Anthropology Monday Seminars Spring 2005

April 4 - Arif Dirlik
Knight Professor of Social Science, Professor of History and Anthropology
University of Oregon; Previously at Duke 1971-2001
"The End of Colonialism?: The Colonial Modern in the Making of Global Modernity"

April 11 - Birgit Meyer
Professor, University of Amsterdam & Free University of Amsterdam
"Religious Revelation, Secrecy and the Limits of the Visual: Ghanaian Popular Video-Films"

April 18 - Thomas Blom Hansen
Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
Ounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis and Racial Imaginings in South Africa"

April 25 - Sarah Lamb
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis University
"Aging Across Worlds: Ambivalent Modernities in India and America"

May 2 - Veronique Benei
Senior Research Fellow, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Visiting Research Scholars & Lecturer, Princeton University, 2005-05
"Singing the Nation in Western India: languages, Bodies and Emotions"

May 9 - Miriam Iris Ticktin
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies
University of Michigan
"White Ethics and Politics Meet the Violence of Humanitarianism in France"

May 16 - Francisco Cruces Villalobos
Professor of Social and Culture Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Deucacion a Distancia, Spain; Formerly Professor of Anthropology and Ethnomusicology, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
"Fiesta para todos: Revitalization of Festivals in Madrid

Previous Seminars:

Winter 2001
Fall 2000