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MARIAL CENTER COLLOQUIUM
Professor Herve Varenne Professor and Chair Department of International and Transcultural Studies Teachers College, Columbia University
"A Dilemma for American Middle Class Families: Deconstructing Privilege"
Wednesday, Sept. 13, 4:00 PM The MARIAL Center Emory West, 4th Floor, Room 415E
Herve Varenne is a pioneer in the application of contemporary anthropological theory and discourse analysis to the study of middle class America. Born and raised in France, Varenne received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from University of Chicago where he studied with David Schneider and Milton Singer. His dissertation research in Appleton, Wisconsin led to the publication in 1977 of a now classic monograph on Middle Class America 1977 Americans Together: Structured Diversity in A Midwestern Town (New York: Teachers College Press). His interest in the American Family includes research on American discourse, including studies of American family conversations (Ambiguous Harmony: Family Talk in America. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation; 1987 "Talk and Real Talk: The Voices of Silence and the Voices of Power in American Family Life," Cultural Anthropology 2: 369-394. "Analytic Ambiguities in the Communication of Familial Power," in Power through Discourse, ed. by L. Kedar, 129-151. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing.) and the language of the classroom (1983 American School Language: The Rhetorical Structuring of Daily Life in a Suburban High School. New York: Irvington Publishers; "The Production of Kinds of Ethnic Discourse in the United States: American and Puerto-Rican Kinds," in The Sociogenesis of Language and Human Conduct, ed. by B. Bain, 553-68. New York: Plenum. (with F. Ruskin); "Language and Learning Situations," Society 20: 70-76; 1981 "Symbolizing American Culture in Schools," Character 2: 1-9.). He is the editor of an influential volume of essays on the symbolic dimensions of American culture (Symbolizing America, University of Nebrasks Press, 1986).
DIRECTIONS TO THE MARIAL CENTER Convenient and quick transportation to Emory West is available every 10 minutes from the Campus via shuttle (Route W, which can be found on the corner of Asbury Circle and Pierce Drive, Along Pierce Drive, or in Front of the Administration Building). It is a 5 minute ride. Or you can drive and park close in at Emory West, 1256 Briarcliff Rd. Tell the receptionist at the front window that you are here for the MARIAL Center lecture.
Refreshments will be served.
We look forward to seeing you at this and future colloquia.
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