Emory University | Department of Anthropology

Calendar of Events

Fall 2009 Speaker Series

Monday, October 26, 3:15 p.m.
Anthropology 206

Roberto Franzosi |
Sociology Department, Emory University
“Narratives of Lynchings: Georgia (1875-1930)”

Wednesday, October 28, 4:30 p.m.
Anthropology 206

Shalini Shankar |
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Northwestern University
“Discursive and Interdiscursive Constructions of Race and Ethnicity in Advertising”
(Hosted by the Linguistics Program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Film Studies Program and the Race and Difference Initiative)

Monday, November 9, 3:15 p.m.
Anthropology 206

Leslie Bank |
Associate Professor and Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
“Fractured Urbanism, Marginality and the Dissolution of Place in a South African City”

Monday, November 23, 4:30 p.m.
Anthropology 206

Flagg Miller |
Associate Professor, Religious Studies, University of California-Davis and Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC
“Bin Laden's Tapes: The Orders and Disorders of al-Qa`ida's Audio Jihad”
(Hosted by the Linguistics Program. Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Halle Institute for Global Learning)

Film Screening

Thursday, September 24, 2009, 7:00pm
Math Science Building Room E208

Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal's Maoist Army
Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig

Brandon Kohrt received his PhD in Anthropology from Emory and his MD from Emory’s School of Medicine in 2009. During his fieldwork in Nepal, Brandon collaborated with filmmaker Bob Koenig to create the documentary film, Returned: Child Soldiers of Nepal’s Maoist Army. Brandon is currently completing his residency with the Department of Psychiatry at Emory and serves as Mental Health and Research Technical Advisor with the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Nepal, a Nepali NGO engaged in psychosocial care of survivors of war and other human rights violations. Returned has played at numerous festivals and won awards including Best Child Advocacy Documentary at the Artivist Film Festival in Los Angeles, Best Student Documentary from the Society for Visual Anthropology, and Best Documentary Short at the Atlanta Underground Film Festival.