The OSU Anthropology Lecture Series features guest speakers from the OSU community, as well as visitors from academic institutions, government agencies, non-government organizations and businesses in Oregon and beyond. Each quarter, a new roster of speakers are invited to give 30-45 minute presentations on cutting-edge research, current events and other projects that resonate with the OSU Anthropology community. These “tan sack/brown bag” lunch-time lectures are designed for the OSU community to engage with diverse ongoing research, applied projects and contemporary anthropological dialogue, but are also meant as a space for us to converse with each other.

Each lecture will go from noon to 1 p.m.

Oct. 4 - Strand 111

Razan Ghazzawi, Oregon State University, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | "The Politics of Queer Dissent: A Transnational Perspective"

Oct. 18 - Via Zoom

Valda Black, Oregon State University, Anthropology | "Building Families during Times of Strife: A Mortuary Analysis of Chanka Community Structure in Andahuaylas, Peru"

Note: No photographs of human remains will be used in this presentation out of respect, but drawings of human remains will be included. All excavations and exportation of human remains were conducted with permission from the Peruvian Ministry of Culture and the descendant community of Andahuaylas.

Nov. 1 - Strand 111

Kelly Bosworth, Oregon State University, Public History & Ethnomusicology | "’Silence Not Absence’: Memory Activism in Oregon’s Lost City of Vanport"

Nov. 8 - Strand 111

Reno Nims, Portland State University, Anthropology | "The Complexity of Māori Archaeofisheries / Te Matatini o te Mātai Whaipara Kaimoana"

Nov. 15 - Strand 111

Amanda Thiel, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences | "Making Environmental Anthropology Research Meaningful for Locals: Examples from the Maya Area"

Nov. 22 - Strand 111

Sarah MacIntosh, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District | "Zooarchaeology of Bone, Antler, and Ivory Technologies: A case study from the central Anatolian Bronze and Iron Ages site Kaman-Kalehöyük"