Calendar of Events

 

 

MARCH

Saturday, March 2, 2013  1:00 - 3:30 pm                           free
Passport to People
Children of Time Booksigning and
Family Day
Journey back in time and discover the origin of humans. Learn how the environment shapes who we are through a variety of fun, creative and educational hands-on activities. Meet the early ancestors through a "Children of Time" story excerpt read by the book's author, Anne Weaver and illustrator, Matt Celeskey. Join us for a celebration of humans, past and present!

Wednesday, March 6, 2013   11:00 am- 3:00 pm                           $5
Indian Bread
Oven bread, baked fresh in the Maxwell’s horno. Indian tacos & more by the Edaakies of Isleta Pueblo. Museum Courtyard 

Thursday, March 7, 2013   4:00 pm                            free
Kennedy Lecture
"Soiled Doves and Sympathetic Copes: Discourses of Punishment and Redemption in Housing for the Urban Poor" Andrea M. Lopez
In San Francisco, housing and health policy have created a social geography in which concentrations of single room occupancy hotels (SROs) operate as quasi-institutional housing environments for the city’s most vulnerable populations with addiction and mental illness. This presentation will draw from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork among drug-using women who move between a network of neighborhood hotels. In this context, women weigh the benefits of being housed against the realities of hotel life that include unhealthy physical spaces, everyday gendered violence, and constant police interaction. As is the case in most impoverished areas in US inner-cities, police presence and surveillance are ubiquitous, particularly in hotels which are active illicit drug and sex markets. Yet, ethnographic research reveals that these interactions are not wholly punitive or necessarily contribute to poor health outcomes as the public health literature suggests. In the context of this ultra liberal city, the police’s juridical obligation to intervene in women’s lives paradoxically integrates 1) punishment, 2) public health prevention messages, and 3) a gendered moral discourse, where women’s ultimate “worth” that is, whether the police deem a woman to be “worth saving” can be leveraged as a resource on the part of women. Police in this context simultaneously embody the right and left hands of the state (Wacquant 2009) and become a critical resource given that there are significant barriers to stability and sustainable treatment for addiction, mental illness, and chronic health issues. 

Andrea M. Lopez is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology and fellow with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico. In addition to her dissertation research, she works on numerous qualitative and ethnographic studies of drug use, mental health, HIV, and urban poverty in San Francisco at the Urban Health Program at Research Triangle Institute International and the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Maxwell Museum and Department of Anthropology
Hibben 105

Wednesday, March 20, 2013   11:00 am- 3:00 pm                           $5
Indian Bread
Oven bread, baked fresh in the Maxwell’s horno. Indian tacos & more by the Edaakies of Isleta Pueblo. Museum Courtyard