Colloquia Series: Spring 2009

The Department of Anthropology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) will be offering the following colloquia this semester. Each will be held Thursday at 3:00 PM in Crawford Hall 105 unless otherwise noted. Receptions will follow.

Jan 22 “Botanical Ethnography of the Highland Maya”
Richard Stepp, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, and Department of Botany, UHM

Feb 5 “Local Knowledge Of Ethnomedicines – Insights & Implications For Human And Ecosystem Health In Tanga, Tanzania”
Heather McMillen, PhD, People and Plants International

Feb 19 “Comparative Settlement Pattern Research on Early Chiefdom Communities – Eastern Inner Mongolia, the Northern Andes, and Mesoamerica”
Christian Peterson, Department of Anthropology, UHM
Cosponsored with the Center for Chinese Studies and Spanish/Latin American & Iberian Studies (LLEA)

Mar 5 “A Tale of Two ‘Cultures’: HIV Risk Narratives in South Africa”
Eirik Saethre, Department of Anthropology, UHM

Mar 19 “Gujarat: a Thousand Genocides Now”
Kamala Visweswaran, Anthropology Department, University of Texas, Austin
Cosponsored with the Center for South Asian Studies, Department of Ethnic Studies, and the
International Cultural Studies Program

Apr 2 “Heritage Management and Archaeology in the Philippines”
Victor Paz, University of the Philippines
Cosponsored with the Center for Philippine Studies and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies

Apr 9 Anthropology Graduate Student Association Symposium
Cosponsored with the Anthropology Graduate Student Association

Apr 16 “‘A Japanese in Every Jet’: Gender, Mobility, and Modernity in Postwar Japan”
Christine Yano, Department of Anthropology, UHM
Cosponsored with the Center for Japanese Studies
NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Tokioka Room Moore Hall 319

Apr 30 “The Earliest Peopling of Japan and its Role in the Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions Debate”
Christopher Norton, Department of Anthropology, UHM
Cosponsored with the Center for Japanese Studies

For further information, please contact Anthropology at anthprog@hawaii.edu

page last updated March 9, 2009