FALL 2005

September 26
Karen Nakamura, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Surviving Life After Yale...at Yale?–The No-Holds Barred, Tell-All Story of Surviving Life without a Stipend

October 3
John Szwed, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Anthropological Perspectives on Hurricane Katrina and its Aftermath

October 10
Nathaniel Smith, Department of Anthropology
Preliminary Notes on Getting In and Getting Along with Japanese Nationalist Groups
 
October 17
Holly High, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University
Fieldwork as bearing witness?: Anthropology and the "failure" of aid

October 24
Abigail Dumes
The Economic and Social Role of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Cameroonian Women in France

October 31
Alethea Sargent, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Reflections on Summer Fieldwork with Homeless Women in Boston
 
November 7
Shaila Seshia & Omolade Adunbi, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
NGOs, Rights Discourses, and Cultural Practices in India and Nigeria
 
November 14
Cathy Timura, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Therapeutic Decision-Making in the Time of Crisis: Austerity, Doctor’s Strikes and Community Health in the Ecuadorian Andes

November 28
Molly Margaretten, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Creating Kin: Love & Survival among South African Street Youth
 
December 5
Juan Orrantia, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Visual narratives of Memory, Loss and Violence in the Mourning of Modernity

SPRING 2006

January 30
Dhooleka Raj, Council on South Asian Studies, Yale University
Transnational Imaginary or an Indian Homeland? Citizenship, Identity Cards and a Day for Diaspora

February 6
Durba Chattaraj, Joe Hill, Molly Margaretten, Nana Okura, Gavin Whitelaw, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Discussion of Qualifying Exam Preparation

February 13
Emily Horning, Librarian for Philosophy, Religious Studies and Anthropology, Yale University
Beyond "Anthropological Literature": Useful Resources for Anthropologists

February 20
Akhil Gupta, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Department Graduate Student Meeting

February 27
Monica Eppinger, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley and Yale Law School
Discussion about Grant Proposal

March 20
K. Sivaramakrishnan, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
Department Graduate Student Meeting

March 27
William Sax, Department of Anthropology, Heidelberg University
Department Graduate Student Meeting
12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Donaldson Commons, SOM

April 3
Joanna Davidson, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
Department Graduate Student Meeting
11:30 - 12:30 p.m.
Donaldson Commons, SOM

April 10
Megan Sinnott, Department of Anthropology, Larry Kramer Initiative in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, Yale University

April 17
Amy Young, Council on Middle East Studies and Department of Anthropology, Yale University
What Are 'Women's Rights' in Morocco?

April 24
Mazyar Lotfalian, YCIAS and Council on Middle Eastern Studies, Yale University

May 1
Jun Zhang, Durba Chattaraj, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Third Year Graduate Student Prospectus Presentations