Anthropology Monday Seminar Autumn 2009
October 5 - Susan Blum
Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Cultural anthropology; linguistic
anthropology, psychological anthropology Language and self; language and identity; truth, lying and deception;
language ideology, multilingualism; naming practices; pragmatics Nationalism and ethnigity; Plagairism and intertextuality; Applied
ethics; anthropology of morality; Childhood; Food and Culture; US higher
education; China/Asia
Title: Bakhtin vs. Turnitin: Ideologies of Originality
October 12 - Chris Fuller
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Interests:
Title: "Brahmans, Society and the State in Colonial and Post-colonial Tamilnadu"
October 19 - Chris Kelty
Associate Professor of Information Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
Interests:
Title: "Safe New Things: A Story of Nanotechnology"
October 26 - Thomas Malaby
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Interests: Risk, modernity, online communities and practice, technology, communication, ritual and performance,
indeterminacy, games, history and futurity, social theory.
Title: "Architecting Digital Humanity: Games and the Rise of the Technoliberal Imaginary"
November 2 - Omur Harmansah
Assistant Professor of Archaeology, Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, Brown University
Interests: Archaeology, material culture and architectural history of the Ancient Near East, particularly Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia; archaeological,
anthropological and architectural theory; theories of space, place and landscape; cities and production of urban space; material culture studies; theories of
representation, body and performance;commemorative monuments and collective memory; production and circulation of craft knowledge; architectural
documentation of archaeological sites; ethnographies of space, place and landscape.
Title: "Poetics and Politics of Rock-Carving: towards an Archaeology of Place and Place-Making in Anatolia"
November 9 - Carolyn Nordstrom
Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
Interests: Globalization; social and cultural anthropology; anthropology of war
and peace; global criminal networks; gender; justice and human rights.
Title: Haptikó and Shadows
November 16 - Ellen Moodie
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Interests: Political subjectivities; post-conflict transitions; democracy; structures of inequality; violence, crime and insecurity; semiosis, narrative; media studies;
missionization and humanitarianism; Central America and Central American migrants.
Title: "Democracy, Desire and Disenchantment in Postwar El Salvador"
November 23 - Leora Auslander
Professor of History, The University of Chicago.
Interests:
Title: "A Jewish Sensorium? Material Culture and Embodiment in Germany 1890-1930"
November 30 - Charles Musiba
Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, University of Colorado, Denver
Interests:
Title: "What Does Stratigraphy, Taphonomy and Paleoecology of the Upper Unit of the Laetolol Beds
Tell US About Laetoli Depositional Environments During the Pliocene?"
December 12 - Mark Bradley
Professor of History, The University of Chicago.
Interests:
Title: "The United States and the Global Human Rights Imagination"
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