MMAC Spring 2009 Schedule

Monday April 6 Jean Briggs Discussion on Empathy

Monday April 13 Heather Willihnganz Huffmann/ Gregory Simon (USC)

Monday April 20 Cheryl Mattingly

Monday April 27 Tom Weisner

Monday May 4 Hanna Garth/Linh An

Monday May 11 Yunxiang Yan

Monday May 18 Ghassan Hage

Monday May 25 Memorial Day -- No Meeting

Monday June 1 TBD

 

MMAC Winter 2009 Schedule

Monday January 19--No meeting MLK Day

Monday January 26 Transformation Module Part II discussion with Sonya Pritzker, Megan Mulet, Heather Willihnganz Huffman

Monday Feb 2 Naomi Quinn, Visiting Professor at UCLA, Former Chair of the Cultural Anthropology Department at Duke and Past President of the Society of Psychological Anthropology, Dr. Quinn is the of several books including, A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning co-authored with Claudia Strauss and Cultural Models in Language and Thought co-authored with Dorothy Holland
 
We will discuss Quinn's piece on the "Universals of Child Rearing"

Monday Feb 9 Steve Black and Muriel Vernon

Monday Feb 16--No meeting Presidents Day

Monday Feb 23 Society for Psychological Anthropology Meetings UCLA Panelists Session

Monday March 2 Julia Helen Eksner "Life Trajectory Models of Turkish Adolescents in Berlin"

Monday March 9 Steve Lopez and Linda Garro

 

MMAC Fall 2008 Schedule 

Sept 29 Clint Humphrey “The Games of These Divers” Film Screening/Welcome Back Party 

Oct 6  Rob Lemelson film "40 Years of Silence" and article 

Oct 13  Read Tony Robben: How Traumatized Societies Remember article 

Oct 20 Health Challenges in Nicaragua: Clint Humphrey and Kristin Yarris student presentations 

 Oct 27  Juliet McMullin visit: “Excess Flesh: Hawaiian Health, Body and Land” 

Nov 3 AAA Student Presentations: Mi Kyung Kim, Hanna Garth, Muriel Vernon, Rachel Brezis 

Nov 10 Read Crapanzano: Shadowing the Real from Anthropological Theory  

Nov 17  Vincent Crapanzano talk

Nov 24 Tony Robben talk “Southern Sorrows: Mourning and Reparations” 

Dec 1  Clinical Trials Module: reading TBD by Heather Willihngang and Katie Hale