Social/Medical Anthropology Seminar Series
Wednesdays 11am - 1pm
Daryll Forde Seminar Room,
2nd floor, 14
Taviton St.
Spring 2013
9 January: Mark Mosko
(Australian National University)
Omarakana Revisited; Or, 'Do Dual
Organizations Exist?' in the Trobriands
16 January: Catalina Tesar (UCL)
Body, Gender and Personhood among Cortorari Gypsies
23 January: Vera Skvirskaja
(University of Copenhagen)
Man the Hoarder: In the realm of the flea
marketers
30 January: Ramon Sarro
(University of Oxford)
The Invention of Writing: Madness, healing and
imagination
6 February: James Staples (Brunel)
Personhood, Agency and Suicide in Contemporary South India
13 Feb: READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
20 February: Alex Cohen (LSHTM)
A Skeptical Look at an Old Assumption: A better prognosis for
schizophrenia in developing countries?
27 February: Maja
Petrovic-Steger (University of Cambridge/University of Ljubljana)
On Exaggeration: Paranoia and Comedy in Contemporary Serbia
6 March: Ann Kelly (University
of Exeter)
Detinova on Safari:
Remembering a Soviet method in a Tanzanian laboratory
13 March: Rane Willerslev
(Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo, Norway)
Rebirth and the Deathdrive: Reconsidering
Freud's 'Mourning and Melancolia' through a Siberian time perspective
Enquiries to: Rebecca Empson (r.empson@ucl.ac.uk) and Joseph Calabrese (j.calabrese@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2012
3 October Maurice Bloch (London School of Economics)
How “religion” came about
10
October Guenther Schlee (Max Planck
Institute for Social Anthropology)
Pastoralism
in interaction with other forms of land use in the Blue Nile area, Sudan
17
October Allen Batteau (Wayne State University)
Institutions and Technological Commons
24
October Ulf Hannerz (Stockholm University)
Soft
Power: The Politics of Culture in Globalizing Times
31
October Stephan Plamie (University of Chicago)
Historicist
Knowledge and Its Conditions of Impossibility
7 November READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
14
November Alice Forbess (Goldsmiths)
Paradoxical
paradigms: moral reasoning, inspiration and problems of knowing among Orthodox
Christian monastics
21
November Cecile Laborde
(University College London)
Religious
Dress, Female Autonomy and State Paternalism
28
November Goncalo Santos
(Max Planck Institute for Social
Anthropology)
Technological choices and civilizational processes.
Reflections on everyday toilet practices in rural South China
5
December Jean la
Fontain (London School of Economics)
Murder
for Magic
Cancelled - 12
December Jimmy Weiner
(Australian National University)
Local Perceptions of Environmental Impact in Papua New
Guinea’s Petroleum Project Area
Enquiries to: Jerome Lewis (jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk) or Michael Stewart (m.stewart@ucl.ac.uk)
Summer 2012
2 May Dena
Freeman (UCL)
'The Invisible Hand Has Given Me The Finger':
Neoliberalism, Protests and Contested Moral Economy in Israel.
16 May Dr Jose Antonio Kelly (Brazil)
Figure-Ground Dialectics in Yanomami, Yekuana and Piaroa Myth
Inquiries to Martin Holbraad (m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk)
Spring 2012
11 January Michael
Yorke, screening films by UCL students Stephanie Patten, Jingsi Li, David
Jobanputra and Nicolas Albrow
Anthropology
and ethnographic film at UCL
18 January Andrew Irving (Manchester)
Detours and puzzles in the land of the living: towards an anthropology of contingency and necessity
25 January Adam Reed (St
Andrews)
Zoopolis: interspecies encounter and evolutionary times in the
city
1 February Alex
Fanghanel (UCL)
A
slut walks: femininity, sexuality and protest
8 February Dena
Freeman (UCL)
‘The hidden hand has given me the finger': social justice protests in Israel
and elsewhere
15 February READING WEEK – NO SEMINAR
22 February Anastasia
Piliavsky (Cambridge)
How
to stop The Gift from giving: some lessons from Western India
29 February Tom
Yarrow (Durham)
Craft as detached engagement:
an ethnography of stone masonry
7 March Joanna
Cook (Goldsmiths)
Negotiating
and narrativising ‘not-achieving’ in Thai Buddhism
14 March Allen Abramson (UCL)
Disjuncture's in the structure: transformations of the paradise machine in eastern Fiji (and perhaps elsewhere)
Inquiries to Allen Abramson (a.abramson@ucl.ac.uk) or Martin Holbraad (m.holbraad@ucl.ac.uk)
Autumn 2011
5 October Martin
Holbraad and Charles Stewart (UCL)
The recursive power of anthropological knowledge – a dialogue
12 October Jerome
Lewis (UCL)
Why do Bayaka sing so much?
19 October Harry
Walker (LSE)
Play with others: sport and Amazonian political ontology
26 October Elizabeth
Ewart (Oxford University)
Making and unmaking Panará beadwork – or how to overcome the
fixity of material things
2 November Carol
Kidron (Haifa University)
Toward an
ethnography of silence: the lived presence of the past among holocaust trauma
descendants
9 November READING WEEK - NO SEMINAR
16 November Richard
Widdess (SOAS)
Temple singing
in the Kathmandu Valley:
structure, performance, meaning
23 November Debbie
Soothill (UCL)
“Theft is not a crime in Spain":
stigma, neoliberalism and grey areas in the Chinese migrant experience of crime
in Madrid
30 November Elizabeth
Davis (Princeton University)
“It wasn’t written for me”: therapeutic contracts and the
law in Greek psychiatry
7 December G. P.
Makris (Panteion University,
Athens)
Spirit possession and magic: the transformation of the zar
tumbura cult in Sudan
Enquiries to: Jerome Lewis (jerome.lewis@ucl.ac.uk) or Charles Stewart (c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk)
