[csaa-forum] Michael Herzfeld, public talk, August 8

[Greg Noble]

The Centre for Cultural Research, College of the Arts, Education and 
Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney and the Cultural 
Research Network would like to invite you to a public talk by

Professor Michael Herzfeld, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University.

'Capital Concerns:  Nation-States, Markets, and the Tribulations of 
the Traditional'

Professor Herzfeld will discuss the construction of national essences 
for tourist consumption as well as for internal self-representation 
in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, and talk about the ways in which 
notions such as "tradition" become a means of controlling access to 
modernity at local, national, and international levels.  His 
ethnographic materials, ranging across these three countries, will 
also encompass artisanship and its transmission as well as the 
contentious discourses of national heritage and historic 
conservation.  He will also use the opportunity to make a passionate 
plea for the recognition of anthropology as -- after some years of 
collective self-doubt -- a politically and socially engaged 
discipline.

Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University, 
where he has worked since 1991. He is a social anthropologist 
specializing in the ethnography of southern Europe (especially Greece 
and Italy) and of Thailand. He has served as President of the Modern 
Greek Studies Association and the Society for the Anthropology of 
Europe. His current research interests include the construction of 
the past, the inculcation of social and cultural values, performance 
and social identity, historic conservation and artisanship. He has 
published widely for over thirty years and is the author of many 
articles and books, including The Poetics of Manhood (1985), 
Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass (1987), A Place in History 
(1991), The Social Production of Indifference (1992), Cultural 
Intimacy (1997), Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and 
Society (2001) and Body Impolitic (2003).

Date: Monday, 8  August , 2005
Time: 4-6pm
Venue: Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney

You are invited for drinks afterwards.

Please RSVP by  Monday,  1 August,05  to ccr at uws.edu.au.

--
Dr Greg Noble

School of Humanities            	ph:     (02) 47 360 365
University of Western Sydney
C Bldg, Kingswood campus
Locked Bag 1797                    	email: g.noble at uws.edu.au
Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
Australia

Researcher, Centre for Cultural Research
Parramatta Campus, UWS

Co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other 
(Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)

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Dr Greg Noble

School of Humanities            	ph:     (02) 47 360 365
University of Western Sydney
C Bldg, Kingswood campus
Locked Bag 1797                    	email: g.noble at uws.edu.au
Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
Australia

Researcher, Centre for Cultural Research
Parramatta Campus, UWS

Co-author of Bin Laden in the Suburbs: Criminalising the Arab Other 
(Sydney Institute of Criminology, 2004)
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