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January 2018
Job Talk: CAPHIL Assistant Research Scientist
1/16/2017—10 am—CSE E252—Julie Fleischman
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1/18/2017—4 pm—CSE E252—Sean Tallman
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1/22/2017—3 pm—TBA—Katelyn Bolhofner Dr. Katelyn Bolhofner, the fourth candidate for the CAPHIL Research Assistant Scientist position, will be giving her talk, Telling their Stories: Advancing Skeletal Analysis and Interpretation in Forensic Anthropology, on Monday, January 22nd at 3 pm in 1208 TUR.
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1/25/2018—3 pm—CSE E252—Corinna Most "Primates in a land of plenty: The effects of ecological change on female reproduction, maternal behavior, and infant development."
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1/29/2018—3 pm—CSE E252—Ramey Moore "Our Land Is Not Just Soil: Knowing, Feeling, and Doing Environmental Activism in the Ozarks."
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Job Talk: Lecturer Faculty
2/5/2018—3 pm—CSE E252—Stephanie Bogart
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2/8/2018—4 pm—404 GRI—Adrienne Strong "Bureaucratic Proliferation, Surveillance, and Care Practices: The Partograph as Technology and Bureaucratic Document" The partograph, graphical representation of a pregnant woman’s labor, is a simple technology meant to help healthcare providers detect serious problems for the mother or her baby before she gives birth. Despite its presence in many low resource settings, providers often do not use it in the ways in which technical experts and policy makers imagine. Insight from the producers of these global/local…
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2/12/2018—4 pm—CSE E252—Kristen McLean "Engendering Change: Fatherhood, Masculinity and Resilience in the Context of Ebola." In this talk I will be focusing on the concept of resilience and asking how people construct and sustain wellbeing despite exposure to significant adversity. I will discuss my work on fatherhood, masculinity and psychosocial wellbeing in Sierra Leone, examining how experiences of fatherhood, within a context of shifting gender norms, shape resilience among young men with implications for their mental health. I will also…
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2/15/2018—4 pm—CSE E252—Emily Mendenhall "Syndemic Diabetes: Entanglements with Poverty, Trauma, and AIDS" This talk will introduce the concept of syndemics, a theory of how social and health problems travel together within and between populations. Dr. Mendenhall will discuss the concept of syndemic diabetes (type 2) through a discussion of her mixed methods research among low-income urban communities in the United States, India, South Africa, and Kenya. In doing so, she argues that it is impossible to understand diabetes in such…
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