13th Annual Jack Glazier Anthropology Lecture

Please join the anthropology department for our 13th annual Jack Glazier Anthropology Lecture! This year’s speaker is Juno Salazar Parreñas, PhD, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies & Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University.

In 1978, the tropical city-state of Singapore received three polar bears, starting a dynasty that ended in 2018. Within their lifespan, rapid and exponential growth in economies, human populations, agricultural intensification, deforestation, and the burning and consuming of carbon and chemicals—have changed the entire planet. How might the life histories of tropical polar bears narrate the Great Acceleration as a time of illiberal inhumanity and globally racialized inequality? This paper is based on ongoing archival and ethnographic research in Singapore, Canada, and the US. 

A reception will follow the lecture in the Lewis Center Atrium.