Workshop on Linguistics in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Workshop on Linguistics in Haiti and the Dominican Republic Sponsored by: UF’s Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures and The Bavarian Funding Programme for the Initiation of International Projects (BayIntAn) Wednesday, 02 April, 2-5 pm, Pugh 210 2-2:30 pm Transcription, Translation & Ethnography in R. Pané’s Relación acerca de las antigüedades de los indios Hanna […]

FASA Colloquium April 4

Semblance in terrain: river crossings of a post-war landscape by Dr. Richard Kernaghan Fri. April 4 3pm* in 1208 Turlington Hall * change from usual time In this presentation I will dwell on the historicity of spatial prohibitions in a Amazonian region of Central Peru where for over thirty years a Maoist insurgency and a […]

AAA 2014 Sustainability Panel [CFP]

Elena Wilhoit of Northwestern University is organizing a panel for the 2014 AAA meeting. The theme is “Producing a Four Fields Anthropology of ‘Sustainability’”. To submit your paper to the panel, email the team. The deadline for all AAA submissions is April 15, 2014. The panel’s abstract and submission guidelines are thus: As people around […]

Changes in American Indian and Indigenous Studies

Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS) Dr. Robin Wright is now the CLAS faculty advisor of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program (NAIS), meaning that the existing Minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies, formerly housed in the Anthropology Department, is now based in Religion. A core group of Faculty and graduate students […]

JUR Editorial Board Opportunity

University Writing Program Workshop Series Peer Review: Reading Academic Papers for Professional Journals UF Anthropology students are encouraged to join the UF Journal of Undergraduate Research Editorial Board. To serve on the Board, a graduate student must attend the training workshop in their area (see below) and participate in a minimum of one review period […]

Distinguished Scholar Seminar: Charles Godfray

Distinguished Scholar Seminar The Florida Climate Institute is proud to host Professor Charles Godfray for our Distinguished Scholar Seminar, “The Role of Sustainable Intensification in Global Food Security,” in the University Auditorium from 2:00 until 3:30 pm on April 4. This seminar series is sponsored by a gift from Kevin and Jeannette Malone. There shall […]

FASA Colloquium, March 21

Tombs with a View: Using vertical archaeology to explore pre-Hispanic cliff tombs in Chachapoyas, Peru by Dr. Marla Tyone Fri. March 21 2pm in 205 Rolfs Hall Dr. J. Marla Toyne is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Anthropology from The […]

43rd Annual Charles H. Fairbanks Armadillo Roast

The 43rd Annual Charles H. Fairbanks Armadillo Roast will be held Saturday, March 29, 2014 at the Rancho El Cenote. The Armadillo Roast is a potluck and fundraiser for the Charles H. Fairbanks Scholarship. Those with a competitive spirit can enter their culinary creations in the pie contest, lock horns with colleagues and mentors in the horseshoes […]

St. Augustine artifacts donated to FLMNH

Over 97,00 Spanish artifacts from St. Augustine were donated to the Florida Museum of Natural History; museum archaeologists, including Anthropology adjunct professor Dr. Kathleen Deagan, are continuing work on the source site, the first Spanish colony in the New World at the Fountain of Youth Archaeological Park. “These artifacts are the only evidence we have […]

FASA Colloquium, March 14

Deven N. Vyas Sarah Kennedy Fri. March 14, 2014 2pm in 1208 Turlington Hall The Florida Anthropological Student Association hosts colloquia featuring UF anthropology students’ research. Check out this Friday’s presentations at 2pm in 1208 Turlington Hall. Bayesian analyses of >100 Yemeni mitochondrial genomes and implications for dispersals out of Africa Deven N. Vyas is […]

Anthropology

Month: March 2014