Confronting the Present (Poster)
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2014
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Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor
of Anthropology and Historical Studies at the New School for Social
Research in New York City. Stoler is the author of numerous articles
and books, including Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties
and Colonial Common Sense (2008), Imperial Formations (2007), and
Haunted by Empire: Geographies of the Intimate in North American
History (2006), among others. She is also the Founding Director of
the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School. Stuart Kirsch teaches anthropology at the University of Michigan.
Kirsch works in the Pacific and the Amazon on indigenous rights and
the environment, including long-term research and advocacy with the
people living downstream from the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea.
He is the author of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of
Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea and Mining
Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and their Critics. Joseph Masco teaches anthropology at the University of Chicago.
Masco’s work examines the evolution of the national security state in
the United States, with a particular focus on the interplay between affect,
technology, and threat perception. He is the author of The Nuclear
Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico
and The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold
War to the War on Terror. Emily Martin teaches anthropology at New York University. She is the
author of The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction,
and Flexible Bodies: Tracking Immunity in American Culture From the
Days of Polio to the Age of AIDS, and Bipolar Expeditions: Mania and
Depression in American Culture. Her current work is focused on experimental
psychology and its influence on the formation of anthropological
facts/subjects in the 1898 Torres Straits Expedition, in the reflections of
Ludwig Wittgenstein, and beyond.
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Posters, Post colonialism, Imperialism, Mineral industries, Nuclear weapons, Medical anthropology, Culture--Political aspects, Politics and culture