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Speaker: Jerry Jacka
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, North Carolina State University
Title: "Nation-state Neoliberalism and Transnational Yearning: Miing and Christianity in Papua New Guinea"
When: Friday, April 28, 2006
Speaker: Professor Alexander Alland, Jr.
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Title: "Catalan Non-Violence: One Nation, Two States, Three Struggles"
Date: Friday, November 11, 2005
Speaker: Gustav Peebles
Affiliation: Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Title: "Wicksell's Complaint, Or, Are Currency Reserves a Pre-modern Malady"
Date: Friday, November 18, 2005
Speaker:Dario Malventi
Affiliation: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Bilbao, Spain
Title:"Genova 2001: Practices of Desire vs. Logics of Exception"
Date: Friday, October 21, 2005
Speaker: Kristen Drybread
Affiliation: Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
Title: "Funeral Rights: Death, Recognition, and Grief at the funeral of a Brazilian street child"
Date: Friday, October 14, 2005
Speaker: Professor Ken Guest
Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY
Title: "Transnational Villages, Transnational Gods: Chinese Immigration Between Fuzhou and New York"
Date: Friday, September 23, 2005
Speaker: Professor Antonio Lauria-Perricelli
Affiliation: New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies
Title: "Early Cold War Research in Puerto Rico and the Rockefeller Foundation".
Date: Friday, March 4, 2005
The Anthropology Department with the Anthropology Section of
the New York Academy of Sciences
2007
Lectures:
Cordially
invite you to attend a Sheldon Scheps talk by: Speaker: MARCELLO A. CANUTO, Yale University Discussant: RITA WRIGHT, New York University
When: Monday, October, 29, 2007 Time: 7:30-9:30pm in room 614 Schermerhorn Dinner Reception: 6:00-7:15pm in room 465 Schermerhorn Extension
(The Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Lounge)
Lecture
Topic: The Classic Kingdoms of the Maya: New Discoveries, Novel Ideas.
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The Anthropology Department with the Anthropology Section of
the New York Academy of Sciences
Cordially
invite you to attend a Sheldon Scheps talk. Speakers: Avram Bornstein, Associate Professor
of Anthropology, John Jay College, CUNY and Aseel Sawalha, Associate Professor
of Anthropology, Pace University
When:
Monday, December 10, 2007
Time:
7:30-9:30pm in room 614 Schermerhorn
Dinner
Reception:
6:30-7:30pm
in room 465 Schermerhorn Extension (The Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried
Lounge)
Lecture
Topic: "Palestine
and the Anthropology of Globalization"
2008
Lectures:
The Anthropology Department with the Anthropology Section of
the New York Academy of Sciences - Lectures
Monday,
January 28
Time:7:45-9:30pm
Where:614
Schermerhorn
Guest
Speaker: Bonnie Urciuoli, Anthropology Department, Hamilton College
Discussant:
Arlene Davila, New York
University
Lecture
Topic: "Neoliberalizing Diversity in Higher Education"
Monday,
February 25
Time:
7:45-9:30pm
Where:614
Schermerhorn
Soon-Young
Yoon
Consultant, World Health Organization
Lecture
Topic: "Women, gender and tobacco – a personal journey"
Monday,
March 31
Time:7:45-9:30pm
Where:614
Schermerhorn
Guest
Speakers:
Scott Horton
Human Rights First! Project on Accountability for Private Military Contractors
Brian Ferguson
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark
Lecture
Topic: "Anthropologists and Today's War Machine: Ethics, Human Rights and
the Global War on Terror"
Monday,
April 28
Time:7:30-9:00pm
Where:614
Schermerhorn
Speaker:
Dr. Larissa Swedell, Anth Dept., Queens College,
CUNY
Discussant:
Dr. Thomas Plummer, Anth Dept., Queens College,
CUNY
Lecture
Topic: Socially, Sex, and Evolution in a Gregarious Primate: Social Bonds as
Reproductive Strategies in Baboons
Dinner
Reception for these talks will be held in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried
Anthropology Lounge, Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension, from 6:30-7:30pm.
