Spring 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 (unless otherwise noted) from 4:15-6:15 p.m. at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and are followed by refreshments in the Anthropology Program's Brockway Room (6402).

Friday, 1 February
Michael Blim, Leith Mullings, and Ida Susser
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
The Graduate Center, CUNY

"Teaching Cultural Diversity"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
The Brockway Room, 6402

Friday, 8 February
Andre Aciman
Ph.D. Programs in Comparative Literature and French
The Graduate Center, CUNY

"After Eygpt"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Presidents' Conference Room, Room 8201.01

Co-sponsored by the Ph.D. Programs in Anthropology and English
The Graduate Center, CUNY

Friday, 15 February
David Harvey
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
The Graduate Center, CUNY

"Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 22 February
Peter Geschiere
Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden University

"The Elusive Community: Applying the 1994 Forest Law in East Cameroon"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 1 March
Sophia Perdikaris
Dept. of Anthropology
Brooklyn College and
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
The Graduate Center, CUNY

"Education and Research in the North Atlantic"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 8 March
Jordan Crandall
Manhattan artist and Editor of Blast

"Armed Vision: Militarized Images, Perceptual Battlefields, and the Reshaping of the Human in Combat"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 15 March
Melissa Wright
Departments of Geography and Women's Studies
Pennsylvania State University

"Disappeared Women: Sex Work and the Reproduction of Ciudad Juarez"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

21 - 31 March Spring Break

Friday, 5 April
Andrew Merryfield
Graduate School of Geography
Clark University

"Space and Place: Theory and Politics"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 12 April
Rena Lederman
Department of Anthropology
Princeton University

"Ethical Disputes and Disciplinary Boundary Work among Anthropology, History and Sociology"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 19 April
Louise Lamphere
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
and the Russell Sage Foundation

"Unofficial Histories: A Vision of Anthropology from the Margins"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 26 April
Jordan Crandall
Manhattan Artist

"Armed Vision: militarized images, perceptual battlefields, and the reshaping of human combat"

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

Friday, 3 May
Amitav Ghosh
Department of Comparative Literature
Queens College, CUNY

Title: TBA

4:15-6:00 P.M.
Room C198

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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."