Check Out the Department Newsletter for November 2014

 

Recent publications (books, articles, blog posts, etc.)

Rashmi Sadana

- Newspaper editorial column: “Modi in US: The Politics of the Crowd,” in DNA (Daily News & Analysis), Mumbai, October 10, 2014: Print edition, p. 8. Accessible online at http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-modi-in-us-politics-of-the-crowd-2024778

Roger Lancaster

- Roger Lancaster’s article, “Cultural Institutions Do Not Reduce to Genes,” appears in the Fall 2014 Contexts.

Linda Seligman

- Anthropology Professor Linda J. Seligmann’s article, "Policing the Borders: Advanced Capitalism, Touristic Ventures, and National Visions," was published in the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 39(3), 2014.”

Rashmi Sadana

- Conference presentation: “Building the environment: Post-colonial desire and the architectures of the Delhi Metro,” for the panel, “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure”, at the Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 16-19, 2014.

Johanna Bockman

- In October, Johanna Bockman gave a keynote presentation titled "1989 as
a Thwarted Transition to Socialism: Mainstream Neoclassical Economists
and their Socialist Programs” at a conference on the history of 1989
hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, gave an presentation
on the history of DC's cooperative movement at the Woodrow Wilson
Center, spoke about 1950s economic development thought in Eastern Europe
at Columbia University, and described her translation (with
co-translator Ariane Fischer) of a previously untranslated text by Karl
Polanyi at the University of Quebec at Montreal.

Mentions in the media, award nominations.         

Lester Kurtz

- Lester Kurtz, from George Mason University’s Sociology and Anthropology Department, received the Lester F. Ward Distinguished Contribution to Applied and Clinical Sociology Award from the Association for Applied & Clinical Sociology.Ward, who was elected the first president of the American Sociological Society in 1914 (later the ASA), said that sociology is “a science of liberation.” Prof. Kurtz is pictured here with Robert Kettlitz, President of the ACSA, upon receiving the award at their annual meetings on 10 October 2014, where Kurtz delivered the keynote address.​

Roger Lancaster

- Lancaster joins the Executive Board of the National Center for Reason and Justice, a non-profit organization that educates and advocates for child-protective laws and criminal justice programs based on science, fairness, and good sense.

 

Anne Schiller

- Anne Schiller has signed a contract with the University of Toronto Press for publication of her forthcoming book, “Merchants in the City of Art: Work, Identity, and Change in a Florentine Neighborhood.”

Johanna Bockman