An Interdisciplinary Workshop
University of Chicago
Spring 2008
Presentation
Date and Time
Jennifer Vanore
History, University of Chicago
"The Call to Care: Religious Organization and Hospital Development in Los Angeles, 1945-1995"April 9th Rebecca Lester
Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis
"Crossing the Event Horizon: Borderline Personality Disorder and the Ethics of Care at an American Eating Disorder Clinic"
April 15th Kathryn McHarry
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Growing the Nation: Childhood, Medicine, and Technology in Senegal's Development"
April 23rd Lara Braff
Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
"Si Dios Quiere (God Willing): Assisted Reproduction and Popular Catholicism in Mexico City"
May 14th Larisa Jasarevic
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"'Pouring Out the Fears': An Anti-anxiety Therapy and Pursuit of Health and Wealth at the Bosnian Market"
May 28th
Winter 2008
Presentation
Date and Time
Kathryn Godlfarb
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Making the Oral Contraceptive 'for me' in Japan: Signifying Subjects with Bodies"January 18th Falina Enriquez
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Fixing Noses, Fixing Race: How the Nose Is Implicated in Racial Ideologies Through Rhinoplasty"
January 23rd Bennett Kravitz
Professor, English, Haifa University
"Chronic Pain in Therapy, by David Lodge, and Truth and Consequences, by Alison Lurie"
February 6th Stephen Scott
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Mothers of Metrology: Translating Discourses of 'Tuberculosis' in the Alto of La Paz, Bolivia"
March 12th
Autumn 2007
Presentation
Date and Time
Erik Levin
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Sensoria and Semiotics: Embodied Experience and Ritual Insults of the Anlo-Ewe Halo"October 12th
Joseph Hankins
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Working Through Skin: Becoming a Japanese Minority"October 26th
Spring 2007
Presentation
Date and Time
Paul Stoller
Professor, Anthropology, West Chester University
"Remissioning Life: West African Wisdom and the Power of the Between"April 12th Helen Findley
East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
"The Preaching Community: Shaping the Place of Performance in Meiji Buddhist Oratory"
April 26th Liz Nickrenz
Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
"Compelling Structures: The “Special Interest” in the Life-Tellings of Young Adults with Asperger’s Syndrome"
May 10th Margaret Lock
Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine, McGill University
"Globalization and the State: Is an Era of Neo-Eugenics in the Offing?"
May 15th Rocío Magaña
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Medicalizing Bodies, Policing, and Humanitarian Interventions: The Politics of Border Rescues in the Arizona-Mexico Region"May 24th Winter 2007
Presentation
Date and Time
Roscoe Nicholson
Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
"Discourses Surrounding Veganism"January 25, 2007
Martha Feldman
Professor, Music, University of Chicago
"The Castrato in Nature, Chap. 1: Of Strange Births and Comic Kin"February 22, 2007
Sin-Yan Hedy Law
Music, University of Chicago
"Sarcasm in Silence: Pantomime in Beaumarchais's 'Tarare' (1787)"March 8, 2007
Autumn 2006
Presentation
Date and Time
Elise Edwards
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Butler University
"Practice at Play: Transforming Selves and Society in Japan’s Soccer League"October 12, 2006
Gretchen Bakke
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Incorporations: Contemporary Slovene Art and Artifice"October 26, 2006
Janet Downie
Department of Classics, University of Chicago
"Constructing Authority: The Rhetoric of Miracle and Medicine in Aelius Aristides’ 'Sacred Tales'"November 9, 2006
Kate Goldfarb
Anthropology, University of Chicago
"Tracing Discourses of Sexual Regulation: Legalizing the Pill and Viagra in Japan"November 30, 2006