Spring 2013 Anthropology Program Colloquia
The Promise of Transformation
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY 10016

All colloqs take place in room C415A from 4:15-6:00 PM unless otherwise noted.
Light refreshments to follow in the Brockway Room (room 6402).
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2/8 Oswaldo Chinchilla, Yale *CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
“Cosmogony and Ritual at Tikal, Guatemala: Interpreting a Classic Maya Sacrificial Cremation”

2/15 Aimee Cox, Fordham University
“Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Space in Post-Industrial Detroit”

2/22 Andrew Gilbert, McMaster University
“Foreign Publicity, the Democratization Paradox, and the Limits of International Intervention in Bosnia-Herzegovina”

3/1 Michael Blim, CUNY Graduate Center
“Recasting the Rise of American Ruling Class: Their Nineteenth Century Revolution from Above and Its Consequences”

3/8 Paul Kockelman, Barnard College
“Hunting Ham and Sieving Spam: The Relation between Meaning, Mathematics and Meat”

3/15 Laurie Godfrey, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"The Evolution and Extinction of Madagascar's Remarkable Giant Lemurs"

3/22 Alan Smart, University of Calgary
“The Social Construction of Series of Crises”

4/5 Paul Eiss, Carnegie Mellon University
“Signs of Violence: Messaging, Media and Politics in Mexico’s ‘Drug War’ ”

4/12 Elizabeth Ferry, Brandeis
“Arbitrage, Difference and Mineral Marketplaces in Mapimí and Tucson”

4/19 Zoe Crossland, Columbia University
“Signs of the Dead: Forensic Archaeology's Evidential Regimes”

4/26 Clara Han, Johns Hopkins University
“Birth of a New Emotion”

5/3 Omri Elisha, Queens College, CUNY
“The Time and Place for Prayer: Revivalism and Evangelical Urbanism in ‘Citywide Prayer’ ”

5/10 Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University
“Syntax, Meaning and Emotion: The Provocations of the Dhwani Theorists”

See colloquia from past semesters.

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