Visiting Lecture Series
The annual Visiting Lecture Series brings prominent scholars from across the country and around the world to campus, either in person or virtually, who share diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives relating to a topic of interest in contemporary anthropology. The series is designed for undergraduate and graduate students to have the opportunity to engage deeply with a topic, and to meet a variety of leaders in their discipline.
2024 Visiting Lecture Series — Technology
We are living in a world of rapid technological advancements, and with this in mind, the theme of our 50th year of the Visiting Lecture Series is technology. We will visit a range of topics with technology as a central throughline, looking at how technological developments shape human life from an anthropological perspective. These topics include explorations of how people have developed and incorporated new technologies in the past and present, focusing on how technology has a role in transforming lifeways and social interactions. We also will examine how technological advances have changed how anthropologists carry out research, allowing us to delve into new areas of inquiry.
Wed., Sept. 4
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Amy Non [Virtual]
Anthropology, UC San Diego
“In between nature and nurture: Epigenetics technologies open new areas of anthropological inquiry”
Thur., Sept. 5
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Amy Non [Virtual]
Anthropology, UC San Diego
“Introduction to epigenetics for anthropology”
Wed., Sept. 11
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Hyunwoo Jung
Anthropology, UC Davis
“Deciphering the evolutionary history of human and primate skeletal morphology”
Thurs., Sept. 12
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Hyunwoo Jung
Anthropology, UC Davis
“Deciphering the evolutionary history of human and primate skeletal morphology”
Wed., Sept. 18
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Tiffany Fracchia
Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
“Moving beyond you are what you eat: Advances in isotope analysis for anthropology”
Thurs., Sept. 19
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Tiffany Fracchia
Anthropology, Vanderbilt University
“Moving beyond you are what you eat: Advances in isotope analysis for anthropology”
Wed., Oct. 2
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Winifred Poster
International Affairs Program, Washington University, St. Louis
“Scams, bots, and digital workers: Deception in online platform economies”
Thurs., Oct. 3
102 Mossman
9:45- 11:00am
Dr. Winifred Poster
International Affairs Program, Washington University, St. Louis
“Scams, bots, and digital workers: Deception in online platform economies”
Wed., Oct. 16
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Hannah Lau
Anthropology, Hamilton College
“Feeding the living, feeding the dead: Food production, land use, and placemaking in the Middle Bronze to Early Iron Age South Caucuses”
Thurs., Oct. 17
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Hannah Lau
Anthropology, Hamilton College
“Feeding the living, feeding the dead: Food production, land use, and placemaking in the Middle Bronze to Early Iron Age South Caucuses”
Weds., Oct. 23
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Shawn Bender
East Asian Studies, Dickinson College
“Care as Iterative Engagement: HAL in Germany”
Thurs., Oct. 24
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Shawn Bender
East Asian Studies, Dickinson College
“Caring with robots in aging Japan”
Weds., Oct. 30
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Eric Kansa [Virtual]
Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
“So Much Data, So Little Time: Lessons from 18 Years of Publishing Data with Open Context”
Thurs., Oct. 31
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Eric Kansa [Virtual]
Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
“So Much Data, So Little Time: Lessons from 18 Years of Publishing Data with Open Context”
Weds., Nov. 13
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Gabriel Sanchez
American Indian & Religious Studies, Michigan State University
“Archaeological Geophysics in Collaborative Archaeology”
Thurs., Nov. 314
102 Mossman
9:45 – 11:00am
Dr. Gabriel Sanchez
American Indian & Religious Studies, Michigan State University
“Archaeological Geophysics in Collaborative Archaeology”
Weds., Nov. 20
M309 Walters Academic Building
4:10-6:35pm
Dr. Liam Frink [Virtual]
Anthropology, University of Nevada – Las Vegas
“Alaskan Native Food Technologies & Community Engaged Science”
Thurs., Nov. 21
102 Mossman
9:45-11:00am
Dr. Liam Frink [Virtual]
Anthropology, University of Nevada – Las Vegas
“Alaskan Native Food Technologies & Community Engaged Science”
2023 Visiting Lecture Series — Mobility
Wed., Sept. 6
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Helina Woldekiros
Washington University in St. Louis
“Lost Routes, Found Stories: Traversing the Ethnoarchaeological Landscapes of Ancient Caravans in the Horn of Africa”
Tues., Sept. 12
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Kandace Hollenbach
Anthropology
“Gathering & Mobility Strategies of Early Foragers in the Southeast”
Wed., Sept. 13
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Bertin M. Louis, Jr.
