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Nicholas C. Kawa

Environmental Anthropologist

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A black & white photograph of a pyramid-shaped tomb built in New Orleans by the actor Nicolas Cage

The Hauntological Turn at #AAA2025

Phantasmic figures haunted this year’s AAA in New Orleans.

#AAA, anthropology, ghosts
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Welcome to the Anthropozine(!): A DIY Installation for the 2025 SCA “Unconference”

More zines, zines, zines (!)

Cultural Anthropology, SCA2025, unconference, zines

Bacteria Farming Zine (DOPE2024)

The DOPE conference is back in person this year and I put together a new zine for it!

biosolids, DOPE2024, sanitation, wastewater, zines

#AAA2021: Anthropological Engagements with Optimism?

This year’s American Anthropological Association meeting is likely to be one of the weirder ones in recent memory.

academic anthropology, roundtable

Urban Amazonian Show & Tell at #AmAnth2018

At this year’s AAA meeting, I’ll be presenting a paper on a panel titled “The Cultural Work of Aesthetics: Brazilian … More

#AmAnth2018, Brazil, ethnography, everyday aesthetics, urban Amazonia

Sedimentation

On Tuesday afternoon at the American Anthropological Association Meeting, I had the opportunity to participate as discussant on a panel … More

#AmAnth17, agriculture, anthropocene, Sedimentation

Plant Semiotics Workshop

On Feb. 24th, I’ll be participating in a workshop at Rutgers University that centers on “the semotics of plant-human sociality.” Becky Schulthies … More

anthropology, human-plant relations, Rutgers, semiotics, workshop

The Social Network of US Academic Anthropology

This morning I presented a paper at the AAA meeting in Minneapolis as part of a panel I co-organized with … More

academia, anthropology, hiring networks, social network analysis

Waste, Residuals, and Ruins: A Political Ecology of Excess

This weekend I’ll be presenting at the Dimensions of Political Ecology (DOPE) Conference in Lexington, KY. Shreyas Sreenath (Emory U.) … More

DOPE2016, political ecology, waste

Forests and Favelas

In a few weeks, I’ll be attending the meeting of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology in Oaxaca, … More

Amazonia, anthropology, Brazil, favelas, forests

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