290 Lecture Series Spring 2009

Approximately six times per semester, the Department of Anthropology invites nationally renowned individuals in Anthropology or related fields to give a lecture for the Department. After the lecture faculty and graduate students gather for an hour of socializing and informal exchange about the lecture. Social Cultural and Archaeology graduate students are required to enroll in Anthropology 290 each semester they are registered before advancing to candidacy.

** 290 Lectures are held in the 221 Gifford Room, Kroeber Hall from 4-6pm unless otherwise noted

February 2nd

Steven Feld Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico Schizophonia and its Discontents: Revisiting Brian Eno and David Byrne's 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'

March 2nd

James Ferguson Department of Anthropology, Standford University Declarations of Dependence: Labor, Personhood, and Welfare in South Africa and Beyond

March 16th

Kent Lightfoot Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley Rethinking Proto-Agriculture in Native California

March 30th

Engseng Ho Departments of Anthropology,History, and Islamic Studies Duke University Title To Be Announced.

April 20th

Margaret Conkey Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley The Caveman Mystique and an Archaeological Rebuttal: A Fieldwork Report from the French Pyrenees

May 4th

Jean Comaroff Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony

 

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