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November 2016
FASA Colloquium
Date: November 18, 2016 Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 3pm Speaker: Aaron Victoria Talk Title and Description: Finding 'Rhythms in the Road': How Mobilities become Livelihoods on Central America's Pan-American Highway How do roads produce rhythms that pace and give texture to social worlds? How do communities that emerge in the vicinity of transit infrastructure capitalize on how movement is patterned in order to generate livelihoods? During this colloquium Aaron Victoria discusses these questions through a review of his ongoing dissertation…
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FASA Colloquium
FASA invites you to join us for our first colloquium of the semester this Friday! Hope to see you all there! Date: January 27, 2017 Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 2pm Speaker: Dr. Simeon Magliveras Assistant Professor of Anthropology at King Fadh University of Petroleum and Minerals Talk Title and Description: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s): Transnationals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia This talk will focus on Filipinos in Saudi Arabia. There are many unique aspects of Saudi Arabia. In…
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FASA invites you to join us for our first colloquium of the semester this Friday! Hope to see you all there! Date: January 27, 2017 Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 2pm Speaker: Dr. Simeon Magliveras Assistant Professor of Anthropology at King Fadh University of Petroleum and Minerals Talk Title and Description: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW’s): Transnationals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia This talk will focus on Filipinos in Saudi Arabia. There are many unique aspects of Saudi Arabia. In…
Find out more »March 2017
FASA Coloquium
FASA would like to invite you to this weeks’ colloquium. We will have two speakers this week, presenting on related research topics. Date: Friday, March 31st Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 3-4pm Speakers: Elise Geissler, PhD student in Dr. Daegling’s lab (ABD) Taylor Polvadore, PhD student in Dr. Daegling’s lab Elise’s Talk Title and Description: Title: Female sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) select softer seeds than males Teeth are frequently used to make inferences regarding the diets of extinct non-human primates…
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FASA would like to invite you to this weeks’ colloquium. We will have two speakers this week, presenting on related research topics. Date: Friday, March 31st Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 3-4pm Speakers: Elise Geissler, PhD student in Dr. Daegling’s lab (ABD) Taylor Polvadore, PhD student in Dr. Daegling’s lab Elise’s Talk Title and Description: Title: Female sooty mangabeys (Cercocebus atys) select softer seeds than males Teeth are frequently used to make inferences regarding the diets of extinct non-human primates…
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FASA Colloquium
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FASA would like to invite you to this week's colloquium! Date: Tuesday, 9/9/2017 Location: Turlington 1208 Time: 4-5pm Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Jett, PhD, MSN, BSN is a board certified gerontological nurse practitioner with a doctorate degree in Anthropology. Her area of interest is healthy aging, care management, and health disparities. Come learn more about this Gator alumna's career path, current research, and how she combines her anthropological training with her clinical work! Please RSVP by emailing "Sign Up" in the title of your email to Han…
Find out more »October 2017
FASA Colloquium
Hi Everyone! FASA is excited to invite you to colloquia Tuesday at 4pm. We will be hearing from visiting linguistics professor Bruna Franchetto and our very own Roberto Muñoz-Pando. When: Tuesday Oct 3rd, 4-5pm Where: CSE Building, Room E252 RSVP: http://FASA10317.rsvpify.com What: 2 Talks! Linguistic Documentation, Education and Revitalization in Brazilian Indigenous Languages (Dr. Franchetto) About 160 indigenous Brazilian languages still survive in different levels of vitality, maintaining a great genetic and dialectical diversity. All these languages must be considered from vulnerable to critical…
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FASA Colloquium on Oct. 17th. with Dr. Broadwell The Timucua people were the original inhabitants of Gainesville and nearby parts of North Florida. Although the Timucua are now gone and their language is extinct, we can still learn about Timucua knowledge of the environment from the documents they left behind. In this respect, the 1627 Catecismo en lengua timuquana y castellana, is a previously unrecognized source of great value. The 1627 Catechism details the creation of the world in substantial detail, and the Timucua…
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How diaspora lives in language: young Syrian Jewish Mexicans in the 21st century Dr. Evelyn Maria Dean-Olmsted is an assistant professor in the Dept of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Peidras. As a linguistic anthropologist, she studies language, power, and social identity in Latin America. She will present her ethnographic work on language and identity among Syrio-Lebanese Jews in Mexico City. She analyzes how speakers creatively and pragmatically draw on semiotic resources to forge relations…
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