Department of AnthropologyPast Events
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JT Roane - (Department of Geography, Rutgers University) - "Topology of Flames: The Political Ecology of Fire in Late Twentieth Century Philadelphia"
March 11, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Elif Babul - (Mount Holyoke College) - "Legal Truth, Migrant Criminality, and Migration Management in Turkey"
February 26, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels - (University of Maryland) - "Biodiversity and Climate Change in Italian Vinicultural Heritage Landscapes"
February 19, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Chloe Ahmann - (Cornell University) - "Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse"
February 12, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Myra Laird - (School of Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania) - "A Tough Nut to Crack: The Development of Dietary Adaptations"
February 5, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Nidhi Mahajan - (University of California, Santa Cruz) - "A View from the Dhow: Capitalism and Sovereignty in the Indian Ocean"
January 29, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Alex Nading - (Cornell University) - "The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and the Limits of Life Support in Nicaragua’s Sugarcane Zone
January 22, 2024
Penn Museum 345
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Jim Sykes - (Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania) - "Not a Real Job?: Musical Labor, Productivity, and Value in the Anthropocene"
December 11, 2023
Museum 345
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Stephanie Levy - (Department of Anthropology, Hunter College-CUNY) - “Do early-life environments shape brown fat activity in adulthood? Implications for human energetics, adaptation, and health
December 4, 2023
Museum 345
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Emily Lindsey (Excavation Site Director, La Brea Tar Pits and Museum) - "Dawn of the Anthropocene: How Humans in a Warming Climate Drove Pleistocene Mammal Extinctions and Re-shaped California’s Landscapes"
November 27, 2023
Museum 345