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MillerComm Lecture Series

Culture and Agency in History

Thursday, March 21st, 2002
Marshall Sahlins
7:30 pm

Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 W. Illinois St.
Urbana

Event Description

How cultural order authorizes historical agency--of individual subjects and collectives. Features conceptual high-flying and examples from the 1951 National League pennant race, war in the Fiji Islands and the Elian Gonzalez saga. Illustrated.

Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Department of History

In conjunction with: Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Communications, Department of the Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Economics, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Department of Speech Communications, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Office of Continuing Education, Program for the Study of Religion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Marshall Sahlins

George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC and Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago