This paper will examine material ethnographies undertaken by folklorists in the British Isles during the 1890s. Rather than being viewed as antiquarian curiosities the objects collected reflect a number of themes that were explicit in an emergent anthropology. The formulation of racial typologies, formalization of fieldwork techniques, development of anthropological materialism, as well as economic, […]

This lecture addresses the politics of Japanese tourism and how imperialistic and nationalistic cultural policies have influenced archaeological heritage management practices, preservations and ranking of monuments, and classifications of museum objects in East Asia. Hyung Il Pai was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. After graduating from Sogang University with a BA in history, […]

Shana Griffin is Interim Executive Director of the New Orleans Women's Health Clinic and Project Coordinator of the Sexual & Reproductive Health Advocacy Project. She is also co-founder of the New Orleans Women?s Health & Justice Initiative. Ms. Griffin serves on the board of several organizations, including the national advisory collective of INCITE! Women of […]

Tim Pauketat is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Religion, violence, and political centralization are all entangled in larger fields of human experience, perception, and agency. The latest archaeological evidence from Poverty Point in Louisiana and Hopewell in Ohio to Cahokia in Illinois indicates that complex regional orders in ancient eastern North […]

Dear Faculty and Graduate Student Colleagues, You are cordially invited to a discussion with Stephen Aron (UCLA), a co-author of a new world history textbook. The event will be on Monday, May 19, in HSSB 4041, noon-1 or 2 p.m. The background: For 2c I am using one of the most recent world history textbooks, […]

Ingrid Banks, Professor of Black Studies at UCSB, will discuss her multi-city, fourteen-month ethnographic study that examines black beauty salon culture. These events are part of Race, Place, and Power, a series of classes, forums, presentations, and discussions aimed at evaluating emerging concepts, theories, and policies about race and space. This series is coordinated by […]

This George Wittenstein lecture will be given by Amir Eshel, Stanford University:"History as a Gift: Postwar German Literature and the Quest for the Past" Tuesday, May 20, at 5 pm, in HSSB 6020. Dr. Eshel will explore prevalent approaches to the literary and cultural engagement with National Socialism in Germany from the 1950s to the […]

Dorian Warren (Department of Political Science/School of International Affairs, Columbia University) specializes in the study of inequality and American politics, focusing on the political organization of marginalized groups. His latest project is an examination of the contrasting fates of community/labor mobilizations against Wal-Mart in Chicago and Los Angeles. This talk is sponsored by the Program […]

The lecture will be from 4:00-5:30 p.m., with a reception afterwards. Mark R. Cohen is the author of Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt; Al-mujtama` al-yahudi fi Misr al-islamiyya fi al-`usur al-wusta (Jewish Life in Medieval Egypt 641-1382); The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah; Under Crescent and Cross: The Jews […]

The research group on Consumers, Commodities and Markets will be discussing Bianca Murillo's paper on colonial Ghana this Friday at 1 p.m. in HSSB 4020. Bianca Murillo will give a short introduction but please read the paper in advance if you can. For a copy of the paper please contact Erika Rappaport. jwil 27.v.08