Mark your calendars!
On Tuesday, April 11, come celebrate our own Professor César Abadía-Barrero's new book, Health in Ruins, together with the author and three distinguished panelists: Carolyn Smith-Morris, Omar Dewachi, and Alejandro Cerón. Sponsored by the Research Program on Global Health & Human Rights at UConn Gladstein Family Human Rights Institute & UConn Anthropology.
Details & registration:
https://humanrights.uconn.edu/2023/02/01/book-celebration-health-in-ruins/?fbclid=IwAR2kThdQG0AQG0HPdjCagZZqvUoFrRZdPR95VNI9v0MwNfuZrVbq5oCsQ-c
More about Prof. Abadía-Barrero's book: https://www.dukeupress.edu/health-in-ruins
Congrats, Roxanne!
https://givingday.uconn.edu/o/university-of-connecticut-32/i/uconn-gives-2023/s/anthropologyandarchaeology
Mark your calendars; Giving Day, brought to you by UConn Gives, will be running this week on March 8th and 9th! It is a great opportunity to support the Department of Anthropology!
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Congratulations to our UConn alumna Hilda Lloréns who has recently been awarded two prizes for her latest book Making Livable Worlds: Afro-Puerto Rican Women Building Environmental Justice: the 2022 Gregory Bateson Book Prize and the Frank Bonilla Book Award from the Puerto Rican Studies Association!
What does it mean to be Jewish ...
... in Cuba? ... in Ethiopia? ... in Turkey?
... if you’re an atheist? ... LGBTQIA+? ...a Jew by Choice?
These are some of the questions we will explore in this course, which
taps into the rich anthropological scholarship on Jewish life and Jewish
communities around the world.
No prior knowledge of Judaism is required. Prior coursework in anthropology or sociology is helpful but not required.
This course will count as an ethnographic course toward the major or minor in Anthropology, toward the Religion minor, or as an elective for the major or minor in Judaic Studies.
Question? Email sarah.willen@uconn.edu
Join us next week for a talk on “Cultural Change during the Middle Stone Age” by Dr. Nicholas Conard from Universität Tübingen! @universitaet.tuebingen #archaeology #pleistocene
Professor Christian Tryon and graduate student Peyton Carroll survey coastal Sicily by boat looking for Paleolithic caves as part of the #eosicily project
PhD student Elena Skosey-lalonde (@skosejlen) at PAN AFs speaking in a session on marine cultural heritage management on community engaged approaches to research on the Swahili coast and Indian Ocean world.
UConn Anthropology PhD candidate Jayson P. Gill presented his research this morning at the Caucasus Network Through Time’s virtual seminar on New Directions in the Palaeolithic of the Caucasus. #archaeology
We are in the endgame now! Fundraising ends at 7pm EST. There is still time to support student research in Anthropology at UConn. A BIG thank you to everyone who has donated! Even a little bit makes a big difference for the graduate and undergraduate students in our department. >> https://tinyurl.com/43hrn9v7 #uconn #uconngives #uconngives2022 #anthropology
Today is UConn Gives and there is still time to help support undergraduate and graduate level anthropological research and conference travel! >> https://tinyurl.com/43hrn9v7
Check out the panel on Indigenous Futures in Multimedia hosted by our own Dr. Nathan Acebo! Registration link >> https://tinyurl.com/3c48bkwz
UConn Gives fundraising starts tomorrow! You can help support graduate and undergraduate anthropology research >> https://givingday.uconn.edu/o/university-of-connecticut-32/i/uconn-gives-2022/s/anthropology funds raised previously were recently used to help our graduate students afford the cost of travel to present their research at the AABA and Paleoanthropology conferences. #anthropology #archaeology #uconngives
Post-Doctoral Researcher Raquel Fleskes presenting her paper “Critical Translation and Transparency in Community Centered Ancient DNA Research: Insights from the Anson Street African Burial Ground Project” at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting. #aaba2022
PhD candidate Christina Balentine presenting aDNA analyses of the demographic histories of ancient hunter-gatherer groups from Chilean Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego at the American Association of Biological Anthropologists meeting. Posted with permission from Christina Balentine. #aaba2022
Graduate student Urvi Kaul presenting her research on Cribra Orbitalia prevalence and severity in Bronze Age Arabia at the AABAs. Co-first authored with Brittany Clark from Georgia Southern University. #aaba2022
Professor Christian Tryon presenting new descriptions of Ksar ‘Akil Upper Palaeolithic hominins at the Paleoanthropology meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022
PhD candidate Jayson Gill (@roadtoruins ) presenting a theoretical paper on optimal transmission, co-authored by Tanner Kovach, at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #archaeology
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Mar
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RMME Summer 2023 Application Deadline!12:00am
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27
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10
Build Quantitative Research & Evaluation Skills Online!12:00am
Build Quantitative Research & Evaluation Skills Online!
Monday, April 10th, 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
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Looking to be more competitive on the job market? Graduating and don't know what to do next? Want skills you can use at school, at work, AND in your everyday life? Check out UConn's Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation (RMME) Programs! Now accepting applications to the 100% Online RMME Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program! The application deadline for Fall 2023 enrollment is June 16th. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/ -
Apr
11
Book Celebration - Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital3:30pm
Book Celebration - Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
03:30 PM - 05:30 PM
Storrs Campus Humanities Institute Conference Room
This is a hybrid event, held in-person with the option to join online. Please RSVP to attend.
(In-person) RECEPTION: 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
(Hybrid) BOOK CELEBRATION & PANEL: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Join us for a panel celebrating Professor César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero’s new book, Health in Ruins, which chronicles the story of El Materno—Colombia’s oldest maternity and neonatal health center and teaching hospital—over several decades as it faced constant threats of government shutdown.
This team-based and collaborative ethnography analyzes the social life of neoliberal health policy. The book shows that health care privatization is not only about defunding public hospitals; it also ruins rich traditions of medical care by denying or destroying ways of practicing medicine that challenge Western medicine.
Our panel will include an overview of the book by Prof. Abadía-Barrero, followed by comments from three internationally renowned experts in medical anthropology and global health.
Please RSVP to join us at http://s.uconn.edu/health-in-ruins-book-celebration -
Apr
14
Doctoral Dissertation Oral Defense of Jayson P. Gill 3:00pm
