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Anthropology Monday Seminars Winter 2008
January 7 - Julie Y. Chu
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Wellesley College
Interests: Transnational migration, economy and value, gender and kinship, religion and ritual, practices of media and representation; China.
Title: "Card Me When I'm Dead: Identification Papers and the Pursuit of the Good Afterlife in China"
January 14 - Francis P. Cody
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Society for the Humanities/Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Interests: Linguistic anthropology; social and semiotic theory, social movements, political economy of representation, literary and written language, activism and development, media studies, ethnic nationalism, anthropology of the postcolonial state, gender and citizenship; Tamilnadu, India and the larger South Asian world
Title: "Worlds, Words, and the Social: Labors of Objectification and the Production of Self-Making Subjects in Tamil Literacy Activism"
January 28 - Erich Fox Tree
Mellon Postdoctoral Scholar, Anthropology and Latin American Studies
Wellesley College
Interests: Indigenous Sign Languages, Pan-Nativism (regional, Hemispheric, global), Native American and Latin American (Mesoamerican) cultures and history, language ideology and political economy of language; political ecology and land reform; human rights and indigenous rights, globalization and (indigenous) alternative development strategies; race and ethnicity, science in popular culture, conflict studies, ethnohistory
Title: "Lingua France to Lingua Servilis: The Silenced Politics of Mesoamerican Sign Language"
February 4 - Kimberly TallBear
Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies, Arizona State University
Interests: Science studies and anthropology of science; governance and democratization of science and technology, especially as related to indigenous peoples; race and genetics; feminist science studies; the politics of nature (Native Americans, nature, and culture); indigenous, feminist and other critical methods.
Title: "Genetics, Genealogy and Native American Race"
February 11 - Karin Zitzewitz
Collegiate Assistant Professor/Harper Fellow
Social Science Collegiate Division, University of Chicago
Interests: Modernist art, visual culture, semiotic approaches to the image, secularism, cosmopolitan cities; South Asia, India.
Title: "Sexual Devotion, Divine Love: The Ethical Value of Public Emotion in the Late Paintings of Bhupen Khakhar"
February 18 - Cabeiri deBergh Robinson
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Interests: Political and legal anthropology, historical anthropology, political violence, armed conflict, civil insurgency and social transformation, human rights and humanitarianism, refugees and displacement, transnational justice and reconciliation, comparative Muslim societies.
Title: "Sex, Death, and the Body of the Living Martyr: The Family and Jihad in Kashmir"
February 25 - Janet McIntosh
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
Interests: Linguistic anthropology, psychological anthropology, religion, East Africa; politics of Islam and African traditionalism, ritual and ritual language, spirit possession, code switching, language ideologies, cognitive anthropology
Title: "How White Kenyans Make ‘Black Magic': The Dangers of Narrating Belief
March 3 - Herbert S. Lewis
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin
Interests: Ethiopia (Oromo), Israel, Native North America (Wisconsin/Oneida)
Title: "Long-Lost Voices of the Wisconsin Oneidas: The Legacy of a Collaboration between Indians, Anthropologists, and the WPA"
March 10 - Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Irvine
Interests: Biotechnology, capitalism, comparative ethnography, genomics, globalization, nation-state, political economy, post-colonialism, science and technology studies, subjectivity; India.
Title: "Biocapital Downstream: The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials"
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