Fall 2011 Anthropology Program Colloquia
The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York, NY 10016

All colloquia take place on Fridays, 4:15-6:15 in Room C415A (concourse level) unless otherwise noted. Light refreshments will be served afterward in the Brockway Room, Rm. 6402. Additional events may be announced. Download poster.
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October 14
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE SPACE OF THE NATION-STATE: NOTES FROM JAMAICA
Deborah Thomas
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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October 21
ACTIVIST ANTHROPOLOGY, PROMISES AND PERILS
Jeff Maskovsky
Urban Studies Department, Queens College and Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
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October 28
PANEL, THE ARAB SPRING: ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Yuksel Sezgin, Assistant Professor, Political Science, John Jay College
Shuki Cohen, Assistant Professor, Psychology, John Jay College
Marnia Lazreg, Professor, Sociology, Graduate Center & Hunter College
Moderator:
Avram Bornstein, Anthropology Department, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center
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November 4
THE TRANSNATIONAL BUSINESS OF CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN CHINA: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY SILK ROAD
Lisa Rofel
Department of Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz
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November 11
THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF BLACK/QUEER/DIASPORA: TRACING CIRCUITS OF DESIRE
Jafari Sinclaire Allen
Department of Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University
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NO COLLOQUIA on November 18 (AAA Meetings) and November 25 (Thanksgiving break)

December 2
SEXUAL LATITUDES: THE EROTIC LIFE OF GLOBALIZATION
Ara Wilson
Department of Anthropology, Duke University
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December 9
HUMANS, THE HIGH-ENERGY APE
Herman Pontzer
Anthropology Department, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center
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See colloquia from past semesters.

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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."