Tags: Department of Anthropology Speaker Series


Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies

“The body is parchment where violence is written.” Ventura Pérez is is a bioarchaeologist whose primary area of interest is interpersonal and institutional forms of violence. His work focuses on cultural representations of violence using an interdisciplinary inquiry that includes social science and behavioral and biological research (specifically skeletal trauma), along with the analysis of artifacts and ethnohistoric research. Pérez’s current…


Evolution of a Fishery and Decline of an Estuary: Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay

Torben C. Rick is the curator and archaeologist in the anthropology division of Human Ecology and Archaeobiology in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History.  He specializes in North American Archaeology and Human Environmental Interactions. Rick conducts research on the North American Pacific Coast, with much of his fieldwork investigating a 13,000 calendar year archaeological record on California’s Channel Islands. Focusing on the…


The Fifth Beginning: What six million years of human history can tell us about our future

Read Professor Kelly's faculty page here. His recent book published by the UC press expands upon the themes he'll present in the talk; find the synopsis here.  
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