[Anthropgrad] Graduate Workshop with Professor Michael Herzfeld

[Fay.Castles]

*Graduate Workshop with Professor Michael Herzfeld*

*August 16, 2007**, 9.30-5.00*

*Humanities Conference Room, **A.D.** **Hope** **Building***

*Co-sponsored by *

*College of **Asia** and the Pacific and *

*the College of Arts and Social Sciences//*

 

Professor Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology at Harvard 
University will be visiting the ANU in mid-August. He will be delivering 
a seminar in the Anthropology series at 9.30 am on Wednesday 15^th 
August, participating in a panel on Citizenship in the CAP Keywords 
Conversations Series at 5.30 that evening, and taking part in a graduate 
workshop co-convened with Professor Margaret Jolly on August 16, 2007. A 
first call for abstracts went out in June and all who applied in that 
round are confirmed. There are still some places remaining and so this 
is a /second /call. Any graduate students from either the College of 
Asia and the Pacific /or/ the College of Arts and Social Sciences are 
warmly invited. The workshop is designed to have cross-disciplinary 
appeal but anthropology students may be especially interested given 
Professor Herzfeld's prolific publications in that field. Although the 
theme of citizenship is focal to the panel presentations on Wednesday 
15^th , the keywords to be discussed on Thursday 16^th August are open, 
and can be any word in English or another language. Those already 
proposed include foreigner, piracy, syncretism, authenticity, 
cosmopolitanism and gender.

 

Abstracts of about 200 words should be sent to Margaret Jolly at 
margaret.jolly at anu.edu.au <mailto:margaret.jolly at anu.edu.au>, by *August 
8*. The keyword you choose should be focal to your research in some 
way.  Before the workshop you should read the Introduction and hopefully 
another relevant chapter of /New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of 
Culture and Society /edited by Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and 
Meaghan Morris. The Introduction is posted as a pdf at 
http:asiapacific.anu.ed.au/conversations/

Following the format of the first successful graduate workshop with 
Professors Meaghan Morris and Kathy Gibson on July 12, presentations 
will be brief, c.10 minutes and clustered into panels, with an emphasis 
on discussion and debate. Catered teas and lunch will be provided for 
all participants.

 Please contact margaret.jolly at anu.edu.au 
<mailto:margaret.jolly at anu.edu.au> or jo.bushby at anu.edu.au 
<mailto:jo.bushby at anu.edu.au> if you have any questions.

*Brief Biography of Michael Herzfeld, M.A., D.Phil., D.Litt.*

Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology and Curator of European 
Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, where he has 
taught since 1991. Before moving to Harvard, he taught at Vassar College 
(1978-80) and Indiana University (1980-91), was the Lord Simon Visiting 
Professor at the University of Manchester in 1994, taught at the École 
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1995), Paris, the Università di 
Padova (1992) and the Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (1999-2000). He 
has held visiting research appointments at the ANU and the University of 
Sydney (1985), at the University of Adelaide, and at the Université de 
Paris-X (Nanterre) (1991). He was a long term editor of /American 
Ethnologist/ and serves on many other editorial boards. Professor 
Herzfeld is currently a visiting Professor at SAGES, Melbourne University.

His extensive publications traverse anthropological theory, the 
ethnography of Greece and Southern Europe, masculinity, social poetics, 
bureaucracy, cultural intimacy and the social poetics of the 
nation-state. He has done extensive research in Greece and is now 
researching in both Italy and Thailand. He is the author of nine books: 
/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, 
2^nd ed. 2005 ); /Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic 
Biography of/ /Andreas Nenedakis/ (1997); /Anthropology: Theoretical 
Practice in Culture and Society/ (2001); /The Body Impolitic: Artisans 
and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy if Value /(2004).

Professor Herzfeld is currently conducting research in Italy and 
Thailand on gentrification, the management of the past and the social 
effects of historic conservation. In April 2007 his first film /Monti 
Moments/ was premiered. It explores nostalgia and a sense of loss in a 
rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood in the heart of old Rome.

 

 

 

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Fay Castles
Departmental Administrator
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
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Fay.Castles at anu.edu.au
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