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Spring 2004
Fall 2003

Spring 2004

Women's Voices, Women's Choices: HIV and Nutrition in Malawi

Margaret Bentley, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Global Health
Professor, Department of Nutrition, UNC-CH School of Public Health

Amy L. Corneli, MPH
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education
UNC-CH School of Public Health

Monday, April 5th 3:30
308 Alumni Bldg.

ABSTRACT
This seminar will describe the issues related to maternal to child
transmission of HIV in Malawi, particularly through breastfeeding.
Formative, qualitative data will be presented from the perspective of
HIV positive women, who must make choices related to VCT (Voluntary Counseling and Testing), whether to breastfeed or provide replacement milks, and on timing of cessation of breastfeeding. Data are also presented related to women's perceptions of their own health and nutrition status.

UNC-Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series Presents:

Avant-garde Art and Politics in Early 1960s Japan:
The Yomiuri Indépendant and the Readymade Critique of Everyday Life

Presented by: William Marotti, Assistant Professor
Weatherhead East Asia Institute, Columbia University

Monday, March 22, 3:30 - Alumni 308

UNC-Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series Presents:

The Ethnography of Social Movement Networks

Presented by Xochtil Leyva,
Professor, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social-CIESAS San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

March 17th at 3:30 in Alumni 308

Please join us for the first SAS Brown Bag of the semester!

Talk given by Carie Hersh

Title: Violent Play: Distinguishing the “Self” and the “Other” in U.S.
Military Rituals - click here for description

Date: Thursday, February 5th
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: Anthropology Lounge, Alumni 313A

Please join us for the first SAS Brown Bag of the semester!

Talk given by Carie Hersh

Title: Violent Play: Distinguishing the “Self” and the “Other” in U.S.
Military Rituals - click here for description

Date: Thursday, February 5th
Time: 12:30-1:45pm
Place: Anthropology Lounge, Alumni 313

Joint Colloquium
UNC Department of Anthropology and Duke Department of Cultural Anthropology

When: Friday, January 16 at 5:00
Where: 308 Alumni Bldg.
Who: Speaker: Brad Weiss (Anthropology, William and Mary) Click here for more info on Brad Weiss's research
Talk: "Chronic Mobb Asks a Blessing: Apocalyptic Hip Hop in A Time of Crisis."

Fall 2003

UNC Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series

Who: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Professor Of Anthropology (UC Berkeley
& Director, Organs Watch
What: talk entitled, Parts Unknown: Undercover Ethnography On The Organs Traffic Underworld
When:
Friday, December 5 at 4:00
Where: Room 308 Alumni Bldg.


UNC Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series presents a lecture:

Given by: Peter Hervik, School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations Studies, Malmö University

Title: The Perils of Public Anthropology? Multiculturalism in Neo-Nationalist Scandinavia click here for full description

Date/Time: Monday, Nov. 17th - 3:15

Where: Alumni Bldg, Room 308

Please join us for two brown bag talks this week given by two of our graduate students.

Wednesday, November 12th at 12:00 -
Theresa McReynolds will present,
"Patterns in the Distribution of Archaic and Woodland Projectile Points in North Carolina"

Both talks will be in the Anthropology Lounge, 313A -Alumni Bldg.

Tuesday, November 11th at 1:15pm* -
Sara Simon will present,
Health and the Emergence of Chiefdoms: 3 Ossuary Sites from Piscataway Park, Maryland

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