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Save the Date (October 7): Social Lives of Infrastructure Kickoff Event

Oct. 2, 2025 – Next week, Social Lives of Infrastructure, an Anthropology-affiliated Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host its kickoff event (including lunch). The event will be held at 2pm on October 7 in the DCII Lounge in Ford Hall.

The Social Lives of Infrastructure Research Cluster is convened by Nia Parson (SMU Anthropology), Aanmona Priyadarshini (SMU Anthropology), Owen Hanley Lynch (SMU Corporate Communication and Public Affairs), and Barbara E. Minsker (SMU Civil and Environmental Engineering).

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Aanmona Priyadarshini’s Op-ed Featured in New Age

Mar. 28, 2025 — Visiting Lecturer Aanmona Priyadarshini has a new op-ed out in New Age, a major English-language Bangladeshi media outlet. In the piece, “Freedom is a Verb,” Priyadarshini calls for a confrontation with lingering issues in Bangladesh. “We have a choice to make,” she writes. “We can be indolent optimists, passively clinging to the hope that ‘someone else will bring us freedom.’ We can be opportunistic cynics, smugly saying, ‘Told you, nothing will change,’ as we retreat into the comforts of a so-called ‘normal’ life where nothing is truly normal. Or, we can rise as our own emancipators, breaking every chain that binds us, knowing that ‘freedom is a verb’ — never finished, never complete — but an ongoing action, a relentless drive.”