Center for Public Anthropology Events

Margaret Mead Annual Lectures

2025 Mead Lecture Poster

The Sixth Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2025)

The Launch of the New York Center for Public Anthropology

Wednesday, April 16
4:00 - 6:00 PM
Fordham School of Law
150 West 62nd Street
Hill Faculty Conference Room, 7-119

Lynette Arnold, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Daina Sanchez, University of California and Santa Barbara

5th Annual Mead Lecture 2024

The Fifth Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2024)

Between Distribution and Consumption: Toward an Anthropology of Acquisition

Dr. Hanna Garth, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University

Annual Margaret Mead Lecture 2022

The Fourth Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2023)

Coming of Age in Mixed-Status Families

Dr. Ariana Mangual Figueroa, Associate Professor, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Yazmin Montes, City College of New York
Jennifer Portillo, Macaulay Honors College at Lehman College
Lumari Sosa, Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College

The 3rd Annual Margaret Mead Lecture

The Third Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2022)

The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a "New Egypt"

Dr. Yasmin Moll, University of Michigan

2nd Annual Margaret Mead Lecture 2020

The Second Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2020)

The 1.5 Insurgent Generation: Stories of El Salvador’s Postwar

Dr. Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber, City College, CUNY Graduate Center

1st Annual Margaret Mead Lecture

The First Annual Margaret Mead Lecture (2019)

Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z's New Path to Success

Dr. Shalini Shankar, Northwestern University