Kathwari Spring Seminars – Anthropology by Design: Imaginative Practices for Social Analysis

KATHWARI SPRING SEMINARS – CRAFTING THE PAST: ANTHROPOLOGY BY DESIGN – IMAGINATIVE PRACTICES FOR SOCIAL ANALYSIS: Monday, March 30, at 2 p.m. in Room 125 of the Science Building on the Midtown campus. Dr. Christine Hegel-Cantarella is a cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on legal, economic, and environmental issues. Her current project examines the lives and livelihoods of informal recyclers in New York City in relation to recycling policy. Dr. Hegel-Cantarella also holds a B.F.A. in Theatre and over the past 15 years has collaborated with designers and artists on creative projects to make the ethnographic encounter visible and to enliven social analysis through design speculation and materialization.




