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ANTHROPOLOGY

 

KASSEN LECTURE

 

Each year the Department of Anthropology presents the Kassen Lecture. Generously supported by Drs. Aileen and Julian Kassen, the lectureship invites a top female scholar in the social sciences to the department to present a lecture to the campus community. In addition to the lecture, anthropology graduate students have the opportunity to meet with the Kassen Lecturer in a small group discussion.



KASSEN LECTURE 2008 - 2009

Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Research in cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods, Mesoamerica and northern North America.

Lecture title: "Enacting Ethos, Enacting Health: Parental Commentary and Everyday Life in a California Family."

Friday, 24 October 2008

4:00 - 5:30 p.m.

Mather Memorial Rm. 201
Reception to Follow

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PREVIOUS LECTURES

2007-2008

Dr. Carol Worthman (Ph.D., Harvard University)

Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Comparative Biology at Emory University

Lecture Title: "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Cultural Models, Parenting Practices, and Child Development "

Abstract

Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Mather Memorial Rm. 201
Reception to Follow

2006-2007

Dr. Kathy Oths (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University)

Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama

Lecture Title: "Sociocultural Dimensions of Birth Outcomes: An Anthropological Approach to the Persistent Ethnic Gap"

2005 - 2006

Dr. Judith Justice (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)

Professor of Medical Anthropology and Health Policy at the University of California at San Francisco

Lecture Title: "Volunteering in Poorer Countries: Empowerment or Exploitation?

2003 - 2004

Dr. MaryJo DelVecchio Good (Ph.D. Harvard)

Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a teaching faculty member in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University

Lecture Title: "Indonesia Sakit (Indonesia in Pain): Interpretations of States of Crisis by Indonesian Contemporary Artists"

2002 -2003

Dr. Carolyn Sargent (Ph.D. Michigan State)

Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University

Lecture Title: "Reproduction, Polygamy and the State: Challenges to Malian Migrants in Paris"

2001 - 2002

Dr. Shirley Lindenbaum (Ph.D. Hon. New School of Social Research)

Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Lecture Title: "Thinking about Epidemics: Kuru, Mad Cow and Variant Cretzfeldt Jakob Disease"

2000 - 2001

Dr. Jean Comaroff (Ph.D. University of London)

Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences in the College and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago

Lecture Title: "Alien Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and the State of the South African Postcolony"

1999 - 2000

Dr. Susan Scrimshaw (Ph.D. Columbia)

Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Community Health Sciences and Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was formerly in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Dean of Public Health at UCLA.

Lecture Title: "Anthropologists in Public Health: A Time of Opportunity"