Fall 2003 Calendar

September 29
Zoe Sherinian, University of Oklahoma & Research Affiliate, Yale University
Re-presenting Dalit (untouchable) Feminist Politics through Dialogical Musical Ethnography

October 6
Susan Bouregy, Yale University, Office of Human Subjects Committee
Human Subjects Committee -– What You Need to Know

October 13
Jean Conklin , Yale University
An Ifugao Notebook

October 20
Eyal Ben-Ari, Hebrew University
“Human Rights,” “Precision Warfare,” and Violence: The Israeli Military in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

October 23 (Thursday)
Mary Douglas, University of London
(Lunch and informal discussion.)

November 3
Andrew Mathews, Mieka Ritsema, Pamela McElwee, Vladimir Gil, Graduate students, Yale University
Post-Fieldwork: Insights, Perspectives, and Experiences on the Road to the Degree

November 10
Paul Gilroy, Yale University
“Before ‘Writing Culture’” -- Ruminations of a Failed Ethnographer

November 17
Sharon Kinsella, Yale University
Complications of Mass Media and Social Ethnography: Researching Schoolgirls in Japan

December 1
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
Transnational Ethnography & the Politics of Insecurity: Doing Fieldwork During Crisis & Coup d'Etat

Spring 2004 Calendar

January 2
Melissa Demian, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University
The Aesthetics of Loss: From "Kastom" to "Cultural Property" in Papua New Guinea

January 30
Pamela McElwee, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Migration, War, and Conservation in Vietnam

February 9
Mary Barr, Doctoral Candidate, African-American Studies & Sociology, Yale University
Face-ing Race Using Lifestories: An Appeal for the Synchronization of Topic and Method

February 16
3rd year Graduate Student Prospectus Presentations
Allison Alexy: Uncoupling in Japan
Judith Casselberry: Performance & Power Among African American Holiness-Pentecostal Women
Jonathan Padwe: Social Change in the Aftermath of War: The Phmong of Cambodia
Gavin Whitelaw: Konbini: Modern Convenience, Local Familiarity, and the Global Transformation of the Japanese Mom-and-Pop

February 23
David Apter, Henry J Heinz II Professor Emeritus Comparative Political & Social Development, Yale University
Fieldwork as Engagement

March 1
Ilana Gershon, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
When Reflexivity Causes Problems: Samoan Systems and Bureaucratic Systems Collide

March 29
George Baca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Goucher College
Creating a Racial Crisis: Rites and Representation in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 5
Douglas Rae, Richard S. Ely Professor of Organization & Management and Political Science, Yale University
History of an Unimportant Neighborhood

April 12
Baruch Shimone, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Yale University
Cross-Cultural Management and the Concept of Culture in a Globalizing Business World: On the Development of Hybrid Management Cultures in Thailand, Mexico, and Israel

April 19
Kamari Clarke, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
From Poli Sci to Anthropology: The Ethnographic "Doing" of Transnational,
Multi-sited, and Institutional Fieldwork