SHELDON
SCHEPS TALKS:
Guest
Speaker: Rajan Krishnan, Ph.D., Candidate, Anthropology Dept., Columbia University
When:
Friday, April 4, 2008
Time:
12:45pm
Where:
457 Schermerhorn Extension
Lecture
Topic: Self and the Self-Evident: Researching Difference in the Context of
Tamil Cinema
Guest
Speaker: Ayca Cubukcu, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology Dept., Columbia University
Respondent:
Professor David Scott, Anthropology Department, CU
When:
Friday, April 18, 2008
Time:
12:45pm
Where:
Room 457 Schermerhorn Extension
Lecture
Topic: Humanity must be Defended?"
Guest
Speaker: Ravindran Sriramachandran, Ph.D., Candidate,
Anthropology Dept., Columbia
U.
Respondent:
Janaki Bakhle, Assistant Professor, History Dept., CU
When:
Monday, April 21, 2008
Time:
5:00 pm
Where:
465 Schermerhorn Extension
Lecture
Topic: Claims of Belonging: Understanding the Plantation Repatriate
Guest Speaker: Uma Bhrugubanda, Ph.D. Candidate,
Anthropology Dept., Columbia
University
Respondent:
Professor EV Daniel, Anthropology Department , CU
When:
Friday, April 25, 2008
New
time: Monday, May 5, 2008
Time:
4:15pm
Where:
Room 457 Schermerhorn Extension
Lecture
Topic: Embodying History and Myth in South Indian Cinema: N.T. Rama Rao and
the Mythological Genre?
Please
note: Dinner for this event will be served at 6:15pm in the Robert F.
Murphy/Morton H. Fried Lounge (room 465 Schermerhorn Extension)
Guest Speaker: Professor Sean Mitchell, University of Chicago
When:
Friday, May 2, 2008
Time:
12:45pm
Where:
457Schermerhorn Extension
Lecture
Topic: Sovereignty, Sabotage, and the Specters of the State: The Brazilian
Space Program after ‘Order and Progress.
Sheldon Scheps Talk Fall 2008:
Nadia Latif, Ph.D. Candidate
Anthropology Department, CU
Commentator:
Professor Brian Boyd
Anthropology Department, CU
When: Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 12:45pm
Where: Sheldon Scheps Library, Room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title: Recounting/Omitting: Narratives of Identity and Belonging to
Place in a Palestinian Refugee Camp.
A light lunch and refreshments will be served prior to the talk at 12:15p in
the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried Lounge (Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension) Fried
Lounge(Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension)
Danielle Dinovelli-Lang, Ph.D.
Candidate
Anthropology Department, CU
Commentator: Professor Zoe Crossland
Anthropology Department, CU
When: Monday, November 10, 2008
Time: 4:30-6:00pm
Where: Sheldon Scheps Library, Room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title: "Nowhere, Alaska:
Driving Directions"
Dinner will be served at 6:15pm in the Robert F. Murphy/Morton H. Fried
Lounge (Room 465 Schermerhorn Extension)
TALKS BY FACULTY:
Speaker:
Maria Couroucli, CNRS and Paris X
When:
Friday, March
13, 2009
Lunch: At noon in room
951 Sch. Ext.
Talk Time:
12:45pm
Where:
Sheldon Scheps Lirbary, room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title:
"The Greek Civil War: Actors, Events, and Narratives"
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Speaker:
Ann Laura Stoler, The New School
When:
Friday, April 24 Postponed until further notice
Lunch: At noon in room
951 Sch. Ext.
Talk Time:
12:45pm
Where:
Sheldon Scheps Library, room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title:
"Epistemic Politics and Colonial Common Sense: Beyond Reason"
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TALKS BY GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Speaker:
Morgan von Prelle Pecelli, PhD Candidate, Anth Dept., CU
When:
Monday, February
23, 2009
Time: 4:10-6:00pm
Where:
Sheldon Scheps Library, room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title: "Lost Boxes: Landscape Plays and Right Angled
Parallelepipeds"
Please note: dinner will be served at 6:00pm in room 465 Sch. Ext.
Speaker:
Rodney Collins, PhD Candidate, Anth Dept., CU
When:
Monday, March 23 Postponed until further notice
Time: tba
Where:
Sheldon Scheps Library, room 457 Sch. Ext.
Talk Title:
"From Coffee to Manhood: Grounds for Exchange in the Tunisian
Coffeehouse ca. 1898-2008"
Please note: dinner will be served at 6:00pm in room 465 Sch. Ext.
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