Monday Seminars: Autumn Quarter, 2005

October 3 - Virginia Dominguez
Professor of Anthropology, University of Iowa
"Engaging Those Who Study Us: Beyond Consensus and Invisibility"

October 10 - Barry Saunders
Assistant Professor, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina
"Diagnostic Apprenticeship in the Age of the Mechanical"

October 17 - John Borneman
Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University
"Syrian Episodes"

October 24 - Lee Baker
Associate Professor of Anthropolgy & African/African American Studies,
Duke University
"Franz Boas and His Conspiracy to Destroy the White Race"

October 31 - Robin Shoaps
Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Moral Authority and Moral Voices: The Testament of Judas as Ritual Discourse Genre in the Communicative Ecology of the Sakapultek Maya"

November 7 - Sarah Meacham
Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education
"Filtering, Translation, Word Play: English Knowledge Practices and the Articulation of Cultural-National Identity in Tokyo Public High Schools"

November 14 - Francis Cody
PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
"Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: The Politics of Liteacy at the Margins and the Texture of an Enlightenment in Rural Tamilnadu, India"

November 21 - Brigittine French
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Grinnell College
"Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inclusion: Mayan Linguistics and Tradition"

November 28 - E. Summerson Carr
Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
"Addicted Deixis and Metalinguistic Fixes (or ‘How to Sabotage Your Treatment')"

Previous Seminars:

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