Visiting Lecture Series
See Also: 2008 Lectures
2009: A Scholarly Potpourri
The Department of Anthropology has sponsored the Visiting Lecturer program for 33 years. We are fortunate to have this speaker’s series as there are few like it in the entire nation. Without a doubt, this is an extraordinary opportunity for you to become more familiar with current research in contemporary anthropology.
A primary objective is to provide students and faculty the chance to meet leading scholars in anthropology and related disciplines to learn more about their previous and continuing research. Another major objective of this class is to provide students with an overview of the diversity of research subsumed under anthropology and related disciplines. Selected faculty and graduate students from UT will talk about their research, to give you an idea what being an anthropologist is all about and hopefully inspire you to make your own unique contributions to the discipline.
- ANTH 550 (For Graduate Students) - Contemporary Issues in Anthropology
Mondays @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm/Hodges Library Auditorium
- ANTH 357/450 (For Undergraduate Students) - Current Trends in Anthropology
Tuesday–Thursday @ 3:40 – 4:55 pm (every class period)
Coordinator: Dr. Gerald Schroedl
On behalf of the faculty of the Department of Anthropology, The University of Tennessee
Schedule
| Date | Guest Speaker | Topic | |
| ANTH 357/450 | September 1 | Fred Smith, Illinois State University | Neandertals and the Fallacy of “Race” in Biological Anthropology |
| ANTH 550 | September 2 | Fred Smith | Africans, Neandertals and the Origin of Modern Europeans |
| ANTH 357/450 | September 8 | James O’Connell, University of Utah | Colonizing Sahul (Pleistocene Australia-New Guinea): Why it matters in research on the evolution of modern human behavior |
| ANTH 550 | September 9 | James O’Connell | Late Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinctions in Sahul: A Review of the Issue |
| ANTH 357/450 | September 22 | Brett Riggs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | The Darkest Part of the Nation: The Archaeology of Cherokee Life in Southwestern North Carolina at the Time of Removal |
| ANTH 550 | September 23 | Brett Riggs | That Remarkable Elasticity of Character”: Catawba Political and Economic Strategies in the post-Contact Era |
| ANTH 357/450 | September 29 | John Worth, University of West Florida | Spanish Florida in the Sixteenth Century |
| ANTH 550 | September 30 | John Worth | Integrating Documentary and Archaeological Data into Anthropological Research: Examples from the Spanish Colonial Era |
| ANTH 357/450 | October 1 | David H. Thomas, American Museum of Natural History | Those Elusive Spanish Missions: Romance and Reality in America’s Mythical Mission Past |
| ANTH 550 | October 2 | David H. Thomas | Aboriginal Landscapes of St. Catherines Island: Hocus Pocus or Dangerously Close to Science? |
| ANTH 357/450 | October 13 | T.R. Kidder, Washington University, St. Louis | Sanyangzhuang: A Buried Han Dynasty Community in the Yellow River Valley." |
| ANTH 550 | October 14 | T.R. Kidder | A New History of Poverty Point: A Late Archaic Culture in the Lower Mississippi Valley |
| ANTH 357/450 | October 20 | Charles Cobb, University of South Carolina | TBA |
| ANTH 550 | October 21 | Charles Cobb | TBA |
| ANTH 357/450 | October 29 | John Nunley, St. Louis Art Museum and Memphis University | Trinidad Carnival and the Cooling Effects of Art |
| ANTH 550 | October 30 | John Nunley | Embedded Memory: Slavery, African Art and Ritual |
| ANTH 357/450 | November 10 | Jillian Galle, Thomas Jefferson Monticello | TBA |
| ANTH 550 | November 11 | Jillian Galle | TBA |
Any member of the University community or interested public is welcome to attend any lecture in this series.
| Date | Faculty Speaker | Topic | |
| ANTH 357/450 | Aug. 25 | G.F. Schroedl, UTK | Going to Graduate School and Careers in Anthropology |
| ANTH 357/450 | Aug. 27 | Barbara Heath, UTK | Historical Archaeology of Thomas Jefferson’s Plantations |
| ANTH 357/450 | Sept 3 | G.F. Schroedl, UTK | The Brimstone Hill Archaeological Project |
| ANTH 357/450 | Sept. 10 | G.F. Schroedl, UTK | Cherokee Archaeology in the 21 st Century |
| ANTH 357/450 | Sept. 17 | David Anderson, UTK | Paleoindian Archaeology |
| ANTH 357/450 | Sept. 24 | Mike Logan, UTK | Plains Indians and American Flags |
| ANTH 357/450 | Oct 6 | Walter Klippel, UTK | The Zooarchaeology of Enslaved Africans at the Brimstone Hill Fortress, St. Kitts |
| ANTH 357/450 | Oct 8 | Boyce Driskell, UTK | Archaeological Investigation of Cherokee Farm |
| ANTH 357/450 | Oct. 22 | Kandace Hollenbach, UTK | Applying Evolutionary Ecology to Early Foragers in Northern Alabama. |
| ANTH 357/450 | Oct. 27 | Ben Aurerbach,UTK, | Human Colonization of the Americas |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov 3 | Gregory Button, UTK | "Toxic Shelter: Hurricane Katrina and the FEMA Trailer Controversy." |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov. 5 | Hector Qirko, UTK | Mortality salience, self-deception, and the rise of culture |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov. 12 | Boyce Driskell, UTK | Dust Cave Archaeology |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov. 17 | Lynne Sullivan, UTK | Gender Archaeology |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov. 19 | Tricia Hepner, UTK | The Persecuted as Persecutor? Negusie vs. Mukasey and the Persecutor Bar in U.S. Asylum Procedures |
| ANTH 357/450 | Nov. 24 | Bobby R. Braly, UTK | Mississippian Cultures in the Norris Basin |
Any member of the University community or interested public is welcome to attend any lecture in this series.