Anthropology Events

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Prof. Nadia Abu El-Hajj (Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University, Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies)
Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Listening to War (Stories): Therapeutic Citizenship and the Violence of Empire”  September 17
5pm - 7pm Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332 View Full Event
Laurie Rush
AIA Lecture: Dr. Laurie Rush, "Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas" September 20
5pm - 6pm Small Hall, Room 110 View Full Event
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International Archaeology Day September 21
1pm - 5pm Morton Hall, Room 340 View Full Event
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Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics of Racecraft September 23
7pm Alan B. Miller Hall (Business School), Brinkley Commons View Full Event
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Anthropology Brown Bag Talk: Abby Buffington, "The Pastoral Niche" September 25
12pm - 1pm Washington Hall, Room 101 View Full Event
Eminent Professor Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and History and the Director of Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at New School for Social Research
Decolonizing Humanities Project Presents: Ann Stoler: Colonial Disorders: A Planetary Reflection October 3
5pm - 7pm Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332 View Full Event
Prof. Sylvia Chong, Associate Professor of English and American Studies, University of Virginia
Sylvia Chong: Fifty Shades of Yellow: Fetishizing Culture and Race in Crazy Rich Asians October 8
5pm - 7pm Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332 View Full Event
Photo by: Mark Wolfe -- FEMA Community Relations (CR) interpreter, Phuong Huynh, speaks to Vietnamese residents of Biloxi, Mississippi. in line to get donated clothes.
Dr. Frank Cha's "Community Matters: Grassroots Activism & Vietnamese Americans in the US Gulf South" October 18
12pm - 1pm Morton Hall, Room 314 View Full Event
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Dan Sayers: "Creating Home: African and Native American Resistance Communities of the Dismal Swamp" October 18
2pm - 3:30pm Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201 View Full Event
Collection as a Surrealist State of Mind
Collection as a Surrealist State of Mind October 23
6pm - 7pm Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater View Full Event
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Emerging Scholars Series: Tomos Evans, “Exploring Earth’s Largest Monuments” November 6
2pm - 3pm Stryker Center, Boundary Street View Full Event
outdoors, outside, wren, weather vane, weathervane, roof, bird
Emerging Scholars Series: Maddy Bassett, “The Archaeology of Islam in the Horn of Africa” January 29
2pm - 3pm Stryker Center, Boundary Street View Full Event
outdoors, outside, wren, weather vane, weathervane, roof, bird
Emerging Scholars Series: Chardé Reid, “Virginia's First Africans at Historic Jamestowne” February 19
2pm - 3pm Stryker Center, Boundary Street View Full Event
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Raft Debate - A W&M Tradition March 19
6:30pm - 8pm Sadler Center, Chesapeake ABC View Full Event
Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Listening to War (Stories): Therapeutic Citizenship and the Violence of Empire” 
Tuesday, September 17
5pm - 7pm
Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332

Prof. Nadia Abu El-Haj (Anthropology,  Barnard College and Columbia University,  Co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies)  talks explores the field of military psychiatry and public understandings of the trauma of American soldiers.


    AIA Lecture: Dr. Laurie Rush, "Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas"
    Friday, September 20
    5pm - 6pm
    Small Hall, Room 110

    The Williamsburg AIA presents Dr. Laurie Rush, Cultural Resources Manager at Fort Drum, for a lecture on "Saving Archaeology in Crisis Areas."  


    International Archaeology Day
    Saturday, September 21
    1pm - 5pm
    Morton Hall, Room 340

    Interested in archaeology? Join us for a poster session, information on career and fieldwork opportunities, and a screening of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics of Racecraft
    Monday, September 23
    7pm
    Alan B. Miller Hall (Business School), Brinkley Commons

     Dr. Karen Fields and Dr. Barbara Fields, authors of Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, to hold an insightful presentation and conversation on moving forward together. This program is apart of the 400th Anniversary Commemoration.

    Anthropology Brown Bag Talk: Abby Buffington, "The Pastoral Niche"
    Wednesday, September 25
    12pm - 1pm
    Washington Hall, Room 101
      Decolonizing Humanities Project Presents: Ann Stoler: Colonial Disorders: A Planetary Reflection
      Thursday, October 3
      5pm - 7pm
      Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332

      Ann Stoler (Willy Brandt Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry at the New School) presents the ways in which knowledge production prevents us from grappling with the radicalized afterlives of colonialism.


       

        Sylvia Chong: Fifty Shades of Yellow: Fetishizing Culture and Race in Crazy Rich Asians
        Tuesday, October 8
        5pm - 7pm
        Blow Memorial Hall, Room 332

        Sylvia Chong (English and Asian American Studies at UVA and Director of the Asian American Studies Program) will present material from her newest project, "Fifty Shades of Yellow: Fetishizing Culture and Transnationalizing Race in Crazy Rich Asians"

          Dr. Frank Cha's "Community Matters: Grassroots Activism & Vietnamese Americans in the US Gulf South"
          Friday, October 18
          12pm - 1pm
          Morton Hall, Room 314

          Dr. Frank Cha received his Ph.D. in American Studies from William & Mary. This talk traces the emergence of Vietnamese American communities in Louisiana and Mississippi and their growing wave of social and environmental activism.

          Dan Sayers: "Creating Home: African and Native American Resistance Communities of the Dismal Swamp"
          Friday, October 18
          2pm - 3:30pm
          Blow Memorial Hall, Room 201

          Join the W&M Anthropology Department this Homecoming Weekend as Dr. Daniel O. Sayers, Chair of the Department of Anthropology at American University, presents "Creating Home: African and Native American Resistance Communities of the Great Dismal Swamp." 

          Collection as a Surrealist State of Mind
          Wednesday, October 23
          6pm - 7pm
          Tucker Hall, Tucker Theater


          Emerging Scholars Series: Tomos Evans, “Exploring Earth’s Largest Monuments”
          Wednesday, November 6
          2pm - 3pm
          Stryker Center, Boundary Street

          Tomos Llywelyn Evans, a doctoral student in Anthropology, will present an Emerging Scholars Series talk for the public. Presented through partnership between the A&S Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library.

          Emerging Scholars Series: Maddy Bassett, “The Archaeology of Islam in the Horn of Africa”
          Wednesday, January 29
          2pm - 3pm
          Stryker Center, Boundary Street

          Madeleine Bassett, a doctoral student in Anthropology, will present an Emerging Scholars Series talk for the public. Presented through partnership between the A&S Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library.


          Emerging Scholars Series: Chardé Reid, “Virginia's First Africans at Historic Jamestowne”
          Wednesday, February 19
          2pm - 3pm
          Stryker Center, Boundary Street

          L Chardé Reid, a doctoral student in Anthropology, will present an Emerging Scholars Series talk for the public. Presented through partnership between the A&S Graduate Center and the Williamsburg Regional Library.


          Raft Debate - A W&M Tradition
          Thursday, March 19
          6:30pm - 8pm
          Sadler Center, Chesapeake ABC

          The Annual Raft Debate will be held on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sadler Center's Chesapeake ABC.  The event is free and open to the public. The 2020 participants will be announced in the Fall.  Mark your calendars now!