Do you ever feel discord between your work as an academic and your efforts to be political, advocate for issues you care about, choose an alternative lifestyle, or support the communities in which you carry on research? This speaker series will explore and challenge such felt boundaries. Through lectures, artistic presentations and roundtables, we will explore spaces of crossover - between activism, research and influence on policy, on the one hand, and in our teaching, writing, publishing and artistic practices, on the other. Half of the speakers will focus on troubling the boundaries between academia, advocacy and activism, and half will explore what social science researchers may gain from studying or participating in artistic and political protest practices.

Upcoming events

Friday, April 7th
4pm, Salomon 001

Clea Koff

The Other Body Politic: Pursuing Justice from the (Mass) Grave

Reflecting on her experience of exhuming mass graves in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia on behalf of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal, Clea Koff will pose the question: is activism inherent in anthropology that exposes the truth behind political crimes? She will explore the idea of the dead becoming 'active' through anthropologists who unlock their stories and will share her thoughts on the role of political consciousness for forensic anthropologists in the 21st century.

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Tuesday, April 11th
4pm, Joukowsky Forum

Joao Biehl

Free Trade, AIDS Drugs, and Activism

As of 2004, almost half of the AIDS patients being treated in the developing world lived in one country: Brazil. This seminar examines the activist, political and economic factors underlying the Brazilian life-extending policy, and probes its social and medical reach, particularly in impoverished urban settings where AIDS is spreading most rapidly.

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This lecture series is supported by:

Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund Marshall Woods Lectureship Fund of Fine Arts Politics, Culture & Identity Program Cogut Center Brown University Graduate Student Council CFAR, BRUNAP Sarah Doyle Women's Center The Wayland Collegium, Department of Modern Culture & Media Department of Latin American Studies Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Department of Theater, Speech and Dance Department of Anthropology Forensic Archaeology Recovery (FAR)