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Life Challenges Human Resilience

Event Date: 11/1/16 Location: Hughes-Trigg Portico BCD Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Please join the DCII Life Challenges and Human Resilience Research Cluster in conversation about scholarship and interventions related to challenging life experiences and people’s responses to them. For more information visit, http://www.smu.edu/Dedman/DCII/Events

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“Gender Migration” by Dr. Caroline Brettell, Ruth Collins Altshuler Prof of Anthropology, director of the Interdisciplinary Institute

SMU Research Originally Posted: October 13, 2016 Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. In a timely book on the subject, SMU anthropologist Caroline B. Brettell argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past […]

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Data is Made Up of Stories: University-wide Futures from the Digital Humanities Series Digital Face of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Project

Event Date: November 7, 2016 Location: The Forum, Hughes Trigg Student Center Time:11:45 a.m. Join Professor Eltis from Emory University as he assess the impact of www.slavevoyages since its launch in 2008 on scholarship on slavery in the Atlantic world and more especially on how the site has interacted with the digital humanities revolution. Lunch […]

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SMU Lecture Oct. 20: Political Leanings May Be Genetic

SMU NEWS Originally Posted: October 11, 2016 Fear and disgust reflexes correlate with stronger conservative values DALLAS (SMU) – In the past 30 years, scientists have discovered that traits like alcoholism, sexual orientation and being left-handed are determined genetically, rather than by an individual’s environment. Now, Rice Political Science Professor John R. Alford wants to […]

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Professor Brettell presents on U.S. immigration policies

Daily Collegian Originally Posted: September 28, 2016 Anthropologist Caroline Brettell, a professor at Southern Methodist University, presented the lecture “Gender and Migration of U.S. Immigration policies” on Tuesday, Sept. 27 in the Campus Center. In her lecture, hosted by the department of anthropology, she talked about the relationship between gender and the causes and consequences […]

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Cancelled | Director’s Visiting Scholar Lecture | Harvey J. Graff

Due to circumstances beyond our control, Thursday’s Director’s Visiting Scholar Lecture with Harvey Graff has been cancelled. We are hoping to reschedule his visit and lecture for the coming Spring.  READ MORE

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Save the date: Archives and Blue Lives, October 3

Event date: Monday, October 3rd Time: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Location: McCord Auditorium, Dallas Hall Archives and Blue Lives. Join Jarrett M. Drake, Digital Archivist at the Princeton University Archives for a special guest lecture. In light of this summer’s tragic shootings, many individuals are asking: “What contributions, if any, can the archive make towards restoring […]

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Social Science in the Age of Social Media

Event date: Monday, September 26 Location: Forum, Hughes-Trigg Theater Time: 11:45 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. Social Science in the Age of Social Media. Join Kieran Healy, Associate Professor of Sociology at Duke University as he lectures on the role of social media platforms in academic disciplines. The talk will discuss the character of “latently public” work resulting […]

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Caroline Brettell discusses the history of anthropology’s connections to other disciplines

Items Originally Posted: June 7, 2016 A Reflection on Anthropology and Inter/Cross/Multidisciplinarity Drawing on her recent book Anthropological Conversations, Caroline Brettell discusses the history of anthropology’s connections to other disciplines. Through examples of they how anthropologists have collaborated with, influenced and been influenced by historians, geographers and psychologists, she traces intellectual exchanges that have been productive […]

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Deadline Extended: 2016-2017 Interdisciplinary Fellowship in the Digital Humanities

The fellowship experience will let you explore new ideas and topics, broaden your expertise, enhance your sophistication in interviews, and see how your skills relate to and can be helpful to those in other fields. Students will leave this course with the skills necessary to execute a digital humanities project and engage in top-level conversations […]