Fall 2002 Colloquia Series
and Special Events
PhD Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

365 5th Avenue at 34th Street
New York, NY 10016

All colloquia take place on Fridays from 4:15-6:15 p.m.
at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in Room C198.

27 September
Tamara Giles-Vernick
Department of History
Baruch College, CUNY

"Ntuwo's Child: Environmental Knowledge and Debates Over Conservation in the Equatorial African Rainforest"

4 October
Emily Martin
Department of Anthropology
New York University

"The Anthropology of Mood"

11 October
Talal Asad
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
The Graduate Center, CUNY

"Comments (Yet Again) on Political Islam in the Middle East"

25 October
Miki Makihara
Department of Anthropology
Queens College, CUNY

"New Syncretic Speech Styles and the Breakdown of Colonial Diglossia on Rapunui (Easter Island)"

1 November
Katerina Harvati
Dept. of Anthropology
New York University
(CUNY 2001 PhD)

"Recent Research on Neanderthals and Modern Human Origins"

8 November
Thomas McGovern
Department of Anthropology
Hunter College, CUNY

"Human Impacts and Landscape Formation in Viking Age Iceland"

15 November
No colloquium.

22 November
No colloquium. AAA Meetings: November 20 - 24

29 November
No colloquium. Thanksgiving recess: November 28 - 29

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This departmental publication supplements the official Bulletin of The Graduate School as well as the current Graduate Center Student Handbook and "Announcement of Courses."