Quadrant Program Calendar of Events, 2011-12
Past events 2011-12
Thursday, October 6
Exceptional Life: Moral Statehood, Subjectivity and the Politics of HIV Care in Freetown, Sierra Leone - A talk by Adia Benton
Adia Benton is a a medical anthropologist and visiting scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Oberlin College. She received her PhD in social (medical) anthropology at Harvard University. Her research has focused on HIV treatment, care and support efforts in Freetown, Sierra Leone, examining how HIV treatment, care, and support in a low-prevalence, post-conflict setting reflects, engenders and reproduces novel forms of “exception”-- in terms of subjectivities, professional practice, and in knowledge production within, about, and for Africa. Dr. Benton will be in residence in fall 2011 with the Health & Society group of Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, October 14
From the Frying-Pan to the Floodplain: Negotiating Land and Water in Chennai's Development - A talk by Karen Coelho
Karen Coelho is a professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies in Chennai, India, where she focuses her research on urban governance and reforms. Prof. Coelho received her Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Arizona, Tucson in 2004 and has since been the recipient of the Richard Carley Hunt Fellowship, awarded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and an Independent Fellowship with SARAI, The New Media Initiative, a programme of the Center for Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Organized by the Global Cultures Group of Quadrant and offered in conjunction with the Geography Coffee Hour.
3:30 p.m., 445 Blegen Hall
Thursday, October 20
Crossing ‘La Terre Noire': Refurbishing Roads and Encountering Sacred Space in Post-Colonial Dahomey and Benin - A talk by Marcus Filippello
Marcus Filippello is a visiting assistant professor in history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He received his doctorate in African history from the University of California-Davis in 2010. His project, “Crossing the ‘Black Earth': Environmental Change, Eco-Nationalism, and Post-Independence Autonomy in a Beninese Forest Community,” is based on his dissertation. The manuscript analyzes the textual nature of a road traversing a valley of seasonal wetlands to emphasize social and environmental change in southeastern Benin, West Africa. Professor Filippello will be in residence in fall 2011 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability group of Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Friday, October 28
From a “Moroccan Court” to the “Gardens of Aeolus”: Transforming Nature, Culture, and Space in Immigrant Paris - A talk by Andrew Newman
Andrew Newman is a professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University. During the 1990s and 2000s, residents of a predominately West African and Maghrebi neighborhood in Paris waged a successful campaign to transform a brownfield site into a public green space. The resulting park – the Jardins d'Éole (trans: Gardens of Aeolus) – was hailed internationally as an innovative example of ecologically sound urban redevelopment. However, Andrew Newman's ethnographic research on the planning process for the park reveals a profound disconnect between the environmental and cultural importance of the space for the residents and the goals of sustainable urban redevelopment. His presentation will detail the implications that these conflicting notions of environmentalism, nature, and culture have for green politics and social justice in the city. Organized by the Global Cultures and Environment groups of Quadrant and offered in conjunction with the Geography Coffee Hour.
3:30 p.m., 445 Blegen Hall
Thursday, November 3
Secret Passages: Libertinism and the Architecture of Seduction - A presentation by Keith Bresnahan
Keith Bresnahan is a professor of Design History and Theory at the Ontario College of Art & Design. Prof. Bresnahan is a historian and theorist of architecture and graphic design, whose work considers the political and philosophical dimensions of design in the modern and early modern eras. His research is particularly concerned with models of subjectivity and feeling in architecture, urbanism, and interior design, and with historical claims for the social and political agency of design. Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture group of Quadrant
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, December 8
Wine and Blood: Neuroethics, Violence, and the Manufacturing of Consent in the French Army on the Western Front, 1914-1918 - A talk by Adam Zientek
Adam Zientek will argue that between 1914 and 1918, the French army initiated, organized, refined, and perfected a means of controlling the behavior and thoughts of its soldiers through the strategic distribution of alcohol. Zientek contends that most salient aspects of soldiers’ culture and social interactions turned upon alcohol distribution and consumption and he reexamines the mutinies of 1917 as he uses statistical models to elucidate the relationship between alcohol consumption and levels of violence. Organized by the Health and Society group of Quadrant.
4:00 p.m., 125 Nolte Center
Thursday, February 9
Subterranean Scenographies: Time Travel through 'Miraculous' Mexico - Presentation by Luis Castañeda
Mexico's mid twentieth-century economic 'miracle' brought about a wide range of innovations in architecture and design, especially in Mexico City, where these processes were primarily concentrated. No urban artifact emerged at the time as a better showpiece for these processes than the capital's underground transit system. Inscribing the subway system's design process within the broader context of mid twentieth-century official culture in Mexico, this talk will examine the numerous discursive contradictions and social conflicts that defined the actual completion of this ambitious work of urban infrastructure, linking its promotion and reception as a technological and cultural wonder to longer histories of modernist experiments. Luis Castañeda is an assistant professor of Art History at Syracuse University. Professor Castañeda is in residence spring 2012 with the Design, Architecture, and Culture group of Quadrant. Thursdays at Four presentation.
125 Nolte Center, 4 p.m.
Thursday, March 1
Home Sweet Home- Presentation by Richard Altenbaugh
Richard Altenbaugh presents work from his current project, "Children and Disease: The Cultural Impact of Polio in Twentieth-Century America." This presentation will focus on the return of children disabled by polio to their families. He analyzes the impact on the entire household, exploring physical impediments, emotional turmoil and abuse, financial burdens, and sibling relationships. Richard Altenbaugh is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Secondary Education/Foundations of Education at Slippery Rock University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, and Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Organized by the Health and Society Group of Quadrant.Thursdays at Four presentation.
125 Nolte Center, 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 10
Non-governmental Memory: The Socialist Monument in Post-(Socialist) Yugoslavia
Presentation by Andrew Herscher
Andrew Herscher is Assistant Professor, A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Department of Art History, University of Michigan. His work explores the architectural and urban media of political violence, cultural memory, collective identity, and social justice, focusing on modern and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. NOTE: THIS PRESENTATION WILL NOT BE RECORDED. Organized by the Design, Architecture, and Culture and Global Cultures groups of Quadrant.
125 Nolte Center, 4 p.m.
Friday, April 20
Globalization and the Mismeasurement of Poverty - Presentation by Jim Glassman
Perspectives developed by economic geographers on the complex heterogeneity of global economic space have largely been missing from broader debates about globalization, poverty, and inequality. Glassman argues that taking the heterogeneity of global economic space seriously poses insuperable barriers to the employment of a meaningful and non-redundant concept of income poverty. Recognition of this result encourages more appropriate and relevant ways of examining poverty that pay adequate attention to the heterogeneous contexts in which people’s sense of the adequacy or inadequacy of their standards of living are formed.
JIm Glassman is an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia. Organized by the Global Cultures group of Quadrant and offered in conjunction with the Geography Coffee Hour.
445 Blegen Hall, 3:30 p.m.
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