Events in the Department of Anthropology

Other Years

Archaeology Brown-Bag Workshops Convenes more-or-less biweekly, on Tuesdays at 12:00 noon, in Room 103A, on the first floor of Brooks Hall 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

Times will be on Fridays from 1-2:45pm unless otherwise noted. Locations TBA

Fall 2009

• 11 September — Smadar Lavie (Associate Professor in Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia) Translation and the Predicament of Transversal Anthropology, Clark Hall, Room 107 Reception to follow in the Mural Room of Clark Hall. (Event co-sponsored by Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG) and the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (MESALC)).
  
  
• 30 October — Bill Maurer (Professor of Anthropology, University of California - Irvine) Inscrutable Transparency: The Aesthetics of Chinese Offshore Incorporations in the British Virgin Islands (A Cautionary Tale for Social Studies of Finance) Brooks Hall seminar room, 2nd floor.

  On the speaker:
  http://www.anthro.uci.edu/faculty_bios/maurer/maurer.php
  

• 11 November — Eve Danziger (Associate Professor of Anthropology)
  Title & Location: TBA
  
  

Related Events of Interest to Anthropology:

 

• Monday 21 & Tuesday 22 September — Michael Wesch (Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography,Kansas State University.
  
  
  • Monday 4:15-5:45 pm: "The Art of Learning in New Media Environments" Teaching Resource Center workshop, Clark Hall, Room 108 Abstract and registration: http://trc.virginia.edu/Workshops/2009/NewMedia.htm
    
    
  • Tuesday 8:30 - 9:30 am: "Mediated Culture" (as part of the EdUI 2009 conference: http://www.eduiconf.org/ - please note that participants need to register for this conference)
    
    
• 22-24 — September Page-Barbour Lectures: William Labov (Professor of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania).
  
  
  • Tuesday: Increasing Diversity of Regional Dialects in North America.
  • Wednesday: The Growing Division Between Black and White English.
  • Thursday: Yankee Cultural Imperialism and the Northern Cities Shift.
    
    
  All lectures at 4pm. All events in the Auditorium of the Harrison Special Collections Library. Catered reception to follow each lecture.
  
  
• Monday, 12 October — Robert J. Miller (Professor of Law, Lewis & Clark Law School) Monday, 10/12 morning - Professor of Law Title & Location
  
  On the speaker: http://www.lclark.edu/law/faculty/robert_miller/
  
  (Event organized by the American Indian Student Union.)
  
  
• 6 November— Susan Blum (Professor of Anthropology, Notre Dame) Not the Whole Truth: Politeness, Censorship, and Language Ideology in China. Brooks hall 2nd floor lecture room at 3PM.
  
  On the speaker: http://kellogg.nd.edu/faculty/fellows/blum.shtml
  
  (Event sponsored by the East Asia Center.)

  (Susan Blum will also speak on Bakhtin versus Turnitin: Ideologies
  of Originality in the Linguistics Seminar earlier on the same day.)
  

  
  
  
  

Spring 2010

• 29 January — Charles Piot (Associate Professor, Duke University). Title & Location. TBA
  
  On the speaker: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/CA/faculty/charles.piot
  
  
• 26 February— Judith Farquhar (Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences University of Chicago) Title TBA & Location TBA
  
  On the speaker: http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_farquhar.shtml
  
  Event co-sponsored by the East Asia Center (EAC).
  
  
• 2 April — Special event with Vincent Brown (Professor of History
  and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) and Llew Smith.
  (Film-maker at Vital Pictures. [Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?,
  Race: The Power of an Illusion) Location TBA.
  

    1pm: Screening of the film Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness
  2pm: Q&A with Vincent Brown and Llew Smith
  

  Event co-sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American
  and African Studies & and Studies in Women and Gender.
  
  On the speakers:
      Vincent Brown
      Llew Smith
  

Related Events of Interest to Anthropology:

• 19 February, 3pm — Nancy Abelmann (Professor of Anthropology, Asian American Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures, and Women and Gender Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Title & Place TBA.
  
  On the speaker: http://www.nancyabelmann.com/
  
  (Event sponsored by the East Asia Center.)
  
  
• 16 April, 3pm — Laura Nelson (Associate Professor of Anthropology California State University - East Bay) Title & Place TBA.
  
  (Event sponsored by the East Asia Center.)