Current Trends in Anthropology (Anth 357, 450, 457, 550)
Fall 2014
Assistant Professor, Bertin M. Louis, Jr. (blouis2@utk.edu)
For more than three decades, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee has invited a group of significant Anthropologists to campus each year in order to give the department access to cutting edge research in the anthropological disciplines. Two courses have been built around the visitors, one undergraduate and one graduate, with lectures presented in each one. This year is no exception, and this course is the undergraduate section of the visiting lecture series.
This semester, the focus of the course is on Race. Speakers from various sub-disciplines of Anthropology whose research focuses on race and racism are included. There will be at least one class session every week over the course of the semester.
SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGES)
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Date |
Lecturer |
Topic |
Time and Location |
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Wednesday Sept 17 |
Dr. Kelly Fong, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology |
The Perpetual Foreigner: The racialization of Asian Americans as the foreign “Other” |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Thursday Sept 18 |
Dr. Kelly Fong, UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology |
Interdisciplinary Archaeologies: Using Ethnic Studies and historical archaeology to study social histories |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Monday Sept 29 |
Dr. John Hartigan, University of Texas-Austin |
”Race of Corn”: Biosocial Perspectives on Race |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Tuesday Sept 30 |
Dr. John Hartigan, University of Texas-Austin |
Cultural Voices of Race: Speaking of “Post-Racial” America” |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Thursday Oct 2 |
Dr. Joshua Inwood, UTK Geography |
TBA |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Tuesday Oct 7 |
Dr. Fatimah Williams-Castro, CEO of Beyond The Tenure Track |
“Know Your Options: Career Exploration Strategies for Nonacademic Careers” Part of the UTK Anthropology Department Graduate Professional Development Series |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Wednesday Oct 8 |
Dr. Fatimah Williams-Castro, CEO of Beyond The Tenure Track |
TBA |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Tuesday Oct 14 |
Dr. Michael Blakey, Dept. of Anthropology, William and Mary |
The Idea of Race |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Wednesday Oct 15 |
Dr. Michael Blakey, Dept. of Anthropology, William and Mary |
Biological History as an Alternative to Racial Bioarchaeology |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Tuesday Oct 21 |
Dr. Raymond Codrington, |
Outlawed Culture: Hip Hop and the Post Racial Era |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Wednesday Oct 22 |
Dr. Raymond Codrington, |
Racial Hegemonies: Popular Culture and The Questioning of Identity |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Tuesday Oct 28 |
Dr. Jemima Pierre, African American Studies Department, UCLA |
TBA |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Wednesday Oct 29 |
Dr. Jemima Pierre, African American Studies Department, UCLA |
TBA |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Monday Nov 3 |
Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology Department, UMass Amherst |
The Role of Black Feminist Theory in African Diaspora Archaeology |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Tuesday Nov 4 |
Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology Department, UMass Amherst |
The Archaeology of African American Domestic Spaces |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Wednesday Nov 5 |
Dr. David Simmons, Anthropology Department, University of South Carolina |
Dominican, Haitian, Black: Negotiating Belonging in the Dominican Republic |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |
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Thursday Nov 6 |
Dr. David Simmons, Anthropology Department, University of South Carolina |
“Black is, Black Ain’t”: Global Adventures in Racial (Mis)Identification |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Tuesday Nov 11 |
Dr. Faye Harrison, Anthropology Department, University of Illinois-Urbana |
Race, Racism, and Antiracism in the International Human Rights Struggle: Key Lessons from the History of UN Petitions, Conventions, and World Conferences |
3:40 pm McClung 63 |
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Wednesday Nov 12 |
Dr. Faye Harrison, Anthropology Department, University of Illinois-Urbana |
The Limits of Race, Rights, and Citizenship: Perspectives from African-American and Afro-Cubana Transnational Feminists |
9am Arts and Architecture 111 |