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  • Concrete

    Widener Auditorium Penn Museum, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA, United States

    Professor Anna Tsing launches the Wolf Humanities Center's 2024-2025 Forum on Keywords with a talk exploring the "concreteness of concrete."Wolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDSDR. S.T. LEE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN THE HUMANITIESConcreteConcrete is a material—and an adjective pointing to the physical existence of things. To be concrete is to have form in the material world. In this talk, renowned anthropologist Anna Tsing considers the material form of concrete as a building material, that is, the concreteness of concrete. Concrete repels water, and in the city of Sorong, Indonesia, where her current research has taken her, it