Yale University Anthropology

Past Colloquium > 2004 - 2005 Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium

A forum in which Yale faculty, students, and guests meet to discuss their ethnographic and theoretical interests. Its purposes are to foster a sense of academic community, to allow researchers to receive suggestions and feedback, and to allow Yale ethnographers to learn about each other's research. Presentations range anywhere from informal discussions with panel speakers about practical matters to finished conference papers.

The following Colloquium is made possible by the generous support of the Yale University Dean's Fund.

Colloquium Organizers: Allison Alexy and Kalanit Baumhaft

Fall 2004 Calendar

October 4
Nazima Kadir, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Experiences at the Summer NSF Camp

October 11
Shana Fruehan, Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago
New Intimacies: Premarital Relationships in Contemporary Japan

October 18
Joint Presentation: Dreams, Desire, and Design: A New York City Summer

Christina Moon, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Fashion and the Korean Diaspora in New York City

Olga Sooudi, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Japanese Women Migrants in New York City

October 25
Donald Braman, Yale Law School
Incarceration & Family Life in Urban America

November 1
Nazima Kadir, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Squatters, Anti-Squatters, Subletters, and Buitenlanders in
Amsterdam: An Ethnography of a Housing Crisis in the Context of
Globalization

November 8
Lori Heninger, School of Social Work, Hunter College
Reflexive Research: Learning and Ethics in a Study of the Lives of Girls in Armed Groups

November 15
Nathaniel Smith, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Malinowski’s Two American Homes: Tucson and New Haven

December 6
Joint Presentation: Black Atlantic Religions and Identity Politics

Pauline Guedj, Department of Ethnology, Universite Paris X, Nanterre
The Sankofa Tree: "Reafricanization" and Akan Identity in the United
States

Sheriden Booker, Departments of Anthropology and African American Studies,
Yale University
"Porque todo el mundo aqui en la Habana tiene santo hecho?":
La Regla de Ocha and the Politics of Yoruba Identity in Cuba (and
beyond)

Spring 2005 Calendar

Monday, January 24
Molly Margaretten, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Point Taken: Durban's Street Youth and the Creation of Informal Street Shelters

Monday, January 31
Jennifer Jackson, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
The social and productive role of the interactional contexts of oratory and cartooning in Malagasy democratic process

Monday, Feburary 7
Gordon Mathews, Anthropology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
On learning (fitfully) to love one's country: Hong Kong and
the global meanings of national identity

Monday, February 14
Lucia Cantero, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Imagining Home: Goya Foods, Gusto-Scapes and Globalization

Monday, February 21                     
Colin Smith, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Narratives of Discontent and Self-Discovery: New Identities and Lifestyles of Youth in Heisei Japan

Monday, February 28
Joseph Hill, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Divine Knowledge and Moral Community: Reflections on Transnational Ethnography in a Sufi Community

Monday, March 21
Devika Bordia, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Democratization and Modes of Sovereignty: Local Governance through Panchayats in Western India

Monday, March 28
Allison Alexy, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Four Questions before I go to the Field

Monday, April 11
Tomomi Yamaguchi, Center for East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
Feminism as Chronology: Japanese Women Making History

Monday, April 18
Jason Nesbitt, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
An Andean Oracle Through Time

Monday, April 25
Alison Norris, Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
Secret Business: Sex and HIV in a Tanzanian Sugar Plantation

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