Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium Archive > 2004-2005 Anthropology Colloquium

An ongoing colloquium organized by Anthropology faculty. Includes junior, senior and retired faculty from departments across the U.S. and world. The colloquium was held on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1, 158 Whitney Avenue.

Organizers: faculty and David Graeber

Fall 2004 Calendar

Thursday, September 30
Professor Anne Allison, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Techno Animism and Virtual Intimacy in the Age of Pokemon

Thursday, October 7
Professor Engseng Ho, Department of Anthropology & Social Studies,
Harvard University
Anti-Colonial Empire: Some Muslim Answers to a Global Puzzle

Thursday, October 14
Professor Ellen Schattschneider, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University
Creating Spectral Kin: Wartime Annihilation and the Afterlives of Dolls

Thursday, October 21
Professor Amy Borovoy, Department of Anthropology, Princeton University
Recovering from 'Co-dependence' in Postwar Japan

Thursday, October 28
Professor Enrique Mayer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform

Tuesday, November 9
Professor Thomas Blom Hanson, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Sounds of Freedom: Music, Taxis, and Racial Imagination in the New South Africa

Tuesday, December 7
Professor Kim Fortun, Department of Science and Technology Studies
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
From Bhopal to the Informating of Environmentalism

Spring 2005 Calendar

Thursday, January 13
 Professor David Sutton, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
Things Don't Taste Like They Used To: Everyday Cooking in Modern Times

Thursday, January 20
Professor John L. Jackson, Department of Anthropology, Duke University
Black Judah: Racial Sincerity and the Twelve Tribes of Transnationalism

Thursday, January 27
Professor Michael Taussig, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
What is the Color of the Sacred?

Tuesday, February 1
Jackie Assayag, CNRS, Paris
East and West, Orientalism, War and the Colonial Present

Thursday, February 10
Professor Cathy Lutz, Department of Anthropology, Brown University
Empire is in the Details

[Simultaneously, the Anthropology Department also sponsored the with the Yale Law School]
Professor Carlos Ivan Degregori, Department of Anthropology, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San  Marco
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: The View of a Social Scientist

Thursday, February 17
Professor Hylton White, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Cuisines of Estrangement: Commensal Culture in Zululand

Thursday, February 22
Professor Terence Turner, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Cosmology, Corporeality and Choreography

Thursday, March 3
Professor Tania Forte, Ben Gurion University
Covering and Uncovering conflict in Israel-Palestine

Thursday, March 22
Professor Chris Fuller, London School of Economics (LSE)
Globalization, Information Technology and the 'New' Middle Class in Chennai (Madras)

Thursday, March 31
Professor Robert A. Rubinstein, Syracuse University
"Culture and Intervention: An Anthropological Approach to Peacekeeping"

Thursday, April 7
Professor Michael Dietler, University of Chicago
Colonial Encounters, Entanglements, and Transformations in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: The view from Lattara

Thursday, April 21
Spring Reception (no lecture)

Thursday, April 28
Professor Dale Pesmen, University of Chicago
Is "Soul" the Best We Can Do for Ourselves? An Engaged Critique of Depth

Thursday, May 4
David Himmelgreen, University of South Florida
Globalization and the Nutrition Transition in Rural Costa Rica

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