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LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 21, 2009

DECLARATIONS OF DEPENDENCE: LABOR, PERSONHOOD, AND WELFARE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND BEYOND

James Ferguson, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Stanford University

Professor Ferguson's research has been conducted in Lesotho and Zambia, and has engaged a broad range of theoretical and ethnographic issues. A central theme running through it has been a concern with the political, broadly conceived, and with the relation between specific social and cultural processes and the abstract narratives of "development" and "modernization" through which such processes have so often been known and understood. Professor Ferguson's most recent book, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. The essays that make up the book address a range of specific topics, ranging from structural adjustment, the crisis of the state, and the emergence of new forms of government-via-NGO, to the question of the changing social meaning of "modernity" for colonial and postcolonial urban Africans. They converge, however, around the question of "Africa" as a place in a wider categorical ordering of the world, and they use this question as a way to think about such large-scale issues as globalization, modernity, worldwide inequality, and social justice.

Professor Ferguson is now beginning a new research project in South Africa, exploring the emergence of new problematics of poverty and social policy under conditions of neoliberalism.

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 21, 2009, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: anthro@mail.rochester.edu

“KINSHIP, PERSONHOOD AND AGENCY”

A COLLOQUIUM IN RECOGNITION OF THE WORK OF

ANTHONY T. CARTER
Professor of Anthropology

MAY 1, 2009
3:00 - 5:00 PM
DEWEY HALL 2110E

Invited Speakers
Ayala Emmett, University of Rochester
Jessica Gale, University of Rochester BA '04
Thomas P. Gibson, University of Rochester
Nancy Levine, UCLA (UR PhD '78)
Jonathan Parry, University of Cambridge

Reception Following - Lattimore Hall 444

For more information please contact Ro Ferreri at
585-275-8614 or by e-mail: anthro@mail.rochester.edu

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 22, 2008

THE OTHER AFRICAN AMERICANS

Racial Stigma, Ethnicity and the
Hidden Social Curriculum of the University

J. Lorand Matory, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology and African and African American Studies
Harvard University

J. Lorand Matory earned his A.B. in anthropology, magna cum laude, from Harvard in 1982 and his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1991. His book on Yoruba religion and politics, Sex and the Empire that Is No More was noted by Choice magazine as one of the outstanding scholarly books of 1994. His book on gender, nationalism, and the role of manumitted black travelers in shaping the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé religion, Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationlism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé won the Melville J. Herskovits Prize for the best book of the year, from the African Studies Association.

Dr. Matory’s Morgan Lectures will explore the role played by educational institutions such as Howard University and Harvard University in processes of racial and ethnic self-construction in the American and transnational black bourgeoisie.

PUBLIC LECTURE
October 22, 2008, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

OCTOBER 24-26, 2007

EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE CLAIMS OF THE OTHER

Veena Das, Ph.D.
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and Professor of Humanities
Johns Hopkins University

Dr. Das's Morgan Lectures will explore what it means to be "neighbors" and will try to show how within an overall context of some antagonism between Hindus and Muslims, proximity creates an ethics that is anchored in some ways in tradition but also stretches concepts in new ways.

PUBLIC LECTURE
MUSLIMS AND HINDUS IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS IN DELHI

October 24, 2007, 7:00 PM
Hawkins-Carlson Room, Rush Rhees Library

Reception Following
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

PANEL DISCUSSION

October 25, 2007, 4:00 PM
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

Panelists

Arun Gandhi, President, M.K. Gandhi Institute for Non Violence

Ann Grodzins Gold, Professor of Religion and Anthropology, Syracuse University

Robert L. Holmes, Professor of Philosophy, University of Rochester

Moderator

Thomas P. Gibson, Professor and Chair, University of Rochester

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 11-13, 2006

LEARNING TO BE AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN

Tanya M. Luhrmann, Ph.D.
Max Palevsky Professor in the Committee on Human Development
University of Chicago

Dr. Luhrmann's Morgan Lectures will explore the way people learn to develop an intimate
relationship with God in evangelical Christianity.

PUBLIC LECTURE
HEARING GOD: MAKING GOD REAL IN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY

October 11, 2006, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

PANEL DISCUSSION
ABSORPTION AND SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

October 12, 2006, 4:30 PM
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

Panelists

Mary Dombeck, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
School of Nursing

Ayala Emmett, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Department of Anthropology

Ernestine McHugh, Ph.D.
Eastman School of Music
Humanities Department

Michael A. Scharf, M.D.
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department of Psychiatry

Moderator

Thomas P. Gibson, Ph.D.
University of Rochester
Department of Anthropology

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
NOVEMBER 9 - 11, 2005

Kay B. Warren, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
The Watson Institute for International Studies

Brown University

PUBLIC LECTURE

November 9, 2005, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 6 - 9, 2004

SWORDS OF SORROW: ON VIOLENCE AND MODERNITY

Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Harvard Medical School

(Partners In Health)

Dr. Farmer's Morgan Lectures examine the links among inequality, human rights,
health and health care.

PUBLIC LECTURE
STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

October 6, 2004, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
The Rotunda, Schlegel Hall

PANEL DISCUSSION
WITNESSING HEALTH CARE

October 7, 2004, 4:30 PM
Hoyt Hall

Community Panelists:

Wilson Augustina
Candy Carter
Salva Dut

Tanya Nagel
Monique Simpson

PUBLIC LECTURE
MAKING MEDICINE MATTER:

RETHINKING HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS

October 9, 2004, 1:45 PM
Hubbell Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
NOVEMBER 12-14, 2003

BECOMING A SPEAKER OF CULTURE

Elinor Ochs, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology
Director, Center on Everyday Lives of Families
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr. Och’s Morgan Lectures examine the ways in which children become competent
participants in their culture through everyday linguistic interactions.

