Anthropology Monday Seminars Winter 2006

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

January 9 - Aaron Fox
Associate Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology), Columbia University
Director of the Center for Ethnomusicology
"Songs Out of Place: Imagining Otherness in Country Music"

January 16 - Martin Luther King Day, No Talk.

January 23 - Roderick Campbell
PhD Candidate, Anthropology & East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
"Shang Civilization and the Social Economy of Kinship and Violence"

January 30 - Despina Margomenou
PhD in Anthropology, Lecturer in the Modern Greek Program, University of Michigan
"Interrogating Complexity: The ‘Margins' of the Mycenaean World"

February 6 - Severin Fowles
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology/Archaeology, Columbia University
"Dematerializing Cloud Boys: Prohibition, Religion, and the Immaterial in Pueblo History"

February 13 - François Richard
PhD Candidate in Anthropology/Archaeology, Syracuse University
"Archaeological Pasts and Alternative Histories in Siin: Settlements, Political Economy and Culture Change in a Senegalese Landscape AD 500-1500"

February 20 - Lara Deeb
Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, University of California at Irvine
"Pious Modern: Gendered Negotiations of Religiosity in Shi'i Beirut"

February 27 - Alan Klima
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis
"Working With/Against Mythologies of Globalism: A Preview Screening of Filmic Thoughts on Spirits and the Afterlife of Money in Postcrash Thailand"

March 6 - Jessica Winegar
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University
"Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Art Economy: The Case of Egypt"

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2000