Anthropology Monday Seminars Spring 2006

April 3 - Hugh Raffles
Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
"Notes on Cricket-fighting in Shanghai"

April 10 - Susan Philips
Professor Emerita, University of Arizona
"Church and State Collaboration in the Reconfiguration of Tongan Lexical Honorifics"

April 17 - Michael Silverstein
Professor, University of Chicago
"Ethnics and Ethnicities: Naming Names in the Archive of Culture"

April 24 - Adriana Petryna
New School for Social Research
"Pharmaceutical Testing and Evidence Making: An Ethnography of the Globalized Clinical Trial"

May 1 - Teresa Caldeira
University of California at Irvine
"Democracy, Neoliberalism, and the City: Remaking Urban Policy in Brazil"

May 8 - Ian Hodder
Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
"The Origins of Settled Life in the Middle East as seen from Catalhoyuk"

May 15 - Miguel Vale de Almeida
Associate Professor of Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon
"On the Lusophone Postcolony: Phantasmagories of Race and Mythographies of Culture in Brazil, Cape Verde and Portugal"

May 22 - Louisa Schein
Rutgers University
"Structureal Tears: Affect, Audience and Hmong Diasporic Media"

Previous Seminars:

Winter 2001
Fall 2000