Events : Department of Anthropology : University of Rochester

Events

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
NOVEMBER 7, 2012

THE SOCIAL LIFE OF BLOOD:
Transfers and Flows in Malaysia

Janet Carsten
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Edinburgh

PUBLIC LECTURE
Nomember 7, 2012, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall
Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall
For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: rosemarie.ferreri@rochester.edu

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 19, 2011

ALTERNATIVE ARCHIVES:
Understanding Indigenous Politics the Andean Way

Marisol De La Cadena
Associate Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Davis

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 19, 2011, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall
Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall
For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: rosemarie.ferreri@rochester.edu

THE AFRICAN LIVELIHOOD CONFERENCE FOR 2011
FEBRUARY 25, 2011

SUPPLEMENTING/SUPPLANTING THE HARVEST

POSTER SESSION
NOON

GRADUATE PAPERS
2:00 PM

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
BRAM TUCKER, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia
4:00 PM

HAWKINS-CARLSON ROOM, RUSH RHEES LIBRARY

Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, The Frederick Douglass Institute for African & African-American Studies and Jon Burdick

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 20, 2010

MANAGING THE NEW SILK ROAD: ITALIAN-CHINESE COLLABORATIONS

Lisa Rofel, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
University of California, Santa Cruz

Sylvia Yanagisako , Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Stanford University

Twenty-first century collaborations between Chinese and Italian textile and clothing manufacturers raise intriguing questions about the branding and value of commodities, labor, and management in transnational capitalist ventures. In these Morgan Lectures, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako trace the ways in which the Italians and Chinese engaged in these transnational business ventures are themselves being remade along with the commodities they produce. Rofel and Yanagisako build on their respective expertise in the anthropology of China and Italy to produce an innovative, collaborative ethnography of the actions and reactions, interpretations and misinterpretations through which Italian and Chinese firm owners, entrepreneurs, managers and workers reformulate their goals, strategies, sentiments and identities. Their lectures draw on ethnographic research conducted between 2002-2010 in the greater Shanghai area of China and the Como-Milan area of northern Italy.

Professor Rofel is currently at work on a co-edited volume on Beyond the Strai(gh)ts: Transnationalism and Queer Chinese Politics (with Petrus Liu) and a co-edited volume on contemporary documentary filmmaking in China (with Chris Berry). She has consistently brought feminist, postcolonial and Marxist poststructuralist approaches to bear on questions of modernity, postsocialism, capitalism, desire, queer identities, and transnational encounters.

Professor Yanagisako has served as President of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and as the Chair of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford, as well as Chair of the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. She received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1992.

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 20, 2010, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: anthro@mail.rochester.edu

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 21, 2009

DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE: LABOR, PERSONHOOD, AND WELFARE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND

James Ferguson, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Stanford University

Professor Ferguson's research has been conducted in Lesotho and Zambia, and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. A central theme running through it has been a concern with the political, broadly conceived, and with the relation between specific social and cultural processes and the abstract narratives of "development" and "modernization" through which such processes have so often been known and understood. Professor Ferguson's most recent book, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. The essays that make up the book address a range of specific topics, ranging from structural adjustment, the crisis of the state, and the emergence of new forms of government-via-NGO, to the question of the changing social meaning of "modernity" for colonial and postcolonial urban Africans. They converge, however, around the question of "Africa" as a place in a wider categorical ordering of the world, and they use this question as a way to think about such large-scale issues as globalization, modernity, worldwide inequality, and social justice.

Professor Ferguson is now beginning a new research project in South Africa, exploring the emergence of new problematics of poverty and social policy under conditions of neoliberalism.

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 21, 2009, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: anthro@mail.rochester.edu

“KINSHIP, PERSONHOOD AND AGENCY”

A COLLOQUIUM IN RECOGNITION OF THE WORK OF

ANTHONY T. CARTER
Professor of Anthropology

MAY 1, 2009
3:00 - 5:00 PM
DEWEY HALL 2110E

Invited Speakers
Ayala Emmett, University of Rochester
Jessica Gale, University of Rochester BA '04
Thomas P. Gibson, University of Rochester
Nancy Levine, UCLA (UR PhD '78)
Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge

Reception Following - Lattimore Hall 444

For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: anthro@mail.rochester.edu

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 22, 2008

THE OTHER AFRICAN AMERICANS

Racial Stigma, Ethnicity and the
Hidden Social Curriculum of the University

J. Lorand Matory, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies
Harvard University

J. Lorand Matory earned his A.B. in anthropology, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1982 and his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1991. His book on Yoruba religion and politics, Sex and the Empire that Is No More was noted by Choice magazine as one of the outstanding scholarly books of 1994. His book on gender, nationalism, and the role of manumitted black travelers in shaping the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion, Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationlism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé won the Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book of the year, from the African Studies Association.

Dr. Matory’s Morgan Lectures will explore the role played by educational institutions such as Howard University and Harvard University in processes of racial and ethnic self-construction in the American and transnational black bourgeoisie.

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 22, 2008, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall