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February 2016
Visiting SEC Scholar
Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. Visiting SEC Scholar My Soul Is in Haiti: An Anthropologist’s Study of Protestant Culture, Thursday, February 18, 3:00 pm Pugh 150 Historically, the majority of Haitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms of Christianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, where approximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian-descended, Protestantism has become the majority religion for immigrant Haitians. In his talk about In his new book…
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strong>Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr. Visiting SEC Scholar My Soul Is in Haiti: An Anthropologist’s Study of Protestant Culture, Thursday, February 18, 3:00 pm Pugh 150 Historically, the majority of Haitians have long practiced Catholicism or Vodou. However, Protestant forms of Christianity now flourish both in Haiti and beyond. In the Bahamas, where approximately one in five people are now Haitian-born or Haitian-descended, Protestantism has become the majority religion for immigrant Haitians. In his talk about In his new book…
Find out more »Lecture by Dr. Adam Ashforth
Please join us a lecture by Dr. Adam Ashforth Candidate for the Preeminence Position - Public Health and Social Change in Africa Death=Silence? Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of AIDS Monday, February 22, 3:00 pm in 404 Grinter Reception to follow in the Center for African Studies. Dr. Adam Ashforth (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan) has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life…
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Please join us a lecture by Dr. Adam Ashforth Candidate for the Preeminence Position - Public Health and Social Change in Africa strong>Death=Silence? Narratives of Death in Rural Malawi in the Time of AIDS Monday, February 22, 3:00 pm in 404 Grinter Reception to follow in the Center for African Studies. Dr. Adam Ashforth (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan) has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life…
Find out more »Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Adam Ashforth
Anthropology will be hosting a lunch with graduate students and Dr. Adam Ashforth at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 23 – in the Diaspora room – 1350 Turlington. Please plan to attend. Candidate for the Preeminence Position - Public Health and Social Change in Africa Dr. Adam Ashforth (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan) has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life in South Africa. During South Africa's transition to democracy…
Find out more »Graduate Student Lunch with Dr. Adam Ashforth
Anthropology will be hosting a lunch with graduate students and Dr. Adam Ashforth at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 23 – in the Diaspora room – 1350 Turlington. Please plan to attend. Candidate for the Preeminence Position - Public Health and Social Change in Africa Dr. Adam Ashforth (Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan) has published extensively on state formation and the political implications of spiritual insecurity in everyday life in South Africa. During South Africa's transition to democracy…
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Job Talk with Laurence Ralph
The Politics of Disability in a Chicago Gang Thursday, March 24, 3:30 pm in Criser 201 This talk is an attempt to understand why disabilities are disproportionately visited on low-income, African American communities. More generally, I consider the multifaceted ideas about what injury means among disabled populations. My argument is that, while admirable, the Disability Rights movement has focused too emphatically on assuaging social difference within disabled communities; in so doing, the movement has obscured key distinctions along the axes…
Find out more »Job Talk with Laurence Ralph
The Politics of Disability in a Chicago Gang Thursday, March 24, 3:30 pm in Criser 201 This talk is an attempt to understand why disabilities are disproportionately visited on low-income, African American communities. More generally, I consider the multifaceted ideas about what injury means among disabled populations. My argument is that, while admirable, the Disability Rights movement has focused too emphatically on assuaging social difference within disabled communities; in so doing, the movement has obscured key distinctions along the axes…
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Bag Lunch Forum with Dr. John Yellen
A Bag-Lunch Forum with Dr. John Yellen, Director of the National Science Foundation’s Archaeology Program, Monday April 4, 12:30-1:30 pm, Pugh 210 Dr. John Yellen, director of the National Science Foundation’s Archaeology Program, will be on campus April 4th and 5th to participate in Parting the Red Sea – An International Workshop on Late Pleistocene Stone Artifact Variability and Human Dispersals in the Horn of Africa and Arabia. Dr. Yellen has kindly offered to hold a bag-lunch open forum on…
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A Bag-Lunch Forum with Dr. John Yellen, Director of the National Science Foundation’s Archaeology Program, Monday April 4, 12:30-1:30 pm, Pugh 210 Dr. John Yellen, director of the National Science Foundation’s Archaeology Program, will be on campus April 4th and 5th to participate in Parting the Red Sea – An International Workshop on Late Pleistocene Stone Artifact Variability and Human Dispersals in the Horn of Africa and Arabia. Dr. Yellen has kindly offered to hold a bag-lunch open forum on…
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