University of Kentucky
“Anti-Haitianism, Statelessness, & Religious Practice in the Bahamas”
Tues., Sept. 19
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Alison Damick
McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture
Outreach
Wed., Sept. 27
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Jeannie Bailey
UC San Francisco
“From Bones to Mobile Phones: How to Better Understand & Predict Risk for Low Back Pain”
Tues., Oct. 3
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Elizabeth Webster
College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences
“Examining the Relationship between Fundamental Motor Skills and Positive Health-Related Outcomes”
Wed., Oct. 4
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Jeremy DeSilva
Dartmouth College
“Old Footprints, New Questions”
Wed., Oct. 11
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Rashmi Sadana
George Mason University
“The Moving City: Urban Transport, Social Mobilities, & Spatial Transformation in Delhi”
Tues., Oct. 17
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Aleydis Van de Moortel
Classics
“Shipbuilding, Seafaring, & Human Mobility in the Stone and Bronze Ages”
Wed., Oct. 18
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Christine Harper
Cooper Medical School
“Functional Adaptations in the Gorilla Hindfoot”
Tues., Oct. 24
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Tatiana Sánchez-Parra
Anthropology
“Gendered places: Confinement, Reproduction, & War in Colombia”
Tues., Oct. 25
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Susanna Fioratta
Bryn Mawr College
“Welcome to the one percent”: Specialty coffee, craft beer, & mobility through taste in Colombia
Tues., Oct. 31
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Sierra Bow
Anthropology
“Colors of the Past: Reconstructing Mississippian Paints through Experimental and Analytical Investigation”
Tues., Nov. 7
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Stephen Collins-Elliott
Classics
“Between Archaeology and Historiography: Mobility and Group Identities in Roman and Late Roman North Africa”
Wed., Nov. 8
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. K. Brandon Barker
Indiana University
“From Genealogy to Folk Art: John Baker, Jr. & The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation”
Tues., Nov. 14
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. Karim Alizadeh
Anthropology
“GIS & the Landscape of Movement”
Wed., Nov. 15
Strong Hall B1
4:10-6:30pm
Dr. Michael Perez
University of Memphis
“On Becoming Other: Statelessness as Alienation among Gaza Refugees in Jordan”
Tues., Nov. 21
Mossman 202
8:10-9:25am
Dr. De Ann Pendry
Anthropology
“Mobility Within & Beyond Latin America: Nicaraguan Miskitu Migration”
2021 Visiting Lecture Series — Decolonization, Anti-Racism, Abolition
Sept. 8
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Chip Colwell (Sapiens) and Stewart Koyiyumptewa (Hopi Cultural Preservation Office)
(speakers will join us remotely)
“Twisting Strings: Hopi Ancestors and Ancient DNA”
Sept. 14
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Rick Smith (George Mason University)
“The Human Rights of Ancestors”
Sept. 15
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Rick Smith (George Mason University)
“Aftercare: Up/ending Sex, Nature, and Science”
Sept. 28
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Michael Blakey (William & Mary)
(speaker will join us remotely)
“Racist Anthropology and its Alternatives”
Sept. 29
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Michael Blakey (William & Mary)
(speaker will join us remotely)
“Public Engagement with Descendant Communities and the Democratization of Knowledge”
Oct. 13
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Eshe Lewis (Sapiens)
“Unthinkable Abuse: Understanding the Silences around Afro-Peruvian Women’s Experiences with Intimate Partner Violence”
Oct. 14
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Eshe Lewis (Sapiens)
“Storytelling as Activism: Bearing Witness, Creating Records”
Oct. 19
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Deborah Boehm (University of Nevada, Reno)
#FreeThemAll: U.S. Immigration Detention and the Movement to End It”
Oct. 20
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Deborah Boehm (University of Nevada, Reno)
“A Study of Unseen Spaces: Anthropology, Activism, and Abolition”
Oct. 27
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)
(speaker will join us remotely)
“Meritocracy and Democracy: The Social Life of Caste in India””
Oct. 28
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Ajantha Subramanian (Harvard University)
(speaker will join us remotely)
“Merit and Privilege”
Nov. 2
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez (Northern Arizona University)
“Decolonizing Archaeology the Navajo Way: Lessons from the Navajo Nation”
Nov. 3
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Ora Marek-Martinez (Northern Arizona University)
“Indigenous Archaeology and the Refusal of Colonialism in Archaeology”
Nov. 9
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Rachel Watkins (American University)
TBA
Nov. 10
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Rachel Watkins (American University)
TBA
Nov. 17
Strong Hall B1
4:30pm
Dr. Lindsay Montgomery (University of Arizona)
“You Have Harmed Us’: Stories of Violence, Resistance, and Survivance from the U.S. Indian Education System”
Nov. 18
Stokely Management Center G2
4:30pm
Dr. Lindsay Montgomery (University of Arizona)
“Naming the Dead: Reclaiming Sites of Historical Trauma at Carlisle”
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