Featured Event
Alabama Archaeological Society Tuscaloosa Chapter Meeting – Pierce Wright talk on ethnogenesis
22 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaPierce Wright will be giving a talk entitled, "Exploring Choctaw Ethnogenesis at the Chickasawhay Creek Sites" with discussion and fellowship following. This event is free and open to the public.
Lecture by Courtney Helfrecht
117 ten Hoor Hall , United StatesJoin us for a lecture by Courtney Helfrecht entitled "DHEAS Patterning across Childhood in Three Sub-Saharan Populations." This event is free and open to the public.
Anthropology Club Book and Bake Sale
ten Hoor main entranceCome check out our annual book and bake sale just inside the main entrance of ten Hoor Hall! There will be goodies for both your brain and stomach!
FABBL by Cayla Colclasure
ten Hoor 21Join us for our Friday Afternoon Brown Bag Luncheon (FABBL), where Cayla Colclasure will discuss the impact of Spanish colonization and the Catholic mission system upon indigenous foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA. The basic structure of a FABBL is as follows: we eat and socialize for fifteen minutes, the speaker gives a 20-30 minute presentation,
Anthropology Club Game Night
22 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaThere will be an anthropology club meeting this Friday at 4 PM in room 22. We will be having a game night followed by Fellowship at Heat Pizza Bar around 6. Bring your games and a competitive spirit!
Imaginary Spaces, Dark Tourism, and Writing about Difficult Topics for a General Audience: A Conversation with Ruth Ellen Gruber
205 Gorgas LibraryStructured as a conversation, Dr. Marysia Galbraith (New College and Department of Anthropology) asks Ruth about her work on “Virtually Jewish” heritage in Europe, “Wild West” theme parks, tourism at sites of terror, Holocaust, and slavery, and the practice of writing for traditional print media as well as digital venues like her website “Jewish Heritage
Beyond Virtually Jewish: New Realities and Real Imaginary Spaces – A lecture by Ruth Ellen Gruber
215 Lloyd HallRuth discusses new forms of Jewishness, Jewish practice, and religious and cultural expression. She describes how she coined the term “Virtually Jewish” to describe non-Jewish involvement, embrace, appropriation and engagement with Jews and Jewish culture — and what that means in today’s changing conditions. She discusses new realities and new authenticities; new definitions of “Jewish.”
FABBL
ten Hoor 21Join us for our Friday Afternoon Brown Bag Luncheon (FABBL). The basic structure of a FABBL is as follows: we eat and socialize for fifteen minutes, the speaker gives a 20-30 minute presentation, and we close with roughly 10 minutes of audience questions. FABBLs end around 1:00 PM. These meetings give graduate students the opportunity to
Anthropology Club trip to the Moundville Knap-In and meeting
22 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaThe Anthropology Club will be going to the Moundville Archaeological Park to visit the museum and check out the flint knapping (stone tool making) event that the park is holding. The anthropology club will cover any costs, and we can arrange carpools and use the van for transportation. Moundville is a 30 minute drive from
Cayla Colclasure’s Master’s Defense
252 ten Hoor HallCayla Colclasure is defending her thesis, "Examining Change, Persistence, and Variation in the Role of Invertebrate Fauna in Mission-era Guale Foodways on St. Catherines Island, GA." This is a great opportunity to check out the impressive work being done by one of our own graduate students.