Event Host: Geography Department
Short Description: Join us for the Edward J. “Ned” Taaffe Colloquium with speaker, Dr. Tania Murray Li, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. She will be presenting her talk, “ Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.” Reception will follow.
Edward J. “Ned” Taaffe Colloquium speaker, Dr. Tania Murray Li, Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, will present her talk, “Land’s End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier” on Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015, in Derby Hall 1080 beginning at 3:30 p.m. A reception will follow at 5 p.m. in the Derby Hall Gallery.
Dr. Murray Li teaches in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, where she holds the Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy and Culture of Asia. Her publications include "Land's End: Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier" (Duke University Press, 2014), "Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia" (with Derek Hall and Philip Hirsch, NUS Press, 2011), "The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics" (Duke University Press, 2007) and many articles on land, development, resource struggles, community, class and indigeneity with a particular focus on Indonesia.
