Speakers
The Department of Anthropology hosts a regular lunchtime speakers series inviting visitors and local scholars working on a wide variety of topics of anthropological interest to discuss their current research with faculty and students. All talks are free and open to the public. Please contact Carole Speranza, hope@rice.edu if you have special needs or questions concerning the speakers series.
Brown Bag Events:
November 19, 2009
Lina Dib
Anthropology PhD Candidate
Rice University
presents
"Cosmopolitics and the Recoding of Memory Machines"
Time: 12:15 PM
Place: Sewall Hall 570
PAST BROWN BAG EVENTS:
November 12, 2009
Elise McCarthy, Lina Dib, Anthony Potoczniak, Laura Jones & Elitza Ranova
Anthropology PhD Candidates
Rice University
present
"Collecting Field Data"
Time: 12:15 PM
Place: Sewall Hall 570
October 27, 2009
Lisa Spiro
Director, Digital Media Center
Director, ETRAC
Rice University
presents
"Digital Tools for Research and Teaching in Anthropology"
Time: 12:15 PM
Place: Sewall Hall 570
October 20, 2009
Christine Labuski
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality
Rice University
presents
"Out of the Comfort Zone: Why Vulvar Reluctance is a Feminist Issue"
October 15, 2009
Angela Rivas
Rice University Anthropology PhD Graduate
presents
"On/About Mingling"
Time: 12:15 PM
Place: Sewall 570
September 29, 2009
Jane Segal
Rice University Social Sciences/Humanities Librarian
presents
"New Research Services and Resources at Fondren Library"
September 29, 2009
Time: 12:15 PM
Place: Sewall 570
Other departments' past events of interest:
Chao Center for Asian Studies
Presents
Un-Making Mestizaje and Sinophobia: Reflections on Sergio de la
Torre's Video Installation 'Nuevo Dragon City' (2008)?
Assist. Prof. Tarek Elhaik
Anthropology Department, Rice University
Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:30p.m.
Humanities, Room 119
Recent scholarship, particularly the work of Alexandra Mina Stern, has
shed light on other blind spots of Mexican nationalist historiography by
pointing to other constitutive outsides to the Nation. Chinese migrant
communities, for instance, were not only been the target of violent
persecutions as for instance in the Chinese massacre in Mexico City
during 1911 but, like other non-indigenous communities that do not fall
neatly within the doctrine of Mestizaje, have consistently been relegated to
the status of second-class citizens. The talk will address these questions of
Mexican modernity through a recent enigmatic screen practice, Sergio de
la Torre's video installation NUEVO DRAGON CITY, and will discuss the prospects of what might be called
non-indigenous media' practice in contemporary Mexico.