• 30 January - Julia Sapir (RPCV). The Peace Corps from the bottom up and the top down. The talk will take place in      Cabell 311.

  Julia finished her 2 years, 3 month service in the Peace Corps just prior to Thanksgiving. She, from the position of a volunteer, will talk about the structure of the Peace Corps and the relationship that volunteers establish with those they serve. Julia lived in a village in the Upper Casamance, Senegal among the Pulaar people. (They are also known as the Fulani (in Nigeria), the Fula and the Peul.) Her job was to assist a local nurse. She participated in AIDS education that included a long bicycle trip and theatre performances. She also promoted the education of girls, something very much neglected by the Pulaar. Click here to see Julia's lecture photos.

  Julia will be most receptive to questions, critical and otherwise, about the Peace Corps which has always been a most curious institution. It is over 40 years old and has over 160,000 alumni.

• 6 February - George Mentore (UVA, Anthropology). The Fart that Leads to Laughter: Waiwai Revelations about the       Power of the Absurd.
  
  
• STUDIES IN WOMEN AND GENDER PRESENTS

  16 February, Monday - Noon-1:30 - R. Charli Carpenter (Drake University, Politics and International Relations)
       Minor 225.
  

  "Innocent Women and Children": Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians,

  Carpenter's work argues that the "innocent civilian" is a gendered concept which affects the operational strategies of civilian protection agencies in complex emergencies. The category "women and children" is used as a proxy for "non-combatant" in armed conflict, shaping patterns of belligerent restraint as well as international societal discourse regarding civilian immunity.

• 20 February - Dell Upton (UVA, Anthropology and Architecture). Hearing Race in Antebellum New Orleans.
  
  
• 19 March - TBA
  
  
• 26 March - Ishi's Brain: History, Culture, and the Politics of Memory.  Ishi's Brain: History, Culture, and the Politics of Memory.
  
  
• 2 April - Francis Zimmerman (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Anthropology) Thakazhi's KAYAR :      Stories, Narrative and History in a Malayalam modern epic.
  
  
• 9 April - TBA
  
  
• 10 April (Saturday) Paper and Presentation (Part I)
  
  
  • Will Schroeder (9:30-9:50 Presentation - 9:50-10:35 Q&A) Comrades or Queers: Making Sense of Translation in the Chinese Discourse of Same-Sex Love.
  • David Strohl (10:50-11:10 Presentation 11:10-11:55 Q&A) Disputed Origins and Dissimulated Religious Traditions:
    Bombay's Khojas in the 19th Century.
    
    
• 17 April (Saturday) Paper and Presentation (Part II)
  
  
  • Amy Nichols-Belo (9:30-9:50 Presentation 9:50-10:35 Q&A). Remaking "Tradition" in Northern Tanzania: Sungusungu Vigilantism, Witch-Killings, and the Appropriation of Precolonial Cultural Practice.
  • Lisa Stewart (10:50-11:10 Presentation 11:10-11:55 Q&A). Embodied Geography: The Transmogrification of the Haitian Body in the Invention of AIDS,
  • Holly Donahue (1:15-1:35 Presentation - 1:35-2:20 Q&A) Our Two, Your Twenty-Five? : Hierarchy and the Politics of Reproduction in Contemporary India.
    

• 12 September - Fred Damon (UVA, Anthropology). Gifts to Gods <== Gifts to Men: Northern Massim Megalith in the Context of Pacific History and Sociality (click here for an abstract of the talk)
  
  
• 26 September - Fred Myers (NYU, Anthropology). Unsettled Business: Acrylic Painting, Tradition and Indigenous Being
  
  
• 10 October - Laura Lewis (JMU, Anthropology). History, Migration and Making it Home: Old and New Dwellings on Mexico's Costa Chica (Guerrero)
  
  
• 24 October - J. David Sapir (UVA, Anthropology). Must we anthropologists dumb down the vision thing?
  
  
• 7 November - Grace Elizabeth Hale (UVA, History). TBA
  
  
• 14 November - Helene Basu (U. Iowa and Institute of Ethnology, Free University in Berlin). TBA in Minor 130, 3-5pm
  
  
• 17 November - Kathryn March (Cornell, Anthropology) TBA in Minor 225, 3-5pm (sponsored by the Tibetan Studies program)

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