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Speaker: Kamari Clark, Department of Anthropology, Yale University
Title: "The Race to Universalize and the Universalization of Human Rights Transformations in the Logics of Citizenship"
When: Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extention

Speaker: Adam Smith, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: "Prometheus Unbound: Geographies of Transgression and Archaeologies of Authority in the South Caucasus"
When: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Speaker: William Mazzarela, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: " 'Cannibals Enjoy Comedies': Regulating the Cinema in Late Colonial India"
When: Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Speaker: Cori Hayden
Title: "Public, Private, Popular: Generic Medicines and the Politics of the Similar in Mexico"
When: Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Speaker: Hugh Raffles
Title: "Notes on cricket-fighting in Shanghai"
When: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extension

Speaker: Michael Dutton
Title: "We are Mao"!
When: Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where: 963 Schermerhorn Extension


You are cordially invited to attend a Franz Boas seminar to be presented by E. Gabriella Coleman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Cultural Analysis, Rutgers University - Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 4:10pm in 963 Schermerhorn Ext. The title of this talk is:

"The Social Construction of Freedom in Free and Open Source Hacking: Hackers, Ethics, and the Liberal Tradition".



You are cordially invited to attend a Franz Boas seminar to be presented by Professor Adeline Masquelier, Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology at Tulane University - Wednesday,October 19, 2005 at 4:10pm in 963 Schermerhorn Ext. The title of this talk is:

"Covering Up/Exposing Islam: Spirited Debates on Piety in the Nigerian Public Sphere".

Reception will follow in the Robert F. Murphy-Morton H. Fried Lounge (465 Schermerhorn Ext.)


You are cordially invited to attend a Franz Boas seminar to be presented by Professor Issa Shivji, a Faculty of Law at the University of Dar es Salaam - Wednesday, September 21, 2005 at 4:10pm in 963 Schermerhorn Ext. The title of this talk is:

"The Changing Development Dialogue in Africa since Independence".

Reception will follow in the Robert F. Murphy-Morton H. Fried Lounge (465 Schermerhorn Ext.)


You are cordially invited to attend a Franz Boas seminar to be presented by Professor Katherine Verdery, a Scholar in Residence at the Russel Sage Foundation, NY, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Wednesday, February 16, 2005 at 4:10pm in 963 Schermerhorn Ext. The title of this talk is:

"Formenting Class Warfare in Transylvania 1949-1962: The Collectivization of Agriculture".

Reception will follow in the Robert F. Murphy-Morton H. Fried Lounge (465 Schermerhorn Ext.)
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