Anthropology Monday Seminars Autumn 2006

Monday Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Haskell 315, followed by a faculty and student reception

October 9 - William F. Hanks
Professor of Anthropology and Berkeley Distinguished Chair in Linguistic Anthropology,
University of California at Berkeley
"Perpetual Reducción and the Making of the Frontier in Colonial Yucatan"

October 16 - Michael Herzfeld
Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum
Harvard University
"The Value of Life's Spaces: Real Estate and Unreal Liberalism in Rome and Bangkok"

October 23 - J. Cameron Monroe
Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Archaeology, University of California Santa Cruz
"Landscape Politics in Pre-Colonial Dahomey: An Archaeological Perspective on Political Transformation in Atlantic West Africa"

October 30 - Bayo Holsey
Assistant Professor, Program in African and African American Studies, Duke University
"The Place of Slavery: Navigating Histories in Ghana"

November 6 - Ruth Wodak
Chair in Discourse Studies, Dept of Linguistic and Modern English Language
Bowland College, Lancaster University, UK; PhD University of Vienna
"The Discursive Construction and Representation of Politics in Action"

November 13 - Ahmed Kanna
Postdoctoral Fellow, International Programs, University of Iowa; PhD Harvard
"The City as Dialectical Artwork: Critical and Anthropological Notes on Dubai"

November 20 - Stanford W. Carpenter
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins; PhD Rice
"A Story About Making Comic Book Characters and Designing Action Figures as Fieldwork"

November 27 - Sarah Tarlow
Senior Lecturer, School of Archaeology and Ancient History
University of Leicester; PhD Cambridge
"Improvement: An Archaeology of Britain, 1750-1850"