Yale University Anthropology

Colloquium > 2006-2007 Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium

Mondays, 12:00 -1:15 p.m.
Room 1, 51 Hillhouse Avenue
A light lunch is provided.

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: Abigail Dumes and Ryan Sayre

Spring 2007

January 22
William Kelly, Allison Alexy, Gavin Whitelaw
Talking Technology: Technological Strategies for Scholarship and Fieldwork

February 5
HRAF Presentation

February 12
Ashish Chada, Stanford University
Postcolonial Pasts: Archaeology, Governmentality and Scientific Method in India

February 19
John Middleton, Professor Emeritus, Yale
Swahili Money and Trade

February 26
Renato Rosaldo, New York University
Stories, Truth and Fiction in Ethnographic Analysis

March 5
Ann Stoler, Professor, New School for Social Research
The Logos and Pathos of Empire

March 26
Catherine Timura, PhD Candidate, Yale
Wearing Red Clothing and Riding a Pig: Ethnomedicine and children’s health in highland Ecuador

April 2
David Watts, Professor, Yale University
Do Chimpanzees Have Culture?

April 9
Richard Kernaghan, Agrarian Studies Fellow
Time of Rot: Recalling a Road, Remains and the Force of Sendero Law

April 16
Joseph Hill, PhD Candidate, Yale
Beyond Caste and Ethnicity: The Njolofeen, Islamic Knowledge, and Liminality in Senegal

April 23
Kamari Clarke, Assistant Professor, Yale
Crafting the Victim, Crafting the Perpetrator: Towards a Critical Transnational Legal Anthropology

April 30
Immanuel Wallerstein, Professor Emeritus, Yale
Title TBA

FALL 2006

September 25
Gavin Whitelaw, PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Eating One’s Losses

October 2
J. Joseph Errington, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
What Said didn't say: Orientalism, nationalism, and the German Connection

October 9
Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor, Sociology, Yale University
The Routines of a Writer
 
October 16
Mike McGovern, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Applied and Academic Anthropologies: Blurring Boundaries

October 23
William Kelly, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Why Sport?

October 30
Chandana Mathur, Lecturer of Anthropology, Univ. of Ireland, Maynooth
Dismemberments Distantly Remembered: Diasporan Memories of Partition and Violence in South Asia
 
November 6
Helen Siu, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
China’s Century: Fast Forward with Historical Baggage
 
November 13
Christophe Robert, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Distracted Encounters and the Politics of Vigilance in Post-war Vietnam

November 27
Finn Stepputat, Sr. Researcher, Sociology, Danish Institute for International Studies (Agrarian Studies Fellow)
Sovereignty, Conflict and Mobility at the Frontiers of the Modern State in Guatemala
 
December 4
Renzo Taddei, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
The Politics of Uncertainty and the Fate of Forecasters - Ethnographic Notes from Northeast Brazil

 

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