Spring 2000 Colloquia Series
and Special Events
PhD Program in Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center

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

• 18 February
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 6402, Brockway Room

  Molly Doane, Doctoral Program in Anthropology, Graduate Center, CUNY
  "Sleeping with the Enemy: the Greening of Political Action in Chimalapas, Mexico"

• 25 February
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Gregory Blue, Department of History, University of British Columbia
  "China and the 'Primitive': Spencer, Durkheim and the Positivist Tradition"

• 3 March
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Urdayn Bulag, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
  "Writing 'Inner Mongolia' History after the Revolution: Ethnicity, Historiography and Struggle for Recognition"

• 10 March
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Mahmood Mamdani, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University
  "Beyond Settler and Native as Political Identities: Overcoming the Political Legacy of Colonialism in Africa"

• 17 March
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Lucille Johnson, Department of Anthropology, Vassar College
  "Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Shumagin Islands, Alaska: Why Didn't the Aleuts Live Where We Think They Should Have?"

• 24 March
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Maria Lagos, Department of Anthropology, Lehman College and Graduate Center, CUNY

  "The Politics of Citizenship in Neoliberal Boliva"

• 31 March
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Steven Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arabic Studies, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
  "The Anthropology of an Event"

• 7 April: No colloq scheduled.
• 14 April
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 6402, Brockway Room

  Stephen Brier, Associate Provost for Instructional Technology and External Programs Graduate Center, CUNY
  "Improve Your Job Marketability: Discussion of the New Certificate in Instructional Technology"

• 19 April - 30 April: SPRING RECESS. No colloqs.
• 5 May
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Donald Donham, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
  "Death, Identity, and Capitalism: The Birth of a New South Africa, 1994"

• 12 May
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Charles Hilton, Department of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY
  "Witchcraft and Ritualized Violence in the Prehistoric American Southwest"

• 19 May
  Time: 4:15pm, Room: 8201.01, President's Conference Room

  Keith Hart, The Arklington Centre, University of Aberdeen
  "The Intellectual Method and Vision of C.L.R. James"

Please join us for refreshments in Rm. 6402 (The Brockway Room) after each colloquium.

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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."