The Department of Anthropology will host João Biehl, Susan Dod Brown Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, for a Zoom lecture titled “Insurgent Archivings: Sensing the Spirit of Nature and Reckoning with Traces of Our Dead” Friday, April 1, from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
During his free, public lecture, Biehl will discuss his recent research on 19th-century German colonies of southern Brazil.
Affective archives that have endured as “traces of what one does not know” testify to the home as an ongoing, unfinished index of survivals, and as an archiving operation combining the historical and unhistorical in refiguring of humanness, social belonging, and futurity. The archives carry people’s imaginative and horizon-making capacities that include the Spirit of Nature and relationships to our dead.
Find the Zoom information via the Department of Anthropology’s website.