Fall 2003 Calendar
September
11
Hugh Gusterson, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
MIT
A New Nuclear Age: An Anthropological Perspective
(POSTPONED until Spring 2004)
September 18
Hal Conklin, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Yale
University
A History of Anthropology at Yale
September 25
Sherry Ortner, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
The Struggle for the Social Being: The Case for Subjectivity
(POSTPONED until Spring 2004)
October 2
Vyjayanthi Rao, Fellow, YCIAS, Yale University
Perverted States? Disciplines, Development &
Displacements
October 9
Dominic Boyer, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Cornell University
Understanding Media (in the Medium of McLuhan)
October 16
Richard Wolf, Associate Professor of Music, Harvard
University
Ruminations on a Black Cow's Footprint: Anchor Points
in a South Indian Musical Spacetime
October 30
David Samuels, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
Univ.of Massachusetts, Amherst
The Apache Language Debilitated: Images of Culture
in Revitalization
November 6
Nancy Munn, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University
of Chicago
The Becoming Past of Places: Spacetime and Memory
in Antebellum Nineteenth Century New York
November 13
Tania Forte, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Ben
Gurion University, Israel
Producing News, Jerusalem 2003
December 4
James Fernandez, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology,
University of Chicago
The Social Imagination: Can It Be a Category of Inquiry?
Spring 2004 Calendar
January 15
Robert Seyfarth and Dorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Nonhuman Primate Communication and the Evolution of Language
January 22
Hugh Gusterson, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: A New Nuclear Age: An Anthropological Perspective
January 29
Greg Urban, University of Pennsylvania
Title: No Carry-Over Parts: Corporations and the Metaculture of Innovation
February 5
Sherry Ortner, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Title: The Struggle for the Social Being: The Case for Subjectivity
February 26
Richard Wilson, U-Connecticut, Storrs
Title: Law, History, and Mass Atrocities
March 4
Brackette Williams
Title: 'Being Humane': Problems of Ritual Boundaries and Symbolic Multivolcality in Killing and Toying with the Condemned
April 8
Hugh Raffles, UC-Santa Cruz/ Yale Agrarian Studies Fellow
Title: On the Language of Bees as Such
April 22
Guillaume Boccara, National Center for Scientific Research, Paris
Title: Global Neoliberal Governmentality, Identity Politics, and the
Politics of Identity in Post-dictatorship Chile
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