Culture, Power and Social Change

(CPSC)

A working Group in Ethnographic Research

This working group brings together graduate students and faculty interested in exploring issues of cultural production, links between political economy, power and culture, cultural constructions of ethnicity, gender, national and religious identities and the ways in which they impact social change in the world. Its meets weekly throughout the academic year to hear presentations by guest speakers, discuss readings and conference papers. As a workshop series, CPSC is open to all.

AS a course: Graduate students may receive 2-4 credits for this workshop by registering for Anthropology 297, section 4. Ungraded basis only (S/U), and may take the course for credit more than once. PTE numbers are required for non-anthropology students and may be requested from the convener at the first meeting of each quarter.

CPSC meets weekly in 352 Haines (Anthropology Reading Room)

Thursdays 4-6 pm.

Schedule Winter 2006

Thursday at 4PM in the Anthropology Reading Room, Haines 352

January

12 – Introduction

19 – Jonathan Jackson (Doctoral candidate in Anthropology UCLA): “Death and the State in China”

26 – Readings from D. Segal and S. Yanagisako, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle

February

2 – Saloni Mathur (Assistant Professor of Art History, UCLA): “Diasporic Body Double: The Art of the Singh Twins”

9 – Jack Katz (Professor of Sociology, UCLA): "Theaters of Neighborhood Life" from his forthcoming Six Hollywoods Mating, Generating Income and Local Everyday Routines in Los Angeles Neighborhoods, 1970-2010 by Jack Katz (UCLA), Peter Ibarra (Syracuse U) and Margarethe Kusenbach (U. of So. Florida)

16 – Eric Ávila (Associate Professor of Chicano/a Studies, UCLA): “Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles”

23 – Sydel Silverman (Professor Emerita of Anthropology, CUNY; Former President of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research): “Hollywood and American Anthropology at Mid-Century”

March

2 – George Marcus (Professor of Anthropology, UC Irvine): “Multisited Ethnography: Five or Six Things I Know About It Now”

9 – Benedito Dos Santos (Professor of Anthropology, Catholic University of Goiás, Brazil: “The Political Economy of Street Youths’ Survival Strategies in New York and Sao Paulo.”

16 – TBA