Classifying Cultural Data and Material Culture in World Anthropologies
Channel: IUAES Congress
Date: 2021-04-21

Classifying Cultural Data and Material Culture in World Anthropologies
Conversation IUAES Congress OC - Hannah Turner & Sowparnika Balaswaminathan

April 21 (Wednesday), 2021
9hrs, Vancouver
11hrs, Mexico City
19:30hrs, New Delhi

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Hannah Turner is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where she researches the connection between cultural heritage and media technologies. Her recent book, “Cataloguing Culture” looks at how colonial ideologies prevail in museum bureaucracies. You can reach her on Twitter @hannahtrnr.

Sowparnika Balaswaminathan is the Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her research interests include heritage nationalism, caste and labor, and aesthetic knowledge and her current project is on the intimate politics of Cold war collections. She will be joining the Religions and Cultures department at Concordia University, Montreal, QC, as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2021.

International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Congress 
Heritages, Global Interconnections in a Possible World
November 9-13, 2021
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