Anthropology Monday Seminars Autumn 2004

Mondays at 3:30 p.m. in Haskell 315

October 4 - Alexei Yurchak
Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley;
Discourse and power, language and social theory, theories of ideology, subjectivity, popular culture and ideology, Soviet and post-Soviet culture and society, post-socialism
"Hegemony of Form: The Puzzle of Soviet Late Socialism"

October 11 - Laura Junker
Professor, University of Illinois Chicago; Southeast Asian archaeology & ethnohistory, complex societies, maritime trade, ceramic production.
"Warfare and the Political Economy of Prehispanic Philippine Chiefdoms"

October 18 - Cristiana Bastos
Instituto de Ciencias Socialis da Universidade de Lisboa, Visiting Prof, Brown Univ (Anthro & Portuguese & Brazilian Studies); medical anthropology (AIDS), science studies, global processes,
colonialism/post-colonialism; author of Global Responses to AIDS: Science in Emergency, Indiana Univ Press 1999
"After Slavery: Race, Labor and Engineered Migrations in Southern Angola"

October 25 - Engseng HO
Assistant Professor, Harvard; Social theory, ethnography historical
texts (Arabic, Malay, Imperial English), creolization, diaspora, precolonial cosmopolitanism, Islam; Middle East, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean
"Anti-Colonial Empire"

November 1 - David Graeber
Assistant Professor, Yale; sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Indian Ocean region; ritual & politics, social theory, direct action, value
"On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets: Direct Action, Broken Windows, and the Cosmological Role of the Police in American Culture"

November 8 - Jacqueline Nassy Brown
Assistant Professor, Hunter College, CUNY; Britain; diasporic subjectivities; race, space & place; transnationalism & the local, black identities
"Folk Phenomenologies: Defining Race and Place in Black
Liverpool"

November 15 - Cris Shore
Chair of Social Anthropology, University of Auckland;
The European Union, European integration, bureaucracy, anthropology of policy, anthropological theory, cultural policy, Italian politics and society, higher education reform; Europe, Italy
"The European Union and Supranational Citizenship: ‘Constitutional Patriotism' Reconsidered"

November 22 - Janice P. Boddy
Professor, University of Toronto; Sudan, Northeast Africa,
Middle East; social-cultural anthrop9ology, gender, embodiment,
symbolism, religion, medical anthropology, historical
anthropology
"Purity and Conquest in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan"

November 29 - Karen Strassler
Hardy Postdoctoral Fellow in Visual Anthropology, Peabody
Museum, Harvard; Indonesia/Java; popular photographic practices;
technological mediation & memory
"Visual Matters: Photographic Practices in Postcolonial Java"

Previous Seminars:

Spring 2003
Autumn 2002
Autumn 2001
Spring 2001
Winter 2001
Fall 2000