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April 2016
Saba Mahmood: Secularism and the Plight of Religious Minorities in the Middle East
Saba Mahmood, University of California Berkeley Secularism and the Plight of Religious Minorities in the Middle East April 7 @ 6:00 pm – at the Ocora, Pugh Hall Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her work focuses on questions of secularism, religion, minority politics, and gender in the Middle East. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005), and of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority…
Find out more »Saba Mahmood: Secularism and the Plight of Religious Minorities in the Middle East
Saba Mahmood, University of California Berkeley Secularism and the Plight of Religious Minorities in the Middle East April 7 @ 6:00 pm – at the Ocora, Pugh Hall Saba Mahmood is professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. Her work focuses on questions of secularism, religion, minority politics, and gender in the Middle East. She is the author of Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2005), and of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority…
Find out more »Gurupá: Past, Present, and Future
Gurupá: Past, Present, and Future (215 Dauer Hall, Monday 4/11, 2:00 – 4:30 pm) Sponsored by UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center of Latin American Studies and Department of Anthropology. Gurupá, an agroextractivist community along the lower Amazon River, is well-known to social scientists through the iconic ethnography Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics (1953), by Charles Wagley, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Florida and pioneer in Amazon studies. This…
Find out more »Gurupá: Past, Present, and Future
Gurupá: Past, Present, and Future (215 Dauer Hall, Monday 4/11, 2:00 – 4:30 pm) Sponsored by UF Tropical Conservation and Development Program, Center of Latin American Studies and Department of Anthropology. Gurupá, an agroextractivist community along the lower Amazon River, is well-known to social scientists through the iconic ethnography Amazon Town: A Study of Man in the Tropics (1953), by Charles Wagley, a distinguished professor of anthropology at the University of Florida and pioneer in Amazon studies. This…
Find out more »Graduate Student Meeting with Julian Go
All graduate students are invited to a discussion of Julian Go's paper (in progress) titled "Colonialism’s Ends: Field Theory and the Contraction of the Imperial Repertoire of Power" on Friday April 15th at 10:30 am. The discussion will be solely for graduate students. I'm attaching a copy of the paper and including an abstract of the talk below. ABSTRACT This essay asks why colonialism ended in the mid-twentieth century, effectively excising formal imperialism from the repertoire of global power. Most studies related to this question address…
Find out more »Graduate Student Meeting with Julian Go
All graduate students are invited to a discussion of Julian Go's paper (in progress) titled "Colonialism’s Ends: Field Theory and the Contraction of the Imperial Repertoire of Power" on Friday April 15th at 10:30 am. The discussion will be solely for graduate students. I'm attaching a copy of the paper and including an abstract of the talk below. ABSTRACT This essay asks why colonialism ended in the mid-twentieth century, effectively excising formal imperialism from the repertoire of global power. Most studies related to this question address…
Find out more »Julian Go: "Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory"
Lecture on Postcolonial thought and social theory Professor Julian Go Friday April 15th "Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory" 2:30 pm in 219 Dauer Hall. Description: Postcolonial thought and social theory today stand in seeming opposition. Postcolonial thought emerges from anticolonial thought of the mid-twentieth century and now nestled within the academic humanities. Social Theory emerges from the culture of empires and is now settled in disciplines like Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, and Anthropology. Despite this seeming opposition, this talk…
Find out more »Julian Go: "Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory"
Lecture on Postcolonial thought and social theory Professor Julian Go Friday April 15th "Postcolonial Thought & Social Theory" 2:30 pm in 219 Dauer Hall. Description: Postcolonial thought and social theory today stand in seeming opposition. Postcolonial thought emerges from anticolonial thought of the mid-twentieth century and now nestled within the academic humanities. Social Theory emerges from the culture of empires and is now settled in disciplines like Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, and Anthropology. Despite this seeming opposition, this talk…
Find out more »March 2017
Visting Lecturer: Dr. Erika Robb Larkins
Dr. Erika Robb Larkins, University of Oklahoma, 10:00 – 11:30 am, 201A Criser Hall (LVV Room), “Guarding the Body: Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro”
Find out more »Visting Lecturer: Dr. Erika Robb Larkins
Dr. Erika Robb Larkins, University of Oklahoma, 10:00 – 11:30 am, 201A Criser Hall (LVV Room), “Guarding the Body: Private Security Work in Rio de Janeiro”
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