UC Davis Anthropology

TODAY at 4:10, Jonathan Rosa (Stanford) talks about the anthro of Latinx race, language, and education in Young Hall 224 - bldg at corner of 2nd and A St.

This coming Monday, January 14: Stanford Professor Jonathan Rosa talks about Latinx language, race and schooling discourse. 4:10 PM Young Hall. Free Food. Professor Rosa's talk is the first Graduate Research Series talk of 2019. Come see an anthropologist and major voice in public discussions of race, language & education. Dr. Rosa's the author of an important book and has appeared on NPR, MSNBC, CNN, Univision & other major media outlets.

Monday, December 3, 2018 @ 4:10 pm, 2203 SS&H, Andrews Conference Room: Prehistoric Colonization and Settlement of Northern Nevada: Archaeological Evidence from the Ruby Pipeline Project. A talk by Dr. William R. Hildebrandt, Principal Investigator, Far Western Anthropological Research Group
President—Society for California Archaeology

This coming MONDAY (OCT 29), 4:00 PM, 224 Young Hall: Mei Chun Lee, PhD candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology at University of California, Davis, presents her work centers on digital activism, networked politics, and hacker culture in East Asia. Mei Chun will discuss new work “Free the Data from Birdcage: Transcoding Data and Crowdsourcing Activism in Taiwan.”

THUR, NOV 1. 126 Voorhies, 6 PM. Professor Tanya Luhrmann. Anthropology, Stanford University. MIND AND SPIRIT: HOW THE WAY PEOPLE THINK ABOUT THINKING SHAPES THE WAY THEY EXPERIENCE GODS AND SPIRITS

This talk makes the argument that the way people think about their minds shapes the way they come to know God. I see a paradox: the more a culture imagines an inner world as separate from an outer world, the less vividly they experience gods and spirits.

Sociocultural anthropologists, today 4-6 PM:

BEYOND WHICH HUMAN?
FEMINISM IN THESE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TIMES

APRIL 23RD, 4-6 PM
SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES BUILDING ROOM 2203

JESSICA CATTELINO
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UCLA


THIS LECTURE EXPLORES THE POLITICAL STAKES OF SCHOLARLY CALLS TO MOVE “BEYOND THE HUMAN,” ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF PAST AND ONGOING WORK BY WOMEN AND RACIALIZED AND COLONIZED PEOPLES TO CLAIM HUMANITY AGAINST POST-ENLIGHTENMENT AND OTHER FORMS OF DEHUMANIZATION. THE “HUMAN” THAT SCHOLARS PURPORT TO DECENTER HAS BEEN A PAROCHIAL ONE INDEED. EXPLAINING HOW THAT IS SO, AND WITH WHAT IMPLICATIONS, THE PAPER COMBINES ETHNOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF WATER IN THE FLORIDA EVERGLADES WITH REFLECTIONS ON FEMINIST THEORIES OF DEHUMANIZATION AND INTERDEPENDENCY TO CONSIDER THE POLITICS (OR, PERHAPS, THE APOLITICS?) OF MOVING BEYOND THE HUMAN.

Archaeologists, today at 3:10: Dr. Tsim Schneider
Assistant Professor, UCSC, Mon April 23 @ 3:10,
SS&H 273

Conventional approaches to the archaeology of colonialism in California have positioned missions, forts, and other colonial sites as settings of indigenous loss. In addition to the supposed disappearance of indigenous Coast Miwok people from Marin County, highly visible monuments in the present-day continually reinforce stories of cultural disappearance. This talk presents ongoing archaeological and historical research examining “Indigenous hinterlands” as critical sources of power and places of resiliency for native communities confronting multiple phases of colonization. Looking first at locations around San Francisco Bay where Native people may have found safe harbor from Franciscan missions, the talk will then examine recent discoveries from a mid-1800s era trading post at Tomales Bay. Here, Coast Miwok and others continued traditional resource gathering practices, they held dances, and they participated in the hide and tallow trade. The implications of this project are examined in light of other archaeological studies of colonialism within and outside of California, including growing efforts to document Native American landscapes and resilient indigenous cultures and histories.

Exciting Bay Area Conference started by Cabrillo College Anthropology Instructor, Jim Funaro, celebrating Cabrillo anthropology's 30th year. There will be many acclaimed speakers organized by Jim Funari, an anthropology dept alumnus of UC Davis. A good way for undergrads, grads, faculty and alum to connect to the broader NorCal anthro community that's sustained at colleges & universities big and small, including Cabrillo.

Wed, at 4: UCD Anthro. Ph.D. Candidate Adam Liebman talks environmental anthro. The Research Initiative in Environments and Societies announces its fourth event of the quarter - next Wednesday, November 15, 4-6, in Andrews Rm (2203 SSH).

Presenter: Adam Liebman, Anthropology, UC Davis

Paper: "The City as Resource Frontier: Scrap Trading and Scrappiness in Waste Filled Kunming, China"

Faculty Commentator: Dr. Julie Sze, American Studies, UC Davis

Graduate Student Commentator: Eveleen Sidana, Anthropology, UC Davis