Monday Seminars: Spring Quarter, 2003

March 31 Paul Edwards
Associate Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan
"Thinking Globally: Computers, Networks, and the Construction of 'Global' Spaces"

April 7 Donald Moore
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
"Provincializing Governmentality: Racialized Rule, Tribal Territories, and Spatial Routes on Zimbabwe's Frontier"

April 14 Lisa Rofel
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz
"From Sacrifice to Desire: Cosmopolitanism with Chinese Characteristics"

April 21 Achille Mbembe
Executive Secretary, CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Research in Social Sciences), Dakar, Senegal; Senior Researcher, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; author of On the Postcolony, Univ. of California Press, 1991
Title: TBA

April 28 Catherine Lutz
Professor, Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Civilian Camouflage and the Skeleton of the State"

May 1-2 Vincanne Adams
Associate Professor, Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco
" 'Saving Tibet?' An Inquiry about Modernity, Lies, Truths and Beliefs"

May 5 Ann L. Stoler
Professor, Anthropology, University of Michigan
Iinterests: colonial cultures, critical theory, gender, historical anthropology; SEAsia
Title: TBA

May 12 Carlos Fausto
Associate Professor, Anthropology, National Museum, Federal Univ of Rio de Janeio
" 'If God were a Jaguar': Cannibalism and Christianity among the Guarani of South America (16th - 20th Centuries)"

May 19 Mary Steedley
Professor, Anthropology, Harvard
"Imagining Independence: East Sumatra, 1945-47."

June 2 Joao Biehl
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Princeton
"Pharmaceutical Ties: Family, Medicine, and the State in Brazil"

Previous Seminars:

Autumn 2002
Autumn 2001
Spring 2001
Winter 2001
Fall 2000