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

2011-2012

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
October 6 Jarrett Zigon       February 16 Alex Hinton
An Anthropology of Moralities: Going Beyond Good and Evil
 
Uncle San, Aunty Yan, and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal
October 13 Eric Maskin       February 23 Amy Kaplan
Financial Crises: Why They Occur and What to Do about Them
 
Zionism as Anti-Colonialism: The Case of Exodus
October 20 W. Bentley MacLeod       March 1 Steven Lukes
Incentives Writ Large: On Economics, Causality and Education    
 
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
Convention and Natural Law
         
November 10 Nancy Scheper-Hughes       March 22 Karuna Mantena
The Ghosts of Montes de Oca: Naked Life and the Medically Disappeared
         
November 17 In-Uck Park       March 29 Celeste Arrington
Big Fish or Big Pond?: Intra-organization Inequality & Formation of Hierarchical Organizations
         
December 1 Gail Bederman       April 12 Elizabeth Bernstein
Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, and the Limits of Individualism: Thinking Historically about US Abortion Controversies
         
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
Meaning in Games: Indeterminary and Communication Failure
         
January 26 Eugene Kontorovich       May 3 Kimberly Theidon
From Pirates to Pinochet and Back: The Paradox of Universal Jurisdiction
         
February 2 Kabir Tambar       May 10 Jimmy Doyle
Historical Critique and the Limits of Political Modernity in Turkey
         

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.