SPRING SEMESTER 2008

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 Saunders Hall 345. Receptions will follow.

January 17 “Becoming Pan Am: Bodies and Subjectivity in the Making of Corporate Persons”
Christine Yano, Department of Anthropology, UHM
Cosponsored with the International Cultural Studies Program

January 24 “Mediations, Political and Divine: An Ethnography of Convergence in the Global Philippines”
Deirdre de la Cruz, Department of Asian Languages & Cultures, University of Michigan
Cosponsored with Center for Philippine Studies

March 20 “Tourism in a Sacred Landscape: Political Economy and Sherpa Ecological Knowledge”
Jeremy Spoon, Department of Anthropology, UHM

April 3 “Moments of Silence: Language Ideology in Fijian
 Christian Conversions”
Matt Tomlinson, Department of Anthropology, Monash University, Australia
Cosponsored with Center for Pacific Islands Studies

April 10 “Half-Lives and Half-Truths: Confronting the Radioactive Legacies of the Cold War”
Barbara Johnston, Center for Political Ecology
Cosponsored with Center for Pacific Islands Studies

April 17 “Population Movements and the Dynamics of Cultural Change in Prehistoric South China”
Tianlong Jiao, Department of Anthropology, Bishop Museum

April 24 “Conditions and Mechanisms for Peace in 
Pre-Contact Oceania”
Stephen Younger, National Security Technologies, LLC Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Cosponsored with Center for Pacific Islands Studies

May 1 Anthropology Graduate Student Association Symposium
Cosponsored with the Anthropology Graduate Student Association

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

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