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Véronique Bénéï
(LSE/CNRS/EHESS):
Véronique
Bénéï is Visiting Senior Fellow in Anthropology at the
London School of Economics (LSE) where she has taught and directed PhD theses
since 1998. She is also Senior Research Fellow in
Anthropology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (IIAC/LAIOS)
and holds an Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from Paris
University. She did her doctoral work on India at
the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. Her thesis explored the social issue
of dowry in India through an ethnography of marriage prestations conducted
among Marathas and allied castes in rural and urban Maharashtra, western
India.
Thereafter, Véronique
Bénéï developed a political and historical anthropology of
the production and transmission of knowledge and practices, as well as of
local, regional and national identifications in the space of school. Meanwhile, she participated in, and
(co-)organised several international workshops and research programmes on an
anthropology of the state, globalisation, the manufacturing of identities,
citizenship, civil society, and visceral nations. She also took an interest in the history and
epistemology of the social sciences in south Asia.
Subsequently, Véronique Bénéï has redeployed her
research interests on another continent, Latin America. She has begun investigations in
Colombia where she is hoping to develop fresh perspectives on an anthropology
of urban history and socio-economic development in relation to memory and
slavery, as well as violence and its aftermath. She is also interested in the
constitution of bodies of knowledge and postcolonial studies in Latin America.
In addition to her research and teaching at LSE
and CNRS, VB was a Visiting Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton
University (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and
Department of Anthropology) in 2004-2005, and Singh Visiting Lecturer in
South Asian Studies at Yale University (MacMillan Center for International
and Area Studies, and Department of Anthropology) in 2005-2006.
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Peter Hulme (University of Essex):
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Franklin W. Knight
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore):
Franklin W. Knight joined the faculty
of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1973 and in 1991 was
appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History. A graduate
of the University College of the West Indies-London [B. A.(Hons.) 1964], he
gained the M. A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees from the University of
Wisconsin in Madison.
Knight has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences, the Ford Foundation, and the National Humanities Center.
He has served on committees of the Social Science Research Council, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the Inter-American Foundation, the
National Research Council, the American Historical Association, the
Conference of Latin American History, The Latin American Studies Association,
The American Council of learned Societies, The Historical Society, and the
Association of Caribbean Historians. His analyses of Latin American and Caribbean
problems have been aired on National Public Radio, the Voice of America, the
British Broadcasting Corporation, the McNeill/Lehrer Report, C-Span, and many
local programs on commercial as well as public radio and television stations
across the United States. He served as academic consultant to the television
series Columbus and the Age of Discovery; The Buried Mirror; Americas;
Plagued: Invisible Armies; Crucible of Empire: The War of 1898, The Crucible
of the Millennium; and The Louisiana Purchase.
Knight’s research interests
focus on social, political and cultural aspects of Latin America and the
Caribbean especially after the eighteenth century as well as on American
slave systems in their comparative dimensions. His major publications include:
Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century (Wisconsin, 1970); The
African Dimension of Latin American Societies (Macmillan, 1974); The
Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Oxford, 1978; 2nd
Edition, revised 1990); Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link
co-edited with Margaret Crahan (Johns Hopkins, 1979); The Modern Caribbean
co-edited with Colin A. Palmer (Chapel Hill, 1989); Atlantic Port Cities:
Economy, Culture and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 co-edited with
Peggy K. Liss (Tennessee, 1991), UNESCO General History of the Caribbean,
volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (London and Basingstoke:
UNESCO Publishing/Macmillan Educational Publishing, 1997), and edited a new
translation of Bartolomé de Las Casas, An Introduction, Much
Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Hackett, 2003) as well as with
Teresita Martinez Vergne, Contemporray Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a
Global Context, (Chapel Hill, 2005). He was co-translator of Sugar and
Railroads, A Cuban History, 1837-1959 by Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro
García (Chapel Hill, 1998). In addition, he has published more than 82
articles, chapters, and forewords, as well as more than 140 book reviews in
professional journals.
Between 1974 and 1982 Knight co-edited the Johns Hopkins University Press
series of studies in Atlantic History and Culture; and between 1975 and 1986
he edited the Caribbean section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies
published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. He is
currently writing a general history of Cuba.
Professor Knight is President of The Historical Society (2004-2006), and
served as President of the Latin American Studies Association between October
1998 and May 2000. He also serves on advisory committees of the National
Research Council, the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Hispanic
Division of the Library of Congress and the editorial boards of several
academic journals. He has lectured across the Americas as well as Australia,
Japan and Europe. In 2001 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the
Academy of Letters of Bahia, Brazil.
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Michael Zeuske (Universität zu Köln):
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