Precarious Publics Symposium

With funding from the Humanities Futures program at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Cultural Anthropology department at Duke is pleased to invite you to participate in a half-day symposium on "Precarious Publics". Come hear about organizing for the Duke Faculty First union movement, the corporate university as social factory, doing public anthropology in the time of Trump, and the affective politics of teaching Black Lives Matter in and beyond the academia. Questions, please contact Ralph Litzinger (rlitz@duke.edu) or Anne Allison (aaa@duke.edu) for more information.

The speakers are Eileen Anderson - "Faculty Empowerment in an Age of Corporatization: Building a Union at Duke", Marc Bousquet - "The Campus as Social Factory: Monetizing the Student", Carole McGranahan - "Political Crisis and Scholarly Responsibility, or, Public Anthropology in the Time of Trump", Bianca Williams - "Radical Honesty and Subjective Truths: A Black Feminist Politic of Teaching & Organizing with Emotion".