Colloquium Schedule Fall 2009
Fridays at 3:30 PM in 215 McGraw Hall
(Unless otherwise indicated.)
September 18
Drew Johnson, Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Cornell
Title: The city of Ruins: Urbanism, social cohesion, and the uncanny
September 25
Robert Forster, Professor and Chair of Anthropology and Professor of Visual & Cultural Studies, University of Rochester.
Title: Block that Metaphor? Personhood, Citizenship and the Corporation
October 5
Gabriella Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, NYU.
Title: Old and New Net Wars Over Free Speech, Freedom and Secrecy or How to Understand the Hacker and Lulz Battle Against the Church of Scientology
Co-Sponsored: Bovey Program, Information Science and Anthropology
October 10
(NOTE: Time: 12:00PM Location Kahin Center)
Joel Kuipers, Professor and Deputy Chair, Department of Anthropology, George Washington University
Title: Linguistic Piety in Central Java
Co-Sponsored: SEAP and Anthropology
October 23
Peter Bogucki, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University.
Title: TBA
October 30
(NOTE: Time: 3:30 PM Location Kahin Center)
Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard
Title: Egalitarian and Authoritarian modes in Thai Social Interaction
Co Sponsored, SEAP and Anthropology
November 6
Carmen Ferradas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University
Title: TBA
November 13
Dean Falk, Hale G. Smith Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University
Title: TBA
