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<div>The Centre for Cultural Research, College of the Arts, Education
and Social Sciences, University of Western Sydney and<font
face="Arial" size="-1"> the Cultural Research
Network </font>would like to invite you to a public talk by</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>Professor Michael Herzfeld</b></font>,
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University.</div>
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<div><font size="+1"><b>'Capital Concerns: Nation-States,
Markets, and the Tribulations of the Traditional'</b></font></div>
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<div>Professor Herzfeld will discuss the construction of national
essences for tourist consumption as well as for internal
self-representation in Greece, Italy, and Thailand, and talk about the
ways in which notions such as "tradition" become a means of
controlling access to modernity at local, national, and international
levels. His ethnographic materials, ranging across these three
countries, will also encompass artisanship and its transmission as
well as the contentious discourses of national heritage and historic
conservation. He will also use the opportunity to make a
passionate plea for the recognition of anthropology as -- after some
years of collective self-doubt -- a politically and socially engaged
discipline.</div>
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<div><font face="Geneva">Michael Herzfeld is Professor of Anthropology
at Harvard University, where he has worked since 1991. He is a social
anthropologist specializing in the ethnography of southern Europe
(especially Greece and Italy) and of Thailand. He has served as
President of the Modern Greek Studies Association and the Society for
the Anthropology of Europe. His current research interests include the
construction of the past, the inculcation of social and cultural
values, performance and social identity, historic conservation and
artisanship. He has published widely for over thirty years and is the
author of many articles and books, including<i> The Poetics of
Manhood</i> (1985),<i> Anthropology Through the Looking-Glass</i>
(1987),<i> A Place in History</i> (1991),<i> The Social Production of
Indifference</i> (1992),<i> Cultural Intimacy</i> (1997),<i>
Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society</i> (2001)
and<i> Body Impolitic</i> (2003).</font></div>
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<div>Date: Monday, 8 <font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"> August </font>, 2005</div>
<div>Time: 4-6pm</div>
<div>Venue: Female Orphan School, Parramatta Campus, University of
Western Sydney</div>
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<div>You are invited for drinks afterwards.</div>
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<div>Please RSVP by <font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"> Monday</font>, <font face="Arial"
size="-1" color="#0000FF"> 1 August,05 </font> to
ccr@uws.edu.au.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Dr Greg Noble<br>
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School of
Humanities <span
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</x-tab>ph: (02) 47 360 365<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
C Bldg, Kingswood campus<br>
Locked Bag
1797 <span
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> </x-tab>email: g.noble@uws.edu.au<br>
Penrith South DC<br>
NSW 1797<br>
Australia<br>
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Researcher, Centre for Cultural Research</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Parramatta Campus, UWS</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Co-author of<i> Bin Laden in the Suburbs:
Criminalising the Arab Other</i> (Sydney Institute of Criminology,
2004)</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Dr Greg Noble<br>
<br>
School of
Humanities <span
></span> <x-tab>
</x-tab>ph: (02) 47 360 365<br>
University of Western Sydney<br>
C Bldg, Kingswood campus<br>
Locked Bag
1797 <span
></span> <x-tab
> </x-tab>email: g.noble@uws.edu.au<br>
Penrith South DC<br>
NSW 1797<br>
Australia<br>
<br>
Researcher, Centre for Cultural Research</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Parramatta Campus, UWS</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Co-author of<i> Bin Laden in the Suburbs:
Criminalising the Arab Other</i> (Sydney Institute of Criminology,
2004)</font></div>
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