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2014 Visiting Lecture Series – Race

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)

Date

Lecturer

Topic

Time and Location

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

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

Monday

Sept 29

Dr. John Hartigan, University of Texas-Austin

Race of Corn”: Biosocial Perspectives on Race

9am Arts and Architecture 111

Tuesday

Sept 30

Dr. John Hartigan, University of Texas-Austin

Cultural Voices of Race: Speaking of “Post-Racial” America”

3:40 pm McClung 63

Thursday

Oct 2

Dr. Joshua Inwood,

UTK Geography

TBA

3:40 pm McClung 63

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

Wednesday

Oct 8

Dr. Fatimah Williams-Castro, CEO of Beyond The Tenure Track

TBA

3:40 pm McClung 63

Tuesday

Oct 14

Dr. Michael Blakey,

Dept. of Anthropology,

William and Mary

The Idea of Race

3:40 pm McClung 63

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

Tuesday

Oct 21

Dr. Raymond Codrington,

Outlawed Culture: Hip Hop and the Post Racial Era

9am Arts and Architecture 111

Wednesday

Oct 22

Dr. Raymond Codrington,

Racial Hegemonies: Popular Culture and The Questioning of Identity

3:40 pm McClung 63

Tuesday

Oct 28

Dr. Jemima Pierre, African American Studies Department, UCLA

TBA

3:40 pm McClung 63

Wednesday

Oct 29

Dr. Jemima Pierre, African American Studies Department, UCLA

TBA

9am Arts and Architecture 111

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

Tuesday

Nov 4

Dr. Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Anthropology Department, UMass Amherst

The Archaeology of African American Domestic Spaces

3:40 pm McClung 63

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

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

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

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