Others without History: Organisms as Agility-shifting Actors in the Trajectory of Capital

Event time: 
Friday, April 26, 2019 - 11:00am to 1:00pm
Location: 
230 Prospect Street (PROS230 ), 101 See map
230 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (born 1952) is an American professor of anthropology. Tsing is employed at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Tsing received her B.A. from Yale University and completed her masters and PhD at Stanford University. She has contributed, and written several articles and books on a broad range of anthropological subjects and in 2010, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2013, Tsing won a Niels Bohr Professorship at Aarhus University in Denmark for her contribution to interdisciplinary work in the fields of the humanities, natural sciences, social sciences, and the arts. She is currently developing a transdisciplinary program for exploring the Anthropocene. Tsing is director of the AURA project at Aarhus University.

In 2018 she was awarded the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

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