Anthropology Monday Seminars Winter 2005

January 3 - Rupert Stasch
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Reed College
"Marriage, Closeness, Strangeness: A Pragmatics of Disruption and Creation"

January 17 - Joseph Alter
Professor of Medical Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
"Ayurvedic Acupuncture - Locating and Dislocating History: Medicine, Medical Systems and Medical Theory in Nationalist Discourse"

January 24 - Norman Yoffee
Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan
"The Earliest Cities and the Evolution of History"

January 31 - Michael Meeker
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of California San Diego
"A Power over the Horizon: State and Society in Ottoman and Turkish Trabzon"

February 7 - Jean Langford
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Minnesota
"Spirits of Dissent: Southeast Asian Memories and U.S. Disciplines of Death"

February 14 - Serguei Oushakine
PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Columbia University; Scholar in Residence, Oberlin Center for Russian, East European & Central Asian Studies
"Private Traumas and Local Wars: Domesticating Violence in a Russian Province"

February 21 - Duana Fullwiley
PhD in Medical Anthropology, UC-Berkeley; NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
"Genes, Bushy Trees and Other Things Senegalese: Assembling Vital Sickle Cell Care in Dakar"

February 28 - Natasha Dow Schull
PhD, UC-Berkeley; Robert Wood Johnson Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Health and Society Scholars Program, Columbia University
"Enchantment by Design: The Play of Autonomy and Compulsion in Las Vegas Video Gambling"

March 7 - Paul Eiss
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & History, Carnegie Mellon
"Genres of El Pueblo: Tragedy, Miracle and Farce in Yucatán"

April 5 - Sarah Jain
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
"Wounding and the Politics of Injury"

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2000