2011-2012 Schedule

Fall Quarter

Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Alex Blanchette
Department of Anthropology
“The Political Ecology of the Herd: Biosecurity and the Factory Farm”

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Matt Furlong
Department of Anthropology
Title TBA

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Joseph Weiss
Department of Anthropology
“Feasting on Value: The Allure of the Potlatch”

Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Matilda Stubbs
Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
“The Social Life of the Case File in the US Foster Care System”

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011
SPECIAL SESSION
Methodologies of Working in the U.S. 

 

Winter Quarter

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
John Davy
Department of Comparative Human Development
“John Calvin Klein: Theologized Wordliness in Midwestern Evangelicalism”

Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Abigail Rosenthal
Department of Anthropology
“Institutionalization and the Establishment of the South Dakota School for the Deaf”

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
Shirley Yeung
Department of Anthropology
Title TBA

Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
Tom Biolsi
Professor of Ethnic Studies and Native American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
In Conversation with: Averill Leslie, Dept of Anthropology

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Nick Shapiro
Department of Anthropology, University of Oxford
Title TBA

Spring Quarter

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
Elise Kramer
Department of Anthropology
“‘Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty:'” Temporality and Threat in American Political Discourse”

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Francis McKay
Department of Anthropology and CHHS
Title TBA

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
Jay Sosa
Department of Anthropology
Title TBA

Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Timothy Pachirat
Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School
In Conversation with Alex Blanchette, Dept of Anthropology

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Justin Richland
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title TBA

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
Mary Leighton
Department of Anthropology
Title TBA