LECTURE: Human rights and the sense of place

You are invited to a free public lecture by

Professor Michael Herzfeld, Anthropology, Harvard University

Date and Time: Friday 20 August at 6.00pm Geography Lecture Theatre 1, UWA (The nearest carpark is 18 and 19 via Fairway entrance No 1). Please refer to map on http://maps.uwa.edu.au/crawley/display/6

This public lecture is part of the forthcoming symposium hosted by the Institute of Advanced Studies and titled:

TRACS (Transnationalisms, Racisms, Communities and Settlements) Research Centre initiative August 16-20, 2004 Theme: Generations of Migration

This program includes a research workshop, a new researcher’s day and three public lectures. Registration is essential for the symposium but public lectures are free. More information including the registration form, fees and abstracts of speakers is available from our website on http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/activities_and_programs/other_activities_and_events

Biography:

Professor Michael Herzfeld has been a member of the Anthropology Department at Harvard since 1991. He is a social anthropologist with area specializations in the ethnography of southern Europe (especially Greece and Italy) and of Thailand. He has served as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association and the Society for the Anthropology of Europe. His current research interests include the negotiation and construction of the past, the inculcation of social and cultural values, performance and social identity, historic conservation, artisanship, and the politics of the past. His publications include Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology, and the Making of Modern Greece (1982); The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village (1985); Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass: Critical Ethnography in the Margins of Europe (1987); A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town (1991); The Social Production of Indifference: Exploring the Symbolic Roots of Western Bureaucracy (1992); Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation-State (1997); Portrait of a Greek Imagination: An Ethnographic Biography of Andreas Nenedakis (1997); and Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society (2001). His talk previews the argument of his forthcoming book, The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value (due out later this year with The University of Chicago Press). His current visit to Australia comes as an interlude in his ongoing research in the heart of Bangkok.

ALL WELCOME. NO RESERVATION IS REQUIRED

For more information please contact The Institute of Advanced Studies, UWA on Tel (08) 6488 1340; Email [email protected]; www.ias.uwa.edu.au