• 10 Sepember - Carlos Mondragon (U. Cambridge and Colegio de Mexico, Anthropology)
  Containment, Revelation and Perspective: Creating People, Locality and Memory in North Vanuatu
  
  
• 1 October - Chris Fennell (U. Illinois, Anthropology) "Archæology of New Philadelphia: Multivalent Histories of a Diverse Frontier Town." Co-Sponsored by the Archæology Interdisciplinary Program
  
  
• 8 October - Michael Dietler (U. Chicago, Anthropology) The Archæology of Colonization and the Colonization of Archaeology: Theoretical Challenges from an Ancient Mediterranean Colonial Encounter.
  
  
• 5 November - Andrew Shryock (U. Michigan, Anthropology) Off Stage/On Display: The Vexed Relationship between Ethnography and Public Culture in Arab Detroit Co-Sponsored by Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures
  
  
• 11/12 - Mark Mosko (Australian National U., RSPAS, Anthropology) Melanesian Mod: Body Decoration, Western Clothing and Love Magic among North Mekeo (PNG)
  
  
• 3 December - Eric Gable (Mary Washington, Anthropology). The Local Particularism of Cosmopolitanism in Manjaco, Guinea-Bissau
  
  

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  Spring 2005

   

  • 28 January - Marlon Ross (UVA, English and Woodson Institute) The Black Sissy Phenomenon as Theoretical Intervention
    
    
  • 31 January (Mon) 4pm, Brooks Hall Library - Katherine Verdery (U. Michigan, Anthropology) Fomenting Class Warfare in Transylvania: The Early Installation of Communism Co-sponsored by UVA Phi Beta Kappa.
    
    
  • 11 February - Deborah Durham (Sweet Briar, Anthropology) "Did you bathe this morning?": Baths and
    Political Economy in Botswana.
    
    
  • 18 February - Lise Dobrin (UVa Anthropology) The Role of Outsiders in Vernacular Language Maintenace in Papua New Guinea.
    
    
  • 23 February (Wednesday - Newcomb Hall, South Meeting Room, 12 noon) - Suzanne Blier (Harvard; Art History, Architecture, and African and African American Studies). If Looks Could Kill: Aesthetics, Anti-Aesthetics, and the Subaltern in Medieval Ife (Nigeria). Reception following the talk at Brooks Hall
    
    
  • 18 March - Paul Weinberg - Travelling Light: Journeys in South African Documentary Photography. Newcomb Hall: The Kaleidoscope Center for Cultural Fluency. Time to be announced Co-Sponsored by the History Department and the Carter Woodson Insitute.
    
    
  • 25 March - Sacred Lands Legislation Workshop
    
    
  • 1 April - Bien Chiang (Academia Sinica, Taipei; Ethnology) In-House Burial and Bilateral Namesakes: House and Access to the Past among the Paiwan of Taiwan.
    
    
  • Howard Morphy (Australian National University). Topic to be announced - co-sponsored by the Kluge-Ruhe Museum).
    
    
  • Presentations by Second Year Graduate Students will be at these times:
    
    
    • Wed. April 6, 12:10-2 - Beatrix Arendt: "By means of stones and bones": The Inuit House as a Physical and Symbolic Structure.
      
      
    • Fri. April 8, 12:10-2 - Roberto Armengol: Making Cuba: The Anthropology of Fernando Ortiz
      
      
    • Sat. April 9, 9:30-2
      • 9:30 - Randy Lichtenberger: The Archæology of Significance in a Virginia Plantation Landscape
        
      • 10:50 - Felistas Njoki Osotsi: Singing a History: An Analysis of Mau Mau War Songs
        
      • 1:15 - Harri Siikala: The House and the Canoe: Symbols of Rootedness and Mobility in Oceania
        
      
      
    • Mon. April 11, 12:10-2 - SherriLynn Colby-Bottel Infectious: Music: Disease, Race, Vice, and Early Jazz in New Orleans
      
      
  • 22 April - Barbara Meek (University of Michigan) Topic to be announced
    
    
  • 29 April - J. David Sapir (UVA, Anthropology) - 'Pleasure Without Concept' (Kant) and 'Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder' (implicit in Kant): Some Ideas Won't Go Away. This will be a Conversation about what to make of these ideas.
    
  
  
  

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