42nd ANNUAL VISITING LECTURE SERIES
“Food and Culture”
Current Trends in Anthropology
ANTH 550 SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGES)
Art & Architecture Rm 111; 9:30 – 11 am
| Date | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 16 | Dr. Raja Swamy, UT Department of Anthropology | “Third World Food Security Issues: India and Peasant Suicides” |
| September 30 | Dr. Katherine Dettwyler, Univ. of Delaware, Department of Anthropology | “A Time to Wean” |
| October 5 | Dr. Eleanora Reber, UNC-Wilmington, Department of Anthropology | “From Cup to Lip: Food, Culture, and Organic Pottery Residue Analysis” |
| October 14 | Dr. Margaret Scarry, UNC-Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology | “Food Production, Consumption, and Identity at Azoria, an Archaic City on Crete” |
| October 21 | Dr. Rayna Green, Smithsonian Institution | “Food Cultures, Histories and Identities in the Native Southwest and South” |
| October 28 | Dr. Bram Tucker, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology | “Economic and Cultural/Cognitive Perspectives on Risk in Food Production among Foragers, Farmers, and Fishermen of Southwestern Madagascar” |
| November 4 | Dr. Laurie Reitsema, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology | TBA (bioarchaeology in Europe) |
| November 11 | Dr. Caela O’Connell, North Carolina State University, Department of Soil Science | “On Fungus and Bananas: Doing Ethnography of Food and Complex Ecosystems” |
| November 18 | Dr. Karen Metheny, Boston University, Gastronomy Program | “Cultural “Other” in Colonial New England: The Duality of Maize” |
| November 23 | Dr. George Perry, Penn State University, Department of Anthropology | “Parasites and Human Culture: Tapeworm Adaptations to Meat Cooking Behavior” |
ANTH 357/450 SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGES)
Humanities Rm 71; 3:40-4:55 pm
| Date | Lecturer | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| September 8 | Dr. Erin Darby, UT Department of Religious Studies | “Feasting, Fermentation, and Females: The Relationship between Food, Religion, and Gender in Ancient Israel” |
| September 10 | Dr. Boyce Driskell, UT Department of Anthropology | “Stone Tools: Making a Living the Ole Fashioned Way” |
| September 15 | Dr. Raja Swamy, UT Department of Anthropology | “Hunger in the Third World Countryside – Why are Producers Starving?” |
| September 17 | Dr. Sarah Colby, UT Department of Public Health, Nutrition | “Getting Fruved! Changing Environments, Changing Behaviors, Changing Lives” |
| September 22 | Dr. Gerald Schroedl, UT Department of Anthropology | TBA |
| September 24 | Dr. Barbara Heath, UT Department of Anthropology | “Provisioned, Raised and Gathered, Foods of Enslaved African Americans in the Chesapeake” |
| September 29 | Dr. Katherine Dettwyler, Univ of Delaware, Department of Anthropology | “Beauty and the Breast” |
| October 1 | Dr. De Ann Pendry, UT Department of Anthropology | TBA |
| October 6 | Dr. Eleanorea Reber, UNC – Wilmington, Department of Anthropology | “Stirring the Pot: Food, Culture, and Organic Pottery Residue Analysis” |
| October 8 | Dr. Walter Klippel, UT Department of Anthropology | “Early Nineteenth Century African American Foodways at Poplar Forest, Virginia, and St. Kitts, West Indies” |
| October 13 | Dr. Margaret Scarry, UNC – Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology | “Food Production, Consumption, and Identity at Azoria, an Archaic City on Crete” |
| October 20 | Dr. Rayna Green, Smithsonian Institution | “Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig: Native Food in the Native South” |
| October 22 | Dr. Tim Baumann, UT McClung Museum | TBA |
| October 27 | Dr. Bram Tucker, Univ. of Georgia, Department of Anthropology | “Economic and Cultural/Cognitive Perspectives on Risk in Food Production among Foragers, Farmers, and Fishermen of Southwestern Madagascar” |
| October 29 | Dr. Sally Horn, UT Department of Geography | “Prehistoric Maize in Costa Rica: Evidence from Lake Sediments and Food Residues” |
| November 3 | Dr. Laurie Reitsema, University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology | TBA |
| November 5 | Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott, UT Department of Classics | “Supplying Rome: Wine and Olive Oil in the Ancient Mediterranean Economy” |
| November 10 | Dr. Caela O’Connell, NCSU, Department of Soil Science | “Alternative Food: Local, Organic, Fair Trade, Sustainable?” |
| November 12 | Dr. Tom Gill, UT Institute of Agriculture, International Programs | “Feeding the World: The Importance of Culture” |
| November 17 | Dr. Karen Metheny, Boston University, Gastronomy Program | “Cultural “Other” in Colonial New England: The Duality of Maize” |
| November 24 | Dr. George Perry, Penn State University, Department of Anthropology | “Parasites and Human Culture: Tapeworm Adaptations to Meat Cooking Behavior” |
| December 1 | Dr. Adam Willcox, UT Institute of Agriculture, Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries | “Bushmeat in Africa: Food Safety and Security, Culture, and Conservation” |