Anthropology Monday Seminars Winter 2007

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

January 8 - Hussein Agrama
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Notes Toward an Anthropology of the Fatwa: Reflections on Islamic Tradition and Authority"

January 22 - Li LIU
Professor, Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
"Craft Specialization in Early States in China: A View from the Erlitou Hinterland"

January 29 - Maria Cecilia Lozada Cerna
Research Associate in Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Human Remains as Windows into Ancient Behavior in the South Central Andes"

February 5 - Marshall Sahlins
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Depending on the Kingness of Strangers: Elementary Forms of the Political Life"

February 12 - Peter Van Dommelen
Senior Lecturer in Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Glasgow
"Colonialism Past and Present: Colonial Imagination and material Representations in the Mediterranean"

February 19 - Piya Chatterjee
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Riverside
"Sipping violence: Race, Gender and the Global Plantation"

February 26 - Susan F. Hirsch
Associate Professor of Anthropology/Sociology
Institute of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University
"Justice After Terror? An Anthropological Quest"

March 5 - Deborah A. Thomas
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
"Violence and Remapping the Global: New Frontiers in Jamaica"

Previous Seminars:

Fall 2000