MacDougallThursday, September 9, 3:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
Christopher J. Colvin will defend his dissertation proposal, entitled "Reconciliation and the Rise of 'Post-Traumatic Culture' in the New South Africa: the TRC and Beyond." Committee members are: Richard Handler, Chair, Ravindra Khare, and Adria LaViolette.
Friday, September 17, 1:00pm
Lower West Room, Rotunda
Professor Krishan Kumar, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, will speak on "Ethnic and Political Nationhood: a mythical distinction?" Professor Kumar has published extensively on society, economy and polity. He accepted a position at Virginia a few years ago after a long and distinguished teaching career in England.
Friday, September 24, 1:00pm
225 Minor Hall
Professor Sascha Goluboff, Department of Anthropology, Washington and Lee University, will speak on "Fist Fights at the Moscow Choral Synagogue: Performance of Ethnicity Through Prayer."
Friday, October 1, 1:00pm
225 Minor Hall
Ira Bashkow, Anthropology, James Madison University, will speak on "'Whitemen' are Good to Think With, for Orokaiva of Papua New Guinea."
Wednesday, October 20, 11:15am
Brooks Hall Library
Douglas Spencer Moore, Jr. will defend his dissertation, "'Boundaries of Germanness:' Repatriation, Development and the Practices of Nation." Committee: Richard Handler, Chair, Fred Damon, Ravindra Khare, and Alon Confino (History, UVA).
Friday, October 22, 1:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
Karen Hayes, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, University of Virginia, will speak on "Stalin and Otherness: Satirical Beasts, Monsters, and Devils".
Thursday, October 28, 4:00pm
Minor Hall Auditorium
The University of Virginia presents Benedict Anderson (Cornell University, author of Imagined Communities). On Thursday October 28 at 4pm in Minor Hall, he will speak on the topic of "Going for Broke: The Independence Option for Cultural Survival". On Friday, October 29 at noon, in 225 Minor Hall, he will speak on "The Question of Nationalism."
Friday, October 29, 3:00pm
225 Minor Hall
The Centre for South Asian Studies presents Professor Stanley Tambiah of the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. He will speak on the "Contours of Political Violence in South Asia".
Friday, November 5, 1:00 pm
West Oval Room of the Rotunda
The Department of Anthropology Speakers Series presents Professor Glen Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University who will speak on "Excavations at Umm el-Marra: Cycles of Urban Centralization and Decentralization in Bronze Age Western Syria."
Friday, November 12, 1:00 pm
Brooks Hall Library
The Department of Anthropology Speakers Series presents Professor Susan Darlington of the Department of Anthropology, Hampshire College. She will speak on "The Greening of Thai Buddhist Monks and Environmentalism in Contemporary Thailand."
Monday, November 22, 1:30pm
Folklore Library, Brooks Hall basement
Alison Bell will defend her dissertation, entitled, "Conspicuous Production: Agricultural and Domestic Material Culture in Virginia, 1700 - 1900". Committee members are: James Deetz, Chair, Henry Glassie, University of Indiana, Jeffrey Hantman, Dell Hymes, Charles Perdue, Camille Wells, Architecture-University of Virginia.
Friday, December 3, 1:00 pm
Brooks Hall Library
The Department of Anthropology Speakers Series presents Professor Bonnie Urciuoli, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College, who will speak on "U.S. perceptions of ethnicity and language: comparing the folk model to lived experience". The talk will address these themes: "In the U.S. (as in many nation-states), language is generally conceptualized as a well-defined, named thing that layers neatly onto ethnic/national culture, another named thing. What people actually experience does not come close to this model, yet despite some decades of research to the contrary, the model persists. What is it about U.S. perceptions of "ethnicity" and "language" that reinforces this model, and why are the complex realities of lived race/class/language experience so invisible to those perceptions?"
Friday, February 4, 1:00pm
The Anthropology search committee presents Ira Bashkow who will speak on "The Localness of the Global: on Racial Foods in New Guinea." A reception will follow.
Friday, February 11, 1:00pm
The Anthropology search committee presents Jennifer Cole, who will speak on "Remembering and Forgetting Colonialism in Madagascar: The Art of Memory in a Betsimisaraka Community." A reception will follow.Monday, February 21, 12:00
225 Minor Hall
The search committee of the Department of Anthropology and the Carter Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies presents Hudita Mustafa who will speak on "'Dirriankhes' and Cultural Anxiety in Senegalese Transnationalism."
Friday, February 25, 1:00
South Meeting Room, Newcomb Hall
The search committee of the Department of Anthropology and the Carter Woodson Institute for African and African American Studies presents Hanan Sabea who will speak on the topic "'Today We Live Under Slavery': The Morality of Times in Post-Socialist Tanzania."
Monday, February 28, 3:45
Brooks Hall Library
Thursday, March 9, 3:30
Cabell 345
The Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology Announces a Talk by W. H. "Chip" Wills, University of New Mexico, on the subject "The Chaco Phenomenon and the Construction of Ritual: Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, A.D. 900-1150."
The Department of Anthropology presents the Second Years' PnP's (Papers and Presentations). All talks will begin at 12:10 in Brooks Hall Library, followed by questions from the audience.
