• February 8
  

  Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Department of History, University of Florida
  "Tom Watson Revisited" With the Southern History Seminar.
  
  

• February 22
  

  Dr. Gene Block. (Department of Biology) Provost of the University of Virginia.
  As a New Provost, the State of the University: Comments, then questions and answers
  12:30-2:00 pm - Brooks Hall Library – 3rd Floor, Brooks Hall
  
  

• February 22
  Dr. Charlene Makley, Reed College (University of Michigan Ph.D)
  Gendered Boundaries in Motion Space and Identity in Contemporary Amdo
  Cabell 345, 4:15 pm to 6pm.
  
  
• March 4
  Dr. Kim Gutschow, Mellow Fellow, Brandeis University (Harvard University Ph.D)
  Minor Hall 224 3:00-5:00
  
  

• Paper and Presentation - Part 1

  SATURDAY, APRIL 6
  • 9:30-9:50 SARA PRENTICE-MANELA
    "Filth of Every Kind and Description": Cholera, Medicine and State Discipline in Nineteenth Century Egypt
  • 9:50-10:50 Questions
  • 10:50-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-11:20 SUZANNE MENAIR
    "To See the Wheels Go Round" : Paul Radin's Vision and Revisions of New History and Ethnology
  • 11:20-12:20 Questions
  • 12:20-1:30 Faculty Discussion & Lunch
  • 1:30-1:50 HELEN CHAPPLE
    Intensifying the Tensions of Medical Uncertainty in an American Hospital: Could She be Dying?
  • 1:50-2:50 Questions
  • 2:50-3:00 Break
  • 3:00-3:30 Faculty Discussion
  
  
  
• April 12

  Professor Herman Schwartz, Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia: "it's not your dad's welfare state anymore"
  
  

• Paper and Presentation - Part 2

  SATURDAY, APRIL 13
  • 9:30-9:50 CHRIS HALEY
    The "Rebirth" of the Bulgarian Turks: 1958-1989
  • 9:50-10:50 Questions
  • 10:50-11:00 Break
  • 11:00-11:20 ASIYA MALIK
    The Politics of Marriages and Relationships on 19th Century Mauritian Sugar Plantations
  • 11:20-12:20 Questions
  • 12:20-1:30 Faculty Discussion & Lunch
  • 1:30-1:50 ADAM HARR
    Cultural Practice, Linguistic Expression, and Poetic Form in Tana Wai Brama
  • 1:50-2:50 Questions
  • 2:50-3:00 Break
  • 3:00-3:30 Faculty Discussion
  
  
• April 26

  Dan Lefkowitz, Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia: Topic to be announced.

• September 21 - Adria La Violette

  Town and Country: A Regional Study of Swahili Village and Urban Households on Pemba Island, Tanzania, AD 800-1600. Brooks Hall Library 12:30- 2:00

• September 28 Jemima Pierre

  In Search of "Africa": Theorizing Diasporic Identity
  Brooks Hall Library 12:10-2:00pm

• October 4 Mary Catherine Bateson

  "Composing Community in a Diverse, Changing World," (and book signing)
  3:30pm in Minor Hall Auditorium
  A reception will follow in Clark Hall's Mural Hall.

• October 5 Ken Dean
  

  McGill University (with East Asia)
  "Temples and Talismans:
  Inscription, Expression, and Ritual Space in Southeast China".
  A reception follows in Cabell.
  A Party will be held by the Damons at 2407 Jefferson Park Avenue Friday night, October 5th, from 8:30 for all Anthropology, East Asian, and other interested persons. Cabell Hall 345

• October 6 Graduate Students with Ken Dean

  1:00 pm
  See Gareth Fisher (gjf6r@cms.mail.virginia.edu) for details

• October 26 Liam Buckley
  

  "Self and Accessory in Gambian Studio Photography"
  Jefferson Hall on West Range 12:10-2:00pm

• November 2 Susan Kahn

  Gentile Genes, Jewish Babies.
  Director of Research,
  International Research Institute on Jewish Women,
  Brandeis University
  Lower West Oval

• November 16 David Wilkins

  Senior Research Scientist
  East Bay Institute for Research and Education (EBIRE)
  School of Anthropology, Archaeology and Sociology, James Cook University, Queensland
  Language and Cognition Group, Max Planck Institute
  A Metaphor in Three Modalities: An Arrernte teacher's description of the "Learning Journey" in gesture, speech and painting
  Lower West Oval

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