Monday Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Haskell 315, followed by a faculty and student reception
October 6 - Mary Weismantel
Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University
Interests: Food, adoption, sex/gender, race, historical materialism; Latin America, Andes
Title: The Silence of Kinsey: American Sexology Goes to Peru
October 13 - Paul Mullins
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Interests: Historical archaeology, popular culture, race and racisim, moderen moeterial culture; America South, Urban Midwest.
Title: "Race and Displacement: An Archaeology of Urban Renewal and the Color Line"
October 20 - Thomas Blom-Hansen
Professor of Anthropolgy, University of Amsterdam
Interests: Religious and political violence, religious identities, anthropology of politics, the postcolonial state and sovereignty, urban anthropology; India, South Africa
Title: “(D)urban Africans and Indians: A Story of Mutual Non-Recognition"
October 27 - Allan Young
Professor of Anthropology and of Social Studies of Medicine
McGill University
Interests: Comparative medical systems, anthropology of science, anthropology of psychiatry; Ethiopia
Title: "Empathy, Cruelty, and the Evolution of the Social Brain"
November 3 - Amira Mittermaier
Assistant Professor, Departments for the Study of Religion AND Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Interests: Anthropology of religion, modern Islam, Sufism, postcolonialism, modernity; dreams, imaginations, subjectivities
Title: "Of Dreams, Dreamers, and the Dead: Ethical Imaginations of Egypt"
November 10 - Niloofar Haeri
Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Interests: Linguistic theory, language and modernity, methodology, social history of languages, political economy, gender, Arabic; Egypt and the Middle East
Title: "Rules of the Gaze: Modesty and Public Appearance in Iran"
November 17 - Noa Vaisman
Lecturer, Human Rights Program, Ph.D. Anthropology, Cornell University
Title: TBA
November 24 - Eleanor Casella
Lecturer in Archaeology, School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
University of Manchester
Interests: Material constructions of social identities; gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity; archaeology of households; archaeological approaches to space and architecture; European colonialism; historical and industrial archaeology from 1600 to the present
Title: "Doing Trade": A Sexual Economy of Female Prisons in Nineteenth Century Australia
December 1 - John L. Jackson, Jr.
Associate Professor of Anthropology and in the Annenberg School for Communication
University of Pennsylvania
Interests: Race, urban studies, visual culture, ethnographic film, religion, diaspora; US, Israel
Title: TBA
December 8 - James C. Wright
Professor and Chair, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
Bryn Mawr College
Interests: Pre- and protohistoric Aegean; Greek architecture and urbanism; land-use and settlement; method and theory; GIS and cultural geography
Title: "Master Narratives, Interpretive Strategies, and Regional Archaeology in Greece: The Case of the Nemea Valley in the NE Peloponnesos"
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