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Making & Breaking Homes in Georgia's Black Belt: Energy, Utility Bills, & the Infrastructures of Belonging

A talk by Dr. Kristin Philips "Making & Breaking Homes in Georgia's Black Belt: Energy, Utility Bills, & the Infrastructures of Belonging" Abstract: For many comfortable middle-income households, paying the electricity bill is a mundane, even mindless, act. But for an increasing number of families in the United States, the electricity bill—filtered through the racialized materiality of poor-quality and energy-inefficient housing stock,…


How Chinese Immigrants Built and Lost a Shellfish Industry: Social and Environmental Lessons from California History

A talk by  Dr. Todd Braje   How Chinese Immigrants Built and Lost a Shellfish Industry: Social and Environmental Lessons from California History   Abstract: In the midst of the California Gold Rush, a small group of enterprising Chinese immigrants recognized the untapped resources along the Pacific Coast. Freed from both human and sea otter predation for decades, coastal California was teeming with abalone stocks. By the mid-…


Surf and Turf: zooarchaeometry as a tool for understanding the role of environment in shaping past risk-management systems in Croatia and Florida

A talk by Dr. Emily Zavodny:   Surf and Turf: zooarchaeometry as a tool for understanding the role of environment in shaping past risk-management systems in Croatia and Florida   Abstract: Understanding how humans navigated their environments in the past can inform modern strategies for increasing resilience and sustainability. Zooarchaeometric studies- traditional faunal analyses coupled with stable isotopic data- provide an…


Lecture with Dr. Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver, "Hidden Lives: Social Marginalization in the Ancient Greek World"

Abstract: Studies of the ancient Greek world have typically focused on the life histories of elite males as they have made the most distinct mark on ancient Greek literature, art, and material culture. As a result, the voices of non-Greeks, the physically impaired, the impoverished, and the generally disenfranchised have been silent, which has substantially complicated the creation of a historical narrative of these marginalized groups.In…


Lecture with Dr. David Hurst Thomas, "Indigenous Georgia and Franciscan Survivance at Mission Santa Catalina de Guale (1570-1680)"

Indigenous Guale Indians first greeted Jesuit missionaries to the Georgia coast in 1566, but their missionary effort there was spectacularly unsuccessful. Franciscans arrived a decade later and worked with Guale leaders to establish Mission Santa Catalina as Spain’s northern outpost along the eastern seaboard. The mission was overrun and destroyed in 1680 by raiders from South Carolina. For three centuries, Georgians searched unsuccessfully for…


Anthropology and Innovation in the Technology Industry

Guest speaker, Dr. John Sherry, will be presenting Anthropology and Innovation in the Technology Industry on Monday, April 10th, at 3:00 pm at the Innovation District Presentation Room (100). This will be followed immediately after by a meet and greet with snacks provided. Dr. John Sherry holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Arizona. He was the first anthropologist hired at Microsoft, and a few years later, at…


Guest Speaker, Dr. Bondarenko

Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Ph.D., Dr. Habil is a Professor in Ethnology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Professor in Global Problems and International Relations, Vice-Director for Research Institute for African Studies and Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Director of the International Center of Anthropology, National Research University Higher School of Economics, and Full Professor in Ethnology, Russian State…


Anthropology Guest Speaker

Hsain Ilahiane is Professor and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University. He is author of Ethnicities, Community Making, and Agrarian Change: The Political Ecology of a Moroccan Oasis (2004); Historical Dictionary of the Berbers (Imazighen) (2017); and of The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco: Cultural and Economic Transformations (2022).  Abstract:…


"Conflicting sovereignties: Global conservation, protected areas and Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon," Dr. Roger Merino

Dr. Merino's research areas include political ecology, international environmental governance, and indigenous rights. He earned his Ph.D. in Social and Policy Sciences and an M.Sc. in International Public Policy at the University of Bath (United Kingdom). Dr. Merino has been a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Institute for Global Law and Policy and Fellow at the Social Science Summer School of the Institute for Advanced Study of…


Title: "Creating new connections between archaeology, paleoecology, and fire science to evaluate long-term human impacts on fire regimes"

Georgia Initiative for Climate & Society Fall 2019 Seminar Series Co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Archaeological Sciences
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