Institute Trustee Veena Das to Give a Talk at IAS

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University and Academic Trustee for the Institute's School of Social Science, will give a talk at the Institute for Advanced Study at 12:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3, in the Dilworth Room. The talk, "Meaning and Metaphor: How to Receive Thoughts from an Elsewhere," will center on the way in which the social sciences in general and anthropology in particular can find a way to be open to other intellectual traditions.