Events in the Department of Anthropology

Other Years

Archaeology Brown-Bag Workshops

Convenes biweekly, on Thursday afternoon, at 5:00
in the Brooks Hall Library. Click Here for the Fall schedule.

Linguistic Anthropology Seminar

Seminars are held on a more-or-less biweekly basis, usually on Friday afternoons, from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Click here for the schedule.

Fall 2006

The following talks will be on Fridays from 1-2:45pm in Brooks Hall Library unless otherwise noted.
(The full Fall schedule will be posted shortly)

8 September — Françoise Dussart (Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Connecticut)
Canvassing Identities (Warlpiri acrylic art and identity over two decades)
(Friday evening, there will also be a reception with Prof. Dussart in the evening at the at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection)
11 September (Monday) — Susan Linn (Associate Director, The Media Center of Judge Baker Children's Center
                          and Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School)
                          Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The UVA Forum for Contemporary Thought)
                          Clark 108, 3:30-5pm [For details, contact Ira Bashkow]
29 September — Ekaterina Makarova (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)
The New Urbanism in Moscow: The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private Space
6 October — Karen Richman (Fellow, Kellogg Institute and Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame)
The Protestant Ethic and the Dis-spirit of Vodou: Migratioin and conversion in Haiti’s Tenth
Department
13 October — Steve Plog (Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia)
Archives and Ancestors: Reinterpreting Death and Demography in Chaco Canyon
Page-Barbour Lectures: Gayatri Spivak on Three Ways of Looking at the Ethical:

17 October— The Ethical Implications of Gramsci's Thoughts on Education
18 October— Ethics with a Public Face
19 October— Literature, Reproductive Heteronormativity, and the Ethical
All in Clark 107, 5:30-7pm
23 or 24 October — William Darrity return visit and talk in Economics Dept.
27 October — Elizabeth Dunn (Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder)
Eating Postsocialism: How Global Standards Create Winners and Losers in Eastern European Agriculture
(co-sponsored by The UVa Center for Russian and East European Studies)
3 November — David Samuels (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Topic TBA
Page-Barbour Lectures: Janet Soskice (Cambridge, Jesus College.) Topic and titles TBA
7, 8, and 9 November

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