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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]