March 28–April 3, 2009
The Middle Classes: A Global Perspective
Rachel Heiman, Co-Chair
Assistant Professor
Bachelor’s Program and Department of Social Sciences
The New School for Social Research
Aihwa Ong, Co-Chair
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
The seminar brought together scholars who were researching the middle classes in a range of nation-states including Nepal, Hungary, Egypt, Austria, China, Barbados, Mexico, and the United States.
May 3–7, 2009
Markets and Moralities
Peter Benson, Co-Chair
Postdoctoral Fellow
Program in Agrarian Studies
Yale University
Edward F. Fischer, Co-Chair
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
Vanderbilt University
This seminar documented how specific moral values are embedded in global economic systems, and it provided ethnographic examinations of how economic systems and institutions touch down in local and national contexts.
August 17–21, 2009
Nature, Science, and Religion: Intersections Shaping Society and the Environment
Catherine M. Tucker, Chair
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
Indiana University
“Does religion shape or affect environmental practice, and if so, how?” Lynn White’s intriguing question, posed initially in a 1967 Science article, sparked this advanced seminar.
September 26–October 2, 2009
Toward a Global Human History: Agency and the Explanation of Long-Term Change
Timothy R. Pauketat, Co-Chair
Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois
John Robb, Co-Chair
Senior Lecturer
Department of Archaeology
Cambridge University
Why do there appear to have been long periods of little change early in human archaeological history? Can we square such explanations with those we use to explain, say, the state?