Sahlins to deliver 2002 Nuveen Lecture, Oct. 17
This year’s annual John Nuveen Lecture will be given by Marshall Sahlins,
Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
and of Social Sciences in the College. Mr. Sahlins is presently doing research
focused on the intersection of culture and history, especially as those
play out in early-modern Pacific societies. He recently published a book
of his anthropological and political essays ranging from the ‘60s through
the ‘90s, and is working on two others: a set of studies in history
and historiography and a multi-volume work on the Polynesian War, a history
of the great Fijian War, 1843-1855. The title of Mr. Sahlins’ Nuveen
Lecture is "The Making of National History by Family Melodrama: The
Iconization of Elian Gonzalez," which he will deliver on Thursday,
October 17, at 4:00 p.m. in Swift Lecture Hall. The event is free and open
to the public. For further information, please call 773-702-8219.
