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