We are pleased to announce that Rosalind C. Morris (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1994) will be the keynote speaker of the 2011 Conference. She will give a lecture titled 'A Violent Affinity: Anthropology, Kinship, War'.

Rosalind C. Morris is Professor of Anthropology and a former Associate Director of both the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia. A scholar of both mainland Southeast Asia and South Africa, she has published widely on topics concerning the politics of representation, the mass media, the relationship between violence and value, gender and sexuality, and the changing forms of modernity in the global South. Her most recent books are 'Photographies East: The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast Asia' (Duke, 2009) and 'Can the Subaltern Speak: Reflections on the History of an Idea' (Columbia, 2010). Her forthcoming volume on war, violence and he woman question in the era of mass mediated terror will be published as 'Wars I have (Not)' by Seagull Books (2011).