In past years, C21 chose annual themes around which to organize lectures and speaking series, public events, and our yearly spring conference. We have since shifted to a focus on three interrelated themes: Well, Duty, and Trust.
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Previous years’ conferences and themes can be found below.
Previous Conference Event Pages
Previous Conference Programs
You can also view complete conference programs for earlier years’ conferences below:
- DEBT Conference (April 29-May 1, 2010)
- Since 1968 (October 23-25, 2008)
- In Terms of Gender: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives (May 4-5, 2007)
- In/Dependence: Disability, Welfare, and Age (April 7, 2006)
- Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present (October 21-22, 2005)
- Routing Diasporas (April 8-9, 2005)
- Museums and Difference (November 14-15, 2003)
- 9/11: Reconstructions (October 4-5, 2002)
- Just Feelings: Citizenship, Justice, and the Emotions (April 27-28, 2001)
- Representing Animals (April 13-15, 2000)
- Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge (April 29 – May 1, 1999)
- Anthropology, Genetic Diversity, and Ethics (February 12-13, 1999)
- Public Showing (April 16-18, 1998)
- Biotechnology, Culture, and the Body (April 24-26, 1997)
- Women and Aging: Bodies, Cultures, Generations (April 18-20, 1996)