The Program in Latin American Studies presents Zitzmann Visiting Fellow Susana Wappenstein, March 1, 2012, in the Greenhouse 113 from 4-6PM

A lecture by Shadi Bartsch, University of Chicago.

Keynote Speaker:  Pauline LeVen, Yale University
"The Colors of Sound:  Elemental Poetics in Greek Lyric"

10:00 - 10:30 AM
Coffee and Light Refreshments

10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Graduate Student Papers
Hillary Conley, Florida State University
"Egyptian Blue in Etruscan and Lycian Tomb Paintings"
Sean Harrigan, Yale University
"Another Look at the Silvered Faces of Pindar's Isthmian 2"
Carolyn Laferriere, Yale University
"Sights and Sounds in the Cave:  An Exploration of Pan, Music, and Epiphany"

12:15 - 1:30 PM
Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:15 PM
Graduate Student Papers
Benjamin Lewis, Catholic University
“Augustine on Seeing, Hearing and Reading: An Examination of Structure and Language in
Confessions 3 and 7”
Kevin Oliver, Florida State University
“Shades of Meaning: Ingenuae Genae in Ovid”
Naomi Weiss, University of California, Berkeley
“Mimetic Polyphony in Euripides’ Helen”

3:30 PM
Closing Remarks
Pauline LeVen, Yale University

Poetry Reading

Alice Notley

The Program in Latin American Studies presents a lecture by Bill Beezley (University of Arizona), who will discuss “Mexico’s Popular Revolutionary Nationalism: Vasconcelos, Indians, Photographers, and Calendar Girls” Thursday, March 7, 2012, 4 p.m. in Shaffer Hall, Room 300.

A lecture by Michael Marder, Duquesne University, hosted by GRLL

The Program in Latin American Studies presents a Film Series titled, “How Tasty was My Little Frenchman” on Wednesday, March 7, 2012, at 7 p.m. at 2640 St. Paul St.

Marc Lange

University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)

Title: "What is Explanation in Mathematics?"

A lecture by Katherine Gutzwiller, University of Cincinnati.

The Program in Latin American Studies presents Research Grant Awardees Symposium in the Greenhouse, room 113 from 1-3PM.

Amanda Smith: “Reading the Andes Through Quechua: A Summer of Intensive Language Instruction”

Joseph Clark: “Witchcraft, Heterodoxy, and Empire in New Spain's Northern Frontier”

As customary every year PLAS organizes a colloquium with the students who received the Summer Research Grant. This is an unique opportunity for our undergraduate and graduate students alike to organize their thoughts about their research and receive feedback on their work.

The Department of Anthropology announces a Workshop on "Living Names: Encountering Naming Ethnographically

Notions of the name, and of naming, figure prominently in many domains of philosophical, linguistic, and anthropological inquiry. Explorations of naming, however, and the status of the name, have tended to use explanatory frameworks which assume only limited modes of relation between name and word, name and world, or name and language. The name has been approached, grammatically, as the exemplary form of the noun, socially as practical means for addressing and ordering kin (or the divine), performatively as a magical mode of invocation, or logically as a type, a class, or an empty set. These tendencies, when taken as isolated theoretical investigations, can make the name appear as flat as copper cast into the ocean. Yet, the simultaneous existence of such diverse perspectives points to the conceptual and empirical fecundity of the name, in its singularity and intractable ambiguity, which seems to remain unplumbed. This workshop invites participants to modestly address the ways in which anthropological and ethnographic explorations of names, as they appear in lived worlds, can be used to unsettle a rote application of moribund theoretical framings onto the name. What experiential narratives or phenomenal evocations of names and naming could challenge the name as a limited object of language or the act of naming as a predictable form of speech? With this workshop we turn our anthropological attention to names, to stimulate a dialogue, and to suggest or recuperate an ethnographic approach to the name. The emphasis is not on how theoretical frameworks can be applied to the name but on what worlds could come out of or through encounters with it.

The Workshop:

This workshop has been conceived not as a forum for polished papers but as an open engagement and discussion of material in progress. The workshop will consist of two panels, each with three presentations (members of the panel will be a mix of faculty and graduate students) and a moderator/rapporteur. Each participant will be asked to pre-circulate either a paper or notes. The panels will begin with a short (10 minute) presentation from each member. The floor will then be open to a round-table style discussion, directed by the moderator. Each session will last approximately one and a half hours with a break for lunch. The workshop will conclude with a wrap up session in which all participants will have an opportunity to share stories about their own names, expand upon earlier discussion, and consider the possibilities for future research.

 Thanks you and I hope you can attend,

Victor Kumar

Branden Fitelson

Rutgers

Title: "Accuracy, Coherence, and Evidence"

The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with the Department of English announces a lecture series by our Distinguished Visiting Professor, Michael Warner.  The second of his talks will now be held in Salon C in the Charles Commons in order to make room for a larger audience. The Charles Commons is located across from the MSE library on Charles St. & 33Rd St. on Wednesday March 14th, from 4:30-6:30 pm 

 
Michael Warner is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Yale University. His broad-ranging research has covered topics including secularism, print culture, the public sphere, and early American literature. He is also well-known for his early and sustained influence in the development of queer theory.  Professor Warner has authored the books; The Letters of the Republic (1990), Fear of a Queer Planet (1993), The Trouble with Normal (1999), and Publics and Counterpublics (2002) and edited the volumes; English Literatures of America, American Sermons, The Portable Walt Whitman, and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age.

