Past Events

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Anthropology and Innovation in the Technology Industry

April 10, 2023
Delta Innovation Hub (210 Spring Street) Main Presentation Area (Room 100)
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Anthropology Day

February 16, 2023
Baldwin Hall Entrance (In the case of poor weather conditions, the event will be moved inside Baldwin Hall in the 1st floor café area)
“Citadels of Conservation: Mapping More than human Worlds of Environmental Protection in Bhutan” David Hecht, PhD Candidate, Integrative Conservation & Anthropology Committee: Drs. Pete Brosius (Major Advisor), Meredith Welch-Devine (ICON Representative), Robert Cooper, Sienna Craig (Dartmouth College), and Julie Velasquez Runk (Wake Forest University) Thursday, November 17, 3:00 PM Location pending (likely Candler Hall, Room 115) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/97781154793?pwd=OFgyVUhLdm5ZdXV2TW44SUJ4cTd2dz09

Citadels of Conservation: Mapping More than human Worlds of Environmental Protection in Bhutan

David Hecht (University of Georgia)
November 17, 2022
Location pending
Local Practice Between Empires: The Bioarchaeology of El Japón (San Gregorio Atlapulco, Mexico), 1550-1650CE A Dissertation Defense by Edgar Alarcón Tinajero University of Georgia Department of Anthropology

Local Practice Between Empires: The Bioarchaeology of El Japón

Edgar Alarcón (University of Georgia)
November 15, 2022
Baldwin Hall Room 101B
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"Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: The Role of Relational Citizen Science in the Conservation and Care of Laysan Albatross in the Hawaiian Islands"

November 15, 2022
Virtual
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"Reconsidering the Depopulation of the St. Lawrence River Valley Using a Radiocarbon and Material-Based Perspective" - Dissertation Defense by Jon Micon

November 11, 2022
Baldwin Hall
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"Radiocarbon Dating Early Trade and World System Expansion in Iroquoian Southern Ontario, Canada, AD 1550-1650" -- Dissertation Defense by Megan Conger

November 7, 2022
Baldwin Hall Room 202
Mary Porter

"Delineating Indigenous Chronologies and Rediscovering the History of the Buckhead Site (9CH150), Ossabaw Island, Georgia" - Mary Porter Freeman, Master's Thesis

November 3, 2022
Contact for location details
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Guest Speaker, Dr. Bondarenko

November 2, 2022
109 Sanford Hall
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Archaeological Institute of America Inaugural Program with Drs. Danielle Riebe and Jennifer Birch

October 26, 2022
Online (EST)
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Anthropology Guest Speaker

Dr. Hsain Ilahiane, (Mississippi State University)
October 21, 2022
264 Baldwin Hall
Stop by Friday, September 9th from 1-3 pm at the Anthropology Main Office (250 Baldwin Hall) to view our undergraduate and graduate galleries, vote for this year's winners, and enjoy sweet treats and refreshments!

Photo Contest Gallery Show

September 9, 2022
250 Baldwin Hall
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Photo Contest

September 6, 2022
Baldwin Hall/Online
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Graduate Student Welcome Reception

August 19, 2022
170 Baldwin Hall: Lobby and Courtyard next to Coffee Shop
Orientation Poster

Graduate Student Orientation

August 16, 2022
250 Baldwin Hall

The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives

Dr. Tim Murtha, University of Florida,
March 25, 2022
TBD

The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives

Dr. Sarah Sherwood, The University of the South,
February 25, 2022
TBD
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"Conflicting sovereignties: Global conservation, protected areas and Indigenous nations in the Peruvian Amazon," Dr. Roger Merino

Dr. Roger Merino, School of Public Management (Universidad del Pacífico, Lima, Peru)
February 18, 2022
Zoom

The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives

Dr. Logan Kistler, Smithsonian Institution,
January 28, 2022
TBD
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Alexandra Hofner's Prospectus Defense

Alexandra Hofner (University of Georgia)
December 10, 2021
Zoom
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Jacob Weger's Doctoral Dissertation Defense

Jacob Weger (University of Georgia)
December 10, 2021
Zoom
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Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS): An Introduction for Archaeological and Cultural Materials

Dr. Lindsay Bloch, Florida Museum of Natural History & Ben Yahola from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma,
November 19, 2021
Zoom
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Jonathan Hallemeier's Doctoral Dissertation Defense

Jonathan Hallemeier (University of Georgia)
November 18, 2021
Sanford Hall, Room 309 & Zoom
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Russell Cutts' Doctoral Dissertation Defense

November 18, 2021
Geology-Geography 142 & Zoom
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Wounaan Cultural Team's Book Launch

November 16, 2021
Zoom
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Walker DePuy's Doctoral Dissertation Defense

