The Anthropology Deparment and the Research Center for Group Dynamics will be hosting Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies and Environmental Approaches to Water during the Winter 2022 Semester. Featured speakers bring their expertise from universities across the nation including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, and the University of Texas. This series will touch on Navigation of the Red Sea, Experimental Collaborations across the Indian Ocean, Sensing water in Mexico City, and so much more. Students can register for the series under Anthroculture 558 Section 002. View the entire lecture series schedule here.
- January 24th Jessica Cattelino: Water Ties as Political Methodology in the Everglades and Beyond
- January 31st Jatin Dua: Chokepoints- Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
- February 7th Andrea Ballestero: Veins, plumes, and mantles- the slippery form of subterranean water movement in Costa Rica
- February 14th Branko Kerkez & Elizabeth F.S. Roberts: Sensing Water in Mexico City
- February 21st Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobar: Managing Melt- Ice, Refrigeration, and Hawaiian Body Politics
- March 7th Teresa Montoya: Thresholds- Regulating Risk and Water Contamination in Diné Communities
- March 14th Maira Hayat: Good Bureaucrats and God- Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy
- March 21st Vivian Choi: Sea Changes- Experimental Collaborations. across the Indian Ocean
- March 28th Rebecca Hardin & David Porter: Detroit River Story Lab- Community Narratives and Carbon Economics
- April 4th Alyssa Huberts: Citizen Responses to Poor Quality Urban Water Service: A Political Economy Approach
- April 11th Sarah Vaughn: Watermarks and the Ordinary
- April 18th Naveedah Kahn: River Life and the Ticker of Time
