Thursday Lunch Seminars
On Thursday, February 9, Angel Adams Parham of Loyola University in New Orleans, a Member in the School of Social Science, will speak on "Who Are We? What Louisiana Can Teach Us about Being American."
The following week, Alex Hinton of Rutgers University, also a Member, will speak on "Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal."
The Luncheon Seminar meets each week on Thursdays from 12 Noon-2:00 p.m. We assemble at Noon in the Dilworth Room after going through the lunch line. The presentation begins at 12:30 p.m., with the discussion ending promptly at 2:00 p.m. Attendees, as in the past, include the Faculty, Members, Visitors and Research Assistants of the School of Social Science, those Members of the School of Historical Studies with related interests, and colleagues from the wider academic community. If there are any questions regarding the Seminar, please contact Donne Petito at 609.734.8250 or donne@ias.edu. We look forward to seeing you.
Seminar Schedule
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| September 29 | Sherine Hamdy | February 9 | Angel Parham | ||||||
| Egypt's Organ Transplant Debate, and the Scale of Morality |
Who Are We? What Louisiana Can Teach Us about Being American |
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| October 6 | Jarrett Zigon | February 16 | Alex Hinton | ||||||
| An Anthropology of Moralities: Going Beyond Good and Evil |
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Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal |
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| October 13 | Eric Maskin | February 23 | Amy Kaplan | ||||||
| Financial Crises: Why They Occur and What to Do about Them |
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Zionism as Anti-Colonialism: The Case of Exodus |
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| October 20 | W. Bentley MacLeod | March 1 | Steven Lukes | ||||||
| Incentives Writ Large: On Economics, Causality and Education |
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| October 27 | Jessica Sewell | March 8 | Jennifer Light | ||||||
| Power, Sex, and Furniture: Masculinity and the Bachelor Pad in 1950s-60s America | |||||||||
| November 3 | Peter Vanderschraaf | March 15 | Jeremiah Dittmar | ||||||
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Convention and Natural Law |
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| November 10 | Nancy Scheper-Hughes | March 22 | Karuna Mantena | ||||||
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The Ghosts of Montes de Oca: Naked Life and the Medically Disappeared |
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| November 17 | In-Uck Park | March 29 | Celeste Arrington | ||||||
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Big Fish or Big Pond?: Intra-organization Inequality & Formation of Hierarchical Organizations |
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| December 1 | Gail Bederman | April 12 | Elizabeth Bernstein | ||||||
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Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and the Limits of Individualism: Thinking Historically about US Abortion Controversies |
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| December 8 | Thomas Csordas | April 19 | Janis Jenkins | ||||||
| Angry Boy, Angry Girl: Rage as a Moral Emotion among Troubled Adolescents | |||||||||
| January 19 | Andreas Blume | April 26 | Wendy Chun | ||||||
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Meaning in Games: Indeterminary and Communication Failure |
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| January 26 | Eugene Kontorovich | May 3 | Kimberly Theidon | ||||||
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From Pirates to Pinochet and Back: The Paradox of Universal Jurisdiction |
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| February 2 | Kabir Tambar | May 10 | Jimmy Doyle | ||||||
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Historical Critique and the Limits of Political Modernity in Turkey |
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Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included on this site. Please refer to the descriptions above for exact topic of talk.