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		Graduate Student Conference: The Location of Meaning, The Meaning of Location January 26, 2013 This conference represents the wide diversity of topics CCR junior fellows study, as well as other comparative and historical researchers in related departments and in neighboring universities. The conference provides interested graduate students with the opportunity to present work that perhaps could not be included in our weekly workshop and to receive feedback from their peers. We look forward to seeing you!
		Indigenous Visions: Rediscovering the World of Franz Boas September 15, 2011, Beinecke Library September 16-17, Luce Hall Auditorium The Center for Comparative Research is co sponsoring a three-day conference on the life of Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the “Father of American Anthropology” and “the Father of Modern Anthropology. View Program >> View Poster >>
		Graduate Student Conference: Frontiers of Comparative Sociological Research January 29, 2011 Classification, Representation, and Social Life The Politics of Space/The Space of Politics Actors and Agents of Social Change Regulation, Negotiation and Resistance
		Lineages of Patrimonial Politics, Then and Now May 9, 2008 This conference explores the value for politics of concepts and theories of patrimonialism – historically and in the present day. The term captures the manifold intersections between states on the one hand and family/household/kin networks on the other. The preoccupation with patrimonialism descends from Max Weber’s inspiring writings on patriarchal patrimonialism. Read more…
		Graduate Student Conference: Frontiers of Comparative Sociological Research January 26, 2008 The Politics of Rights Social Movements and Media Mobilization Chasing Paradise States, Governance and Social Change