Professor Ortner will address the way Americans do and do not talk about class and the problems of doing ethnology at home by examining her own graduating high school class in Newark, New Jersey.

Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate College, College of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Committee on Jewish Culture and Society, Institute of Communications Research, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Office of Women's Programs, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University High School, Women's Studies Program, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, and George A. Miller Committee.