Tangibility: A Challenge for Anthropological Thought and Practice
Speaker:
Prof. Michael Herzfeld
Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences
Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Date: 3rd February 2018 (Saturday)
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Venue: Lecture Threater 9, Yasumoto International Academic Park
About the speaker:
The keynote speaker of the Tenth Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum (PGSF 10), Professor Michael Herzfeld, is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology Harvard University. He has taught at several other universities worldwide, including Vassar College (1978-80), Indiana University (1980-91), University of Manchester in 1994, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1995), Università di Padova (1992), the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (1999-2000), and the University of Melbourne (intermittently since 2004).
An advocate of ‘engaged anthropology’, Herzfeld has conducted extensive research in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, and is author of eleven books, most recently Siege of the Spirits: Community and Polity in Bangkok (2016), Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome (2009), and Cultural Intimacy: Social Poetics in the Nation State (2nd, revised edition, Routledge, 2005). He has also produced two ethnographic films (Monti Moments [2007] and Roman Restaurant Rhythms [2011]). |
