Ann Anagnost (Anthropology)

Andrea Arai (Anthropology)

Jane Dyson (International Studies)

Danny Hoffman (Anthropology)

Craig Jeffrey (Geography)

Taking the future as a critical form of engagement, Global Futures seeks to reveal how the future is thought and acted upon across national contexts.

One of the powerful means through which futures are made to seem calculable and determinate is in the figurative and literal focus on youth and children as embodiments of the future. Thus this project explores how these forces pinpoint the young as both the figurative subject and literal object in "engineering" national and global futures and how these necessarily lead to the indeterminate results and imminent possibilities that the future must and does produce.

William Mazzarella (Anthropology, University of Chicago)

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"The Future of Censorship: The Obscenity of Publicity in India"
May 12, 2008
3:30-5:00 pm
Communications 226

Brad Weiss (Anthropology, College of William & Mary)

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Brownbag Workshop
January 7, 2008
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Communications 202

To RSVP for workshop, please email Danny Hoffman at djh13@u.washington.edu

"Enacting the Invincible: Youthful Performance in Urban Tanzania"
January 7, 2008
3:30 - 5:00 pm
Denny 401

No RSVP required for lecture