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
We were able to send grad students Jayson Gill (@roadtoruins), Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville, and Tanner Kovach to the Paleoanthropology Society meeting with department travel grants made possible through fundraising efforts.
Graduate student Tanner Kovach presenting his analysis of stone tools from the Armenian Upper Palaeolithic site of Solak-1 at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #Paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #denver
Graduate student Iris Querenet Onfroy de Breville presenting her work on use-wear analysis of abraded coloring materials at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022
Graduate student Tanner Kovach finally earning his keep by running the registration table at the Paleoanthropology Society meeting. #paleos #paleoanths #paleoanths2022 #denver
Upcoming Events
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Feb
1
Exhibition Reception: Madeline Baird on 'Embodied Borders'3:00pm
Exhibition Reception: Madeline Baird on 'Embodied Borders'
Wednesday, February 1st, 2023
03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Storrs Campus Lounge / The Dodd Center for Human Rights
About This Event:
We welcome you to join us for a closing reception to celebrate and discuss the most recent exhibition in the hall of The Dodd Center for Human Rights with the photographer. Madeline Baird's 'Embodied Borders' reveals the human toll of the exportation of U.S. border enforcement through a series of captivating photographs.
Madeline Baird is a PhD student in Anthropology at UConn. Prior to enrolling at UConn, Madeline earned an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and worked for a decade supporting public health program design and community-based research. Her current research employs ethnographic methods to explore constructions of health inequity, human rights, and healing in Latin America.
About the Exhibition:
In recent decades, the extension of U.S. immigration and border enforcement policies to countries in Central America increasingly pressures migrant populations seeking refuge in the U.S. to travel the most remote and dangerous passages to the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2022, more than 200,000 migrants traversed the Darien Gap known to be one of the most dangerous sections of the journey through Central America. This series of photographs documents the embodied impact of the exportation of U.S. border enforcement 2,500 miles south of the U.S.-Mexico border for migrants in transit through Panama.
We're thrilled to have the support of numerous co-sponsors including the Department of Anthropology, El Instituto, the Research Program on Arts & Human Rights, and the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC).
Join us! This event is in-person only in the lounge of The Dodd Center for Human Rights. You can find more information at http://s.uconn.edu/embodied-borders-exhibition-reception
Light snacks & refreshments will be served.
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Feb
3
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Martín Medina Elizalde12:20pm
Geography Colloquium - Dr. Martín Medina Elizalde
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
12:20 PM - 01:20 PM
Storrs Campus AUST 110
Dr. Martín Medina Elizalde, Paleoclimatologist
Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences
UMass Amherst
Abstract:
The reasons behind the disintegration of the ancient Maya civilization during the Terminal Classic Period (TCP, CE ~800–1000) present a complex problem to disentangle. Was climate change the ultimate or the proximate factor in the disintegration of the Maya civilization? Diverse Paleoclimate archives support the hypothesis that drought created unfavorable conditions to sustain the Classic Maya civilization, while evidence has also supported the notion that socio-political context may have played a role in the abandonment of major Maya lowland centers. Did Classic Period Maya socio-political and economic factors make the Maya civilization particularly vulnerable to collapse? What lessons can we learn from the fate of the Maya civilization that are relevant to the future? We explore these questions and present evidence from speleothem paleoclimate records that climate change during the TCP was severe enough to impact the systems that sustained the development of the Classic Maya civilization.
Bio:
Dr. Martín Medina's research interests are in the areas of paleoclimatology and climate change with particular emphasis in reconstructing tropical temperature and hydrological variability during the Holocene, Pleistocene and Pliocene. He investigates the drivers of tropical climate variability during different climate states aiming to assess the Earth’s temperature and hydrological sensitivity to changes in orbital forcing and forcing by greenhouses gases. In addition, Martín investigates the impact of changes in rainfall amount in the development and collapse of the Maya civilization as an empirical means to assess potential societal disruptions driven by adverse hydrological conditions, and with the ultimate purpose of informing and stimulating human adaptive and mitigation responses to climate change. -
Feb
10
ECOM Speaker Series: Alison Springle4:00pm
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Mar
24
RMME Summer 2023 Application Deadline!12:00am
RMME Summer 2023 Application Deadline!
Friday, March 24th, 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus Gentry
Today is the last day to apply for Summer 2023 admission to the 100% Online Research Methods, Measurement, & Evaluation Master's degree program and the 100% Online Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation program. For more information, visit: https://rmme.education.uconn.edu/ -
Mar
27
Build Quantitative Research & Evaluation Skills Online!12:00am
Build Quantitative Research & Evaluation Skills Online!
Monday, March 27th, 2023
12:00 AM - 11:59 PM
Storrs Campus Online
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/
