 Walter
D. Mignolo, William Hanes Wannamaker Professor
of Literature and
Professor of Romance Studies and Cultural Anthropology at
Duke University, will deliver the Center for the Study of
Local Knowledge Inaugural Lecture on Thursday, November 14,
2002 at 7:00pm in the Dome Room of the Rotunda. Professor
Kandioura
Drame of the University of Virginia will join Professor
Mignolo in a CSLK Seminar on Friday, November 15, 2002. The
seminar theme is “Regimes of Knowledge and the Academy
in an Age of Globalization.”
 Clifford
Geertz, Professor Emeritus at the Institute for
Advanced Study, will participate in the Center for the Study
of Local Knowledge Spring 2003 Symposium marking the 20th
anniversary of the publication of Local Knowledge: Further
Essays in Interpretive Anthropology. The one day symposium
will take place on Thursday, April 10, 2003 at the University
of Virginia. The symposium will feature scholars from the
University of Virginia and from other institutions across
the United States.
The
Center
for the Study of Local Knowledge in partnership
with the Departmento
de Historia de la Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
and the Center
for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University
will sponsor an International Colloquium, "The
Location of Knowledge: Locality, Empire and Transnational
Networks in the Construction of Knowledge." The colloquium
will take place at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Buenos
Aires, Argentina on December 11-12, 2003. Professor Corey
D. B. Walker will deliver a keynote lecture
for the colloquium entitled "Local Knowledge and Human
Interests" and Professor Kandioura
Drame will present a paper entitled "Folktales
at Textbooks."
The
Center
for the Study of Local Knowledge will host
its Spring 2004 Seminar on Friday, April 16, 2004. The Seminar
will feature Ricardo
D. Salvatore, Professor of History, Universidad
Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Professor Salvatore
will present a paper entitled, "Local vs. Imperial Knowledge:
The Yale Peruvian Expedition of 1911-1916 Reconsidered."
Professor Brian
P. Owensby of the Corcoran Department of History
at the University of Virginia will be the discussant. The
seminar will be co-sponsored by the Departments of
Anthropology, History, French Language and Literature, Spanish,
Italian, and Portuguese, and Religious Studies.
News
Coverage about the Center:
UVA
News
- September 2004
"U.Va.
Architecture Faculty And Students To Visit Greensville County
African American Educational Landmark To Study Design And
Preservation Strategies"
UVA
Research News - November 2003
"Ford Foundation Funds Local Knowledge Research"
C-Ville
Weekly
- January 21-27, 2003
"Knowledge
is Power" by Eric Rezsnyak
Danville
Register & Bee
- December 29, 2002
"Grant Trust Aids Local Programs" by Emily Cropp
University
of Virginia News - December 19, 2002
"Awards
Will Support Danville Area Leadership And Oral History Projects"
Richmond
Times-Dispatch -
November 7, 2002
"UVA is Opening Teaching Center" by
Reed Williams
The
Daily Progress -
November 3, 2002
"UVA
to Establish Teaching Center" by Reed Williams
University
of Virginia News - October
28, 2002
"Innovative U.Va. Center Will Use Local Communities As
Lens For Bigger Picture Of Race, Gender And Nation"
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