Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University

“Crypto-Colonies in Europe and Asia: Dignity and Defiance in Political Hotspots”

Professor Michael Herzfeld is Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Before moving to Harvard, he taught at Vassar College (1978-80) and Indiana University (1980-91), where he served as Associate Chair of the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies, 1980-85, and as Chair of the Department of Anthropology, 1987-90. He has also taught at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1995), Paris, at the Università di Padova (1992), the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” (1999-2000), and the University of Melbourne (intermittently since 2004), and has held a visiting research appointments at the Australian National University and the University of Sydney (1985), at the University of Adelaide, and at the Université de Paris-X (Nanterre) (1991).

His major general research interest is currently the comparison of the forms of historical experience among Greek, Italian, Thai and other cultures. He has written extensively on anthropological and semiotic theory, narrative, metaphor and symbolism, the ethnography of southern Europe, local politics, and nationalism.

For more information: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~anthro/social_faculty_pages/social_pages_herzfeld.html

Where: Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus, Sally Walker Building, Seminar Room ad1.122. A map of the campus can be found here: http://www.deakin.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/330364/waterfront.pdf

The session will also be video-linked to the Burwood Campus, room C7.06, via Virtual Meeting Point (VMP) 5223 9354.

When: Thursday, 6 August, 5.00-6.50pm

All welcome. After the seminar, please join us for drinks/dinner at the Max Hotel, Gheringhap Street.