100 Years of Anthropology at Berkeley
Events to mark Anthropology at Berkeley's Centennial will continue in Spring 2002.
The George and Mary Foster Anthropology Library, has scheduled a third exhibit in The Bancroft Library, which will focus on the early history of the Department through 1960, using archival collections and faculty papers. The exhibit opens on February 20.
The Phoebe Apperson Hearst Museum of Anthropology will open a major new exhibit, "A Century of Collecting," which will feature several hundred of the museum's most famous and/or exquisite pieces, drawn from a diversity of world cultures and civilizations. The exhibit opens on February 28.
The Department will continue its Centennial Lecture Series with Margaret Lock (of McGill University) speaking on "Savouring Complexity: Anthropology and the Life Industry" on April 1. Dr. Lock's talk will be held at 4pm in 160 Kroeber Hall.
On March 15-16, 2002, the Department will host a small international conference: "Internal Boundaries and Internationalization--Four Decades of Berkeley Anthropological Research on Japan." The participants are multinational, with four from Japan, three faculty members, and four present and three former graduate students from Berkeley. The conference will be held in 221 Kroeber (the Gifford Room) and is open to the public. For more information on this conference, contact Kenji Tierney.
The major event of the year will be the Spring Centennial Conference, "Alfred Kroeber and his Legacy: A Centennial Conference," scheduled for April 12-13, 2002. This conference will celebrate Berkeley's past but will focus as much on the present and future engagement of anthropology with the world at large. The conference will be held in the Morrison Room in Doe Library and in the Valley Life Sciences Building Auditorium and is open to the public. For more information, contact: Rachel Goddard, assistant to the Anthropology Centennial Committee, or Nelson H. H. Graburn, Chair of the Anthropology Centennial Committee.
Alumni and friends of the department are welcome to attend all events.
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