Events

SUMMER 2008

Field School:

PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY - Training in the methods and techniques of archaeological excavation and analysis at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center- May 27 - July 3 2008

HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY - At Hammondville, a 19th century Mining “Ghost Town” in the Adirondacks of Upstate NY - June 30 – July 25 2008

For more information and application contact: Dr. Kevin McBride, kevin.mcbride@uconn.edu OR Sarah Sportman, sarah.sportman@uconn.edu

SPRING 2008

Interdisciplinary Colloquium

The Human Rights Institute and the Department of Anthropology Present: Thomas Eriksen Senior Research Fellow, University of Oslo “What Transnationalism Is and What it is Not”. Tuesday, April 1, 2008 Beach Hall Room 404 12:30pm-2:00pm. Lunch Will be Served , RSVP to terese.andrews@uconn.edu

Dr. Harold Dibble from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania will be giving a talk on Monday March 17th, at 5 pm in the 1947 room in Homer Babbage Library. The talk is entitled: "Taphonomy and the Archaeological Record: Separating Human Behavior from its Geological Matrix." Dibble will also be doing a flint knapping demonstration on Tuesday around 3pm (BH 448). For any that might be interested please contact Cara Roure Johnson at: cararoure@gmail.com. Presented by the Department of Anthropology, the Integrative Geosciences Program and the Connecticut Natural History Museum.

The Brown Bag Evolution and Ecology Journal Club will hold its first meeting Thursday, January 24 from 11:30 to 12:20 in the Graduate Student Lounge. All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to attend. The first reading and additional information can be found on the web site: http://www.anth.uconn.edu/degree_programs/ecolevo/eejc.php. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions at: richard.sosis@uconn.edu.

FALL 2007

Anthropology Grant Workshop: A Cultural Model Analysis of the Approval/Denial Process
Presented by Dr. Roy D'Andrade Friday, September 7, 2007 2 p.m. Beach Hall, room 404

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense:

Mark Macauda. Understanding Lyme Disease: Illness Experience, Prevention, and the Health Belief Model. Wednesday, October 31st at 1:00pm in Beach Hall 450

The Anthropology Colloquium Series Department of Anthropology Presents:

Nationalism, Archaeology, and the Collapse of the USSR a lecture by Phil Kohl
Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies, Director, IPARC (International Program for Anthropological Research in the Caucasus), Wellesley College Thursday, October 18, 2007, 5:00 pm, 1947 Room, Homer D. Babbidge Library Contact: Dan Adler, 6-1737, daniel.adler@uconn.edu.

Ideas and Images of Home: An Ethnographic Interpretation of Photographs by Yuendumu Youths a lecture by Yasmine Musharbash.
Earlier this year, 36 Warlpiri youths from the remote Aboriginal settlement of Yuendumu in central Australia documented what is important to them by taking photographs with disposable cameras. This paper is a first analysis of these photographs, and focuses on age and gender differences and similarities on the one hand, and on youths' visual expressions of what constitutes "home"' on the other. Our speaker, Yasmine Musharbash (M.A. Freie Universität Berlin, PhD Australian National University) is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Western Australia. She has extensive research experience with Warlpiri people, especially from the remote settlement of Yuendumu in Australia's Northern Territory, where she has been conducting fieldwork since 1994.

November 12, 2007 at 4:15 in the Colloquium Room.