Prof. David Vine from American University. Since 2001, Dr. Vine has conducted research about the U.S. military base on the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia and the expulsion of its native people during development of the base. As a result of this work, he is serving as an expert witness for lawyers in the United States and Great Britain bringing suits against the U.S. and U.K. governments on behalf of the exiled people, known as Chagossians. He has recently completed a book about the history of the base, the lives of the people, and U.S. foreign policy, entitled, Imperial Paradise: Expulsion and the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia. Dr. Vine's talk is part of the Department of Anthropology's Engaged Anthropology Lecture Series, focused this year on Militarism.
April 14, 7:30 pm Diamond 122
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Thursday, May 3, at 8pm in Diamond, 122.
Ted Conover, prize-winning literary non fiction author, will talk about professional writing and qualitative research: "Into the Boxcar, Across the Border, & Behind Bars: How Anthropology Prepared Me for Adventure (and Writing About it)"
Conover is the author of four non-fiction books about American life (Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000; Whiteout: Lost in Aspen 1991; Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America's Illegal Aliens 1987; Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes 1983) and numerous articles.
Co-sponsored by the Goldfarb Center, Interdisciplinary Studies Division, Dean of Faculty, and the Department of Anthropology.
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Thursday October 19, 2006
David Graeber Anthropologist, Yale University
David Graeber is an associate professor of anthropology, currently at Yale University. He has conducted fieldwork in highland Madagascar (his new book, Lost People: Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar will be published by Indiana University Press in spring 2007). Hailed as one of the most creative new theorists in contemporary anthropology, he has also put his scholarship into practice through six years of work with the global justice movement, participating in groups like the Direct Action Network, People's Global Action, and Anti-Capitalist Convergence. He is the author of Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams, and Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. |
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