KASSEN LECTURE 2008 - 2009
Professor of Anthropology at UCLA. Research in cognitive anthropology, medical anthropology, research methods, Mesoamerica and northern North America.
Lecture title: "Enacting Ethos, Enacting Health: Parental Commentary and Everyday Life in a California Family."
Friday, 24 October 2008, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Mather Memorial Rm. 201
Reception to Follow
PREVIOUS LECTURES
2007-2008
Dr. Carol Worthman (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Laboratory for Comparative Biology at Emory University
Lecture Title: "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Cultural Models, Parenting Practices, and Child Development "
Abstract
Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 4:00 - 5:30 p.m., Mather Memorial Rm. 201
Reception to Follow
2006-2007
Dr. Kathy Oths (Ph.D. Case Western Reserve University)
Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama
Lecture Title: "Sociocultural Dimensions of Birth Outcomes: An Anthropological Approach to the Persistent Ethnic Gap"
2005 - 2006
Dr. Judith Justice (Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley)
Professor of Medical Anthropology and Health Policy at the University of California at San Francisco
Lecture Title: "Volunteering in Poorer Countries: Empowerment or Exploitation?
2003 - 2004
Dr. MaryJo DelVecchio Good (Ph.D. Harvard)
Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a teaching faculty member in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University
Lecture Title: "Indonesia Sakit (Indonesia in Pain): Interpretations of States of Crisis by Indonesian Contemporary Artists"
2002 -2003
Dr. Carolyn Sargent (Ph.D. Michigan State)
Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University
Lecture Title: "Reproduction, Polygamy and the State: Challenges to Malian Migrants in Paris"
2001 - 2002
Dr. Shirley Lindenbaum (Ph.D. Hon. New School of Social Research)
Professor of Anthropology in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Lecture Title: "Thinking about Epidemics: Kuru, Mad Cow and Variant Cretzfeldt Jakob Disease"
2000 - 2001
Dr. Jean Comaroff (Ph.D. University of London)
Professor of Anthropology and the Social Sciences in the College and former Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago
Lecture Title: "Alien Nation: Zombies, Immigrants, and the State of the South African Postcolony"
1999 - 2000
Dr. Susan Scrimshaw (Ph.D. Columbia)
Dean of the School of Public Health and Professor of Community Health Sciences and Anthropology at University of Illinois at Chicago. She was formerly in the Department of Anthropology and Associate Dean of Public Health at UCLA.
Lecture Title: "Anthropologists in Public Health: A Time of Opportunity"
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