November 16, 2021
Zoom
Raul prospectus defense

Raul Basilio's Prospectus Defense

Raul Basilio (University of Georgia)
November 11, 2021
Baldwin Hall, G41 & Zoom
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Sammantha Holder's Doctoral Dissertation Defense

October 25, 2021
Baldwin Hall 480 and via Zoom
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The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives

Dr. Fred Andrus, The University of Alabama,
October 22, 2021
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The Intersection of Archaeological Science and Tribal Perspectives

Dr. Carla Hadden, UGA Center for Applied Isotope Studies,
September 30, 2021
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Karen Strier

Saving the World's Most Peaceful Primates

Dr. Karen Strier, (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
September 11, 2020
Zoom Meeting ID: 952 9760 3434, Passcode: 375502
Anthro Day is February 20, 2020

World Anthropology Day 2020

February 20, 2020
The Lab of Archaeology-1125 Whitehall Rd
Andrew Martindale

The Stories We Tell: Evaluating Historical Claims in Tsimshian Oral Traditions in the Context of Aboriginal Rights and Titles

Andrew Martindale, Department of Archaeology (University of British Columbia)
January 31, 2020
Baldwin Hall - Room 264
Dr. Woo - Flyer

UGA Geology Colloquium - Dr. Katherine Woo

Dr. Katherine Woo , Department of Archaeology (University of Sydney)
November 22, 2019
Room 200A / Geography-Geology Building
Jon Micon - Prospectus Flyer

Prospectus Defense - Jon Micon

Jonathan Micon (University of Georgia)
November 21, 2019
Baldwin, Room 202
Dissertation Defense - Jennifer DeMoss

Dissertation Defense - Jennifer DeMoss

November 18, 2019
Miller Learning Center - Room 214
Anya M. Bonanno │ Dissertation Prospectus

Re-examining Property through Women’s Claims to Gardens in Northern Sierra Leone

Anya M. Bonanno , Anthropology (University of Georgia)
November 12, 2019
Baldwin Hall, G32
Grant Snitker Event

Title: "Creating new connections between archaeology, paleoecology, and fire science to evaluate long-term human impacts on fire regimes"

Grant Snitker, PhD Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences (UGA)
October 17, 2019
Biological Sciences Building, room 0404A
Professor Kelly Swing

Title: "The arguments are sound, but does science really have a chance to save the Amazon?"

Professor Kelly Swing , Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences (Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ))
October 11, 2019
Ecology Auditorium
Lecture: "Stuck Within the Caves"

Lecture: "Stuck Within the Caves"

Marcel Bradtmoeller , (University of Rostock)
October 1, 2019
Miller Learning Center - Room 150
Pugmarks

Pugmarks and Footprints - Daniel Read's Dissertation Defense

April 30, 2019
Miller Learning Center, Room 251
Mytum

When People Became Part of History

Dr. Harold Mytum, Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology (University of Liverpool)
April 5, 2019
Baldwin Hall Room 264
Olsen

Health and Diet Among a Medieval Poorhouse Population

January 11, 2019
Baldwin Hall Room 264
STEM

UGA STEMzone 2018

November 10, 2018
Lawn of Miller Learning Center
ArchDay

International Archaeology Day

October 20, 2018
Front Lawn of UGA Geography-Geology Building
HowToRust

How To Rust: Explorations in the Relational Ontologies of a Postindustrial Landscape

Julia Yezbick,
October 19, 2018
Baldwin Hall Room 264
Perez

Listening to the Dead

October 12, 2018
MLC Room 248
Wesley Stoner, archaeologist, Univesity of Arkansas

Agricultural Intensification and Political Control (?) in the Classic Gulf Lowlands of Veracruz (~AD 200-800)

Wesley Stoner, J. William Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Anthropology (University of Arkansas)
April 26, 2018
Baldwin Hall 264
to honor our 2017 and 2018 graduates and celebrate our anthropology students and faculty’s academic and research success.

Recognition Gathering and Reception

April 20, 2018
264 Baldwin Hall; reception to follow, Pinnacle Room
Teotihuacan ancient civilization

Good government: Past and present

Richard Blanton, Department of Anthropology (Purdue University)
April 6, 2018
MLC room 214*
People in Zanzibar buzy on a riverbank.

Conservation, Cooperation and Carbon Credits: The challenge of REDD+ on Pemba Zanzibar

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, Department of Anthropology Evolutionary Wing (University of California Davis)
March 23, 2018
Baldwin Hall room 264
Ventura Pérez at microscope researching skeletal remains.

