Past Event: Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium: Sienna Craig

Event details: The Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium (EST) is pleased to invite Sienna Craig (Dartmouth) for an open lunchtime conversation where we will discuss her latest book, The Ends of Kinship (2020), along with her research, writing, and more. Craig will also be facilitating "Turn Toward the Light," an ethnographic writing workshop that invites graduate students to engage the senses, experiment with brevity, and build community around writing. 

Lunch with Craig at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM | Open to all, lunch subject to availability

Ethnographic Writing Workshop at 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM | Graduate students only, register here.

About the speaker: Sienna R. Craig holds the Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professorship in Asian Studies in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is a medical and cultural anthropologist whose relationships with Himalayan and Tibetan communities spans three decades and bridges communities in Asia and North America. Craig is the author of The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives Between Nepal and New York(University of Washington Press, 2020),  Mustang in Black and White, with photographer Kevin Bubriski (Vajra Publications, 2018), Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (University of California Press, 2012) and Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalayas (Wisdom Publications,2008). She is the co-editor of Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (Berghahn Books, 2010), and Studies of Medical Pluralism in Tibetan History and Society (IITBS, 2010), among other publications. Craig enjoys writing across genres and has published poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction, flash ethnography, and children’s literature in addition to scholarly works in medical and cultural anthropology. From 2012-2017 she served as co-editor of HIMALAYA, Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, and she is an Executive Council member of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM).