Anthropology Monday Seminars Spring 2007

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

March 26 - Renzo Romano Taddei
Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology and in the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Yale University
"The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters: Ethnographic Notes from Northeast Brazil"

April 2 - Annelise Riles
Professor in the School of Law and in the Department of Anthropology
Cornell University
"Legal Fictions"

April 9 - Jane Schneider
Professor of Anthropology, City University of New York Graduate Center
"Purity and the Production of Danger: Abstinence Campaigns and Organized Drive in the American Heartland"

April - Thomas Blom Hansen (Lichtstern Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
April 11 - "Cool Passion: The Political Theology of Conviction"
April 18 - "The Things We Believe In: On Objects and the Instability of Belief"
April 26 - "Fire and Sovereignty: Purity and the Power of an ‘Empty Substance' "

April 16 - Charles R. Hale
Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
President, Latin American Studies Association, 2006-07
"¿Resistencia para que?: Territory, Autonomy and Neoliberal Entanglements in the ‘Empty Spaces' of Central America"

April 23 - Robert A. Yelle
Research Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Memphis
John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2006-07
"Toward a Genealogy of Ritual performance: The Protestant Critique of Vain Repetitions in Prayer and Its Causes and Consequences"

April 25 - Caroline Humphrey (Lichtstern Distinguished Visiting Professor)
Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology, Cambridge University
"Empire and the Politics of the Vernacular: Mongolian Arts of Language in 18th Century China"

April 30 - Barbara L. Voss
Assistant Professor, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
" ‘Poor People in Silk Shirts': The Archaeology of Dress and
Colonial Ethnogenesis in Spanish San Francisco"

May 7 - Samuel Martinez
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Connecticut
"Normalization Discontents: Bateyanos and the Struggle of Expenditure"

May 14 - Margaret Lock
The Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine
Professor in the Departments of Social Studies in Medicine and Anthropology
McGill University
"Seduced by Plaques and Tangles: Alzheimer's Disease and the Cerebral Subject"

May 21 - John D. Kelly
Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Making the World Safe for Baseball: Corporate Arbitrage of Global Disjunctures"

June 4 - Olivia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Visiting Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York University (2006-07)
Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Social Anthropology
National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
"On Ethnographies and Histories of Haitians in Cuba:
Revisiting the Making of Communities"

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2000