Events in the Department of Anthropology

• 8 September — Françoise Dussart (Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, University of Connecticut) Canvassing Identities(Warlpiri acrylic art and identity over two decades) (Friday evening, there will also be a reception with Prof. Dussart in the evening at the at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection)


• 11 September (Monday) — Susan Linn (Associate Director, The Media Center of Judge Baker Children's Center
  and Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School)
  Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood (The UVA Forum for Contemporary Thought)
  Clark 108, 3:30-5pm [For details, contact Ira Bashkow]
  


• 29 September — Ekaterina Makarova (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia)
  The New Urbanism in Moscow: The Changing Boundaries of Public and Private Space
  
  
• 6 October — Karen Richman (Fellow, Kellogg Institute and Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame)
  The Protestant Ethic and the Dis-spirit of Vodou: Migratioin and conversion in Haiti’s Tenth
  Department
  
  
• 13 October — Steve Plog (Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia)
  Archives and Ancestors: Reinterpreting Death and Demography in Chaco Canyon
  
  
• Page-Barbour Lectures: Gayatri Spivak on Three Ways of Looking at the Ethical:
  • 17 October— The Ethical Implications of Gramsci's Thoughts on Education
  • 18 October— Ethics with a Public Face
  • 19 October— Literature, Reproductive Heteronormativity, and the Ethical
  • All in Clark Hall

• 23 or 24 October — William Darrity return visit and talk in Economics Dept.
  
  
• 27 October — Elizabeth Dunn (Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado, Boulder) Eating Postsocialism: How Global Standards Create Winners and Losers in Eastern European Agriculture
  (co-sponsored by The UVa Center for Russian and East European Studies)
  
  
• 3 November — David Samuels (Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  Topic TBA
  
  
• Page-Barbour Lectures: Janet Soskice (Cambridge, Jesus College.) Topic and titles TBA
  7, 8, and 9 November
  
  
  
  
  

• 19 January - Fenella Cannell (Lecturer in Social Anthropology, London School of Economics and Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) Loving the dead: Mormon genealogy and the work of mourning. Fenella Cannell has written about women's lives, spirit-mediumship, saint's cults and religion, and popular performances like transvestite beauty contests in the Philippines. In this talk on kinship and religion
  in the U.S., she will present results of her recent research among U.S. Mormons.
  
  
• THURSDAY 1 February - Hugh Gusterson (Professor of Cultural Studies, George Mason University) Drugs, Science and Society: Notes Toward a General Theory. Hugh Gusterson, an anthropologist of science and technology well-known for his work on public anthropology and the ethnography of Los Alamos nuclear scientists, will speak about his new research on drugs. This talk, which is being cosponsored by the Science, Technology, and Society Department of UVa's School of Engineering and Applied Science, will be held in the Rodman Room in Thornton Hall, 3:30-5pm
  
  
• 2 February - Amahl Bishara (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department University of Chicago) Local Hands: Locating Palestinians' Voices & Labor in U. S. News - The talk will take place at 1pm in Clemons 201.
  
  
• 22-24 February - Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO) Thursday evening distinguished lecture by Bradd Shore and Friday evening reception for UVA and ASAO anthropologists at Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, Pantops See details below
  
  
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• WEDNESDAY 14 March - Brian Brazeal (Predoctoral Fellow, Carter Woodson Institute) Blood, Money and Fame: Nagô Magic in the Bahian Backlands. Brooks Hall Library: 3-5:30pm
  
  
• 16 March - J. David Sapir (Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia) Prosperity, Theft & Paralysis - a structural analysis of a Kujamaat Jóola spirit complex, the "Rope."
  
  
• 21-25 March - Thirteenth Annual Virginia Festival of the Book.
  
  
• 30 March - Elizabeth Dunn - (Assistant Professor of Geography and International Affairs, University of Colorado) Eating Postsocialism: How Global Standards Create Winners and Losers in Eastern European Agriculture. Sponsored by UVA Polish Studies Speaker Series
  
  
• 6 April - Nicolas Sihlé (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Virginia) Rituals of power and violence in a Tibetan Buddhist society of the Himalayas.
  
  
• 16-27 April - MA-qualifying Second-Year Exercises (a.k.a., PnPs) Contact Susan McKinnon for details.


• Monday, April 16 12:10 — Jason Hickel — The Making of Malcontent: Labor, Unions, and Political Subjectivity
  on Sugar Plantations in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
• Wednesday, April 18 12:10 — Lydia Rodriguez — Other Ways of Speaking: Exploring Meaning, Intentionanlity, and Personhood in a Chol Maya Community of Northern Chiapas
• Friday, April 20 12:10 — Rhy Berkowitz — Persistence, Resistance, and Continuity: The Monacan Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century
• Saturday, April 21 9:30 — Adam Watson — Persistence, Resistance, and Continuity: The Monacan Indian Nation in the Twentieth Century
• Saturday, April 21 10:45— Clare Snell-Rood — Health as Hardship, Health as Home: An Exploration of How Urban Slum Communities in Delhi, India Generate Health
• Monday, April 23 12:10— Andrew Nelson — Rethinking the Idea of a Nepali Public Sphere
• Wednesday, April 25 12:10— Melissa Arellano — Questions of Continuity: A Proposal for the Reconception of Honor in Contemporary Greece
• Friday, April 27 12:10 — Christopher Hewlett — Ecotourism and the Huaorani: An Anthropological Examination of Huaorani-Tourist Relations in the Ecuadorian Amazon

Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania (ASAO)

The 2007 Annual Meeting will be held at the Charlottesville Omni Hotel at the head of the Downtown Mall (opposite the ice skating rink)

UVa students and scholars are encouraged to attend any of 16 sessions on intellectual property rights, indigenous anthropology, violence and gender, food and globalization, empathy, mining, adoption, mortuary rites, material culture, egalitarianism and hierarchy, diaspora and identity, anthropology of the senses, imagination and innovation, indigenous struggles, race ideology, and pedagogies of colonization, decolonization, and vernacularization

Participants will include 80-120 anthropologists from universities throughout North America, the Pacific, and Europe

Session descriptions and schedules are available online at www.asao.org Please plan on attending:

• Distinguished lecture by Bradd Shore Professor of Anthropology, Emory University "Samoan Shorelines: What Thirty Eight Years Visiting Samoa has Taught me about Doing Anthropology" Charlottesville Omni Hotel, Salon C Thursday 2/22, 8-9pm Lecture will be followed by a cash bar reception, 9-11pm
• Reception for UVa and ASAO anthropologists with wine and hors d'oeuvres sponsored by the UVa Department of Anthropology, the Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, and The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, at the gorgeous Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection, 400 Worrell Drive, Peter Jefferson Place, Pantops Friday 2/23, 6-8pm

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