FALL 2005

Thursday, September 22
Professor Marcello A. Canuto, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Mystery of Site Q: Lost Classic Maya City Found in the Peten

Thursday, October 27
Professor John R. Bowen, Washington University in St. Louis
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves

Wednesday, November 30
Professor Henrike Donner, London School of Economics,
Committee Mothers and Well-adjusted Children: Privatisation, Early-Years Education and Motherhood in Calcutta

SPRING 2006

Thursday, February 9
Professor William Beeman,  Deptartment of Anthropology, Brown University
The United States and Iran--Dissonant Discourse in Action
21 Sachem Street, ESC 110
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 16
Professor Simon Critchley, New School of Social Research
Very Funny: A Philosophical Anthropology of Humour
21 Sachem Street, ESC 110
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Friday, February 17*
Professor Joseph Alter, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Yoga at the Fin de Siécle: Muscular Christianity with a "Hindu" Twist
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

Monday, February 20*
Professor Akhil Gupta, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy
158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Monday, February 27*
Professor Margaret Trawick, Massey University, New Zealand
Lies, Jokes, and Death in Batticaloa during the late 1990's
158 Whitney Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 2
Professor Yael Navaro-Yashin, University of Cambridge
Make-Believe Papers, Legal Forms, and the Counterfeit: Affective Interactions Between Documents and People in Britain and Cyprus
21 Sachem Street, ESC 110
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Monday, March 20*
Professor K. Siviramakhrishnan, University of Washington, Seattle
Thin Nationalism: Nature and Public Intellectualism in India
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 pm

Thursday, March 23*
Professor Jennie Burnet, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Gendering Ethnic Subjectivities: "Maidens," Wives, and Widows in Post-genocide Rwanda
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Monday, March 27*
Professor William Sax, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelburg
The God of Small People: Performance and Healing in the Garhwal Himalaya
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, March 30*
Professor James H. Smith, Spelman College
Snake Driven Development:  Embodied Histories, Embattled Ecology, and Totemic Tourism in Western Kenya
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Monday, April 3*
Joanna Davidson, Emory University
Feet in the Fire: Social Reproduction among the Diola of Guinea-Bissau, West Africa Emory University
51 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 1
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, April 5*
Mike McGovern, Emory University
Unmasking the State:  Personhood, Power and Structural Violence in the Guinean Postcolony
Luce Hall, Room 202
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.

* job talks