Monday Seminars: Fall Quarter, 2002

Oct. 7 W. Flagg Miller (University of Chicago)
"Spectral Character: Authorship and the Marking of Circulation in Yemeni Audiocassette Poetry"

Oct. 14 Kaushik Ghosh (Vassar College)
"Between Global Flows and Local Dams: Indigenousness, Locality and the Transnational Sphere in Jharkhand, India"

Oct. 21 Robert E. Moore (University of Chicago and Institute of Design (IIT))
"On Brand: Dematerialization, Language, and the Commodity from Genericide to Viral Marketing"

Oct. 28 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Wisconsin)
"Aesthetics, Field of Meaning, and M�connaissance: Interpreting Kamikaze Diaries"

Nov. 4 Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
"From Bhopal to an Informated Environmentalism"

Nov. 11 Mariane Ferme (University of California, Berkeley)
"Red Cross / Rebel Cross: Rumors in Conflict and Humanitarian Interventions in Sierra Leone"

Nov. 18 Jennifer Schirmer (University of Oslo)
"Making War, Making Peace: The Anthropology of Armed Actors".

Nov. 25 Celia Lowe (University of Washington)
"Indonesian Conservation Biology: A Science Neither "Euro" nor "Ethno""

Dec. 2 Peter Redfield (University of North Carolina)
“MSF: Biopolitics in a State of Crisis”

Previous Seminars:

Autumn 2001
Spring 2001
Winter 2001
Fall 2000