Spring 2026
Saturday May 16, 2026
Senior Class Day (rsvp required)
Hahn Outdoor Classroom or Hahn 101, Pomona College
Thursday May 7, 2026
Hahn 214, Pomona College
Anthropology senior thesis presentations
Thursday April 2, 2026
Rose Hills Theater at Smith Campus Center, Pomona College
Film Screening, Saint Omer
Wednesday April 1, 2026
Hahn Lobby, Pomona College
Tea Party Social Fall ’26 Pre-Registration event
Tuesday February 17, 2026
Humanities 204, Scripps College
Chris Dole, author, Amherst College
“Living On: Pyschiatry and the Future of Disaster in Turkey”
Event is co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Dept.
Fall 2025
Friday December 5, 2025
Hahn 214, Pomona College
Anthropology senior seminar presentations
Lunch will be served
Tuesday November 18, 2025
Humanities 204, Scripps College
Samar Al-Bulushi, UC Irvine
“War-making as Worldmaking: Kenya, the United States and the War on Terror”
Event is co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Dept.
Thursday October 30, 2025
Rose Hills Theater at Smith Campus Center, Pomona College
Film Screening, In the Mouth of Madness
Thursday October 30, 2025
Hahn Lobby, Pomona College
“Ice Cream Social” Spring ’26 Pre-Registration event
Spring 2025
Saturday May 17, 2025
Senior Class Day (rsvp required)
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Tuesday April 15, 2025
Hahn 108, Pomona College
Alex E. Chávez, Notre Dame University
“Sonorous Present: Songs of Border Crossings, Sunrises, and Mournings”
Event is co-sponsored by Pomona College Music Dept.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Hahn 108, Pomona College
Michael Veal, Yale University
“Sirius Musicology”
Fall 2024
Thursday November 14, 2024
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Duana Fillwiley, Stanford University
“Tabula Raza Mapping Race and Human Diversity in American Genome Science”
Wednesday November 13, 2024
Hahn Courtyard, Pomona College
Anthropology Department Fall Reception
Wednesday November 6, 2024
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Yosh Han, Perfumer & Business Owner
“Decolonizing Scent”
Thursday October 31, 2024
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine
“The Anthropology of Accounting, Money and Payment, from Cuneiform to Cryptocurrencies”
Thursday October 24, 2024
Rose Hills Theater, Pomona College
Film Screening of Babel followed by discussion
Tuesday October 22, 2024
Rose Hills Theater, SCC, Pomona College
Marwan Kaabour, Author
Queer Arab Glossary, an open discussion with the author
Spring 2024
Saturday May 11, 2024
Senior Class Day (rsvp required)
Hahn Outdoor Classroom, Pomona College
Monday February 12, 2024
Pearsons 101, Pomona College
Cori Hayden, UC Berkeley
“The Spectacular Generic: Pharmaceutical and the Simipolitical in Mexico”
Event is co-sponsored by the 5-C Science, Technology & Society Program
FALL, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Kim TallBear, University of Alberta
“The Geneticist's Vanishing Indian vs. Indigenous Collective Presence”
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Event is co-sponsored by the Dean's Office and the 5-C Science, Technology, & Society Program
Read about the event as reported in The Student Life
Thursday, November 2, 2023
Anthropology "Boba & Board Games"
Spring '24 Pre-registration event
Hahn 101, Pomona College
Monday, October 30, 2023
Anthropology Film Screening of They Live!
Rose Hills Theater, Pomona College
SPRING, 2023
Saturday, May 13, 2023
To Celebrate Anthropology Graduates and Family, Faculty, Majors
Senior Class Day (rsvp requested)
Hahn Outdoor Classroom, Pomona College.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Senior Symposium: Senior Thesis Presentations and Anthropology Department Alumni Reception with keynote speaker, Tom Boellstorff, UC Irvine
Hahn 107, Pomona College
Friday, March 24, 2023
Panelists: Maia Asshaq, Flint Magazine; Maya Moumne, Studio Safar; Omer Shah, Pomona College
“On Collaboration: Design, Publishing, and Anthropology”
Loeb Pavilion at the Benton Museum, Pomona College
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Fadi A. Bardawil, Duke University
“Fieldwork in Theory: An Anthropology of Arab Marxist Intellectuals”
Hahn 108, Pomona College
FALL, 2022
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
5-C Anthropology Ice Cream Social
Hahn Courtyard
Friday, October 21, 2022
Anthropology Film Screening of Midsommar
Rose Hills Theater
SPRING, 2022
Saturday, May 14, 2022
To Celebrate Anthropology Graduates and Family, Faculty, Majors
Senior Class Day (rsvp requested)
Hahn Outdoor Classroom, Pomona College.
Friday, April 29, 2022
Senior Thesis Presentations and Anthropology Department Alumni Reception
Carnegie Outdoor Classroom
Monday, April 11, 2022
Zeina Daccache, Founder and Executive Director of Catharsis (Lebanon)
“A Conversation with Zeina Daccache”
Zoom
Event is co-sponsored by Scripps College
Friday, April 8, 2022
Gina Anne Tam, Trinity University
“How Languages Become Dialects: The Past and Present of Language and Identity in China”
Oldenborg Dining Hall
Event is sponsored by Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium, LGCS Efron Lecture, Pacific Basin Institute, EnviroLab Asia, and the History Dept.
