Mar’a Jesœs Bux, the 1999-2000 Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies at Cornell University, will give the annual Einaudi Lecture Tuesday, Sept. 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on campus.

The lecture, titled "Fields of Passion: Anthropology, Ethnicity and Violence," is free and open to the public.

One of the most senior and well-known anthropologists in Spain, Bux is the author and editor of many significant anthropological publications "and a moving force in the process that built up the current high momentum in Spanish anthropology," said Davydd Greenwood, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology at Cornell.

"Her range of interests is quite unique, as she has done significant research in Spain, in the American Southwest with Chicano groups, in the information technology industry in the United States, in Guatemala and the highlands of Peru," Greenwood said. "As a result, she brings a broad comparative and combined social science-humanities perspective to her work, a perspective that is quite rare in anthropology generally and all but absent in Spain."

Bux, also a visiting professor in anthropology, is in residence at Cornell's Institute for European Studies for the fall semester. She is teaching an anthropology course on Intercultural Ethnoscapes: Spain and America. The course is cross-listed with Latino Studies and Latin American Studies.

The Luigi Einaudi chair was established in 1987 to bring distinguished European scholars to the Cornell campus to teach and deliver a public lecture. The chair honors Luigi Einaudi, the first president of the Italian Republic, and his contributions to the fields of economics, political science, modern European history and European integration. It is the first chair at a major American university to be named after a modern European statesman.

Related World Wide Web sites:

• Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu.