Speaker: Michael Herzfeld (Harvard University)

Topic: The World in the eye of Anthropologist

Date: May 22, 2015 - Friday

Time: 14:00-17:00

Venue: Lecture Hall II, Conference Center, Hongkou Campus

Topic: What Language Studies Have to Teach Anthropology, and What Anthropology must Learn About Language

Date: May 23, 2015 - Saturday

Time: 18:30-20:30

Venue: R606, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Topic: Language, Dialect, Register: The Social Dimensions of Everyday Speech: Examples from around the World

Date: May 25, 2015 - Monday

Time: 09:00-11:00

Venue: R604, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Seminar on Anthropology

This seminar will address the challenge of creating a set of basic and coherent methodological tools for anthropological field research.

Date: May 25, 2015 - Monday

Time: 14:00-16:00

Venue: R602, Run Run Shaw Library, Hongkou Campus

Speaker Biography: Michael Herzfeld is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences and the Curator of European Ethnology in the Peabody Museum at Harvard University. He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge (B.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology, 1969), Athens (non-degree program in Greek Folklore, 1969-70), Birmingham (M.A., Modern Greek Studies, 1972; D.Litt., 1989); and Oxford (Social Anthropology, D.Phil., 1976). 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). Lord Simon Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester in 1994, 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).