About the Department: News & Announcements
Anthropology Monday Seminars Autumn 2007
October 1 - Amahl Bishara
Mellon Postdoctoral Instructor in Anthropology, University of Chicago
Interests: The role of Palestinian journalists and other "media workers" in the production of U.S. news about Palestinians in the West Bank.
Title: "Watching U.S. Television from the Palestinian Street"
October 8 - Aparecida Vilaça
Associate Professor of Social Anthropology, Museu Nacional,
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; John Simon Guggenheim Fellow 2007-08
Interests: Wari' of Amazonia, religion/Christian missionization, Shamanism and Cannibalism, anthropology of the body, kinship
Title: "Praying and Preying: Amazonian Perspectives on Conversion"
October 15 - João de Pina Cabral
Professor of Anthropology, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon
Interests: Relation between symbolic thought and social power, family and kinship, ethnicity in colonial and post-colonial contexts; rural Portugal, Southern Europe, Mozambique, Macao; Bahia, Brazil
Title: "The All-or-Nothing Syndrome: An Argument for the Necessity of Error"
October 22 - Marcyliena Morgan
Associate Professor of Communication, Stanford University
Interests: Youth, gender, language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction, representation in media, hiphop culture. Author of Language, Discourse, and Power in African American Culture
Title: "From the Block to the Nation: The Remix of Local Identities and Discourse in Hip Hop Culture"
October 29 - Haidy Geismar
Assistant Professor of Anthropology & Museum Studies, New York University
Interests: Visual anthropology; intellectual, cultural and indigenous property rights, economic anthropology, cross cultural theories of value and valuation, materiality, contemporary indigenous art, museum theory and criticism; Anthropology of the Pacific (Vanuatu)
Title: "Pig Banks: Re-Imagining the Economy of Vanuatu"
November 5 - Tahir Naqvi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Duke Univ. ('06-07)
Interests: Pakistan, political violence, urban ethnography, Indo-Muslim history
Title: "Interreg(io)nal Politics: National Identity and the Role of Emergency in Pakistan"
November 12 - Sherry Ortner
Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
Interests: Critical social, cultural and feminist theory; class, gender, race, ethnicity; late capitalism and postmodernity; Hollywood; Himalayas, Tibet, South and SE Asia; US
Title: "Failure to Protect: Pedophiles and Parents in Recent Independent Cinema"
November 19 - Georgi Derlugian
Associate Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
Interests: World systems analysis, political economy, historical sociology, ethnic wars; guerrilla wars and terrorism in the Caucasus and Central Asia; Chechnya
Title: De-Modernization in the Caucasus"
December 3 - Sonja Luehrmann
PhD Candidate in Anthropology and History, University of Michigan.
Interests: Religion and secularization; pedagogy, perception and persuasion; socialism/post socialism; theory of historical transformation; history of anthropological thought. Russia/Soviet Union; circumpolar world
Title: "Was Soviet Society Secular? Atheist Complications for an Anthropology of Secularism"
Monday Seminars are held at 3:30 p.m. in Haskell 315, followed by a faculty and student reception
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