Paul Rabinow, an anthropology professor at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a University Lecture titled "French DNA or Trouble in Purgatory," Monday, April 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the A. D. White House on campus.
The lecture is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies, the University Lecture Committee and the departments of anthropology and science and technology studies.
Rabinow earned a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1970 and has taught at Berkeley since 1978. He is the author or co-author of nine books and has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.
"Paul Rabinow was one of the early proponents of 'reflexive anthropology,' which made explicit the significance of the relationship between anthropologists and their discussion partners during fieldwork," said John Borneman, assistant professor of anthropology at Cornell. "He was also one of the early American mediators of the work of Michele Foucault. Rabinow has published widely on religious and secular authority, and he has recently turned his attention to the construction of knowledge in scientific laboratories."
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