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1997-98 SCHEDULE


 

2000-2001 SCHEDULE


 

Winter Quarter 2001


DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
February 1 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Daphne Berdahl, PhD 
Deptartment of Anthropology
University of Minnesota
Citizenship and Mass Consumption in Post-Wall Germany
You may dowload the paper here.
And in PDF format, here.
February 8 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Miklós Vörös
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Navigating Malls and Markets: Mimesis and Alterity 
in the Globalized Capitalism of Hungary
You may dowload a short version here.
March 1 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 TBA
TBA
TBA

Autumn Quarter 2000


DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
October 5 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Dominic Boyer, PhD 
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Censorship as a Vocation: The institutions, practices and cultural logic of media control in the German Democratic Republic
You may dowload the paper here.
October 26 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Jeremy Straughn
Dept of Sociology
University of Chicago
Consenting Resistance: Ideology, Legitimation, and Everyday Contestation in East German State Socialism
You may dowload the paper here.
November 9 (Thursday) 3:00 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Marianne Gullestad
Professor of Social Anthropology,
Institute for Social Research, Oslo, Norway
Invisible Fences: Nationalism, Egalitarianism and Immigration
You may dowload the paper here.
And in PDF Format, here.

 

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1999-2000 SCHEDULE

Spring Quarter 2000

The Anthropology of Europe Workshop, the Culture, History and Social Theory Workshop,
the Sociology and Cultures of Globalization Workshop and the Wilder House
proundly sponsor a one-day conference on Friday, May 12, 2000 entitled:

THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF GLOBAL PROCESSES:
METHODOLOGIES FOR STUDYING LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND TRANS-NATIONAL LINKAGES
 

Winter Quarter 2000

The Anthropology of Europe Workshop and the Culture, History and Social Theory Workshop
organized a one-day conference on Friday, March 10, 2000 entitled:

SOCIALIZING KNOWLEDGE:
TRANSFORMATION AND CONTINUITY IN POST-SOCIALIST CULTURAL FORMS

See the detailed program here.


DATE PRESENTER PAPER/CONFERENCE TITLE
January 27 (Thursday)
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Lynn Hooker
"Solving the problem of Hungarian music'': 
Contexts for Bartók's early work 
February 24 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Elizabeth Vann
Department of Anthropology 
University of Chicago
"A Moral Sociology of Identity," 
Chapter 10 of her dissertation entitled, 
Language, Ethnicity and Nationality in the German-Polish Borderland.
March 10 (Friday) 
9:00 am - 5:00 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 One-Day Conference
Department of Anthropology 
University of Chicago
SOCIALIZING KNOWLEDGE: 
TRANSFORMATION AND CONTINUITY IN POST-SOCIALIST CULTURAL FORMS

Autumn Quarter 1999


DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
November 4 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Kriszti Fehervary
David Altshuler
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago		 T.B.A
November 18 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Professor Larry Taylor
Dept. of Anthropology Maynooth University, Ireland		 T.B.A

 

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1998-99 SCHEDULE

Spring Quarter 1999


DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
April 21 (Wednesday) 
4:30 pm		 Martha Lampland
University of California, San Diego		 "Making Science Work: Scientific Management and the Transition to Stalinism in Hungary, 1930-1950"
May 6 (Thursday) 
4:30 pm 
Haskell Hall 315		 Xavier Bougarel
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris		 "Islam and Politics in the Post-Communist Balkans"

 

Winter Quarter 1999

 
DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
February 16
(Wednesday)		 Michael Herzfeld
Dept. of Anthropology, 
Harvard University
Discussion of Chapter One and Afterword of 
Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State
(Co-sponsored by the Culture, History and Social Theory workshop)
February 19-20
(Friday-Saturday) 
Time & Location		 Suzanne Romaine
Oxford University 

Guy Bailey
U. of Texas-San Antonio
Second "Initiative on Language and Diachrony" Mini Conference:
LANGUAGE COMPETITION AND EVOLUTION 
Romaine: "Language Competition and Conflict: Some Perspectives on Policy and Planning in the European Union"

