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” lunchtime 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.

This event is sponsored by the anthropology program at the School of Language, Culture & Society.

Oct. 3

Richard Rosencrance, University of Nevada Reno

New Perspectives on Late Pleistocene Complex Technologies and Cold Mitigation in the Northern Great Basin

Oct. 24

Anna Guasco, OSU Marine Studies

Victors, Victims, or Villains of the Anthropocenes: Gray Whales at the End of the World

Oct. 31

Surabhi Balachander, School of Writing, Literature, and Film

Race and Rural Cosmopolitanism in American Literature

Nov. 7

Ana de Assis Nunes, Data & Society Research Institute

Transferable Skills in Anthropology & AI: Students’ Perception of AI in Their Academic Training

Nov. 14

Traben Pleasant, Veterans Affairs

Full Circle: A US Military Veteran-Applied Anthropologist Working at the VA