Making Anthropology Matter

Cultural Anthropology presents Duke Centennial Speakers Jatin Dua and Serkan Yolacan Making Anthropology Matter Duke Anthropology alumni Jatin Dua and Serkan Yolacan reflect on the concrete matter we collect in research - auditory, textual, visual, material; their genre forms; the landscapes, seascapes and scales of transregional collection - and how we relate such matter to our conceptual apparatus. Monday, September 30, 2024 1:30pm Friedl Building, Room 225 Jatin Dua Jatin Dua is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Oceans Lab at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of Captured at Sea: Piracy and Protection in the Indian Ocean (winner of 2019 Elliott Skinner Prize) and the Editor of Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH). Serkan Yolacan Serkan Yolaçan is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University. He studies the relationship between human mobility and historical mindedness, examining their interplay through texts, objects, and built landscapes. All are welcome