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Special Issue of @PublicAnthropol: Ethnography, Politics, Commitment: Engaging with the Work of #LauraNader @cari_borja @CalAnthro @WeaponizingAnth @GustersonP #anthrotwitter - brill.com/view/journals/puan…
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This Fellowship, established by Dr. Sam Dubal’s family and friends, seeks to honor his legacy and uphold his unwavering commitment to justice in anthropology and medicine. ls.berkeley.edu/news/dr-sam-…
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Congrats to Professor Kent Lightfoot @CalAnthro is recipient of @SCAHome 2021 David A. Fredrickson Lifetime Achievement Award...given for cumulative contributions to California archaeology that have spanned a lifetime & are therefore reserved for elder members of our profession.
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Join us tonight for the Society for California Archaeology @SCA Annual Awards, honoring Kent Lightfoot, Nick Tipon, and Mark Hylkema!
More info: scahome.org/sca-meeting-awar…
@NorCoStateParks @CAStateParks @CalAnthro #gratonrancheria
Quick registration via sfca.wildapricot.org/event-4…
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@CalAnthro grad student AJ White (@Poopy_Arch) used fecal stanols as human biomarkers to uncover a story of Native American and indigenous persistence in Cahokia, the largest archaeological site in America. #GradSlam
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You helped raise 15,991 gifts totaling $11,881,398 during this year's #CalBigGive.
Thank you,
Fiat Lux,
and Go Bears!
ALT Night shot of Campanile at UC Berkeley with the text Big Thanks.
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Big Give, UC Berkeley's 24-hour fundraising extravaganza, begins tonight at 9 pm and ends tomorrow, March 11, at 9 pm. We hope you will give big in support of archaeology by making a donation at give.berkeley.edu/arf. This year: TRIPLE MATCH offer on all donations up to $5000!
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UC Berkeley is well represented on this 3/23 panel on Sierra Leone - Prof. Mariane Ferme from @CalAnthro and alum @SusanShepler. #UCBAfrica
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🐻Cal Big Give
⌚️March 10, 9 pm PT, to March 11, 9 pm PT
🌟biggive.berkeley.edu/
#CalBigGive
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Please join us Th., March 4, 4pm EST, when we host Charles Hirschkind @CalAnthro, who will discuss his new book, The Feeling of History @UChicagoPress @iueuro @hamiltonlugar
Zoom registration: bit.ly/3pF0U4I
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Join us next Tuesday, March 9, for a special talk with filmmaker George Tombs about his documentary "The Blinding Sea", which covers the life of polar explorer Roald Amundsen and his relations with the Native people he met on his voyages. RSVP at bit.ly/3jXLdo8.
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Professor Mariane Ferme from UC Berkeley's Departmet of Anthropology @CalAnthro will be part of this panel Sierra Leone on March 23.
You absolutely do not want to miss this panel on March 23.
#SierraLeone’s foremost historians will talk about the Civil War!
I registered cause Prof @BlydenNemata 👸🏾 will be in the building and everytime she speaks it's an education for me!
Register: lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/re…
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Prof. Mariane Ferme from UCB Anthropology @CalAnthro will also be talking tomorrow, 2 March, at 8:15 AM PST/4:15 PM UK time.
On Tuesday 2 March (4.15pm, UK time), Mariane C. Ferme (Professor of Anthropology and African Studies, UC Berkeley) will present on 'Towards an "icnology" of war: traces of other conflicts amidst the destruction'.
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Excited to host Charles Hirschkind @CalAnthro, who will discuss his new book, The Feeling of History @UChicagoPress
-- Please join us March 4, 4pm EST
@iueuro @hamiltonlugar @IU_Anthropology
Zoom registration: bit.ly/3pF0U4I
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Research by ARF Affiliated Faculty Lisa Maher (Anthropology) recently found the earliest example of a funerary practice involving fire dating to 19,200 years ago.
sciencenews.org/article/anci…
Published in J of Anthropological Archaeology. Vol. 61, March 2021.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Charles Hirschkind's new book: "Against this xenophobic tendency, [the book] examines the idea of #Andalucismo—a modern tradition founded on the principle that contemporary Andalusia is connected in vitally important ways with medieval Islamic Iberia" @CalAnthro @UChicagoPress
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Our first roundtable, WELFARE, will be held on February 26, 2021 @ 3PM GMT. Join the conversation with Daena Funahashi (@CalAnthro), me (@SMU), @kmtamurphy (@AnthropologyUci), Renita Thedvall (@Stockholm_Uni), and Halvard Vike (@USN_info) by registering @ newnordicanthro.com/attend
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Our own Meg Conkey reflects on the significance of a modified giant conch shell found at 18,000 year old context in Marsoulas cave in the French Pyrenees.
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Upcoming Brownbag and other events this week
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This Monday, we welcome Dr. Jada Benn Torres, from Vanderbilt University, for a talk on "'Go Back and Fetch It': Anthropological Genetic Approaches to History, Identity, and Disease". Please join us 2 - 4pm, Monday! Zoom link to register:
tinyurl.com/TorresTalk
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