Distinguished Lectures, Roundtables and Program Chairs at the AAA 1988-2000 Roundtables Program Chairs Return to SAE front page

1988 Major addresses (pre-Distinguished Lecture) Carlo Ginsburg, "The Inquisitor as Anthropologist" Laurence Stone, "Money, Sex, and Murder in Eighteenth Century England: A Story and Its Meaning" Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, "Ethnic Minorities in the French Nation" [*cancelled] 1989 Inaugural Distinguished Lecture Ernest Gellner, "The European Roots of British Anthropology" 1990 Natalie Zemon Davis "Unsettling the Colonial Encounter: European Women in Seventeenth Century Quebec and Surinam." 1991 Marilyn Strathern, "The Pursuit of Certainty" 1992 Joao de Pina-Cabral, "Mater Semper Certa: The Conditions for the Access to Paternity" 1993 Caroline Humphrey, "New Myths and the Dispossessed in Russia" 1994 Anthony P. Cohen, "Personal Nationalism: A Preliminary View of Some Rites, Rights and Wrongs" 1995 Orvar Lˆfgren, "The Nation as Home or Motel? On the Ethnography of Belonging and the Technologies of Intimacy" 1996 Tam‡s Hofer, "Globalized Natives and Ethnicized Researchers: Observations of a Marginal European" 1997 Judith Okely, "Anthropology's Practice Brings Subject and Theory" Roundtables (*note: in some cases, individual roundtables have been cancelled due to either low enrollment or a last-minute inability of the table head to attend. The following is a list only of scheduled roundtables and does not reflect such cancellations) 1986 (Breakfast) James Taggart Stanley Brandes -- Religion, Folklore and Ideology John W. Cole -- Class, Culture and Political Economy Ernestine Friedl -- Sex and Gender Jane Schneider -- Historiography and Anthropology Katherine M. Verdery -- Ethnicity and Regionalism 1987 (Breakfast) James Taggart Ruth Behar -- The Family in Europe Linda Bennett -- Challenges and Opportunities in Easter Europe James Fernandez -- The Search for Identity: National, Regional, and Local George Saunders -- Teaching the Anthropology of Europe Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Fieldwork Ethics in Europe\ Bernard Wailes -- The Archaeology of Europe 1988 (Breakfast) William Douglass David Gilmore -- Class Relations Hans Buechler and Judith Buechler -- Migration in Europe Ernestine Friedl --Women in Southern European Society William A. Douglass -- Social Anthropology in Europe James Taggart -- The European Folk Tale Carole Counihan -- Food and Culture in Europe Jeremy Boissevain -- Increase of Public Rituals in Europe 1989 (Breakfast) Frank Dubinskas Stanley Brandes -- The Cultural Construction of Social Identity Jane Collier -- Perspectives on "Modernization" in the Mediterranean St. Clair Drake -- Race, Ethnicity, and Class in Europe Eugene Hammel -- The Articulation of History and Ethnography in Europe Michael Herzfeld -- Nationalism and Bureaucracy in Europe Gail Kligman -- The Politics of Identity Jane Schneider -- New Social Movements 1990 (Breakfast) Lawrence Taylor Joan Vincent -- Local Culture and State Formation David Kertzer -- The Crisis of Representation in European Communist Parties Caroline Brettell -- Migration in Europe Jill Dubisch -- Changing Cultural Constructions of Gender and Women's Work Tanya Luhrmann -- New Age Movements in Europe Carole Crumley -- Region, Nation, History and the Meaning of Monuments Katherine Verdery -- National and Ethnic Issues in the Eastern European "Transition to Democracy" 1991 (Breakfast) David Kideckel William Lockwood -- European Gypsies Peter Allen -- European Ethnographic Film Ernestine Friedl -- The Mediterranean and Changing Europe Donald Pitkin -- European Field Experience: Informant, Friend, Colleague, Alter Ego Ed Handen -- I have the "Hots": Higher Order Technical Skills and the New European Order Andrew Lass - Cultural Malaise in Eastern Europe 1992 (Breakfast) David