Listening to the Dead: Biocultural Anthropology, Violence Studies, and the Political Lives of Dead Bodies

Ventura Pérez, Department of Anthropology (University of Massachusetts)
March 9, 2018
Baldwin Hall, room 264
Photo of ancient Roman arches on a simple road

West meets East: Commerce Between Ancient Rome and South Asia

Sethuraman Suresh, Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (2018 Archaeological Institute of America Lecturer)
March 5, 2018
Room 214 Miller Learning Center
AnthroDay

Anthropology Day

February 15, 2018
In and Around Baldwin Hall
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“Family Farms, Family Land: Customary Land Tenure and Change in Sierra Leone”

Andrew Bonanno, Department of Anthropology (University of Georgia)
February 7, 2018
Tate Center Room 141
Torben Rick doing field research

Evolution of a Fishery and Decline of an Estuary: Archaeology and Historical Ecology of the Chesapeake Bay

Torben Rick, Division of Human Ecology and Archaeobiology (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
January 19, 2018
Baldwin Hall room 264
David Hurst Thomas with a scenic background of blue sky and clouds

“Unearthing Georgia’s Deep Hispanic Heritage: Still Digging on St. Catherines Island”

David Hurst Thomas, curator of anthropology since 1972 (American Museum of Natural History in New York )
November 17, 2017
Richard B. Russell Building Special Collections Libraries Auditorium, UGA
Christopher Wolff, Albany at University, SUNY

Close to the Edge: New Research into the Archaic Colonization of the Eastern Subarctic

Christopher Wolff, Department of Anthropology (University at Albany, SUNY)
September 14, 2017
CAIS Seminar Room • 120 Riverbend Road
Photo of Northern Mesopotamia

What do we know about early Urbanism? A zooarchaeological perspective on animal exploitation patterns during the Bronze Age periods in Northern Mesopotamia

Lubnar Omar, anthropology (Binghamton University)
August 18, 2017
Baldwin room G41
left section: Florida boat ride; right section: students standing in Singer-Moye grid

Summer 2017 archaeological field schools provide hands-on experience

July 11, 2017
Mound Key FL; Sapelo Island, GA; Singer-Moye Mounds, GA
Department Head Ervan Garrison invites you to the Recognition Gathering and Reception

Department Recognition Gathering and Reception

April 21, 2017
Baldwin room 264, then Latin American Ethnobotanical Garden
Jennifer Jo Thompson

Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Seminar Series

Jenn Thompson, Assistant Research Scientist, Crop and Soil Sciences (Ujniversity of Georgia)
April 17, 2017
Conner Hall Room #307
Charles Hale and old Lain American woman

Activist Research as Decolonizing Practice

Charles Hale, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies and Department of Anthropology (University of Texas at Austin)
April 12, 2017
Miller Learning Center, room 348
Book jacket: Crafting Wounaan Landscapes

Lessons from Publishing an Integrative and Community-Based Participatory Research Book

April 7, 2017
Room 264 Baldwin Hall
Ashley Stinnett, Western Kentucky University

Visual Anthropology: From theory to fieldwork

Ashley Stinnett, Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology (Western Kentucky University)
March 24, 2017
Baldwin Room 264
Andrew Paterson

Sustainable Food Systems Initiative Seminar Series

Andrew Paterson, Regents Professor; Director, Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
March 20, 2017
Conner Hall Room #307
Owsley

Life and Death in Early Colonial American Settlements

Douglas Owsley, (Smithsonian Institution)
March 2, 2017
Georgia Museum of Art’s M. Smith Griffith Auditorium
Archaeologist Robert Kelly stands before dramatic mesas

The Fifth Beginning: What six million years of human history can tell us about our future

Robert Kelly, anthropology (University of Wyoming)
February 24, 2017
Miller Learning Center room 348
Students at the Mound

Singer-Moye Field School Info Session

February 22, 2017
Room 264 Baldwin Hall
eighteen-century map of London showing the scalar effects of human networks there

Scalar Effects of Human Networks: Archaeological Evidence

Scott Ortman, Ph.D., Department of Anthropology (University of Colorado)
January 20, 2017
room 264, Baldwin Hall
Sarah Hitchner outdoors with mountain, scrub background

Snake Oil, Silver Buckshot, and People Who Hate Us—

Sarah Hitchner, Ph.D., Owens Institute for Behavioral Research (University of Georgia)
January 13, 2017
Baldwin Hall room 264
Carey Garland working on the Old Athens Cemetery dig

Defense prospectus: Biocultural Dynamics of Spanish Colonization on St. Catherines Island, GA: Bioarchaeological Perspectives...

December 8, 2016
room G41 Baldwin Hall
Pablo Lapegna book launch, 4 pm MLC 11/9, room 268

Book launch, Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina

Pablo Lapegna, Ph.D., Department of Sociology (University of Georgia)
November 9, 2016
MLC room 268
Marilyn Rodriguez

We welcome Marilyn Rodriguez

Marilyn Rodriguez,
October 26, 2016
New business manager of our department
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Talk title to be announced

October 6, 2016
Baldwin Hall, room 264
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Talk title to be announced

September 23, 2016
Baldwin Hall, room 264

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