Monday 11/6 @ 2 pm - Discussion with Anthropologist Michael Herzfeld

Please join us Monday, November 6 at 2 pm in Sproul 912 for a pre-colloquium discussion with anthropologist Michael Herzfeld. Coffee and carbohydrates will be in the offing.

The Anthropology department colloquium will follow at 4 pm in Young 184. The title of Prof. Herzfeld’s colloquium talk is “Eviction and the Reconfiguration of Space in Rome and Bangkok.”

Available online is a video podcast of Prof. Herzfeld’s lecture “Eviction and Evocation: The West at Home and Abroad - Ethnographic Reflections from Thailand and Southern Europe” at http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/ancestors/herzfeld.htm.

BIO:

Research Interests: social theory, history of Anthropology, social poetics, politics of history; Europe (especially Greece & Italy), and Thailand.

Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University where he has taught since 1991. He is the author of many books, including Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece (1982), The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, Anthropology through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (1987), A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town (1991), The Social Production of Indifference: The Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy (1992), Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (1997; a second, revised edition has just been released [2005]), and Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (1997). Dr. Herzfeld has recently published a new book on apprenticeship in Greece and globally, titled The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (2004). He is also now conducting new research in Italy and Thailand on gentrification and the management of the past, and plans further work on artisanship and apprenticeship in both countries.

For more biographical information and a list of publications, see Prof. Herzfeld’s Harvard University faculty profile: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_pages_herzfeld.html