Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns
Hopkins University and Academic Trustee for the Institute's School
of Social Science, will give a talk at the Institute for Advanced
Study at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, in the...
João Biehl and Adriana Petryna, former Visitors in
the School of Social Science, and Arcadio Diaz-Quinones will
discuss Unfinished: The Anthropology of Becoming at
6:00 p.m. on March 28 at
Labyrinth Books. The book is a field-changing
collection...
Jonathan Benthall of the Times Literary Supplement
reviews Punir: Une Passion Contemporaine (Seuil, 2017), by
Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn
Professor in the School of Social Science. The work, he writes,
"testifies admirably to the power of...