Schedule of Events

GBAC institution students will receive an admission fee waiver ($10) with presentation of their student ID.

Sponsored by the Pomona College Alumni Office and the University of Massachusetts at Boston.

Please contact Professor Joseph de Rivera at jderivera@clarku.edu or at 508-793-7259 for more information.

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Sponsored by the Cultural Center and Davis Museum.

Visiting scholars and speakers from area institutions will speak about projects with local communities and populations in the Greater Boston area. Speakers will include: Lidwien Kapteijns (Wellesley College) on Somali-English bilingual program implementation in Boston Public Schools; Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf (Brown University) on Sudanese refugees; Caitrin Lynch and Ozgur Eris (Olin College of Engineering) on user-adapted and designed technologies for local groups (homeless, acupuncturists, bartenders, ESL speakers); and Harleen Singh (Brandeis University). Mark Auslander (Brandeis University) will moderate.

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Roundtable sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and GBAC.

Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf is the director of Pembroke Center’s research initiative on Gender and 'traditional' Muslim Practices, a three-year project including faculty workshops, roundtables, and conferences. Among Abusharaf’s publications is "Wanderings: Sudanese Migrants and Exiles in North America" (Cornell University Press, 2002), one of the first books devoted to the experience of Sudanese immigrants and exiles in the United States. She is editor of the forthcoming "Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives" (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). She has been affiliated with the Carr Center for Human Rights, the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute and the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.

Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Women and Gender Studies Program.

This symposium explores the paradoxes suggested by the "Right to Privacy." "Privacy" and its twinned antithesis, "surveillance," emerged out of the intersection of built domestic space and emerging optical technologies of mass reproduction. A violation of the core spatial distinction of the modern city, the tenuous distinction between public and private, helps catalyze the image of a sacrosanct, sovereign self that is in principle beyond the gaze of sovereign state power or the untrammeled forces of the market. We will reflect upon the broader historical antecedents, resonances, and implications of such issues. For some theorists, the accelerating proliferation of optical and electronic technologies of surveillance and mechanical reproduction exemplifies a postmodern decoupling of space and power. In contrast, the synthesis of electronic surveillance, mass mechanical reproduction, and complex information networks seems to promise power that is entirely “extraterritorial,” in which controlling elites are fluid, inaccessible, and no longer spatially entangled with their subordinates.   In turn, other scholars insist, sophisticated technologies of remote or virtual monitoring do not transcend space and place as such, but are rather embedded in shifting forms of architecture, landscape, selfhood, and embodiment that are themselves the products of complex social and material histories.

http://www.brandeis.edu/programs/culturalproduction/eventsprivacyrites2006.html

Symposium sponsored by the Cultural Production Program and the Rose Art Museum.

http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Anthropology/faculty/Houston.shtml/

Colloquium sponsored by the Department of Anthropology

This exhibition emerges out of an evolving partnership between the Anthropology Department and the Cultural Production program at Brandeis and the Sudanese Education Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to securing the educational futures of resettled southern Sudanese in the greater Boston area. We are in the process of developing a Southern Sudanese Cultural Documentation Center, to be housed in the Anthropology Department;  many of these paintings will constitute the new center's core collection.

Our exhibition takes its title from the painting shown here. Two girls in prayer utter the phrase, "Leave the bones and catch the land," a translation of the Dinka phrase (Waan ku yom ku dom ku baai), a call to move beyond the pain of tragic loss and embrace the world of the living.

The exhibition opened Monday, 23 October 2006 in the Dreitzer Gallery, Spingold Theater. The exhibition is now housed in the Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University and includes an audio tour, available on I-pods that may be checked out at the library's front Information Desk. It will run until Thursday,1 February 2007. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Cultural Production Program, and the Sudanese Education Fund

9:30-10:30am, Hassenfeld Conference Center, Luria rooms
2:00-3:00pm, Heller School, room G3
4:00-5:00pm, Heller School, room G3

For further details please contact jeffa@brandeis.edu.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College. Contact Julie Chu for further details.

In our second panel at 1:40 p.m., we then move into a broader comparative discussion of women, art, and border crossing in Latin/Latino American, African, and African-American experience.  This section includes a brief memorial tribute to the late African-American writer Octavia Butler (1947-2006), marking the first anniversary of her passing.

We conclude at 3:10 pm with a keynote address by the noted African-American artist, Lynn Marshall Linnemeir, "Unraveling Mammy's Cloak: Sorting and Re-Weaving the Power of the Black Female Voice."

This event is sponsored by: MusicUnitesUS: the Intercultural Residency Series, the M.A. Program in Cultural Production, the Department of Anthropology, the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life (Brandeis University).

This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Wellesley College. Contact Julie Chu for further details.

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This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.

Turner (Ph.D., Harvard 1965) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, has worked with indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Amazon, mostly the Kayapo, but recently also the Yanomami. He is involved in advocacy and human rights work and is interested in indigenous peoples' political struggles and associated ecological, cultural and rights issues. His theoretical interests include social and cultural theory, Marx, kinship and social organization, myth, ritual and narrative, visual anthropology (particularly indigenous video and TV documentary), the body, and the critique of anthropological theory. Dr. Turner will present a lecture entitled "Things, People, and Animals in the Kayapo Idea of the World." The talk will explore the ideas of the Kayapo, an indigenous Amazonian people, about the physical and natural worlds and their relation to human  nature and culture. Implications for a reconsideration of received ideas of totemism, fetishism and alienation will be discussed."

This event is sponosored by GBAC and the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.

This event is particularly significant as it brings together academics and activists who will discuss the crucial impact that indigenous peoples are having on the reshaping of contemporary and conventional forms of politics and intellectual production. The conference will also be unique in creating a dialogue between activists and intellectuals from throughout the Americas, both North and South. 

Participants include Ramona Peters, spiritual leader of the recently recognized Mashpee Wampanoag of Massachusetts; Terence Turner, professor emeritus at Cornell University; Luis Millones, professor at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru; Victor Montejo, Maya scholar and anthropologist at the University of California at Davis, and elected member of the Guatemalan congress; Faye Ginsburg, David B. Kriser Professor of Anthropology at NYU; and Stefano Varese, Chair of the Native American Studies Department, and Director of the Indigenous Research Center of the Americas, at the University of California at Davis.

For more information please contact David Guss or visit the symposium website.
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Dr. Lahiri's research focuses on the relationship between colonialism, Christianity, historical memory, and nation-building in the Philippines. She is planning a new project on the politics of language in post-liberalization India, focusing upon the ideologies associated with English and Hindi, their relative prestige in various domains, and their combined use in everyday social practice.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University.