GOLDSMITHS UNIVERSITY

Department of Anthropology Seminar Series
Spring Term 2010
Wednesdays 4.00-6.00pm : Dept. of Anthropology, Room G8


27th January
Elena Gonzalez (Goldsmiths)
Counternarrative: time and experience in FTM (female
to male) transition

3rd February
Veronica Barassi (Goldsmiths)
Networks, Connections and Technologies:
Ethnographic Reflections on the New Spaces of
Political Movements

10th February
Hans Steinmuller (Max Planck Institute)
The State of Irony in Rural China

17th February - No Seminar

24th February
Rebecca Prentice (Goldsmiths)
"Kidnapping Go Build Back We Economy": Discourses
of Crime in Neoliberal Trinidad

3rd March
German Friere (Goldsmiths)
Indigenous market strategies in context: agricultural
change in the Venezuelan frontier

10th March
Deborah James (LSE)
Making money from nothing: money lending, debt and
popular economies in South Africa

17th March
Julie Cruikshank (University of British
Columbia/University of Aberdeen)
Do Glaciers Listen? Melting Glaciers and Emerging
Histories

24th March
Mark Lamont (Goldsmiths)
Accidents have no cure: road deaths and material
witnessing in East Africa