UVA Anthropology Events

Events in the Department of Anthropology

Archaeology Brown-Bag Workshops

Convenes biweekly, on Thursday afternoon, at 5:00
in the Brooks Hall Library. Click here for the Fall schedule.

Linguistic Anthropology Seminar

Seminars are held on a more-or-less biweekly basis, usually on Friday afternoons, from 1:00 to 3:00.
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Conversations on the Field and Fieldwork

Evening Seminars run by Graduate Students
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Fall 2005

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

23 September - Melvin Butler (UVA, Department of Music)
Seeking the Haitian Soul: Intersections of Music, Identity, and Pentecostal Practice in Haiti
7 October - Denise Brennan (Georgetown University, Department of Anthropology)
Beyond the Hype: Trafficked Persons to the United States Rebuild Their Lives
In Newcomb Hall - Kaleidoscope Center Co-sponsored by the American Studies Program
Reception to follow hosted by the Studies in Women and Gender (SWAG) Program and the Women’s Center
Saturday October 8 - Bagel brunch with Denise Brennan
Brooks Hall Library, 10-noon
Co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law (UVA School of Law)
Page-Barbour Lectures by Dan Segal (Pitzer College, Department of Anthropology)
in Minor Hall, 5:30-7 pm, with receptions to follow:
- Monday 10 October - Social Evolutionary Thought and the Misrecognition of History
- Tuesday 11 October - Remembering History without 'Having a History
- Wednesday 12 October - The Great Transformation' without its Beginning or End
14 October - Dan Segal (Pitzer College, Anthropology)
An open discussion of issues raised by his Page-Barbour lectures
28 October - Andrea Wiley (James Madison University, Department of Anthropology)
White Poison or Does a Body Good: Culture, Science, and the Relationship between Milk and Child Growth
11 November - Linda-Anne Rebhun (Yale University, Department of Anthropology)
Women's Reputation is White as Milk: Complexities of Social Standing in Northeast Brazilian Working Class Women's Life Stories
28-29 November - IN THE WORLD AND ABOUT THE WORLD: "AMERINDIAN" MODES OF KNOWLEDGE. Click here for details

Spring 2006

The following talks will be on Fridays from 1-2:45pm in Brooks Hall Library unless otherwise noted.
Each lecture will be followed by a reception in Brooks Hall Foyer

3 February - Livio Sansone Associate (Professor of Anthropology, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil )
Black Globalization: Constructing Race in Brazil- Co-sponsored by the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies
17 February - Mark Mosko (Professor and Head of Department of Anthropology, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University
Partible Penitents: Christianity and Dividual Personhood in Melanesia and the West
Saturday 18 February - Bagel brunch with Mark Mosko for graduate students and faculty
Brooks Hall Library, 10-noon.
24 February - Scott Hutson - (Post-doctoral Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collections)
From the Bottom Up: socio-politico Organization at an Ancient Maya Urban Center
Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning - 28 February - 3 March
Miniconference on The Politics of Being and Belonging: Beyond Ethnicity and Race in the Americas
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Wednesday - 1 March - Elizabeth Arkush (Lecturer, Wayne State University)
Hilltop Forts and Regional Politics in the late prehispanic Titicaca Basin, Peru
17 March - Susan McKinnon (Associate Professor and Acting Chair of Anthropology, University of Virginia)
Marital Signs of Progress: What's Cousin Marriage Got to Do with Modernization?
Wednesday - 22 March - Brooks Hall Library, 5-6:45
Vicki Brennan (Predoctoral Research Fellow, the Woodson Institute, University of Virginia, and PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Chicago)
The Secret Power of the Church is in the Hymns': Memory, Performance, and Migration in Yoruba Christian Churches
Public lecture cosponsored by the Woodson Institute and the Department of Anthropology
7 April - Russell Sharman (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Re/Making La Negrita: Aesthetics and the Cultural Production of Religion, Race and Nationalism
Cosponsored by the Department of Religious Studies
Saturday 8 April - Bagel brunch with Russell Sharman for graduate students and faculty
Brooks Hall Library, 10-noon
Schedule for the Presentations of the Second Year Qualifying Assignment:
- Wednesday 19 April, Noon: Beth Bollwerk Up in Smoke: Understanding Changes in Monacan Pipe Use From 1000 B. C. to the Present
- Friday 21 April, Noon: Karen Wood 'The Language Ghost': Linguistic Heritage and Identity Among Monacan Indians of Central Virginia
- Saturday 22 April, 9:30am: Lydia Wilson A Historical Archaeology of Fugitive Slaves and Enslaved Plantation Workers in 19th-Century Kenya
- Saturday 22 April, 10:45am: Angela Bennett Alone in the World: Hungarian Linguistic Nationalism in the Context of the European Union
- Saturday 22 April, 1:15pm: Todne Thomas Extending Kinship Links and the Analytical Lens: An Exploration of Transnational Collateral Kinship among Jamaican Migrants in Atlanta, Georgia
- Monday 24 April, Noon: Matt Pawlowicz Swahili Heterogeneity: Understanding Regional Differentiation on the Swahili Coast
Friday, 21 April, 4-6pm: Project Presentations by the 2006 Undergraduate Distinguished Majors in Anthropology
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