Kideckel Ellen Badone -- European Religion Linda Bennett -- Potential Uses of Anthropology in Reconstructing Eastern Europe Susan Gal -- Gender in Eastern Europe Paul Rabinow -- European Modernities Robert Rotenberg -- European Urban Landscapes Alan Feldman -- The Post-Textual Body: Encountering the Victim in Northern Ireland 1993 (Breakfast) Thomas Wilson Caroline Brettell -- Anthropology and History in European Ethnography Alexandra Jaffe -- Language and Identity in Europe Gary McDonough and Cindy Wong -- Screening Europe: Feature Films in Research and Class G. James Patterson -- Images of Europe in the Minds of Immigrants Oriol Pi-Sunyer -- Southern Europe and the New Immigration M. Estellie Smith -- Urban Entities in the New Europe Marc Abeles -- The Anthropology of National and International Political Institutions 1994 (Breakfast) Misty Jaffe David Kideckel -- Capitalism and Culture in Eastern Europe Laszlo Kurti -- European Popular Culture Susan Carol Rogers -- Public Policy in Europe as Ethnographic Data Jill Dubisch -- Religious Identity and the New Nationalism in Europe Sharon Stephens -- Gender, Ethnicity and Political Activism in Contemporary Europe Douglas Holmes -- European Right 1995 (Luncheon) Jane Nadel-Klein Lawrence Taylor -- The Political Uses of Death Gary McDonogh and Cindy Wong -- Images of Europe in Feature Films Gerald Creed -- Mainstreaming (East) European Anthropology Robert Rotenberg --Landscape and Power M. Estellie Smith -- The European Union: Is the State PassÈ?" 1996 (Luncheon) Deborah Reed-Danahay Karen Armstrong -- Bringing Scandinavia into the Picture Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt -- Cutural Production of the "Educated Person" Anthony Galt -- H-SAE: Resources and Future Directions Peter Allen -- Archaeological Film in/on Europe Joao de Pina Cabral -- Popular Religion in Europe Carrie Douglass -- Teaching Anthropology in Foreign Language Departments 1997 (Luncheon) Jeffrey Cole Ellen Badone -- Pilgrimage in Europe George Saunders -- Doing Anthropological Research in Italy: Practical and Scholarly Considerations Uli Linke -- Racism and Racial Politics in Europe Diane Orourke -- Life Course, Culture and Political Economy Thomas Wilson -- Nationalism and European Integration Jane Schneider and Peter Schneider -- Theorizing the Role of Clandestine Social Formations in European Political Economy: Mafias, "Secret" Fraternal Organizations, Covert State Activities 1999 (Luncheon) Eva Darvas Debbie Reed-Danahay--Time, Tempo, Tactics: Everyday Forms of Social Manipulation in Europe Sharon Roseman--The Anthropology of Authoritarian Regimes in Europe Bob Rotenberg--Trends in the Commodification of European Identity Katherine Verdery--New Issues in Post-Socialist Ethnography Marko Zivkovic--European Feature Film as Ethnographic Resource 2005 (Luncheon) Roundtables: Allen Feldman (New York University) ETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACHES TO THE VISUAL CULTURE OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND GLOBALIZATION Yuson Jung (Harvard University) GRADUATE STUDENT ROUNDTABLE: JOBS FOR EUROPEANISTS Gregory Feldman (University of British Columbia) CULTURE, SECURITY, AND THE OTHER IN THE NEW EUROPE Jennifer Dickinson (University of Vermont) LANGUAGES, STATES, AND CITIZENS Kristin R. Ghodsee (Bowdoin) THE WOMAN QUESTION REVISITED IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Jane Schneider (City University of New York) ZONE OF AMBIGUITY: CRIME AND CRIMINALIZATION SAE Program Chairs 1986-1987 James Taggart 1988 William Douglass 1989 Linda Bennett 1990 Ellen Badone 1991 Robert Ulin - 1992 David Kideckel 1993 Uli Linke 1994 Thomas Wilson 1995 Alexandra Jaffee 1996 Jane Nadel-Klein 1997 Deborah Reed-Danahay 1998 Jeffrey Cole 1999 Winnie Lem 2000 »va Huseby-Darvas

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