PUBLIC LECTURE
TALKING TO CHILDREN AND THE LIMITS OF CULTURE

November 12, 2003, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

PANEL DISCUSSION
NARRATIVE LESSONS

November 13, 2003, 2:30 PM
Gamble Room, Rush Rhees Library

Discussants:

Eileen Hurley
Spiritus Christi Mental Health Clinic
Rochester, New York

Donna Schulman
Nursing Co-ordinator
Monroe County Health Department STD Clinic
Rochester, New York

Pieter LeRoux, D. Litt. et Phil.
Clinical Associate Professor
Director, Family Therapy Training Program
Department of Psychiatry
University of Rochester Medical Center
Rochester, New York

Anne Steider, Ph.D.
Senior Instructor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Rochester
Medical Center
Rochester, New York

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 16-18, 2002

AS NATURAL AS LIFE:
What a Papua New Guinea Sugar Plantation Can Teach Us About Human History
Frederick Errington, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Trinity Collegeand

Deborah Gewertz , Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Amherst College

Dr. Errington and Dr. Gewertz's Morgan Lectures examine globalization and global
disparities from the perspective of a Papua New Guinea sugar plantation owned and
operated by a British-based multinational corporation.

PUBLIC LECTURE
CULTURE AND CARGO:
ON AVOIDING A HISTORY OF THE SELF-EVIDENT AND THE SELF-INTERESTED

October 16, 2002, 7:00 PM
Lander Auditorium, Hutchison Hall

Reception Following
Green Carpet Lounge, Hutchison Hall

PANEL DISCUSSION
Economic Globalization: Let Free Trade Rip?

October 17, 2002, 2:00 PM
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

Discussants:

Robert J. Foster, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Rochester

Joseph E. Inikori, Professor
Department of History
University of Rochester

Christine A. Kray, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Rochester Institute of Technology

James Schmidt, Executive Director
Farm Worker Legal Services of New York, Inc.
Rochester, New York

Bruce Knauft, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
Emory UniversityNovember 16, 2001Lattimore 210
2:00 PM

Exchanging the Past: A Rainforest World Before and After

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
OCTOBER 24-26, 2001

MEDIA AND THE ETHNOGRAPHY OF NATIONS

Lila Abu-Lughod, Ph.D.,
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

Dr. Abu-Lughod's Morgan Lectures examine the cultural politics of popular television.
Focusing on Egypt and most particularly poor, urban women, she explores the relationships
between serial television melodramas and local debates about national identity, gender,
class, and modernity.

PUBLIC LECTURE
THE AMBIVALENCE OF NATIONAL IDENTITY:
ASSERTING THE LOCAL IN THE FACE OF THE GLOBAL

October 24, 2001, 7:00PM
Morey Hall 321

Reception Following
The Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

PANEL DISCUSSION
IN THE NAME OF COMMUNITY:
THE MANAGEMENT OF RELIGION AND THE MAGIC OF STARS

October 25, 2001, 2:00PM
Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library

Discussants:

Thomas P. Gibson, Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Rochester

Emil Homerin, Professor
Department of Religion and Classics
University of Rochester

Working to Save Guatemala's Environment

Rufino Zapeta
A Maya Quiche from Tropico Verde, Guatemala

October 18, 2001, Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Building
NOON

ANTHROPOLOGY 2001: MAKING SCIENCE SOCIAL

April 25, Hirst Lounge, Wilson Commons
11:30 - 2:00 PM Come and see the presentations of this year's graduating seniors in
Anthropology! Presentation Topics Include: Anthropology for Lawyers

Change The World
Midwifery
Storytelling
Students and UHS
After Incarceration
Alternative Medicine
Latino Economics
Tibet: Culture in Crisis

*Refreshments Provided*

LEWIS HENRY MORGAN LECTURE SERIES
NOVEMBER 1-3, 2000

November 1 at 7:00 PM

Morey Hall 321
The University of Rochester River Campus Public Lecture
Foreign News:
Media and the World as a Single Place

Ulf Hannerz
Professor of Anthropology
Stockholm, Sweden

November 2 at 2:00 PM

Welles Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library
The University of Rochester River Campus Panel Discussion
ANTHROPOLOGY AND INTERNATIONAL JOURNALISM Discussants:
Ethan Bronner: Education Editor from The New York Times
John Schidlovsky: Director, PEW Fellowships in International Jounalism at Johns Hopkins University
Hilary Appelman: Correspondent from the Associated Press

Moderator:
Bob Smith: Producer and Host of WXXI-AM 1370 Connection

November 3 at 2:00 PM

Room 441, Lattimore Hall
The University of Rochester River Campus Seminar
The Spatial Practices of Covering Continents Ulf Hannerz, Ph.D.
Department of Social Anthropology
Stockholm University
The Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures were established in 1963 by the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Rochester to honor a founder of American
anthropology and a major benefactor of the University. A distinguished Rochester
attorney, Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-81) also was the author of The League of the
Iroquois, (1850), Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family (1870),
and Ancient Society (1877). Supportive of the University of Rochester from its beginning
in 1850, he bequeathed to it funds for a women's college as well as his manuscripts and
library. For more information on the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series, click here.