Monday, March 27 Tenibac Harvey
Friday, March 31: Melinda Hough
Monday, April 3: Mike Wesch
Friday, April 7: Pattie Epps
Monday, April 10: Lisa Shutt
Friday, April 14: Mieka Brand
Monday, April 17: Agit Serasundera
Tuesday, April 4, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
Brian Shott will defend his dissertation, entitled "Space and Society in the Southern Balkans." His committee members are: Fred Damon, chair; Richard Handler; Christopher Crocker; and Paul Shoup, Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs.
April 17-18:
MacDougallDavid will visit the University and while here he will present his new film: Doon School Chronicles. The showing is scheduled for Tuesday, April 18th at 7PM in Clark Hall (where the Tech library is located). David sends us the following synopsis:
Doon School Chronicles is the first film in a four-film study of an elite boys' boarding school in northern India. Filmed over a two-year period, it looks at the life of Indian middle-class boys coming under the influence of institutional, national, and global pressures during the crucial transitional period from childhood to adulthood. The film explores the 'social aesthetics' and ideology of Doon School through its rituals, the physical environment it has created, and its effects upon several boys of different ages and temperaments. The film is divided into ten "chapters," each headed by a text taken from school documents. Doon School, located in Dehra Dun in Uttar Pradesh, has sometimes been called 'the Eton of India.' It was established by a group of Indian nationalists in the 1930s to produce a new generation of leaders who would help guide the nation after Independence. It has been influential in the creation of the new Indian elites and has come to epitomize certain aspects of Indian postcoloniality.
During the day of Tuesday, David will participate in an informal roundtable to be run by the Department's graduate students. Jeffrey Feldman will be in charge. The exact times are yet to be arranged.
In the weeks before David arrives we will be screening his work in the Brooks Hall Library. The University has these films by David:
Biofilmography: David MacDougall was born in New Hampshire in the USA and now lives in Australia. He was educated at Harvard University and at the film school of the University of California at Los Angeles. His first major film, To Live with Herds, won the Grand Prix 'Venezia Genti' at the Venice Film Festival in 1972. His other films, many co-directed with Judith MacDougall, include a trilogy on the Turkana of northwestern Kenya comprising The Wedding Camels, Lorang's Way and A Wife Among Wives. From 1975 to 1987 he made twelve ethnographic documentaries with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, including Good-bye Old man (1976), Takeover (1979), Familiar Places (1980), Three Horsemen (1983) and Link-Up Diary (1987). In 1991, with Judith MacDougall, he made Photo Wallahs about local photographers in northern India. In 1992 he went to Sardinia to make Tempus de Baristas (1994) about three generations of mountain shepherds. Since 1997 he has been conducting a study of The Doon School in northern India. This will result in four films, the first being Doon School Chronicles (2000). He was one of the founders of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University, where he is currently an Australian Research Council Fellow and Convenor of the Program in Visual Research. He writes regularly on ethnographic and documentary film. A book of his essays, Transcultural Cinema, was published in 1998.
Friday, April 21, 2:30pm
Brooks Hall Library
Margaret C. Harrell will defend her dissertation, "Brass Rank and Gold Rings: Class, Race, Gender, and Kinship within the Army Community." Her committee members are Susan McKinnon, Chair, Peter Metcalf, Charles Perdue, and Sharon Hays.
Thursday, April 27, 4:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
The Interdisciplinary Program in Archaeology presents a talk by Monica Smith, Department of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution, entitled "Material Culture and Social Networks in the Towns and Cities of Early South Asia."
Friday, April 28, 1:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
J. Teresa Holmes will defend her dissertation, "A House for the Kager: Negotiating Tribal Identities in Colonial Kenya." Her committee members are David Sapir, Chair, Susan McKinnon, Peter Metcalf, and Joseph Miller, Department of History.
Wednesday, May 17, 2:00pm
Brooks Hall Library
Mark C. Edberg will defend his dissertation, "Making a Dent in the Cosmos: Narco-Corridos and the Narcotrafficker Persona on the U.S.-Mexico Border." His committee members are George Mentore, Chair, Richard Handler, Dell Hymes, and Herbert (Tico) Braun, University of Virginia History Department.
Friday, May 19, 10:00am
Brooks Hall Library
Alexander King will defend his dissertation, "The Koryak? The Invention of 'a' Culture." Committee members are Richard Handler, Chair, Dell Hymes, Peter Metcalf, and Roy Wagner.
Wednesday, June 7, 2:00pm
Folklore Archives, Brooks Hall, Room B001
Christopher C. Fennell will defend his dissertation proposal, "Consuming Mosaics: Mass-Produced Goods and Contours of Choice in the Upper Potomac Region." Committee members are Jeffrey L. Hantman, Chair, Frederick Damon, Charles L. Perdue, Jr., and Paul Shackel, University of Maryland.
Wednesday, June 28, 3:30pm
Brooks Hall Library
Michael Uzendoski will defend his dissertation, "The Articulation of Value Among the Napo Runa of the Upper Ecuadorian Amazon." Committee members are Fred Damon, Chair, George Mentore, J. Chris Crocker, and Herbert (Tico) Braun, University of Virginia History Department.
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