Fall 2000
Spring 2001
Fall 2000
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Herve Varenne (Teacher's College, Columbia University)
"A Dilemma for American Middle Class Families:
Deconstructing Privilege"
Wednesday, Sept. 20, 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Mark Auslander (Department of Anthropology,
Oxford College of Emory University)
"The Myth of Kitty: Narratives of Slavery
and Kinship in a Georgia Community"
Wednesday, Sept. 27, 4:00 p.m.
Audrey Galex and Sara Ghitis (Roots and Wings Life Stories)
"Harvesting Life Stories through
Family History Interviews"
Wednesday, October 4th, 4:00 p.m.
Suzanne Meyer, Pat Kahn, and Ray Gangarosa
"Coming to grips with Coming of Age: Developing
a Year-long Adolescent Rite of Passage for a Unitarian Universalist
Congregation"
Friday, October 13th, 4:00 p.m.
John Gillis (Department of History, Rutgers University)
"Our Virtual Families: Toward a Cultural
Understanding of Modern Family Life"
Wednesday, October 18, 4:00 p.m.
Professor George Armelagos (Department of Anthropology, Emory
University)
"What's For Dinner"
Wednesday, October 25th, 4:00 p.m.
Professor Karen Hegtvedt (Chair, Emory College Internal Review
Board) and Nancy Seideman (Emory News and Information Services)
"Dilemmas of Public Scholarship:
Protecting Human Subjects vs. Projecting Human Subjects"
Wednesday, November 1st, 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Chris McCollum (MARIAL Fellow, Emory University)
"Relatedenss and Self-Definition:
Two Dominant Themes in Middle-Class Americans' Life Stories"
Wednesday, November 8th, 4:00 p.m.
Virginia Yans (Department of History, Rutgers University)
"Making Family History at a National
Museum: Myth, Commodity, Genealogy and American Families at Ellis
Island"
Thursday, November 9th, 4:00 p.m.
PLEASE NOTE: Colloquium location is White Hall Room 112
Virginia Yans (Department of History, Rutgers University)
"Margaret Mead: An Observer Observed"
Dr. Yans will present and discuss her film on Margaret Mead.
MARIAL and the Department of Anthropology, co-sponsors.
Wednesday, December 6th, 4:00p.m.
Felicity Paxton (MARIAL Fellow, Emory University)
"Not in our Backyard! Ritual Repudiation
and the High School Prom"
Wednesday, December 13th, 4:00p.m.
Bradd Shore (MARIAL Center Director and Department of Anthropology,
Emory University)
"Is There Really an American 'Culture?'
The 'Modularity Schema' Reconsidered"
Thursday, January 18th, 4:00p.m.
Exhibit Opening
"A Dream Deferred: African Americans at
Emory and Oxford College, 1836-1968"
Wednesday, January 24th, 4:00p.m.
Moore's Ford Memorial Committee
"Rituals of Healing and Reconciliation:
Remembering Racial Violence in our Region"
Wednesday, January 31st, 3:00p.m.
Harrold Littlebird
"Ceremonial Healing on the Northern
Cheyenne Reservation"
Wednesday, February 7th, 3:00p.m.
Diana Smay (Department of Anthropology, Emory University)
"The Disease of Ritual: Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder as 'Hypernormal' Behavior"
Wednesday, February 14th, 3:00p.m.
Bradd Shore (Department of Anthropology, Emory University and
Director, MARIAL Center)
"What's So Special About Ritual?"
Wednesday, February 21st, 3:00p.m.
Carolyn Marvin (The Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania)
"Voting Alone: The Passing of 'Mass' Democracy"
Wednesday, February 28th, 3:00p.m.
Conrad Kottak (Chair, Department of Anthropology, University
of Michigan and The Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life)
"Media in the Middle: Work, Family and
Media Use in a Middle Class Midwestern Town"
Wednesday, March 7th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Tom Fricke (University of Michigan, Associate Professor
of Anthropology and Director, Center for the Ethnography of Everyday
Life)
"The Geography of Moral Sentiment:
Placing Work and Family in Western North Dakota"
March 20th
Graduate Fellowship Applications due (Please click here
for more information)
Wednesday, March 21st, 3:00p.m.
Daran Wang and Rebecca Myers
"Creating The Memory Box"
Wednesday, March 28th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Tom Csordas (Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve
University)
"Children of the Word of God: Morality
and Spirituality in the Second Generation of a Charismatic Community"
April 1st
Undergraduate Fellowship Applications due (Please click here
for more information)
Wednesday, April 4th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Gary Laderman
"Grief Mythology and the Invention of
a Modern American Tradition"
Wednesday, April 11th, 3:00p.m.
No colloquium this week
Wednesday, April 18th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Carlene Stephens
(Curator, Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
"24-7-365: How Did We Get This Way and
What Will We Do about It?"
Wednesday, April 25th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Elinor Ochs
"Everyday Narrative As Sense-making Activity"
Friday, April 27th, 3:00p.m.
Dr. Margaret A. Perkinson
"Caregiver's Dilemmas: Sandwiched
Between the Needs of Old and Young Family Members"
DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER
The MARIAL Center is located on the 4th floor of
the main building of Emory West, 1256 Briarcliff Rd. There is
ample parking close to the building. Alternatively, you may take
the Emory shuttle (Route W). The shuttle leaves every half hour
from the main campus and is a 10-minute ride. Route W shuttle
stops are located at the corner of Asbury Circle and Pierce Drive,
along Pierce Drive, and in front of the Administration Building.
Please tell the receptionist at the front window
that you are here for the MARIAL Center lecture.
