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Franz Boas Seminar


Franz Boas Seminars Academic Year 2007-2008

Fall 2007

 

Bruce Grant, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, New York University

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Time: 4:10PM

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title: Cultural Histories of Kidnapping in Russia and the Caucasus

 

Danilyn Rutherford, Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Time: 4:10PM

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title: Spacetime, Sympathy, and the Experience of Empire

 

Zolani Noonan-Ngwane, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department, Haverford College

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Time: 4:10PM

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title: "Betraying the Spirit of 1976: Elitist Discourses of Youth and the Politics of Containment in Post-Apartheid South Africa"



SPRING 2008

Webb Keane, Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, University of Michigan

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Time: 4:10-6:00pm

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title: "Freedom and Blasphemy: On the Press"


Jessica R. Cattelino, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Time: 4:10pm

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title: "Fungibility: Florida Seminole Casino Dividends and the Fiscal Politics of Indigeneity"

 



Michael Gilsenan, David B. Kriser Professor in the Humanities Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Anthropology; Chair of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University

Event: Franz Boas Seminar

When: Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Time: 4:10pm

Where: Room 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Talk Title:Diasporic Inheritances: Arab Muslim Intentions and British Laws in Colonial Singapore”

 


 


Please Note: Receptions follow after lectures in room 465 Schermerhorn Extension.

 

 

 

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