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Debbora Battaglia, PhD Email: dbattagl@mtholyoke.edu Office: Merrill House, Room 204 Tel: 413-538-2293 |
Presentations
Keynote Addresses:
(2005) “Ethnography Between the Lines”. Cambridge University
conference, Description and Creativity: Approaches to
Collaboration and Value from Anthropology, Science, and
Technology. Cambridge University, Cambridge,England, July 3-6,
2005.
(2004) “Human Cloning and Post-Apocalyptic Personhood“ Keynote
address for the European Molecular Biology Organization
conference on Science and Society: Time & Aging – Mechanisms and
Meanings, Heidelberg,Germany, November 6-7, 2004.
(2003) “Invitations to Abduction: Technoscience Spirituality,
The Media, and G.S. Peirce” Keynote Address for the Cornell -
St. Andrews University Knowledge Exchange Conference, Cornell
University, September 7, 2003.
(2003) “Technoscience Spirituality: An Invitation to Abduction
in a New Key” Keynote Address for the Association for Social
Anthropology Decennial Meetings, Plenary Session, Manchester,
England, July 21, 2003.
(1998) “Ethnomathematics and Ideology” Keynote Address for
Mathematics Across The Curriculum conference, Dartmouth College,
New Hampshire, July 1998. Invited Presentations (selected)
“Writing Outer Spaces” Paper presented at the University of
Lisbon, June 2003.
“Insiders’ Voices in Outer Spaces: Invitations to Abduction in a
New Religious Movement” Paper presented at Yale University,
January 2003.
“Writing Outer Spaces” Paper presented at the University of
Chicago, Department of Anthropology, May 2002.
“Multiplicities: The Anthropology of Human Replication in
Popular Cinema”. Paper presented at the Humanities Center,
Harvard University, History of Science seminar, April 2000.
“Corporealizing Theory” Discussant’s paper, presented at the
Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association
session, Narratives of Modernity, November 1999.
“Time and Race in Replication Genre Films: An Anthropological
Reading” Paper presented at the annual Cinema Studies
Conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 1999.
“Writing Performance in Good Conscience” Paper presented at
Cambridge University, Department of Social Anthropology,
February 1999.
“Toward an Ethics of the Open Subject: Writing Culture In Good
Conscience”. Paper presented at Columbia University, Department
of Anthropology, October 1998.
"The Culture in the Clone" Paper presented at
the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association
session, Cloning Around (President's invited panel), Washington,
D.C., November l997.
"Towards a Pacific Ethnography of Contingency" Discussant’s
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association session, Rethinking Subjectivities,
Washington, D.C., November l997.
"Multiplicities: An Overview of Animation and Cessation"
Discussant’s Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, session on Animation and
Cessation, San Francisco, November l996.
"Fear of Selfing in the American Cultural Imaginary" Paper
presented at the conference Anthropology and the Question of the
Other. Rudesheim am Rhein, Germany. Institut fur Ethnologie und
Afrika-Studien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Apr 30-May
5, l995.
"Meditations on the Social Life of Things: Some Critical
Considerations" Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of
the Association of Art Historians, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, England, April 7-9, l995.
"Displacing Identities: Cultural Process Among Urban
Trobrianders" Department of Anthropology, Harvard University.
Cambridge, December l994.
"Who Authors/Authorizes The Self: Anthropological Perspectives"
NSF Workshop on Cultural Pluralism and Ethical Decision-Making,
Stanford University, May l2, l994.
"You Are Never Alone With a Clone: The Ethics and Aesthetics of
Human Cloning in the American Media" Paper presented at the NEH-sponsored
conference What's Blood Got To Do With It: Rethinking Kinship.
University of California at Santa Cruz, June l994.
"Retaining Reality: Some Practical Problems with Objects as
Property" Paper presented at the Association for Social
Anthropology Decennial meeting. Oxford, July l993.
"On Practical Nostalgia" Paper presented at the Department of
Anthropology, Rice University. February l993.
"Urban Trobriand "Publicity" in the National Press: Thinking
About Self-Prospecting" Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of
the American Anthropological Association (invited session) "The
Rhetorics of Self-Making". San Francisco (December l992).
"Urban Trobriand Identity Displacement: An Indigenous
Problematic" Colloquium, Department of Anthropology, Stanford
University. Stanford, (April l992).
"Humor and Self Displacement in Urban Trobriand Practice" Public
lecture sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, University
of California at Berkeley. Berkeley (March l992).
"Displacing Culture: A Joke of Significance in Urban New Guinea"
Paper presented at the conference on "Culture and Change", The
Commonwealth Institute for Literary and Cultural Change,
University of Virginia (November l99l).
"Cultural Screen Memory and Ideologies of Persistence:
Preliminary Thoughts from Melanesia" Paper presented at the
conference "Embodiment and Sociality", University of Manchester,
England (July l99l).
"Ideologies of Persistence: Comment on Fredrik Barth" Paper
presented at the Plenary Session "Culture and Memory", Annual
Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Boston (May
l99l).
"The Body in the Gift: Further Thoughts on Sabarl Gender and
Exchange" Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology,
University of California at Santa Cruz (January l99l).
"Punishing the Yams: Leadership and Gender Ambivalence on Sabarl
Island" Paper presented at the conference on "Big Men and Great
Men in Melanesia". Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
Paris (July l987).
"Urban Gardens and their Magic" Paper presented at the
Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
(October l985).
"Urban Gardens and Self-Construction" Paper presented at the
Department of Anthropology, University of Papua New Guinea
(August l985).
"Lines and Circles: Melanesian Myth, Reciprocity and
Reproduction" Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology,
New York University (March l984).
"Body-Building in Melanesia: Constructs of the Person in Sabarl
Mortuary Rituals" Paper presented at the Department of
Anthropology, University of Chicago (May l982).
“Body-Building in Melanesia: Preliminary Thoughts” Paper
presented at the Department of Anthropology, University of
California at San Diego (May l982).
"Self-Decoration in Melanesia" Paper presented at the Department
of Art.University of California at Los Angeles (December l98l).
"Witchcraft and Sorcery Among the Sabarl" Paper presented at the
Neuropsychiatric Institute, University of California at Los
Angeles (October l98l).
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