19/03/2026
𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐁𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔
Tomorrow we will have the pleasure of welcoming one of the most distinguished living anthropologists at the Colégio de São Bento of the University of Coimbra. Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. He is the author of 14 books (including Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State, 1997; and Subversive Archaism: Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage, 2021). He has served as President of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, was the editor of American Ethnologist and is currently a co-editor of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory and an editor-at-large at Anthropological Quarterly. His work has been extremely influential within and beyond the field of anthropology and was translated into many languages including Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Serbian, Spanish, and Vietnamese.