Department of Anthropology
114 MacBride Hall
Iowa City, IA 52242-1322
Phone: 319-335-0522
Fax: 319-335-0653
E-mail: anthropology at uiowa.edu
The Department of Anthropology presents:
2011-2012 Colloquium
Spring 2012
Please join us for upcoming Anthropology colloquia:
April 6: Christina Gish Hill, Iowa State University
April 20: Jonnie Marks
The Thick and the Thin: Squeezing Insights into Soundbites
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall
Fall 2011
Please join us for upcoming Anthropology colloquia:
September 2: Maximilian Viatori, Iowa State University
Locating Dissent: Ecuadorian Nationalist Discourse
during the 2008 Border Row with Colombia
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall
September 30: Frank Salomon
The Andes' Lost Script, and Anthropology's
Lost Knack for Reading Things
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall
October 12: Kenneth George, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Making and Unmaking of Islamic Art:
The View from Southeast Asia
5:30 pm, 61 Schaeffer Hall
October 28: María Alejandra Pérez, University of Michigan
Coming Together at the Map: Exploration
and Representation in Venezuela’s Cave Landscape
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall
November 11: Brigittine French, Grinnell College
See, Hear, and Report No Evil: Anthropology
and Violence in the Irish Free State
2:30 pm, 27 Macbride Hall
November 11: Pamila Gupta
Some (Not so) Lost Aquatic Traditions: Goans Going
Fishing in the Indian Ocean
4:00 pm, 302 Schaeffer Hall
Spring 2011
Please join us for upcoming Anthropology colloquia:
Jill Pruetz
Iowa State University
Friday, February 25
2:30 pm, 106 Gilmore Hall
Behavioral Ecology of Savanna Chimpanzees
at Fongoli, Senegal
Fall 2010
Please join us for upcoming Anthropology colloquia:
Katina Lillios
Uiowa Anthro Dept
Friday, October 8
2:30 pm, 61 Schaeffer Hall
The Social Lives of Dead Bodies in the Third and Second
Millennia BC of the Portuguese Estremadura
Ari Samsky
Post Doc, Global Health Studies Program
Friday, October 29
2:30 pm, 61 Schaeffer Hall
Living through Population: Bodies, Endemicity,
and Technologies of the State in Two International Drug
Donation Programs
Lavanya Proctor
Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Lawrence University, Appleton WI
Friday, December 10
2:30 pm, 61 Schaeffer Hall
"Using Angrezi: Hindi-English Codeswitching as
Linguistic Strategy"
Spring 2010
Please join us for upcoming Anthropology colloquia:
March 5: Jonathan Larson, University of Iowa
"A Ludskost Supreme: Emancipatory Love and
Education for Democracy in Post-Socialist Slovakia"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Co-sponsored with The European Studies Group
March 26: Matthew G. Hill, Iowa State University
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
April 9: João Zilhão, University of Bristol
"There is no such thing as a free Darwin: Neandertals
and symbolic behavior"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
April 16: Ari Samsky, University of Iowa
Living through Population: Bodies, Endemicity, and
Technologies of the State in Two International Drug
Donation Programs
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
April 23: William Leap, American University
Embodying a homo-haven in Micahel Lucas'
Men of Israel series
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
April 30: Tyler O'Brien (University of Northern Iowa)
All colloquia will be held Friday afternoons at 4 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall.
Fall 2009
Friday, September 25 Jonathan Andelson, Grinnell College
“What Can Amana Teach Us About Sustainability?”
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, October 2 Ellen Lewin, University of Iowa
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Co-sponsored with Gender, Women's, and
Sexuality Studies
Friday, October 9 University of Iowa faculty and students
presenting at the Plains Anthropological
Conference
Friday, October 23 Chris Simon, University of Iowa
"Providing meaningful and effective informed
consent: a South African community health
context"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, November 13 Matthew G. Hill, Iowa State University
"The Carlisle Clovis Cache"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, November 20 Charles Hilton, Grinnell College
“Livestock-raiding, violence, and the impact on
human health across three pastoralist groups in
northern Kenya”
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Spring 2009
Friday, March 6 Todd Disotell, New York University
“Interpreting the fossil record through
molecular lenses.”
4:00 pm in Kollros Auditorium, 101 BBE
Co-sponsored with Department of Biology.
Fall 2008
Friday, October 3 Lynn M. Morgan, Mount Holyoke College
"The Social Lives of Human Embryo Specimens"
2:30 pm in 61 Schaeffer Hall
James A. Trostle, Trinity College
"Medicines on the Road in Coastal Ecuador"
4:00 pm in 61 Schaeffer Hall
Monday, October 6 Filipe Castro, Texas A&M University
"Computers and Shipwrecks: The Pepper Wreck
Reconstruction as a Virtual Hypotheses"
8:00 pm in C131 Pomerantz Center
Archaeological Institute of America Iowa City
Society event, co-sponsored by the Office of the
State Archaeologist
Thursday, October 9 James L. Watson, UI Ida Cordelia Beam
Distinguished Visiting Professor;
Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and
Professor of Anthropology at Harvard
University
"A Cultural Biography of Meat in South China: The
Story of Pork "
7:00-8:30 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, October 17 Donald Carter, Hamilton College
"Navigating Diaspora: Shipwrecks, Identity and
the Nation"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, October 24 Bernard Perley , University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee
"Picture this: An AlterNative Approach to
Linguistic Anthropology"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Friday, November 7 Andrea Smith, Lafayette College
"The Present is a Foreign Country: Sites of Settler
Memory in Southern France"
4:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
Thursday, December 4 James L. Watson, UI Ida Cordelia Beam
Distinguished Visiting Professor;
Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society and
Professor of Anthropology at Harvard
University
"Cold War Borders in a Post-Socialist World:
HongKong/China "
7:00 pm in 40 Schaeffer Hall
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.