As part of its ongoing lecture series on anthropology and globalization, Carleton’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology presents “The Global Health Market in Malaysia” by Tom Williamson of St. Olaf College. The lecture is at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, November 6, in Leighton Hall, room 330. All lectures in the series are free and open to the public and offee and bagels will be provided.

Williamson, who holds degrees from St. Olaf College and the University of Michigan, has lived in Japan, Thailand, and Indonesia, but his primary academic interest is the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia. His courses at St. Olaf focus on nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization, primarily in the context of Southeast Asia. The courses he teaches – Global Interdependence, the Anthropology of Mood-Altering Substances, Contemporary Issues in Southeast Asia – illustrate his interest in the ways in which modern humans experience industrialization, and the revolutions in modern life brought about by motorized transportation, mass communication, and modern governments.

This event is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology with assistance from the Dean of the College Office’s visiting speaker fund. For further information and disability accommodations, contact Liz Musicant at (507) 222-4108. Leighton Hall is located at the end of College Street, between the Sayles Campus Center and the Gould Library.