The Department of Anthropology announces a Workshop on "Law and Anthropology"

Friday, March 30, 2012
Macaulay Hall 400
9:00-6:15

SESSION I: 9:00-10:15

Chair: Jane Guyer

Veena Das

Opening Remarks

Sameena Mulla

"The Hand of God": DNA, Subjectivity and the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION II: 10:30-12:30

Chair: Sameena Mulla

Amy Krauss

Legal Languages, Moral Fields: "Reproductive Rights" and Legal Pluralism within the State

Megha Sehdev

Feud, Fact and the Domestic Violence Case in Delhi

Anaid Reyes Kipp

Producting Legality/ ‘Liberating’ Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico

Lunch Break: 12:30-1:15

SESSION III: 1:15-3:15

Chair: Lucie White

Serra Hakyemez

Testifying National History: Turkish Courtrooms as a Site of Contestation and History-Writing

Sruti Chaganti

Standing Before the Law: Rights and Remedies in Livelihood Cases

Amrita Ibrahim

"Who is a bigger terrorist here than the police?" The Politics of Encounter in Delhi's Batla House

Coffee Break: 3:15-3:30

SESSION IV: 3:30- 5:00

Chair: TBA

Neena Mahadev

“Fraudulent” Christians among Sinhala-Buddhist Skeptics

Hester Betlem

Reflections on Following a Rule: State Law and the Law of the Goddess in Rural South India

Coffee Break: 5.00 – 5.15

SESSION V: 5:15-6:15

Chair: Deborah Poole

Lucie White

 On the Edge: Constituting Democracy in a Zone of Violence

A lecture by Alexandra Pappas, University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and Center for Hellenic Studies.

The Program for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with the Department of English announces a lecture series by our Distinguished Visiting Professor, Michael Warner.  The last of his talk will be held Friday, March 16th, 4:30-6:30 pm in the English Seminar Room (Gilman 130)

Michael Warner is Professor and Chair of the Department of English at Yale University. His broad-ranging research has covered topics including secularism, print culture, the public sphere, and early American literature. He is also well-known for his early and sustained influence in the development of queer theory.  Professor Warner has authored the books; The Letters of the Republic (1990), Fear of a Queer Planet (1993), The Trouble with Normal (1999), and Publics and Counterpublics (2002) and edited the volumes; English Literatures of America, American Sermons, The Portable Walt Whitman, and Varieties of Secularism in a Secular Age.

A lecture by Roberto Fedi, Perugia University for Foreigners, hosted by GRLL

Thinking about Contracts: the Merchant of Venice

The Graduate Student Lecture Series of the Department of the History of Art presents "The Socratic Artist: Rethinking Rembrandt's Nightwatch," a lecture by Jürgen Müller of the Technical University Dresden on Tuesday, March 27 at 6:15 PM in Gilman 50.

Biblical Justice

Several fellows will be presenting their research projects/ dissertations followed by discussions.

The Program in Latin American Studies presents Steve Ellner (Universidad de Oriente in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela) who will discuss "The 2012 Venezuelan Elections: What is at Stake?" on Thursday, March 29, 2012 in Gilman 217 from 4-6 p.m.

A lecture by Juliette Cherbuliez, University of Minnesota/ JHU hosted by GRLL

Law and Anthropology Workshop

Friday, March 30, 2012

SESSION I: 9:00-10:15

Chair: Jane Guyer

Veena Das

Opening Remarks

Sameena Mulla

"The Hand of God": DNA, Subjectivity and the Sexual Assault Forensic Examination

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break

SESSION II: 10:30-12:30

Chair: Sameena Mulla

Amy Krauss

Legal Languages, Moral Fields: "Reproductive Rights" and Legal Pluralism within the State

Megha Sehdev

Feud, Fact and the Domestic Violence Case in Delhi

Anaid Reyes Kipp

Producting Legality/ ‘Liberating’ Children: Adoption Documents and the Law in Central Mexico

Lunch Break: 12:30-1:15

SESSION III: 1:15-3:15

Chair: Lucie White

Serra Hakyemez

Testifying National History: Turkish Courtrooms as a Site of Contestation and History-Writing

Sruti Chaganti

Standing Before the Law: Rights and Remedies in Livelihood Cases

Amrita Ibrahim

"Who is a bigger terrorist here than the police?" The Politics of Encounter in Delhi's Batla House

Coffee Break: 3:15-3:30

SESSION IV: 3:30- 5:00

Chair: TBA

Neena Mahadev

“Fraudulent” Christians among Sinhala-Buddhist Skeptics

Hester Betlem

Reflections on Following a Rule: State Law and the Law of the Goddess in Rural South India

Coffee Break: 5.00 – 5.15

SESSION V: 5:15-6:15

Chair: Deborah Poole

Lucie White

 On the Edge: Constituting Democracy in a Zone of Violence

Mapping a Critical Anthropology of Public Health: Tracking the state, the social, and the subject across disciplinary boundaries Workshop is a closed event.

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