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 current schedule.

Linguistic Anthropology Seminar Seminars are held about once a month, usually on Friday afternoons from 1-3pm. Click here for the schedule.

The Department of Anthropology's Speaker Series and Related Events

Spring 2008

Times will be on Fridays from 1-2:45pm.

• 1 February — Joseph Hellweg (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University) Songs of Freedom: Hermeneutics and Communicative Action as Power in Ivoirian Hunting, Security, and Public Health. Brooks Hall Library.
  
  
• 2 February — Jessaca Leinaweaver (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Manitoba) Doing by undoing: the productivity of social abandonment in highland Peru. Clemons 201.
  
  
• 15 February — Yarimar Bonilla (Anthropology, University of Chicago, and Research Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies) Syndicalism as Marronage: Epistemologies of Labor and History in Guadeloupe. Kaleidoscope (Newcomb Hall)
  
  
• 22 February — Peter Metcalf (Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia) How the macaques of Borneo brought security to emperors, inflated the pride of sultans, and caused Upriver People to live in longhouses. The Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
  
  
• 28 March — Martha Macintyre (Senior Lecturer in medical Anthropology, Centre for the Study of Health and Society, University of Melbourne) Personal Viability and Long-term Sustainability: Visions of the Future on Lihir, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Kaleidoscope (Newcomb Hall)
  
  
• 4 April — Roy Wagner (Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia) The Lottery in Babylon: The Mathematics of Happenstance. Kaleidoscope (Newcomb Hall).
  
  
• 11 April — Brian Owensby (Associate Professor of History, University of Virginia) Cordiality, Modernity, and the Problem and Possibilities of (Brazilian) History Writing. Clemons 201.
  
  
• 16-23 April — MA-qualifying Second-Year Exercises (a.k.a., PnPs) Contact John Shepherd for details. Brooks Hall Library.
  


• 18 April , Friday noon — Jennie Doberne, “Delicate Offspring”: Post-Menopausal Pregnancy and the Politics of Reproductive Risk in Israel.
  
• 19 April , Sat.
  •  9:30 — Arsalan Khan, A Meeting of Hearts: Islamic Renewal and Piety among the Tablighi Jama'at in Pakistan.
  • 10:45 — Sheena Singh, “The Suicide Option is Less Troublesome”: Agrarian Suicide in Contemporary India.
  • 1:15 — Aidyn Mills, Performing the Catalan Nation.
    
• 21 April, Mon, noon — Rose Wellman, Cooking up Kin: Gendered Contributions to Procreation in Iran.
  
• 23 April , Wed, noon — Erik Stanley, Cultivating the Past: Forest Gardening as “Traditional” Environmental Knowledge in the El Pilar Forest Garden Network.
  


• 25 April: 1-5pm — Anthropology Outside the Academy — Ruffner 283 (Curry School of Education)
  Schedule of events:
  • 1-2:45pm — Panel Discussion (open to the entire University community)
  • 2:45-3pm — Refreshment Break
  • 3-5pm — Public/Applied Anthropology Workshop (for graduate students)
  
  
•        Participants:
  • Ronald Nunn — President of WAPA (Washington Association of Professional Anthropologists) & Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Montgomery College in Germantown, Maryland)
  • Yadira Perez — Senior Research Associate at the Latino Commission on AIDS in New York City, PhD candidate (UVa)
  • Brian Shott — U.S. Department of State - Foreign Service - PhD 2000, (UVa)
  • Ellen Suthers — Senior Research Associate, FESS (Foundation for Environmental Security and Sustainability), PhD 1987, (UVa).
  
  

 

Fall 2007

 

The following talks will be on Fridays from 1-2:45pm in Brooks Hall Library unless otherwise noted.

• 7 September — Peter Whiteley (Curator, Division of Anthropology American Museum of Natural History) Refiguring Hopi social structure through the Orayvi split
  
  
• 28 September — Tim Pauketat (Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ancient Americašs Big Bang and the Archaeology of Citationality and Conjuncture
  
  
• 12 October — Andrew Pawley (Prof Emeritus in Linguistics, Australian National University), Why do Polynesian island groups have one language and Melanesian island groups have many? Patterns of interaction and diversification in the Austronesian colonization of Remote Oceania. The talk will take place at 1pm in Clemons 201.
  
  
• 26 October — Graduate Student Symposium on Engaged Anthropology:
  Lectures by David Vine and Gwen Ottinger: David Vine: Making Anthropology a Tool for Progressive Social Change. Gwen Ottinger: Working Across Worlds as a Feature of Anthropological Engagement The talks will take place in Clemons 201, 1-3:15pm
  
  - Workshop and lunch on 27 October, Saturday, Clemons 201, 11am-1pm.
  
  
• 9 November — Chuck & Nancy Perdue (Respectively Professor Emeritus and Scholar in Residence Emerita, Anthropology, University of Virginia), Paul Radin Never Visited Our Houses: Or Life History as a Consequence of Class, Serendipity, and Improbability
  
  
• 3 December, Monday — Jackie Feldman (Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ben Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel) Above the Death-Pits, beneath the Flag: The Performance of Israeli Identity in Holocaust Poland. The talk will take place at 5pm in Jordan Hall, 2B and is co-sponsored with the Department of History

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