Started in 2008, the Bauman lectures honor Richard Bauman’s prodigious contributions to understanding communication and texts as performative action situated in cultural contexts. Richard Bauman is a kind and thoughtful mentor and colleague whose intellectual insights transformed how scholars in many disciplines understand the circulation of utterances and the construction of audiences and publics. The IU Anthropology department honors speakers who equally inspire others through their research in communication, media, and performance.
Bauman Distinguished Lecture Series
Past Bauman lectures
Amanda Weidman
10/27/2023
Summerson Carr
3/21/2022
“Immediation: Or what I learned from Dick Bauman about Therapy Dogs”
Brian Larkin
2/8/2019
“Generator Life”
Judith Irvine
4/6/2018
“Language, Body, Voice: Displaying Respect in Zulu Performance Traditions”
Susan Gal
3/24/2017
“Translation and Materiality: The Travels of European Porcelain”
Karin Barber
2014
“Politics and Popular Readerships in Early Yoruba Print Culture”
Gloria Raheja
2013
“For Christ Has a Union in Heaven, How Beautiful Union Must Be: Musical Performance, Labor Struggles and Religious Transformation in Appalachia in the Early Twentieth Century”
Catherine Cole
2012
“A Visual Ethnography of the City of Intellect”
Don Brenneis
2011
“Reading, Recognition, and Temporality in the Emerging Academy”
Louise Meintjes
2010
“Saliva and Dust: The Voice-Body Relationship in Zulu Men’s Ngoma Performance”
Diana Taylor
2009
Charles Briggs
2008
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