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Anthropology Brown Bag Series

2011-12

 

"The Anthropology Department's Brown Bag Speaker series presents a diverse array of speakers touching on all aspects of anthropology. Talks are held Fridays at noon, usually in Giddings House room 212, usually with provided refreshments or sometimes even lunch. Speakers are often postdocs or visiting faculty in residence at Brown, but also speakers from the other Universities brought in for the occasion. In the Fall semester of 2011 speakers will touch on topics ranging from the White Power music scene in Scandinavia, to Independent Professional Wrestling in the US, and Ethnic Stereotypes among the Aztecs."

Talks are held at Giddings House, Anthropology Department
on Fridays 12:00-1:00PM, Room 212

Spring 2012

-January 27th: Rebecca Galemba, Lecturer in Social Studies, Harvard University.  Title: Remapping the Border: Taxation, Territory, and (Trans)National Identity at the Mexico-Guatemala Border.

-February 10th: Lynn Morgan, Mary E. Woolley Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College. Title: Claiming Rosa Parks: Reproductive Rights and Strategic Secularism in Argentina.

-February 24th: Naor Ben-Yehoyada, Visiting Lecturer at the Anthropology department of Harvard, he will be giving a talk titled: Segmentary Strategies and the Spirit of Transnationalism: Sicilians, Tunisians, and the Trans-Mediterranean Spread of Conjured-up Kinship, about his ethnographic work on the maritime trade on the Sicilian Channel.

-March 2th: Steven C. Caton, Professor of Contemporary Arab Studies in the Anthropology Department at Harvard University, will be giving a talk on Friday, the 2nd of March at noon. This event will be at Giddings House on 128 Hope Street, and more information is to follow.

-April 6th: Bertram Malle, Professor at Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences here at Brown will be giving a talk on the 6th of April at noon. The talk is titled "Blame and Punishment: Sketches of Cognitive Processes, Social Functions, and Cultural Evolution". This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, and all are welcome.

 

FALL 2011

-October 7th: Christy Delair, Graduate student, Anthropology Department. Title: The Practice of Crafting: How Making and Selling Crafts Shapes Indigenous Identity in Taiwan.

-October 14th: Llerena Searle, Lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Science. Title: "Disingenuous discourse: Transparency claims and global landscapes in contemporary India."

-November 11th: Ben Teitelbaum, Graduate student at the department of Ethnomusicology here at Brown.
Title: 'Neighbor, Take Me by the Hand:' Racial Me-too-ism and the Paradoxes of White Nationalist Music in Scandinavia."

-December 2nd: Astrid Runggaldier
Astrid Runggaldier is lecturer in Archaeology at Boston University. She has worked at the important early classic Maya site of San Bartolo, Guatemala.

-December 9th: Tyson Smith
R. Tyson Smith is ACLS new Faculty Fellow at the department of Sociology. He will be talking about the performance of violence and its relation to identity for independent professional wrestlers in the US.

-December 16th: Marybeth MacPhee
Marybeth MacPhee is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Roger Williams University. She will be discussing household health protection strategies in Morocco.

Go here for more information on talks for WGAP (THE WORKING GROUP ON ANTHROPOLOGY AND POPULATION BROWN UNIVERSITY)