Lecture
Fieldwork Q&A with Greg Batchelder
117 ten Hoor Hall , United StatesCome for a slideshow followed by Q&A session about UA PhD student Greg Batchelder’s anthropological fieldwork in the indigenous Bribrí community of Yorkín, Costa Rica. Senuk Buae: Living Good (Session Flyer)
Guest Lecture: Dr. Michaela Howells
21 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaOn Thursday, September 1, 2016, Dr. Michaela Howells from the University of North Carolina Wilmington will be giving a lecture in ten Hoor Room 21 from 12-1:30. Event Flyer
Guest Lecture: Dr. Katie Smith
21 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaThere will be a guest lecture by Dr. Katie Smith on Tuesday, October 11, 2016 in ten Hoor Room 21 from 12-1:30.
Bindon Lecture: Andrea Wiley
Dr. Andrea Wiley of Indiana University will be speaking on Thursday, October 13
Guest Lecture: Dr. Carolyn Freiwald
21 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaDr. Carolyn Freiwald of the University of Mississippi will be visiting to talk about her work on migration, health, and trade in Guatemala.
Fall Thesis Colloquium
22 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaColloquium for December-graduating thesis-based MA students.
Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor Talk
118 Graves HallMelisa (Misha) Cahnmann-Taylor is author of the newly-released book of poems, Imperfect Tense (Whitepoint Press, 2016). Winner of Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes, a Leeway Poetry Grant, and a Fulbright award, she has co-authored two books, Teachers Act Up: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities Through Theatre and Arts- Based Research in Education. Professor of TESOL & World
Rebecca Lester: “‘Fat’ is Not a Feeling: Eating Disorders, Affective Practice, and Cultures of Scarcity”
257 ten Hoor HallDr. Rebecca Lester will be visiting UA from Wednesday, February 15 until Friday, February 17. Please be sure to mark your calendars for her lecture that will be on Thursday, February 16 from 3:30-5:00pm in 257 ten Hoor Hall. Attached is her working itinerary. Most of Friday is available for anyone interested in meeting with
Rebecca Lester Talk
ten Hoor 257On Thursday, February 16, Dr. Rebecca Lester will give a talk entitled "'Fat is Not a Feeling: Eating Disorders, Affective Practice and Cultures of Scarcity." The talk will be from 3:30-5:00 in ten Hoor 257. Dr. Lester is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis, as well as a psychotherapist and
Dr. Rob Wallace: “Bird flu, Ebola, and Zika: When Evolution Meets Political Economy”
30 ten Hoor 350 Marrs Spring Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesOur economy is transforming planet Earth into planet Farm. Agribusiness’s impact extends to the deadliest of diseases. Ebola and Zika both recently re-emerged when logging, mining, and intensive agriculture opened up neotropical forests to their escape. There are other pathogens evolving more directly off megafarms. We can model such connections, but there are broader implications