MMAC is pleased to be hosting Elizabeth Fein to discuss her book Living on the Spectrum: Autism and Youth in Community (NYU Press, 2020), a two year, multi-sited ethnographic study of how young people on the autism spectrum negotiate the meanings of their contested condition in their everyday lives, in places where they live, learn, […]
Paul Smaldino, Department of Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced Identity signals are common components of communication transmissions that inform receivers of the signaler’s membership (or non-membership) in a subset of individuals. Signals can be overt, broadcast to all possible receivers, or covert, encrypted so that only similar receivers are likely to perceive […]
MMAC will not meet on 15 February in observance of Presidents’ Day. **(Please follow link to RSVP: https://forms.gle/vD8ewv98SwmCbJF7A)** ***If you are already on the permanent Zoom RSVP list please do not RSVP again. Dear All, Mind, Medicine, and Culture (MMAC) is pleased to be hosting Robert Lemelson. His presentation is entitled: “Person-Centered Interviewing and Visual […]
A BOOK CELEBRATION! The Department of Anthropology cordially invites you to come celebrate a new book by Dr. Diane C. Perlov, VP of Exhibits at the California Science Center UCLA MA Anthropology '79, UCLA PhD Anthropology '87 Driving the Samburu Bride Fieldwork among Cattle Keepers in Kenya Through Zoom Register by February 22, 2021 […]
Manvir Singh, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse Human societies reliably develop “cultural super-attractors”, or complex practices and beliefs that exhibit striking similarities. In this talk, I will present research on the nature and origins of three religious super-attractors: shamanism, religious self-denial, and beliefs in supernatural punishment. These cultural practices appeared in […]
Mind, Medicine, and Culture is pleased to welcome back one of our own recent graduates, Dr. Yael Assor. Her presentation and the reading draw on her doctoral research with a group of Israeli medical bureaucrats and is entitled “‘Objectivity’ as a Bureaucratic Virtue.” The abstract for her presentation is on the attached/embedded flyer. **(Please follow […]
Anna I. Corwin is a linguistic and psychological anthropologist. She received her PhD from UCLA and is an assistant professor of anthropology at Saint Mary’s College of California. Her research and teaching interests span the fields of linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, the anthropology of religion, aging, and well-being. Corwin is a recipient of fellowships from […]
Part 4 of the Race, Racism, Policing and State Violence series Bathumi Ayul Abwol Dak, Research Coordinator, Diversity for Strategic Studies. Editor in Chief, Wajuma News Teatro do Oprimado (Theatre of the Oppressed) Chaired by Zachary Modesire and Abdullah Puckett
BEC is pleased to co-sponsor the following event with The American Indian Studies Center, the Institute for Society and Genetics, and the Culture, Power, and Social Change Group. Note special day and time and Zoom link: Thursday, May 13, 12:15 to 1:45 PST - https://ucla.zoom.us/j/97160150930 Kim TallBear Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment […]
This panel is part of a series of teach-ins on the Burmese Democracy Movement, organized with the goal of disseminating knowledge about violence perpetrated against political activist communities in Burma. This event was sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA. It was co-sponsored […]
Part 5 of the Race, Racism, Policing and State Violence series Noura Erakat, Rutgers University Darryl Li, University of Chicago Jemima Pierre, UCLA
