PAST EVENTS:

 

February 19, 2008

Geoffrey Bowker

Executive Director; Regis and Dianne McKenna Chair

Center for Science, Technology and Society

 

February 14, 2008

Roger Lancaster

Professor of Anthropology and Cultural Studies

George Mason University

presenting

Sex Panic and the Punitive State

12:15 PM Sewall Hall 570

 

January 31, 2008

Fiamma Montezemolo

Associate Professor

Colegio de la Frontera Norte

Tijuana, Mexico

presenting

Borderline Ethnography

12:15 PM Sewall Hall 570

 

Elitza Ranova
Anthropology Graduate Student
Rice University

"Turbulent Translations: From an 'Eye' in the Field to an 'I' in the Text."

Date: May 3, 2007, 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Masha Salazkina

Russian Studies and Film Studies, Colgate University

"Turbulent Translations: From an 'Eye' in the Field to an 'I' in
the Text."

Date: April 26, 2007, 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Elizabeth Vann

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Lehigh University

The Romance of Brands and the Problem of Vietnamese Motorbikes

Date: March 1, 2007, 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Johannes Birringer

Research Fellow, Rice Anthropology/Professor of Performance

Technology, Brunel University

Emergent Design, Performance Wearables & Cultural Engineering

Date: February 6, 2007, 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Francois Richard

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology

Ambiguous landscapes: Making subjects and making states in the Siin (Senegal), AD 1500-1900

Rice University

Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Jeff Fleisher

Director, Joint Multicultural Program

Lehigh University

Rituals of Consumption and the Politics of Feasting on the Eastern African Coast, AD 700-1500

Date: Monday, January 29, 2007; 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Akin Ogundiran

Associate Professor of History & Director, African-New World Studies

Florida International University

Archaeology of Colonization and Oyo Imperialism in Yoruba Hinterland (Nigeria) during the Atlantic Age

Date: Thursday, January 25, 2007; 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Ann Haour

Lecturer in Archaeology

University of Newcastle-uponTyne, United Kingdom

A Sideways Look at West Africa: Comparative Approaches to the Past 1000 Years or So

Date: Monday, January 22, 2007; 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Neil Whitehead

Professor, Department of Anthropology

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Violence, Terror & the Sexual Imaginary

Date: Friday, January 12, 2007; 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Mark Goodale

Asst Professor of Conflict Analysis & Anthropology

Institute for Conflict Analysis & Resolution, George Mason University

Bolivia in the Universe: Becoming Liberal in the norte de Potosí.

Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2007; 12:15 - 1:00 PM

Sewall Hall 570

 

Dr. Shelley Wachsman

Texas A&M University

The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000 Year Old Discovery

Date: December 5, 2006, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Sewall Hall 301

 

Dr. Thomas B. Stevenson

Ohio University - Zanesville

A Resonating Past, Archaeology and Today's Yemen

Date: November 16, 2006, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Sewall Hall 309

 

Amy Ninetto

Rice University

Simulations of Fieldwork: Anthropological Studies of the Soviet "National Character" 1947 - 1952

Date: November 7, 2006, 12:15 - 1:00

Sewall Hall 570

 

John Tresch

Boas Revisited: 'Culture' as Practice and Science

October 26, 2006, 12:15 - 1:00

Sewall Hall 570

 

Tarek Elhaik

Rice University

Cosmoerotics in Maya Deren and Claire Denis

October 12, 2006, 12:15 - 1:00

Sewall Hall 570

 

Anthropology of Intellectuals

October 28-29, 2005

David Westbrook
University of Buffalo Law School
State University of New York

Dominic Boyer
Department of Anthropology
Cornell University

Charles Lemert
Department of Sociology
Wesleyan University

Douglas R. Holmes
Department of Anthropology
State University of New York

Paul Rabinow
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkley

Leslie Fordred Green
Mandela Fellow, WEB du Bois Institute, Harvard University
Senior Lecturer

George E. Marcus
Department of Anthropology
Rice University

James Faubion
Department of Anthropology
Rice University

Dissertation Defenses:

Angela Rivas will be defending her dissertation  on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 2:00 in Sewall Hall 570.  
The title of her  dissertation is: Gorgeous Monster:  The Arts of Managing Violence in Contemporary Bogota.  
In the yellow file folder by the computer in 570, you will find a summary of Angela's thesis.

Tarra Drevet will defend her dissertation on Thursday, October 27, 2005 at 4:30 in Sewall Hall 570.  
The title of her dissertation is:  Broken Storylines: How the Economics of Flexibility is Affecting International Migration Discourse.