Monday, March 28, 2022
Mona Fawaz and Mona Harb, American University of Beirut
“State of the City: Beirut Urban Lab”
Zoom
Event is co-sponsored by Scripps College and the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Omer Shah, Columbia University
“Made in Mecca: Research, Knowledge, and Technology in the Islamic Sanctuary”
Zoom
FALL, 2021
Tony Jin ('22) was selected by The Association for Queer Anthropology (AQA) as the 2021 Kenneth W. Payne Student Prize winner for best student paper submission for his paper “The Ambivalent State of Radical Queer Imaginaries: The Chinese State, Identity Politics, and the Queer Private Sphere.” Read the announcement here.
SPRING 2021
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Peter Redfield, University of Southern California
“Bioexpectations: Life Technologies as Humanitarian Goods”
Zoom
For more about the series
FMI and abstract (4/15)
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Safiya Noble, author of Algorithms of Oppression
“A Conversation with Safiya Noble”
Zoom
For more about the series
FMI and abstract (4/27)
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Kim Fortun, Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine
“Experiments in Ethnographic Collaboration: Purposes, Designs, Infrastructures, Invitations”
Zoom
FMI and abstract (4/6)
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Andrew Lakoff, Professor of Sociology and Communication, University of Southern California
“The Supply Chain Must Continue: Becoming Essential in the Pandemic”
Zoom
FMI and abstract (3/25)
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology, Social Sciences, University of Chicago
“Just Health? The Construction of Postcolonial Dis-ease”
Zoom
FMI and abstract (2/9)
FALL 2020
Friday, August 7, 2020
Academic Department Fair via Zoom
SPRING 2020
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Hahn Hall Room 108, Pomona College
Dr. Kirsten Senturia ('87), a practicing Medical Anthropologist
“Anthropology in the Face of Epidemic Disease”
FALL 2019
Friday, November 15, 2019
Hahn Hall Room 101, Pomona College
“Anthropology Who? Pre-registration course info session”
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Hahn Hall Second Floor, Pomona College
Open to all 5-C students & faculty
Open House/Grand Opening of the Hahn Student Lounge
SPRING 2019
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Hahn Hall second-floor lobby, Pomona College.
To Celebrate Anthropology Graduates and Family, Faculty, Majors
Senior Class Day (rsvp requested)
Friday, May 3, 2019
Hahn Hall Room 213, Pomona College
Anthropology Seniors, Majors, Faculty, and Alumni
Lunch, followed by Anthropology Senior Thesis Presentations
Friday, April 12, 2019
Hahn Hall Room 101, Pomona College
Bernard Perley, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Russel Gordon Visiting Associate Professor for Native American Studies, Dartmouth College
“Indigeneity and Translocality: Remediating Global Crises of Belonging”
Co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Department, Linguistics and Cognitive Science Paul Efron Speaker Series, Latin American Studies Draper Fund, Intercollegiate Africana Studies, and Pomona College International Relations Program. Lunch will be provided.
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Avery Hall Room 201, Pitzer College
Alma Gottlieb, Visiting Scholar in Anthropology, Brown University, Professor Emerita, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Anthropological Reflections on the ‘Maternal Instinct’”
Friday, March 15, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“Applying to Grad School and Advice for FLI Students”
Friday, March 8, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“Anthropology and the Media”
Friday, March 1, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
Guest Speaker: Kirsten Senturia (PO '87), a practicing Medical Anthropologist
Friday, February 22, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“Anthropological Perspectives on Psychology and Mental Health”
Friday, February 15, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“Careers for Anthropologists in Social Justice Organizations”
Friday, February 8, 2019
Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“Careers for Anthropologists in the Field of Medicine”
Tuesday, February 5, 2019
Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages & International Relations Dining Hall, Pomona College
Armin Schwegler, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
“Globalization in Latin America's Hinterland: The Case of a Bilingual Afro-Hispanic Community of Colombia”
Co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Dept, Linguistics and Cognitive Science Dept, and the Oldenborg Luncheon Colloquium at Pomona College.
Friday, February 1, 2019
Rose Hills Theatre, Pomona College
Remi Kessler, Filmmaker
The Advocates film screening followed by Q&A with the Filmmaker
Co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Department, The Draper Center's Homelessness Action Team in partnership with The Claremont Journal of Medicine and Social Justice. Dinner and refreshments will be provided.
Friday, January 25, 2019
11:00AM, Hahn 215, Pomona College
Anthropology Professional Development Series
“What Can I do with a Degree in Anthropology?”
FALL 2018
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Hahn 108, Pomona College
Katharina Steiner, University of Zurich
“Visual Cultures in Marine Biology: Depicting Species between Aesthetics and Epistemology around 1900”
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Hahn 108, Pomona College
Leo Chávez, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
“The Children of Immigrants as Threats to the Nation: How Political Rhetoric Matters”
Co-sponsored by Pomona College Anthropology Dept, Intercollegiate Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies.