Speculative Anthropology Reading Group
We will be meeting every other Tuesday from 6-8pm, starting Jan.
Jan. 21: Intro to Speculative Anthropology

• Editors’ Forum on Speculative Anthropologies by Society for Cultural Anthropology: 
  https://culanth.org/fieldsights/series/speculative-anthropologies

Feb. 4: Fiction & Speculative Anthropology

• Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”
• Nalo Hopkinson’s “Soul Case” (short story from the collection Falling in Love with Hominids)
• Susan Lepselter’s “You Can’t Repair History” (Chapter Four of The Resonance of Unseen Things)

Feb. 24 (skipping a week because of reading week): The Art of Speculation

• Elephant Art Review of Ayana V. Jackson’s “Take Me to the Water”:
  https://elephant.art/ayana-v-jackson-how-has-the-camera-been-a-tool-for-colonialism/
• Aperture Review of “Take Me to the Water”: 
  https://aperture.org/blog/ayana-jackson-mariane-ibrahim/
• Video: AGO “Artist’s Talk: Brian Jungen”:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRHTzfTf0ks

March 3: Communal Speculations

• Kim TallBear’s “Beyond the Life/Not Life Binary: A Feminist-Indigenous Reading of Cryopreservation,
  Interspecies Thinking and the New Materialisms.” In Joanna Radin and Emma Kowal, eds., Cryopolitics (2017)
• TBD

March 17: Speculative Designs

• Blog entry by Anne Halloway “Towards Fantastic Ethnography and Speculative Design”
• “Our Present as the Past’s Fictitious Future” by Sally Applin in SCA
• TBD

March 31: Self Speculations

• Forum Qualitative Social Research “Autoethnography – A Review”
• *The Holistic Psychologist – Future Self-Journaling Guide

April 14, April 28, & May 12: Readings open to group suggestions; plan final presentation