April 3, 2007
Povinelli 290 Lecture
Elizabeth Povinelli gave a 290 lecture yesterday worth attending. The room was packed and the lecturer (whatever one might think of the piece) presented a serious effort at thought. These two facts alone make the event a red letter day in the Berkeley anthropology department. It seems so little to ask for, but one does have to wonder why there are so few such events in the department throughout the year. Certainly Berkeley could attract people who people at Berkeley want to hear from. But that’s another story…
I wanted to reflect on the talk here because I think it’s relevant to some of the conversations we’ve had in labinar settings and it intersects a good deal with the manuscript of conversations we read between George Marcus and Paul last September. And I also had questions about it that I wasn’t able (or prepared) to ask yesterday and so thought I would do so here. Read more »