Upcoming lecture and seminar by Professor Partha Chatterjee
Wednesday October 31, at 4 PM in Foxboro Auditorium ( 151 Thayer Street), Title "The Black Hole of Empire".
Thursday November 1, at Noon in Wilson Hall, Room 104, Title "Contemporary Issues: Politics, Economy and Religion".
Partha Chatterjee is a visiting professor of anthropology at Columbia University , and Professor of Political Science at the Center for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta , India. Partha Chatterjee is an international scholar of postcolonial studies, and a founding member of the Subaltern Studies group of historians of India, who in 1980's questioned the limited perspective of Indian history. The Subaltern Studies group challenged the narrow nationalist view of Indian history, introducing and calling for the voices of women, tribal communities, workers and peasants. The group pioneered alternative ways of seeing history through subaltern voices. Professor Partha Chatterjee studied Political Science at the University of Calcutta and the University Rochester.
Selection of Partha Chatterjee's publications:
• The Politics of the Governed: Considerations on Political Society in Most of the World, Columbia University Press, New York, 2004.
• A Princely Impostor? The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2002.
• Locating Political Society: Modernity, State Violence and Post-colonial Democracies [in Mandarin Chinese, translated from lectures delivered in English], Taipei, 2001.
• Itihaser uttaradhikar [The Legacy of History] (in Bengali), Ananda, Calcutta, 2000.
• A Possible India : Essays in Political Criticism , Oxford University Press, Delhi , 1997
• The Present History of West Bengal: Essays in Political Criticism, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997.
• The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1993. Translated into Turkish, Spanish, French and Japanese.
• Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Zed Books; London; Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1986; University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1993. Translated into Turkish and Spanish.
• Bengal 1920-1947: The Land Question, K. P. Bagchi, Calcutta, 1984
• (With Asok Sen and Saugata Mukherjee), Three Studies on the Agrarian Structure of Bengal: 1860-1947, Oxford University Press, Calcutta, 1981.
• (With S. Kaviraj, S. Dattagupta and S.K. Chaube), The State of Political Theory Research India, Calcutta, 1978.
• Arms, Alliances and Stability: The Development of the Structure of International Politics, Macmillan, Delhi; John Wiley, New York, 1975.
This lecture is cosponsored by:
Dean of the Faculty
Politics, Culture & Identity Program (Watson)
Campus Life and Student Services
Office of International Programs
Cogurt Center for the Humanities
South Asian Studies
Anthropology Department
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Bioethics and Culture Lecture Series
Presents:
Professor Margaret Lock
"Seduced by Plaques and Tangles: Alzheimer's Disease and the Cerebral Subject"
Monday, September 17, 4 p.m. Smith-Buonano 106A
Note: Professor Lock will also be presenting a paper entitled: "Globalization and the State: Is an Era of Neoeugenics in the Offing?" at the Cogut Humanities Center Faculty Fellows Seminar, on Tuesday, September 18, 12-2 p.m. Pre-registration is required. Please contact the Cogut Humanities Center for further information
Professor Margaret Lock, McGill University
Margaret Lock is the Marjorie Bronfman Professor in Social Studies in Medicine, and is affiliated with the Department of Social Studies of Medicine and the Department of Anthropology at McGill University . A towering figure in the field of medical anthropology, her research is carried out primarily in Japan and North America . She has studied the 20th century revival of the indigenous Japanese medical system that continues to proliferate to the present day, and also has researched the cultural management and political meanings associated with life cycle transitions, including adolescence, female mid life, and old age. Her book Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America , published in 1993 by the University of California Press , won six prizes including the Staley Prize of the School of American Research , the Canada-Japan Book Prize, and the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain. In 2002 Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death was published by the University of California Press , and has also won several awards. A comparative work examining Japan and North America , this book is about disputes over recognition of the diagnosis of brain death as the end of human life in order that organs for transplant can be legally procured. She is currently investigating “the molecularization of identity” -- that is, how molecular and population genetics and genomics are being newly conceptualized and researched, with emphasis on the emerging discipline of epigenetics. Prof. Lock is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Officier de L'Ordre national du Québec. She was awarded the Prix Du Québec, domaine Sciences Humaines in 1997 and in the same year the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain.
This event is generously sponsored by:
The Herbert H. Goldberger Lectureship Fund
The Dean of the Faculty
The Department of Anthropology
The Committee on Science, Technology, and Society
The Cogut Humanities Center
For any questions, please contact Sherine Hamdy, sherine_hamdy@brown.edu
Other Speakers in this Series (Fall 2007-Spring 2008):
• Emily Martin, New York University
• Rayna Rapp , New York University
• David Jones, MIT
Please stay tuned for announcements
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July 2007
The Department of Anthropology is delighted that David Kertzer, Dupee University Professor of Social Science and Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies, is serving as Provost of Brown University.
The Department is very pleased to announce that Dr. Paja Faudree was appointed as Assistant Professor of Anthropology starting this academic year. Dr. Faudree earned her Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 (dissertation title: Fiesta of the Spirits, Revisited: Indigenous Language Poetics and Politics among Mazatecs of Oaxaca , Mexico ). No stranger to Brown (she received a M.F.A. in English and Creative writing here in 1992), Dr. Faudree is coming from the University of Chicago where she was Assistant Professor in the Collegiate Division of the Social Sciences. An authority on linguistic anthropology, language and politics, ethnomusicology, ethnographic writing, and folklore, Dr. Faudree has done extensive field research in Mexico as well as in Venezuela.
Brown Anthropology welcomes Dr. Thomas G. Garrison who joins us a post-doc for the 2007-2008 academic year under the sponsorship of Professor Stephen Houston. Dr. Garrison, who earned his Ph.D. this spring from Harvard University , is an authority on Maya archaeology and wrote his doctoral dissertation on Maya settlement patterns. He will teach an undergraduate course on Mesoamerican Archaeology in Fall 2007, and a new graduate course in the Spring 2008 semester on GIS and Remote Sensing for Archaeologists.
The Department of Anthropology is delighted that Jonathan Bolton, M.D., the psychiatrist at Brown Psychological Services, will teach a new freshman seminar in the Spring, 2008 semester on Healers and Healing. Prior to receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree from the College of Medicine at Michigan State University , Dr. Bolton earned a Master of Arts in Medical Anthropology at Michigan State University and a Master of Philosophy in Social Anthropology at Kings College , University of Cambridge.
Our teaching program for 2007-2008 will be enriched by four exciting visiting scholars, Dr. Michele M. Hayeur Smith, Dr. Jessica Mulligan, Dr. Simone Poliandri, and Dr. Bruce Whitehouse . Dr. Smith (Ph.D. University of Glasgow, a specialist in North American and North Atlantic archaeology—particularly Viking archaeology) will teach the introduction to archaeology (ANTH0500: Discovering the Past) in Fall, 2007. Dr. Mulligan (Ph.D. Harvard, 2007, dissertation title: Managed lives: privatizing public health in Puerto Rico ), will teach a new course, Gender and Health, in Spring, 2008. Dr. Poliandri (Ph.D. Brown, 2007, a specialist on the peoples and cultures of Native North America) will teach the course on contemporary Native America (ANTH1121: From Coyote to Casinos) in Spring, 2008. Dr. Whitehouse (Ph.D. Brown, 2007, dissertation title: Exile knows no dignity: African transnational migrants and the anchoring of identity ) will teach ANTH1110: Africa in Anthropological Perspective in Spring, 2008.
