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LSE Anthropology Events

Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory

Lent Term 2010

Friday 10.30am - 12.30pm, Seligman Library A607, Old Building, LSE

15 January

Elizabeth Frantz (LSE)
Exporting subservience: State-sponsored migration and the making of servants in Sri Lanka

22 January

Jerome Lewis (UCL)
Where goods are free but knowledge costs: Hunter-gatherer ritual economics in Central Africa

29 January

Jeremy Keenan (SOAS)
Anthropology in the front line: The War on Terror in Africa  

05 February

Debra McDougall (University of Western Australia)
Fractious polities: Denominationalism in the post-conflict Solomon Islands

12 February

Maxim Bolt (LSE)
Management' or 'paternalism'? Race and registers of labour hierarchy on a South African border farm

19 February

Magnus Marsden (SOAS)
Being diplomatic an Afghan way: Trade and traders in Afghanistan  

26 February

Ida Susser (CUNY Graduate Center)
Imperial moralities, practical sense and AIDS in South Africa

05 March

Sylvia Posocco (Birkbeck)
Fissured legality and affective states in the transnational adoption archives in Guatemala

12 March

Judith Scheele (Oxford)
Saints on trucks: Reflections on Saharan connectivity

19 March

Sami Ramadani (London Metropolitan University) Kurdish political forces, the Kurdish people, and the occupation of Iraq



For further information about this term's Research Seminar on Anthropological Theory please contact Professor Martha Mundy (m.mundy@lse.ac.uk|). 

Upcoming Public Events

Please refer to our Seminars and Lectures| page for full details of all upcoming events.

Lectures & Events

Professor John Bowen. Visiting Professor, Dept of Anthropology

 

Professor Bowen will be giving three lectures on Islam, secularisms, and law in the contemporary world in Lent and Summer Term 2010.

 

Tuesday 02 February 2010: Secularisms in Crisis

 

Tuesday 02 March 2010: Studying Islam across times and place: how to compare?

 

Tuesday 04 May 2010: Islam, secularisms and law across Europe

For full details, please see this page|.

 

Public Lecture

Professor Arjun Appadurai

 

The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of Financialism

 

Lunctime Lecture

2.00 - 3.30pm Monday 26 April

Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE

 

Arjun Appadurai is a socio-cultural anthropologist with specializations in globalization, public culture, and urban studies. His major accomplishment has been the construction of anthropological frameworks for the study of global media, consumption, and migration. His current work focuses on poverty, violence, and social inclusion in mega-cities with a special focus on Mumbai (India). He is Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

at New York University.

 

Followed by tea reception in the Shaw Library 6th Floor, Old Building LSE

 

This event is unticketed and seats will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. All are welcome.

 

Many thanks to the LSE Annual Fund and the India Observatory for helping to make this event possible.

 

For further information please contact Jo Stone on

j.f.stone@lse.ac.uk |



 

Programme in Culture and Cognition Lecture Series

Thursday 18 March

 

Natalie Sebanz (Radboud)
Acting together: How people share actions, tasks, and memories

 

18.00 Seligman Library A607, Old Building, LSE



 

 

For seminars related to specific research projects (i.e. Conflicts in Time, Popular Economies) please visit their Research Pages|.