The Department of Anthropology presents:
                             2007-2008 Colloquium

Spring 2008

Friday, February 1          Matthew E. Hill, University of Iowa

                                         "Did Humans Kill off the Mammoths?

                                         The Zooarchaeology of Pleistocene Overkill"

                                         4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall

Friday, April 25               Patricia Crown, University of New Mexico

                                         "Becoming a Potter in the Prehispanic American

                                          Southwest"

                                         4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall

FALL 2007

Friday, September 21     Laurie Graham and David Hernandez

                                        “Owners of the Water:

                                        Conflict and Collaborations over Water”

                                        Film screening and discussion of advocacy                                         and collaborative anthropology

                                         4:00 – 5:20 pm in 112 Macbride Hall

Friday, September 28     Sea-Ling Cheng, Wellesley College

                                        “Saving ‘Modern-Day Comfort Women’: Global

                                         Anti-trafficking Initiatives and Women’s Human

                                         Rights in South Korea”

                                         4:00 – 5:20 pm in 140 Schaeffer Hall

                     co-sponsored by Women's Studies

Friday, October 5            Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois,

                                         Urbana-Champaign

                                         “Heritage, Museums and Tourism:

                                          Three Case Studies from Peru”

                                          4:00 – 5:20 pm in 140 Schaeffer Hall

October 19-20                 North Korea—Policy, Modernity, Fantasy

                                          International Programs Conference Room,

                                          University Capitol Centre, University of Iowa

Friday, October 26           Daniel Jaffee, Michigan State University

                                          "Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee,

                                           Sustainability and Survival"

                                           4:00 - 5:20 pm in 140 Schaeffer Hall

                                           co-sponsored by CGRER and Latin American

                                           Studies Program

Friday, November 9           Mary Weismantel

                                          "The Silence of Kinsey:The Study of Precolumbian

                           Sexuality in the Mid-Twentieth Century"

                                          4:00 - 5:20 pm in 140 Schaeffer Hall

Thursday, November 15   Erica Bornstein—Anthropology, UW-Milwaukee

                                          “Between Charity and Rights: Orphans and

                                           Philanthropy in New Delhi”

                                           4:00-5:30 pm in IP Commons (1117 UCC)

                                           SASP event, co-sponsored by Department of 

                                           Anthropology

Tuesday, December 4       Yannis Hamilakis, University of Southampton

                                           "Dreaming Ruins: Materiality, Archaeology, and

                                            National Imagination in Greece"

                                            12:30-2:00 pm in IP Commons (1117 UCC)

                                            (lunch will be provided)

                                            European Studies Group event, co-sponsored

                                            by the Departments of Anthropology and

                                            Classics                  

Spring 2007

Grant McCall

University of Iowa

Friday, January 26 at 4:00 p.m. in 112 Macbride Hall

Culture Change and Modern Human Origins in the Later Middle Stone Age of South Africa

David Hernandez and Caimi Waiasee Xavante

Friday, February 23 at 4:00 pm in 112 Macbride Hall

Complicating ‘Indigenous Video’: Reflections on the work of Caimi Waiasse (Xavante, Brazil) and David Hernandez Palmar (Wayuu, Venezuela/Columbia)

 AND

Tuesday, February 27—Film Screenings and Discussion with Filmmakers

7:00-9:00 pm in 101 BCSB

Caimi Waiásse will show Darini:  Spritual initiation of Xavante children

(46 minutes, 2005).  David Hernández will screen Sujuitaya Yosuu

(The Liberation of Yosuu, 2005)

Andy Markovits

University of Michigan

Friday, March 23 at 4:00 p.m. in 40 Schaeffer Hall

Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America

Sidney Mintz

Johns Hopkins University

Friday, April 6 at 4:00 p.m. in 40 Schaeffer Hall

Emerging Creole: Creolization and the Construction of Culture

Maria Tapias

Grinnell College

Friday, April 13 at 4:00 p.m. in 112 Macbride Hall

Transnational Lives, Traveling Emotions and Idioms of Distress among Bolivian Migrants in Spain

 

Fall 2006

Ahmed Kanna

University of Iowa
Friday, October 6 at 4:00 p.m. in 112 Macbride Hall

Dialectical Critique and the City: Aesthetic and Linguistic Practices in Boom Dubai

Aisha Khan

New York University

Friday, October 13 at 4:00 p.m. in 112 Macbride Hall

Betrayal and Diaspora Consciousness: Rites and Rights of Passage

Heather McIlvaine-Newsad

Western Illinois University

Friday, November 3 at 4:00 p.m. in 112 Macbride Hall

Riding the Storm Out: Ecological Knowledge, Shrimping, and Surviving Katrina and Rita


Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation in order to participate in these programs, please contact the Department of Anthropology in advance at 335-0522.

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