) The current crisis in Europe creates new practices and understandings of …
Urban (In)Equality and Materiality: A Global, Deep Time Perspective
Dean Saitta, University Of Denver (Archaeology) Scholarly research suggests that the more inclusive and equitable a city, the …
The Violence of Fear: Racist Ideologies, Police Perceptions of Threat, and Inequality in Policing
Sherina Feliciano-Santos, University Of South Carolina (Linguistic Anthropology) The escalation of violence by police is often justified as being …
Sick of Race: How Racism Harms Health and Misleads Medicine
Clarence C. Gravlee, Sociocultural Anthropologist, University of Florida Social scientists commonly assert that race is a cultural construct, …
The Inner Lives of Passively Suicidal Americans: Why Racism isn’t Just Bad for Black People
Carolyn Rouse, Princeton University (Cultural Anthropology) Why should we care about declining white life expectancies in America? Whites …