Spring 2018
| Jan 18 (Thu) | Donald BRENNEIS, William JANKOWIAK, Ichiro NUMAZAKI, and Anne UNDERHILL, Visiting Committee Roundtable. (details) Time: 4:30 – 6:00 pm Venue: NAH 12 |
| Feb 3 (Sat) | Michael HERZFELD, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, “Tangibility: A Challenge for Anthropological Thought and Practice.” (details) Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm (tentative) Venue: Lecture Theatre 9, Yasumoto International Academic Park (This talk will be presented for Postgraduate Forum held on 2 to 3 Feb 2018) |
| Feb 9 | Jermaine GORDON, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “When the Sun Sets in the Land of the Rising Sun: Sexual Behavior and Psychoanalytic Theory in Japan.” (details) |
| Feb 23 | Guangtian HA, School of Arts, SOAS, University of London, “Empire of Sound: Islam and the End of An Alternative Cosmopolitanism in Modern China.” (details) |
| Mar 2 | Venera KHALIKOVA, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, “Strengthening the Body and the Nation through Traditional Medicine and Biomoral Consumption in Contemporary India.” (details) |
| Mar 9 | Ruslan YUSUPOV, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “The Ethics of Prohibition: Islamic Tradition, the Secular State and the Ban on Alcohol in a Chinese Muslim Town.” (details) |
| Mar 16 | Man Kei TAM, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Radioactive Citizens: Re-assembling Life in Post-Fukushima Japan.” (details) |
| Mar 23 | Elena NICHINI, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Interwoven: Contamination, Risk and Cleaning-up in a Chinese Textile Cluster.” (details) |
| Apr 6 | Yuk Wah CHAN, Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, “Sweetness, Maids and Power: Globalization of First World Kitchen and Care Work.” (details) |
| Apr 13 | Lynn SUN, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “The Happiness Impasse: Exploring the Pursuits of Marital Happiness as Moral Experience in Urban Japan and China.” (details) |
| Apr 20 | 羅晶晶, 人類學系, 香港中文大學‚ “從博物館走向特色小鎮—解析銅綠山古銅礦遺址的保護過程.” (普通話主講) (details) |
| Seminars take place at 1:00-2:30 p.m. in Room 115 Humanities Building, New Asia College, CUHK (except Jan 18 and Feb 3). A light lunch will be served at 12:30 pm. First come first served. ALL INTERESTED ARE WELCOME! |
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