Fall 2002 Calendar

October 3
Josh Goldstein, Visiting Fellow, CEAS, Yale University
Title: The Olympic Bottle Battle: Migrant Recyclers vs Green Urbanism in Beijing

October 31
Ilana Gershon, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: Is It His Culture or his Personality? Samoan Dilemmas in Mixed Marriages

November 14
Daniel Rothenberg
Title: Facing Terror: Can Anthropology Help Us Understand Genocide?

December 5
Jennifer Tilton , Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Title: The Sideshow: Cruising, Hip Hop and Youth Struggles over Urban Space in Oakland, California

Spring 2003 Calendar

January 29
Ilana Gershon, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: Reviewing Anthropology: Inside the Publishing World of the American Ethnologist

February 5
Eileen Walsh, Visiting Fellow, CEAS, Yale University
Title: Living the Myth of Matriarchy: Gender Transformation, Ethnic Tourism and Mosuo Identity

February 12
David Graeber , Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: The Very Idea of Consumption: Desire, Phantasms, and the Aesthetics of Destruction in Western Culture

February 19
Seth Cook, Doctoral Candidate, FES, Yale University
Title: Doing Fieldwork and Working in the Field: The Experience of Ethnography and Development Work in Northwest China

February 26
Sasha Welland , Visiting Fellow, CEAS, Yale University
Title: Departure Beijing: The Geography of Contemporary Chinese Art

March 26
Seth Curley, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Joseph Hill, Graduate Student, Yale University
Jennifer Jackson, Graduate Student, Yale University
Molly Margaretten, Graduate Student, Yale University
Title: Presentation of Dissertation Prospectuses

April 2
Ping-Ann Addo, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: “Our Cloth is like Your Money”: Exchange and Identity in Overseas Tongan Communities

April 9
Ahmed Afzal, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: American Dream in the Time of Corporate Corruption: The Collapse of Enron and South Asian Professionals in Houston, Texas

April 16
Stefania Capone, Visiting Scholar
Title: Searching for Africa: The Making of Tradition in Afro-Brazilian Religions

April 23
Yasmina Katsullis, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: Criminal Subjects: The Political Economy of the Tijuana Sex Industry