After 100: the Legacy of Claude Levi-Strauss

All sessions will be open to the public

Friday, 10/22 (Law School Room 122)

Session 1. Beyond Structure, 10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

• James Boon, Princeton University - “Lévi-Strauss' Last Laugh: Encore, Encore”
• Emmanuel Désveaux, E.H.E.S.S. - “Farewell to Primitivism: How Lévi-Strauss Read Ethnography”
• Raymond DeMallie, Indiana University - “Pensée Sauvage in the Great Plains”

Session 2. Lévi-Strauss in the Arts and Humanities, 2:30-5:00 p.m.

• Marie Mauzé, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale and E.H.E.S.S. – “Northwest Coast Art and Lévi-Strauss’ Ethno-Aesthetics”
• Joëlle Bahloul, Indiana University -“Anthropology at the Académie Française"
• Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem - “Transformation: Lévi-Strauss in the Rabbis’ Academy"

Film showing “À Propos de Tristes Tropiques” by Patrick Menget 6:00-7:30 p.m.

Saturday, 10/23 (Law School Room 122)

Session 3. Mythology Studies, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m

• Anthony Seeger, UCLA - “Performing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Fugue of the Five Senses: Myths, Aromas, Tastes, Feelings and Music in the Brazilian Amazon”
• Greg Schrempp, Indiana University -“Scientific Fire Myths: A Lévi-Straussian Analysis of Four Variants"
• Jeffrey D. Anderson, Colby College - “Lévi-Strauss and the Mysteries of the Arapaho Porcupine Redaction Myth”

Film showing: “Auprès de l’Amazonie” by Marcelo Fortaleza Flores 11:30-12:30 p.m.

Session 4. Anthropology and History, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

•  Cesar Gordon, Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro - “L'Apothéose d'Auguste: Claude Lévi-Strauss’ Despair and Hopefulness”
• Christopher Peebles, Indiana University - “Lévi-Strauss among the Archeologists: From Structuralism to Logicism”
• Allen Douglas, Indiana University, - “Space and Time: The Philosophy of History in Tristes Tropiques” 

Session 5. Lévi-Strauss in the Twenty-First Century: A Roundtable Summation, 5:15-6:30 p.m.

For questions or additional information, contact Joëlle Bahloul (bahloul@indiana.edu) or Raymond DeMallie (demallie@indiana.edu)