Mind, Medicine, Body, and Culture Series
ten Hoor 21Biocultural anthropologists, MMBAC (Mind, Medicine, Body, and Culture series) schedule for the semester is as follows: FEB 3 MARCH 3 APRIL 7 MAY 5 10am room 21 If you are interested in leading any of the sessions with a relevant journal article, conference presentation, or manuscript contact one of us.
Friday Anthropology Brown Bag Luncheon
21 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaGraduate student brown bag luncheon. Feb 3 FABBL
Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Society (SEEPS)
Smith Hall Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesOnce again, The University of Alabama is helping celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin and supporting evolution research, education, and outreach by hosting the 2nd annual Southeastern Evolutionary Perspectives Society meeting. Please join us in promoting what UA alumnus E.O. Wilson termed “consilience,” or agreement between approaches to a topic (evolution, in this case) of
Anthropology Bake Sale
ten Hoor 10 Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesREMINDER: On February 9th the anthropology club will be having our baked goods and book sale. Please bring any baked goods you have prepared or any books you have to room 10 this week. Thank you!
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
Friday Anthropology Brown Bag Luncheon
21 ten Hoor Hall TuscaloosaGraduate student brown bag luncheon. Event Flyer
Spring Professionalization Workshop
ten Hoor 21Please mark your calendars for our two spring professionalization workshops, which will take place at 11AM on Monday, February 20 and 11AM on Monday, April 10. Each will be in room 21, and there will be pizza. The topic for the February meeting will be developing a teaching portfolio (including constructing sample syllabi). The April
Dr. Ashley Dumas Talk
ten Hoor 21Dr. Ashley Dumas, University of West Alabama, will present an original video documentary, Making Archaeology Public: Alabama, this Wednesday Feb 22 noon-1 pm, room 21 ten Hoor. Sponsored by the Society for American Archaeology, this is Alabama’s contribution to a video series, one for each state, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation
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