 

Autumn Quarter 1998


DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
October 28 (Wednesday) 
4:30 p.m. 
Haskell Hall 315		 Matti Bunzl
Dept. of Anthropology, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Inverted Appellation and Discursive Gender Insubordination: An Austrian Case Study in Gay Male Conversation
November 12 (Thursday) 
8:00 p.m. 
Fehervary apartment		 Dale Pesmen
Dept. of Anthropology, 
University of Chicago
Tropes of Depth: Openings and Closings in Post-Soviet Siberia 
(A chapter from her forthcoming book, entitled The Russian Soul.)
November 20-21 (Friday-Saturday) Craig Melchert
North Carolina 

Johanna Nichols
Berkeley
First "Initiative on Language and Diachrony" Mini Conference:
LINGUISTIC RECONSTRUCTION: CULTURE AND LANGUAGE IN HISTORY
November 25 (Wednesday) 
6:00 p.m. 
Altshuler apartment 

Wine and cheese

 Dominic Boyer
Kriszti Fehervary
Marko Zivkovic
Dept. of Anthropology, 
University of Chicago 

Sneak Preview: American Anthropological Association Conference Papers
BOYER: "IN THE BELLY OF A JOURNALIST: The Relationship of the Body to Intellectual Habitus in Contemporary Germany" 
FEHERVARY: "INNOCENCE LOST: Cinematic Representations of 1960s Consumption for 1990s Hungary" 
ZIVKOVIC: "TENDER-HEARTED CRIMINALS AND THE REVERSE PYGMALION: Narratives of the Balkan Male in Recent Serbian Films"


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1997-98 SCHEDULE

Spring Quarter 1998

 
DATE PRESENTER  PAPER TITLE
April 9 Marko Zivkovic
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago
Why Vote for Milosevic?: 
Bewilderment, Tactics of Survival, and the Non-Synoptic View
April 23 Sascha Goluboff
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Fist Fights at the Moscow Choral Synagogue: 
Performing Ethnicity Through Prayer
May 14 Dr. Ann Buckley and Dr. Paul Nixon
Faculty of Music & 
Faculty of Social and Political Sciences 
Cambridge University 
Past and Present in a Transylvanian Valley: 
Changing Attitudes and Practices in Music, Public Ritual and Daily Life" 
(Held jointly with the Ethnomusicology Workshop) 
June 5 Bettina Arnold
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Milwaukee 
Heroes and Hero-Incubators: 
The Cultural Construction of Prehistoric Gender Relations in Nazi Germany

 

Winter Quarter 1998

 
DATE PRESENTER PAPER TITLE
January 15 Matti Bunzl 
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
The Prague Experience: 
Gay Male Sex Tourism and the Neo-Colonial Invention 
of an Embodied Border
January 30 Kathryn Woolard
Dept. of Sociology 
University of California-San Diego 
Redefining Boundaries: 
Ethnicity, Class and Gender in Catalan Language Politics 
(Held jointly with Language in Society Workshop) 
February 19 Rob Van Veggel
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago 
The Potters of Miravet: 
European Producers and Bearers of Catalan Identity 
March 6 Russell Zanca
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago 
Food Culture and the Fortunes of Post-Soviet Society 
on an Uzbek Kolkhoz 

 

Autumn Quarter 1997

 
 DATE  PRESENTER  PAPER TITLE 
October 23 Brian Schwegler
Dept. of Anthropology
University of Chicago
Eating the Volk: Agricultural Policy, Consumption, and Culture in State Socialist Czechoslovakia
November 13
Pre-AAA Special Workshop on Post-Colonial France		 Tom Lyons
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago
'Unidentified Flying Arab': 
Novels and National Identity
November 13
Pre-AAA Special Workshop on Post-Colonial France		 Paul Silverstein
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Chicago
From Arabia to Tamazgha: 
The Myth of Origins and the Right to Difference in Algeria and France
November 24 Keith Brown
Dept. of Anthropology 
University of Wales, Lampeter
Balkan Imagining and the Limits of Literalism

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